“There is no decisive pool of ‘illegal’ ballots, and Republican Party messaging on this score is at best a cynical attempt to delegitimize a decisive presidential defeat.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday made his first public remarks since President-elect Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, but he made no mention […]
WASHINGTON – Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a fixture in Washington political circles for nearly a half century, has been projected the winner of the U.S. presidency and stands to be inaugurated January 20, becoming the country’s oldest leader ever. Biden, a Democrat who served 36 years in the U.S. Senate and eight years […]
The president’s campaign filed lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania to temporarily halt the tallying of votes in both battleground states. Raucous supporters of President Donald Trump tried to get election officials to stop counting ballots in Detroit, Michigan Wednesday afternoon—chanting “Stop the count!” and banging on windows—as major news outlets called the battleground state […]
The winner of the U.S. presidential election remained in doubt Wednesday, with the outcome hinging on a handful of states where a flood of mail-in ballots sparked by the coronavirus pandemic remained to be counted. President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden both won states they were expected to win in their bid […]