Looking at November’s election, you’d rather be the Republican than the Democrat. But it could be close.
Category: Politics
-
Under pressure from Trump allies, some Republicans echo president’s unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud
Trump’s sons demanded that those in the party considering a 2024 presidential bid show loyalty to the president. Several Republicans called for investigations or donated to a new Trump legal fund.
-
Trump-associated firm helped send unmarked texts urging vote protests in Philadelphia
“ALERT: Radical Liberals & Dems are trying to steal this election from Trump!” began the short text, concluding: “We need YOU! Show your support at the corner of 12th St. & Arch St. in Philadelphia.”
-
Biden didn’t ‘take the lead’ in Pennsylvania. If he wins, he always had it.
Counting votes does not unfold like a football game.
-
Trump’s path to electoral victory is disappearing. So are his legal avenues.
If Pennsylvania winds up being decisive, Trump would need to overturn the results in three of the other states just to get to a tie, and four of them to get to a win.
-
Trump turns angry and despondent as possible defeat looms
The president has begun telling allies he believes he could lose — but only because the election is being “stolen from him.”
-
Top Republicans are giving Trump a pass on his ‘illegal vote’ claims
Even if some aren’t going all in on it, they’re using language Trump wants them to use.
-
How Trump loyalists are driving his campaign’s legal efforts to challenge ballots
Their aggressive strategy, in which the campaign has sought to question the ballot count in five battleground states, has confronted some early setbacks.
-
Centrist House Democrats lash out at liberal colleagues, blame far-left views for costing the party seats
In an emotional post-election conference call, liberals pushed back at the criticism from moderates, arguing that their ideas have fired up the party base.
-
The refrain from state officials is consistent: The Trump campaign’s fraud claims are unfounded
No evidence exists for Trump’s claims.
-
Trump’s attacks on vote counts seem to follow an authoritarian playbook
Trump’s attempts to brand legal election practices as fraud and to use the courts to intervene in the counting of votes are the latest examples of what has long been his malleable view of the democratic system.
