Jimmy Carter

Former President Jimmy Carter, honored more widely for his humanitarian work around the globe after his presidency than for his White House tenure during a tumultuous time, has died, according to multiple reports. He was 100.

The Nobel Peace Prize-winner died at his home in Plains, Georgia, the Carter Center announced. In November 2023, his wife of 77 years, Rosalynn, also passed away in the modest house they built together in 1961, when he had taken over his father's peanut warehouse business and was only beginning to consider a political career.

In February 2023, he had announced he was ending medical intervention and moving to hospice care.

Jason Carter had visited his grandparents at the time of the announcement and said "They are at peace and – as always – their home is full of love," he posted on Twitter. 

At peace, perhaps, but still political: The former president vowed he wanted to cast a ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

After serving a single term in the White House, Jimmy Carter became one of the most durable figures in modern American politics. Evicted from the White House at age 56, he would hold the status of former president longer than anyone in U.S. history, and in 2019 he surpassed George H. W. Bush as the nation's oldest living ex-president. 

Carter remained remarkably active in charitable causes through a series of health challenges during his final years, including a bout with brain cancer in 2015. He was admitted to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta in November 2019 for a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain, a consequence of bleeding that followed a series of falls. A few months earlier, in May, he had undergone surgery after breaking his hip.

In the White House from 1977 to 1981, Carter negotiated the landmark Camp David peace accords between Israel and Egypt, transferred the Panama Canal to Panamanian ownership, dramatically expanded public lands in Alaska and established formal diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China.

But the 39th president governed at a time of soaring inflation and gasoline shortages, and his failure to secure the release of Americans held hostage by Iran helped cost him the second term he sought.

“He’s never going to be ranked as a great president; he’s middling as a president,” said historian Douglas Brinkley, author of a 1998 book on Carter, "The Unfinished Presidency." “But as an American figure, he’s a giant.”

After losing his reelection bid to Ronald Reagan, and until well into his 90s, Carter continued working as an observer of elections in developing countries, building houses through the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity and teaching Sunday school at the tiny Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, his hometown.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, 22 years after he left the White House.

"I can't deny that I was a better ex-president than I was a president," he said with a wry laugh at a breakfast with reporters in Washington in 2005.

"My former boss was humiliated when he lost in 1980; he felt he let himself and the American people down," David Rubenstein, a young White House staffer for Carter who became founder of the Carlyle Group and a billionaire philanthropist, told USA TODAY in an interview in 2019.

"For a long time, he was basically the symbol of a weak president and a terrible person. And today, 40-some years later, he's seen as a very incredible person who has had many good things he did, though he didn't get reelected," Rubenstein said.

Peanut farms and nuclear subs

James Earl Carter Jr. was born on Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains to Earl Carter, a peanut warehouser who had served in the Georgia Legislature, and “Miss Lillian” Carter, a registered nurse and formidable figure who joined the Peace Corps when she was in her 60s.

He grew up on a peanut farm in Plains, then graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy. In the years after World War II, he served in the Navy's submarine service in the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. After doing graduate work in nuclear physics, he became a pioneer in the introduction of nuclear power in submarines.

When his father died in 1953, Carter resigned his naval commission and took over operation of the family peanut farms with Rosalynn, his hometown sweetheart. After a rough early patch, the business flourished, and Carter became increasingly active in community affairs and politics.

During two terms in the Georgia state Senate, he gained a reputation as an independent voice who attacked wasteful government practices and helped repeal laws designed to discourage Black Americans from voting.

But in 1966, he lost a race for governor to segregationist Lester Maddox in an election that analysts said reflected a Southern backlash against national civil rights legislation enacted in 1964 and 1965. In a second bid for governor in 1970, Carter minimized his appearances before Black audiences and won endorsements from some segregationists.

After he was elected, though, Carter declared that the era of segregation in Georgia was over, and he was hailed as a symbol of a new, more inclusive South.

Still, he was an unlikely presidential contender. When he launched his bid for the 1976 Democratic nomination, the former one-term governor was so obscure outside the Peach State that “Jimmy who?” became a campaign trope. He perfected the meticulous cultivation of voters in Iowa, and his unexpected victory in the opening presidential caucuses there provided a launching pad that long-shot contenders tried to emulate for decades.

The Watergate scandal boosted Carter's prospects. In the aftermath of President Richard Nixon’s decision to resign in 1974 rather than be impeached, Carter pitched himself to voters as an outsider who would reject Washington’s unsavory ways. “I’ll never lie to you,” he told them.

In 1976, he narrowly defeated President Gerald Ford, whose campaign was damaged by verbal missteps and by controversy over his decision to pardon Nixon.

