Star-Advertiser coverage of the 2020 elections.
They were never a natural fit, the straight-laced evangelical and the brash reality TV star. But for more than four years, President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence made their marriage of political convenience work. Read more
The Rev. and Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock shares more than a party with President-elect Joe Biden: Both Democrats made faith a central part of their political identity on the campaign trail — and their victories are emboldening religious liberals. Read more
With 13 days left in his term, President Donald Trump finally bent to reality Thursday amid growing talk of trying to force him out early, acknowledging he’ll peacefully leave after Congress affirmed his defeat. Read more
The turnabout leaves Abrams as perhaps the nation’s most popular, influential Democrat not in elected office. Read more
A West Virginia lawmaker recorded video of himself and fellow supporters of President Donald Trump storming the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, triggering calls for his resignation. Read more
A sober, shaken Senate returned to its hallowed chamber tonight to slap away a frivolous election challenge, but its secondary purpose seemed to be to rise from the wreckage of a shocking day in which they were forced to flee the Capitol by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump. Read more
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Democrats captured control of the U.S. Senate today with a pair of historic victories in Georgia’s runoff elections, assuring slim majorities in both chambers of Congress for President-elect Joe Biden and delivering an emphatic, final rebuke to President Donald Trump in his last days in office. Read more
The nation’s elected representatives scrambled to crouch under desks and don gas masks, while police futilely tried to barricade the building, one of the most jarring scenes ever to unfold in a seat of American political power. Read more
Georgia has become a political focal point since the Nov. 3 general election, when none of the candidates in the state’s two Senate contests earned more than 50 percent of the vote. Read more
The objection now forces two hours of debate in the House and Senate, sending lawmakers away to separate deliberations. Read more
Pence’s message, delivered during his weekly lunch with the president, came hours after Trump further turned up the public pressure on the vice president to do his bidding. Read more
The focus now shifts to the other race between Republican David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff. Read more
State election officials reported light turnout this morning, including in the deeply conservative northwest region where Trump held a rally Monday night to encourage GOP voters to turn out in force. Read more
Sterling’s sharp rebuke offered the most vivid example of how Trump’s sustained assault on Georgia’s voting integrity has roiled the state’s politics before Tuesday’s runoffs. Read more
If Pence has tried to skirt Trump’s efforts to cling to power, his reception in Georgia on Monday served as the latest reminder of the delicate role he will play Wednesday. Read more
Trump’s unprecedented attempt to overturn the presidential election is splitting the Republican Party. Read more
