Wednesday afternoon, Joe Biden inched ever closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to secure the White House. The Democratic nominee flipped Michigan and Wisconsin, two states President Donald Trump won in 2016. As the effort to rebuild the infamous “Blue Wall” of battleground states in the Great Lakes began to hinge upon Pennsylvania, […]

Invest Atlanta has announced the hiring of Bonika Wilson as the agency’s first chief equity and inclusion officer. Wilson will lead Invest Atlanta’s strategies around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and support programs that advance economic mobility across the city of Atlanta. Reporting to Invest Atlanta’s CEO and President Eloisa Klementich, Wilson will work across […]

President Donald Trump was charging ahead Thursday with a strategy to force an election victory, or at least forestall a loss, through legal maneuvers and demands for recounts, a final-ditch effort to prevent states from tallying ballots that could decide the next president. And despite campaign assurances that the numbers will break their way, reality […]

The presidential race between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden remains on razor’s edge as election workers in key states continue to plow through ballots. Here’s what’s happening in each state: Arizona Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said Thursday morning that approximately 450,000 ballots are left for the state to count […]

As Joe Biden edges ever closer to the 270 electoral votes he needs to defeat President Donald Trump, it’s worth considering what politics will look like in the event the former vice president is elected — and whether he has any chance of making good on his promise to return some sense of normalcy to […]

Small groups of demonstrators gathered at swing state election offices and in large cities around the country Wednesday night as votes in the presidential election continued to be counted. The sporadic protests put on display the tensions and high stakes of this presidential election between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, which […]

Wednesday morning, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed 200,000 votes are still outstanding in the state. Raffensperger says the majority of the vote count remaining remains in the fastest-growing counties. He added, the outstanding count is localized within the City of Atlanta and its surrounding counties. “52 to 54,000 ballots in Dekalb county, 74,000 […]

Cori Bush, a progressive community leader and veteran Black Lives Matter activist, won a House seat in Missouri, becoming the state’s first Black woman to represent the state in Congress, according to CNN projections. Bush defeated newcomer Republican Anthony Rogers by a 79% to 19% margin in the race to represent Missouri’s 1st congressional district, […]

Voters in Georgia made their pick for president while holding negative views about the country’s direction, according to an expansive AP survey of the American electorate. AP VoteCast found that three-fifths of Georgia voters said the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction while almost two-fifths said it is on the right track. No Republican […]

President Donald Trump’s campaign filed lawsuits Wednesday in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, laying the groundwork for contesting battleground states as he slipped behind Democrat Joe Biden in the hunt for the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. The new filings, joining existing Republican legal challenges in Pennsylvania and Nevada, demand better […]

Perhaps one of the most unexpected developments in the 2020 presidential campaign is how remarkably stable the state of the race has proved to be through extraordinarily turbulent times. As the race for the White House comes to a close, the landscape looks quite similar to how it looked after the party conventions in August […]