In court briefs and on Twitter, President Donald Trump and GOP allies have fought ballot drop boxes as part of a war against voting by mail. But when the California GOP installed its own drop boxes, he gave them the thumbs up. The Trump campaign and his allies have gone to court to try to […]
It was supposed to be the second presidential debate. Instead, President Donald Trump refused a virtual debate and followed Joe Biden’s lead of doing a town hall on network television. NBC host Savannah Guthrie started the Trump town hall by trying to nail down his last negative test for the coronavirus. He said he couldn’t […]
Before news of President Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 test upended the election cycle with a host of unknowns, one of his campaign’s leading narratives was that of Joe Biden as a clumsy, aging orator who frequently flubs the facts. The evidence driving this line of attack on the former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee […]
A mega contact tracing effort is underway after President Donald Trump announced that he and his wife Melania both tested positive for the coronavirus. Contact tracing will determine who was around them and who potentially is also infected with the virus. The Sept. 29 debate with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is the highest profile […]
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has prompted a look back at what Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said about Supreme Court nominations during election years. In 1992, Biden led the Senate Judiciary Committee as chairman. He made a long speech calling to delay any hypothetical nominations until after the election. Senate Majority Leader […]
In a speech focused on the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden poured cold water on President Donald Trump’s talk about an imminent vaccine. “I trust vaccines. I trust scientists. But I don’t trust Donald Trump,” Biden said in his Sept. 16 speech in Delaware, which followed a meeting with […]
The rules for voting by mail throughout the United States cannot be squeezed onto a postcard. The U.S. Postal Service just learned that the hard way. The Postal Service mailed out a postcard across the country with tips for voting by mail. The tips, however, have drawn bipartisan criticism because some are wrong for particular […]
President Donald Trump made a series of false attacks on voting by mail at a Nevada rally, wrongly suggesting that Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, is in charge of millions of mail ballots and can “rig” the election. In broad attacks on voting by mail, Trump falsely suggested that mail ballots will only be sent […]
The headline in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution summed up Georgia’s June 9 primary in two words: “Complete meltdown.” Some waited in line for hours to vote. County officials were swamped with mail-in ballots. Poll workers struggled to use new equipment. Some counties had fewer polling locations than originally planned or had to relocate polling locations. When […]
President Donald Trump, the country’s most prominent critic of mail-in voting, suggested North Carolina voters ought to test out whether the election system would prevent them from voting twice. A reporter for WECT TV in Wilmington told Trump that 600,000 North Carolina voters could cast ballots by mail for the Nov. 3 election. “Yeah, I […]
Black Lives Matter has been derided as a terrorist organization (a claim we rated False), a Marxist movement (we found little evidence) and as anti-Semitic (despite some concerns, hundreds of Jewish organizations support it, we found). An attack made less often is that Black Lives Matter wants to abolish the traditional family. For example, at […]
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said that the people who benefited from Joe Biden’s political career “are his family members, not the American people.” Her speech at the Republican National Convention has roots in the January impeachment trial where she defended President Trump. Business dealings by Biden’s younger son, Hunter, have raised many ethical […]