Hollywood Activists Urge Officials to Keep Counting Votes Amid Protests

Ellise Shafer editorPresident-elect Joe Biden will sit down with NBC News’ Lester Holt on Tuesday for his first interview post-election.The full interview will air during “NBC Nightly News” at 6:30 p.m. ET, with additional portions to be featured on “Today,” “Nightly News” and MSNBC on Wednesday.

One week after its southern Ohio county voted to reelect Donald Trump by a 24-point margin, the Cinema 10 in the steel town of Middletown was playing host to a Hollywood film premiere of sorts, a prerelease screening of the new Netflix movie Hillbilly Elegy. The Ron Howard film, which stars Amy Adams and Glenn Close as a pair of flawed but tenacious Appalachian matriarchs, is based on J.D.

Kamala Harris made history several times over in being projected the next vice president of the United States. Her parents emigrated to the U.S.

Billy Ray I often wonder what would happen if Donald Trump got to make a movie about Hollywood, instead of the other way around. Of course, he’s been writing it for years.

For the fourth consecutive presidential election cycle, the results from Wisconsin proved to be a nail-biter. In 2016, President Donald Trump won the state by less than a percentage point and now, four years later, his Democratic challenger, President-elect Joe Biden, flipped the battleground state by a similar margin.

Documentary director Matt Tyrnauer, who in 2019 profiled Donald Trump’s late legal fixer in the documentary Where’s My Roy Cohn?, has turned to The Reagans, a four-part series debuting Nov. 15 on Showtime.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorThe streets of Los Angeles and cities across the country were packed with throngs celebrating Joe Biden’s presidential win this weekend. Thousands of revelers descended on downtown Los Angeles and other Southland communities to celebrate the victory of former Vice President Joe Biden over President Donald Trump.

A Georgia election official said on Monday that the state would find illegal votes but likely not enough to close the roughly 10,000-vote gap between former Vice President Joe Biden and President Trump.

The Motion Picture Association — Hollywood's top lobbying organization — on Saturday congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory in the 2020 election.

Following the news on Saturday that former Vice President Joe Biden was projected to win the 2020 presidential election, Hollywood activists took to social media to celebrate a historic victory: California Sen. Kamala Harris becoming thecountry's first woman elected as Vice President as well as the first Black and South Asian person in the role.

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend couldn't help but celebrate Joe Biden being elected president of the United States.The couple was seen hanging out of their car while driving down Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, on Saturday. Teigen was wearing all black, while the «Bigger Love» rocked a colorful sweatshirt.

Former Vice President Joe Biden addressed the nation on Friday night, as several thousand votes were still being counted in the tight presidential race, urging Americans to remain calm and sketching out his plans to unify the country.

Hollywood conservatives are speaking out after projections Saturday that declared Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election to become the 46th president of the United States. While a majority of left-leaning celebrities who endorsed Biden reacted with gleeful remarks on Saturday, celebrities who have publicly endorsed Trump are arguing that Biden's win is not legal.

Janet W. Lee After a weeklong wait following a historic, unprecedented campaign cycle during a global pandemic, Joe Biden has been elected the 46th president of the United States.

winning the 2020 presidential election — even if we had to wait a few extra days to find out.Reactions began pouring in immediately after Pennsylvania, the state in which Biden was born, was called on Saturday morning in favor of Barack Obama’s former vice president. They were almost overwhelmingly positive.“The people have spoken!” Kerry Washington tweeted.

Hollywood stars woke up to the news that, as vote counting continued in Pennsylvania and Georgia, former Vice President Joe Biden had taken the lead in both states. Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes would push Biden over the 270 threshold needed to declare victory, even without the state of Arizona, which the Associated Press called for Biden on early Wednesday morning but a number of other outlets have yet to do so.

Hollywood figures quickly protestedPresident Donald Trump's speech throwing American election integrity into doubt on Thursday, saying it was "come-to-life toilet spew" and "stunning, unhinged, breathtaking" as the presidential race was still too close to call. In the speech on Thursday afternoon from the White House, Trump repeated false claims that there were "illegal" votes in the 2020 presidential contest and that he had won the election.

Georgia's top election official said he expects the state to finish counting remaining ballots in the race between President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden by midday Thursday.  Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, told WSB Radio in Atlanta that officials were still tallying about 50,000 ballots, most of which are in Fulton County, which includes most of Atlanta, and Chatham County, where Savannah is located.

Rihanna has nothing but patience.While President Donald Trump and his minions continue to call for an immediate halt of ballot tallying, the Fenty Beauty founder is transforming her social media feeds into demands for officials to count every election vote.