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2020 Election

  1. trump indictment
    The Looming Hidden Cost of Georgia’s Trump IndictmentWhat Fani Willis’s love of RICO prosecutions could mean for the justice system.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  2. politics
    Trump Is Going After Fani Willis Before He Even Gets IndictedTrump’s campaign is airing an attack ad against the Georgia prosecutor ahead of next week’s probable charges.
    By Nia Prater
  3. exhibit a
    Is Fox News Really Doomed?It certainly appears like they will lose a major lawsuit over election lies.
    By Ankush Khardori
  4. conspiracies
    Who Are You Going to Believe, Lin Wood or NASA?A leading election-conspiracy lawyer has made the seamless transition into flat-Eartherism.
    By Benjamin Hart
  5. 2020 election
    Trump’s Estimate of Dead Georgia Voters Was Just a Bit OffBy a factor of about a thousand.
    By Benjamin Hart
  6. election meddling
    A Kanye Associate Showed Up in Georgia to Threaten a Poll WorkerThings can always get weirder.
    By Benjamin Hart
  7. politics
    FBI Raids James O’Keefe’s Apartment Amid Probe Over Ashley Biden’s Stolen DiaryAgents raided the Project Veritas founder’s home, as well as two other two locations linked to people who worked for the group.
    By Chas Danner
  8. january 6
    Trump Doesn’t Care How Ashli Babbitt DiedThe grim reality behind the ex-president’s “happy birthday” message to the slain Capitol rioter.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  9. 2020 election
    Trump-Backed Arizona Audit Confirms His 2020 LossSometimes the Cyber Ninjas surprise you.
    By Benjamin Hart
  10. politics
    Republicans Who Voted to Block Biden’s Election to Investigate Capitol RiotThree lawmakers who objected to certifying the election after the insurrection may now investigate the insurrection.
    By Nia Prater
  11. politics
    Top U.S. General Said Trump Preached ‘Gospel of the Führer’What the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff thought of his boss, according to a new book by two Washington Post reporters.
    By Ben Jacobs
  12. politics
    Biden Says Republicans Threaten American DemocracyHe linked election lies and the assault on voting rights to centuries of evil. He didn’t mention the filibuster though.
    By Nia Prater
  13. politics
    Rudy’s Law License Suspended Over Lying for TrumpNew York and D.C. won’t let him practice law for now, saying his conduct “immediate threatens the public interest.”
    By Nia Prater
  14. politics
    Tish James Wants In on Jacob Wohl Election Robocall SuitNew York’s AG moved to join a federal suit over Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman’s alleged voter-suppression plot, seeking fines of $2.75 million.
    By Nia Prater
  15. contested election
    Iowa Democrat Abandons Challenge to Election She Lost By 6 VotesCongressional Democrats were loath to overturn a state-certified result.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. politics
    Dominion Voting Sues Fox News Over Election Fraud ClaimsDominion, which is seeking $1.6 billion in damages, is the second voting company to sue Fox for promoting baseless pro-Trump conspiracy theories.
    By Nia Prater
  17. games
    The Athletes Have More to SayAthlete activism is the new normal — and organizations like LeBron James’s More Than a Vote are here to stay.
    By Will Leitch
  18. the national interest
    How Trumpism Has Become a Cult of LosingWhy do Republicans still love a loser whose entire appeal was that he’s a “winner”?
    By Jonathan Chait
  19. politics
    Why Big Mo Matters to BidenPast presidents — including Barack Obama — who got off to a slow or clumsy start often paid dearly for it. Biden wants to avoid that fate.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. 2020 election
    Dominion Voting Systems Sues Giuliani Over All Those LiesRecklessly defaming a company for weeks on end may end up having a cost.
    By Benjamin Hart
  21. politics
    Trump Repeatedly Pressured Justice Department to Help Overturn ElectionAfter DOJ leaders refused to file a Supreme Court lawsuit, Trump nearly fired the acting attorney general just days before the attack on Congress.
    By Chas Danner
  22. the national interest
    Josh Hawley: I Stood Up to Capitol Mob by Endorsing Its DemandsThe Missouri senator explains his bravery.
    By Jonathan Chait
  23. georgia
    Trump Also Made Call to Pressure Georgia Election InvestigatorThe president called the state’s top elections investigator on December 23 and urged them to “find the fraud.”
    By Chas Danner
  24. the national interest
    The Trump Era Could Only End in a Final Attack on DemocracyFour years of mainstream Republican denial have come crashing down.
    By Jonathan Chait
  25. the system
    The Never-ending Coup Against Black AmericaHistorically, “recovery” tends to look a lot like betrayal.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  26. politics
    Experts Fear Trump’s Failed Coup Is a ‘Dress Rehearsal’American democracy survived the 2020 election, but in what shape?
