With the balance of power of the U.S. Senate up in the air, Americans will be watching the results of the two Senate runoff elections in Georgia closely Tuesday. Everyone — voters, reporters, candidates and political observers — should take lessons learned from past elections, including Nov. 3, about how to watch the results. Some […]
In 2021, the U.S. will undertake the largest mass vaccination effort in its history. PolitiFact readers have questions about what that effort will look like, including how, when and where the general public will get the vaccine. When we asked readers to send us their questions on the rollout of the vaccine, Kelli Burns, a […]
Health care workers across the country on Dec. 14 became the first Americans to get the vaccine following trials, kicking off the country’s most ambitious effort ever to vaccinate hundreds of millions of Americans. In every state in the nation, journalists were watching the process and asking questions. The Poynter Institute and the American Medical […]
You wouldn’t know it from reading President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, but judges across the nation have repeatedly rejected lawsuits filed on his behalf in an unsuccessful effort to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential race. At latest count, at least several dozen cases have been rejected in court or withdrawn. At one point, […]
With the federal government poised to sign off on COVID-19 vaccines this month, President-elect Joe Biden said the nation has fallen short on its plan for distributing it to millions of Americans. Asked by a reporter Dec. 4 whether he was satisfied with the Trump administration’s plans for vaccine distribution, Biden said much more work […]
President Donald Trump repeated his false claims that the election was “rigged” and characterized mail-in ballots as a “disaster” in an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo. Bartiromo allowed him to make his case without challenging him on his lack of proof. “We won the election easily,” Trump said Nov. 29 in an interview that […]
During a 90-minute press conference led by Rudy Giuliani, lawyers representing President Donald Trump made their best case to overturn an election Trump lost to Joe Biden. Their case invoked the TV show “Law & Order,” the movie “My Cousin Vinny,” Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Mickey Mouse, antifa, and the Philadelphia Eagles football team. Tying it […]
President Donald Trump continues to maintain that he won the 2020 presidential election, despite all evidence to the contrary. And he is continuing to block the transition to a new government headed by Joe Biden on Jan. 20. What he’s doing is certainly not normal for a departing president. But is it allowed? What is […]
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 […]
In North Carolina, lawyers fought over deadlines to receive mail ballots. In Pennsylvania, they argued over the counting of “naked ballots” lacking a secrecy envelope. And in Harris County, Texas, they sued over drive-thru voting. Those are just a tiny sample of lawsuits filed across the country ahead of the Nov. 3 election. More than […]
The pandemic forced an unprecedented overhaul of election practices to keep voting safe. Supervisors scrambled to buy sneeze guards, gloves and massive amounts of hand sanitizer. They planned a dramatic expansion of voting by mail. But no amount of disinfectant wipes could clean up President Donald Trump’s false attacks on the integrity of the vote. […]
U.S. intelligence officials said they believe Iran sent threatening emails to Democratic voters two weeks before the election. The emails were made to look like they came from the Proud Boys, a far-right, men-only group, and falsely told recipients that they would know if voters didn’t select President Donald Trump on their private ballots. Director […]