Star-Advertiser coverage of the 2020 elections.
President-elect Joe Biden’s first Cabinet picks are coming Tuesday and planning is underway for a pandemic-modified inauguration in January as his team moves forward despite roadblocks from the Trump administration. Read more
President Donald Trump’s campaign requested a recount of votes in the Georgia presidential race on Saturday, a day after state officials certified results showing Democrat Joe Biden won the state, as his legal team presses forward with attacks alleging widespread fraud without proof. Read more
I wasn’t a fan of George W. Bush, describing him in 2000 as “the least distinguished and least respected man to assume the presidency in modern times.” Read more
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann said the Trump campaign presented “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations … unsupported by evidence.” Read more
President-elect Joe Biden is set to hold his first in-person meeting since winning the election with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer today. Read more
President-elect Joe Biden is moving quickly to fill out his administration and could name top leaders for his Cabinet as early as next week. Read more
The transition team will organize the application, review, and interview processes, the release said. Other individuals are part of a broader team that is assisting in the interviewing of viable candidates, the release said. Read more
The recount of the presidential election in Wisconsin’s two most heavily Democratic counties began today with President Donald Trump’s campaign seeking to discard tens of thousands of absentee ballots that it alleged should not have been counted. Read more
Georgia’s top elections official today certified results showing Joe Biden won the presidential race over Republican President Donald Trump. Read more
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The president has also asked aides what Republican officials he could call in other battleground states in his effort to prevent the certification of results that would formalize his loss to Biden. Read more
The Associated Press declared Biden the winner of Georgia and its 16 Electoral College votes after the hand count confirmed the former vice president leads Trump by roughly 12,000 votes. Read more
President-elect Joe Biden was accompanied by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., today. See gallery
As President Donald Trump continues to push falsehoods about the election, his legal team has so far failed to gain any traction in court without evidence of widespread fraud, which experts widely agree doesn’t exist. Read more
President Donald Trump summoned Michigan’s Republican legislative leaders to the White House for a meeting Friday amid a longshot GOP push to overturn the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the battleground state. Read more
Voting rights advocates had long argued that if Native Americans and other minority groups were mobilized, they could be decisive in a tight race. This year proved that. Read more
Down to its final weeks, the Trump administration is working to push through dozens of environmental rollbacks that could weaken century-old protections for migratory birds, expand Arctic drilling and hamstring future regulation of public health threats. Read more
There is no precedent for the Trump team’s widespread effort to delay or undermine certification, according to University of Kentucky law professor Joshua Douglas. Read more
President Donald Trump filed today for a recount of Wisconsin’s two largest Democratic counties, paying the required $3 million cost and alleging that they were the sites of the “worst irregularities” although no evidence of illegal activity has been presented. Read more
House Democrats have nominated Nancy Pelosi as the speaker to lead them into Joe Biden’s presidency, but she’ll be guiding a smaller and ideologically divided majority as she tries shepherding his agenda toward enactment. Read more
Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, returned to federal court today after a long hiatus to accuse Democrats in control of big cities of hatching a nationwide conspiracy to steal the election, even though no such evidence has emerged in the two weeks since Election Day. Read more
Election officials across Georgia are staring down a Wednesday deadline to complete a hand tally of the presidential race in the state. Read more
