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US election 2020
On 3 Nov, America chooses its president for the next 4 years
Biden signs executive orders reversing Trump decisions on COVID, climate change
- Fresh off his inauguration Wednesday, President Biden began his term with executive orders on measures ranging from curbing the coronavirus pandemic to addressing racial inequality, many of which roll back measures enacted by former President Donald Trump’s administration.
- Associated Press
Biden ties Republican in race for Va. governor to Trump
President Joe Biden framed the Virginia governor’s race as a repudiation of his predecessor, tying the Republican candidate to former President Donald Trump as he campaigned for Democrat Terry McAuliffe in what's become a tight and increasingly bitter campaign. No Republican has won statewide office in Virginia since 2009, and Biden carried it by a comfortable 10 percentage points in 2020.
- The Independent
Biden taps GOP official who rejected Trump’s fraud claims for election security role
Biden could tap Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman to lead the department of homeland security’s outreach to state election officials
- The Independent
Poll shows Biden and Trump tied for 2024 presidential race
Polling director says if president can’t turn numbers around ‘Democrats are likely to face a serious reckoning in the 2022 midterm elections’
- The Independent
Trump-supporting restaurant’s anti-Biden poster backfires
‘Authentic Italian’ business asked customers if they supported ‘Sleepy Joe’
- The Independent
‘Drunk on power’: Trump lashes out after Biden rejects former president’s appeal to withhold Capitol riot records
Trump calls House select committee investigating 6 January violence a ‘fake investigation’ to silence him
- The Independent
Biden rejects Trump request to withhold White House records from 6 Jan. committee
The move sets up a legal showdown between the White House and Mr Trump
- Associated Press
Biden won't invoke executive privilege on Trump Jan. 6 docs
The White House said Friday that President Joe Biden will not block the handover of documents sought by a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, setting up a showdown with former President Donald Trump, who wants to shield those White House records from investigators. The letter from White House counsel Dana Remus to the Archivist of the United States comes at the start of a potentially lengthy legal battle over the investigation.
- The Independent
Biden promised to end the Trump-era immigration policy. On the ground, it’s more of the same
The Biden administration’s handling of a border crisis in Del Rio, Texas, has drawn criticism from all sides, writes <strong>Richard Hall</strong>
- The Independent
Trump blames media after Arizona recount still says Biden won
Former president describes leaked reports from recount as ‘huge’ despite finding no evidence of voter fraud
- Reuters
Biden looks to avoid blocking requests for Trump records in Jan 6 probe -White House
President Joe Biden's administration will work to avoid blocking requests for former President Donald Trump's records in an investigation into the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the White House said on Friday. "The president has already concluded that it would not be appropriate to assert executive privilege," said White House press secretary Jen Psaki. Psaki said requests from the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee investigating the Capitol attack would be reviewed with
