Pennsylvania Republicans filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court on Friday, asking it to order that late-arriving ballots — ballots that are currently being segregated from the state’s tally due to a deadline dispute — remain uncounted while the case is pending.
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Some of them put out statements that alluded, vaguely, to some adherence to precedent in allowing votes to be counted. Some remained silent.
If current trends hold, former Vice President Joe Biden is on track to win the White House with 306 electoral votes — a not particularly close presidential election.
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Today, I’m writing a thank you note to Black women. America, get out your pens and do the same.
Powerful Republican politicians on Thursday and Friday egged on President Donald Trump’s insane lies that simply counting votes was actually election theft. Continue reading “Top GOPers Egg On Trump’s Insane Election Lies With Two-Faced Statements”
The roiling post-Tuesday debate about polling and polling errors is almost all heat and no light. It’s mostly emotionalism from people who are mad that the result wasn’t precisely as they’d seen predicted or been told or believed — conflating that with their unhappiness about the result itself. It’s also furious efforts to insist that polls being off confirmed their preexisting critiques of Biden or BLM or the left or the establishment or whatever. But there’s one thing I’ve heard over the last 72 hours that strikes me as real and meaningful and connects the largely meaningless debate about polling accuracy with quite critical questions about what is animating politics itself. And that is trust.
That’s it, folks. Joe Biden of Delaware will be the next President of the United States. Kamala Harris of California will be the next Vice President of the United States. January 20, 2021. The law is coming.
Our map won’t say it until the Associated Press gives the word. It shouldn’t be long. But it’s done.
Within seconds of President Donald Trump wrapping up a rambling statement in which he baselessly claimed that counting votes was actually election theft, he faced a barrage of condemnation from, well, just about everyone.
Tensions continue to run high as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden narrowed President Donald Trump’s lead in Georgia and Pennsylvania as outstanding absentee ballots in both states continue to be counted.
The Trump campaign and the President’s allies have intensified efforts to sow doubt around the legitimacy of the election results, mounting a number of legal battles in an effort to stop votes from being counted after baselessly accusing Democrats of stealing the election. After filing lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada and Michigan, the Trump campaign launched a new court fight in Georgia on Wednesday evening demanding that all counties separate “late-arriving ballots” from the ballots that arrived before the state’s 7 p.m. deadline.
Further west, as more ballots were tabulated in Arizona, Trump supporters — some armed — swarmed a facility in Maricopa County, mounting their support for President Trump as the Democratic candidate’s lead shrank in the state after early projections by a number of news organizations that the newly battleground state would be won by Biden.
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In a last-minute press conference Thursday evening, President Trump directed his full ire at the last bonds holding American democracy together: the integrity of the vote.
