Despite losing a Senate seat and seeing Joe Biden win the state, state party leaders in the land of Barry Goldwater and John McCain aren’t switching gears. They’re doubling down.
There is no one quite like him in the Republican Party. So where should we look for the president’s inheritors?
Biden’s campaign strategy put Democrats in agony. Here’s why it worked.
Biden’s campaign strategies often worried Democrats. But they worked.
A vast majority of Americans do not approve of the riot at the Capitol. But experts warn that the widespread belief there was election fraud, while false, could have dangerous, lasting effects.
Many people will not forgive the Republican House leader’s blatant acts to embrace and perpetuate dangerous lies that threatened democracy.
The usual bustle of lawmakers moving in and out of offices gave way to a horrific scene.
The president’s response to the riot at the Capitol underscored the ways he has twisted the phrase “law and order” over the past four years.
The Oklahoma senator, who is up for re-election in 2022, said he had not realized his objection to the election results would be seen as a direct attack on the voting rights of people of color.
The Fulton County district attorney is weighing an inquiry into possible election interference and is said to be considering hiring an outside counsel.
President Trump, isolated and watching the clock count down on his time in the White House, spent some of it on Friday with the C.E.O. of MyPillow, Mike Lindell, who brought some notes with him.
Senator James Lankford said in a letter that he had never intended to “diminish the voice of any Black American” by questioning the election results. Still, he added, “I should have recognized how what I said and what I did could be interpreted by...
Days before President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inauguration, the North made its latest demonstration of its nuclear might at a Pyongyang military parade.
Mainstream Republicans and conservative commentators have been pushing the idea that Democrats can only win through fraud for decades.
El segundo proceso de destitución al presidente Trump —en un Capitolio rodeado de tropas— parecía la culminación inevitable de cuatro años que dejan a una nación fracturada, molesta y sin sentido claro de identidad.
White House officials are universally angry with Rudolph W. Giuliani and blame him for both of President Trump’s impeachments. But he remains one of few people still willing to join Mr. Trump in the foxhole.
As President Trump prepares to exit the White House, his ideas, including falsehoods and conspiracy theories, continue to exert a gravitational pull among grass-roots G.O.P. officials.
After a week of Trumpist mayhem, white evangelicals wrestle with what they’ve become.
Right-wing influencers embraced extremist views, and Facebook rewarded them.
President Trump became the first president to be impeached twice, after the House approved a single charge citing his role in whipping up a mob that stormed the Capitol. He faces a Senate trial that could disqualify him from future office.
The president-elect has long tried to keep from being sucked into President Trump’s dramas. He may find that posture hard to maintain when he takes office and the Senate puts Mr. Trump on trial.
The impeachment of President Trump for a second time — in a Capitol ringed by troops — seemed like the almost inevitable culmination of four years that left the nation fractured, angry and losing its sense of self.
The video was made public after President Trump was impeached a second time and after he told his supporters in the hours following the start of the riot last week that “we love you.”
The impeachment of President Trump for a second time — in a Capitol ringed by troops — seemed like the almost inevitable culmination of four years that left the nation fractured, angry and losing its sense of self.
A lengthening list of blue-chip giants of corporate America are pledging to cut off funds to Republicans who opposed certifying the election, and Democrats are planning ad campaigns against them.
Una potente mezcla de agravio y fervor religioso ha impulsado el apoyo entre los leales a Trump, muchos de los cuales se describen como parte de una especie de guerra santa.
Durante casi cuatro años, el vicepresidente se mordió la lengua frente a los impulsos de su jefe, algo que los críticos dicen que permitió lo peor del presidente. Así fue la semana en que resistió a los insultos y presiones de Trump.
As the Murdoch tabloid navigates a fraught political moment, high-level editors instructed reporters not to base articles on reporting by four news outlets that President Trump has falsely labeled “fake news.”
As the Murdoch tabloid navigates a fraught political moment, high-level editors instructed reporters not to base articles on reporting by four news outlets that President Trump has falsely labeled “fake news.”
Le regard d’un historien du fascisme et des atrocités en politique sur Trump, la foule partisane et ce à quoi il faut s’attendre.
“There’s just nothing to them,” the acting top prosecutor, Bobby L. Christine, said of the claims according to a recording of a conference call.
Donald Trump is not an aberration but a blueprint.
The House formally called on Vice President Mike Pence to move to wrest power from the president, as Republican support built for impeaching him of inciting violence against the nation.
After four years of tongue-biting silence that critics say enabled the president’s worst instincts, the vice president would not yield to the pressure and name-calling from his boss.
In the aftermath of President Trump’s efforts to subvert the election, state officials face harassment and threats, and a district attorney is weighing an inquiry into the president’s actions.
