Latest 2020 United States presidential election News

Biden's moves on Alaska drilling, TikTok test young voters

Mar. 27, 2023 16:36 PM EDT

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Recent moves by President Joe Biden to pressure TikTok over its Chinese ownership and approve oil drilling in an untapped area of Alaska are testing the loyalty of young voters, a group that’s largely been in his corner. Youth turnout surged in the three...

Pro-labor? Biden aims to prove it with unionized 2024 staff

Mar. 23, 2023 14:07 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden likes to say he's the most pro-union president in U.S. history. When he announces his expected reelection campaign in the coming weeks, he'll get the chance to prove it to his own staffers. Workers on his 2024 campaign will be unionized, political allies...

Prosecutors rest in sedition case against Proud Boys leaders

Mar. 20, 2023 15:03 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Monday rested their seditious conspiracy case against former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants charged with plotting to stop the transfer of presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election. ...

Florida man sentenced for role in Jan. 6 Capitol attack

Mar. 17, 2023 18:27 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida man has been sentenced to four years and seven months in federal prison for three felony charges related to the insurrection and storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Mitchell Todd Gardner II, 34, of Seffner, Florida, was sentenced Thursday in...

2 Florida men guilty of participating in Capitol riot

Mar. 15, 2023 17:06 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Florida men were convicted Wednesday of storming the U.S. Capitol during the January 2021 insurrection. Joshua Christopher Doolin, 25, of Polk City, and Michael Steven Perkins, 39, of Plant City, were each found guilty of felony civil disorder, entering and...

Anti-Trump GOP voters mostly loyal in 2022, but not entirely

Mar. 12, 2023 07:42 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Lauren Boebert's grip on Colorado's 3rd Congressional District didn't seem in question heading into last year's midterms. But in the end, the congresswoman who gained a national reputation as a combative member of the “Make America Great Again” movement won reelection...

Records in Fox defamation case show pressures on reporters

Mar. 11, 2023 14:17 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn't critics, political foes or their bosses that united Fox News stars Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham when they gathered via text message for a gripe session shortly after the 2020 election. It was their own network's news division. ...

Tucker Carlson amplifies Jan. 6 lies with GOP-provided video

Mar. 07, 2023 20:54 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Handed some 41,000 hours of Jan. 6 security footage, Fox News' Tucker Carlson has launched an impassioned new effort to explain away the deadly Capitol attack, linking the Republican Party ever more closely to pro-Trump conspiracy theories about the 2021 riot. The...

Editorial Roundup: Texas

Mar. 06, 2023 07:12 AM EST

Austin American-Statesman. March 1, 2023. Editorial: Lawmakers should make it easier for college students to vote State Rep. Carrie Isaac, a Hays County Republican, says her bill to ban polling places at Texas colleges and universities would help protect students from...

The Carters: What you know may be wrong (or not quite right)

Mar. 02, 2023 10:07 AM EST

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Exaggeration, misinformation and myth have always infected politics – even before social media took it to the extreme. Misconceptions take especially strong hold where U.S. presidents are concerned: sometimes to their advantage, sometimes not. Some claims...