Many GOP lawmakers have given credence to the president’s baseless fraud claims by launching websites and tip lines aimed at uncovering election irregularities, but only a few have appeared willing to endorse an extraordinary move to appoint pro-Trump electors where Joe Biden won.
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Under Georgia law, the losing candidate can request a recount once results are certified.
The potential disruption to her campaigning comes as Loeffler and her Republican colleague, Georgia Sen. David Perdue, try to fend off Democratic challengers in runoff elections.
The Biden team sees the inaugural as a way to affirm the legitimacy of his presidency and set its tone.
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The Trump campaign claims voter turnout was as much as 350 percent in some precincts in Michigan. Except they got the state wrong. And that's not all.
The suit, in which Trump sought to block the certification of the state’s election results, made “strained legal arguments without merit,” District Judge Matthew W. Brann wrote.
A Republican member’s willingness to consider discredited voting fraud claims has brought additional attention to the panel.
In a nod to the reality that he is destined to leave office in January, the president is seriously contemplating life beyond the White House, telling advisers he wants to remain an omnipresent force in politics and the media.
About 113,000 people are on the waiting list for kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs, pancreases and intestines.
Democratic officials are considering their legal options to compel certification.
The deliberations reflect growing anxiety among Democrats and some Republicans in the state over the president’s efforts to reach into the local vote-counting process.
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Overturning the election was never really possible. Instead he wants his followers, and even some Republican lawmakers, to see Biden as illegitimate.
The president-elect plans to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) in Wilmington, Del., as he continues his transition to the White House.
Georgia officials certified Biden’s roughly 12,000-vote win there, and Republican lawmakers from Michigan met with President Trump at the White House but said they learned nothing that would warrant overturning Biden’s victory.
Visiting Georgia, which was just called for Biden, the vice president encouraged crowds to fight for “every legal vote” to be counted, without calling the election rigged as Trump has done.
Gov. Brian Kemp also certified the results as required by law, though he said he was troubled by irregularities.
Three Republican senators criticized Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results. The others responded with what has become their go-to reaction: Silence.
The newest justice takes part for first time as the court allowed the latest execution of a federal prisoner.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) called the hearing despite overwhelming evidence that the drug touted by President Trump as a silver-bullet solution to the pandemic is ineffective in protecting against covid-19.
