Tag: Presidential Election of 2020

Trump’s Plan to Take Away Biden’s Biggest Advantage

The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Mike Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Diana Nguyen, Marion […]

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Chief Justice Roberts Rejects Peter Navarro’s Last-Ditch Bid to Avoid Prison

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ruled on Monday that Peter Navarro, a trade adviser to Donald J. Trump during his presidency, must start serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress while he pursues an appeal. The order will make Mr. Navarro, who refused to comply with a subpoena seeking information about the Jan. […]

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How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation

In the wake of the riot on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, a groundswell built in Washington to rein in the onslaught of lies that had fueled the assault on the peaceful transfer of power. Social media companies suspended Donald J. Trump, then the president, and many of his allies from the platforms they […]

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Trump Georgia Case: Takeaways From the Ruling on Fani Willis’s Conduct

The much-anticipated ruling on whether Fani T. Willis should be disqualified from prosecuting former President Donald J. Trump and 14 of his allies in Georgia came on Friday, requiring her to make an unusual decision. Ms. Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, Ga., can keep control of the state election interference case that has […]

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Don’t Think of It as a Contest Between Biden and Trump

It’s official — we have a rematch. This week, both Joe Biden and Donald Trump officially secured the delegates needed to win renomination in their respective primaries. This will be the first contest since the 1892 race between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland where a former challenger, now incumbent, faces off against a former incumbent, […]

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Appeals Court Denies Peter Navarro’s Motion to Remain Out of Prison

Peter Navarro, a trade adviser to Donald J. Trump during his presidency, will be required to report to prison after a federal appeals court on Thursday denied his all-but-final bid to remain free while appealing his conviction for contempt of Congress. The ruling meant that, barring an 11th-hour intervention by the Supreme Court, which his […]

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Testimony Fleshes Out Account of Trump’s Demand to Go to Capitol on Jan. 6

President Donald J. Trump had just delivered his fiery speech at the Ellipse early on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, setting in motion the attack by his supporters on the Capitol. When he got into his armored vehicle after the speech, Mr. Trump immediately brought up a topic he often broached after his public […]

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And the Award for Best Performance at the State of the Union Goes to …

Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. I think it’s safe to say that Joe Biden’s confident performance at the State of the Union has put to rest any doubts that he’ll be the Democratic nominee, with Kamala Harris as his running mate. My questions are two: Did he change anyone’s mind? And can he maintain the momentum? […]

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For This Rookie Judge, a Pivotal Decision Looms in the Georgia Trump Case

For Judge Scott McAfee, it was probably an awkward moment. At a hearing in Atlanta last month, he issued a warning to his former boss, Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, during her combative turn on the witness stand. Ms. Willis, who was fighting allegations that threatened her grip on the election interference […]

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Democrats Need to Stop Playing Nice

There is a moment in the 2008 HBO movie “Recount” that illuminates an essential difference between Republicans and Democrats. The film was a fictionalized account of the mayhem that followed the 2000 presidential election in Florida. Warren Christopher, a courtly former secretary of state, represents the Democratic candidate Al Gore. “The world is watching,” he […]

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Why It’s Hard to Explain Joe Biden’s Unpopularity

Joe Biden is one of the most unpopular presidents in modern American history. In Gallup polling, his approval ratings are lower than those of any president embarking on a re-election campaign, from Dwight Eisenhower to Donald Trump. Yet an air of mystery hangs around his lousy polling numbers. As The Washington Free Beacon’s Joe Simonson […]

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The Biden-Trump Rerun: A Nation Craving Change Gets More of the Same

The promise of change has been a powerful force in presidential campaigns for decades, a reliable appeal to a fundamental yearning in the American electorate. It was central to the candidacies of John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama and Donald J. Trump. “Change vs. more of the same” read a hand-scrawled placard posted on […]

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The Unhappy Voters Who Could Swing the Election

The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Mike Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Diana Nguyen, Marion […]

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If They Can’t Make a Federal Case Out of Trump …

While the Supreme Court ruling on Monday that states cannot bar Donald Trump from appearing on their presidential ballots garnered a lot of attention, the more politically consequential decision came on Feb. 28, when the court set a hearing on Trump’s claim of presidential immunity for the week of April 22. That delay is both […]

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In Trump Cases, Supreme Court Cannot Avoid Politics

In major cases concerning former President Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court has tried to put some distance between itself and politics. That fragile project does not seem to be succeeding. “If the court is trying to stay out of the political fray, it is failing miserably,” said Melissa Murray, a law professor at New […]

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Trump Lawyers Offer New Witness in Effort to Disqualify Fani Willis in Georgia

Defense lawyers in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald J. Trump say they want to put someone on the stand whose testimony could back up their assertion that Terrence Bradley, a witness in their effort to disqualify the prosecutors running the case, gave misleading testimony. The new information comes from Cindi Lee […]

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Trump Stays on Colorado Ballot After Supreme Court Rules on 14th Amendment Case

