While Democratic electors in Pennsylvania and Georgia cast their states' electoral votes for Joe Biden on Monday, slates of Republican electors in those states cast votes for President Trump just in case legal challenges succeed.
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President Trump on Wednesday touted Texas' suit demanding the U.S. Supreme Court block the Electoral College votes of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, calling it the "big one." "We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case.This is the big one.
Our Country needs a victory!" Trump wrote on Twitter. Trump's legal team has faced repeated setbacks in challenging the results of states that went for President-elect Joe Biden.Trump's team could file an amicus brief in
.While Democratic electors in Pennsylvania and Georgia cast their states' electoral votes for Joe Biden on Monday, slates of Republican electors in those states cast votes for President Trump just in case legal challenges succeed.
As President Trump's legal team argued before the Wisconsin Supreme Court Saturday to have hundreds of thousands of ballots in two blue counties tossed, the president’s reelection effort had another legal loss in federal district court. U.S.
The leader of the Republican Party in Texas suggested Friday that “law-abiding states” might want to form their own "union," after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Lone Star State’s lawsuit over the 2020 presidential election, according to reports.
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo could not contain his excitement Friday over the Supreme Court's rejection of Texas' effort to nullify the presidential election results in four key swing states. Despite strong support among GOP lawmakers and state attorneys general, the Lone Star State's bid to halt the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victories in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan was turned aside by the highest court in the land. “The State of Texas’s motion for leave to
Donald Trump‘s last ditch legal challenge to the 2020 presidential election results is toast. The U.S.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe Supreme Court on Friday denied Texas’ bid to overturn the presidential election, finding in a brief order that the state does not have standing to challenge voting procedures in four states that went for President-elect Joe Biden.The Texas attorney general brought the suit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — marking only the latest of dozens of efforts by President Trump and his supporters to overturn the election result.“Texas has not
The Supreme Court tossed out a suit filed by the attorney general of Texas and backed by President Donald Trump that sought to throw out the results of the election in four states that went for Joe Biden.
Texas Rep.-elect Beth Van Duyne is the only Republican candidate in the country to have won a seat where President Trump lost and where President-elect Joe Biden won, with Republicans strategists calling her seat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “most bitter loss.” Van Duyne, who was elected to serve Texas’ 24th District covering Dallas-Fort Worth, made history in November by becoming only the second Republican woman from Texas to be elected to the House of Representatives. “The results of this
After saying “God bless Texas,” Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday gave a rousing endorsement of a lawsuit filed by the Texas attorney general and backed by President Trump that aims to throw out the election results in four key battleground states won last month by President-elect Joe Biden. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, is suing to prevent electors from Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia from certifying Biden’s victories.
Missouri and five other states on Thursday threw their support even further behind the Texas lawsuit aiming to prevent Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin's electors from casting their electoral votes by asking the Supreme Court to let them join the Texas suit. Missouri on Wednesday led a group of 17 states in filing a brief that supported the Texas lawsuit, which alleges that the four key swing states that voted for President-elect Joe Biden violated the Constitution by having their
It has now been a month and two days since Joe Biden won the U.S. presidential election, and Donald Trump has yet to concede the election.
The Supreme Court weighed in on Trump supporters’ post-election challenge to Joe Biden’s victory, rejecting an effort to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of the results in that state.
The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit to the Wisconsin Supreme Court Tuesday -- alleging abuse around the process of absentee voting in the state, which they say affected approximately 220,000 ballots. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday morning and comes after Wisconsin completed its partial recount — which maintained that Joe Biden won the presidential race in the state — and after Wisconsin Gov.Tony Evers formally certified Biden’s victory Monday night.
The Trump campaign is filing a lawsuit to the Wisconsin Supreme Court Tuesday -- alleging abuse around the process of absentee voting in the state, which they say affected approximately 220,000 ballots. The lawsuit is expected to be filed Tuesday morning and comes after Wisconsin completed its partial recount — which maintained that Joe Biden won the presidential race in the state — and after Wisconsin Gov.Tony Evers formally certified Biden’s victory Monday night.
President Trump on Saturday said his team would challenge election-recount results in Wisconsin after President-elect Joe Biden padded his lead in Milwaukee County by a little more than 100 votes. Trump also continued to allege election fraud in Pennsylvania despite federal appeals judges ruling there Friday that the Trump 2020 Campaign's claims in that state "have no merit.” “The Wisconsin recount is not about finding mistakes in the count, it is about finding people who have voted illegally,
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed a case Saturday night brought by Rep.
President Trump promised to challenge the Wisconsin vote count after the recount there, and said his campaign is disputing a number of votes larger than President-elect Joe Biden's winning margin. “The Wisconsin recount is not about finding mistakes in the count, it is about finding people who have voted illegally, and that case will be brought after the recount is over, on Monday or Tuesday.
President-elect Joe Biden picked up 132 more votes after an election recount in Milwaukee County, among the two places in Wisconsin that President Trump spent $3 million to force a recount. In Dane County, another Democratic stronghold, votes are still being tallied in a count expected to last into the weekend, but Trump has gained 68 votes over Biden so far.
The Trump 2020 Campaign looked ahead to a potential Supreme Court fight after a panel of federal appeals judges in Pennsylvania dismissed the campaign's lawsuit over alleged voter fraud in the presidential election. “The campaign’s claims have no merit,” the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled Friday, despite Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani arguing to a lower court that widespread voter fraud occurred in a state where President-elect Joe Biden won by just over 80,000 votes.