Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other GOP officials offered support for the president’s attempts to undermine faith in the outcome, despite the lack of any evidence of widespread fraud.
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The president-elect plans to focus heavily on the pandemic while the president, who has not conceded the election, presses ahead with legal challenges in states where he is trailing in the vote count.
The Democrat spoke with the Canadian prime minister, debated staff appointments and sought to persuade Americans to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Rep. Cheri Bustos, who barely held onto her Illinois seat, said she will not seek a second term after the party maintained its majority but underperformed expectations.
Observers view Republicans’ challenge as weaker than those brought previously, but the addition of conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett may be a factor in the case’s outcome.
“Our system will resolve any recounts” and lawsuits, said the Senate majority leader, who provided no evidence to back up the president’s baseless claims.
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The president is constantly assuring the public that his picks will do a great job in their positions, until he decides they didn't.
Carson was at the White House on Tuesday for the election night party.
This year aimed a bright light on the way elections are run in this country and put unfathomable demands on the people who run them.
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The company agreed to work with the federal government on distribution, not development.
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When Trump makes baseless claims, his allies quickly try to build a base.
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When you look at the election results in the states Trump lost, you can see the limits of Trump’s lies — and how they may have backfired.
As the president kept up his conspiratorial allegations of voter fraud without providing any substantiating evidence, Republican officials and allies splintered between nudging him to accept defeat and encouraging him to fight.
After President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, the question coursing through American politics is what becomes of the movement that has developed behind Trump.
Former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) are planning their transition effort, after delivering their first remarks Saturday night as president- and vice president-elect as their supporters gathered to celebrate throughout the country.
The administrator of the General Services Administration has declined to sign paperwork officially starting the transition to the new administration.
President-elect Joe Biden plans this week to show an aggressive strategy on the coronavirus, and he may jump into economic stimulus talks in coming weeks.
