President Donald Trump asserted a dizzying array of fuzzy accounting and outright false claims in an extraordinary phone call to Georgia’s secretary of state seeking a reversal of his election defeat
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More than 2,000 faith leaders urge Congress to honor election result
Signatories to the statement released Monday include many prominent religious liberals as well as a handful of evangelicals who have criticized President Donald Trump.
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Ascension to legislative leadership is bittersweet for Talbot Ross
Rachel Talbot Ross, a Portland Democrat, is the first Black person in state history to serve in a leadership role in the Maine Legislature.
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‘It’s just unprecedented’: Senate hinges on Georgia runoff chaos
Four people are seeking two seats that will determine which party controls the chamber.
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Maine senators oppose Republican challenge to Biden’s win over Trump
Susan Collins and Angus King come out against a plan by 11 Republican senators to vote to reject electors from some states when Congress meets this week to certify the Electoral College results.
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Republicans torn over Trump’s Electoral College challenge of Biden
The effort to subvert the will of voters is forcing Republicans to make choices that will set the contours of the post-Trump era and an evolving party.
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Pence asks judge to reject lawsuit seeking to empower him to overturn election
The lawsuit claims that an 1887 law that governs how Congress certifies presidential elections is unconstitutional, and that the vice president has sole discretion to determine whether electors put forward by the states are valid.
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Trump returns to White House early, offers year-end message
He underscores his administration’s work on the vaccine and economic stimulus checks.
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GOP senator calls effort to overturn electoral college vote a ‘dangerous ploy’
Ben Sasse of Nebraska says there is no evidence of fraud so widespread that it could change the results.
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Does Pence have any options to challenge Biden’s win?
Allies of President Donald Trump hope they can find a way around the law to get Pence to actually award the election to him.