Election 2020

January 6, 2021 | 5 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump descended on the nation’s capital Tuesday to cheer his baseless claims of election fraud a day before a congressional...

January 6, 2021 | 6 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — Republicans mounting an unprecedented challenge to Joe Biden’s election win are setting up a congressional showdown today that threatens to divide their party and the...

December 31, 2020 | 3 MIN READ

ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday called a tweet by President Donald Trump demanding his resignation a “distraction” and said he was focused on the state’s...

December 31, 2020 | 5 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said Wednesday that he will raise objections next week when Congress meets to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the election, forc...

December 16, 2020 | 6 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — Fending off a messy fight that could damage Republicans ahead of Georgia U.S. Senate runoffs, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned fellow GOP senators Tuesday not to join...

December 15, 2020 | 4 MIN READ

MADISON, Wis. — A narrowly divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s lawsuit attempting to overturn his election loss in the battleground state ab...

December 15, 2020 | 2 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Kansas that sought to revive a law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. A federal appeals court previously...

December 15, 2020 | 4 MIN READ

WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joe Biden pointedly criticized President Donald Trump on Monday for threatening core principles of democracy even as he told Americans that their form...

November 27, 2020 | 4 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory — even as he insi...

November 26, 2020 | 2 MIN READ

HONOLULU — Certification of Hawaii’s presidential vote was being delayed Wednesday by two lawsuits, including one filed by a woman who said she ran for president as an independent...

November 25, 2020 | 6 MIN READ

WILMINGTON, Del. — Declaring “America is back,” President-elect Joe Biden introduced his national security team on Tuesday, his first substantive offering of how he’ll...

November 25, 2020 | 5 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that he is not giving up his fight to overturn the election results, but throughout the federal government, preparations were beginni...

November 22, 2020 | 2 MIN READ

MILWAUKEE — Election officials in Wisconsin’s largest county accused observers for President Donald Trump on Saturday of seeking to obstruct a recount of the presidential results,...

November 21, 2020 | 3 MIN READ

President Donald Trump continues to make absurd claims of widespread election fraud and to explore far-fetched schemes to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.

November 20, 2020 | 6 MIN READ

WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joe Biden met Thursday with governors from both parties and criticized President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to block the peaceful trans...

November 20, 2020 | 2 MIN READ

If you think it was stressful waiting for election boards around the country to count the millions of votes in the presidential election, imagine being the workers who were doing the counting....