Joe Biden is president-elect of the United States. But President Donald Trump and his supporters aren’t giving up the race. Trump has brought a barrage of legal challenges contesting vote totals in several key swing states. He has repeatedly made unfounded assertions of victory and allegations that widespread voter fraud affected the outcome of the […]
Joe Biden is the projected winner of the 2020 presidential election, and his lead in key swing states has only continued to grow since news outlets called the race for him on Nov. 7. However, in a move unprecedented in modern American politics, Donald Trump has refused to admit that he lost the election, first […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to reflect vote tallies as of Nov. 25, 2020. How big was Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential race? It wasn’t a landslide, but it was decisive, the numbers show. Biden’s Electoral College victory will be exactly the same as Trump’s in 2016: They both will have won […]
With Election Day 2020 behind, the state of Georgia is now taking center stage in the battle over which political party will control the U.S. Senate. President-elect Joe Biden will work with a House where his fellow Democrats hold a slim majority. But we won’t know who will control the Senate until after two Peach […]
The election results for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District seat in 2020 were so close no one could declare victory right away. Good thing, because the results kept changing until a winner finally was certified. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, an Ottumwa Republican, held a thin 282-vote lead over Rita Hart, a Wheatland Democrat, after votes were counted on […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: We updated and republished this article on Nov. 16 to include news about the Moderna vaccine. That article can be accessed here. When drugmaker Pfizer announced that its new vaccine was highly effective at preventing COVID-19, it raised hopes that the coronavirus pandemic could be nearing its end. In a Nov. 9 press […]
In the days since Election Day, President Donald Trump and other Republican officials have engaged in an effort to deny, defy or overturn its results, using a combination of lawsuits, misinformation, challenges against election officials and other orders to disrupt the transfer of power to the new president. Republicans’ efforts have been bolstered by a […]
On the same day the Affordable Care Act made its third appearance before the Supreme Court, President-elect Joe Biden gave a speech on health care and took questions from the press. When asked what he would say to Americans regarding President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede, he responded: “I think it’s an embarrassment,” and that […]
Several days after President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Nevada, conservative groups continue to make unproven claims about voter fraud, even suggesting that votes from Californians helped Biden win in the Silver State. The Associated Press and other media organizations declared Biden the winner on Saturday. His margin has steadily increased to 36,000, with 97% of […]
Around the country, claims of voting irregularities are increasingly taking on a heavily partisan taint — particularly in Georgia, where the voting Nov. 3 was only a prelude to two runoff elections in January that will decide which party controls the Senate. Georgia’s two senators — both of whom face runoffs against surging Democrats — called […]
The Supreme Court on Nov. 10 will hear oral arguments in a case that, for the third time in eight years, could result in the justices striking down the Affordable Care Act. The case, California v. Texas, is the result of a change to the health law made by Congress in 2017. As part of a […]
Major news networks and the Associated Press have declared Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election. What now? Here’s what we know. What does the media’s “call” of a winner actually mean? The media’s “call” of Biden as the winner doesn’t hold force of law. It’s simply the best estimation by the networks’ […]