Georgia headed to runoff elections.Republican Sen. David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff will face off in a Jan. 5 runoff for Perdue’s Senate seat, after Libertarian candidate Shane Hazel secured just over two per cent of the vote.Hazel’s vote total meant that neither Perdue nor Ossoff was able to clear the 50 per cent threshold needed for an outright win.

U.S. election: Stakes high as Republicans, Democrats seek Senate majority Thousands of absentee ballots and in-person votes cast early needed to be counted after the polls closed Tuesday, forcing a long and tense wait before the race could be called.Georgia’s other senate race will also head to a runoff between incumbent Republican Kelly Loeffler and Democrat Raphael Warnock.

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U.S. election: Donald Trump waves at supporters attending ‘Million MAGA March’ in Washington, D.C.

U.S. President Donald Trump waved to supporters as his motorcade drove through Washington, D.C. on Saturday where a “Million MAGA March” was taking place.

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Trump falsely maintains election was ‘rigged’ as supporters gather in Washington

Washington, D.C. for a rally in support of U.S.

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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 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 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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Biden gives boost to retiring senator's climate change plan

WASHINGTON – A plan championed by retiring Sen. Tom Udall to harness the nation’s lands and ocean waters to fight climate change is getting a boost from President-elect Joe Biden, who has made slowing global warming a priority for his incoming administration.A New Mexico Democrat, Udall is the last serving member of a political dynasty that has represented the West in Washington for nearly seven decades.

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RNC to spend at least $20 million on Georgia's Senate races

WASHINGTON – Republicans are flooding Georgia with cash and field operatives as they look to keep Democrats from seizing control of the Senate under President-elect Joe Biden’s administration. The Republican National Committee said Friday it is funding more than 600 staffers in the state with an investment of at least $20 million ahead of the Jan.

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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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Biden has room on health care, though limited by Congress

Joe Biden is unlikely to get sweeping health care changes through a closely divided Congress, but there’s a menu of narrower actions he can choose from to make a tangible difference on affordability and coverage for millions of people.With the balance of power in the Senate hinging on a couple of Georgia races headed to a runoff, and Democrats losing seats in the House, Biden's proposals for a public health insurance option and empowering Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices seem out of reach.

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Georgia secretary of state to quarantine after wife tests positive for coronavirus as recount starts

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger plans to self-quarantine after finding out his wife tested positive for the coronavirus Thursday. Raffensperger a day earlier announced plans for a hand recount in the state’s presidential election, which saw President-elect Joe Biden and President Trump separated by a little more than 14,000 votes.

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China congratulates Biden on being elected US president

BEIJING – China on Friday became one of the last major countries to congratulate Joe Biden on being elected U.S. president.China, along with Russia, avoided joining the throng of governments that congratulated Biden last weekend after he was projected to have secured enough Electoral College votes in the Nov.

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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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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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Top officials: Nov. 3 election most secure in US history

WASHINGTON – The state and federal officials and election technology companies who run U.S. elections say in the strongest such statement to date that the Nov.

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EXPLAINER: Is Georgia's upcoming ballot 'audit' a recount?

ATLANTA – Georgia says it’s going to be tallying — by hand — nearly 5 million ballots that were cast in its very close presidential election on Nov. 3.

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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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Post-election warfare clouds chances for COVID relief bill

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden's top allies on Capitol Hill adopted a combative posture on COVID-19 relief on Thursday, accusing Washington Republicans of dragging their feet in acknowledging Biden's victory while doubling down on a $2 trillion-plus relief bill that's a nonstarter with congressional Republicans.The message from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

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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: Graham giving $1M to help Georgia's GOP senators

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):9:15 a.m.Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was just reelected in South Carolina, says he's donating $1 million of his campaign money to help two GOP senators win runoff races in neighboring Georgia.Graham told Fox News Channel's “Fox & Friends” on Thursday that Republicans need to counter a “tsunami of liberal money” flowing into Georgia ahead of the Jan.

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California Senate sweepstakes: Who gets Kamala Harris' job?

LOS ANGELES – Election Day is over but California already is consumed with its next high-profile political contest — the competition to fill Kamala Harris’ soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seat.In this race only one vote matters, because there is only one vote.

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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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Dems, GOP take different approaches on Georgia Senate blitz

ATLANTA – Jon Ossoff took the stage in Columbus and looked out over a parking lot filled with cars, with supporters blaring their horns in approval as he declared that “change has come to Georgia.”Hours earlier, Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler stepped to a microphone in suburban Atlanta and addressed hundreds of eager supporters packed into the Cobb County GOP headquarters.

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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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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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Who pays for recounts in presidential elections?

LOS ANGELES - Joe Biden was projected as the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, but with razor-thin margins in a few key battleground states, including Georgia, a recount is already underway. But who pays for recounts in a presidential election?The rules around paying for recounts are not the same across the board.

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Incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan wins Alaska, giving Republicans half of US Senate seats

ANCHORAGE, A.K. - Incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan will keep his seat on the U.S.

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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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With GOP win in Alaska, control of Senate pushes to January

WASHINGTON – Control of the Senate won’t be decided until the new year after Republicans won a seat in Alaska on Wednesday. Neither party can lock the majority until January runoffs in Georgia.

