Byrne, Patrick M

Tears, Screaming and Insults: Inside an ‘Unhinged’ Meeting to Keep Trump in Power

The meeting lasted for more than six hours, past midnight, and devolved into shouting that could be heard outside the room. Participants hurled insults and nearly came to blows. Some people left in tears. Even by the standards of the Trump White House, where people screamed at one another and President Donald J. Trump screamed […]

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The Election Conspiracy Theories Driving Tina Peters to Run in Colorado

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Just six weeks before the 2020 presidential election — game day for vote-counting bureaucrats — Tina Peters was so proud of her operation at the Mesa County clerk’s office that she invited a film crew in to show it off. There’s no chance of mishap here, she boasted. “The Russians can’t […]

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How Influential Election Deniers Have Fueled a Fight to Control Elections

Key figures in the effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election have thrown their weight behind a slate of Republican candidates for secretary of state across the country, injecting specious theories about voting machines, foreign hacking and voter fraud into campaigns that will determine who controls elections in several battleground states. The America First slate […]

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