Trump Wants WI Recounted, Sues PA and MI Over Ballot-Counting

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's campaign filed lawsuits Wednesday in Pennsylvania and Michigan, laying the groundwork for contesting the outcome in undecided battlegrounds that could determine whether he gets another four years in the White House.

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, the campaign said. However, at one Michigan location in question The Associated Press observed poll watchers from both sides monitoring on Wednesday. Nevada is undecided as well.

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Timeline of How Long States Have to Count Votes

(CNN)President Donald Trump tried to declare victory in the presidential election early Wednesday.

But he hasn't won, because all the votes haven't been counted -- and in some ways, the process is just getting started.
While Americans vote on or before Election Day, picking the US president is actually a months-long process and the election is just one step.
The system is especially confusing because voters only cast ballots to determine which candidate gets to send a handpicked group of allies known as electors to the Electoral College, where the actual presidential vote takes place. (Here's a refresher on that.)
The whole timeline is below.

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Trump and Biden Continue Fundraising in Anticipation of Legal Battles

The Trump and Biden campaigns on Wednesday blitzed supporters with fundraising requests in anticipation of drawn-out legal fights around the closely contested presidential election.

Both campaigns spent the day seeking donations as the Trump campaign launched the first volley in the legal battles to come while a handful of states continue counting votes.

Those court challenges and potential recounts are expected to cost millions. The funding is particularly important for the Trump campaign, which was at a significant cash disadvantage in the final weeks of the race.

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Loeffler and Warnock Head to Georgia Senate Runoff

Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler will meet Democrat Raphael Warnock in a January runoff for a Senate in Georgia, after no candidate reached 50 percent of the vote in the all-party, special election primary.

The runoff will take place on January 5, 2021, days after the new Congress is scheduled to be sworn in.

The possibility of a runoff in the special election had been a near-certainty given the number of candidates in the race. Twenty names were on the ballot, including five major party candidates. Three polled best with voters — Warnock, an Atlanta pastor, along with Loeffler and another Republican: Rep. Doug Collins, a fervent Trump loyalist.

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Madison Cawthorn is Now the Youngest Member of Congress

Madison Cawthorn, a 25-year-old Republican who rose to national prominence after his surprise primary win earlier this year, will soon be the youngest member of Congress after he won his race in North Carolina on Tuesday.

Cawthorn defeated Democrat Moe Davis, a 62-year-old retired Air Force colonel and former prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay, in the state’s 11th Congressional District, which occupies most of Western North Carolina.

The race was called by Decision Desk HQ and the Associated Press around 9:30 p.m. ET.

Reacting to his victory, Cawthorn tweeted, "Cry more, lib."

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Pelosi Refers to Barrett as 'an Illegitimate Supreme Court Justice'

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called Amy Coney Barrett “an illegitimate Supreme Court justice" during an Election Day news conference on Tuesday, just one week after Barrett was confirmed as President Trump's third Supreme Court pick.

“The president is installing an illegitimate Supreme Court justice just one week before the election, after 60 million Americans have voted, who will dismantle the ACA, and won’t say, either way, when asked, by Sen. [Dianne] Feinstein [D-Calif.], do you think Medicare is constitutional? She said she really couldn’t say."

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Biden's Campaign Moves to Shut Down Trump's Election-Night Claims

Joe Biden is swaggering into Election Day.

Despite Democratic polling leads across several battleground states, the party has been unable to completely shake the ominous reminders of their last, demoralizing war against President Donald Trump. They are still bracing for a surge of Republican turnout on Tuesday, their nerves fraying with each new image of Trump’s sprawling crowds and new threats of what Trump will do once the polls are closed and the vote-counting starts.

But as the exhausting and surreal march to Nov. 3 comes to an end, Biden’s campaign used Monday to begin doing what’s been impossible for Trump’s opponents to muster in his four years as president: Wrest the media narrative, and ultimately power, from the president.

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Melania Trump Slammed Biden and Democratic Party in Campaign Speech

(CNN)First lady Melania Trump gave her fourth solo campaign speech on Monday afternoon in Huntersville, North Carolina. Trump, who before last Tuesday had not appeared on the campaign trail for more than a year, slammed Democrats in remarks that touched on Covid-19, the military, and echoes of President Donald Trump's law and order messaging.

"When rioters and looters were burning our cities and wrecking small businesses that belong to hard working families and bring jobs to our communities, where were the Democrats?"Trump said in a speech similar in content to the two she gave Saturday in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
The first lady's remarks on the trail have been explicitly partisan and more combative than most of the public remarks she has given during her tenure in the White House. Trump also targeted Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

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Trump Rebukes FBI's Investigation of Supporters Harassing Biden's Bus

President Trump complained on Twitter Sunday night about the FBI investigating videos of a caravan of the president's supporters surrounding and harassing a Biden campaign bus on a Texas highway Friday.

"In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong. Instead, the FBI & Justice should be investigating the terrorists, anarchists, and agitators of ANTIFA, who run around burning down our Democrat run cities and hurting our people!" the president tweeted.

Biden campaign officials say a caravan of vehicles displaying pro-Trump flags surrounded its bus on Interstate 35 in Texas Friday, yelling obscenities and trying to run it off the road.

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Biden Campaign Cancels Texas Event After Pro-Trump Cars Surrounded Bus

The Biden campaign canceled an event in Texas on Friday after it said a caravan of President Trump’s supporters surrounded its bus in vehicles to try to “run it off the road.”  

The former vice president's campaign said cars pulled in front of its bus on Interstate 35 in the Lone Star State as it was en route to Austin from San Antonio, according to The Washington Post.

The campaign said the cars tried to "stop the bus in the middle of the highway," according to the newspaper. 

A video posted to Twitter of the incident shows a white truck hitting another car as it follows the Biden campaign closely at the rear of the bus. 

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President Trump Suggests He Might Fire Anthony Fauci After Election

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested during a campaign rally in Florida on Sunday night that he might fire Dr. Anthony Fauci after the election.

The comment came during his fifth and final rally of the day in Opa-Locka, when he promised that a vaccine is coming and the country is "rounding the turn" on the pandemic.

His crowd of supporters then began chanting, "Fire Fauci!"

"Don't tell anybody but let me wait 'til a little bit after the election," Trump said in response, leading to cheers from the audience.

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Scott Atlas Apologizes for Interviewing with Russian Propaganda Network

New York (CNN Business)Dr. Scott Atlas, an adviser on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, apologized after appearing in an interview with Russian state broadcaster RT, just days before Election Day.

In his apology, Atlas claimed he was unaware RT was a registered foreign agent.

RT is owned by Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti and subsidiary RT America is registered with the US Justice Department as an agent of the Russian government. The Kremlin uses RT to spread English-language propaganda to American audiences, and was part of Russia's election meddling in 2016, according to a 2017 report from the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

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