Elections should be grounded in evidence, not blind trust

… We need evidence-based elections: processes that create strong public evidence that the reported winners really won and the reported losers really lost, despite any problems that might have occurred. Every step in election administration—from technology choices to voter eligibility checks, physical security, the canvass, and audits—should flow from that […] Read more »

GOP pollster says ‘the next 48 hours are going to be among the worst’ ever for Republicans

Control of the Senate is up for grabs and voting in the Georgia runoff ends Tuesday. Frank Luntz, pollster and political strategist, joined “Squawk Box” on Tuesday morning to discuss why he thinks Democrats will win the elections. CNBC The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll […] Read more »

Trump Has Made The Senate Races In Georgia Harder For Republicans

In a taped, hour-long phone call, President Trump asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn the outcome of the presidential election in Georgia and suggested Raffensperger and his lawyer could be criminally liable if they didn’t. … In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics […] Read more »

An Insurgency From Inside the Oval Office

President Trump’s relentless effort to overturn the result of the election that he lost has become the most serious stress test of American democracy in generations, led not by outside revolutionaries intent on bringing down the system but by the very leader charged with defending it. In the 220 years […] Read more »

One Day Out: Will Trump Torpedo Republican Chances in the Georgia Runoffs?

… Tomorrow, Republicans will see whether there are real electoral consequences to Trump’s continued rage and myopic focus on overturning the legal results of the election. We will finally learn if the civil war within the Republican Party, especially in Georgia, will have harmed the chances of incumbent Sens. David […] Read more »

Trump knows no limits as he tries to overturn the election

There are but 16 days left in President Trump’s term, but there is no doubt that he will use all of his remaining time in office to inflict as much damage as he can on democracy — with members of a now-divided Republican Party acting as enablers. That there are […] Read more »