Jon Ward
Senior Political Correspondent
Yahoo NewsA new group pushes the post-Trump GOP to reject its 'lazy' devotion to tax cuts
A group of conservative thinkers started a new think tank called American Compass, which aims to move the Republican Party beyond clichés about Ronald Reagan's policies.
Yahoo NewsMichigan judge says cheating claims based on ignorance of how elections work
A Michigan judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit alleging cheating during the Nov. 3 election, agreeing with Detroit that most claims were made by individuals who did not understand the vote-counting processes.
Yahoo NewsTrump and his followers are on the 'crazy train' with unhinged election conspiracies, Republican congressman says
President Trump is taking his followers down a path of increasingly unhinged conspiracies about millions of votes being altered by mysterious forces manipulating computer systems and voting machines, said Rep. Denver Riggleman, R-Va.
Yahoo NewsDetroit lawyers say fraud allegations based on 'extraordinary failure to understand how elections function'
The city of Detroit has rejected claims of cheating brought by Trump supporters, stating in a court filing that the allegations made by a handful of election observers and one election worker were based on a lack of understanding the processes they were watching.
Yahoo NewsPennsylvania Republicans plan 'extraordinary measures' to delay election results
The Trump campaign has also sued to delay certifying the election.
Yahoo NewsCruz, Graham add fuel to Trump's inflammatory, false vote-fraud charges
Trump allies add to confusion around unsubstantiated election fraud claims.
Yahoo NewsHow Stacey Abrams became the 'architect' of Biden's Georgia surge
Georgia's massive increase in Democratic vote came from population growth, automatic voter registration — and Stacey Abrams’s organizing work over the past decade.
Yahoo NewsTrump calls for disenfranchising American voters, but his tweets are toothless
President Trump can call for votes to stop being counted all he wants. There's nothing illegal going on, and Biden would win the presidency if vote counting were stopped now, anyway.
Yahoo NewsTom Ridge calls Trump's attempt to falsely claim victory 'un-American'
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, a Republican, said President Trump’s attempts to stop votes from being counted in Pennsylvania and Michigan are “un-American” and “wrong.”
Yahoo NewsBiden's chances of defeating Trump improve, but votes still being counted
Joe Biden’s prospects looked strong in Michigan and Wisconsin, with him in the lead. The Associated Press has called Arizona for Biden. If he wins those three and holds Nevada — where the margin is very close — he will have 270 electoral college votes and be the next president.
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Biden's chances of defeating Trump improve
Joe Biden’s prospects looked strong in Michigan and Wisconsin, with him in the lead. The Associated Press has called Arizona for Biden. If he wins those three and holds Nevada, he will have 270 Electoral College votes and be the next president.
Yahoo NewsPennsylvania Republicans are already trying to cast doubt on the state's election results
Pennsylvania Republicans wasted no time Tuesday night in firing the first shot of what is likely to be at least a weeklong political knife fight in that state, potentially with the presidency at stake.
Yahoo NewsPoliticians, not voters, are to blame for delays in Pennsylvania and Michigan's vote counting
President Trump blames voters for mailing their ballots late, but decisions by Republican-controlled legislatures are delaying vote counts in major swing states.
Yahoo NewsGroup including Trump's own former top adviser launches $6 million ad to counter 'misinformation' on counting votes
A group that includes President Trump’s own former director of national intelligence is launching a $6 million advertising blitz starting on Election Day that’s intended to counter “misinformation” coming from the president about counting votes.
Yahoo NewsFrom legal battles to voter intimidation, a short guide to what could go wrong on election night
Due to the pandemic and the extraordinary growth of early and mail voting, the country finds itself in an unprecedented situation this election, meaning that we could be in for a number of surprises.
Yahoo NewsTrump and family go it alone on campaign trail, for better or worse
It’s not clear how much Republican senators help Trump's fortunes, but their frequent absence is an indication of his relative isolation from the rest of the party.
Yahoo NewsDon't freak out over early leads for either Biden or Trump on election night
President Trump and Joe Biden are likely to have early leads on election night in different states based on how those states handle mail and absentee ballots, requiring Americans to take a measured approach to how they interpret results as they come in.
Yahoo NewsTrump wants election night result, but GOP has fought to make sure many ballots won't be counted by then
President Trump demanded on Monday that the winner of the election be announced on Election Day — something his own party has made highly unlikely by fighting to keep ballots from being counted quickly in key swing states.
Yahoo NewsDemocrats urge swing-state voters to turn in mail ballots, consider bypassing Postal Service
Prominent Democrats told voters on Monday that if they have yet to send in their mail or absentee ballot, it might be better to take that ballot and cast it in person.
Yahoo NewsContrasting responses to COVID-19 restrictions highlights split among evangelical Christians
In May, journalist Mindy Belz was frustrated by the way she saw white conservative Christians in America responding to the pandemic. Belz, by contrast, told Yahoo News that her tweet in May was driven by disappointment in the response of many American Christians to COVID-19.
Yahoo NewsLiberals worry Trump supporters will try to intimidate voters at the polls
Worries about intimidation at the polls stem directly from President Trump’s rhetoric on the subject. Trump has relentlessly made false claims about Democrats cheating and rigging the election, and he has urged his supporters to go to the polls to try to prevent wrongdoing.
Yahoo NewsTrump has sparked a shift in how some conservatives talk and think about abortion
There is a robust argument being made, by prominent public figures but also among everyday Americans, that the white evangelical movement has made a Faustian bargain by supporting the GOP, and President Trump, in exchange for promises to eliminate abortion.
Yahoo NewsAnxieties rise about substantial delays — and Republican trickery — in election results
One prominent election lawyer said that Republicans in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin appear to want lengthy delays after Election Day in counting votes, given their failure to act and let mail-in ballots be counted before Election Day.
Yahoo NewsTrump won 81 percent of white evangelicals in 2016. Ralph Reed says he’ll do better this year.
“I think polling is at this point, it’s a discredited science,” Reed said.
Yahoo NewsEvangelicals opposed to Trump step out of the shadows with new groups and ads
A growing number of evangelical groups have formed to encourage Christians to reject President Trump and vote for Joe Biden.