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South Carolina U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman said his text messages to Mark Meadows calling for former President Donald Trump to invoke martial law over the 2020 election results declaring Joe Biden the winner were out of “frustration.” The text messages were revealed and first published Monday night bypolitical news website Talking Points Memo. They show that Norman, a Rock Hill Republican, pushing then-White House chief of staff Meadows to tell Trump to declare martial law. The text messages were sent to Meadows four days after Trump was impeached for his role in the Capitol riot, and three days be......

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Democrat Beto O’Rourke on Tuesday suggested that his opponent, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, would not concede if he were to lose a close race. “I’m not counting on it,” O’Rourke told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s editorial board. He said Abbott has openly embraced former President Donald Trump, “who himself tried to subvert this democracy.” Abbott’s campaign previously told the Texas Tribune that the governor will accept the results in the gubernatorial race. O’Rourke referenced an audit of the 2020 election results in Dallas, Harris, Tarrant and Collin counties after ......

A top elections official said Monday that “human error” in tracking the results of the May 17 primary election led Pennsylvania to inadvertently certify a county’s vote counts that the state deems to be inaccurate. The embarrassing revelation came in a filing before the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, where the state is seeking to break a standoff with three counties — Berks, Fayette, and Lancaster — that refuse to include undated mail ballots in their official totals in defiance of guidance from the Department of State. The department, which oversees elections, sued the counties last month, ......

PHILADELPHIA — A year ago, as some Republicans in Congress moved to disenfranchise Pennsylvania's voters and throw out the state's presidential votes, Sen. Pat Toomey opposed the move, defying the president he had previously supported. "I rise to defend the right of my citizens, my constituents, to vote in the presidential election," Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican, said on the Senate floor hours after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. "Even if Congress did have the constitutional responsibility to judge the worthiness of a state's election process, which it does not, rejecting Pe......

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania now stands to become ground zero in the movement to “audit” the election after former President Donald Trump’s efforts to discredit the 2020 election results failed in Arizona. A monthslong partisan review in Arizona affirmed President Joe Biden’s victory there, according to findings made public Friday of the so-called “forensic audit” of the election results in Maricopa County, a linchpin county. That review had been widely criticized by experts for failing to follow best practices and was led by a company called Cyber Ninjas that had no previous experience with el......

ORLANDO, Fla. — As rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, 21-year-old Kissimmee resident William Isaacs and his fellow Oath Keepers, clad in battle gear, climbed up the steps in a military-style “stack” to get to the building’s Columbus Doors on Jan. 6, court documents say. There, they joined the mob attacking police who were guarding the doors, according to federal prosecutors. Minutes later, Isaacs and his anti-government militia group were among those who shoved and pushed past officers through the doors into the Capitol Rotunda. Authorities say the Oath Keepers directed supporters of then-Presi......