- New York Magazine 00:56April 1, 2021Iowa Democrat Abandons Challenge to Election She Lost By 6 VotesCongressional Democrats were loath to overturn a state-certified result.
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- New York Magazine 06:01March 1, 2021Trump’s CPAC Blast in the PastThe ex-president’s big return seemed like an alternate reality where the Capitol Riot never happened.
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- New York Magazine 15:14February 18, 2021State Republicans’ War on Voting by Mail Has BegunThe GOP, which once championed the practice, is reintroducing restrictions abandoned years ago.
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- New York Magazine 06:14February 6, 2021Fox Business Cancels Lou DobbsThe canning of the longtime host, Trump-booster, and stolen-election propagandist prompted a statement of support from the former president.
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- New York Magazine 04:27February 1, 2021Trump Names New Impeachment Legal Team, After Old One WalkedOne of the attorneys is best known for declining to prosecute Bill Cosby. The other represented Roger Stone and planned to represent Jeffrey Epstein.
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- New York Magazine 01:19February 1, 2021Trump Now Has Neither a Legal Team Nor Strategy for His Impeachment TrialAll five lawyers have left Trump’s legal team after they were reportedly unwilling include his baseless stolen-election claims in his defense.
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- New York Magazine 03:28January 30, 2021Can Marjorie Taylor Greene Be Expelled From Congress?If Republicans go along, Greene could be booted from the House for her violence-boosting behavior. Short of that, it’s up to her constituents.
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- New York Magazine 01:12January 30, 2021Why 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.
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- New York Magazine 07:56January 23, 2021Trump Nearly Fired Acting Attorney General Days Before Capitol RiotThere was almost a Sunday night massacre at the Justice Department as Trump and a DOJ lawyer plotted to prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s win.
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- New York Magazine 17:44January 20, 2021Trump is the First President in 152 Years to Skip Successor’s InaugurationAnother one-term impeached president, Andrew Johnson, snubbed Ulysses S. Grant.
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- New York Magazine 15:00January 20, 2021Trump Leaves the White House Like a Failed Coup LeaderEven his former supporters won’t see him off.
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- New York Magazine 16:00January 18, 2021How Close Did We Get to an Election Coup?At several moments, Trump’s efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory were scarily close to success. Fortunately, he was too incompetent to pull it off.
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- New York Magazine 07:44January 15, 2021Trump Faces Senate Trial After Second Impeachment: Live UpdatesThe House impeached Trump for inciting insurrection, with the support of 10 Republicans. The trial will take place during Biden’s administration.
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- New York Magazine 00:37January 14, 2021Trump Becomes First President to Be Impeached TwiceTen Republicans joined every House Democrat in voting to impeach. Trump’s Senate trial may start as just as Biden takes office.
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- New York Magazine 03:38January 13, 2021Mo Brooks Is Definitely Not a Criminal, So Stop AskingIn a bizarre statement, Brooks defended himself from “scurrilous, George Orwellian, 1984, Socialist Democrats Politics of Personal Destruction.”
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- New York Magazine 07:01January 10, 2021White House Forced Out U.S. Attorney Amid Effort to Overturn Election in GeorgiaThe top federal prosecutor in Atlanta, Byung Pak, was reportedly told to resign because Trump was upset he didn’t help find voter fraud in Georgia.
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- New York Magazine 21:50January 9, 2021Trump 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.”
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- New York Magazine 20:54January 9, 2021Capitol Riot Aftermath Continues : Live UpdatesA new video emerged showing a police officer screaming in pain as he was crushed by the pro-Trump mob at the Capitol.
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- New York Magazine 01:50January 9, 2021Trump Will Be the First President in 152 Years to Skip Successor’s InaugurationAnother one-term impeached president, Andrew Johnson, snubbed Ulysses S. Grant.
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- New York Magazine 23:37January 8, 2021Trump Supporters Harass Lindsey Graham at AirportThe president’s loyalists chanted “traitor” and heckled the Republican lawmaker on Friday.
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- New York Magazine 20:56January 8, 2021Impeachment Could Ban Trump From Running in 2024It’s too late for Congress to remove Trump before Inauguration Day. But a post-presidential impeachment and conviction could prevent a Trump comeback.
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- New York Magazine 23:43January 7, 2021Trump Repays His Sycophants With Needless BetrayalTrump could have left office with some dignity and support intact. But instead he is self-isolating more than any president since Nixon.
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- New York Magazine 22:13January 6, 2021WATCH: Mitch McConnell Give Speech Opposing Effort to Overturn ElectionThe Senate Majority Leader made an impassioned plea for his GOP colleagues to abandon their effort to reverse Biden’s victory.
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- New York Magazine 21:15January 6, 2021Watch Giuliani Demand ‘Trial by Combat’ to Settle the ElectionThe president’s attorney proposed the medieval legal practice during his remarks at the “Save America” rally to protest Biden’s certification.
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- New York Magazine 08:14January 6, 2021Republicans Plan to Challenge Electoral Vote Count in Congress: Live UpdatesThough the effort is sure to fail, many Republicans can’t pass up the opportunity to air baseless voter fraud claims and prove fealty to Trump.
