Star-Advertiser coverage of the 2020 elections.
President-elect Joe Biden is predicting the economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic will only get worse if Congress doesn’t act quickly to pass an aid bill, amid a nationwide spike in the virus that’s hampering the nation’s recovery. Read more
Biden is already working on an array of executive actions to achieve some of his bolder priorities on climate change and immigration without having to navigate congressional gridlock. Read more
President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee have raised an eye-popping $207.5 million since Election Day as the president fundraised off his baseless allegations of widespread election fraud. Read more
The president once again refused to concede defeat in his bid for reelection almost a month after Election Day, repeating a long list of false assertions about voter fraud. Read more
The bombshell revelation was but the latest twist in a race — the second closest House contest in the nation — that will ultimately be decided by the courts and could take weeks to resolve. Read more
Two victories in Georgia would produce a 50-50 tie in the Senate, giving Democrats control of the chamber because Kamala Harris would cast tie-breaking votes as vice president. Read more
Attorney General William Barr has given extra protection to the prosecutor he appointed to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, giving him the authority of a special counsel to complete the work without being easily fired. Read more
Attorney General William Barr said today the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Read more
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President Donald Trump has raised roughly $170 million since his Election Day defeat, a sum garnered through a nonstop stream of solicitations that have falsely claimed the election was stolen while requesting contributions for an “election defense fund.” Read more
President-elect Joe Biden is set to unveil his economic team today amid growing concerns about the pace of the nation’s economic recovery as governments reimpose restrictions to curtail the surging coronavirus pandemic. Read more
President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit today in Wisconsin seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in the state’s two most Democratic counties, a longshot attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the battleground state he lost by nearly 20,700 votes. Read more
Some establishment Republicans are sounding alarms that President Donald Trump’s conspiratorial denials of his own defeat could threaten the party’s ability to win a Senate majority and counter President-elect Joe Biden’s administration. Read more
President-elect Joe Biden is considering former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a substantial and somewhat divisive figure in Democratic Party politics, to serve as his transportation secretary. Read more
Voters in the Atlanta area were summoned back to the polls today to decide who to send to Washington for a month to briefly fill the seat of the late civil rights legend John Lewis. Read more
It is incredibly hard to separate sincere belief from wishful thinking from what political scientists call partisan cheerleading. But on this topic especially, the distinctions matter a lot. Read more
Arizona officials certified the state’s election results today, formalizing Democrat Joe Biden’s narrow victory over Donald Trump even as the Republican president’s attorneys continued to make baseless claims of fraud about the state’s vote count. Read more
Georgia’s top elections official announced investigations today into potential violations of election law even as he defended the integrity of the state’s election against what he’s said are baseless attacks. Read more
President-elect Joe Biden is making sweeping promises to LGBTQ activists, proposing to carry out virtually every major proposal on their wish lists. Read more
Democratic officials are awakening to the reality that voters may have delivered a one-time verdict on Trump that does not equal ongoing support for center-left policies. Read more
Applications are being taken now only for the jobs of 19 city agency directors, 15 deputy directors and three executive assistants. Read more
