By Jeff Mason, Steve Holland, Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON/WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) – Democrat Joe Biden crept nearer to victory over Donald Trump on Thursday in an exceedingly close U.S. election that hinged on razor-thin margins in a handful of states, while the Republican president escalated his legal efforts to influence vote counting and made fresh unsubstantiated claims of voting […]
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Justice Department OKs armed officers investigating fraud at ballot-counting sites
By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News Possible presence of federal agents leaves some Trump critics even more concerned his administration is resorting to intimidation tactics. The Justice Department has greenlighted the use of armed agents to investigate potential voter fraud at ballot-counting centers despite a U.S. law barring the presence of federal officers on Election Day. Officials at the agency, led […]
House of cards? Pelosi to have a hard time becoming speaker, GOP officials say
By Marisa Schultz | Fox News Democrats will have a slimmer majority in 2021. Republican leaders, gloating at flipping several House seats, took jabs at Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Wednesday for her shrinking majority and cast doubt on her ability to win enough votes to become House speaker again. “I mean Nancy Pelosi doesn’t even have a majority where she can […]
Military ballots still arriving in swing states where vote count is unfinished
By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News Military mail-in ballots are still arriving in battleground states such as Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Nevada, even as President Trump and his campaign protest the counting of votes after Election Day. Trump has argued that ballots received afterward should not be counted and filed lawsuits to stop the tally in states where he says observers haven’t been given […]
Trump campaign to escalate legal fight with Nevada lawsuit
By Steve Holland, Tom Hais (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s campaign prepared to ramp up legal efforts to challenge vote counts in closely-contested states in the U.S. election on Thursday, announcing a lawsuit alleging voter fraud in Nevada as the state continued counting ballots. The campaign scheduled a news conference in Las Vegas on Thursday […]
Recount rules in crucial battleground states explained
By Thomas Barrabi | Fox News Trump campaign signaled that it would pursue recount in Wisconsin. With President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden locked in a tight race and results in a number of key battleground states still uncertain, rules governing vote recounts could play a key role in determining which candidate wins the White House. For months, Trump has […]
More Americans voted for Donald Trump this year than in 2016
By Tyler Olson | Fox News President Trump received more votes in the 2020 presidential election than he did in the 2016 presidential election as Joe Biden also surpassed the 2016 vote total for Hillary Clinton. This is the result of a surge in voter turnout as compared to 2016, even amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 232,000 […]
For 2nd straight pres election, Trump outperforms polls, pundits’ expectations
By Paul Steinhauser | Fox News This time around, it wasn’t just state polls that were off the mark. We still don’t know if Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden or President Trump will win the White House, but the biggest loser appears to be the polling industry. For a second straight presidential election, Trump outperformed many of the public opinion surveys. […]
As America counts, the world holds its breath for U.S. election outcome
By Luke Baker, Libby George, Daria Sito-Sucic LONDON/LAGOS/SARAJEVO (Reuters) – A day after Americans voted in a bitterly contested election, the rest of the world was none the wiser on Wednesday, with millions of votes still to count, the race too close to call and a mounting risk of days or even weeks of legal uncertainty. Donald […]
Was my vote counted? A state-by-state guide to tracking your absentee ballot
By Audrey Conklin | Fox News Many states offer online ballot tracking systems, others require contacting election officials. Voting by mail has been extremely popular among Americans participating in the 2020 presidential election this year. More than 64 million absentee ballots have been cast as of Tuesday out of more than 100 million total votes in the U.S., and more than […]
Election Day: With polls closing in hours, stakes for Trump, Biden reach their peak
By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News Trump predicts economic depression if Biden wins, while Biden says Trump is ‘a threat to this nation’. The day has arrived for Americans across the country to have their voices heard, as they vote for president and vice president of the United States while anxiously awaiting the culmination of a year and a half of feverish […]
Stock market history would suggest that Trump will defeat Biden
By Jonathan Garber FOXBusiness The S&P 500 gained 1.2% in three months leading up to Election Day. Stock market history suggests President Trump will prove the polls wrong and secure four more years in the White House. The benchmark S&P 500, which has predicted the winner of 87% of all presidential elections and every one since 1984, added 1.2% […]