Tag: election 2020

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden inched ahead of President Trump early Friday morning in the count to determine who gets Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes and Georgia’s 16 electoral votes. The Associated Press reported at 6:50 a.m. MDT that Biden is now leading Trump in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Biden overtook Trump in the number…

There will be a president-elect by mid-December, but not before considerable fighting and legal wrangling over the results in multiple closely contested battleground states, as the race for the White House remains unresolved three days after Election Day and counting. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has become the prohibitive favorite to secure an Electoral College…

Civil unrest erupted in cities nationwide Tuesday night into early Wednesday as protesters became violent waiting for the results of the presidential election. Hundreds gathered in Black Lives Matter Plaza, a three-block strip running north of the White House. Police took three people involved in fights into custody before midnight, though the Metropolitan Police Department…

With the last campaign finance filings turned in just hours before the start of Election Day, candidates for the General Assembly and the super PACs that supported them reported they spent millions in the final two weeks of the campaign. Between July 20 and Oct. 28, 22 super PACS collectively spent more than $13.7 million…

President Trump claimed to have as good as won the election even as ballots were still being counted across the country in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Appearing in the White House East Room, he said he would go all the way to the Supreme Court to stop any more votes being cast. Trump…

While the 2020 ballot didn’t set a record for ballot measures — that was in 2018, with 13 measures — there was plenty for voters to review, along with the candidates.  Here’s a look at the 11 statewide questions put to voters on the 2020 general election ballot, who backs or opposes those measures, and which ones…

EDITOR’S NOTE: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported all six candidates for Palmer Lake Town Council were voted into office. Only four candidates, Sam Padgett, Karen Stuth, Jessica Farr and Nicole Currier, were voted into office. Voters in Monument on Tuesday struck down a ballot question that would have increased the town’s sales and…

Catherine Nakai was defeating Stephanie Alfieri and Don Dezellem on Tuesday night in the race for Woodland Park City Council. Nakai was edging out Alfieri, 44.6% to 42.5% in early returns, with Dezellem trailing both with 12.8%. In Cripple Creek, voters were overwhelmingly approving ballot question 2A, which eliminates the single bet limit of $100 at…