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that states may not bar former President Donald J. Trump from running for another term, rejecting a challenge from Colorado to his eligibility that threatened to upend the presidential race by taking him off ballots around the nation. Though the justices provided different reasons, the decision’s bottom line was […]

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New Messages Detail Roots of Trump’s ‘Fake Electors’ Scheme

Just five days after Election Day in 2020, a conservative lawyer named Kenneth Chesebro emailed a former judge who was working for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin, James R. Troupis, pitching an idea for how to overturn the results. Through litigation, Mr. Chesebro said, the Trump campaign could allege “various systemic abuses” and, with court […]

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Trump Is the Leading Man

Gail Collins: So, Bret — are you gonna miss Mitch McConnell? Bret Stephens: I guess it all depends on who succeeds him. If it’s a fairly traditional Republican, like John Cornyn of Texas or John Thune of South Dakota, I don’t think it will make much of a difference. But if it’s someone like Florida’s […]

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Supreme Court to Hear Trump’s Immunity Claim, With Arguments Set for April

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to decide whether former President Donald J. Trump is immune from prosecution on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election. The justices scheduled arguments for the week of April 22 and said proceedings in the trial court would remain frozen while they considered the matter. The court’s brief […]

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What’s a Little Hyperbole Among Friends?

Gail Collins: So Bret, Donald Trump gets a roughly $355 million fine for fibbing about his fortune. Too much? Too little? Am I wrong for starting to chortle? Bret Stephens: Gail, I would never want to stop you from chortling, but here goes: I think the case was ridiculous and the verdict outrageous. And dumb. […]

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At Rally in Michigan, Trump Lashes Out at Judge Who Fined Him $355 Million

Former President Donald J. Trump vented about his latest legal defeat to freezing supporters at a Michigan rally on Saturday night, a day after a New York judge fined him nearly $355 million plus interest in his civil fraud case. The Republican front-runner for his party’s presidential nomination, Mr. Trump denied that he had conspired […]

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Messy Diversion in Georgia Trump Case Creates Perception Problem

At some point in the coming weeks or months, the Georgia criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump and his allies will presumably focus once again on the defendants and whether they conspired to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss there in 2020. But the extraordinary detour that the case has taken, plunging into the […]

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After Testimony in Atlanta, Willis Receives Both Praise and Condemnation

It has been a rare point of consensus about the case brought by Georgia prosecutors against former President Donald J. Trump: the Fulton County district attorney, Fani T. Willis, probably made a mistake by having a romantic relationship with a co-worker. But the agreement ends there. As people in Atlanta and its suburbs digested gripping […]

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If You Know How to Read It, Washington Is an Open Book

President Biden had a far better comeback at his disposal last week when he took offense at a special counsel report that suggested he didn’t remember which year his son Beau died. He’d already delivered that alternative response in “Promise Me, Dad,” the memoir he published in 2017 about his son’s illness and death. “This […]

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With Everything on the Line, Fani Willis Delivered Raw Testimony

Fani T. Willis walked unaccompanied through the front door of a Fulton County courtroom on Thursday afternoon in a bright magenta dress and announced she was ready to testify. She was interrupting her lawyer, who at that very moment was trying to convince a judge that she should not have to testify at all. “I’m […]

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What Happens if Fani Willis Is Disqualified From the Trump Case?

The stakes will be high on Thursday when a judge in Atlanta seeks to determine whether the Fulton County district attorney, Fani T. Willis, should be disqualified from leading the prosecution of former President Donald J. Trump on election interference charges. If Judge Scott McAfee determines that Ms. Willis has a conflict of interest because […]

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Pivotal Hearing Could Stall Georgia Case Against Trump

The three-year long Georgia investigation of Donald J. Trump and his allies for election interference faces its biggest hurdle at a hearing on Thursday, when a judge begins to assess whether the lead prosecutor and her office should be disqualified from the case. The hearing will delve into a romantic relationship between the two main […]

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Jack Smith Asks Supreme Court to Move Quickly in Trump Immunity Case

Jack Smith, the special counsel prosecuting former President Donald J. Trump on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election, urged the Supreme Court on Wednesday to reject a request from Mr. Trump to put the case on hold while he pursues appeals. “Delay in the resolution of these charges threatens to frustrate the public […]

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Pete Hoekstra is the rightful chair of the Michigan Republican Party, RNC says

After a bitter monthlong fight in Michigan over who has a valid claim to lead the G.O.P. in the critical battleground state, the Republican National Committee said on Wednesday that it had formally recognized Pete Hoekstra as the state party’s rightful chairman. The decision follows a vote on Jan. 6 by some party officials in […]

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Why the Case Against Fani Willis Feels Familiar to Black Women

Tangala L. Hollis-Palmer felt asense of pride when she learned that Fani T. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., and one of the nation’s few elected Black female prosecutors, would lead the election interference case against former President Donald J. Trump. But that pride would be tempered by dismay as news emerged of […]

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