Elections Disputes - Page 17

November 28, 2020

Biden gets boost from Wisconsin recount that cost Trump $3M

President-elect Joe Biden picked up 132 more votes after an election recount in Milwaukee County, among the two places in Wisconsin that President Trump spent $3 million to force a recount.

November 27, 2020

Donor sues pro-Trump group for $2.5M over 'empty promises' on voter fraud

A pro-Trump group is being sued by a donor for not delivering on promises to overturn the election results in President Trump's favor. 

November 23, 2020

Georgia recount signature-matching impossible despite demands from Trump, Republicans, says secretary of state

The Trump campaign and high-profile Republicans are demanding that signature-matching be a major part of the recount the president filed for in Georgia where President-elect Joe Biden beat him by less than one half of a percentage point – but the secretary of state's office is saying that ship has sailed.

November 23, 2020

More GOP lawmakers call on Trump to begin presidential transition: 'It is time'

A small but growing group of Republican lawmakers are calling on President Trump to begin the transition of power to President-elect Joe Biden, even as the incumbent refuses to concede and forges ahead with a series of legal challenges trying to overturn the results of the Nov. 3 election.  

November 23, 2020

Michael Goodwin: Trump's election challenges — time is running out

In calendar time, it’s less than three weeks since the election. In political time, it’s beginning to feel like an eternity.

November 22, 2020

Andrew McCarthy: Trump's flawed Pennsylvania election challenge — here's where the case fell short

A   federal court has thrown out the Trump campaign’s lawsuit in Pennsylvania, which challenged presumptive President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the commonwealth.

November 19, 2020

Giuliani presses Trump election challenge case in fiery news conference with legal team

President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani aggressively made the case on Thursday for the Trump campaign's legal challenge of the 2020 election results, alleging in a fiery news conference that there was a "centralized" plan to carry out voter fraud around the country.

November 13, 2020

Nikki Haley hits Twitter for disputing election fraud tweet, leaving Iranian leader’s Holocaust 'doubts'

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Friday took aim at Twitter after it slapped a warning label on her tweet about election fraud -- noting that the tech giant had left a tweet by Iran’s leader about “doubts” about the Holocaust warning-free.

November 12, 2020

Pennsylvania court: Secretary of state lacked authority to change deadline 2 days before Election Day

A Pennsylvania judge ruled in favor of the Trump campaign Thursday, ordering that the state may not count ballots where the voters needed to provide proof of identification and failed to do so by Nov. 9.

November 11, 2020

Biden lead in Pennsylvania over Trump has grown to more than 50,000 votes

Presidential-elect Joe Biden is now leading President Trump by over 50,000 votes in Pennsylvania, a state where Trump is contesting the results of the election days after Biden was declared a winner.