The story of the 2020 presidential election was uncomplicated. Donald Trump was the sitting president, one who had spent three years tending to the political priorities of his Republican base and the fourth year struggling to manage a viral pandemic and social unrest. The challenger, Joe Biden, didn’t have to do a whole lot; being […]Read More

More than 300,000 Georgians cast a ballot Tuesday for the November election, the first day of early voting, doubling the state’s Day 1 record. On Wednesday, there were no signs that the pace was slowing down. More than 88,000 votes had been cast as of 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to data from the crucial battleground […]Read More

PHILADELPHIA — Vice President Kamala Harris, under pressure to broaden her appeal to Republicans and conservatives with Election Day fast approaching, is sitting for a high-stakes interview with Fox News on Wednesday and holding an event with GOP leaders in Philadelphia’s battleground suburbs. The interview with Fox chief political anchor Bret Baier represents a calculated […]Read More

One of the most illuminating moments of Donald Trump’s increasingly lengthy career in national politics came during his third debate with Hillary Clinton back in 2016. (This was back when presidential campaigns had three debates coordinated by the Commission on Presidential Debates, itself a reminder of how the Trump era has diverted the political process.) […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump doesn’t spend much time talking to contentious interviewers. He does a lot of interviews with right-wing media outlets and podcasts with hosts unlikely to press him on the vagueness of his tariffs-and-immigration campaign platform. He knows, as does everyone else, that he simply needs his steady, supportive segment of the electorate […]Read More

In the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election, election observers, state officials and the media repeatedly articulated that results would be slow in coming. The coronavirus pandemic had triggered an expansion of remote-voting options across the country, with the side effect of increasing the number of votes that required verification and slower methods […]Read More

Donald Trump “was president for four years, and he didn’t go after his political opponents. You know who did go after her political opponents? Kamala Harris, who has tried to arrest everything from pro-life activists to her political opponents … and used the Department of Justice as a weapon against people.” — GOP vice-presidential candidate […]Read More