Trump’s Thursday primetime elections speech was going to be more dangerous
President Trump’s address to the nation on elections was previously on course to sound a lot more dangerous than it ended up being.
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Michigan election fraud cited in Trump speech had no impact on votes
In a tirade against elections Thursday night, President Donald Trump ordered FBI Director Kash Patel to reopen an investigation into long-debunked anti-voting claims against a voter registration drive in Michigan in the lead-up to the 2020 election.
Vance says GOP will accept the election results, before returning to voting lies
Vice President JD Vance briefly broke with President Donald Trump when he said Republicans would accept the results of the November midterms no matter who wins, before lying about widespread election cheating. Vance told reporters after a meeting with House Republicans Wednesday that the GOP will “support the results of the midterm elections” even if […]
Trump’s pick for intel chief refuses to say who won 2020 election
Jay Clayton, who President Trump tapped for director of national intelligence, repeatedly declined to clearly state who won the 2020 election during his confirmation hearing Wednesday.
Trump to attack voting systems, undermine elections in primetime address Thursday
President Trump is expected to take to the airwaves Thursday to again push false claims of widespread voting fraud during the 2020 election, citing soon-to-be-declassified intelligence information purporting to show irregularities and vulnerabilities in voting machines.
Trump-appointed judge rejects DOJ’s demands for personal info of 2020 Georgia election workers
A federal judge blocked the Justice Department’s demands for the identities and personal information of thousands of people who helped run the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton County, calling the request “unreasonable.”
Election denier Dan Cox wins Maryland GOP governor primary
Dan Cox, a far-right election denier who attended President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 rally and built his political brand around false claims about the 2020 election, won Maryland’s Republican primary for governor Tuesday.
Alan Wilson, anti-voting attorney general, wins South Carolina GOP governor nod
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, who has used his office to back restrictive voting policies and defend President Donald Trump’s attacks on elections, won the Republican runoff for governor.
Georgia GOP votes to keep QR code ballots, but adds extra hand recounts
Under the new bill, the Secretary of State is expressly excluded from playing a role in determining Georgia’s future elections infrastructure.
Election denier Rick Jackson wins Georgia GOP governor primary runoff
Billionaire Rick Jackson, an election denier who has echoed President Donald Trump’s false claims about Georgia’s 2020 election, won the Republican runoff for governor, putting him one step closer to leading one of the country’s most important battleground states.