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Vision 2020
How Close Did We Get to an Election Coup? At several moments, Trump’s efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory were scarily close to success. Fortunately, he was too incompetent to pull it off.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 14, 2021
Trump Faces Senate Trial After Second Impeachment The House impeached Trump for inciting insurrection, with the support of 10 Republicans. The trial will take place during Biden’s administration.
By Intelligencer Staff
impeachment
Jan. 14, 2021
Are There Enough Senate Republican Votes to Convict Trump? With the MAGA base still strong and plenty of excuses for Republicans to say no, conviction faces steep odds.
By Ed Kilgore
Conservative Megadonor Sheldon Adelson May Be the Last of His Kind The casino mogul, who has died at 87, typified the kingmaking role made possible by Citizens United .
By Ed Kilgore
capitol riot
Jan. 7, 2021
Trump Repays His Sycophants With Needless Betrayal Trump could have left office with some dignity and support intact. But instead he is self-isolating more than any president since Nixon.
By Ed Kilgore
georgia senate runoffs
Jan. 6, 2021
As Trump Thugs Attack Congress, Senate Flips to Democrats Georgia voters took away the Republican Party’s remaining source of power in Washington and ensure that Trump leaves office as a serial loser.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Jan. 6, 2021
Watch Giuliani Demand ‘Trial by Combat’ to Settle the Election The president’s attorney proposed the medieval legal practice during his remarks at the “Save America” rally to protest Biden’s certification.
By Charlotte Klein
contested election
Jan. 5, 2021
How the January 6 Electoral-Vote Count Will Work It will be a tedious day full of bogus election-fraud claims, placing Pence in a tight spot — but Congress will affirm Biden’s win in the end.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Jan. 4, 2021
Tom Cotton Breaks With Trump on Coup Attempt in Congress The Arkansan split with other presidential wannabes in warning that Trump is undermining an Electoral College that has served Republicans well.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Dec. 30, 2020
Hawley to Trigger Congressional Vote on Trump’s Election Coup The circus will come to Congress on January 6, but the man at center ring is Mike Pence, who will preside over a joint session to certify electors.
By Ed Kilgore
past is prologue
Dec. 29, 2020
The Flimsy Nixon Precedent Trump Is Seizing On to Contest Biden’s Win In 1960, Nixon disregarded a certified Electoral College slate from Hawaii favoring him. This is not the same as Pence disregarding a national defeat.
By Ed Kilgore
covid-19 stimulus
Dec. 21, 2020
Second Stimulus Deal May Be Last Gasp of Bipartisanship Democratic underperformance in the election and Republican underestimation of the pandemic made a deal possible. But don’t count on much else.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Dec. 17, 2020
Will Two Alabama Extremists Force a Vote on Overturning the Election? Mo Brooks and Tommy Tuberville are two peas in a pod from the same right-wing patch and may make every Republican go on record about Trump’s claims.
By Ed Kilgore
coronavirus stimulus
Dec. 17, 2020
Congress Close to a Deal on Second Stimulus Package: What We Know With time running out, the two parties appear near a compromise attached to a stopgap spending bill.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Dec. 15, 2020
Wisconsin Supreme Court Was One Vote Away From Flipping the State to Trump If not for a progressive justice’s upset win earlier this year, the decision could have gone the other way, costing Biden ten electoral votes.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Dec. 15, 2020
McConnell Finally Acknowledges Biden As President-elect It’s taken a long time, but the dam has broken, with Republican senators undermining any last-minute rebellion against the results in January.
By Ed Kilgore
autopsy report
Dec. 15, 2020
Republicans Need a Postmortem, But Trump Won’t Even Admit He’s Dead If Republicans really won by a landslide, why should they change anything at all?
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Dec. 14, 2020
Electoral College Rejects Trump Coup and Confirms Biden as President It’s a routine process, but threats of violence and plans by Trump’s campaign to “elect” bogus alternative electors are raising eyebrows.
By Ed Kilgore
‘GOP Lawmakers Are Scared’: Republican Insiders Vent About ‘Stop the Steal’ Party operatives sound off by text on Trump and his loyalists’ desperate legal antics.
By Ben Jacobs
vision 2020
Dec. 11, 2020
Supreme Court Drop-Kicks Texas Lawsuit to Overturn the Election for Trump A legal effort to keep Trump in power attracted huge Republican support. But the president’s favorite justices wouldn’t even hear it.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Dec. 10, 2020
Every Republican in Congress May Have to Vote on Trump’s Coup Die-hard supporters of the president may force a January vote to overturn Biden’s Electoral College majority.
By Ed Kilgore
Ted Cruz Offers to Argue Insane Texas Election Lawsuit at the Supreme Court Texas is asking the Supreme Court to overturn the election results of four other states.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Dec. 8, 2020
Lindsey Graham Predicts Trump Will Become a ‘Shadow President’ If Republicans aren’t careful, they’re going to inherit something much worse than a Trump comeback: an ex-president who won’t go away.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Dec. 8, 2020
Why Trump Thinks ‘Stop the Steal’ Could Help Him Win in 2024 Trump may be channeling his favorite predecessor, Andrew Jackson, who won after a campaign of vengeance for an alleged stolen election.
