Jun 21 Who is Rep. Rusty Bowers and why is he testifying before the Jan. 6 committee? By Erica R. Hendry, Kenichi Serino Republican Rep. Russell “Rusty” Bowers, speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, will testify about pressure he faced from former President Donald Trump and his allies to intervene in his state’s election results. Continue reading
Oct 10 No. 2 House Republican refuses to say election wasn’t stolen By Hope Yen, Associated Press The House’s second-ranking Republican, Rep. Steve Scalise, repeatedly refused to say on Sunday that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, standing by Donald Trump’s lie that Democrat Joe Biden won the White House because of mass voter fraud. Continue reading
Oct 07 Senate report details Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost By Mary Clare Jalonick, Eric Tucker, Colleen Long, Associated Press The report released Thursday offers new insight about how the Republican incumbent tried to undo the vote and exert his will on the Justice Department, asking leaders to declare the election "corrupt" and disparaging its top official for not doing… Continue reading
Jul 25 AP FACT CHECK: Trump is relentless in election fabrications By Calvin Woodward, Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press In mid-May, partisan investigators hired by Arizona state lawmakers backed off their allegation that the state’s most populous county had destroyed its 2020 election database. Confronted with proof that the data still existed, they admitted everything was there. Continue reading
Jun 09 Watch 9:39 Wave of new voting laws raises questions about voter access and integrity Since the 2020 election, laws restricting voter access passed in 14 states across the U.S., all with Republican-controlled state legislatures. They've sparked outrage from voting rights groups and from two former co-chairs of the Presidential Election Commission. Democrat Bob Bauer,… Continue watching
Apr 26 Firm recounting Arizona ballots wants methods kept secret By Bob Christie, Associated Press A contractor hired by Arizona's state Senate to oversee the recount of 2.1 million ballots from November's election in the county. Continue reading
Jan 25 Watchdog investigates if DOJ officials tried to overturn election By Associated Press Inspector General Michael Horowitz said Monday that the investigation will probe allegations concerning the conduct of former and current Justice Department officials but will not extend to other government officials. Continue reading
Jan 09 Trump pressured Georgia to ‘find the fraud’ in earlier call By Ben Nadler, Associated Press While election officials in Georgia were verifying signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in one metro-Atlanta county, President Donald Trump pressed a lead investigator to “find the fraud” and said it would make the investigator a national hero. Continue reading
Dec 24 Watch 16:24 How the pandemic has exposed America’s deep divide 2020 has been a year unlike any within living memory, and one that exposed some of America's deepest divides. Judy Woodruff spoke with emergency medical physician Dr. Uche Blackstock, Eddie Glaude, of Princeton University, New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore,… Continue watching
Dec 15 Watch 7:48 Immigrants hear echoes from the past in Trump’s election claims By Yamiche Alcindor, Layla Quran More than a month after the 2020 election, President Donald Trump continues to falsely insist the results are fraudulent and the election was stolen from him. And for some immigrants, hearing those claims reminds them of the political turmoil they… Continue watching