Election Results
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President Trump and Joe Biden battled into Wednesday morning with no clear winner, as major contests remained too close. Biden urged patience, while Trump called the election into question.
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Election 2020: The shifting momentum and slow drip of results on election night and into Wednesday united a divided nation in shared fatigue from emotional whiplash.
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Pennsylvania’s uncounted ballots favor Biden over Trump and are concentrated in counties that Hillary Clinton won in 2016.
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The margin between President Trump and Joe Biden in Georgia continued to narrow Wednesday as poll workers in mostly Democratic-leaning counties continued tallying absentee ballots.
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Trump’s lawyers will try to find a legal basis for setting aside votes, but most experts think their prospects are dim, even with the Supreme Court dominated by conservatives.
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Election 2020: Americans turned out to vote in this year as never before, and the result seemed to deepen the trench dividing the two warring parties.
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Senate Republicans kept several endangered seats, leaving them favored to retain a majority — and with it power to stymie a Biden administration if he’s president.
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Election experts quickly corrected the president over his fraud claims, and some Republicans noted that counting all voters’ ballots was the norm.
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Judge said he may consider more Postal Service inspections for mail-in ballots in battleground states.
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As his path to another term narrowed sharply, President Trump sent in the lawyers Wednesday, seeking to stop or reverse vote counts in three battleground states.
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With victories in Michigan and Wisconsin, the former Vice President is just shy of claiming the White House as counts continue in a handful of states.
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Polarization has been part of American politics since the beginning, but this year it went into overdrive and turned into questions of legitimacy for our democracy, a far more dangerous scenario.
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Arizona has flipped to Joe Biden as state goes to a Democrat for only the second time since 1948. Democrat Mark Kelly flips a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona too.
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Election 2020 analysis: Democratic hopes for a blue wave that would sweep away barriers to progressive policy changes suffered a significant setback.
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El Paso faces a major postelection crisis: one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in America.
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Sportsbooks carry odds other than than games, like Tuesday’s presidential election.
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A ‘political earthquake’ hits City Hall as Nithya Raman’s strong showing in council race propels a leftward push in L.A.
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For the first time since the board’s inception more than 150 years ago, the powerful L.A. County Board of Supervisors will be all women, each of whom comes with significant backgrounds in politics and government.
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LAUSD board elections bring a charter school-backed candidate and a teachers union-supported candidate to the policy-making table.
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For the second time since 2018, California voters decisively rejected a bid to expand rent control across the state.
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With the passage of Proposition 22, ride-hailing drivers and delivery workers could access to some new benefits as early as December.
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Prop. 16 faced an uphill challenge, hobbled by a truncated campaign and the pandemic, which made voter outreach difficult.
The battle for Senate control headed into overtime as Republicans worked to hold their majority, though party incumbents had been threatened from Maine to Arizona.
On election day, pro-democracy groups were on the lookout for voter intimidation. For the most part, they haven’t found it.
Trump accuses Democrats of trying to steal the election, making false claims
Election 2020: Law enforcement braced for armed poll watchers and militias. But they didn’t appear to show up.
Tuesday marks the end of a tumultuous Trump and Biden race. It’s unclear when the results will be known.
Election 2020: A look at how a canvassing board decides whether to keep or throw out ballots with mistakes or stray marks.
Caravans of Trump-supporting motorists in ‘Trump trains’ caused chaos in multiple states over the weekend.
White voters, those without college degrees and seniors, who powered Trump’s win in 2016, have cooled on him four years later, final USC poll shows.
Black churches’ Souls to the Polls plans have been limited by the COVID-19 pandemic, but parishioners are still trying to boost voter turnout.
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Facing a fast-shrinking path to a second term, President Trump baselessly accused his opponents of fraud Wednesday as he launched an aggressive legal effort to reverse or stop vote counts in four battleground states that could clinch the race for Joe Biden.
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How voting works in: English, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin), Korean, Farsi, Armenian, Chinese (Cantonese), Tagalog, Vietnamese, Hindi, Japanese, Thai, Russian and Khmer.
