When President-elect Joe Biden won the state of Georgia, he became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state since 1992. That achievement was in large part due to the efforts of former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, whose organization, Fair Fight, helped register a slew of new voters in the state. The Georgia…
Donald Trump’s MAGA rallies at the end of the 2020 presidential campaign actually appeared to give Democrats a boost.
An overwhelming number of congressional Republicans refuse to admit what has already been clear for weeks: Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump.
Both President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are set to campaign for the Georgia Senate runoffs, which will determine which political party will control the chamber. President Trump will travel to Georgia tomorrow. He is set to deliver a speech in Valdosta, accompanied by Republican incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. Republicans in…
John Ratcliffe, the Director of National Intelligence, says foreign adversaries are amplifying President Donald Trump’s voter fraud falsehoods. Their goal, he says, “to undermine public confidence in our democratic processes.” Ratcliffe noted that there is no indication foreign actors had the ability to change the results of the 2020 presidential election but that all of…
President-elect Joe Biden’s popular vote lead over President Donald Trump continues to grow. Biden now leads the incumbent by over 7 million votes as states continue their counts. Biden has thus far received 81,238,188 votes to Trump’s 74,189,097 votes, according to CNN’s Presidential Election Tracker. President Trump has insisted over the last few weeks that…
President Donald Trump cited the pro-Trump One America News Network (OANN), which has been known to publish conspiracy theories, while claiming that the United States Postal Service (USPS) “is responsible for tampering with hundreds of thousands of ballots.” “This long time Democrat stronghold got rid of massive numbers, especially in swing states, during and before…
Maddow said that one of the best things the American people can do right now is to ignore Donald Trump and listen to health officials.
Control of the U.S. Senate hinges on what happens in the pair of runoff races in Georgia next month, and Donald Trump isn’t helping.
The pandemic is worse than ever and Trump is making informercials to try to sell his election fraud conspiracies to the American people.
According to a source within the Justice Department who did not go on the record, President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr had a “contentious” meeting after the president summoned Barr to the White House following the Justice Department’s announcement that it did not find evidence to support the president’s claims that the 2020…
Barack Obama will campaign in Georgia to support Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, who will compete against incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in highly-anticipated races that will determine which party gets control of the chamber. The former president will appear at an event to support Ossoff and Warnock will take place…
Joseph diGenova, a lawyer for President Donald Trump’s campaign, has resigned from the Washington, D.C.-based Gridiron Club, a journalistic organization, after he stoked controversy after he said the federal government’s former cybersecurity chief should be “shot.” “We were dismayed by his comments and we felt that they were, on top of everything else, just antithetical…
Donald Trump is raising money more quickly as an election loser than he did as a candidate during the presidential campaign.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case challenging the Pennsylvania election results.
Trump is spending the final days of presidency doing two things: trying to overturn the election and handing out pardons to his crooked pals.
Speaking to reporters earlier this morning, Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan (R) said Georgia Republicans were “certainly not” making “deals” that have allowed voter fraud to take place, as President Donald Trump has claimed. “What is alarming is the amount of misinformation that continues to flow. It’s alarming to me,” Duncan continued. “It’s certainly disheartening…
Christopher Krebs, the nation’s former federal cybersecurity chief, hinted he would sue a Trump campaign attorney who called for violence against him. Yesterday, Joe diGenova, an attorney for President Donald Trump’s campaign, said Krebs should be shot for disputing the president’s unfounded claims of voter fraud. “Anybody who thinks the election went well, like that…
Although President Donald Trump has authorized President-elect Joe Biden’s transition, he continues to assert that the results in closely-watched swing states are fraudulent. Earlier this morning, the president claimed that the results in Nevada are “fake.” The president’s comment was in response to a Twitter account that claimed the Covid-19 pandemic, which has claimed more…
President Donald Trump claimed his campaign won the state of Michigan “by a lot,” further casting doubt on an election President-elect Joe Biden won decisively. Trump lost the state by a margin of more than 34,000 votes. We won Michigan by a lot! https://t.co/D6inAewQxP — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 1, 2020 The president also…
Trump continues to encourage his supporters to send money to his campaign that would have more use being flushed down a toilet.
Trump’s refusal to acknowledge the results of the election has been embarrassing, but it’s not the only dangerous thing he’s doing.
With Joe Biden preparing to take office in January, the country will again have a president that has the support of a majority of voters.
As recounts and lawsuits fail, Donald Trump is now pressuring state lawmakers to overturn the results of the presidential election.
The outgoing president’s campaign spent $3 million on a recount that has so far helped Joe Biden expand his lead in Wisconsin.