There still will be a place for principled Republicans.
In visiting the border, Mr. Trump hoped to change the focus from a mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. But Texas is also reeling from the turmoil in Washington.
Since the siege on the Capitol, Mike Lindell, a strong supporter of President Trump, has continued advertising heavily while repeating misinformation about the election and the attack.
Congress can invoke its constitutional power to bar the president from holding office again.
After the Capitol Hill riot, the divide between reality and fantasy may become too wide to bridge.
A potent mix of grievance and religious fervor has turbocharged the support among Trump loyalists, many of whom describe themselves as participants in a kind of holy war.
Democrats are planning a Tuesday vote to formally call on the vice president to wrest power from President Trump and a Wednesday impeachment vote if he does not.
Officials around the country are bracing for any spillover from last week’s violent assault on the U.S. Capitol. State legislatures already have become targets for protesters in recent days.
Many Republican leaders and strategists want to prepare the party for a post-Trump future. But the pro-Trump voter base has other ideas.
It is a dark day for the nation when the president’s behavior forces Congress to hold him accountable.
The handoff from Obama to Trump was fraught and unprecedented in ways the public didn’t see at the time. It was a prelude to so much that followed.
The Treasury Department accused seven Ukrainians of working with a Russian agent “to spread misleading and unsubstantiated allegations” about President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.
The senator has been able to use his Ivy League pedigree as a cudgel. After last week, his credentials should condemn him.
One of the authors of the impeachment article against President Trump makes his case.
John Poulos is the C.E.O. of Dominion Voting Systems. His $1.3 billion suit against an ex-Trump lawyer might be the “first step” in a powerful fight against actual fake news.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House would formally call on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to strip President Trump of power, and move to impeach the president if he refused.
Here is a closer look at what the president said at a rally of his supporters, which is a central focus of the impeachment case being prepared against him.
Trump’s incitement of a riot is a violation of the separation of powers that threatens the foundation of the Republic.
Democrats had huge breakthroughs in winning the presidential vote and two Senate runoff elections. But power in the state’s government largely remains in the hands of Republicans.
Democrats had huge breakthroughs in winning the presidential vote and two Senate runoff elections. But power in the state’s government largely remains in the hands of Republicans.
They came from around the country with different affiliations — QAnon, Proud Boys, elected officials, everyday Americans — united by one allegiance.
In a December call, President Trump told a Georgia election investigator that the official would be a “national hero” for finding evidence of fraud. White House officials’ pressure on the federal prosecutor in Atlanta to resign was also revealed.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, was accosted at Reagan National Airport by supporters of President Trump after he failed to uphold Mr. Trump’s false claims of election fraud.
The Capitol attack shows the danger of forgetting America’s history.
In encounters with their constituents this week, Republican lawmakers have grappled with the consequences of their yearslong alliance with President Trump: an angry, misinformed base.
After years of excusing or ignoring President Trump’s most inflammatory rhetoric, many Republicans are backing away at the last minute.
The mob attack on the Capitol, and interviews with Trump voters this week, show that the president’s subversion of democratic values will have enduring influence within the Republican Party.
Party members at a gathering of the Republican National Committee endorsed President Trump as the man to lead the party forward, ignoring the turmoil in Washington.
The junior senator from Missouri drew widespread condemnation but defended his decision to object to Congress’s certification of the election results.
Here are the top false and misleading narratives on social media, as compiled by Zignal Labs.
Forget the 25th Amendment. It’s Congress that was attacked and Congress that must act.
When the state's representatives and senators in Washington returned, four voted to sustain objections to the presidential election.
The White House was propelled deeper into crisis as officials resigned in protest and prominent Republicans broke with the president after he incited a mob that assaulted Congress.
The White House was propelled deeper into crisis as officials resigned in protest and prominent Republicans broke with the president after he incited a mob that assaulted Congress.
Al respaldar al presidente de manera incondicional, las élites republicanas ayudaron a que sucediera el asalto al Capitolio.
Either the beginning of the end for Trump, or America.
President Trump said a day after a mob stormed the Capitol that a “new administration” would be sworn in after a “smooth, orderly, seamless transition of power.”
But if the Democrats dare to use their power, a brave new world might be possible.
They falsely claimed President Trump had no role in spurring the assault on the Capitol. They resorted to false equivalencies. Some even questioned whether the mob was an anti-Trump “false flag.”
Los expertos dicen que las acciones recientes del presidente Trump y sus seguidores son más difíciles de detener que un golpe de Estado y ofrecen como ejemplo los retrocesos democráticos de países como Turquía y Venezuela.
Experts say recent actions by President Trump and his loyalists are harder to stop than a coup — citing anti-democratic slides in Turkey and Venezuela as closer examples.
