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How the Ukraine War Is Affecting American Politics

The notion that foreign policy was unimportant to most Americans is a long-held belief by many. One explanation is that foreign policy issues felt distant. Another explanation is that Americans lacked sufficient knowledge of it. But while that may be true in times of peace, Americans definitely do care about foreign policy when a major crisis occurs. This is clearly shown in the overwhelming response Americans have displayed with regards to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Liberalization of America: Liberal Policies Increasingly Popular in Washington

Policies even the far-left couldn’t even dream of two decades ago is now becoming mainstream in Washington, and President Joe Biden is turning in favor of many of them too. From eliminating the filibuster, to investing big in green energy, to overhauling voting rights, to spending big in America’s infrastructure, and to admitting Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico as states, liberal ideals are now starting to gain footholds in Congress.

GOP Opposition On COVID-19 Relief May Backfire

There is no doubt that the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill is popular among Americans. Among the bill’s many provisions include a provision that sends most Americans $1,400 in stimulus money, extends unemployment benefits, and provides many poverty-reducing measures, including a tax credit that could cut child poverty in half. However, the Republican Party has been completely united on opposing the bill, a decision which may come back to bite the GOP in the foot come the 2022 midterms.

Congress Passes $1.9T COVID-19 Relief Package

Both the House and Senate have now passed President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, 49 days after he took office on Jan. 20. The package passed both houses of Congress with zero Republican support, and the approval from Congress comes as U.S. COVID-19 cases and deaths are on a sharp decline and vaccine rollout occurs at one of the fastest rates in the entire world. The bill now proceeds to Biden’s desk, awaiting his signature in order for the bill to become law.

Senate Passes Biden’s $1.9T COVID-19 Stimulus Bill

The U.S. Senate passed President Joe Biden’s historic $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill after an all-night “vote-a-rama” session and a daylong struggle to convince one key senator, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., to get on board with the bill. The bill passed 50-49 by a party-line vote and the House will vote on the bill again Tuesday before it is sent to the president to be signed into law.

Biden Supports Amazon Workers’ Push to Unionize in Alabama

On Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, Amazon, the e-commerce giant, lost a major push to suspend a closely-watched unionization vote at a major warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., allowing over 5,800 workers to decide whether or not to form a union in the first major unionization effort at Amazon since 2014. On Sunday, President Biden issued a video statement on Twitter showing his support for the unionization bid.

Senate Official Rules Against $15 Minimum Wage In Stimulus

Democrats, especially progressive Democrats, suffered a major setback on Thursday in their bid to include a provision that would gradually increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour in the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package, after the Senate parliamentarian, who acts as the rule enforcer, said that it could not be included in the bill, since the bill is to be passed via the budget reconciliation measure.

Neera Tanden Faces Hard Path to Confirmation as OMB Director

Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, is facing scrutiny from members of Congress. As Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced on Friday that he would vote against her confirmation, it significantly reduces the likelihood of her confirmation given Republican resistance to her confirmation.

2020 Election Recap: Most Tumultuous Election of Our Time

With the inauguration of President Joe Biden on Jan. 20, 2021, the 2020 election season officially comes to an end, marking the end of one of the most tumultuous, most defining elections of our lifetimes. A record-breaking 158 million Americans voted in this election, and 74 million of them voted for the Donald Trump-Mike Pence ticket, and 81 million voted for the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket. It was the first time in history any ticket surpassed 70 million votes.

Biden Signs Executive Orders On COVID-19 Control, Stimulus

On Thursday, President Joe Biden signed another 11 executive orders to coordinate a better federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which was severely mishandled by the Trump administration and has already taken the toll of more than 400,000 Americans to date. He is also expected to sign another two orders Friday to provide some more economic relief to the millions of people affected by the pandemic.

‘Democracy Has Prevailed’: Joe Biden Officially Sworn In

Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Kamala Harris were officially sworn in Wednesday as the 46th President and 49th Vice President of the United States respectively. The historic inauguration took place in a country slashed apart by a deadly pandemic, division, and polarization after the tumultuous Donald Trump presidency, which tested American democracy in unprecedented ways. But ultimately, one thing was clear, in the words of Joe Biden: “Democracy has prevailed.”

A New Day In America: Biden Prepares to Be Sworn In as 46th POTUS

At precisely noon EST on Wednesday, Donald Trump and Mike Pence will cease to be president and vice president of the United States respectively. At the same time, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in as the 46th President and 49th Vice President of the United States. The swearing-in of Biden and Harris will flip open a new page in American history and will also simultaneously mark the end of the Trump era.

Possible Policy Changes In the Biden Presidency

With the Democratic Party controlling the House, Senate, and presidency for the first time since 2008, a wave of big changes in Washington could soon be upon us. President-elect Joe Biden has made pledges to reverse or remove some policies implemented by the Donald Trump administration, as well as pass aggressive COVID-19 relief and stimulus. Here are some of the major possible policy changes under a Democratic government.

