The Grown-Ups Are Back In Charge As Biden Unveils Full COVID Plan

Harris shattered a glass ceiling, but she’ll still be held to a higher standard

When Barack Obama was in the White House, many on both the left and the right cited the first Black president as proof that the nation had progressed significantly on racial issues. But that notion was washed away by the election of Trump, which showed that Obama’s presidency had been an aberration, not evidence of […]

‘SNL’ fans fuming over delay due to college football

Fans eager to see “Saturday Night Live’s” take on Joe Biden’s election victory were crawling up the walls when the sketch show took a backseat to the Clemson vs Notre Dame college football game. Viewers took to social media to vent their anger over having to watch the game drag into double-overtime as NBC delayed […]

Donald Trump May Flee The White House Next Week

Trump is refusing to accept the reality that he lost the election to Joe Biden, but he is thinking about going to his Florida club next week. The New York Times reported, “Mr. Trump has been eager to leave the White House, and after musings about a rally this week fell flat, aides said he […]

Irish Home of Biden’s Great-Great-Great Grandfather Cheers His Victory

BALLINA, Ireland — As America turned slowly blue, Ballina held its breath.Was it really possible that Joseph R. Biden Jr., considered a native son of this charming town on Ireland’s west coast — albeit five generations removed — was about to become the next American president?It was. On Saturday, the election was called for Mr. […]

Democracy took a heavy blow on Tuesday, but paths forward remain

​ Campaign Action ​If the current 6-3 majority of far-right hardliners remains on the Supreme Court, the court presents an existential danger to the Voting Rights Act’s remaining protections and threatens to turbocharge GOP gerrymandering across the country. But if Democrats pull off upsets to flip the Senate in January, Joe Biden and a Democratic […]

Joe Biden addresses the nation as networks resist making the final call

Calling for calm, civility, unity. “My responsibility as president will be to represent the entire nation and I will work as hard for the people who didn’t vote for me as for those who did.” (Or close to that, anyway) “There’s no reason we can’t own the 21st century. We just need to remember who […]

Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows tests positive for COVID-19

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a new report Friday. Meadows, 61, informed a close circle of advisers after Election Day, Bloomberg News reported. His diagnosis with the dangerous bug follows that of his boss, President Trump, who was hospitalized with COVID-19 last month, and comes in […]

Steve Bannon Loses Lawyer After Suggesting Beheading of Fauci

Stephen K. Bannon, the former adviser to President Trump who is known for his right-wing extremism, suggested on Thursday that the F.B.I. director and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci should be beheaded, and Twitter responded by banning one of his accounts.On Friday, a prominent lawyer who was defending Mr. Bannon against fraud charges in federal court […]

Who is Stacey Abrams and how did she sway Georgia election results?

Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams campaigned openly to become Joe Biden’s running mate — but despite her being passed over, many fellow Democrats credit her with what’s starting to look like a win in the Peach State. Abrams, 46, emerges from the Nov. 3 election with a boosted profile and validation of her claim that Georgia […]

Spending on Georgia Senate runoff elections could top $200M: report

Spending on potential runoff elections for Georgia’s two US Senate seats — which could decide control of the chamber — will likely exceed $200 million and shatter records, according to a report. Republicans plan to pour at least $100 million into efforts to return GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler to the Capitol, CNBC said. The prediction […]

Sean Hannity Calls For A Do-Over In Pennsylvania As MAGA World Melts Down

In another sign that the MAGA world is melting down as the presidency slips away from Donald Trump, Sean Hannity called for a do-over of the election in Pennsylvania. “The only remedy I would see at that point is … a do-over in that state,” Hannity said with a straight face. “Something that has never […]

When Will We Know 2020 Election Results

Officials in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and where many votes are still uncounted, released a new batch of results around 9 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, and they showed Mr. Trump narrowing the gap slightly. Maricopa County will post its next report on Friday at 11 a.m. Eastern. Officials there said they had 204,000 more […]

Vote challenger chaos in Detroit was white privilege on steroids

Having lived in metro Detroit for more than two decades, I know what would happen if African American Detroit residents attempted to force their way into a room where votes were being counted in the predominantly white suburbs. It wouldn’t end well.The opposite scenario unfolded Wednesday in downtown Detroit. Shouting “Stop the count!” and “Let us […]

George Conway Kicks Trump When He’s Down in Washington Post Op-Ed

Since the day he was elected president, Donald Trump faced incredible resistance from Democratic voters. But they were not the only ones who were opposing Trump. There were also a huge amount of Republicans who did not feel that he truly represented their party. One of the loudest of these voices was George Conway. Not […]

Philadelphia vote counting back on amid legal tug-of-war

Vote-counting efforts in Philadelphia were temporarily suspended on Thursday following a court order that granted President Trump’s campaign closer access to oversee the operation, according to reports. The count resumed shortly after noon, the Philadelphia Inquirer said. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has not said if it will hear the appeal planned by city officials, the […]

Democrats Are Confident Biden Has The Votes To Win Pennsylvania By 70-100K

Democrats are expressing confidence as Trump files lawsuits that Biden has the votes to win Pennsylvania by 70,000-100,000. The numbers: Pennsylvania Democrats are very confident that the votes are there for Biden to prevail when every vote is counted. One Democrat said the margin could be about 100K, another one projects it closer to 70-80K. […]

