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How did we come to this point? President Donald Trump made history on Tuesday night with his false declaration of victory while votes were still being counted all across the country. At least, by signaling in advance that he would reject the election results if they did not favor him, Trump had diminished the impact of his own brazen stand. Still, it was a breathtaking display in a country that still likes to think of itself as a democracy. Over the last four years we have been numbed to the fact that we have a president who routinely lies...

On November 4, several news organizations called the presidential race in Wisconsin for Democratic nominee Joe Biden. That same day, the campaign of President Donald Trump, who trails Biden by under 21,000 votes, announced it would request a recount. “The President is well within the threshold to request a recount and we will immediately do so,”said Bill Stepien, Trump’s campaign manager, in a statement. On Twitter, former Republican Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker acknowledged, “If it holds, 20,000 is a high hurdle” for Trump. But Walker also said the canvass of votes that will now take place could reveal issues...

So here we are after Election Day and the presidential race again remains undecided. For the left, this feels all too familiar, the ghost pains of 2016 throbbing in the hole where our souls used to be. Outcome aside, the fact that this race is even close is a shocking wake-up call for those of us who believed that, with the scales off their eyes, Americans would choose decency over crude savagery, compassion over cruelty, professionalism over abject incompetence, honesty over absolute corruption. At least this time – and as of this writing, the odds still favor Biden. Trump...

By Robert Speel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Erie campus, Penn State As states continue to count their ballots in the 2020 election, it seems possible that Democrats and Republicans will end up in court over whether President Trump will win a second term in the White House. President Trump has said he was going to contest the election results – going so far as to say that he believed the election will ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has a team of lawyers lined up for a legal battle. Unprecedented changes...

“I am just grief stricken by how many Americans are OK with racist dog whistling and white supremacy and cutesy nods to white nationalism. Even if 45 is gone, that all stays. This is who we are.” A friend, the White mother of a Black child, posted this on Facebook on election night. That last line floored me: This is who we are. I wanted to write back and disagree with her, to argue that this is not who we are, that I chose this country as my second home not just for the opportunities I saw were possible...