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Trump supporters head to streets as he pushes false election claims

November 14, 2020
President Donald Trump’s supporters will take to the streets on Saturday to back his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud as he pushes ahead with a flurry of longshot legal challenges to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Trump has made little headway in the courts with his lawsuits and for the first time on Friday he

Trump supporters head to streets as he pushes false election claims

November 14, 2020
President Donald Trump’s supporters will take to the streets on Saturday to back his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud as he pushes ahead with a flurry of longshot legal challenges to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Trump has made little headway in the courts with his lawsuits and for the first time on Friday he

Election Officials Directly Contradict Trump on Voting System Fraud

November 14, 2020
Voting machines. Our democracy depends on them to accurately record each and every ballot. You go to the polls, you cast your vote, your voice is heard. Right? Not so fast. “Russian attacks.” “Russian hackers.” “Russian hackers tried to break into U.S. election systems.” Because in 2016 — “The Russians managed to get us paranoid

Trump puts Rudy Giuliani in charge of 2020 election lawsuits

November 14, 2020
President Trump has tapped personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to helm his 2020 election result battles, putting him in charge of the campaign’s more than two dozen lawsuits and of all public statements concerning them, according to a report. Trump put the former New York City mayor and staunch supporter in charge in response to a

Trump puts Rudy Giuliani in charge of 2020 election lawsuits

November 14, 2020
President Trump has tapped personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to helm his 2020 election result battles, putting him in charge of the campaign’s more than two dozen lawsuits and of all public statements concerning them, according to a report. Trump put the former New York City mayor and staunch supporter in charge in response to a

CNN’s Amanpour slammed for comparing Trump’s term to ‘Kristallnacht”

November 14, 2020
CNN International anchor Christiane Amanpour is being criticized after she compared President Trump’s four years in office to Kristallnacht. “This week 82 years ago, Kristallnacht happened,” Amanpour said on air, Fox News reported. Kristallnacht, literally the “Night of Crystal,” was a series of violent Nazi pogroms that heralded the Holocaust — its name prompted by

PA judges toss out Trump campaign’s 6 challenges over absentee ballots

November 14, 2020
Two Pennsylvania judges served blows to President Trump’s re-election campaign on Friday, tossing out a combined six cases challenging absentee ballots. Judge James Crumlish of Philadelphia County’s Court of Common Pleas ruled in five related cases that the Trump campaign can’t scrap a total of 8,329 mail-in ballots that it had alleged were improper because

Donald Trump campaign shuts down prank-filled voter fraud hotline

November 13, 2020
The Trump campaign reportedly shut down its voter fraud hotline after the call center was flooded by prank caller since its launch last week. The hotline was set up at the Trump campaign’s headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, last week to give American voters the opportunity to send tips about apparent fraud in the election, ABC

Trump abandons AZ suit, supporters fail to win MI audit

November 13, 2020
President Trump’s campaign threw in the towel Friday on legal challenges to his projected loss in Arizona, as a judge in Michigan refused to order an audit of results that also favor Joe Biden. In a two-sentence “notice of partial mootness” filed in Arizona Superior Court, a Trump campaign lawyer conceded that Thursday’s latest vote

The slow collapse of the Trump autogolpe

November 13, 2020
xAnd no indication the president is the least bit interested in looking up from his own fantasies & grievances to do anything about it, or that any Congressional Republican is pressuring him to do so. Total abandonment of American people at a moment of crisis. AWOL under fire. https://t.co/2q2fJjUcZs— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) November 13, 2020

Biden plans sweeping change of Trump’s immigration agenda: report

November 12, 2020
Joe Biden is planning a major overhaul of President Trump’s immigration agenda, reversing his Muslim travel ban and freezing deportations for 100 days, according to a new report. The incoming Biden administration is bullish about its ability to undo many of Trump’s signature immigration policies because so many were created with executive action, one source

Rep. Matt Gaetz gets flirty with Tiffany Trump on Twitter

November 12, 2020
Does President Trump approve? Rep. Matt Gaetz reacted with a flirty series of emojis — in the order of fire, heart, heart eyes and thumbs up — to a photo posted by first daughter Tiffany Trump Wednesday evening. Tiffany TrumpTwitter The photo was taken last Tuesday during an election night ceremony at the White House.