Trump has no intention of participating in a peaceful transition of power by attending Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Twitter flagged President Donald Trump under its civic integrity policy after he continued to post false claims about the election, this time claiming that President-elect Joe Biden can take office only “if he can prove that his ridiculous” popular vote tally was not “fraudulently or illegally obtained.” “When you see what happened in Detroit, Atlanta,…
President Donald Trump claimed the 2020 election was a “total scam” but still urged Republicans to vote in Georgia’s Senate runoffs, which are scheduled for January. If either of the incumbents––Kelly Loeffler and David Purdue––get enough votes, Republicans will maintain their majority in the Senate. “No, the 2020 Election was a total scam, we won…
President Donald Trump continued to push baseless election fraud claims on Twitter this morning, this time claiming that there is “NO WAY” President-elect Joe Biden, whose transition this week the president finally allowed to proceed, received more than 80 million votes. “This was a 100% RIGGED ELECTION,” the president wrote. His claim was soon flagged…
Fred Eshelman, founder of Eshelman Ventures LLC, has sued the Houston-based pro-Trump True the Vote Inc. for failing to prove that the 2020 general election was fraudulent. Eshelman is looking to recoup the $2.5 million he donated earlier this month because his requests for updates on the effort to overturn the results of the election…
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger voted for President Donald Trump and says the president threw him and his family “under the bus” when he worked to defend the election amid the president’s false claims that the 2020 general election was fraudulent. By all accounts, Georgia had a wildly successful and smooth election. We finally…
President Donald Trump plans to visit Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for a hearing by the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee that will examine “election impropriety,” according to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The event is not on the president’s official schedule, but insiders told the news outlet that he had expressed interest in appearing alongside his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani,…
As Trump moves to pardon his crooked friend before his time is up, it’s important to remember that Michael Flynn confessed to crimes.
Leaders from around the globe are already lining up to work with Joe Biden now that Donald Trump is headed for the exit.
No matter where the two end up, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner will forever carry with them the Trump stain.
The state of Pennsylvania has certified President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of its election, driving a further wedge into President Donald Trump’s legal efforts to overturn the election results. Governor Tom Wolf announced the news in a tweet, saying that Pennsylvania’s State Department “certified the results of the November 3 election in Pennsylvania for…
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R), a regular presence on Fox News, declared that Covid-19 restrictions on Thanksgiving violate the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures from the government. “I mean, what kind of neighbor would call the police and say, ‘You know, there’s eleven people over there, you better…
President Donald Trump defended the General Services Administration (GSA) and its chief, Emily Murphy, saying it “has been terrific” despite the agency being at the center of controversy after Trump ordered his administration not to acknowledge President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory and Murphy declined to allow the transition to proceed. “Remember, the GSA has been…
Actor Randy Quaid, known for his roles in such films as The Last Detail and Midnight Express, has made his support for President Donald Trump well known and he has in recent weeks expressed his and the president’s shared belief that the November 3 election was fraudulent despite all evidence to the contrary. Trump proceeded to share…
Trump will continue to inflict lasting damage to the United States, both on the domestic front and the world stage.
As the chaotic and incompetent Trump presidency reaches its conclusion, the markets are optimistic about the future of the economy.
After Emily Murphy started the transition process, Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis went on TV and claimed Biden lost in a landslide.
Trump responded to the news by taking credit and essentially claiming that it was his idea to allow the transition process to move forward.
More Latino voters supported President Donald Trump in 2020 than in 2016, and “Fox and Friends” host Steve Doocy claims that calls to boycott Goya Foods products contributed to that support. Doocy said “the left’s messaging did not help them” in this election because their policies “remind a lot of people of the socialistic countries…
According to a survey from Seven Letter Insight, two-thirds of Republican voters want to see President Donald Trump run again in 2024. By then, the embattled president, who is certain to face legal challenges as soon as his term ends on January 20 and whose political future is in doubt, would be 78. Republicans aren’t the…
More than 100 business leaders, including George H. Walker, the chief executive of the money manager Neuberger, and Jon Gray, president of the private-equity firm Blackstone, have co-signed a letter urging General Services Administration (GSA) chief Emily Murphy to authorize the presidential transition. They expressed their concern that President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede and…
After losing the election to Joe Biden, Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear that he has no interest in even pretending to do his job.
After a White House meeting, several Michigan GOP lawmakers were seen at the Trump Hotel in D.C. on Friday night and Saturday morning.
Two weeks after Biden was declared the winner, Trump basically admitted that he still doesn’t have any evidence of widespread voter fraud.
