2020 Election

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that alleged fraud in Georgia’s most populous county during the 2020 election.

The most closely watched attempt by Republicans to examine the 2020 presidential election came to an embarrassing end this week in Arizona, but efforts to conduct more are cranking up elsewhere.

The fence around the Capitol is back up. The D.C. police department is at the ready, and U.S. Capitol Police have requested assistance from nearby law enforcement agencies.

Republicans, who control the state Senate, are conducting their first public hearing on the 2020 presidential election months after their GOP colleagues in the state House held hearings on the election. It’s unclear what their end-goal is.

State Sen. Doug Mastriano, a backer of former President Donald Trump’s effort to carry out an Arizona-style “forensic investigation” of Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential election, suggested Thursday in a Facebook video that fellow Republicans in the state Senate are blocking his efforts.

President Donald Trump urged senior Justice Department officials to declare the 2020 election results “corrupt” in a December phone call

Doug Mastriano, a Pennsylvania State Senator and Trump supporter is pushing for Pennsylvania’s 2020 election results to be audited, but this is expected to see push back from Democrats.

A New York appellate court suspended Rudy Giuliani’s license to practice law over his repeated, ongoing and false claims of election fraud. The 33-page judgement condemned Giuliani for spreading “demonstrably false and misleading statements” in his role as personal attorney to former President Donald Trump, saying, “[Giuliani’s] conduct immediately threatens the public interest and warrants interim suspension from the practice...

The probe, first reported by The New York Times, comes two days after Raffensperger’s office confirmed it had opened its own investigation into a phone call between Trump and the state’s top elections official in which the then-president said he wanted to “find” enough votes to overturn his loss in the state.

Sen. Pat Toomey released a statement Saturday saying he would not join the group of senators who plan to contest election results that show Joe Biden’s decisive win over Donald Trump in 2020. NBC10’s Katy Zachry reports.

Attorney General William Barr, one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest allies, is departing amid lingering tension over the president’s baseless claims of election fraud and the investigation into President-elect Joe Biden’s son.

Christopher Krebs, who was recently fired by President Donald Trump as the head of the federal government’s election cybersecurity efforts, suggested Tuesday that he might take legal action against one of Trump’s lawyers who said that Krebs should be shot.

House Democrats lost enough seats in this month’s elections that they’ll have the smallest majority in more than a century

President Donald Trump’s campaign has requested a recount of votes in the Georgia presidential race, a day after state officials certified results showing Democrat Joe Biden won the state

President-elect Joe Biden has named Steve Ricchetti as senior counselor to the president

Trump has not formally conceded, and the delay is already keeping Biden from receiving high-level intelligence briefings and complicating pandemic planning.

President Donald Trump on Friday talked about the coronavirus pandemic and the latest vaccine developments in his first press conference since losing the election to President-elect Joe Biden. Trump did not acknowledge his defeat.

Loyalists of President Donald Trump have filed at least 15 legal challenges in Pennsylvania alone in an effort to reclaim the state’s 20 electoral votes

Joe Biden has won the White House, but the fate of his agenda may depend on whether Democrats can also capture the U.S. Senate. NBCLX political reporter Noah Pransky explains why all eyes are now on two Senate runoff races in Georgia.

Biden’s victory was projected on Saturday after NBC News called him as the winner of Pennsylvania’s 20 Electoral College votes, which vaulted him over the 270 threshold with 273, thus securing the election and the White House