By Peter Baker WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s relentless effort to overturn the result of the election that he lost has become the most serious stress test of American democracy in generations, led not by outside revolutionaries…
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By Luke Broadwater WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence signalled support Saturday (2) for a futile Republican bid to overturn the election in Congress this coming week, after 11 Republican senators and senators-elect said they would…
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By Nick Corasaniti and Jim Rutenberg It began at 10 a.m. in New Hampshire, where electors met in a statehouse chamber festooned with holiday decorations and gave their four votes to Joe Biden. By noon on Monday (14), the battleground…
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By Jonathan Martin and Astead W. Herndon VALDOSTA, Ga. — One month before a pair of Georgia runoffs that will determine the Senate majority, President Donald Trump used a rally for the two Republican senators Saturday (5) to complain about…
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By Alan Feuer PENNSYLVANIA - A federal judge in Pennsylvania dismissed on Saturday (21) night a lawsuit by the Trump campaign that had claimed there were widespread improprieties with mail-in ballots in the state, ending the last major…
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By Frank Bruni Like many Americans demoralized by the softness of the spanking that voters just gave President Donald Trump, I spent the past few days in search of answers. Why were so many of my fellow citizens so content to continue…
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By Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin DELWARE - Joe Biden on Friday (6) took the lead in Pennsylvania, where a victory would give him the presidency, and was ahead in three other critical battlegrounds as his campaign focused on a…
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By Ross Douthat An election is supposed to be a reality check. It promises the finality of decision, in which the back-and-forth of political argument gives way to the undeniability of a particular outcome on a particular day. Scoff…
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