More than 40 officials, including former Cabinet secretaries and civic leaders, have participated in a $2 million ad by the bipartisan National Council on Election Integrity calling for President Donald Trump and his allies to accept the results of the 2020 general election and cooperate with the Biden-Harris transition. “Our adversaries aren’t waiting. The coronavirus…
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (R) condemned President Donald Trump and his administration for not cooperating with the Biden-Harris transition team and urged for the transition to proceed for the sake of the country. “We need to have the transition begin as soon as possible. These kind[s] of ridiculous challenges that are not based on fact…
House Democrats have demanded that General Services Administration (GSA) chief Emily Murphy cooperate with the Biden-Harris transition. Murphy has made headlines in recent weeks for refusing to sign a letter of “ascertainment” confirming that President-elect Joe Biden won the election, a step that would allow Biden to meet with government officials and access the more than…
Maddow said that Trump’s choice to put Giuliani in charge could be an indication that the end is near for the president’s legal challenges.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson called out the president’s campaign lawyers for pushing baseless conspiracy theories about the election.
Earlier in the day, Giuliani held a press conference in which he spewed nonsensical conspiracy theories about the election.
Donald Trump didn’t work much before he lost the election to Joe Biden earlier this month – but now he’s not even pretending.
Brad Raffensperger said on Thursday that there is no doubt in his mind that Joe Biden will win the state and its 16 electoral votes.
Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) says that President Donald Trump’s behavior during the lame-duck period between his election loss and the inauguration of the Biden-Harris administration could yield “potentially more severe” consequences than a delayed transition. Thus far, the president has ordered his administration not to cooperate with the Biden-Harris transition team. “The consequences of what’s…
President Donald Trump attacked the state of Michigan for the second day in a row, claiming, without any evidence, that voter fraud in the city of Detroit is “rampant.” “Voter Fraud in Detroit is rampant, and has been for many years!” the president wrote earlier this morning. His tweet was almost immediately flagged under Twitter’s…
Claims that the 2020 general election was fraudulent are unsubstantiated and United States security officials have rejected President Donald Trump’s assertion that the election was rigged. But that hasn’t stopped him from continuing to claim “there was no way” Democrats could have won the election without rigging it altogether. But lose Trump did: President-elect Joe…
More and more people are testing positive for Covid-19 and death rates across the United States are climbing as the nation prepares for the winter months. That’s in line with the projection scientists and public experts have made from the beginning, but President Donald Trump, who often claimed that the coronavirus would “disappear” after the…
President Donald Trump continued to push unsubstantiated claims that the November 3 general election was fraudulent, this time claiming that “there are FAR MORE VOTES THAN PEOPLE” in Detroit, Michigan. “Nothing can be done to cure that giant scam. I win Michigan!” the president claimed, though he was soon flagged under Twitter’s civic integrity policy,…
Earlier this morning, President Donald Trump complained about the Pennsylvania Supreme Court‘s 5-2 decision to toss out his campaign’s lawsuit alleging that officials in Philadelphia did not allow Republican observers into counting rooms. The court ruled that election officials did not violate state law by maintaining at least 15 feet of distance between observers and…
A recount of the votes cast on Election Day is underway in Georgia and the results will be certified by Friday. And for the second time this week, President Donald Trump is claiming, without evidence, that the effort is “fake” and continued to push unfounded allegations of election fraud. “The Georgia recount is a joke…
The fact that Republicans in Wayne County, Michigan even flirted with the idea of blocking votes from the Detroit area is shameful.
Republicans immediately jumped to defend DHS official Chris Krebs, who was fired by Donald Trump via Twitter on Tuesday night.
Republicans in Michigan are trying to prevent votes in Wayne County – where Detroit is located – from being certified.
President Donald Trump‘s attorney Rudy Giuliani has filed for court permission to appear for the Trump campaign in its lawsuit to block certification of President-elect Joe Biden‘s win in the state of Pennsylvania. Giuliani filed the application hours before a hearing on Pennsylvania’s motion to dismiss the suit is set to start. It’s unclear if…
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) made headlines last night after Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Graham suggested he should try to toss out legal ballots in the state, where a recount is underway. Today, Graham is leading a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election,” which prompted a…
Speaking on “Fox and Friends,” Trump campaign official Erin Perrine admitted the campaign is still looking for evidence of election fraud. Her comments come the same week that the Trump campaign’s lawyers abandoned their lawsuit to block votes in Pennsylvania, the latest development in a flurry of legal failures. “A lot of people would like…
Even though Trump’s legal challenges have been a laughable dumpster fire, he can still do plenty of damage on his way out the door.
Lawyers representing the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania backed out of a lawsuit that’s seeking to block votes in the Keystone State.
Donald Trump clearly has no interest in putting in any work for the remainder of his presidency, even in the midst of a public health crisis.
It shouldn’t be breaking news whenever a GOP official calls Joe Biden by the title he decisively earned, but that’s where we are right now.
