President Donald Trump appears determined to end this stage of his political career the same way he began it: by promoting a racist conspiracy theory. Just as he began his long march to the White House by touting the racist “birther theory” that Barack Obama was not an American citizen, […] Read more »
Why millions don’t trust the election results, despite no evidence of widespread fraud
Since Election Day, numerous false allegations of fraud have been published on social media and repeated elsewhere, most of which have been easily debunked, yet a large swath of the population still appears to believe them. According to a recent poll roughly three-quarters (77%) of Trump backers say former Vice […] Read more »
How Georgia proves Trump has no chance of winning
President-elect Joe Biden is going to be the next president of the United States. That hasn’t stopped President Donald Trump and his campaign from claiming without any proof that there was wide scale fraud in the 2020 election. The truth, as confirmed by an audit of Georgia’s votes, is that […] Read more »
Sharp Divisions on Vote Counts, as Biden Gets High Marks for His Post-Election Conduct
More than two weeks after the presidential election, there are sharp divisions between voters who supported Joe Biden and Donald Trump over nearly all aspects of the election and voting process, including whether their own votes were counted accurately. Trump voters, who already were skeptical of the electoral process and […] Read more »
So, Did ‘Bad Things Happen’ With the Election in Philadelphia?
Joe Biden’s lead in the presidential election results in Pennsylvania has now surpassed 81,000 votes, far exceeding Donald Trump’s 44,000-vote victory margin there four years ago. Yet the Trump campaign continues to claim in court huge but incalculable levels of fraud, particularly in Philadelphia. As with cases filed elsewhere around […] Read more »
Trump’s Attempts to Overturn the Election Are Unparalleled in U.S. History
President Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election are unprecedented in American history and an even more audacious use of brute political force to gain the White House than when Congress gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency during Reconstruction. Mr. Trump’s chances of succeeding are somewhere between remote and impossible, […] Read more »