WASHINGTON — President Trump says he’s focused on ensuring a smooth transition of power. In an online video, Trump acknowledged that a new administration will soon lead the nation. It’s the closest Trump has come to conceding defeat since Election Day. “A new administration will be inaugurated on Jan. 20,” Trump said in a pre-recorded videotaped at the White […]
WASHINGTON — Indiana Congressman Jim Banks is lambasting those who took part in the violence that took place on Capitol Hill on Wednesday in Washington. Banks, who was one of the lawmakers in Congress who objected to certain electors as a joint session of Congress took up a measure to certify the Electoral College results, […]
WASHINGTON — A very long day on Capitol Hill finally came to an end at around 3:41 a.m. Thursday morning as the House and Senate voted to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. “The votes for president of the United States are as follows,” Vice President Mike Pence said presiding over a joint […]
(CNN) — President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Pete Buttigieg to be his transportation secretary, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN, elevating the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to a top post in the federal government. Buttigieg would be the first Senate-confirmed LGBTQ Cabinet secretary should his nomination make it […]
The Supreme Court declined to hear the Texas lawsuit that was believed to be the Trump campaign’s last hope to overturn the election results. Now, we see “Civil War” trending on Twitter. Tony Katz explains that the idea of secession or taking up arms against other states is a bad idea, but there can be […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Georgia is certifying Joe Biden as the winner of the state’s 16 electoral votes. President Trump has two business days to request a machine recount since the margin was less than a half percent. Biden won by more than 12,o00 votes and recounts usually only change the totals by a couple hundred. The state […]
WASHINGTON — All states have now been called in the presidential election. President-elect Joe Biden is projected to have secured the traditionally red states of Georgia and Arizona, giving him 306 electoral votes. NBC News is calling Biden the “apparent winner” of Georgia as a hand recount of ballots is underway in the Peach State. President […]
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) — Indiana Senator Mike Braun says there’s no rush for President Trump to concede defeat to President-elect Joe Biden. Braun isn’t going as far as Trump himself and some congressional Republicans, who have claimed without evidence that there was vote fraud. But Braun says with the election so close, Trump’s attempts to challenge […]
America has chosen Democrat Joe Biden as its 46th president, CNN projects, turning to a veteran voice who has projected calm and compassion, promised a more empathetic and scientific approach to the pandemic, and pledged to stabilize American politics after four years of Donald Trump's White House chaos.
(BLOOMINGTON, Ind.) — State Democratic chairman John Zody will step down in March. Zody says he’d planned to leave the chairmanship regardless of how the election went — his eight years in the post makes him the party’s third-longest serving chair. Democrats haven’t won a single statewide election in that time. On Tuesday, they posted […]