President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President-elect Joe Biden but has thus far refused to concede the presidential race and ordered White House officials not to participate in the transition. He has continued to push conspiracy theories and assorted falsehoods via his social media accounts and continues to assert that the election was…
President Donald Trump was once again flagged under Twitter’s civic integrity policy for spreading false information about the 2020 general election after he erroneously claimed he actually won it despite all evidence to the contrary. Twitter notes that “Official sources called this election differently.” I won the Election! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16,…
President Donald Trump attempted to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the recount happening in Georgia, which will be completed and certified by November 20. The president called the recount “fake” and claimed without evidence that Georgia election officials are unable to verify signatures on absentee ballots. “The Fake recount going on in Georgia means…
Maskless Trump supporters were seen heckling and chase a reporter at Saturday’s MAGA march in Washington D.C.
The MAGA march in D.C. shows that Trump and his mostly maskless supporters aren’t even close to accepting the results of the election.
Donald Trump’s new conspiracy theory about the presidential election could be his most desperate (and hilarious) yet.
President Donald Trump contradicted himself in a statement he made about the nation’s election security over Twitter. “For years the Dems have been preaching how unsafe and rigged our elections have been,” the president wrote, a reference to Democrats‘ calls to ramp up election security in the wake of cyberattacks from foreign adversaries. “Now they…
Former President Barack Obama condemned the actions of Republicans who have echoed President Donald Trump‘s false (and debunked) claims that election fraud helped President-elect Joe Biden win the general election last week. Obama made the comments in an interview with “60 Minutes” that will air in full over the weekend. “There’s damage to this,” Obama…
In an interview with NPR that aired today, President Donald Trump‘s former national security adviser John Bolton urged Republicans to “acknowledge the reality” that President Donald Trump lost the general election and that Joe Biden is the president-elect. Bolton said that “the country deserves to give” Biden “the preparation he needs” despite Republican opposition. He…
Jonathan Turley, a professor of constitutional law at the George Washington University and legal analyst, appeared on “Fox and Friends” this morning and appeared to lend credence to a conspiracy theory about voting systems that has already been debunked. “In Michigan, you had thousands of vote that went to [President-elect Joe] Biden that belonged to…
The lawsuit is just the latest brought forward by Republicans that will almost certainly get laughed out of court.
With his laughable attack on Joe Biden Thursday night, Tucker Carlson reminded the country just how unserious a person he is.
Obama ripped Republicans for humoring Donald Trump’s lies about voter fraud after he lost the election decisively to Joe Biden.
Trump has ramped up his efforts to cast doubt on last week’s election results, but his own Department of Homeland Security is calling BS.
President Donald Trump lashed out at Fox News earlier this morning, saying its “daytime ratings have completely collapsed” since they called the election for President-elect Joe Biden. “Weekend daytime even WORSE,” the president continued. “Very sad to watch this happen, but they forgot what them successful, what got them there.” “They forgot the Golden Goose,”…
Appearing on “Fox and Friends,” White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany falsely claimed that it would be “constitutionally accurate” for Republican legislatures to appoint electors who would certify the results of the 2020 general election for President Donald Trump despite his loss to President-elect Joe Biden. “It’s hard for the average person to keep track…
President Donald Trump spent his morning continuing to push a false election fraud narrative, insisting that he still has time to “win” certain states despite electoral math not being in his favor. It’s been several days since the election was called for President-elect Joe Biden. Shortly after The Associated Press announced that the president had…
The United Kingdom‘s Labour Party leadership has called on Downing Street to condemn President Donald Trump‘s refusal to concede the election to President-elect Joe Biden, a further indication of the international community’s support for the election result. “Donald Trump’s actions are wrong and the British government should say so,” a spokesman for Keir Starmer, the…
President Donald Trump accused ABC News and The Washington Post of creating a “possibly illegal suppression Poll” that he claims affected voter turnout in the state of Wisconsin, which went to Joe Biden in last week’s election. Biden won the state with 49.6 percent of the vote. Trump claimed the poll showed him “down 17 points…
Election officials in a number of states across the country have found no evidence to back up Trump’s desperate claims.
Just 10,000 mail-in ballots were received in Pennsylvania between Nov. 3 and Nov. 6. Biden leads by more than 45,000 votes.
Now that Trump lost the election, he has shifted all of his energy to pushing false claims of voter fraud and ballot tampering.
Efforts by Donald Trump to overturn the results of the election are about more than soothing his battered ego.
This is his first real go at reality as an adult, and he’s way too emotionally incapable of making this transition. It won’t be easy for him. Of course, Trump isn’t going to go silently. But go he will.
President Donald Trump issued an odd claim that “ballot counting abuse” is responsible for his recent election loss, continuing to cast doubt on an election that has already been decided. BALLOT COUNTING ABUSE! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 10, 2020 “WATCH FOR MASSIVE BALLOT COUNTING ABUSE AND, JUST LIKE THE EARLY VACCINE, REMEMBER I…
Senate Democrats have re-elected Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to be the Senate’s Democratic leader. Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) have also ascended to leadership roles. Schumer has urged his Republican colleagues to break from President Donald Trump‘s claims that the election is fraudulent. Republican leaders in Congress should also do the…