WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's wild and unsupported claims of voter fraud have emerged as a high-stakes Republican loyalty test that illustrates the tug of war likely to define the future of the GOP whether he wins or loses the presidency.There is a pervasive sense among current and former GOP officials that the president's behavior is irresponsible if not dangerous, but a divide has emerged between those influential Republicans willing to call him out publicly and those who aren't.

Driving their calculus is an open acknowledgement that Trump's better-than-expected showing on Election Day ensures that he will remain the Republican Party's most powerful voice for years to come even if he loses.That stark reality did little to silence.

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President Trump waves to supporters at 'Million MAGA March' in DC

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump drove past and waved at protesters as they gathered for the so-called “Million MAGA March” in Washington DC on November 14, footage shows.Hundreds of Trump supporters had reportedly gathered in Freedom Plaza to back the president’s claims that he had won the presidential election.On Friday, the president gave a shout out to his supporters around the country who are gathering for rallies to voice their dissent over the recent presidential election outcome.

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Trump praises rallies around election results, calls them ‘heartwarming’

OPA LOCKA, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 01: U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak during his campaign event at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on November 1, 2020 in Opa Locka, Florida.

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Trump putting democracy to the test after his loss to Biden

WASHINGTON – 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.”President Donald Trump, who has professed admiration for, if not deep knowledge of, the British prime minister, is putting Churchill’s observation to one of its greatest tests by refusing to accept the results of an election that delivered victory for Democrat Joe Biden.

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Trump taps Rudy Giuliani to lead U.S. election legal challenges: reports

Donald Trump has tapped his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to lead his legal challenges against the results of last week’s election, according to multiple reports.The news was first reported by the New York Times Friday and was later confirmed by both the Wall Street Journal and ABC News, citing sources familiar with the matter.The former New York City mayor has not publicly commented on his new role for the Trump campaign, although a spokesperson for Giuliani confirmed the move to ABC News. The Trump campaign has not responded to requests for comment.

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Trump projected to win NC after days-long delay in ballot tally

RALEIGH, N.C. - President Donald Trump was projected as the winner of the battleground state of North Carolina by the Associated Press and FOX News Friday after a days-long delay in ballot tabulation. The projected win adds 15 electoral votes to Trump’s total, but will not affect the outcome of the election overall, since President-elect Joe Biden was projected days ago to exceed the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.Trump’s victory in North Carolina brings him to 232 electoral votes. Biden, who was projected as the winner of the election on Nov.

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Trump, still not conceding defeat, trumpets vaccine progress

WASHINGTON – Gliding over significant challenges still to come, President Donald Trump offered a rosy update on the race for a vaccine for the resurgent coronavirus as he delivered his first public remarks since his defeat by President-elect Joe Biden. He still did not concede the election.Trump spoke from the the Rose Garden Friday as the nation sets records for confirmed cases of COVID-19, and as hospitalizations near critical levels and fatalities climb to the highest levels since the spring.

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Trump vows against U.S. coronavirus lockdown in 1st speech since election defeat

Donald Trump, in his first speech since his defeat by president-elect Joe Biden, vowed against implementing a national lockdown to stem a record-breaking surge of the novel coronavirus for the remainder of his presidency.“This administration will not go under any circumstances, will not go into a lockdown, but will be very vigilant, very careful,” said Trump, who was addressing the progress of the COVID-19 vaccine during press conference in the White House Rose Garden.Trump’s defiant remarks come amid a record-breaking surge in new COVID-19 cases in the U.S., with virus hospitalizations reaching near-critical levels and fatalities shooting to the highest levels since the virus’ first wave in the spring.Over the last 10 days, daily reported

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Coronavirus: Trump says his administration won’t introduce another lockdown ‘under any circumstances’

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday his administration would not implement another lockdown “under any circumstances,” stressing the devastating impact he says a lockdown would have on the economy and on mental health.

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Trump appears to acknowledge for first time that Biden could succeed him

President Donald Trump insisted this evening that he would never put the United States into a coronavirus lockdown, but said "time will tell" if another administration takes office in January and does so.

