Topic2020 US election

Topic: 2020 US election

The 2020 election sees US President Donald Trump make a re-election bid while Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate and former vice president, challenges him in the White House race. This year has been tumultuous, with issues of racism, police brutality, the coronavirus pandemic and the impact on economy, and ties with China dominating US politics. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death has also catapulted the justice system into the limelight.

More Republicans reject effort by party members to disrupt certification of Trump’s loss

Josh Wingrove - January 4, 2021

GOP claims of voter fraud by Democrats continued even as Washington Post reported that Trump had called officials in Georgia to 'find enough votes' to flip the state to Trump.

Trump urged Georgia officials to find new votes, overturn result

Josh Wingrove - January 4, 2021

Trump told officials, including Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, to 'find 11,780 votes' just days before Congress was scheduled to certify the US election results.

New York Post tells Trump to ‘Give It Up’ over election claim

Elizabeth Wasserman - December 28, 2020

President Donald Trump’s continued effort to overturn the 3 November election results got a front-page rebuke from one his most loyal backers: the New York Post.

William Barr steps down as US attorney general after crossing Trump

Chris Strohm - December 15, 2020

Barr’s departure followed an interview in which he said the US Justice Department hadn’t seen 'fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the US election'.

‘Time to turn the page’, says Joe Biden after electoral college win

Mario Parker - December 15, 2020

Joe Biden said he would be the president for all Americans, even those who don’t agree with him, & urged people to focus instead on combating the pandemic and its economic fallout.

Biden wins electoral college to cement victory and rebuff Trump

Mark Niquette - December 15, 2020

Some Senate Republicans who had refused to recognise Biden’s victory quickly started acknowledging that Trump lost and Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president on 20 January.

US Supreme Court rejects Texas and Trump’s bid to nullify election results

Greg Stohr - December 12, 2020

The decision ends a lawsuit hailed by Trump on Twitter as 'the big one,' and it dashes his oft-expressed dream of vindication at the Supreme Court.

White House directs staff to save records to ensure ‘smooth transition’ of power

Jennifer Jacobs - December 11, 2020

The White House sent the reminder more than two weeks after the General Services Administration ascertained Biden as the apparent winner of the US election.

YouTube to delete misleading videos on US election –– even Trump’s

Mark Bergen - December 10, 2020

YouTube said Wednesday that its efforts would apply to content posted as of today, given that enough states have certified their election results to determine a president-elect.

President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani tests Covid positive amid US election fight

Yueqi Yang - December 7, 2020

Giuliani’s diagnosis is the latest setback for Trump’s effort to cling to power by asserting without evidence that the presidential election was riven with fraud.

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