Politics and the Pandemic
Boarded up storefronts and battered nerves: A day in the life as Americans vote in the 2020 election
Boarded up storefronts and battered nerves: A day in the life as Americans vote in the 2020 election
As a pandemic raged, gun sales soared and buildings were sheathed in protective plywood, Americans slipped on face masks, wrestled with their anxieties and went to vote on the last day of the most bitter and surreal election in generations.
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As the coronavirus death toll grew so did anxieties about who would win the presidential election.
Sutter County Superior Court Judge Sarah Heckman issued an injunction barring the governor from taking executive action that “changes existing statutory law or makes new statutory law or legislative policy.”
A Stanford study of 18 Trump rallies held in the midst of the pandemic suggests they’ve led to more than 30,000 coronavirus infections and at least 700 COVID-19 deaths.
Biden campaigns in Michigan with Obama, and Trump rallies in Pennsylvania, cheering a pro-Trump caravan surrounding and harassing a Biden bus in Texas.
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Clear results in the 2020 presidential race may not emerge for days. But we have a few answers on the process ahead, and some historical precedent.
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The best-case scenario for the next 11 weeks is a much needed period of reconciliation. The worst-case scenario? Heightened confrontation.
In Depth
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This is how the 2020 election looks from the towns that are home to or key to understanding Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Mike Pence.
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Election 2020: Our reporters, dispatched to more than a dozen cities in battleground states, are asking voters what brought them out to the polls.
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Since Sen. Kamala Harris launched a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, the problems of the country she wants to help lead have inched closer to her Brentwood doorstep.
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The wait for final results in the 2020 presidential election continues. And TV itself is partly to blame for the discomfort you’re feeling.
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California voters defeated a measure that would have ended cash bail. The California Supreme Court may have other ideas.
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But overall viewing of election coverage on TV is down significantly from 2016.
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President Trump’s campaign has accused a Michigan election official of failing to ensure that challengers and bipartisan observers watch the processing of absentee ballots.
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Rapper Kanye West conceded defeat in the election after trailing President Trump and Joe Biden by tens of millions of votes. But there’s always 2024.
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Millions voted for Trump again. Not only is this who we are as Americans. Apparently, it’s also who far too many of us are as Californians.
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Lots of Latinos voted for Trump, and Democrats need to get over that already.
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Patience and caution defined TV news coverage of the Trump-Biden presidential contest as election night now looks like it will be a weeklong miniseries filled with high drama.
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Chrissy Teigen, Ava DuVernay, Indya Moore, Mark Ruffalo and others responded to Tuesday night’s election results with a mixed bag of emotions.
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‘This [is] gonna go for a while, people,’ Trevor Noah said during a live episode of ‘The Daily Show’ on Tuesday as election results were coming in.
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Election 2020: As George Gascón leads Jackie Lacey for district attorney, other criminal justice reform candidates are pulling ahead.
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My election night without TV news, Twitter or Facebook.
A look at where President Trump and Joe Biden stand on key issues in the 2020 election, including healthcare, immigration, police reform and climate.
Democrats have high hopes of capturing a Senate majority, but the outcome remains uncertain. The road to a majority runs through these states.
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Pennsylvania’s uncounted ballots favor Biden over Trump and are concentrated in counties that Hillary Clinton won in 2016.
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Trump’s refusal to say that he’d peacefully transfer power may just be bluster. But there are steps he could take, and Democrats are on the alert.
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The margin between President Trump and Joe Biden in Georgia continued to narrow Wednesday as poll workers in mostly Democratic-leaning counties continued tallying absentee ballots.
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Election 2020: Americans turned out to vote in this year as never before, and the result seemed to deepen the trench dividing the two warring parties.
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Senate Republicans kept several endangered seats, leaving them favored to retain a majority — and with it power to stymie a Biden administration if he’s president.
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Comedian Kathy Griffin made a bold statement on election night by tweeting the gory, Trump-related image that nearly torpedoed her career in 2017.
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A tense election day brought big spikes for food, alcohol and cannabis deliveries.
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Lady Gaga’s dad tweeted his endorsement for Donald Trump, despite the president criticizing the pop singer (a Biden supporter) at a rally Monday.
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The fate of the presidency still hangs in the balance as President Trump and Joe Biden duel over a few remaining battleground states.
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