Donald Trump has lost the election and will eventually have to leave the White House, no matter how many unsupported claims of voter fraud he makes along the way.
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Elections – like Georgia’s runoffs – that require majority support can sometimes be used to exclude those in the minority.
A set of efforts that registered 800,000 new voters since 2018 may have been the key to Georgia turning blue in a presidential election for the first time since 1992.
When it comes to election fraud claims, watch what the lawyers do, not what the politicians say.
Navajo voters helped Joe Biden ‘flip’ Arizona for the Democrats.
President Donald Trump may be trying to get state lawmakers to shift the outcome of the presidential election.
People know a lot about their friends and neighbors – and pollsters can learn from that information, if they ask.
Reform-minded prosecutors across the US notched victories against traditional law-and-order candidates by running on progressive platforms to reduce mass incarceration and tackle police misconduct.
Mink, the first woman of color in Congress, brought a racially and historically aware brand of feminism into lawmaking and ran for president in 1972. But women’s history largely overlooks her.
The United States was built on the idea of public safety and well-being. Those values have been slowly eroded since the ‘80s. Can the U.S. find its way back to a more caring civil society?
In the drama of envisioning a future for the United States, Joe Biden and Donald Trump both invoked stories about snakes to suggest different views about self-interest and the common good.
Wisconsin proved to be the ‘tipping point’ state in the US presidential election, which Joe Biden won by just 0.6% - despite being likely to win the popular vote by 4-5%.
Murdoch has become very adept at changing colours to suit changing political landscapes – and the US election is yet another example of that.
As Donald Trump continued to stoke his base with false allegations of a ‘rigged’ election, violence at the U.S. Capitol shows America has devolved into a fragile state.
A look at the forces at work in the 2020 presidential election in which Donald Trump defied pollsters again even though he lost to Joe Biden.
The bookies have got it right in all but two elections since 1868.
When Trump leaves the White House in January, many American evangelicals will feel that they’ve lost their protector in chief.
University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and Director of the Institute for Governance & Policy Analysis, Dr Laine Dare discuss the week in politics.
Trump was the first US president from New York City since Teddy Roosevelt, but he was never a hometown hero. Jubilant celebrations erupted across New York after Biden’s projected win.
A round-up of expert analysis from across the world on Biden’s win.
Top contributors
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
VC Fellow LaTrobe University, La Trobe University
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Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université
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Professor of Communication Studies, American University School of Communication
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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
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Professor of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University
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Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
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Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University, Canada
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Professor in American Politics, The University of Melbourne
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Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of Political Science, UMass Lowell
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Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College
