The rioters sent members of Congress scrambling to crouch under desks while police futilely tried to barricade the building, in one of the most jarring scenes ever in a seat of American political power.
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Unmasked Trump supporters descend on D.C. to protest election results
Throughout Tuesday, speakers repeated election conspiracy theories, closed their eyes to pray and shared discount codes for MyPillow, a company owned by a Trump ally.
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Dividing party, Trump’s Republican allies poised to challenge Biden’s win
The president sees Wednesday’s joint session of Congress as one of his final attempts to overturn his loss, even though there is no credible path for that to happen.
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Our View: Trump’s election denial damages democracy
There’s only one truth about the 2020 presidential election: Biden won.
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Trump’s ‘futile and sorry’ fight to overturn election creates deep rift in Republican Party
Lawmakers are essentially forced to choose between appeasing a wounded president and certifying the results of an election determined by their constituents.
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Trump, allies launch desperate bid to get Congress to undo Biden’s election
The president’s unprecedented attempt to overturn the presidential election is splitting the Republican Party.
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Biden, Trump make election eve appeals in high-stakes Georgia Senate runoffs
More than 3 million Georgians already have voted.
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Fact check: Trump’s made-up claims of fake Georgia votes
President Donald Trump asserted a dizzying array of fuzzy accounting and outright false claims in an extraordinary phone call to Georgia’s secretary of state seeking a reversal of his election defeat
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More than 2,000 faith leaders urge Congress to honor election result
Signatories to the statement released Monday include many prominent religious liberals as well as a handful of evangelicals who have criticized President Donald Trump.
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Transcript: President Trump’s call to Georgia officials
About 3 p.m. Saturday, President Donald Trump held an hour-long call with Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, in which he repeatedly urged him to alter the outcome of the presidential vote in the state. He was joined on the call by White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and several lawyers, including longtime conservative […]