The National Popular Vote bill provides a way to work within the Electoral College to ensure that the candidate with the most votes nationally wins the presidency.
Joe Biden
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Somber Senate unites to reject election challenges
Shaken senators returned to session Wednesday night to slap away a frivolous challenge to President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory.
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Biden urges restoration of decency after ‘assault’ on democracy
In a brief speech, the president-elect attempts to project calm and to say that a deeply divided country can still come together.
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Our View: Lagging vaccine rollout needs major boost from federal government
The Trump administration has failed to meet a challenge they had months to prepare for. Joe Biden must do better.
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Four people die as mob incited by Trump storms Capitol in attempt to stop confirmation of Biden’s election
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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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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Biden, Trump make election eve appeals in high-stakes Georgia Senate runoffs
More than 3 million Georgians already have voted.
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Jim Fossel: Democrats face trouble without Trump
Biden’s left-right-and-center coalition was welded together by dislike of the 45th president.
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Republicans torn over Trump’s Electoral College challenge of Biden
The effort to subvert the will of voters is forcing Republicans to make choices that will set the contours of the post-Trump era and an evolving party.
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Does Pence have any options to challenge Biden’s win?
Allies of President Donald Trump hope they can find a way around the law to get Pence to actually award the election to him.