Star-Advertiser coverage of the 2020 elections.
President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign was powered by a cellphone app that allowed staff to monitor the movements of his millions of supporters, and offered intimate access to their social networks. Read more
What’s alarming to national Republicans is that the awkwardness in Georgia may only offer a preview of what the party might confront during the post-Trump era, which itself may be a misnomer. Read more
Republicans first blocked the move in a party-line vote that threatened to temporarily stall official approval of Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the state. Read more
Trump fired Christopher Krebs in a tweet, saying his recent statement defending the security of the election was “highly inaccurate.” Read more
A random audit of a sample of Georgia’s new voting machines found no evidence of hacking or tampering, the state’s top elections official said. Read more
President-elect Joe Biden announced a raft of top White House staff positions today, drawing from the senior ranks of his campaign and some of his closest confidants to fill out an increasingly diverse White House leadership team. Read more
A hearing on the Trump campaign’s federal lawsuit seeking to prevent Pennsylvania officials from certifying the vote results remains on track for today after a judge quickly denied the campaign’s new lawyer’s request for a delay. Read more
Raffensperger’s comments came as election officials across the state were working to complete a hand recount of votes in the presidential race. Read more
Three people in Wisconsin who filed a federal lawsuit alleging widespread fraud in absentee voting have dropped the lawsuit. Read more
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President Donald Trump’s national security adviser promised a “very professional transition” to the administration of President-elect Joe Biden in an interview broadcast today, even as Trump continues to falsely claim he won the November election. Read more
President Donald Trump’s campaign is withdrawing a central request in its lawsuit seeking to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania, where Democrat Joe Biden beat Trump to capture the state and help win the White House. Read more
President Donald Trump has appeared to acknowledge for the first time that Joe Biden won the White House, but made clear he would not concede and would keep trying to overturn the election result. Read more
Winston Churchill was not known for leaving his thoughts unspoken. One of them was this: “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried.” Read more
Some stood just a few feet away from Trump’s vehicle; others showed their enthusiasm by running along with the caravan. Read more
His investment was especially disappointing in Florida, a battleground state that is normally decided by razor-thin margins but that Trump won this year by 3.4 percentage points. Read more
Democrats may be winning over more supporters, but as long as those votes are clustered on the coasts or in cities and suburbs, they won’t deliver the congressional victories the party needs to enact its policies. Read more
The attorneys general said that the 2020 election is over, and that the American people have decisively chosen a new president. Read more
The Trump campaign or Republican surrogates have filed more than 15 legal challenges in Pennsylvania as they seek to reclaim the state’s 20 electoral votes, but have so far offered no evidence of any widespread voter fraud. Read more
Trump’s win in North Carolina gives him 15 electoral votes, reducing his electoral vote deficit to 290-232. Read more
The CEOs discussed making public statements and pressuring GOP legislators in their states who may try to redirect Electoral College votes from Biden to Trump. Read more
