Republican election officials in Georgia on Sunday continued to rebut Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud, as the outgoing president tries to pressure the governor to help overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the state “The president’s statements are false, they’re misinformation,” Gabriel Sterling, voting system implementation manager for Georgia, told NBC’s “Meet the […] Read more
Arizona and Wisconsin on Monday officially declared that Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in each of those states’ elections, damaging Trump’s long-shot efforts to reverse his projected loss in the Electoral College. Trump, who won both states in the 2016 election, failed to invalidate votes for Biden in legal challenges in Arizona and through a recount of two […] Read more
President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory to be overturned, and spread unproven claims of voter fraud while falsely insisting he won a series of key swing states that went to Biden. Facing defeat after a string of court losses, Trump made a surprise call-in appearance at a Republican state legislature hearing in Gettysburg, […] Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — President-elect Joe Biden made it clear during his campaign that his administration would favor a return to the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, reversing a cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy in the Middle East. But after three years of “maximum pressure” under Trump’s sanctions and dramatically deepened distrust between […] Read more
Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. Nearly every supporter of President Donald Trump thinks otherwise, according to a new Change Research poll. As the president makes unsubstantiated claims about electoral malfeasance and sows doubts about vote tallies, only 3% of Trump voters surveyed said they accept Biden’s victory as legitimate, the survey released Monday found. A […] Read more
The Trump administration should formally begin a transition to President-elect Joe Biden, the CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, Jay Timmons, told electionsobserver on Thursday, calling it a necessary step in order for the U.S. to adequately respond to the “urgent” coronavirus pandemic. “If Joe Biden is our next president — and frankly, by all signs, […] Read more
Delays in the transition process from the current administration to President-elect Joe Biden’s administration could lead to “substantial” damage if President Donald Trump continues to refuse to concede, said a former American ambassador to Singapore. “So far I think it’s not terribly damaging, it’s really still early days,” David Adelman told “Capital Connection” on Monday. “If it were […] Read more
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are now looking beyond the election to the transition. They have launched a website listing the key priorities that the incoming administration will try to address — the coronavirus pandemic, the economic recovery, racial equity and climate change. Biden will unveil a team of scientists and experts on Monday […] Read more
Biden leads in Arizona and Nevada as Trump’s margin in Pennsylvania narrows Democratic nominee Joe Biden is still leading President Donald Trump in Arizona and Nevada, as counting continues Friday. Biden holds a margin of 47,052 votes in Arizona, with 90% of total expected votes in. The state’s next election results update will come at […] Read more
Joe Biden delivered a scathing critique of the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic during a drive-in rally in Philadelphia, telling his supporters that the future of the country is in the hands of Pennsylvania voters. “Pennsylvania is critical to this election,” the former vice president said, as supporters honked their car horns in […] Read more