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Trump delivers first public remarks in over a week on COVID-19 vaccine efforts

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump delivered an update Friday on Operation Warp Speed, the White House effort to get a COVID-19 vaccine to market. The event marked the president’s first address in more than a week, and his first since major news outlets, including the Associated Press and FOX News, projected that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.Trump was briefed by advisers in the Oval Office earlier Friday on the subject and spoke from the Rose Garden.Trump called U.S. work on the vaccine the “single greatest mobilization in U.S.

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Trump says he may 'stop by' rally planned in DC Saturday

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - President Donald Trump tweeted Friday alluding to the possibility that he would attend a planned rally in D.C., organized in support of the president and his claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, in some fashion on Saturday.Download the FOX 5 DC News App for Local Breaking News and WeatherThe president tweeted, "Heartwarming to see all of the tremendous support out there, especially the organic Rallies that are springing up all over the Country, including a big one on Saturday in D.C. I may even try to stop by and say hello.

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Trump to deliver first public remarks in over a week on COVID-19 vaccine efforts

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver an update Friday on Operation Warp Speed, the White House effort to get a COVID-19 vaccine to market. The event will mark the president’s first address in more than a week, and his first since major news outlets, including AP News and FOX News, projected that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.Trump was briefed by advisers in the Oval Office earlier Friday on the subject and will speak at 4 p.m. ET from the Rose Garden, according to the White House. President Donald Trump speaks in the briefing room at the White House on Nov.

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Trump to ban Americans from investing in Chinese companies

FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) holds a grand ceremony to welcome U.S. President Donald Trump at the square outside the east gate of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Nov.

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Over 130 Secret Service Officers Have Coronavirus Or Are in Quarantine Due to Trump's Campaign Travels

There are more than 130 Secret Service officers protecting President Donald Trump that have been recently ordered to isolate or quarantine, either because they tested positive for coronavirus or had close contact with those infected, according to a report from the Washington Post on Friday (November 13).

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Republican senators push for Biden to receive intelligence briefings

WASHINGTON - As President Donald Trump refuses to allow President-elect Joe Biden to receive intelligence briefings — even those he was getting during the campaign — an increasing number of Trump's allies are calling for Biden to have access to the information.“I just don’t know of any justification for withholding the briefing," Texas Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the Senate intelligence committee, said Thursday.“I see no problem with that,” said Iowa Sen.

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Pennsylvania secretary of state asks judge to toss Trump election lawsuit

Pennsylvania on Thursday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign seeking to prevent the state from certifying its presidential election results.In a court filing in the U.S.

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A few cracks but no big GOP break with Trump on Biden's win

WASHINGTON – The most powerful Republicans in Washington are standing firmly behind President Donald Trump and his unsupported claims of voter fraud for now, but new cracks emerged among GOP leaders elsewhere who believe it's time to treat Democrat Joe Biden like the president-elect he is.New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who endorsed Trump's reelection, became the latest Republican official to say what Trump and his allies refuse to accept.

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Trump giving little focus to coronavirus after U.S. election despite record surge

Donald Trump has publicly disengaged from the battle against the coronavirus at a moment when the disease is tearing across the United States at an alarming pace.Trump, fresh off his reelection loss to President-elect Joe Biden, remains angry that an announcement about progress in developing a vaccine for the disease came after Election Day. And aides say the president has shown little interest in the growing crisis even as new confirmed cases are skyrocketing and hospital intensive care units in parts of the country are nearing capacity.

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Trump making longshot bid to slow state vote certifications

WASHINGTON – With time and options running out, President Donald Trump's campaign is peppering states with a flurry of legal challenges aimed at slowing down the vote certification process — a longshot strategy that has almost no chance of reversing President-elect Joe Biden's victory. The campaign is seeking to halt the vote count in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona until they can have partisan poll watchers inspecting the voting process to ensure “illegal” ballots are not counted.

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Trump, stewing over election loss, silent as virus surges

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has publicly disengaged from the battle against the coronavirus at a moment when the disease is tearing across the United States at an alarming pace. Trump, fresh off his reelection loss to President-elect Joe Biden, remains angry that an announcement about progress in developing a vaccine for the disease came after Election Day.

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Donald Trump aide leading legal bid to overturn election result catches Covid-19

One of Donald Trump's senior advisors leading his legal bid to overturn the election result has caught Covid-19.

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President Trump's Adviser Corey Lewandowski Tests Positive for Coronavirus

Yet another person connected to Donald Trump‘s election party is now testing positive for coronavirus.