A mob incited by President Trump stormed into Congress, disrupting the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory. We hear from our colleagues who were inside the building.
Parler is a go-to social media site for the right, with users calling to “burn D.C. to the ground.” The C.E.O., John Matze, says it’s not his job to police speech.
By enabling the president anyway, Republican elites helped make the storming of the Capitol possible.
The president-elect said the violence “borders on sedition” and made clear he viewed President Trump as responsible for inciting his supporters with baseless claims the election was stolen.
Inside Trump supporters’ online echo chambers, the chaos of Jan. 6 could be seen coming. People posted their plans to come to Washington — and showed the weapons they would carry.
As Congress met to certify the election results, President Trump held a simultaneous rally. Watch these moments unfold side by side to see how his speech incited a mob that broke into the Capitol.
Poco después de que el senador Mitch McConnell advirtió a sus colegas republicanos que sus esfuerzos por revertir la elección sumirían a la democracia estadounidense en una “espiral de muerte”, el miedo se apoderó de la cámara del Senado.
The moves came after critics and even some allies of the social media companies said they had failed to prevent the misinformation that led to chaos on Wednesday.
Hours after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol, industry groups and C.E.O.s called for an end to the chaos.
Hundreds of people barreled past fence barricades and clashed with police officers in an attempt to disrupt the certification of the Electoral College results.
When it comes to the president, there can never be enough losing.
Trump is too dangerous to leave in office for even another minute.
As Congress prepared to certify the victory of his successor, President Trump railed against the election and helped set in motion hours of violence.
As Congress prepared to certify the victory of his successor, President Trump railed against the election and helped set in motion hours of violence.
Vice President Mike Pence reconvened lawmakers to count Electoral College votes hours after Trump supporters disrupted the previous session.
The president incited his followers to violence. There must be consequences.
Luego de que el presidente Trump incitó a sus seguidores para que no aceptaran su derrota electoral, los partidarios iracundos irrumpieron en el Capitolio, suspendiendo la validación de las elecciones y protagonizando el violento final de su presidencia.
Not long after Senator Mitch McConnell warned his Republican colleagues that their efforts to overturn an election would send democracy into a “death spiral,” fear surged through the Senate chamber.
The Capitol mob had reason to believe the president would be watching them. For the rest of us, it was a horror story.
Not long after Senator Mitch McConnell warned his Republican colleagues that their efforts to overturn an election would send democracy into a “death spiral,” fear surged through the Senate chamber.
Those who warned of worst-case scenarios under President Trump — only to be dismissed as alarmists — found some of their darkest fears realized in the storming of the Capitol on Wednesday.
The president may use the language of patriotism, but these are the actions of Benedict Arnold.
A reader reacts: “This should mark the end of the Trump presidency, before he can cause more damage.”
For years, professional grifters, trolls, true believers and political opportunists have sowed conspiratorial lies. We are now witnessing the reaping.
The senator was confronted in the airport and on a flight to Washington by supporters of President Trump, some of whom chanted “traitor” at him.
Esta vez fallaron, pero su deslealtad al país, la Constitución y sus valores es evidente.
The debate in Congress to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory has renewed hours after the proceeding was disrupted by a pro-Trump mob storming the Capitol. We covered the evening’s events as they unfolded.
A normally ceremonial ritual in Congress exploded into chaos as protesters, egged on by President Trump, forced their way into the Capitol to stop the counting of electoral votes to confirm President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory.
A debate has broken out over whether the once-sacrosanct constitutional protection of the First Amendment has become a threat to democracy.
The sprawling online conspiracy network is at the center of Trump’s attempt to overturn the election.
The victory is a landmark breakthrough for African-Americans in politics. Mr. Warnock becomes the first Black Democrat to be elected to the Senate from the South.
El intento del presidente Trump para revertir las elecciones que perdió ha trascendido la mera descarga de agravios y corre el riesgo de dañar la democracia estadounidense que está encargado de defender.
A day before he presides over a joint session of Congress to ratify Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory, the vice president tried to lower the president’s expectations while seeking ways to mollify him.
As President Trump pushes Congress to block certification of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory, his Republican allies look to the showdown on Capitol Hill a century and a half ago as a model.
The president-elect is turning to trusted former colleagues to manage complex negotiations with Iran and Russia.
With a grand stage, video monitors and a planned presidential appearance, pro-Trump demonstrators will condemn Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory with a planned show of force.
The law firm, Foley & Lardner, had distanced itself from Cleta Mitchell after a recording of the call revealed she helped the president pressure Georgia elections officials.
This time they’ll fail. But their disloyalty to America is clear.
