Latest 2020 United States presidential election News

Trump White House official Peter Navarro asks Supreme Court to stave off contempt sentence

Mar. 15, 2024 18:15 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump White House official Peter Navarro appealed to the Supreme Court Friday to allow him to stay out of prison as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. Navarro is due to report to a federal prison next week, after an appeals court ruled that his...

Ex-Trump White House official convicted of contempt must report to prison, appeals court finds

Mar. 14, 2024 17:14 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — An appeals court denied Trump White House official Peter Navarro 's bid to stave off his jail sentence on contempt of Congress charges Thursday. Navarro has been ordered to report to a federal prison by March 19. He argued he should stay free as he appeals his...

Massachusetts man gets prison for making bomb threat to Arizona election office

Mar. 13, 2024 19:23 PM EDT

PHOENIX (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to three years and six months in federal prison for making an online threat to bomb then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ election office in February 2021, the U.S. Justice Department said. James Clark, 40, of Falmouth,...

Chris Wallace looks back at Nixon-Kennedy election in the book 'Countdown 1960

Mar. 13, 2024 08:57 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime newsman Chris Wallace isn't only thinking about this year's presidential election. The CNN anchor has written a book on the race between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, narrowly won by Kennedy, that featured the first televised presidential debates....

House GOP launches new probe of Jan. 6 and tries shifting blame for Capitol attack away from Trump

Mar. 13, 2024 07:07 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are launching a vast reinvestigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, seeking to push the blame away from Donald Trump, who has been indicted over his actions or his supporters in the mob siege trying to overturn the 2020 election. ...

Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis and judge in Trump 2020 election case draw primary challengers

Mar. 08, 2024 14:52 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — A progressive Democrat and a Republican who briefly worked in Donald Trump's administration entered the Fulton County district attorney's race Friday in an attempt to oust Fani Willis, who has been the subject of scrutiny and embarrassing public testimony and is awaiting a judge's...

Biden to call in State of the Union for business tax hikes, middle class tax cuts and lower deficits

Mar. 07, 2024 05:11 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is going into Thursday's State of the Union address with an expanded plan to raise corporate taxes and use the proceeds to trim budget deficits and cut taxes for the middle class. The Democratic president in this election year is refining the...

Takeaways from the Wisconsin 2020 fake electors lawsuit settlement

Mar. 04, 2024 17:58 PM EST

More than 1,400 pages of emails, text messages and other documents released Monday reveal details of a strategy by Republican operatives tied to then-President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 victory in Wisconsin. The documents — settling a civil lawsuit filed against two attorneys and...

Settlement in Wisconsin fake elector case offers new details on the strategy by Trump lawyers

Mar. 04, 2024 17:54 PM EST

Two attorneys for then-President Donald Trump orchestrated a plan for fake electors to file paperwork falsely saying the Republican won Wisconsin in a strategy to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory there and in other swing states, according to a lawsuit settlement reached Monday that makes public...

South Dakota Sen. John Thune jumps into race to succeed McConnell as Senate leader

Mar. 04, 2024 15:44 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — South Dakota Sen. John Thune is entering the race to be the next Republican leader of the U.S. Senate once Sen. Mitch McConnell steps away from the post in November. Thune, currently the No. 2 Senate Republican, told local news outlets that he is interested in the...