Their twin victories represented a striking shift in the state’s politics as the swelling number of diverse, college-educated voters flex their power in the heart of the Deep South.
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AP fact check: Trump repeats false claims on a day of reckoning
At a rally and on Twitter, the president is pressing his case for overturning the election results as Congress begins counting and confirming the Electoral College vote won by Joe Biden.
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Trump tells supporters they’re ‘very special’ and to ‘go home’ after mob storms Capitol
Social media platforms remove the short video in which the president also spreads false claims about widespread election fraud.
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Our View: Trump leads attack on democracy itself
The president’s stream of lies has turned millions of his supporters into enemies of their own country.
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Commentary: 2005 election challenge was bad – 2021 is much worse
Republican senators who refuse to certify Biden’s victory are inflaming doubts they helped kindle. That’s poison for democracy.
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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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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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Georgia counting votes in tight runoffs that will determine who controls Senate
The pivotal runoffs transformed Georgia, once a solidly Republican state, into one of the nation’s battlegrounds in the final days of the Trump presidency.
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Our View: Trump’s election denial damages democracy
There’s only one truth about the 2020 presidential election: Biden won.