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(Headline USA) Perhaps only in Florida is a loss by fewer than 4 percentage points considered a public drubbing. In a state famous for razor-thin margins, the size of former Vice President Joe Biden's loss to President Donald Trump was humiliating for Democrats and sent many searching for answers to how...

House Democrats have spent the past few days infighting and pointing fingers after Republicans gained several seats on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. Democrats expected to expand their majority by nearly a dozen seats — even in Republican strongholds. But Republicans defied the polls and not only defended their close seats,...

(Headline USA) A riot was declared in Portland, Oregon, and protesters took to the streets in Seattle on Wednesday as people demanded that every vote in Tuesday’s election be counted. Hundreds protested in both cities against President Donald Trump’s court challenges to require battleground states to count legal votes. The Multnomah County...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump's campaign filed lawsuits Wednesday in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, laying the groundwork for contesting battleground states. The new filings, joining existing Republican legal challenges in Pennsylvania and Nevada, demand better access for campaign observers to locations where ballots are being processed and counted, and raise...

(Headline USA) Dozens of supporters of President Donald Trump chanting "Stop the count!" descended on a ballot-tallying center in Detroit on Wednesday. Thousands of anti-Trump protesters demanding a non-transparent count in the still-undecided presidential contest took to the streets in cities across the U.S. In New York City, thousands marched past...

UPDATE: Trump posted on Twitter that he was planning formally to declare victory in four tossup states amid ongoing court challenges surrounding the extended vote-counting and suspicious inclusion of new ballots after Election Day. We have claimed, for Electoral Vote purposes, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (which won’t allow legal observers)...

(Headline USA) After a costly and intense political battle for control of state capitols, the composition of state legislatures and governors' offices will look a lot like it did before Tuesday's elections. That means Republicans will again control significantly more states than Democrats, giving the GOP greater power over the...

Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf claimed on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s concerns about voter fraud in the state are a “partisan attack” on the election process. Let’s be clear: This is a partisan attack on Pennsylvania’s elections, our votes, and democracy. Our counties are working tirelessly to process votes as...

Shenanigans unfolded exactly as predicted in several blue-led battleground states where President Donald Trump translated a heavy campaign presence into encouraging leads only to see them suspiciously erode overnight. On the plus side, it looks like Democrats finally figured out how to flatten the curve. — Andy Swan (@AndySwan) November 4,...

President Donald Trump's campaign remained confident that media who prematurely called Arizona for Democrat challenger Joe Biden would be forced to dial back those claims when all votes were tallied. "When we look at Arizona, we believe that President Trump will win somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 votes,” Stepien...

Democrats led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had hoped to expand their majority on Tuesday, but a string of races show Democrats losing ground rather than gaining it. Conservative women, particularly, surged victory against their Democratic opponents, in what one pro-life group called a “stunning blow to Nancy Pelosi...

Oregon became the first state to decriminalize small possessions of hard drugs like heroin, cocaine and meth on Wednesday morning. Voters passed the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act with 59% support to transition Oregon’s drug policy from a “criminal approach” to a “human, cost-effective, health approach.” "People suffering from addiction...