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By Jan Wolfe and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump and 17 U.S. states on Wednesday threw their support behind a long-shot lawsuit by Texas seeking to overturn his election loss by asking the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out the voting results in four states. Trump, defeated by President-elect Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 election, filed a motion with the court asking the nine justices to let him intervene and become a plaintiff in the suit filed on Tuesday by… Source link

The Conversation Brazil’s president rejects COVID-19 vaccine, undermining a century of progress toward universal inoculation The world is eagerly awaiting the release of several COVID-19 vaccines, but Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is not. “I’m not going to take it. It’s my right,” he said in a Nov. 26 social media broadcast. Bolsonaro, who came down with COVID-19 in July, has also criticized face masks. He and his more faithful supporters oppose any suggestion of mandatory… Source link

As the lumbering process of American democracy moves forward, any lingering illusions that Donald Trump has a chance of a second term as president are about to evaporate, and many of his own staffers and supporters are beginning to acknowledge it. Tuesday marks the arrival of “safe harbor” day, the deadline set by federal law for states to resolve challenges to election results, locking in the 538 electors who will meet in their state capitols to vote on Dec. 14. All of the battleground… Source link

VALDOSTA, Ga. — Georgia Republicans are facing a dilemma at a historic turning point in their state’s politics, having to choose between loyalty to their party and loyalty to their party’s national leader — President Trump, who will be out of office next month. At least, that’s what the election results indicate, including in their own state. But many refuse to believe it. “At the end of all this, on January 20th, you will see Trump being sworn in again,” a Trump supporter who… Source link

President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for the coronavirus, the president announced Sunday on Twitter. “Get better soon Rudy, we will carry on!!!” Trump exclaimed while praising Giuliani’s record. The former New York City mayor was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center, the New York Times reported. Giuliani has been the face of Trump’s legal efforts to overturn the results of the November election, and he has appeared at recent events in Arizona, Michigan and… Source link

The Week Pelosi says she supports a smaller coronavirus stimulus now because Biden won the election After six months spent pushing for a more-than $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is fine with something smaller.Earlier this week, a team of bipartisan lawmakers unveiled a $908 billion coronavirus relief. It’s smaller than the $1.5 trillion deal the House’s bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus drew up in September, and yet this time around,… Source link

VALDOSTA, Georgia (AP) — President Donald Trump pressed his grievances over losing the presidential election Saturday, using a rally to spread baseless allegations of misconduct in last month’s voting in Georgia and beyond even as he pushed supporters to turn out for a pair of Republican Senate candidates in a runoff election in January. “Let them steal Georgia again, you’ll never be able to look yourself in the mirror,” Trump told rallygoers. Trump’s 100-minute rally before… Source link

As the inevitability of President Trump’s loss became apparent even to his acolyte Kellyanne Conway in recent days, his supporters increasingly pinned their hopes for a second term on a last-ditch appeal, not to the Supreme Court, but to the one power that can outvote it: God. It has long been an article of faith among right-wing evangelicals that Republicans were the party of God, while Democrats were on, well, the other side, succinctly identified by Franklin Graham as “almost a demonic… Source link

On Jan. 20, President-elect Joe Biden will move into the White House — and that means President Trump is going to have to find somewhere else to live. Since he changed his legal address from Trump Tower in New York City to his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., some have assumed that’s where he’ll stay after leaving Washington. There’s just one problem: per an agreement with the town of Palm Beach, no one is actually allowed to live at Mar-a-Lago full time. Yahoo News explains… Source link

On Jan. 20, President-elect Joe Biden will move into the White House — and that means President Trump is going to have to find somewhere else to live. Since he changed his legal address from Trump Tower in New York City to his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., some have assumed that’s where he’ll stay after leaving Washington. There’s just one problem: per an agreement with the town of Palm Beach, no one is actually allowed to live at Mar-a-Lago full time. Yahoo News explains why. Source link