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On a private call, GOP senators and allies fret about the changing electorate and look to reach anti-Trump Republicans.


President-elect Joe Biden is forging ahead with preparations for the White House as President Trump continues to insist on Twitter that he won the election.

  • Analysis

Almost two-thirds of the tweets were about the election. A quarter were flagged or hidden by Twitter.

  • Analysis

But plenty of evidence of desperation.


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The Republican governors who are changing their tunes on masks

After resisting for months, their challenge now is to persuade residents to take a mask mandate seriously.

Trump and allies pitch yet another woeful voter-fraud theory in Nevada

Officials have moved to re-do a race in Clark County. It's not the voter fraud smoking gun Trump and his allies suggest.

Trump keeps losing in court. He keeps losing his lawyers, too.

One of President-elect Joe Biden’s very first tasks will be filling the key positions in his White House and Cabinet.

Despite President-elect Joe Biden’s lead of nearly 148,000 votes, President Trump’s false claims about widespread fraud continue to reverberate with his supporters.

  • Analysis

Republicans criticize Democrats as play-acting concern — which is itself a performance for their base.

Republicans are framing Democrats as socialists; Democrats are framing the Republicans as corrupt.

Amid intensifying scrutiny, a growing number of Trump campaign attorneys have pulled out of lawsuits challenging election results.

Some key people who have an interest in breathing life into the president’s allegations or allowing them to take in their own oxygen are refusing to do so.

Trump spent the day on Twitter, yet again spreading falsehoods about the election.

The speaker’s move to host a dinner party in the middle of a pandemic surge sparked a backlash, prompting her to cancel it. The furor shows the risks to Democrats as they preach tough restrictions.

President-elect Joe Biden met with business and labor leaders and then detailed plans on his plan to "build back better." Trump, who has kept a low profile since Election Day, has advertised no public events but remains defiant on Twitter.

The president-elect tiptoed around a question Monday about whether governors should be closing nonessential businesses in hard-hit places.

The president is brooding behind the scenes about the state of his campaign’s legal challenges while refusing the pleas of some advisers to commit to a peaceful transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden.

The president-elect continued to assemble his team, with Rep. Cedric L. Richmond (D-La.) expected to join the administration.

  • Opinion

Trump’s nominee is not qualified and could damage the key economic policymaking body.

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