Four years later, Carter would be ousted himself. He faced a damaging challenge for the Democratic nomination from the left by Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy and then a landslide defeat in the general election from the right by Reagan.

The former California governor tapped into discontent with Carter’s leadership. “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Reagan asked voters in the iconic closing of their only campaign debate.

Presidential achievements eclipsed?

Carter’s defenders argue that he was a better president than generally recognized.

"I think that he is the most underappreciated modern president that we've had," said Stuart Eizenstat, a veteran Washington official and ambassador who was Carter’s chief domestic policy adviser in the White House.

"The reason for that is the lingering memories of his presidency are negative ones – gasoline lines, high interest rates and inflation, the Iran hostage crisis, the Desert One failed rescue effort – and those totally obscure a really remarkable set of accomplishments both at home and abroad, which in many ways didn't materialize until after he left office."

Eizenstat, author of "President Carter: The White House Years," published in 2018, said Carter's policies and appointments laid the groundwork for a stronger economy, energy independence, environmental protection, business innovation in transportation and more.

On foreign policy, Carter painstakingly negotiated the 1978 Camp David Accords, a historic agreement between Israel's Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat that led to a formal peace treaty between the two countries the next year. 

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But he stumbled when he came to the politics of the job.

Despite having the advantage of a solidly Democratic Congress, many of his legislative proposals, including a consumer protection bill, stalled. The no-backroom-deals approach that helped him win the White House contributed to his difficulties in actually governing once he got there. He was mocked for charging members of Congress for their breakfast when invited to meet with him at the White House and for eliminating alcohol from most evening events.

He was seen by some, then and later, as prickly and sanctimonious.

Meanwhile, unemployment rose, interest rates for home mortgages climbed into double digits and Americans found themselves waiting in lines to buy gas in an oil crisis created by OPEC, the powerful international energy cartel. In a speech to the nation in July 1979, Carter described a “crisis of confidence" among the American people. Although he never said the word, it became short-handed as his “malaise” speech.

"He lacked the political and managerial skills needed to make best use of the office he held," said Robert McClure, a political scientist at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Damaged by the hostage crisis

Most damaging of all was the Iranian hostage crisis.

Carter had agreed to allow Iran's deposed shah, a former U.S. ally who was living in exile, to receive cancer treatment in the United States. In protest, Iranian Islamist radicals overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans captive. The confrontation, which began on Nov. 4, 1979, would end only as Reagan was being inaugurated 444 days later.

Carter chose diplomacy and economic sanctions over military action. He halted oil imports from Iran and froze Iranian assets in the U.S. He severed diplomatic relations with Iran and imposed a full economic embargo on the country.

Finally, he approved a top-secret military mission to free the hostages, but it ended in catastrophe. Three helicopters developed engine trouble in a remote staging area in the Iranian desert, forcing the mission to be aborted. Eight U.S. troops were killed when a helicopter and a plane collided while forces were being withdrawn.

It all added to the impression that Carter was out of his depth.

"The hostage crisis left a bitter taste in voters' mouths, which Carter was never able to overcome," said Stephen Hess, a Brookings Institution scholar who worked on Carter's transition team when he was president-elect.

On the day of Reagan's inauguration, Jan. 20, 1981, Iran agreed to accept $8 billion in frozen assets and a promise by the U.S. to lift trade sanctions in exchange for the release of the hostages. Minutes after Carter's successor took the oath of office, the hostages were freed.

Finally, a Nobel Peace Prize

Carter left the White House, but he didn’t retire.

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter established the Carter Center in Atlanta, their home base for decades as they worked on global health and democracy. He helped negotiate an end to the long civil war in Nicaragua between the Contra rebels and the Sandinistas. He met with North Korean leaders to try to end its nuclear weapons program. He mediated conflicts in Ethiopia, Liberia, Haiti, Bosnia, Sudan, Uganda and Venezuela. He led dozens of delegations of international observers to various countries to help assure elections were free and fair.

For decades, the Carter Center also led an international campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease, a devastating tropical ailment that in 1986 afflicted an estimated 3.5 million people in Africa and Asia. In 2020, it was on the verge of eradication; just 27 cases were reported in six African countries.

For a week each year, the Carters volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, a charitable group that renovates and builds homes for poor people around the world.

He also wrote more than 30 books – controversial ones on the Palestinian territories and the Middle East and less controversial ones on Christmas memories and fly-fishing. He published a collection of his poems and a collection of his paintings. Again and again, he returned to writing about the lessons and demands of his Christian faith.

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Carter, who attended Donald Trump's inauguration in 2017, at times criticized the 45th president. In June 2019, at a Carter Center conference in suburban Virginia, he questioned the legitimacy of Trump's election, citing allegations of Russian interference that were later called into question.