    By Ben Jacobs
  27. the swamp
    The Full(est Possible) Story of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping Press EventA six-week, 37-source search for answers.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  28. covid-19 stimulus
    Second Stimulus Deal May Be Last Gasp of BipartisanshipDemocratic underperformance in the election and Republican underestimation of the pandemic made a deal possible. But don’t count on much else.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. politics
    ‘GOP Lawmakers Are Scared’: Republican Insiders Vent About ‘Stop the Steal’Party operatives sound off by text on Trump and his loyalists’ desperate legal antics.
    By Ben Jacobs
  30. politics
    Rudy Giuliani Secretly Got Justice Department to Open Another Hunter Biden ProbeAttorney General William Barr ordered a federal prosecutor to take Rudy’s dirt from Ukraine. The FBI pushed back.
    By Chas Danner
  31. contested election
    More Than Half of House Republicans Sign On to Trump’s Election CoupSupport for the president’s effort to steal the election from Joe Biden is growing.
    By Matt Stieb
  32. the national interest
    President of the United States Demands to ‘Overturn’ ElectionThe banana-republic rhetoric ratchets up another notch.
    By Jonathan Chait
  33. intelligencer chats
    The Mood in the White House During Trump’s Frenzied Final DaysAs the president rage-tweets about the election, staffers are moving on — but still fighting with one another.
    By Benjamin Hart and Olivia Nuzzi
  34. 2020 election
    Trump’s Legal Team Now Sidelined by Failure and COVID-19Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis have tested positive in the past week, adding another barrier to the task of proving nonexistent election fraud.
    By Matt Stieb
  35. troublemaker
    Will Trump’s Antics Suppress Republican Turnout in the Georgia Senate Runoffs?By falsely claiming the GOP-run election was stolen, he could damage his party in two very close Senate races it can’t afford to lose.
    By Ed Kilgore
  36. just asking questions
    Michael Cohen on How ‘Monster’ Trump Will Undermine BidenThe onetime fixer, now out of prison, breaks down his ex-boss’s postelection tantrum.
    By Jeff Wise
  37. 2020 election
    Michigan Republicans Now Want to Rescind Election CertificationThey changed course after a presidential intervention, but the “no backsies” rule applies here.
    By Matt Stieb and Benjamin Hart
  38. 2020 election
    DNC Chair Tom Perez: We Avoided ‘Catastrophe’Why the top Democrat isn’t too worried about how this election went or how the next one will go.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  39. intelligencer chats
    How Worried Is Team Biden About Trump’s Transition Obstruction?The president-elect will be sworn in on January 20, but stonewalling has consequences — especially during a pandemic.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti and Benjamin Hart
  40. 2020 election
    Everyone Else Finally Calls Arizona for Joe BidenFox News and the AP are no longer on an island.
    By Benjamin Hart
  41. 2020 election
    Democrats’ Alaska Senate Dream Slips AwayWith Al Gross going down to defeat, it’s now really all about Georgia.
    By Benjamin Hart
  42. gallery
    Scenes From Your Election CelebrationNew York readers share images of their reaction to Biden’s win, including giddy Girl Scouts, fountain frolicking, and an impromptu McCarren Park rave.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  43. 2020 election
    How Joe Biden Became President-ElectA long and winding path to the White House ended with a tense election week.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  44. 2020 election
    Trump Campaign Pivots From Victory Claims, Says Election Isn’t OverAn unsubtle messaging change from earlier in the week.
    By Benjamin Hart
  45. 2020 election
    How We’re Feeling As America’s Moment of Truth ArrivesWith the election finally upon us, New York staffers take stock of their hopes and fears — and the psychic toll of the last four years.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  46. the national interest
    Trump Says He Will Fire Dr. Anthony Fauci After the ElectionTrump couldn’t keep his plan secret another three days.
    By Jonathan Chait
  47. vision 2020
    Georgia Is Still a Purple State Only in TheoryBiden’s visit suggests the president’s segregationist bid for the suburbs isn’t working as he hoped. But Trump is the favorite until proven otherwise.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  48. 2020 election
    Kelly Loeffler Races to Far Right With Endorsement From Marjorie Taylor GreeneCalling herself “more conservative than Attila the Hun” wasn’t enough to get to the right of Doug Collins. Nobody’s to the right of the QAnon fan.
    By Ed Kilgore
  49. the body politic
    It Shouldn’t Have Come Down to HerSome will try to blame Ruth Bader Ginsburg for not stepping down sooner. They are missing the point.
    By Rebecca Traister
  50. asteroid
    An Asteroid Is Headed for Earth Just Before Election DayIncredible timing.
    By Claire Lampen
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