The Georgia Secretary of State’s office is investigating Coffee County’s handling of the recount of the Nov. 3 presidential election.
The south Georgia county with about 43,000 residents did not complete its recount by midnight on Wednesday, Dec. 2, the deadline set by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office.
From the Georgia State House to the U.S. Senate, Republican elected officials are now attacking the very election infrastructure they created and have used successfully for years, as part of an effort to placate the outgoing president and hold onto power in a demographically shifting state that voted for Joe Biden.
New Hampshire Republicans elected Rep. Dick Hinch as speaker of the House after the GOP took control of the chamber in November. Hinch's death, now known to be of COVID-19, was announced Wednesday.
He may be a lame duck, but defying President Trump still comes at a price. On Georgia Today, political reporter Greg Bluestein of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution speaks on the acrimony between Trump and the man he assumed would always be in his corner, Gov. Brian Kemp.
The same year FINRA was lobbying the Senate on a bill, one of its board governors paid Perdue $1.8 million for his D.C. townhouse. Perdue sits on the Senate Banking Committee, which oversaw the bill.
For the second week in a row, Georgia Republican lawmakers have invited the Trump campaign and other right-wing witnesses to spread baseless conspiracies and claims of voting fraud under the guise of improving elections in the state.
More eyes were watching Georgia’s ballot counting process in person this year as Democratic President Elect Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in a razor-thin margin.
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro spent Monday and Tuesday in Georgia working to drum up Latino voter support for Democratic Senate candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in their runoff races against Republican incumbent Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
Leading up to his hospitalization, the president's personal attorney had been traveling the country on behalf of President Trump's failed legal attempts to overturn the 2020 election results.
The suit, viewed by election experts as a baseless Hail Mary attempt to get the justices to invalidate Joe Biden's victory, has little to no chance of success.
Days after Rep. Cynthia Johnson was harassed for her criticism of Rudy Giuliani, Michigan Republicans removed her from committee posts for sharing what they called a threatening video on Facebook.
Joe Biden's son Hunter said he learned that "the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel ... that they are investigating my tax affairs."
At a rally in Georgia, President Donald Trump continued to make baseless claims about the 2020 election being “rigged,” drawing false comparisons at one point between President-elect Joe Biden’s performance in swing states and that of the last two Democratic presidential nominees.
Vilsack served as secretary of agriculture during the Obama administration and has been a trusted adviser to President-elect Joe Biden. But critics say his time has passed.
While 61% of Americans overall say they trust the results of the 2020 presidential election, Republicans appear to be taking their cue from President Trump in not accepting the result.
