We must stop holding as a broad cultural expectation the idea that African Americans need to overperform in the voting booth to stave off fascism. Black people, especially Black women, consistently show up in large numbers to insist that America does...
Where the fault lies 问题出在哪里 It is unreasonable to keep expecting black voters to save our democracy 指望黑人选民来拯救我们的民主是不合理的 Since the 2000 election, the first in which I was old enough to vote, the Republ...
Take a look at the exit polls. In 2016, Donald Trump won 58% of the white vote. In 2020, he won 57%. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won 89% of the Black vote. In 2020, Joe Biden won 87%. In 2016, Clinton won 66% of the Hispanic vote. In 2020, Biden won 66%...
Polarization prevailed, again 极化再次盛行 Our tribal loyalties remain too intense for one election to change anything 我们对种族的忠诚仍然过于强烈,一次选举无法改变任何事情 On The morning of election Day, Americans f...
Democrats and voting-rights activists, along with dissenting judges and Justices, argue that courts should make decisions that encourage enfranchisement, especially during a global pandemic. Chief Justice John Roberts has staked out the middle ground...
The lawsuits have only just begun. On Nov. 4, Bill Stepien, Trump's campaign manager, noting the close margins in Wisconsin, called the state recount territory. There have been reports of irregularities in several Wisconsin counties which raise serio...
The Biden campaign's legal team has been sanguine about the deluge to come. Let me tell you this: if you go to the Supreme Court today, drive around the building, you will not see Donald Trump, and you will not see his lawyers, says Bob Bauer, former...
Courts of Last Resort 终审法院 Tight margins in key swing states trigger litigation 优势较小的关键摇摆州引发诉讼 In the wee hours of the morning after election Day, state officials were still tallying millions of mail-in and absente...
A round of harsh recriminations seems certain for the Democrats, who had assumed that their coalition of minorities, college-educated white people and young voters was destined only to grow as a share of the electorate, while the post-Trump GOP would...
If Biden does take office, he will confront a set of challenges like few Presidents before him. He has laid out a comprehensiveand expensivefederal plan to combat the COVID-19 pandemic that includes promoting mask wearing, ramping up testing and the...
Democrats underestimated the Trump tribe's breadth to their detriment. I think you miss some of the Trump quotient (in polls) because these folks come out of the woodwork, and they're out of the woods and waters of South Carolina, says former GOP Rep...
Biden was buoyed by a vast grassroots movement: the Trump era has seen a frenzy of political action, with thousands of newly motivated activists leading local political groups. Middle-class women gathered their Facebook friends to drink wine and make...
Not that he particularly tried. Strategists of both parties believe the campaign was winnable for the incumbent if he had embraced a more traditional strategy and stylesomething his entire presidency has shown him to be uninterested in doing. Discard...
Whoever takes the oath of office on Jan. 20 will be tested by a historic set of challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic has just entered its worst phase yet, rampaging across the country virtually unchecked. The economic fallout from the virus continues to...
Amid record turnout, Biden seemed sure to win the popular vote, possibly with an outright majoritya resounding statement by any standard. But many Democrats expected more. They believed that voters had soured on Trump and his party, that his mishandl...