In a post on Twitter on Saturday, Biden said he was honored that Americans have chosen him to be their president and said it was now time to heal divisions and unite as a country. “I am honored and humbled by the trust the American people have placed in me …
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Twitter, Facebook and YouTube’s crackdown on speculation about voter fraud, “election meddling,” and other “information intended to undermine public confidence in an election or other civic process” (as Twitter put it) represents a stunning about-face from the way they fostered – even bolstered – speculation about alleged Russian interference in …
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Social worker Kelly Reagan Brunner was hit with 134 election fraud counts on Friday, accused of sending in applications for 67 residents “without their signature or effective consent, while purporting to act as their agent,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a press release. “Registering citizens to vote or …
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The US is obviously a drastically different place in 2020 than it was in 1776, when thirteen colonies declared their independence from the British crown. Yet for all the dramatic changes in the shape and size of the country, the number and diversity of people living in it, or the …
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Democratic candidate for county commissioner Melanie Hartman appeared to have won the election on Wednesday by a razor-thin 104-vote margin, according to Detroit Free Press. However, red-faced county officials have revealed that a computer glitch led them to actually count votes for seven precincts twice, and the Republican incumbent Adam …
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Biden overtook Trump in the Keystone State on Friday morning, and is currently more than 5,500 votes ahead of Donald Trump. Though counting is still in progress, Decision Desk HQ, whose statistics are used by a number of news organizations, called the race to the White House for Biden, with …
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“As a political historian, I’ve studied a lot of bad things from our past. This moment is really rock bottom,” Zelizer tweeted, apparently referring to President Donald Trump’s press conference, in which the latter alleged voter count irregularities, vowing to sue several states where his initial edge over Biden had …
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“The most disturbing thing was that with presidential fanfare of the White House, that is, with all the insignia of power, the American commander-in-chief called for an end to the count because of his purported victory,” Michael Link, head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), told Germany’s Stuttgarter Zeitung …
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The only unsurprising thing about the US elections was the fact that so many pollsters and pundits got it wrong, yet again. Without knowing whether Biden or Trump will eventually slide past the 270 electoral college votes to secure the presidency, the result will leave many experts with egg on …
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It was not immediately clear if the fight had any connection with a protest rally staged in front of the presidential residence on the election night. The scuffle happened near the intersection of 14th Street and New York Avenue Northwest around 2:30 a.m. EST, police reported. Law enforcement are now looking …
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