Trump pays Veterans Day respects at Arlington National Cemetery

November 11, 2020
President Trump paid his respects on Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery. The 45th commander-in-chief was joined at the rainy ceremony Wednesday by First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Second Lady Karen Pence. The president, who had not held a public event since the 2020 presidential race was called for

Biden vows to push ahead with transition as Trump challenges

November 10, 2020
Joe Biden took questions from reporters for the first time since the presidential race was called in his favor, telling reporters in Wilmington on Tuesday that nothing would stop his transition even as President Trump challenges the results of the election. The White House has directed senior government agencies to snub Biden’s transition team and

Trump claims Democrats and the FDA delayed coronavirus vaccine news

November 10, 2020
President Trump on Monday suggested, without providing evidence, that the Food and Drug Administration and the Democratic Party conspired together to delay the release of a coronavirus vaccine until after the 2020 presidential election. Trump made the claim in a tweet Monday evening, hours after the Pfizer drug company announced an initial analysis of their

Trump Faces Criminal Investigation And Lawsuits As Soon As He Leaves Office

November 9, 2020
Trump will be facing at least one criminal investigation and multiple lawsuits after he no longer has the presidency to shield him. Video: Now that Trump has lost he is staring down the barrel at multiple lawsuits, a criminal investigation, and potentially $100 million in IRS fines. pic.twitter.com/QD6BuBjcqQ — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) November 9,

Trump lost. Get over it

November 9, 2020
“It’s time for the president’s lawyers to present the facts, and it’s time for those facts to speak for themselves,” Sen. Blunt, who chairs the Senate Rules Committee, said on ABC’s This Week. “It seems unlikely that any changes could be big enough to make a difference, but this is a close election, and we need

Trump news – live: President ‘terminates’ defence secretary and is already ‘considering’ 2024 run

November 9, 2020
Melania Trump, first lady, and Donald Trump, US president, on election night (EPA)Donald Trump ‘s inner cicle have been told the president is not backing down on his objections to the result of the US presidential election after losing to Joe Biden, as the first lady, Melania Trump, is reportedly planning to leave him and

Biden Voters Rebuild a ‘Blue Wall’ That Trump Smashed

November 8, 2020
On Saturday, a new calm set in.“I don’t think I need the Wellbutrin anymore — no more antidepressant for me,” said Ruth Briggs, 65, who was skipping down Arch Street in Philadelphia. “Four years of depression, just four years. It’s been horrible. And it’s lifted.”In his first address to the nation as president-elect, Mr. Biden

Donald Trump May Flee The White House Next Week

November 8, 2020
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

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

November 7, 2020
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

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

November 6, 2020
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

How Biden and Trump Can Each Still Win the Presidency

November 4, 2020
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,

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

November 4, 2020
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

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

Joe Biden Closes Strong In Philly As Trump Complains About The Weather

November 2, 2020
Joe Biden implored voters to reject Trump’s lies and take their country back, while Trump complained about the weather at his rallies. Video of Biden: As Trump complains about the weather at his rallies, Joe Biden is mobilizing voters and telling them that now is the time to take our democracy back. pic.twitter.com/b2ZiyVY0ck — Sarah

Trump, Biden and the Tough Guy, Nice Guy Politics of 2020

November 2, 2020
A decade later, when the younger Bush ran against John Kerry, he took a similar tack: He taunted his opponent for speaking French and painted him as an out-of-touch aristocrat even as he tried to present himself as a “war president.”“This happens all the time,” said Tristan Bridges, an associate professor of sociology at the

Joe Biden Has 7 Paths To Victory, And Trump Has Just 1

October 31, 2020
Joe Biden can win the White House with seven different combinations of states that he is leading or tied in. Trump only has one path to victory. Video: Biden has seven paths to the White House. Trump has one. He has to win Florida, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, and Arizona. A loss in any of

Trump’s Rallies Are Backfiring And Making Joe Biden More Popular

October 31, 2020
Trump’s multiple rallies a day aren’t helping his standing in the election, but they are keeping Joe Biden very popular. From a new Fox News Poll released on Friday evening, “Biden has a net +11 personal rating: 55 percent view him favorably vs. 44 percent unfavorably. For Trump, 44 percent view him positively and 55

Lil Wayne, Latest Rapper in Trump’s Orbit, Sees Backlash Over Photo

October 31, 2020
“Oh no,” 50 Cent wrote on Thursday evening. “I WOULD HAVE NEVER TOOK THIS PICTURE.”Ice Cube, a founding member of N.W.A, who released a song called “Arrest the President” as recently as 2018, faced similar scrutiny after it was announced this month that he had consulted with the Trump administration on the Platinum Plan. He