Protests in Arizona and Other States Insist Votes Be Counted — or Not.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Protests arose around the country as the ballot tabulation in the final battleground states continued, with some demonstrators demanding that every vote be counted and others insisting that the counting be shut down.In Portland, where a “Count Every Vote” demonstration merged with another one focused on racial justice and police brutality, some […]

More women and more Black women than ever ran for Congress in 2020, but they still lost ground

Jahana Hayes (left) and Lauren Underwood were reelected to the House of Representatives. AP Photo/J. Scott ApplewhiteIn 2020, Black women set a new record – 117 entered primaries for the House and 13 for the U.S. Senate, according to the Center for American Women and Politics.In total, 643 women were candidates in congressional primary and […]

Young Americans came out in droves to cast first-time votes—and it’s having quite the impact

More than a week before the election, data showed that at least 7 million voters between the ages of 18-29 already voted, compared to 1.9 million in the age group who voted in 2016. “With a week of early voting (when the data was collected) and Election Day still to come, in Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, […]

Wisconsin Elections Commission Director Says All The Votes Have Been Counted (Biden Is Leading)

Wisconsin Elections Commission Director Meagan Wolfe said all of the ballots had been counted in the state, which suggests Biden leads. Video: WATCH: “All of the ballots have indeed been counted,” Wisconsin Elections Commission Director Meagan Wolfe says. “We’re not seeing that there’s any counties that haven’t posted their results on their websites.” Track latest […]

How Biden and Trump Can Each Still Win the Presidency

Joseph R. Biden Jr. started election night with many paths to 270 electoral votes, but by Wednesday morning President Trump had won Florida, Ohio and Texas and was within striking distance of winning North Carolina.That left a diminished but still significant number of ways by which Mr. Biden could prevail, mostly clustered around recapturing Michigan, […]

At the End of a Chaotic Campaign, an Election Day That Defied the Worst Fears

The worst fears about a chaotic end to a chaotic campaign failed to materialize on Tuesday as the final day of voting went off with little more than sporadic glitches and confrontations even as the tension over the outcome and aftermath remained undiminished.The most litigated, disrupted and polarized election in generations came to a close […]

‘We believe we’re on track to win this election,’ Joe Biden tells Delaware crowd

Joe Biden spoke briefly at a drive-in rally in Delaware shortly before 1 AM ET, offering an optimistic message but one that emphasized that the vote-counting is ongoing and there’s a lot we don’t know. “We feel good about where we are, we really do. I’m here to tell you tonight we believe we’re on track […]

Trump’s Own Polling Has Him Losing Wisconsin, Michigan, And Pennsylvania

Contrary to their public message, Trump’s own internal polling shows him losing Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Video: Nicolle Wallace says even Trump’s own polling shows him badly losing in Wisconsin and Michigan and far enough behind in Pennsylvania that his only hope is to declare a red mirage victory and go to court. #ElectionNight pic.twitter.com/WbPZYR0VPr […]

Biden in Scranton Says: ‘You Got to Run Through the Tape, Man.’

Joseph R. Biden Jr. returned to his Pennsylvania birthplace, Scranton, on the morning of Election Day, addressing supporters outside a carpenters’ union hall and visiting his childhood home.“It’s good to be home,” the former vice president said at a canvass kickoff, wearing a mask and speaking through a bullhorn with Biden-Harris stickers on it. “Scranton […]

Building on a history of resistance, Black women lead the way in this election

While Harris’s nomination is historic and meaningful, Black women’s overwhelming interest and commitment to casting a ballot is not a new feature in American politics. In 2008 and ’12, Black women voted at the highest rate of any race and gender subgroup.  […] The passage in 1920 of the 19th Amendment, which granted voting rights to […]

Republican Dirty Tricks Begin As Voting Equipment Delayed To Georgia Democratic Area

In a trick that was like a stunt Georgia Republicans pulled in the 2018 governor election, the delivery of voting equipment was delayed to Democratic areas. Josie Duffy Rice tweeted: Update from poll worker here in Fulton County, GA. (Fulton is the heart of Atlanta. Crucial to the outcome tomorrow.) pic.twitter.com/hSFF8uongu — josie duffy rice […]

Undeterred by Coronavirus Pandemic, Americans Prepare to Render Verdict on Trump

Voters were wracked with nervous energy. Katie Whelan, a high school history teacher from New Jersey, crossed the Pennsylvania border to knock on doors over the weekend for Mr. Biden in the key battleground. The previous night, she said, she had awakened from a panic dream involving Hillary Clinton and the dread of falling just […]

Trump scraps actual GOTV effort in Pennsylvania from 2016 for horns and yelling in 2020

The Post’s Bump returned to the streets of Scranton, Pennsylvania, this year to find a complete role reversal—a bunch of disciplined Biden campaign operatives and volunteers putting the pieces of a hard-scrabble GOTV effort together for the final hours of the campaign while Trump supporters drove through town, revving engines and firing their horns in […]

Opposition leader Freeman Mbowe arrested

The Chadema party refuses to accept defeat in the electionPolice in Tanzania have arrested the chairman of the main opposition party in the wake of a disputed election.Freeman Mbowe was detained, along with two other Chadema leaders, for planning violent protests, police said.Chadema presidential candidate Tundu Lissu was released after being briefly detained in the […]