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Election Night in Review: A Legal Expert Explains What We Know
Results are still rolling in amid what many anticipate to be a contested presidential election. Hans von Spakovsky, manager of The Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in Heritage’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to break down what we know about Tuesday’s election… -
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No Winner Yet: Fight for White House Could Drag on for Days or Weeks
For the first time in years, Americans will wake up Wednesday morning after the presidential election uncertain of who their president will be on Jan. 20. President Donald Trump, a Republican, overperformed expectations in winning Florida. His Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, flipped longtime Republican stronghold Arizona. But the key battleground states of… -
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Hispanic Vote Helps Win Florida for Trump
President Donald Trump captured the state of Florida on Tuesday night, in no small part by overperforming expectations with the Latino vote, according to statistics and media pundits. The liberal New Yorker magazine tweeted: “In every Presidential election since 1992, the winner of Florida has gone on to the White House. This year, Donald Trump… -
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6 Key Senate Races Called, but Control of Senate Still Up for Grabs
Control of the Senate remains up for grabs, with no declared victor in several key races. Prior to Tuesday night, Republicans held 53 of 100 seats. Democrats, including the two nominal independents in their caucus, held 47. Democrats needed to pick up four Senate seats to control the upper chamber if former Vice President Joe… -
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GOP Raises Concern About Voting Practices in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania’s Republican Party has raised concerns over voting practices in the battleground state. “New picture from the field: an official ballot box being taken away by an unidentified civilian. What’s going on here?” Philly GOP tweeted Tuesday. Only two hours before polls closed, the Philly GOP account tweeted, “Unidentified civilians moving ballot boxes, Unlicensed poll… -
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Republicans Take Back Alabama Senate Seat as Tommy Tuberville Defeats Doug Jones
Former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville defeated Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., The Associated Press reported, flipping a key seat in the battle for control of the Senate. Tuberville was declared the winner almost immediately after Alabama’s polls closed Tuesday night, according to AP. Coming into the night, Tuberville had been the heavy favorite to… -
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The Science Is Not Settled on COVID-19 Guidelines
Dr. David Nabarro, a special envoy of the World Health Organization on the coronavirus pandemic, recently warned that lockdowns should “not be used [as] a primary means of control of [COVID-19]. The only time [they are] justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, and rebalance your resources.” State officials, such as those in… -
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National Guard Moves Into Chicago to Quell Possible Election Unrest
Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has mobilized the National Guard to Chicago in preparation for potential unrest in the days following the 2020 general election. Pritzker said he’s putting the military personnel “in state of readiness,” as he claimed the election results for the state may not be available until “Wednesday, or Thursday, or even… -
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‘We’re Gonna Be Ready for Them’: LA Sheriff Says There Will Be ‘Zero Tolerance’ for Post-Election Violence
Los Angeles County and two other county law enforcement departments said they are ready for the possibility of civil unrest and will respond accordingly, according to a Tuesday report. Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s office and sheriffs from both Orange County and San Bernardino County are preparing for the potential of election-related unrest, as… -
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Roots of Antifa: This ‘Idea’ Has Violent Consequences
As riots and looting consumed Philadelphia this week after a fatal police shooting, a radical left-wing group, the Philly Socialists, began monitoring police scanners and relaying information to help protesters evade arrest. At one point, the Philly Socialists tweeted out a clue as to its street allegiances: “Do humanity a favor and learn what antifa… -
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US Election Fraud Is Real—and Its Impact Is Being Ignored
Mark Harris was riding high on Election Day in 2018. The Republican candidate for North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District had beaten his Democratic opponent in a very close race. Next stop: the U.S. House of Representatives. Or so it seemed. Harris had won by 905 votes, a margin of only 0.3% of all ballots cast…. -
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Podcast: Can Young Adults Learn to Love the Free Market?
“We all know from the research, from the history, that it is free markets that do what we all want and provide what we all want to have as a country,” says Chris Cargill of the Washington Policy Center. “And yet younger generations, many of whom were born after the fall of the Berlin Wall,… -
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I Visited DC on Eve of the Election. This Is What I Saw.
As I drove to work in D.C. on Monday morning, I noticed the International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ headquarters’ ground floor windows were all boarded up. Curious what the rest of the city looked like, two of my colleagues and I hopped in the car and took a drive through the nation’s capital. We started on… -
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18 Photos of Businesses Bracing for Post-Election Violence
Businesses in cities around America are prepared for violence and looting following Tuesday's election. Shops, restaurants, and other businesses in Washington, D.C.; New York City; and Los Angeles have spent time over the past several days installing boards over windows and doors to deter vandals from breaking in. Some residents in D.C. are even being… -
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Trump v. Biden: 2 Candidates, 2 Starkly Divergent Stances on Abortion
The Republican and Democratic nominees for president couldn’t differ more in their approach to the issue of abortion. Depending on which candidate emerges victorious, in the weeks to come, the landscape of abortion policy in the United States will look dramatically different. President Donald Trump has committed to pursuing policies that protect unborn human life…. -
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Meet Kim Foxx, the Rogue Prosecutor Whose Policies are Wreaking Havoc in Chicago
This commentary is part of a series on the rogue prosecutors around the country who have been backed by liberal billionaires such as George Soros and Cari Tuna, and the threat those prosecutors pose to victims and others alike. In one war zone, there were 3,481 Americans killed in action between 2003 and 2010, an… -
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NATO Allies Now Spend $50 Billion More on Defense Than in 2016
President Donald Trump has placed a significant emphasis on the need for increased defense spending among NATO allies, and the newest data suggests his efforts are paying off. In 2016, non-U.S. NATO members spent $262 billion on defense; in 2020, they will spend $313 billion. Regardless of whether this increase resulted from changing threat perceptions… -
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Why Election Integrity Is So Important to Me
I had a phone call recently from an old friend who follows the work I do on safeguarding the integrity of our elections. He asked me how I could stand the venomous atmosphere of the political world in Washington, or vicious, unfair, and seemingly constant attacks by a biased, partisan media. After all, the media… -
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Anti-Capitalist Rioters Smash Windows of 10 Businesses During Violent Portland March
Violent demonstrators smashed windows and police declared a riot during an anti-capitalist march in Portland Saturday night. Around 150 violent demonstrators participated in a march called “Capitalism is Scary,” according to The Oregonian. Rioters destroyed the windows of 10 separate businesses, including multiple phone stores, a coffee shop, a computer storefront, a hotel, a bank, a pair of… -
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Big Businesses Target Racism in US, Stay Mum on China’s Abuses
When pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong were reaching their height last year, China’s government demanded that Apple Computer remove from its stores an app that enabled demonstrators to track police checkpoints and protest hot spots. Apple complied, explaining that it had confirmed with the Hong Kong authorities that its app had been used “to target…