2020 Election Tag

Trump Tells Supporters He Won’t Concede, Wants to ‘Primary the Hell Out’ of Republicans Who Don’t Fight

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 06, 2021 29 Comments

President Donald Trump is addressing his supporters at the Save America Rally in Washington, D.C.

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Georgia Senate Runoff RESULTS — Warnock Wins, As of Tuesday Night, Other Race Still Too Close to Call

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 05, 2021 150 Comments

Georgia voters are picking their U.S. senators on Tuesday. This election will determine which party controls the senate. However, if it splits tonight, the control would go to the democrats since Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be the tie-breaking vote.

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#NY22: Republican Tenney Leads by 29 Votes, Courtroom Meltdowns Continue

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 04, 2021 12 Comments

The fight to represent New York's 22nd Congressional District picked back up on Monday in court between Democratic incumbent Rep. Anthony Brindisi and Republican challenger Claudia Tenney. Counties counted over the Christmas and New Year's holidays, which gave Tenney a 29 vote lead. But that could change since 2,500 ballots still need their day in court.

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Lin Wood Tweet Thread Accuses Pence of Being “Disloyal” to Trump, “Traitor to We The People”

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 04, 2021 99 Comments

Lin Wood, Trump ally, and the attorney deeply entrenched in the Georgia special election efforts unleashed an interesting tweet thread in the wee hours of Monday morn. In the thread, Wood suggested VP Pence was "disloyal" to Trump, saying Pence wants to be president in 2024, and calling Pence a "traitor to We The People."

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‘Twas the Day Before Georgia Senate Elections: Trump, Biden Holding Rallies for Candidates

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 04, 2021 18 Comments

Georgia voters hit the polls on Tuesday to elect their U.S. senators. These votes will determine if a party will hold the majority or ends up 50-50. But could President Donald Trump's Saturday phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger affect the outcome? The story is definitely clouding over the race as Trump and President-elect Joe Biden head to Georgia to rally voters.

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Pelosi to “Provisionally Seat” Iowa Republican Despite Challenge From Democrat Who Lost By Six Votes

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 31, 2020 35 Comments

In Iowa's 2nd district, the race between Republican Marianette Miller-Meeks and Democrat Rita Hart came down to just six votes in favor of Miller-Meeks, who declared victory. Days later, Hart appealed directly to the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives. She basically wanted Nancy Pelosi to overrule the election and seat her instead of Miller-Meeks.

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Latest Trafalgar Poll for Georgia Runoff Puts Warnock, Ossoff Ahead of Loeffler, Perdue

Posted by David Gerstman on December 30, 2020 39 Comments

In a stunning reversal, the Trafalgar Group, which has been one of the most reliable pollsters this election season, released its latest polling numbers for next week's Georgia Senate runoff showing that the two Democratic challengers - Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff - are now leading the incumbent Republican senators - Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.

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Stacey Abrams’ Federal Judge Sister Blocks Voter Purge in Two Georgia Counties

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 30, 2020 62 Comments

U.S. District Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner, Stacey Abrams' sister, ruled against a voter purge in two Georgia counties before the January 5th runoff.

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Warnock Church Camper Recalls Abuses: ‘That Camp was Real Messed Up’

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 29, 2020 7 Comments

In 2002, Anthony Washington attended Camp Farthest Out at the age of 12. Georgia Democrat Senate candidate Raphael Warnock oversaw the camp "as senior pastor of Maryland's Douglas Memorial Community church." Speaking to the Washington Free Beacon, Washington alleged several abuses took place at the camp, including being required to sleep outside after having an accident (he was a child) and an incident in which camp counselors threw urine at him.

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#NY22: Democrat Regains Lead By 14 Votes After Hundreds Of New Votes Counted

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 23, 2020 17 Comments

New York Congressional District Rep. Anthony Brindisi took a lead by fourteen votes over his Republican challenger Claudia Tenney. Brindisi is ahead by 0.00004%.

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POLICE VIDEO: #GASen Candidate Warnock’s Then-Wife Alleges Altercation, “He’s not who he pretends to be”

Posted by Stacey Matthews on December 23, 2020 36 Comments

Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired never-before-seen bodycam footage Tuesday night of a disturbing incident in March that involved Georgia's Democratic Senate nominee Rev. Raphael Warnock, then-wife Ouleye Ndoye, and a police officer who was called to the scene.

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#NY22: Delayed Time Stamps on Ballots Stored In Jail Cell May Impact Election Outcome

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 22, 2020 19 Comments

New York's 22nd Congressional District will begin the next session without a representative because the election is still a mess. First, it was sticky notes. Now, it's about time stamps on ballots stored in a jail cell. You cannot make up this stuff!

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No Pushback When CNN Guest Suggests ‘a Little Cheating’ Reelected McConnell

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 22, 2020 27 Comments

Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson claimed "there was a little cheating" to reelect Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront. Fill-in host Kate Bolduan and the other panelists did not dispute Wilkerson's suggestion.

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Republicans See Encouraging Signs for Their Campaigns in Georgia Senate Run-off Races

Posted by Stacey Matthews on December 21, 2020 30 Comments

As it stands now, Republicans hold a 50-48 advantage in the battle for who controls the Senate.

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#NY22: Could These 67 Rejected Votes Finally Put an End to the Brindisi-Tenney Race?

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 16, 2020 9 Comments

Here we go again with the race for New York's 22nd Congressional District! Incumbent Democrat Rep. Anthony Brindisi's campaign wants to count 60 rejected ballots. Republican Claudia Tenney wants to count seven ballots.

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Biden in Leaked Audio Says GOP Misused ‘Defund the Police’ to Defeat Democrats in November

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 11, 2020 28 Comments

In leaked audio, Joe Biden shared police concerns with civil rights leaders but showed caution when it came to overhauling law enforcement. Biden griped that the GOP's misusage of the slogan "defund the police" allowed them to beat Democrats across the country. Now the Democrats have one of the smallest majorities in history.

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Stained Ballot Could Help Determine Winner of #NY22

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 11, 2020 18 Comments

You guys, the race to represent New York's 22nd Congressional District keeps finding ways to outdo itself. Now a stained ballot might help determine the race. No, it's not like the blue dress. No one knows if the stain is blood or chocolate.

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GA Senate Candidate Raphael Warnock Spread Fabrication that Jesus Was a “Poor Palestinian”

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on December 10, 2020 29 Comments

Groucho Marx once famously quipped, "If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again." Reverend Raphael Warnock—senior pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta (where MLK Jr. and Sr. served as co-pastors) and Democratic candidate for Senate—seems to have adopted Groucho's joke as a personal mantra: like Yasser Arafat, Ilhan Omar, Linda Sarsour, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, The New York Times, and many others before him, Warnock has attempted to rewrite history, claiming that Jesus of Nazareth was "Palestinian."

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