6, Congress updated the 1800s-era Electoral Count Act to make it harder to object and to more clearly lay out the vice president’s ceremonial role, among other changes. Trump had pressured Vice President Mike Pence to try and object to the results — something the vice president ...
“It’s not so much the candidates as it is the anti-democratic Electoral College,” he said. “… It’s frustrating that certain voters’ votes count for more, and they discount and discredit the votes of more urban, more people of color voters.” Campaigns visit...
The Electoral College, which consists of 538 electors who determine the outcome, must cast their ballots based on the popular vote in each state by 17 December. A majority plus one — or 270 electoral votes — are needed to win the presidency. If there are disputes, any lit...
law to count the electoral votes on Jan. 6 after each presidential election. However, the datehas been temporarily changed by lawwhen Jan. 6 fell on a weekend. In 2013, Congress affirmed that President Barack Obama won the election on Jan. 4, rather than on Jan. 6, which was a Sunday...
Capitol. His contention was rejected in more than 60 court cases and by his own attorney general, William Barr. Together, these misleading claims about the nation’s electoral system have led some Republicans to say they’re going to hold onto their mail ballots until Election Day— a move ...
battlegrounds ofArizona and Nevada, Harris and Donald Trump run near even in the race for the White House. And inGeorgia and North Carolina, it’s also neck and neck. If the vote count is close in key states, like it was in 2020, we probably won...
6 committee's subpoena, which demanded documents and testimony. Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., told reporters the panel was looking at paths forward after Trump's lawsuit but it hadn't taken any action in court. Members of the U.S. House Select Committee, U.S. Representative Pete ...
(The decision had lasting consequences beyond electoral politics: Hayes, as part of an agreement with the opposing party to accept the results, agreed to remove federal troops from South Carolina and Louisiana, thus ending Reconstruction.) Foley fears something similar in 2020: Election officials in...
The average shift in the margin between the top two candidates was 0.019 percentage points. ___ NORTH CAROLINA: Race too early to call. Ballots left to count. THE BACKGROUND: Trump prematurely claimed early Wednesday that he won the state. “We’ve clearly won North Carolina, ...
After a contentious presidential election that is being disputed through the courts, news outlets this weekend called the race for former Vice President Joe Biden, saying he has more than enough electoral votes to secure a win over President Donald Trump. ...