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Few legal wins so far as Trump team hunts for proof of election fraud

PHILADELPHIA - During a Pennsylvania court hearing this week on one of the many election lawsuits brought by President Donald Trump, a judge asked a campaign lawyer whether he had found any signs of fraud from among the 592 ballots challenged.The answer was no.“Accusing people of fraud is a pretty big step,” said the lawyer, Jonathan Goldstein.

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The Latest: Nicklaus says he won't talk about Trump support

AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Latest on the Masters (all times local):8:25 a.m.Jack Nicklaus says he is done talking about his endorsement of President Donald Trump.The six-time Masters champion posted a message of support for the Republican candidate on social media shortly before the election. He also said he had already voted for Trump, who wound up losing the Nov.

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Trump remains silent in public while continuing to wage war on U.S. election outcome

Donald Trump spent 10 minutes in public honouring America’s war veterans — a veneer of normalcy for a White House that’s frozen by a defeated president mulling his options, mostly forgoing the mechanics of governing and blocking his inevitable successor.Trump’s appearance Wednesday at the annual Veterans Day commemoration at Arlington National Cemetery was his first public outing for official business in more than a week. He’s spent the past few days in private tweeting angry, unsupported claims of voter fraud.The president has made no comments in person since Democrat Joe Biden clinched the 270 electoral votes on Saturday needed to win the presidency.

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Trump team scores few legal wins as it hunts for fraud evidence in U.S. election

election lawsuits brought by U.S. President Donald Trump, a judge asked a campaign lawyer whether he had found any signs of fraud from among the 592 ballots challenged.The answer was no.“Accusing people of fraud is a pretty big step,” said the lawyer, Jonathan Goldstein.

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America Votes 2020: Trump keeps making baseless election fraud claims

As U.S. President Donald Trump persists in trying to overturn the election, what do legal experts think of his claims of voter fraud? Jackson Proskow reports.

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Biden moves forward without help from Trump's intel team

WASHINGTON – The presidential race was hovering in limbo in 2000 when outgoing President Bill Clinton decided to let then-Gov. George W.

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Small dollar donations to Trump’s election defence fund likely going to president, RNC

Donald Trump seeks to discredit last week’s election with baseless claims of voter fraud, his team has bombarded his supporters with requests for money to help pay for legal challenges to the results: “The Left will try to STEAL this election!” reads one text.But any small-dollar donations from Trump’s grassroots donors won’t be going to legal expenses at all, according to a Reuters review of the legal language in the solicitations.A donor would have to give more than $8,000 before any money goes to the “recount account” established to finance election challenges, including recounts and lawsuits over alleged improprieties, the fundraising disclosures show.

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Money to support Trump court fight could flow to president, RNC

OPA LOCKA, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 01: U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak during his campaign event at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on November 1, 2020 in Opa Locka, Florida.

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President Trump emerges from White House to mark Veterans Day

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump attends a "National Day of Observance" wreath laying ceremony on November 11, 2020 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

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Fact check: No evidence supports Trump’s claim that COVID-19 vaccine result was suppressed to sway election

Jon CohenScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.In the wake of the dramatic news of a potentially effective COVID-19 vaccine, President Donald Trump posted a flurry of tweets that claimed its makers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Democrats had conspired to suppress the announcement until after the 3 November presidential election.

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2020 election breathes new life into false 'dead voter' claims

WASHINGTON (AP) - As President Donald Trump continued to assert without evidence Tuesday that the presidential election was undermined by voter fraud, social media users falsely claimed that people had cast extra votes using the identities of dead people in Pennsylvania and Michigan.There’s no evidence that this happened.The false claim that deceased voters cast votes “comes up every election,” said Jason Roberts, a professor of political science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Experts told The Associated Press that it is common for state voter rolls to include voters with birthdates that make them appear impossibly old, but these are usually explained by human error, software quirks or voter confidentiality issues.Here’s

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Boris Johnson calls Trump 'previous president'

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a press conference in 10 Downing Street on October 31, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Alberto Pezzali-Pool/Getty Images) LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called Donald Trump the “previous president” of the United States and said it was “refreshing” to talk to President-elect Joe Biden.Johnson has had a warm relationship with Trump.

