Chapter 31: Voter Suppression

An attorney for the Trump campaign admitted in court on Tuesday that a lawsuit against the local elections board is not alleging election fraud. Trump campaign attorney Jonathan S. Goldstein made the statement while arguing that the Montgomery County Board of Elections must halt the counting of 592 mail-in ballots. During the oral arguments, the […]

76,983,892 Americans who voted for Joe Biden as the 46th president have had their votes counted by early Wednesday US time, compared with just 71,915,939 for Donald Trump. That is a lead in the popular vote of more than five million. This is now a...

A Pennsylvania postal worker whose claims have been cited by top Republicans as potential evidence of widespread voting irregularities recanted to U.S. Postal Service investigators.

Trump is tampering with the November election in plain sight by trying to inhibit perfectly legal voting by mail and plotting to contest a defeat.

In the end, the biggest interference in America's elections didn't come from Russia, or China, or Iran or North Korea. It came from the president of the United States. As I write this, we st

Donald Trump is refusing to concede and go quietly as he and other Republicans keep pushing a narrative of voter fraud without evidence.

This kind of misinformation about dead voters is spreading online with support from people in Trump’s campaign, despite offering no hard evidence.

"Denouncing Israeli occupation is NOT anti-Semitic," the women-led peace group stressed after Sen. Kelly Loeffler attacked her Democratic challenger over a 2019 letter.

Celebrations erupted the world over on November 7, 2020 when Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election by a slew of U.S. news outlets. Across the States and the world, supporters cheered, hugged, and waved American flags and photos of Biden in the wake of his victory.

Biden defined himself early on as a responsible foil to Trump.

When the White House essentially relocated to Air Force One over the final weeks of the campaign, President Donald Trump had a common reaction whenever he saw his rival Joe Biden appear on one of the airplane's many televisions.

Even for a bottomless pit of narcissism like Donald Trump, Wednesday was an exceptional day for self-aggrandizement. Early in the day, Trump tweeted quotes from one of his more sycophantic — and unhinged — followers, Wayne Allyn Root, calling Trump the "King of Israel" and "the second coming of God....

President Donald Trump revealed he spoke to God about the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic and God told him He’s going to have him rebuild “the greatest economy in the history of the world” again.

More than half of white evangelical Protestants agree.

The desire within Trump and his senior staff for a DOJ rescue was palpable, as the vote count kept going more and more in Joe Biden’s direction.

The main people fighting for the president’s campaign right now are an assortment of MAGA celebrities and Internet personalities.

As election officials continue to count ballots across the country, President Donald Trump delivered a low-energy and belabored speech in the White House press room on Thursday in a desperate effort to seize control of the narrative.His strategy was clear. He wanted to cast doubt on the results of t...

A sadist walks into a pandemic….On October 30, CNN reported that in his recent rallies Trump made a series of baseless claims that doctors were inflating the coronavirus death count for their own monetary gain, despite the fact that COVID cases and deaths are rapidly surging across our country. At a...

Donald Trump has lost. I don’t think I’m jinxing anything by saying that. Look here … Pennsylvania ends it. Which is nice, because we also have Nevada in the bag … So right now we’re at the part in the movie where the villain has lost his lower torso...

With the Trump campaign frantically attempting to challenge vote-counting procedures in several battleground states where the president's early leads have evaporated, a prominent conservative attorney and co-chair of Lawyers for Trump openly admitted in a television interview Thursday that the campa...

Offering irresistibly low-hanging fruit for political rivals, pundits, and late-night comedians—who all devoured it with gusto—President Donald Trump was lambasted Wednesday and Thursday for simultaneously suing to stop the vote counting process in key battleground states where he clings to a precar...

Lawyers from both sides of the political aisle are baffled by what appears to be President Donald Trump's strategy to wage war on states where the election results are not in his favor. As of Friday morning, Trump has unleashed a barrage of lawsuits to contest election results in multiple swing stat...

President Trump early Wednesday declared victory in the presidential race against Democratic nominee Joe Biden even as millions of votes were still being counted across multiple states and the president said he would be going t

WE WIN. Biden will be declared winner because the next state like Nevada after 264 electoral college votes pushes him over the top. How many times did we have these contradictions: where Trump whines about Biden using teleprompters, while himself...

Unhingery abounds on the path to the bunker. MSNBC reports that angry Trumpists are demonstrating at the Phoenix vote counting center (Maricopa County Elections Dept.) because Fox News called the election for Biden.  Dave Karpf wrote another of...

Detroit is nearly done counting absentee ballots.

"All of us are committed to a fair and efficient count of all votes," Maricopa County officials said.

While much of America was sleeping Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump’s leads in crucial battleground states began slipping — and that's when online falsehoods about the election started...

The Trump campaign is accusing election officials of mishandling mail-in ballots and refusing to accommodate observers.

"Right now, election officials are continuing to count millions of votes across the country, Biden is ahead in the Electoral College and the popular vote, and the outcome of this election will be decided by the voters, not Donald Trump."

Elie Honig writes that Trump's declaration that he wanted "all voting to stop" that he would be "going to the Supreme Court" oversimplifies and misconceives how elections work and how the courts function.

Donald Trump prematurely declared that he won the 2020 election while it was still being counted, and threatened to demand the Supreme Court stop counting ‘fraud’ votes.

The US Postal Service is in a financial crisis and now instructing workers to avoid logging overtime — even if it means leaving mail behind.

During an ongoing trial, Postal Service officials said the ballots weren't being tracked so that they could be delivered more quickly.

The U.S. Postal Service says it can’t meet a federal judge’s order to sweep processing centers for undelivered mail-in ballots.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden was pushing closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to carry the White House, securing victories in the “blue wall” battlegrounds of Wisconsin and...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden won the battleground prizes of Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday, reclaiming a key part of the “blue wall” that slipped away from Democrats four years ago and...

Trump’s reelection campaign has attempted to halt vote-counting in Pennsylvania and Michigan, sought a recount in Wisconsin, and challenged the handling of ballots in Georgia.

The Democratic presidential candidate stressed that "every vote must be counted" as the final few states finish tallying ballots in the close race.

The Trump campaign is accusing election officials of mishandling mail-in ballots and refusing to accommodate observers.

Prominent Twitter users claimed everything from a full head of hair to "the Commonwealth of Bradley Cooper" in refuting the president's latest lies. 

President Trump retweeted maps that appeared to show Biden getting 100% of newly counted votes in a Michigan results update. The data was not correct.

The U.S. Postal Service turned down a federal judge's order late Tuesday afternoon to sweep mail processing facilities serving 15 states, saying instead it would stick to its own inspection schedule

"Donald Trump won the presidency with 46 percent of the popular vote. His approval rating, according to Gallup, has never hit 50 percent. He remains under 50 percent in national polling averages," Politico reports.“The president’s inability to capture a majority of support sheds light on his e

The RNC is seeking people in 15 key states to serve as poll watchers and challenge the registration of voters they believe ineligible

Over the past four years President Trump — with the help of too many state Republican Party officials — has tried to put a friendly face on suppressing the votes of people who do not vote for him.

Historic turnout doesn’t erase the threat posed by the GOP’s open contempt for the political rights of its opposition.

First, make it illegal to count votes quickly. Second, paint the slow count as suspicious.

Republicans are firmly opposing free and fair elections — unless they do something about this.

“You’re really seeing a broad-based... strategy to suppress the vote by the Republican Party," a GOP lawyer said.