ArchiveNovember 2020

In recent days, Ohio’s Gov. Mike DeWine and other prominent GOP figures have come under fire by fellow Republicans for refusing to participate in Donald Trump’s attempted coup. Last week, Fox News aired clips from a CNN interview in which DeWine told host Jake Tapper that Biden had won fair and square. “We need to consider the former Vice President as the president-elect,”...

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Sunday described President-elect Joe Biden as “limping” into office despite his overwhelming election win. “This is a guy who’s limping into the presidency, he was the first guy to run a successful campaign from a basement without actually going out and intermingling with the people,” Nunes told Fox Business. Nunes’s appearance was...

Reporter Carl Bernstein tweeted on Sunday that 21 Senate Republicans have privately expressed strong opposition to Donald Trump. Bernstein, famous for his reporting on the Watergate scandal that brought down the Richard Nixon presidency, noted that the 21 senators had maintained silence about their views in public. They have also voted with Trump at almost every opportunity. “I’m not...

Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block Pennsylvania from declaring Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election hours before the state is set to certify its vote. Kelly’s emergency request to block the certification comes after he filed a separate lawsuit on Saturday in which he asked a judge to throw out all mail-in ballots in the state. That suit goes...

Donald Trump and his campaign have spent the past several days baselessly suggesting that President-elect Joe Biden only won because of rigged voting machines. But the same company’s voting machines were also used in states where he and other Republicans did quite well. “Why does the Fake News Media continuously assume that Joe Biden will ascend to the Presidency, not even allowing...

Republican operatives are sounding the alarm that Donald Trump’s lies about rampant voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election are endangering the reelection chances of GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in their runoff elections in Georgia. Trump supporters are threatening to withhold their votes from the two Georgia incumbents because, they say, they are not sufficiently helpful...

Over the last four years, the Trump administration has decimated reproductive health care, from blocking all federal funding to Planned Parenthood, to expanding the global gag rule, which prohibits foreign non-governmental organizations that receive federal funding from even mentioning abortion.  President-elect Joe Biden has said it’s a priority of his to roll back these harmful...

Donald Trump’s naked attempt to steal the election he lost by a landslide was hit by blow after blow this weekend, making the anti-democratic coup plot look like even more of a long shot than it already was. On Saturday, a federal judge in Pennsylvania tore Trump’s legal team to shreds, ultimately dismissing the Trump campaign’s lawsuit that sought to invalidate hundreds of...

A pair of judges appointed by Donald Trump ruled Friday that bans in two Florida counties on anti-LGBTQ “conversion therapy” were unconstitutional. “Conversion therapy” is a dangerous practice that claims gay, bisexual, and lesbian people’s sexual orientation and trans people’s gender can be changed through the use of methods that groups of psychiatric...

Georgia Sen. David Perdue (R) released a campaign ad this week invoking racist and antisemitic tropes and negatively depicting both Jews and people of color, in an attempt to persuade voters against voting for his Democratic opponent. Perdue tweeted the campaign video on Friday morning, claiming that his runoff race against Democratic opponent Jon Ossoff was not just about him, but his...