Tag: gretchen whitmer
Heavily fortified statehouses around U.S. see small protests
Small groups of right-wing protesters — some of them carrying rifles — gathered outside heavily fortified statehouses around the country Sunday, outnumbered by National...
States declare emergencies, close capitols ahead of rallies
Responding to warnings of potentially violent demonstrations, governors across the nation are calling out National Guard troops, declaring states of emergency and closing their...
Joe Biden’s transition gets green light as Donald Trump at last...
The federal government recognized President-elect Joe Biden as the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election on Monday, formally starting the transition of power...
Trump backers converge on vote centers in Michigan, Arizona
Dozens of angry supporters of President Donald Trump converged on vote-counting centers in Detroit and Phoenix as the returns went against him Wednesday in...
Joe Biden vows to unify and save country; Donald Trump hits...
Joe Biden traveled Tuesday to the hot springs town where Franklin Delano Roosevelt coped with polio to declare the U.S. is not too politically...
Donald Trump defies coronavirus rules as ‘peaceful protest’ rallies grow
Democratic governors and local leaders have urged the president to reconsider the events, warning that he's putting lives at risk.
Donald Trump campaigns in battleground Michigan amid book fallout
Trump reveled in the crowd of several thousand, packed shoulder-to-shoulder in a cavernous airport hangar, mostly without masks.
Democrats claim ‘big tent’ for first convention in pandemic
The extraordinary ideological range of Biden's many messengers on the opening night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention was perhaps best demonstrated by former presidential contenders from opposing parties.
Swing-state Republicans pin virus fallout on Democrats
Backlash comes as some governors, mostly Republicans, are beginning to ease their stay-at-home orders.
Leading in pandemic becomes part of audition for Joe Biden’s VP
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic has become an unexpected part of the audition.
