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  • Trump claims victory over Biden

    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times|Updated Nov 4, 2020

    President Donald Trump delivered a hazy claim of victory early Wednesday morning over Democratic challenger Joe Biden even as millions of votes remained to be counted, calling on the Supreme Court to "stop a major fraud in our nation." In a 2:30 a.m. appearance at the White House, Trump called the pending outcome "a fraud on the American public" and "embarrassment on our country." "We were getting ready to win this election — frankly we did win this election," he said, citing victories in some states that had yet to be d...

  • Trump hospitalization throws campaign into question

    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times|Updated Oct 3, 2020

    For months, the presidential race has been stubbornly static but on Friday a huge question emerged: Where does it go from here? With President Donald Trump hospitalized with COVID-19 for at least the next few days, it is unclear when or if he will get back to campaigning, how voters — largely impervious to any number of startling events — will react to his sudden illness, and what Democrat Joe Biden does in the meantime. Not least, it is uncertain whether two more presidential debates will come off as planned. “We haven...

  • President proclaims 'new American moment'

    Mark Z. Barabak, The Los Angeles Times|Updated Feb 1, 2018

    WASHINGTON — For over an hour Tuesday night, Presidential Donald Trump vied with pugnacious Trump. The White House had promised a conciliatory and uplifting State of the Union speech, which stood to reason. It's one thing to inveigh against the mess Trump said he inherited a year ago and another to laud the job he claims to have done cleaning it up. Gone, then, was the wreckage, the ruin and the dystopian "American carnage" he deplored in the glowering speech at his i...