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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.

US court throws out Trump lawsuit seeking to block Pennsylvania from certifying Biden win

Erik Larson -
Pennsylvania is the latest instance of judges declining to toss out millions of votes based on vague assertions from Trump campaign and allies about a Democratic conspiracy.

Trump’s fight to overturn election narrows after 2 more legal defeats, case withdrawal

David Voreacos -
Trump needs to flip at least 3 states that voted for Biden to win. He’s pushing Republican legislators to overrule voters, but most have rejected those overtures so far.

Joe Biden’s win reaffirmed in Georgia as state completes vote recount

PTI -
After a hand recount of nearly five million votes, that lasted for several days, Joe Biden won by 12,284 votes over President Donald Trump in the key battleground state.

Trump’s gambit to overturn states’ election results is running out of time

Mark Niquette -
Donald Trump's campaign has mounted legal challenges but states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona and Wisconsin seem on track to certify their election results.

Trump and allies dial back voter fraud claims after defeats

Erik Larson -
The Trump campaign Sunday revised its highly touted suit to block certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s projected Pennsylvania victory, abandoning its claims of voter fraud.

Zuckerberg, Dorsey to face angry Republicans, defend charges of silencing conservatives

Ben Brody -
The two are scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The session is likely to focus on Twitter & Facebook’s handling of Trump’s statements on election process.

US adversaries had seen a weakened country even before election results, Barack Obama says

Bill Allison -
Obama says the 'humouring' of Trump’s position by Republican officials 'is one more step in delegitimising not just the incoming Biden administration, but democracy generally.'

Twitter says changes ahead of US election curbed spread of misinformation

Kurt Wagner -
Twitter said the 300,000 posts it labeled for misinformation accounted for just 0.2% of all election-related posts on the service between 27 October and 11 November.

Telegram or phone call, Taiwan ponders ‘appropriate’ way to wish US president-elect Joe Biden

Samson Ellis -
Four years ago, Donald Trump became the first US president-elect to have spoken to a Taiwanese head of state since Washington broke ties with Taipei in 1979.

By not conceding, Trump is doing extraordinary harm to America’s democracy and Constitution

Noah Feldman -
Though conceding isn't a written norm, it has a quasi-constitutional status in the US and Trump's refusal to do it could undercut the democratic legitimacy of the electoral process.
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