Author: Reporter

For the outcome of this year’s presidential race, it will be the vote count on election night and possibly in the days after that will grab the public’s attention. But those numbers are unofficial until the election is formally certified — a once uneventful process that has become politicized since then-President Donald Trump tried to overturn his reelection loss four years ago. Trump unsuccessfully pressured fellow Republicans on an evenly divided board that had to sign off on Michigan’s vote not to certify his loss in the state. On January 6, 2021, he directed his supporters to march to...

Donald Trump falsely insists that Project 2025, a nearly 1,000-page blueprint for a hard-right turn in American government and society, does not reflect his priorities for a White House encore. “I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it — purposefully,” the convicted felon and Republican presidential nominee claimed on September 10 on the debate stage. Yet from economics, immigration, and education policy to civil rights and foreign affairs, there are common ideas and shared ideology between Project 2025 and Trump’s outline for another term — from his official “Agenda 47” slate, the Republican platform he personally approved,...

After the 2020 presidential election, thousands of Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters heeded his call to join a “wild” protest of his defeat. Following Trump’s lies about a stolen election, hundreds of them stormed the U.S. Capitol under the banners of the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and other extremist groups and movements. Many of those far-right networks have dissolved, splintered, or receded from public view since the January 6, 2021, attack. But the specter of election-related chaos has not vanished with them. Political violence remains a persistent threat heading into the November 5 election, experts warn. Election officials have...

There will be 77 days between Election Day and inauguration, a period in which the president-elect may ready his or her administration to take over power from President Joe Biden. Long built on tradition and bipartisanship, the presidential transition exploded into a point of political contention four years ago, after then-President Donald Trump made baseless claims to dispute his loss and his administration delayed kicking off the transition process for weeks. This year, a new law is meant to start the transition sooner, no matter who wins. But, if neither major party candidate concedes after Election Day, the updated...

Convicted felon and aspirational dictator Donald Trump launched another attack on former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney on October 31, calling the prominent Republican critic and former Wyoming congresswoman a “war hawk” and suggesting that she should be killed for her opposition to him. During an event in Glendale, Arizona, with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the Republican presidential candidate showed further signs of his mental instability when he was asked if it was weird to see Cheney campaign against him. Cheney has vocally opposed Trump since his January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and attempted coup...