MONDAY’S MEETING OF presidential electors in state capitols across the country is the kind of ritual that usually gets cursory news coverage, one of those quadrennial stories reported more as a reminder of the country’s quirky method of electing a president than a moment of true drama and importance. But all of that was different […]
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Trump’s rise — and fall — carry a Massachusetts echo
HIS ELECTORAL TRIUMPH seemed like a fluke. Just to pursue our highest public office as a first-time candidate was improbable enough. To go on to win it was so flabbergasting as to cause the many pollsters who had predicted his defeat to question their sampling methods. But in retrospect, the victory was not entirely surprising. A […]
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Mass GOP jumps on unfounded election ‘fraud’ bandwagon
“DEAD PEOPLE voted!” “In Wisconsin, a ‘glitch’ added over 100,000 votes to Biden’s tally in the dead of the night, and ZERO to any other candidate.” Tweets from President Trump? No. A fundraising email from Massachusetts Republican Party chairman Jim Lyons. Taking a page from the man he’s shown unstinting loyalty to, Lyons is parroting […]
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Baker really is a RINO
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER’S status was sealed last night: He is now an officially certified leading figure among the ever-shrinking ranks of major elected Republican officials who question the sanity of their party. It came when CNN’s Don Lemon, whose nightly show has been part of the cable network’s four-year monologue on the destruction being wrought […]
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Baker slams Trump for stalling transition
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER strongly criticized President Trump on Tuesday for stalling an orderly presidential transition process at a time when the nation is entering a critical period in the fight against COVID-19. “I can’t think of a worse time to stall a transition than amid a deadly pandemic,” Baker said at a State House press conference. […]
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Biden trumps Trump
AFTER FOUR TUMULTUOUS years under Donald Trump that upended countless norms of the US presidency and four days of vote-counting that kept the country — and world — on edge, Joe Biden was elected the country’s 46th president. Victory came on the 77-year-old former Democratic vice president’s third run for the White House, and also […]
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Baker says Trump’s conspiracy claims not supported by facts
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER criticized President Trump on Friday for suggesting there is some kind of national conspiracy going on related to the counting of votes across the country. Trump has said he is being cheated out of a second term by “the corrupt voting apparatus of the states,” which is counting “illegal votes” that have […]
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One place Trump gained in Mass.: heavily Latino cities
DEEP BLUE MASSACHUSETTS, where Joe Biden ran up his biggest margin of any state, was an afterthought in the presidential race, which was largely fought in a dozen or so battleground states. But results in Lawrence and a handful of other Massachusetts Gateway Cities with large Latino populations show a striking pattern that lines up […]
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Race in doubt, polling in the cross hairs
WE DON’T KNOW who will win the presidential election, but it seems clear who is getting tagged with a big loss: pollsters. “We still don’t know much about this election — except that the media and pollsters blew it again,” reads the headline over Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan’s early-morning dispatch posted at 5 […]
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Blue wave rolls across state
WITH AMERICANS CASTING ballots in an election unlike any other, Massachusetts residents voted in record numbers, with Democrats hoping that a blue wave washing over Bay State contests extends to the presidential race and pivotal US Senate contests as well as to down-ballot races for seats in the already Democrat-dominated state Legislature. From the home […]