The stakes were clear: This vote could help set the country’s direction for the next two years. Some wanted a Senate that would back Joe Biden. Others sought a “balance of power.”
The challenges will transform the normally routine electoral count by Congress into an hourslong spectacle that has already divided Republicans, who are all but certain to fail to change the results.
A normally perfunctory joint session will be more dramatic than usual on Wednesday as some Republican lawmakers plan to object to the electoral vote count. Their effort, based on spurious claims of widespread voter fraud, is all but certain to fail.
A republic works only when the losers of elections accept the results and the legitimacy of their opponents.
Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has shot down a supposed plan for the president to pass the Biden inauguration at his Turnberry links.
El vicepresidente presidirá la sesión del miércoles cuando el Congreso se reúna para ratificar la victoria de Joe Biden. El presidente Trump todavía parece tener la esperanza de que su leal número dos cambie el resultado.
They have survived Trump for the last four years. But disentangling from him might get easier if his latest sabotage succeeds.
Trump and many of the G.O.P.’s leaders seem to think so, with ominous consequences for the future.
The growth of the Atlanta area and the efforts to protect African-Americans’ voting rights have transformed the state’s political landscape.
A top election official condemned President Trump’s baseless attacks on voting integrity, as the president and Joe Biden rallied support for their candidates in the crucial Senate runoffs.
Facing a consequential test, Republicans staked out dueling positions over whether to join an insurgency in their ranks pushing to invalidate President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory
At a rally that was supposed to bolster the fortunes of two Republican runoff candidates, the president instead turned the event into a lecture filled with conspiracy theories and personal attacks.
Here are the explanations from the official, Gabriel Sterling, that rebut more than a dozen of the president’s false assertions.
The Republican senator from Missouri said he wanted to draw attention to problems with election laws. But critics insist his bid has more to do with serving his own political ambitions.
There needs to be a cost to trying to overthrow an election.
The vice president will preside on Wednesday when Congress convenes to ratify Joe Biden’s victory. President Trump still seems to hold out hope that his loyal No. 2 could change the outcome.
Cleta Mitchell had been quietly helping President Trump’s attempt to subvert the election results when the recording of him pressuring Georgia elections officials was revealed.
The vice president will preside on Wednesday when Congress convenes to ratify Joe Biden’s victory. President Trump still seems to hold out hope that his loyal No. 2 could change the outcome.
The hosts of “Fox & Friends” warn of “anarchy” and say they have not seen evidence of fraud, while a Fox News colleague, Mark Levin, says the Constitution is being “destroyed” by Democrats and the media.
President Trump’s effort to overturn the election he lost has gone beyond mere venting of grievances at the risk of damaging the very American democracy he is charged with defending.
Readers decry the president’s phone call to Georgia’s secretary of state and efforts in Congress to overturn the Electoral College vote.
President Trump’s effort to overturn the election he lost has gone beyond mere venting of grievances at the risk of damaging the very American democracy he is charged with defending.
El presidente hizo una vaga alusión a un “delito penal” cuando presionaba al secretario de Estado Brad Raffensperger, según una grabación de la llamada.
As vast resources and hundreds of millions of dollars have been pumped into Georgia for the Senate runoffs, few groups have been as vigorously pursued as the state’s young voters.
With President Trump ratcheting up his efforts to cling to power, the party has split over whether to back him, posing a major political test.
The president pressured Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results of the election in an hourlong phone conversation. Here is a transcript of the audio recording.
The president pressed the secretary, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” enough ballots for him to overturn the election.
Joe Biden’s inaugural committee suggested the traditional crowd-lined ride down Pennsylvania Avenue would be replaced by a “virtual parade.”
The president recited a number of viral online falsehoods involving dead voters, Dominion voting machines, shredded ballots and a water leak, among other baseless claims of fraud.
The president recited a number of viral online falsehoods involving dead voters, Dominion voting machines, shredded ballots and a water leak, among other baseless claims of fraud.
The Texas Republican was once the victim of President Trump’s false claims of election fraud. Now he is perpetuating them.
The president’s demand for action to overturn the result of the election in the state raised questions about whether he violated election fraud statutes, lawyers said, though a charge is unlikely.
The president vaguely warned of a “criminal offense” as he pressured Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in the call, according to an audio recording.
They surged to the polls in 2020 and could help swing the Georgia Senate runoffs. Activists and experts say it is long past time for both Democrats and Republicans to pursue them.
Vice President Mike Pence signaled his support as 11 Republican senators and senators-elect said that they would vote to reject President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory.
President Trump continued his assault on election integrity, baselessly claiming the presidential results and the Senate runoffs in Georgia were both invalid — which could complicate G.O.P. efforts to motivate voters.