Hopefully, Joe Biden’s presidency will mark the end of using cherry-picked science to suit a political agenda. As Trump’s successor, however, he’s placed in a difficult position.
Donald Trump has been voted out of office but the issues at the heart of Black Lives Matter remain as critical as ever.
Pollsters predicted a much higher vote for Joe Biden, including in Florida, where workers at the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Office in Largo process voters’ ballots on Nov. 3.
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Pollster Bud Roper once said of his field that “a good deal more than half is art and … less than half is science.” After the 2020 polls got a lot wrong, is it time for more candor from pollsters?
Fox and Friend: Fox News presenter Sean Hannity interviews Donald Trump at a rally in 2018.
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A new era will require a new approach when it comes to reporting US politics.
U.S. President Donald Trump waves to supporters as he departs after playing golf at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling Va., on Nov. 8, 2020. Trump is refusing to concede the election, a common tactic of authoritarians.
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Trump is reminiscent of strongmen like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A good portion of the electorate like what he’s selling anyway. That’s a bitter pill for the U.S.
After four years of obstruction from Trump, European leaders have a long wish list and are impatient to get to work with Joe Biden.
Not in Russia: An election observer takes notes as Gwinnett County workers process ballots in Lawrenceville, Georgia, Nov. 6.
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Charges by President Donald Trump and his allies that the 2020 election was rigged are challenged by experts in Russian elections, where rigging the outcome is an established way of life.
Trump: not going to make this easy.
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Trump has increased the appeal of American conservatism, even as he has complicated its meaning. His shadow will no doubt continue to loom large over the Republican Party.
With a handful of states still to be declared, it looks likely Joe Biden will win the electoral college vote by 306 to 232, he same margin with which Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
The ‘narrative’ of why Biden beat Donald Trump in 2020 is yet to be written, but there is no doubt Americans remain afraid, uncertain and deeply divided.
As vote counts tick upward, people may have questions about why one candidate does better with mail-in votes or in-person ballots. Here are the answers, and an explanation of how the counting happens.
The moment Lester Holt of NBC News cut into a statement from President Donald Trump.
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When President Trump claimed in a press conference that the election was being stolen from him, three major TV networks cut off their coverage. A media scholar asks if this is a turning point.
Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations at the United States Studies Centre and in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney