We must do all we can to minimize over or under counting votes. We must also recognize that in an imperfect world with imperfect voting mechanisms, the end result will not be a perfect representation of the intent of American voters. Nor will this be our first imperfect election. In 2000, George W. Bush was elected president by the tiniest margin—fewer than 600 votes in the state of Florida. Having been part of the legal team challenging that result, I have absolutely no doubt that more—many more—Floridians intended to vote for Al Gore than for George W....

Labor Day came and went with the Dole campaign still floundering in search of a clear message. After the GOP convention, voters knew him better; no longer did a sizable minority think he was an heir to the Dole pineapple fortune, as one GOP poll had discovered earlier that spring. But voters were skeptical of Dole’s tax-cut pledge, and the campaign had done nothing to build momentum since San Diego....

ORIGINAL (Dec. 16): A scary moment occurred in Thursday night’s Chargers-Chiefs game when Los Angeles tight end Donald Parham Jr. was injured on a first-quarter play in the end zone. He was placed on a stretcher and carted off the field. The Chargers were facing fourth-and-goal from the Kansas City 5 when Justin Herbert threw to Parham in the back of the end zone. Parham appeared to have caught the ball before it fell incomplete....

In a video posted onto his Twitter account, West discusses the meeting he had between himself, the former president and Fuentes, a Holocaust denier and leader of the far-right group the “Groyper Army.” In the clip, recorded in Los Angeles, California, West said that the thing that Trump was “most perturbed about” was when the hip hop star asked him to be his running mate in the 2024 election....

“It’s hard to imagine a bigger acting challenge than playing Donald Trump,” Billy Ray, the writer-director on the project, said in a statement announcing the upcoming film. “You have to have presence, and a singular kind of dynamism. You also have to have the courage and the will to play Trump’s psychology from the inside out. Oh, and you have to be spectacularly talented and watchable. Not many actors check all those boxes....

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died on the set of the western movie in October when a prop gun being used by Baldwin was fired. The former president sat down with conservative pundit Candace Owens for a long-ranging interview for The Daily Wire. The two discussed a number of topics including Trump potentially issuing a pardon for either Julian Assange or Edward Snowden as well as President Joe Biden and the COVID-19 vaccine....

“I’m not just running against Joe Biden,” Trump said during a campaign rally in Bullhead, Arizona, “I’m running against the left-wing mob and the left-wing media, the big tech giants, and I’m also running against the RINOs. Do you know what RINO is? A RINO may be the lowest form of human life.” The president’s comment may be a dig at Republican senatorial candidates who have distanced themselves from his campaign, as well as those who have publicly contradicted or criticized him in a bid to attract undecided voters and protect Republican control of the Senate....

But the “very, very important” person Trump pardoned was suffragist Susan B. Anthony, marking 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment. The women’s rights and voting rights advocate was arrested in 1872 for illegally voting before the passage of the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote. She died in 1906. “She was never pardoned,” Trump told reporters during a ceremony at the White House. “She deserves it....

It was just after Nadler, chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, called a recess during the marathon hearing last Thursday in which lawmakers debated the merits of two impeachment articles submitted against the president. Ben Bergquam, a self-proclaimed “social conservative” and field correspondent for conservative outlet America’s Voice News, followed the congressman into the hallway to ask him whether he committed “treason” by supporting the impeachment inquiry against the president, he told Newsweek....

The Republican candidate today took to Twitter to post a montage of him dancing on stage to the Village People anthem “YMCA” in a clip that has been viewed 10 million times at the time of writing. Trump shared the video on Election Day, November 3, with the caption: “VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!” It is unclear what exactly he is trying to achieve with the clip, most likely it is to whip up some excitement and hype on Election Day, like a virtual rally....

Betfair said Trump had drifted out to 10-1, from 7-1 in the days before the riots. Those odds implied percentage chances of 13 percent before the unrest in Washington, D.C. and 9 percent afterwards, the bookmaker said. Trump has hinted on numerous occasions that he will run again. As recently as Thursday evening, the president told his “wonderful supporters … that our incredible journey is only just beginning.” In a separate statement, Trump acknowledged Joe Biden’s victory as marking an end to the “greatest first term in presidential history,” but added: “It’s only the beginning of our fight to make America great again....

As of Thursday morning, Trump has received a total of 73,559,030 votes and counting, according to The New York Times. That number has set the record for the most votes ever received by a sitting president, surpassing Obama’s 65,915,795 popular votes in his 2012 incumbent victory against Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Trump has received 47.2 percent of the popular vote, compared to President-elect Joe Biden’s 51 percent. Recently, Biden broke his own record with 79 million votes and counting, giving him the most votes of any presidential candidate in history....

At 2020’s first (and perhaps only) presidential debate, President Trump’s plea to his “people” to “go into the polls and watch very carefully” got the attention of voting advocates and militia members alike. And no wonder: private militias have become a very visible symbol of polarized America, and have been deploying themselves with increasing belligerence at anti-racism rallies and other social protests. Last week, in a sign portending major escalation of militia violence, 13 men were arrested in a kidnapping plot against Michigan Gov....

The floor price for Trump’s NFTs was listed as 0.282 Ethereum early Saturday morning, according to popular NFT trading site OpenSea. That’s around $330. Saturday’s price reflects a considerable rise in value for Trump’s NFT trading cards in the days since the product was first launched as part of what the former president referred to as a “major announcement.” On Friday, New York Times bestselling author Maxmilian Uriarte shared a screenshot to Twitter from OpenSea late on Thursday showing the floor price for the NFTs was 0....

“So sad to see that New York City and State are falling apart,” Trump wrote in a tweet on Saturday. “All they want to do is investigate to make me hate them even more than I should. Governor Cuomo has lost control, and lost his mind. Very bad for the homeless and all!” In an earlier tweet, he slammed Cuomo and his Californian counterpart, Governor Gavin Newsom, for allegedly failing to tackle “homeless problems....

Trump spoke of the Electoral College votes being certified, affirming Joe Biden’s victory, as marking an end to the “greatest first term in presidential history.” “While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again,” his statement added. While it marks an end to Trump having a consecutive two terms in office, there is the potential he could be voted in for another stint down the line....

“Joe Biden has had the most disastrous first month of any president in modern history. Already the Biden administration has proven that they are anti-jobs, anti-family, anti-borders, anti-energy, anti-women and anti-science. In just one short month, we have gone from America First to America Last,” the ex-president said. “There’s no better example than the new and horrible crisis on our southern border, we did such a good job. Now he wants it all to go to hell....

The case centers around the question of whether the former president should be held responsible for inciting the storming of the Capitol after he told supporters, “If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” If found culpable, Trump could face financial damages and further legal repercussions. “After a full deliberation over the parties’ positions and the record, the court rules as follows: President Trump’s motion to dismiss is denied,” the ruling stated....

The survey, carried out by Quinnipiac University and published on Wednesday, suggested 60 percent of Americans “think it would be bad for the country,” with only 30 percent taking the opposite position. The split fell largely along party lines, with a massive 95 percent of Democrats who took part stating it would be bad, while 73 percent of Republican respondents said it would be good. A majority of independents also thought it would be bad, with 62 percent polled being against the idea and 30 percent in favor....

Reuters reported on Sunday that German government sources said that the Trump administration was attempting to secure access to a potential vaccine under development by the firm CureVac. The news agency noted that the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag had previously reported that a German government source had said “Trump was trying to secure the [CureVac] scientists’ work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, ‘but only for the United States....