A Look at Biden’s Final Cabinet Picks

With President-elect Joe Biden taking office in just five days, he has confirmed his final nominees to serve in his Cabinet and other cabinet-level positions. Biden has picked a very diverse cabinet, with almost all races having some representation in his Cabinet. Among the 15 Cabinet-level department secretaries, five are female and seven are nonwhite.

Trump Demanded Georgia Officials to ‘Find’ Votes So He Wins

In a stunning hour-long phone call on Saturday afternoon made public by The Washington Post, President Trump demanded Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” votes in order to overturn the results of the election after his decisive loss to President-Elect Joe Biden. The call raised legal questions from experts and is causing issues for the GOP in the Georgia runoffs, which are just two days away.

GOP Plans To Challenge Electoral College Vote Will Fail

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is planning to object to Congress certifying the Electoral College vote for President-Elect Joe Biden when on Jan. 5, after the 117th Congress is sworn in. He is expected to be joined by over 140 House Republicans in objecting to the vote, citing voter fraud, which has already been debunked thoroughly, including Trump-loyalist former Attorney General William Barr and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The move, though has attracted criticism not just from across the aisle but also from fellow Republicans.

The States That Swung The Most In the 2020 Presidential Election

There were lots of surprises in terms of how each state voted in the 2020 election. A number of states shifted drastically in terms of how they voted this election compared to the 2016 election. And though this year was not the Democratic landslide many had hoped for, all states to see big swings were to the left.

Biden Picks First-Ever Native American to Lead Interior

President-Elect Joe Biden has chosen Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico to lead the Department of the Interior (DOI), making her the first-ever Native American cabinet secretary and to lead the department which is most intertwined with Indian affairs (the Bureau of Indian Affairs, BIA, is under the DOI, after all). She is the third House representative to be chosen and this selection has some major implications on the Democrats’ House majority.

Pete Buttigieg To Become Transportation Secretary

On Tuesday, President-Elect Joe Biden officially announced that Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and a leading frontrunner in the 2020 Democratic primaries, to become the next Secretary of Transportation, taking over the job currently held by Elaine Chao. The nomination is a significant one for America, for Biden’s cabinet, and for Buttigieg personally.

Electoral College Affirms Biden Victory

President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election was affirmed as the electors of the Electoral College cast their votes, giving Biden a 306 electoral votes to 232 for President Trump. Not one elector voted faithlessly. The Electoral College vote went smoothly with no dramas, and the vote successfully affirms Biden’s victory, putting a close to President Trump’s allegations of voter fraud and this election being “rigged” (no evidence has been found of election-rigging or voter fraud).

SCOTUS Rejects Texas Suit Trying to Nullify Election

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton which sought to nullify the election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, effectively trying to disenfranchise tens of millions of voters and overturn the results of a fair, free election which found no evidence of voter fraud. The rejection effectively puts a rest to the shameless attempt by the Trump wing of the GOP to subvert the election.

Texas GOP Lawsuit To Invalidate Millions of Votes Is Ludicrous

On December 8, 2020, the Republican Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court alleging that Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Michigan violated federal law by changing election law prior to the election, claiming that voter fraud would be “undetectable.” The lawsuit is basically asking the Supreme Court to disenfranchise millions of voters in battleground states and overturn the results of a fair, free election with no evidence of voter fraud.

SCOTUS Denies Pennsylvania GOP to Overturn Certification

In just one sentence, “[t]he application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied,” the Supreme Court of the United States on Tuesday denied Pennsylvania Republicans’ request to overturn the results of the presidential election in Pennsylvania, where President-Elect Joe Biden won by 1.2 percent.

Texas Is Undoubtedly a Swing State

For the longest time, Texas has been a solid Republican stronghold. It has always voted for the Republican presidential candidate since 1976, and as recently as 2012, it voted for the Republican by a safe margin (Mitt Romney won the state by a whopping 16 points that year). Ever since then, though, the state has been moving gradually toward the left. There is little doubt that the results of the 2020 election in Texas show that the state is a swing state.

Transition to Biden Presidency Formally Begins

Almost three weeks after Election Day, the Trump administration has finally formally approved to begin the transition progress to the incoming Biden-Harris administration. The announcement comes after Emily Murphy, the Trump-appointed head of the General Services Administration which leads transition, designated Joe Biden as the “apparent winner” of the 2020 election.

Trump Makes Last-Ditch Effort To Overturn Election

There is no doubt about it: President-Elect Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election fair and square. Yet, make no mistake: President Donald Trump continues to deny the election results, refusing to concede the election. He has filed lawsuit after lawsuit to try and get courts to throw out hundreds of thousands of legally cast ballots and tried to attempt to change the results of the election so much that it may amount to a coup.

