Politics

President-elect Joe Biden said electing Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock in Tuesday’s runoff elections would end the gridlock in Washington and allow a Democrat-controlled Senate to provide $2,000 stimulus checks to Americans. “If you send Jon and the Reverend to Washington, those $2,000 checks will go out the door, restoring hope and decency

Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller on Monday approved a request from the mayor of Washington to deploy DC National Guard forces to the city to support local authorities during pro-Trump demonstrations scheduled in the city this week, a defense official told CNN. Mayor Muriel Bowser made the request Thursday in a letter addressed to Maj.

President Donald Trump had been trying for weeks to get Georgia’s secretary of state on the phone. Aghast at the thought he lost a state Republicans have held for decades, and desperate to reverse the result, the President insisted to his advisers he could persuade the state’s top election official to validate his false claims

Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia will oppose the certification of the Electoral College results on Wednesday, she said in a statement released Monday evening. “On January 6th, I will vote to give President Trump and the American people the fair hearing they deserve and support the objection to the Electoral College certification process,” Loeffler

A top Georgia election official said Monday that “everybody’s vote did count” in the state’s November elections as he shot down a list of voter fraud conspiracy theories President Donald Trump aired in a call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger this weekend. “The reason I’m having to stand here today is because there

Many conservative House Republicans defended President Donald Trump in the aftermath of his phone call demanding Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “find” the votes needed for him to win the elections in his state — as Democrats drafted a resolution seeking to censure Trump over the matter. After House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy downplayed

President-elect Joe Biden traveled to Atlanta on Monday to campaign on behalf of two Democrats looking to flip control of the US Senate in Tuesday’s runoff elections. “They’re talented, they’re principled, they’re qualified, they’re decent, they’re honorable, they mean what they say,” Biden said of Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock. Ossoff and Warnock

President Donald Trump directed acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller to reverse course and order a US aircraft carrier to return to the Middle East following a White House meeting Sunday, according to a senior defense official. This decision overturned Miller’s order last week to send the USS Nimitz out of the region and home,

For weeks, tension between President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has been on public display. Now, with the release of a Saturday phone call between the two Republicans, the public got a rare look at the private nature of the pressure campaign Trump and his allies have waged against Raffensperger to

President Donald Trump awarded the Medal of Freedom to one of his most vocal political allies who defended him throughout his impeachment, California Rep. Devin Nunes, on Monday. Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee who worked closely with the President to undermine the Justice Department’s Russia investigation, was awarded the medal at

President-elect Joe Biden’s inaugural committee will promote the national day of service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day as part of festivities ahead of the inauguration on January 20. The President-elect, his wife Jill Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff are expected to participate in the day of service on January

There were 18 attempted calls from the White House to the Georgia secretary of state’s office between the election and Saturday’s phone call, a source with knowledge and a Georgia state official confirmed to CNN. In a recorded phone call, first published by The Washington Post on Sunday, President Donald Trump pushed Georgia Secretary of

Georgia’s Republican lieutenant governor on Monday condemned President Donald Trump’s phone call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, saying the President’s effort to pressure the state’s top election official to falsify election results was “inappropriate.” “I am 100% certified to tell you that it was inappropriate. And it certainly did not help the situation,” Geoff

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley threw a political grenade into Washington last week when he announced his intentions to object when Congress counts the Electoral College votes on Wednesday — a move that pits the youngest senator against Senate GOP leadership as well as some rank-and-file members who will now have to cast a highly consequential