Michigan Republican Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, left, and Republican House Speaker Lee Chatfield are among those expected to visit the White House. AP Photo/David Eggert Austin Sarat, Amherst College The state of Michigan, and the United States as a whole, may face a political crisis brought on by President […] Read more »
How a post-election crisis was manufactured in Pennsylvania
It was the nightmare scenario everyone saw coming: a nail-biter presidential election that was too close to call on election night, with the entire world forced to patiently wait on slow results from Pennsylvania as it sifted through millions of mail-in ballots. … The delay was largely caused by Republican […] Read more »
The 2020 Election Was A Good One For Republicans Not Named Trump
Republicans outperformed the polls up and down the ballot in the 2020 election, to the surprise even of many Republican political operatives and survey researchers. To be clear, Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Trump; Democrats will still control the House and still have a chance of picking up the Senate. […] Read more »
Joe Biden’s win grows more decisive each day as votes are counted
President Donald Trump’s efforts to deny the outcome of the 2020 election cannot change an undeniable reality: Joe Biden won decisively, and his lead nationally and in key states has grown over time as more votes have been counted. … And let’s be clear, the chance of a recount overturning […] Read more »
Fraud claims aimed in part at keeping Trump base loyal
President Donald Trump has promised legal action in the coming days as he refused to concede his loss to Democrat Joe Biden, making an aggressive pitch for donors to help finance any court fight. … But senior officials, campaign aides and allies told The Associated Press that overwhelming evidence of […] Read more »
Here are six big takeaways from the 2020 elections
… On average, the polls appear to have been off by about 2.5 to 3 percentage points this year. The absolute error in polls is not necessarily larger than in previous years. But, crucially, both public and private polls continued to overestimate Democratic vote share in Florida and in Midwestern […] Read more »