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TikTok asks court to intervene as Trump order looms

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Trump to emerge from White House to mark Veterans Day 2020 at Arlington National Cemetery

WASHINGTON - As Americans across the country honor the men and women who have served in the U.S. military, President Donald Trump on Wednesday was scheduled to participate in the Veterans Day observance at Arlington National Ceremony.It will be Trump’s first public appearance since President-elect Joe Biden surpassed the 270 electoral votes on Saturday needed to win the presidency.

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Trump to emerge from White House to mark Veterans Day

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump will participate in the Veterans Day observance at Arlington National Ceremony on Wednesday, emerging in public for the first time since his failed reelection bid to take part in the annual presidential rite. Trump has spent the last several days holed up at the White House tweeting angry, baseless claims of voter fraud after his election loss.

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Trump team still not working with Biden for transition of power

U.S. President Donald Trump still refuses to admit defeat, and it appears the transition of power to President-elect Joe Biden could be turbulent.

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Biden vows to 'get right to work' despite Trump resistance

WILMINGTON, Del. – Vowing “to get right to work,” President-elect Joe Biden shrugged off President Donald Trump's fierce refusal to accept the election outcome as “inconsequential,” even as Democrats elsewhere warned that the Republican president's actions were dangerous.Raising unsupported claims of voter fraud, Trump has blocked the incoming president from receiving intelligence briefings and withheld federal funding intended to help facilitate the transfer of power.

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Trump loyalists named to top jobs in Pentagon shakeup

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Where does the Republican party go from here?

With U.S. President Donald Trump losing the election, the Republican party’s future seems uncertain. As Eric Sorensen explains, some members are speaking out against Trump, while others may still need him.

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Biden fights to confront crises, Trump resistance

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - Promising “we’re going to get right to work,” President-elect Joe Biden fought to confront the nation's competing crises — and fierce Republican resistance — on Tuesday and downplayed concerns that President Donald Trump's refusal to acknowledge his victory could undermine national security.Raising unsupported claims of voter fraud, Trump has blocked his Democratic rival from receiving the intelligence briefings traditionally shared with incoming presidents, according to someone with knowledge of the situation but not authorized to disclose private conversations.

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Trump loyalist who posted offensive tweets gets Pentagon job

WASHINGTON – A Trump loyalist and former Fox News commentator has been moved into the Pentagon's top policy job, defense officials said Tuesday, just a few months after he failed to get through Senate confirmation because of offensive remarks he made, including about Islam.Officials said Anthony Tata, a retired Army one-star general, will be performing the duties of the undersecretary for defense policy. James Anderson, who had been acting undersecretary, resigned on Tuesday, a day after President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

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Trump campaign sues to block certification of Biden win in Pennsylvania

Donald Trump‘s campaign on Monday filed a lawsuit in a Pennsylvania federal court, seeking to block state officials from certifying President-elect Joe Biden‘s victory in the state.The lawsuit, brought by the campaign and two registered voters, alleged Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting system “lacked all of the hallmarks of transparency and verifiability that were present for in-person voters.” Trump faces long odds in lawsuits challenging ballot counts The lawsuit claims Pennsylvania officials violated the U.S.

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White House races to complete regulations before Trump exits

Kelsey Brugger, E&E NewsOriginally published by E&E NewsNow that President Donald Trump has lost reelection, observers and advocates are bracing for agencies to finish a host of actions on energy and the environment.Trump made deregulation a centerpiece of his 2016 campaign.

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US election: McConnell says Trump within his rights to look into election ‘irregularities’; Schumer says ‘no evidence’ of significant voter fraud

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday said during a speech on the Senate floor that President Donald Trump was completely within his rights to look into “irregularities” from last week’s election.

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Biden is the projected winner of the U.S. election. What if Trump refuses to concede?

Donald Trump has made it clear that he has no plans to concede to Democratic president-elect Joe Biden anytime soon, having already launched lawsuits against several states citing unproven allegations of voter fraud.Shortly after the Associated Press and various other organization declared Biden the projected winner on Saturday, Trump began floating baseless allegations of voter fraud on Twitter, adding that ballot observers in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state, were not allowed to watch the counting process.“The American People are entitled to an honest election: that means counting all legal ballots, and not counting any illegal ballots,” Trump said in an online statement.

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Trump not making concession speech damages democracy: expert

The public acknowledgment of defeat by losing candidates has been a staple of U.S. presidential elections since 1896.

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