Trump responded at a news conference by calling Carter a "nice man, terrible president."

But there were also times when Carter reached out to Trump. On the 40th anniversary of the normalization of U.S.-China relations, in 2019, he sent Trump a letter offering advice on managing that relationship. Carter said the phone conversation that followed was the first time the two men had spoken.  

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In 2002, Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize that supporters thought he had deserved years earlier, when it had been presented to Begin and Sadat. The Nobel committee honored Carter "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights and to promote economic and social development."

"The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices," Carter said in accepting the prestigious award. "God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes – and we must."

Friendly skies: Jimmy Carter shakes hands of every passenger on his flight

When he left the White House, Carter moved back home to Plains. Unlike most other modern presidents, he didn't choose to make money by delivering high-priced speeches or serving on corporate boards. But he did regularly speak to hundreds of visitors who would gather for his Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church.

In November 2019, he told those gathered that he didn't fear death.

"It's incompatible for any Christian not to believe in life after death," Carter, then 95, told them, although he acknowledged he had wrestled with doubts throughout his life. In his prayers, he said, "I didn't ask God to let me live, but I just asked God to give me a proper attitude toward death. And I found that I was absolutely and completely at ease with death." 

In July 2021, he and his wife hosted a 75th anniversary party in Plains attended by about 300 friends, family members and fellow pols, among them Bill and Hillary Clinton. Carter, his fragility apparent, made a point of greeting the guests at each table for what many of them assumed would be the last time they saw him. 

"He was not a self-promoter in the White House or afterwards, and I think that hurt, because it leaves all the sour tastes from the failures and didn't allow the positives to shine through," Eizenstat said. When Eizenstat visited Carter in Plains in 2018, Carter told his former aide he was comfortable with letting history judge.

Historic photo: George H.W. Bush, George W. and Laura Bush, the Clintons, the Obamas and Melania Trump huddle for a picture

As he approached his 90th birthday, Carter mused about his legacy in an interview with USA TODAY.

"One is peace," he said. "I kept peace when I was president and I try to promote peace between other people and us, and between countries that were potentially at war, between Israel and Egypt for instance. And human rights. ... I think human rights and peace are the two things I'd like to be remembered for – as well as being a good grandfather."

Contributing: Richard Benedetto

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Jimmy Carter, 39th US president and noted humanitarian, has died

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Hawaii Drivers

are the worst.

Hawaii motorists exhibit the worst driving behavior in the nation, according to a recent report by Forbes Advisor.

Based on a survey of 5,000 Americans with a driver’s license — 100 respondents in each state — Hawaii ranked first for changing lanes or turning without signaling, going 20 miles per hour or more over the speed limit and running red lights.

Hawaii drivers also ranked high for other bad behavior on the road, such as driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and texting while driving.

Following behind the Aloha State in the bad-­behavior rankings were drivers in Oregon, New Mexico, Wyoming, Alaska, North Dakota, Connecticut, Vermont, Kansas and West Virginia. Motorists in Mississippi were the best behaved, according to the report by Forbes Advisor, which provides consumer advice on insurance, banking and other financial products and services.

Local drivers who spoke to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser indicated that distracted driving and impatient motorists were larger concerns than some of the other traffic-related behaviors cited in the report.

Kakaako resident Lienny Young, 37, said the number of people with poor driving habits in Hawaii is “outrageous.” She said that on a number of occasions she’s observed drivers who seem to “go crazy” due to impatience.

The Oahu native believes part of the problem may be some mainland transplants who might have different driving habits and a disregard for local rules of the road. But driver behavior also may be a result of increased development on the island in recent years and a “hustle and bustle” city environment that puts people in a mindset to rush around and become more selfish in their driving behavior, she said.

The Forbes Advisor report said 20% of Hawaii respondents admitted changing lanes or turning without signaling; 13% said they drove 20 mph or more over the speed limit in the past month; and 8% indicated they had run a red light.

Nearly half — or 47% — of the Hawaii motorists surveyed admitted speeding less than 10 mph over the limit in the past month.

The survey also revealed that Hawaii drivers ranked second for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs; third for speeding 10 to 19 mph over the limit; and fourth for texting while driving, speeding to get through a yellow light and angrily honking at another driver.

Local motorists ranked sixth for refusing to yield to another driver and seventh for cutting off another driver.

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8/23/23 - Five takeaways from the Republican debate

8/9/23 - Trump won't sign GOP loyalty pledge required for first debate

7/24/23 - Kamala Harris and DeSantis sparring over Florida's take on black history

7/12/23 - Chris Christie takes the high road (?) in response to Trump

7/11/23 - DeSantis trails Trump by 20 points in Florida

6/15/23 - Miami GOP mayor Frank Suarez enters the race

6/8/23 - Will Trump pick Kari Lake as running mate?

