As most eyes were focused on the race for the White House, Puerto Rican voters on Tuesday narrowly approved a nonbinding statehood referendum. We get analysis from Democracy Now! co-host Juan González and speak with Afro-Puerto Rican human rights, feminist and LGBTQI activist Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, who was elected to the Puerto Rican Senate.
We go to Atlanta for an update, after Joe Biden pulled ahead of Donald Trump for the first time in Georgia. The 2020 presidential election could hinge on this extraordinarily tight race.
We look at Donald Trump’s attempts to undermine the U.S. presidential election with Jane McAlevey, a union organizer, negotiator and senior policy fellow at UC Berkeley’s Labor Center who was an eyewitness to the 2000 Florida recount. She says the 2000 election holds lessons for today, when Democrats allowed Republicans to claim a controversial victory. “We have to have a counternarrative. We have to have very large numbers of people in the streets,” she says.
As President Trump is doubling down on unsubstantiated claims of election rigging as election workers continue counting ballots in several states, concern is growing that some Trump supporters may use violence to disrupt the process.
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
Jemele Hill at The Atlantic writes—She Did It. Despite the barriers, despite the pain, Kamala Harris becomes the first woman, the first Asian American, and the first Black American to be elected vice president:
[…] Women of color are often scrutinized more closely than others, and we are criticized in different terms.
Proud Boys, white nationalists, QAnon believers, armed militias and other Trump fans gathered in Pennsylvania, the state that made Joe Biden the president-elect.
After an exhausting week, in which half the nation seemed to be working out the muscles in their mouse-clicking finger in the endless quest for new numbers, Saturday was a glorious day.
In just a few minutes, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are finally going to get to deliver the victory speeches they’ve been keeping on ice since Tuesday night. It’s hard to express how great this night feels. It’s unlike the satisfaction of just winning an election.
As Donald Trump watched the life drain out of his presidency on Thursday, he decided it was time to torch democracy altogether while he still had a platform and before it became abundantly clear that his Democratic rival Joe Biden was headed for victory.
Trump slammed “a corrupt system” with the media’s “suppression” polls and Democrats “trying to steal an election.
Remember when America wasn’t constantly standing alone? When we weren’t the only nation to withdraw from the Paris Agreement? When we weren’t the only nation to destroy the treaty that prevented Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons? When we weren’t the absolute worst nation in the world when it comes to our response to the COVID-19 crisis?
There may be nothing more emblematic about the 2020 election than this: The call came while Donald Trump was out golfing. Because of course he was. In the spirit of new transparency, America deserves to see that score card.
This isn’t just about the character of the president. It’s about the character of America.
Right now, a pandemic is raging. Right now, the economy is in recession.
Updated at 10:20 p.m. ET on November 7, 2020.WILMINGTON, Del.—For half a century, across three presidential runs he made and three more he thought about making, Joe Biden had never won a single primary delegate before his South Carolina romp in February catapulted him to the Democratic nomination. But his strategy never changed. Biden won the White House the same way he won his first race, for New Castle County council in 1970: by being himself.
The president-elect immediately signaled the importance of the COVID-19 fight to his administration.
President-elect Joe Biden’s incremental approach will face opposition from Republicans and powerful health care lobbies.
A Joe Biden presidency means his two German shepherds, Major and Champ, will be First Pets.
After months of difficult campaigning, and days of waiting for the election results to be counted, Democrat Joe Biden has defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States. People in cities across the U.S. hit the streets to celebrate, honking horns, hugging, and gathering in squares.Updated at 6:25 p.m. ET with eight additional photos.
When Donald Trump said his lawyers would be speaking at the Four Seasons, he didn’t mean THAT Four Seasons.
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.BRIAN SNYDER / REUTERSThe election of Joe Biden marks the end of one process and the start of another.For four years, President Donald Trump aggravated the nation’s fissures for political gain.
He later took his rage to Twitter, falsely claiming once again that he “WON THE ELECTION.
Donald Trump leaves the White House briefing room on November 5. (Carlos Barria / The Atlantic)“We’re going to win so much that you’re going to be sick and tired,” Donald Trump promised in 2016. Over the next four years, the American people did get sick (nearly 10 million of them so far from COVID-19), and they did get tired, and in the end they decided they’d had enough.
When I interviewed Vice President–elect Kamala Harris last year at the Essence Festival, she had plenty of wisdom to share about the challenges a Black woman faces when pursuing national office. “Some might think that breaking barriers means you start off on one side of the barrier,” said Harris, who was running for president at the time, “and then you just turn up on the other side of the barrier. No, there’s breaking involved.
What we know, what we don’t, and whether it could have affected the vote.
Mitch McConnell and the Supreme Court will have the power to block everything—well, almost everything—that Democrats wanted Biden to accomplish.
We are a broken society with a broken political system, made all the more worse by a broken-brained president.
The order would strip certain civil service and due process protections from career federal employees who make policy.
Spiking infections have seized the headlines — and it could get much worse.
The sign-up season begins amid an intensifying pandemic and shortly before the Supreme Court will weigh Obamacare’s fate.
Nearly every region of the country is reporting an uptick in infections and hospitalizations.
“I’ve personally seen people working on their resumes inside the office,” a senior official added. “It’s no secret.
