Donald Trump doubled down on how he believes there is fraud in mail-in voting and that he is going forward with suing certain states over “illegal voting.”
Category: November 2020
Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) reacts to President Donald Trump’s address from the White House press briefing room. Santorum said it was “very disappointing and shocking” to hear the allegations and hoped Republicans would defend the election’s integrity.
We all knew Donald Trump would do this, that he would refuse to show dignity in defeat. But what we didn’t expect is how much it would hurt. Watch Stephen Colbert process his feelings in real time as he delivers a new monologue written in the wake of the President’s sad, frightening remarks in the White House briefing room.
Joe Biden delivered a hopeful message from Wilmington, Del., on Wednesday afternoon, as no winner in the U.S. election has been declared as mail-in ballots were still being counted. Biden made it clear that if he is elected, he will serve all Americans and not just his supporters. He said his team is confident he could win the race for the White House, though was careful not to prematurely declare a victory. The lack of a clear result means Americans — and the world — may not know who the next president is for days at best. At worst, legal challenges could drag the contest out for weeks, an echo of the 2000 election that was ultimately decided by the Supreme Court.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf reacted on Wednesday to the Donald Trump campaign’s threat of legal action over vote-counting in the state, calling the lawsuit “wrong” and saying that elections in the U.S. “need to be free of external influences.”Wolf said the lawsuit “goes against the most basic principles of our democracy” and that the campaign’s attempt to delay or block the counting of votes was “disgraceful.” The governor said he would “fight like hell” to ensure every vote in the state is counted.Speaking to the Trump campaign’s demand for “meaningful access” to the counting locations to oversee the process, Wolf applauded the transparency with which the votes are counted, stating that in Philadelphia they have been live streaming the processing of ballots.Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, meanwhile, addressed President Donald Trump’s allegations of “surprise ballot dumps” in key swing states, saying that it could not happen in Pennsylvania. She said voters have to apply and be approved before receiving a ballot.
In the early morning hours after Election Night, with millions of votes still to be counted, U.S. President Donald Trump falsely asserted that he was the winner of the election, insinuated that voter fraud had occurred, and that he intends to challenge the vote count in the courts. But will the courts halt vote counting just because the president wants to?
Police reforms have become a hot-button issue of the 2020 presidential election, especially after the death of Black man George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis. Calls for defunding the police gained momentum across the U.S. since then, but there has been a lot of disagreement on what that means and how it should happen. Heather Yourex-West is in Minneapolis, talking to residents on how policing has changed in the past several months, and what they still hope to see.
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted much of daily life, and the U.S. election was not immune. An unprecedented number of mail-in ballots has created uncertainty over how not only election night will play out but also the weeks ahead. U.S. election results will start pouring in when polls in several states (including Florida) close at 7 p.m. ET. More polls will close each hour with the majority closing between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET. But ballots will be counted for weeks after Nov. 3 — final vote counts are never completed on election night.