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US voters have narrowly rebuffed Republican incumbent Donald Trump's tumultuous leadership and embraced Democrat candidate Joe Biden and his promise of fighting the coronavirus pandemic and fix the economy in a divided nation.Major US media outlets have called the US presidential election results in the favour of Joe Biden and…

Evita Duffy, The Federalist November 7, 2020 (AP Photo/Morry Gash)How could Joe Biden outperform Barack Obama in a place like Milwaukee County?Read Full Article » Related Topics: Election 2020 Comment Show comments Hide Comments Log In with your RCMG Account Register Read More

Olivier Douliery/Getty; Insider The Democratic nominee Joe Biden has won the 2020 presidential election, Decision Desk HQ projected shortly before 9 a.m. ET on Friday, November 6. The AP, NBC, CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post called the election for Biden shortly after 11 a.m. ET Saturday.…

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Joe Biden has taken a small but critical lead over Donald Trump in the 2020 election.Trump’s waning support from Republicans is showing in the polls.When George W. Bush lost to Barack Obama in 2008, he showed us something that Donald Trump lacks: basic human decency and respect for democracy.He infringed…

In this eerie hiatus in U.S. electoral politics -- we don't, as I write, know the result and may not for a while -- let me state what I consider the optimum outcome: a narrow Biden win. A squeaker. I say this despite the view among well-meaning leftish sorts like me that…

This is not how things were supposed to go. It was widely anticipated, of course, that Joe Biden would defeat President Trump in a victory that could take time to emerge given the pandemic-driven shift to mail voting and the Trump campaign’s threats of legal challenges to the acceptance and…

Hours after President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Thursday evening, claiming the presidential election had been stolen, the late Senator John McCain's 2008 concession speech went viral.McCain, who lost against former President Barack Obama 12 years ago, began his speech by congratulating Obama on his presidency."We have come to…

Neither Joe Biden nor President Donald Trump has officially won the 2020 election yet, but Biden did just break a major record.Per People, Biden has reportedly received more votes than any presidential candidate in history, a record previously set by President Barack Obama. So far, Biden has received more than…

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Heading into Tuesday’s election, the public polling told the same story, over and over again. Joe Biden had a commanding lead in the national popular vote, somewhere between seven and 10 points. He was ahead in nearly every swing state, and trailing in…