Tag: results
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Why it would be difficult for Trump to reverse the 2024 election results
Donald Trump has ramped up his baseless accusations that Democrats are plotting to “cheat” or “steal” the election, raising fears that the former president is setting the stage for an attempt to overturn the result if Vice President Kamala Harris wins. But any effort to derail the electoral process would run up against an array…
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Trump is increasingly sowing doubts about the eventual election results
As Election Day approaches, former President Donald Trump has increasingly been warning that if he loses, it will be because of cheating. “They’re going to cheat. They cheat. That’s all they want to do is cheat,” Trump said of Democrats during a rally this month in Juneau, Wisconsin. “It’s the only way they’re going to…
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CDC releases blood test results on Missouri bird flu patient as cases spread
The bird flu virus hasn’t yet spread from person to person, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, releasing findings from a monthslong probe into a patient in Missouri who was hospitalized with H5N1. The patient, who tested positive for bird flu in August, had no known contact with dairy cows or poultry.…
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Local election officials in Georgia must certify results, judge rules
County election boards in Georgia are not allowed to refuse to certify election results, a state judge ruled on Tuesday. Concerns of fraud or abuse are to be settled in court, the judge said, not by county officials acting unilaterally. “If election superintendents were, as Plaintiff urges, free to play investigator, prosecutor, jury, and judge…
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How different turnout models change the NBC News poll results
Close elections always come down to turnout. And while there remain a lot of unknowns ahead of November’s presidential election, one thing seems almost certain: It’s going to be close, at least in many of the key states that will decide the election. So the bipartisan polling team behind the NBC News poll, Public Opinion…
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Foreign adversaries will try to cast doubt on election results after Nov. 5, U.S. intel officials say
Foreign adversaries will try to shake Americans’ confidence in the legitimacy of election results in November by giving voice to false claims or spreading their own disinformation about ballot counting, U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday. “As we approach Election Day, the intelligence community is also stressing that foreign efforts to undermine America’s democracy won’t end…
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Rep. Adam Schiff says Trump ‘will contest’ election results if he loses
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Sunday echoed President Joe Biden’s remarks from earlier in the week warning that the upcoming election would be “free and fair,” but maybe not “peaceful” during an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.” “If it is close, if [former President] Donald Trump loses again, as I expect that he…
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Is bird flu spreading in people? Without blood test results, officials can’t say.
A total of seven people who were in close contact with a bird flu patient in Missouri developed symptoms, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday, but it remains unclear whether these represent cases of human-to-human spread of the virus. Antibody blood test results, which will come back later this month, officials said,…
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Austria election results: Far-right FPO wins
A far-right party founded by former Nazis appeared to have won Austria’s election Sunday, in a result that could reshape Europe’s political landscape and help tilt the balance of power between Russia and the West. Projections from ORF public television based on exit polls suggest that the pro-Russia, anti-immigration Freedom Party, or FPÖ, has finished…
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German voters fend off far-right in latest state vote, early results suggest
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) looked set to fend off the far-right in a state election in Brandenburg on Sunday after trailing behind the Alternative for Germany (AfD) throughout the campaign, initial official figures showed. The SPD, which has governed the state surrounding the capital Berlin since reunification in 1990, scored 30.9% of…