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- New York Magazine 20:36January 5, 2021Trump Makes Georgia Senate Runoffs All About HimselfNarcissistic to the very end, Trump has ensured that whatever happens in Georgia, the heaviest consequences will involve his own political future.
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- New York Magazine 02:17January 5, 2021How the January 6 Electoral-Vote Count Will WorkIt will be a tedious day full of bogus election-fraud claims, placing Pence in a tight spot — but Congress will affirm Biden’s win in the end.
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- New York Magazine 19:28January 4, 2021Tom Cotton Breaks With Trump on Coup Attempt in CongressThe Arkansan split with other presidential wannabes in warning that Trump is undermining an Electoral College that has served Republicans well.
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- New York Magazine 22:46January 3, 2021Trump Tells Georgia Official to Steal Election in Recorded Call“I just want to find 11,780 votes.”
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- New York Magazine 07:37January 3, 202112 GOP Senators Now Back Pointless Ploy to Overturn ElectionAt least 12 GOP senators and 140 representatives will oppose Congress’ confirmation of Biden’s victory in a futile demonstration of loyalty to Trump.
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- New York Magazine 21:12December 30, 2020Hawley to Trigger Congressional Vote on Trump’s Election CoupThe circus will come to Congress on January 6, but the man at center ring is Mike Pence, who will preside over a joint session to certify electors.
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- New York Magazine 17:00December 29, 2020The Flimsy Nixon Precedent Trump Is Seizing On to Contest Biden’s WinIn 1960, Nixon disregarded a certified Electoral College slate from Hawaii favoring him. This is not the same as Pence disregarding a national defeat.
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- New York Magazine 21:17December 28, 2020House Attempts to Override Trump Veto of Defense BillThe key vote will probably be in the Senate, where a lot of Republicans will need to flip to sustain a veto.
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- New York Magazine 23:59December 21, 2020Barr Pans Trump’s Coup Schemes in Likely Final Press ConferenceThe outgoing attorney general reiterated that he is not onboard with some of the extreme measures the president has reportedly been seeking.
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- New York Magazine 21:02December 17, 2020Will Two Alabama Extremists Force a Vote on Overturning the Election?Mo Brooks and Tommy Tuberville are two peas in a pod from the same right-wing patch and may make every Republican go on record about Trump’s claims.
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- New York Magazine 22:49December 15, 2020Wisconsin Supreme Court Was One Vote Away From Flipping the State to TrumpIf not for a progressive justice’s upset win earlier this year, the decision could have gone the other way, costing Biden ten electoral votes.
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- New York Magazine 20:00December 15, 2020McConnell Finally Acknowledges Biden As President-electIt’s taken a long time, but the dam has broken, with Republican senators undermining any last-minute rebellion against the results in January.
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- New York Magazine 17:00December 15, 2020Republicans Need a Postmortem, But Trump Won’t Even Admit He’s DeadIf Republicans really won by a landslide, why should they change anything at all?
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- New York Magazine 20:25December 14, 2020‘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.
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- New York Magazine 19:28December 14, 2020Electors Are Meeting Today to Ratify Biden’s WinIt’s a routine process, but threats of violence and plans by Trump’s campaign to “elect” bogus alternative electors are raising eyebrows.
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- New York Magazine 03:53December 12, 2020Supreme Court Drop Kicks Texas Lawsuit to Overturn the Election for TrumpA legal effort to keep Trump in power attracted huge Republican support. But the president’s favorite justices wouldn’t even hear it.
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- New York Magazine 00:37December 11, 2020More 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.
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- New York Magazine 22:51December 10, 2020Every Republican in Congress May Have to Vote on Trump’s CoupDie-hard supporters of the president may force a January vote to overturn Biden’s Electoral College majority.
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- New York Magazine 03:28December 10, 2020Ted Cruz Offers to Argue Insane Texas Election Lawsuit at the Supreme CourtTexas is asking the Supreme Court to overturn the election results of four other states.
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- New York Magazine 02:09December 9, 2020Lindsey Graham Predicts Trump Will Become a ‘Shadow President’If Republicans aren’t careful, they’re going to inherit something much worse than a Trump comeback: an ex-president who won’t go away.
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- New York Magazine 20:56December 8, 2020Why Trump Thinks ‘Stop the Steal’ Could Help Him Win in 2024Trump may be channeling his favorite predecessor, Andrew Jackson, who won after a campaign of vengeance for an alleged stolen election.
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- New York Magazine 21:32December 7, 2020Tuesday’s ‘Safe Harbor’ Deadline Should End Trump’s Failed CoupNearly every state has certified its results and electors, which — after December 8 — should cut off further challenges.
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- New York Magazine 00:11December 5, 2020No, Congress Won’t Help Trump Overturn the ElectionAlabama congressman Mo Brooks’s last-ditch effort to protest the electoral vote count won’t amount to much.
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- New York Magazine 22:05December 3, 2020Will 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.
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- New York Magazine 01:13December 2, 2020Even Bill Barr Is Contradicting Trump on Election FraudThis is another blow to Trump’s flagging efforts to contest his defeat.
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