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U.S. election: Democrats keep control of House, but majority likely to shrink

Democrats clinched two more years of controlling the House on Tuesday but with a potentially razor-thin majority, a bittersweet finale to last week’s elections that has left them divided and with scant margin for error for advancing their agenda.The party has now nailed down at least 218 seats, according to The Associated Press, and could win a few others when more votes are counted. While that assures command of the 435-member chamber, blindsided Democrats were all but certain to lose seats after an unforeseen surge of Republican voters transformed expected gains of perhaps 15 seats into losses potentially approaching that amount.

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Transition delay could impede Biden’s ability to address issues like coronavirus: experts

Joe Biden was projected to be U.S. president-elect by all major news outlets, the Trump administration has refused to concede and has reportedly stalled the transition process.

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CNN tops cable ratings for election week, Biden's speech

LOS ANGELES – CNN and Fox News Channel battled for viewers on the election day that turned into an election week and then some, each earning bragging rights.CNN edged Fox among total viewers for the week, averaging 5.9 million viewers to Fox's 5.7 million. The latter was dominant on Tuesday as President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden faced off at the polls.Fox averaged 14.1 million viewers Tuesday to CNN's 9.4 million, with MSNBC drawing 7.6 million, according to Nielsen figures.

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State legislatures cannot override popular vote after Election Day, legal experts say

released a briefing to dispel this notion — which has been floated by some backers of President Donald Trump in the midst of his projected loss to President-elect Joe Biden.“GET READY TO DO YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY,” conservative radio host Mark Levin tweeted on Nov. 5, adding that Republican state legislatures have “the final say over the choosing of electors.” The post was flagged by Twitter as being disputed.Still, Levin’s post was reportedly retweeted by the president’s son, Donald Trump, Jr.

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Advance voting helped ensure a smooth election despite risks

ATLANTA – The 2020 presidential election had all the makings of a looming disaster: fears of Russian meddling, violence at the polls and voter intimidation, and poll workers fleeing their posts because of the coronavirus.But aside from the long lines and minor technical glitches that happen every four years, the election unfolded smoothly.

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Mike Pence on vacation amid legal battles over U.S. election loss

coronavirus cases, United States Vice-President Mike Pence is going on vacation.As of Tuesday, Pence, who is also the head of the current U.S. coronavirus task force, will be vacationing in Sanibel, Fla., through Saturday, according to the Associated Press.Florida’s Gulf Coast is a regular vacation spot for the vice-president and his family, the agency reported.

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GOP presses ahead after election with Russia probe review

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump may have lost his bid for reelection, but that hasn’t stopped Senate Republicans from pressing forward with their politically charged probe of the FBI’s Russia investigation. The latest burst of activity came Tuesday when the GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee grilled former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe about an investigation that was begun even before the 2016 presidential election.

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Faithless electors: Could they impact 2020 election results?

LOS ANGELES - In the wake of the 2020 presidential election, which resulted in Joe Biden being projected as the winner after narrow victories in key battleground states, many may wonder whether the results could be changed by faithless electors come January.The United States has a total of 538 electoral votes up for grabs — equal to the number of representatives and senators the states have in Congress. Each state is guaranteed at least one seat in the House and two in the Senate.But when voters cast a ballot on Election Day, they are not actually voting for the president.

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Mitch McConnell says Electoral College will determine 2020 election

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday there’s “no reason for alarm” as President Donald Trump, backed by Republicans in Congress, pursues legal challenges to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory.Republicans are increasingly pointing to a December deadline as they give Trump time and space to exhaust his legal challenges. That's when the states face a deadline to certify results and a Dec.

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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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What Joe Biden’s election means for the U.S. coronavirus crisis

Joe Biden says the coronavirus pandemic is his top priority as he prepares to enter the White House against the backdrop of an unprecedented health crisis that has rattled the nation.Two days after The Associated Press projected Biden had clinched victory in a divisive election, Biden unveiled a 13-member coronavirus task force, including prominent doctors, academics and former government health officials, signalling his intent to take a science-based approach to fight the pandemic.“Folks, our work begins with getting COVID under control.

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GOP unveils $1.4T spending bill amid post-election turmoil

WASHINGTON – Republicans controlling the Senate unveiled a government-wide, $1.4 trillion spending bill on Tuesday, a mostly bipartisan measure that faces uncertain odds during this period of post-election tumult in Washington.The GOP-drafted measure contains funding for President Donald Trump's border wall and other provisions opposed by Democrats, but top leaders in both parties want to try to mount a drive to enact the unfinished spending bills — which, along with a separate COVID-19 relief effort and annual defense policy bill, represent the bulk of Capitol Hill's unfinished business for the year.

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US election 2020: Can we 'embrace our diversity and make it into a strength'?

Joe Biden will be the 46th U.S. president.Paraphrasing the great activist, satirist, and comedian Dick Gregory, my first response is, “I know the U.S.

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U.S election: Biden team considers legal action as agency delays approving transition

Joe Biden’s transition team is considering legal action over a federal agency’s delay in recognizing the Democrat’s victory over President Donald Trump in last week’s election, a Biden official said on Monday.The General Services Administration (GSA) normally recognizes a presidential candidate when it becomes clear who has won an election so that a transition of power can begin. Biden is the projected winner of the U.S.

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GOP backs Trump as he fights election results, transition

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration threw the presidential transition into tumult, with President Donald Trump blocking government officials from cooperating with President-elect Joe Biden’s team and Attorney General William Barr authorizing the Justice Department to probe unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud. Some Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, rallied behind Trump's efforts to fight the election results.

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