Election watchdogs are quizzing Tory chiefs over a secret £60,000 payment for the lavish makeover of Boris Johnson’s flat. They have asked Conservative chairman Ben Elliot to explain whether the party complied with strict laws on political donations. The dramatic development follows a series of disclosures by the Daily Mail on the financing of decor … Read more
Wales and Scotland to lose 10 MPs between them under changes to electoral map designed to make constituencies the same size that would see more politicians elected in England By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 16:36 GMT, 5 January 2021 | Updated: 16:36 GMT, 5 January 2021 Wales and Scotland are set to … Read more
Chris Christie calls Trump’s election fraud claims an ‘absurdity’ and slams the president for still refusing to concede The former New Jersey governor helped Trump with his election campaign He has grown increasingly frustrated with the president’s refusal to concede Christie was part of a round table discussion on ABC on Sunday morning He said … Read more
California certified its presidential election Friday and appointed 55 electors pledged to vote for Joe Biden, officially handing him the Electoral College majority needed to win the White House. Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s formal approval of Biden’s win in the state brought his tally of pledged electors so far to 279, according to a … Read more
President-elect Joe Biden suggested Thursday President Donald Trump’s moves to try to get Michigan legislators to try to throw the state’s electoral votes his way was illegal and slammed the president’s actions as ‘hard to fathom.’ Biden measured his words and took long pauses when asked about Trump’s post-election moves – minutes after Trump’s legal … Read more
Donald Trump does have a precarious – and politically explosive – path to keeping the White House. To do it he needs to get Joe Biden’s wins in a series of states set aside. With his claim that the Supreme Court would do that looking to have evaporated, instead he has to use the procedures … Read more
Sworn statements from a Donald Trump campaign lawsuit alleging vote fraud include complaints about military ballots going for Biden despite one GOP poll watcher saying he thought those who serve are ‘conservative.’ The same poll-watcher also said under oath that he believed independent poll watchers were in fact left-wing radicals. Among the the things that tipped … Read more
President Donald Trump’s post-election legal strategy has been to file lawsuits everywhere his team believes there are votes to be found or blocked and where Joe Biden is inching ahead – even if their push in one state contradicts what they are seeking in another. The strategy gives Trump’s lawyers multiple avenue for challenges, with … Read more