Nearly two dozen of Jordan’s GOP colleagues opposed him for the leadership role. An aggressive pressure campaign to convince holdouts in the Republican Party to back far-right Rep. Jim Jordan for House speaker on Wednesday was unsuccessful, with 22 GOP lawmakers voting against the Ohio congressman in the second round of voting—two more than the […]
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 […]
“Honest” and “trustworthy” are not words most Americans would use to describe the two presidential candidates — Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. In a Gallup poll conducted this week, only 32 percent of Americans would describe Clinton that way, while 36 percent would use that description for Trump. Those numbers changed little from […]