By Ed Kilgore
No, Congress Won’t Help Trump Overturn the Election Alabama congressman Mo Brooks’s last-ditch effort to protest the electoral vote count won’t amount to much.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Bashed New York City, But He Did Better There in 2020 The president may hate his hometown and renounced his residency, but he won more votes across the Big Apple than he did four years ago.
By Ed Kilgore
Biden’s Vote Lead Over Trump Now More than 7 Million He’s blown-away his old boss Barack Obama’s performance, which was the best for a Democratic presidential candidate since LBJ.
By Ed Kilgore
In 2020, the Electoral Landscape Continued to Shift Who would have guessed Alaska would be more competitive than Virginia?
By Ed Kilgore
Why Did Trump’s Plan to Contest an Election Defeat Fail? For months, many feared that Trump was plotting to mount an election challenge. His efforts were either insufficiently serious or merely incompetent.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Nov. 30, 2020
Democrats Didn’t Have As Bad an Election As You Might Think The conventional wisdom is that Biden won but his party “lost” the battle for the House and the Senate. That’s not really true.
By Ed Kilgore
georgia senate runoffs
Nov. 30, 2020
Trump Divides Georgia Republicans Ahead of Crucial Senate Runoffs The GOP needs unity to win on January 5, but Trump’s still furious at Governor Brian Kemp for refusing to help him steal the 2020 election.
By Ed Kilgore
authoritarianism
Nov. 30, 2020
Liberal Hyperbole About Trump’s Authoritarianism Was Never the Problem The stakes of semantic debates over Trump’s alleged “fascism” and “coup” are much lower than liberals or left-contrarians care to admit.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Did Worse in Counties Where He Held His Final Rallies: Report Trump underperformed compared to 2016 in 25 out of 30 counties where he held his final pandemic get-togethers.
By Matt Stieb
Senator Kelly Loeffler May Have COVID-19 The Georgia Republican is self-isolating after testing positive on Friday, though a second test on Saturday was inconclusive.
By Chas Danner
vision 2020
Nov. 21, 2020
Will Trump Screw Up Republican Efforts to Hang On to the Senate? Most Republicans want to move on, and fear the crucial Georgia Senate runoffs will become a referendum on Trump’s efforts to contest his defeat.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Nov. 20, 2020
Georgia Certifies Biden Win, But Republican Infighting Continues Brad Raffensperger and Brian Kemp will help end the 2020 election, but the party’s split could get worse as crucial Senate runoffs approach.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Nov. 20, 2020
Trump’s Hold on the GOP Rank and File Continues to Be Amazing He convinced millions to vote in person, then convinced millions more than the partisan split in voting methods he engineered proves massive fraud.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Nov. 19, 2020
Rudy Melts Down Over Trump and ‘Voter Fraud’ During Insane Press Conference The president’s legal team alleged a vast conspiracy to install Joe Biden, bankrolled by “communist money.”
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Nov. 18, 2020
Who Could Lead Trumpism Without Trump? There are several paths Republicans could take to maintain Trump’s political appeal without all the baggage.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Nov. 17, 2020
Is Black Voter Turnout a Problem for Democrats in Georgia? Yes, Black voter turnout should be higher. But that’s not an excuse for southern Dems to return to their old habit of focusing on white conservatives.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Nov. 15, 2020
How Georgia Became the Ultimate Battleground State Georgia Democrats have slowly come back after brief successes under Carter and Clinton. But in the January Senate runoffs, they have their big chance.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Nov. 13, 2020
The End Is Here: Last Two States Called in the Presidential Election Team Trump may rage perpetually, but with Georgia falling to Biden and North Carolina to the president, the real-life election is over.
By Ed Kilgore
coronavirus stimulus
Nov. 13, 2020
Does Biden’s Election Help or Hurt Prospects for a Stimulus Deal? It’s unlikely anything will happen before the two Georgia runoffs determine Senate control, unless everything goes haywire.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Nov. 13, 2020
David Shor’s Postmortem of the 2020 Election Democrats must accept that Biden won through persuasion, not mobilization — and if the party can’t change the Senate, it will need to change itself.
By Eric Levitz
vision 2020
Nov. 12, 2020
Was Joe Biden the Most Electable Democrat After All? We’ll never know if one of Biden’s rivals might have done better in 2020. But his narrow win suggests Democrats need to build a stronger coalition.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Nov. 12, 2020
Trump’s Antics Strengthen the Case for Nationalizing Election Rules This year’s chaotic postelection environment shows how a scofflaw like Trump can exploit a decentralized and disorganized system.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Nov. 11, 2020
How Long Can Trump Keep Contesting the Election? Republicans could bring the president’s madness to an end, but there are a series of deadlines that may force the issue.
By Ed Kilgore
ballot initiatives
Nov. 11, 2020
Progressives Suffered Big Losses on California Ballot Issues Progressives intentionally timed some crucial ballot initiatives for 2020, but a tide of “no” votes left them high and dry.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Nov. 11, 2020
Biden’s Popular-Vote Win Is Beginning to Look More Impressive Percentage-wise, he did better than any Democrat not named Obama in a half century.
By Ed Kilgore
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