Category: 2020 Election

Rep-Elect on Trump’s Electoral College: ‘No Question in My Mind’ Trump Won

Rep.-elect Burgess Owens (R-Utah) said he will support a challenge to the Electoral College vote, saying there is “no question” President Donald Trump won. Owens, a former NFL player endorsed by Trump, told the Salt Lake Tribune that he “absolutely” believes Trump won the election: “There’s no question in my mind that I think he won.”…


Jon Ossoff Dodges Questioning Over Chinese Business Connections, Brands Claims ‘Utter Nonsense’

Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff dodged questions about his business connections to the Chinese Communist Party.


Trump Adviser: Trump Loss an ‘Utter Improbability’ After Winning Florida, Iowa, Ohio

President Donald Trump’s campaign adviser Steve Cortes is continuing to highlight irregularities in the election results, saying that it’s extremely rare for a presidential candidate to win in Ohio, Florida, and Iowa and lose the overall race. Trump won those three battleground states. Former President Richard Nixon, who lost during the 1960 election against former…


House Asks Court to Dismiss Effort to Clarify Vice President’s Power in Electoral Counting

The House of Representatives is asking a court to reject a petition from Republicans that requests judges to say Vice President Mike Pence has the authority to reject some electoral votes. “This Court should reject plaintiffs’ effort to overturn Congress’s centuries-old role in counting electoral votes and resolving disputes about them in the constitutionally mandated…


Biden Calls for America to ‘Unite, Heal, and Rebuild in 2021’

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on the last day of 2020 called for America to “unite, heal, and rebuild” during the next year. “The challenges we face as a nation will not disappear overnight, but as we look forward to the start of a new year, I’m filled with fresh hope about the possibilities of…


Democrat Who Objected to Electoral Votes in 2005: No Regret, but This Time Is Different

The former senator who while in office objected to electoral votes in 2005 said Thursday she doesn’t regret what she did while insisting this time is different. “I do not regret it for one half a second,” former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said during an appearance on CNN. Boxer teamed with Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones…


New Mexico GOP Accuses Secretary of State of Withholding Election Records From Trump

The New Mexico Republican Party is accusing the state’s Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver of “partisan political games” by intentionally delaying the release of election records requested by President Donald Trump’s campaign. Trump’s legal team on Dec. 17 filed an Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) request with the New Mexico Secretary of State, asking…


Trump: America ‘Proud’ of Hawley, Others Who Plan to Object to Electoral Votes

President Donald Trump late Thursday said Americans are supportive of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and the roughly three dozen House of Representatives members who plan on objecting to electoral votes in the upcoming joint session of Congress. “America is proud of Josh and the many others who are joining him. The USA cannot have fraudulent…


House Republicans Rush to Join Electoral College Challenge

Another 15 U.S. representatives and representative-elects are supporting a plan to file objections to electoral votes during next month’s joint session of Congress. Twenty-four members or members-elect were on the books as committing to challenging the votes, as of early Thursday. That number is now 39, or 40 including Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) in the…


Trump’s Budget Director Denies Biden Team’s Claims of Obstructing Transition

President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director, Russell Vought, on Dec. 31 defended his agency’s handling of requests from the transition team of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, denying claims that the Trump administration is obstructing the transition process. In a letter addressed to the head of Biden’s transition team, Ted Kaufman, Vought said he wanted…