Month: November 2020

President Donald Trump at a campaign event in Montoursville, Pa., October 31, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) It has to go through Pennsylvania, which is necessary but not sufficient. He needs to take Pennsylvania, hold onto Georgia and North Carolina, then take either Arizona (for 279 electoral votes) or Nevada (for 274). Biden leads in both of
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Demonstrators are seen in a line at a march for voting rights on Election Day in Graham, N.C., November 3, 2020. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Pollsters were widely wrong in 2016, yet learned nothing about their flawed methodologies. So how do they remain credible after 2020? A republic is not just a nation of laws. It also
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Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar has reportedly been denied entry into the Maricopa County Elections Center as ballots are being counted. A large pro-Trump rally to “Protect the Vote” is currently taking place outside. .@RepGosar has been denied entry into the Maricopa County elections center. pic.twitter.com/gg64viCKn0 — Tristan Justice (@JusticeTristan) November 5, 2020 TRENDING: WATCH: Suitcases
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden reacts to early results from the presidential election, in Wilmington, Del., November 4, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The lack of a clear election night winner has left some in the media dumbfounded, after countless predictions that former vice president Joe Biden would defeat Donald Trump in a “landslide.” CNN host Jake
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Conservative podcaster and BlazeTV host Steven Crowder aired a live election night show on Tuesday, and his coverage garnered millions of views, competing with all the major news networks. The show was broadcast on YouTube and obtained more than 8.2 million views less than 24 hours after election day. A second “Louder with Crowder” show
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With MSNBC having already expressed concern Wednesday night about a peaceful gathering of Trump supporters outside Arizona’s Maricopa County Elections Department, CNN hit the panic button just after midnight Eastern Thursday in saying the building would be closing based on the “armed,” YMCA-dancing crowd “chilling a democracy” and causing “a lot of security concerns.” Prime
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President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump reacts to early results from the presidential election in Washington, D.C., November 4, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) President Donald Trump’s campaign on Wednesday declared victory in Pennsylvania, though hundreds of thousands of votes are still to be counted. Trump’s campaign manager Bill Stepien told reporters the campaign is “declaring
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At this hour, we don’t know how the presidential race will shake out, but we know that this will not be the sweeping rebuke of President Trump that Democrats wanted, and, in many cases, confidently expected. That other morning newsletter, from Politico, writes this morning: TUESDAY WAS AN ABJECT DISASTER for … Read More
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I have a new column up on the homepage, which is a primer on the Pennsylvania election-law case. Toward the end, I addressed President Trump’s ill-advised remarks last night, in which he appeared to declare victory prematurely (“Frankly, we did win this election”), and to claim that the election was a … Read More
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Longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz says his industry is “done” after major forecasts were way off in projecting outcomes in the 2020 general election. What are the details? As numbers rolled in during the tight race between President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday night, Luntz told Axios, “The political polling
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Dozens of pro-Trump protesters marched outside the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix after tension arose over the results from the presidential election. Reporter Justin Lum of KSAZ-TV posted video of the peaceful demonstration on Wednesday. Trump supporters waved American flags and Trump campaign signs while chanting “four more years,” in support of the re-election campaign.
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about the current results of the election in Wilmington, Del., November 4, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday that he believes when all votes are counted, he will be declared the next president of the United States. “I’m not here to declare that we’ve won,”
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There was a significant amount of infighting and finger-pointing going on among Democrats in the House of Representatives Wednesday as the majority suffered a stunning defeat all across the country on Election Day, Politico reported. Only days before, the outlet noted, top Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) mused about the party’s chances to
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden delivers remarks on health care at the Beech Woods Recreation Center in Southfield, Mich., October 16, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Joe Biden has won Michigan, the Associated Press projected on Wednesday, placing him within reach of the 270 electoral votes needed to declare victory. Biden claims Michigan’s 16 electoral votes, bringing
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