Tag: effort

Behind Trump’s Yearslong Effort to Turn Losing Into Winning

November 16, 2020
The trouble broke out inside the main counting room in Detroit late on the morning of Nov. 4.It was the day after Election Day, and until then the process of tabulating votes from the city’s various counting boards had gone smoothly inside the TCF Center, the cavernous convention hall that plays host to the North

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

November 3, 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

LeBron James Announces Huge Effort to Recruit Poll Workers in Black Neighborhood

August 25, 2020
LeBron James is not only one of the richest and most successful athletes in the world, he’s also one of the most charitable. The Lakers star has paid for numerous college educations, served thousands of meals and even built a school in his home town of Akron, Ohio. This year, the basketball star has turned

House Democrats restarting effort to obtain Trump’s tax returns

July 14, 2020
House Democrats have asked the Supreme Court to put its ruling last week on President Trump’s financial records into effect — so they can restart their effort to access the documents in lower courts. Douglas Letter, the top lawyer for the House of Representatives, urged the court in a filing Monday to immediately put its