All posts tagged "2020 Election"

Republicans running statewide in one battleground state are dreading a political albatross they say President Donald Trump simply won't let them shed.

Arizona GOP operatives told Politico Magazine in a report published Saturday that Trump's refusal to accept his 2020 loss keeps resurfacing on the campaign trail, putting the party's nominees on the defensive heading into the midterms.

"If I could wave a magic wand and make these questions go away, I would. But we can't. It's baked in," said one Republican strategist working on competitive races, who spoke on condition of anonymity....

A CNN panel erupted in laughter after they were shocked by what a MAGA pundit considered "cringe."

On Wednesday night, a panel hosted by CNN anchor Abby Phillip discussed how denying that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election seems to be a litmus test for winning a role in the Trump administration. Phillip started the segment by showing a clip of three Trump judicial nominees skirting around the question when asked who won the 2020 election.

The clip included Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) yelling "Be your own man!" as Adam Candeub, a nominee to be assistant antitrust attorney general, refused to answer yes or no to the question. It then showed John Cronan, nominee for the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and Gregory Cook, a nominee for U.S. judge for the Northern District of Alabama, doing the same....

A legal expert told CNN on Thursday that President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers' attempts to prosecute former special counsel Jack Smith could backfire.

David Aronberg, former state attorney for Palm Beach County, Florida, responded to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, who has requested the Department of Justice consider criminal charges against Smith. Jordan has alleged that Smith misled Congress about the phone records obtained from members of Congress during the 2020 election investigation.

Smith, who formerly prosecuted Trump, now faces possible prosecution himself. The DOJ has said it will investigate all evidence of criminal conduct. ...

Trump's declassification chief floated a Venezuela vote-fraud theory his own newly released CIA note flatly contradicts, a legal expert found.

The co-leader of President Donald Trump's declassification task force, John Solomon, made the slip-up moments after Trump wrapped up his primetime address on the renewed unfounded election meddling claims related to his 2020 election loss, legal reporter Adam Klasfeld said in an episode of Legal AF.

During an interview on MS NOW, Solomon was pressed by Vaughn Hillyard over whether votes were changed in the 2020 election. Solomon acknowledged that intelligence officials have zero evidence a foreign actor flipped a vote in 2020, 2022, or 2024, Klasfeld explained....

A biographer recounted how witnessing President Donald Trump's furious meltdowns up close left him "afraid" and speechless.

During an episode of Inside Trump's Head, biographer Michael Wolff detailed what Trump looks like when he's angry and on one of his reported tirades. He was speaking about Trump's anger over losing the 2020 election when co-host Joanna Coles prompted Wolff to recount what he saw.

Wolff explained that he had sat across the table from Trump when he got upset about losing the 2020 election, saying, "I've actually sat with him, I mean, very clearly sat across the table from him and heard him go on at length about this."...

MAGA followers were coming unglued on Thursday after a Republican lawmaker got into a heated exchange with a TMZ reporter who pushed back on President Donald Trump's election claims.

TMZ's Charlie Cotton asked Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) if he was tired of hearing Trump talk about the 2020 election and his unfounded assertions that the election was rigged — just hours before the president was expected to give a primetime address about elections.

"Do you guys wish he'd give up the 2020 thing that he keeps harping on? Most Americans think it's crazy that he's saying the 2020 election was rigged still," Cotton said....