Georgia Finishes Recount; Biden Affirmed As Winner

After a very grueling recount, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, has officially declared President-Elect Joe Biden as the official winner of the 2020 Presidential Election in Georgia. The announcement comes as President Trump has sought to delegitimize the election results and pressured the secretary of state to not announce Biden the winner. It also comes as Georgia’s Republican U.S. Senate candidates, Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has also asked the secretary of state to resign or throw out ballots to allow Trump to win.

Were Polls Wrong In the 2020 Election?

We have analyzed lots of polls prior to the 2020 election, and they have formed a large part of our pre-election predictions. Obviously, there is no “one-size-fits-all” type analysis for the polls, since polls were wildly incorrect in some states but almost spot-on in others. In this post, we are going to take a look at some of the presidential polls and how they were very wrong (or right) about the results of this election.

President Trump’s Refusal To Concede Is Dangerous

Amid a global pandemic that has already claimed 246,000 American lives, lame-duck President Donald Trump continues to refuse to concede to President-Elect Joe Biden and continues to deny the integrity and security of the 2020 elections in an attempt to cast doubt on the safety of the nation’s voting systems. The refusal to concede by a sitting president in an election he clearly lost is unprecedented in such a nontight race and is dangerous to the United States as a whole.

Biden Wins the Electoral College With 306 Votes

With the Associated Press and most media calling the state of Georgia for President-Elect Joe Biden and the state of North Carolina called for President Trump, the President-Elect officially wins the Electoral College with 306 electoral votes over the President’s 232 votes. Ironically, Hillary Clinton lost with 232 votes back in 2016, so in terms of the number of votes, there has been a complete flip.

Joe Biden Declared As the 46th President of the United States

Following the announcement that the 2020 Presidential Election has been called for Joe Biden by most major news networks at 11:25 a.m. ET on Nov. 7, 2020, I would like to follow up with some quick analysis about the race. All major news networks have now called the race, with President-Elect Joe Biden winning 279 or 290 electoral votes currently.

BREAKING: JOE BIDEN WINS 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Joe Biden has been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election by the Associated Press. CNN, NBC News, ABC News, The New York Times, Fox News, and more have called the race as well. More to come.

BREAKING: Decision Desk HQ CALLS Race For Biden

Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) has just called the presidential race for Joe Biden after Biden took the lead in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, declaring Joe Biden the victory of the 2020 Presidential Election and the 46th President of the United States. With DDHQ calling Pennsylvania and the entire race for Joe Biden, an Associated Press (AP) race call is imminent.

America Awaits Anxiously as Biden Leads In Georgia

Overnight, a number of new developments have occurred, the most significant being that Georgia, a traditional Republican stronghold, has flipped blue for the first time since 1996. As of writing, Biden currently takes a 1,096-vote lead, or a 0.0002 percent lead, with 99 percent of precincts reporting and 4,960,275 people voting. America now awaits anxiously for the race to be called.

What To Watch For On Election Night (Final Update)

Election Day is officially here. After a very, very long, very, very drawn-out campaign season, we have finally reached the last day that people will be able to cast their ballots all over the country. With the first polls closing at 6 p.m. Eastern and the last polls closing at 1 a.m., even if all the states were to be called immediately at poll closing (it won’t happen), that is still a five-hour wait. In this post, we are going to discuss which states and races to keep an eye on tonight, which could indicate in which direction the race goes.

Final 2020 Pre-Election Electoral College Prediction

This is it: tomorrow is the big day. In just one day, we will finally see the big showdown between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. This is the last Newshacker Blog Electoral College prediction, and, spoiler alert: Joe Biden continues to be the expected winner in this projection. Already, 94 million people have voted already based on data from the U.S. Elections Project, and Joe Biden has an approximately 90 percent chance of victory on FiveThirtyEight.

Final Presidential Debate Likely Isn’t Persuading Voters

The last presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden took place in Nashville, Tennessee, on the night of October 22, just 12 days away from Election Day. With the U.S. Elections Project already reporting a vote count of 50 million (more than that of the total early vote count in the entire 2016 election cycle), unfortunately, it seems as though the President was not able to use this debate to flip his campaign around from the 10-point polling deficit he is seeing.

The Worst Presidential Debate Ever

On Tuesday night, Joe Biden and Donald Trump debated each other for the first time this election cycle in what could have been called the worst debate ever in the history of presidential debates. It was more like two people constantly shouting at each other rather than a “debate.” In fact, 83 percent of debate watchers in a CBS News/YouGov poll said the overall debate was “negative.” Last night’s debate took place in Cleveland, Ohio, and the moderator was Chris Wallace from Fox News, who is well known for his tough and ambitious interviews.