6/7/23 - Pence says he chose the constitution over Trump

6/6/23 - Newsom threatens DeSantis with kidnapping charges

6/4/23 - Pence, DeSantis, Haley criticize Trump for praising Kim Jong Un

6/3/23 - Stone and Gutfield comment on Christie entering the race

5/31/23 - Pence and Christie planning to enter the race

5/25/23 - DeSantis would consider pardoning Trump

5/25/23 - The "real" Donald Trump response to DeSantis announcement

5/24/23 - DeSantis jumps into the the race

5/19/23 - Tim Scott enters the race

5/4/23 - Poll says Trump/DeSantis or Trump/Lake would defeat Biden/Harris

4/25/23 - Biden announces he's running for re-election

4/2/23 - Asa Hutchinson announces candidacy

3/15/23 - Joe Exotic announces presidential run despite being in prison

3/4/23 - Undaunted Marianne Williamson launches 2024 campaign

2/17/23 - Ann Coulter says Haley should go back to her own country

2/16/23 - MTG calls Haley Bush in heels

2/14/23 - Nikki Haley announces bid for the presidency

2/12/23 - Trump still deciding what insulting nickname to use against Ron DeSantis

11/15/22 - Trump announces third presidential bid

The U.S. military is falling behind

The first sentence of the report — released over the summer by a bipartisan, congressionally appointed commission — was blunt: “The threats the United States faces are the most serious and most challenging the nation has encountered since 1945 and include the potential for near-term major war.”

The nation, the report continued, “is not prepared today.”

The threats begin with China, which has grown more belligerent in Asia. In Europe, Russia started the first major war in almost 80 years. In the Middle East, Iran finances a network of extremist groups. Increasingly, these countries work together, too, sometimes with North Korea. The report described them as “an axis of growing malign partnerships.”

An anti-democracy alliance

This anti-American alliance presents a threat because its members are not satisfied with the status quo. That’s why Russia invaded Ukraine and Iran’s proxies have been so aggressive in Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. It’s why China has rammed Philippine boats in the South China Sea and President Xi Jinping has directed China’s military to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027. China, Russia and Iran all want more control over their regions than they now have.

One of the bipartisan group’s central arguments is that American weakness has contributed to the new instability. “This is not a report encouraging the U.S. to go to war,” Jane Harman, the former Democratic congresswoman from California and the commission’s chair, told me. “It’s a report making sure the U.S. can deter war.”

If the U.S. doesn’t do more to deter aggression, living standards in this country could suffer, Harman and her colleagues argued. Iran-backed attacks in the Red Sea have already raised shipping costs, while Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made energy more expensive. A war in Taiwan could cut off access to the semiconductors that power modern life.

Harman told me that she believed the warning signs today were similar to those in the run-up to both Pearl Harbor and 9/11 — serious and underestimated.

American weaknesses

The report cited several major U.S. weaknesses, including:

A failure to remain ahead of China in some aspects of military power. “China is outpacing the United States and has largely negated the U.S. military advantage in the Western Pacific through two decades of focused military investment,” the report concluded.

One reason is the decline in the share of U.S. resources devoted to the military.

This Times chart, which may surprise some readers, tells the story:

The report recommended increasing military spending, partly by making changes to Medicare and Social Security (which is sure to upset many liberals) and partly by increasing taxes, including on corporations (which is sure to upset many conservatives). The report also called for more spending on diplomacy and praised the Biden administration for strengthening alliances in Europe and Asia.

A Pentagon bureaucracy that’s too deferential to military suppliers. The report criticized consolidation among defense contractors, which has raised costs and hampered innovation. The future increasingly lies with drones and A.I., not the decades-old equipment that the Pentagon now uses.

A U.S. manufacturing sector that isn’t strong enough to produce what the military needs. A lack of production capacity has already hurt the country’s efforts to aid Ukraine, as The Times has documented. “Putin’s invasion has demonstrated how weak our industrial base is,” David Grannis, the commission’s executive director, said. If the Pentagon and the innovative U.S. technology sector collaborated more, they could address this problem, Grannis added.

A polarized political atmosphere that undermines national unity. A lack of patriotism is one reason that the military has failed to meet its recent recruitment goals. Perhaps more worrisome, many Americans are angry at one another rather than paying attention to external threats.

The bottom line

A single commission won’t have all the answers to the hard strategic issues facing the country. How much money should the U.S. spend on the military, given other priorities and the large federal debt? How much waste can be cut from the Pentagon budget? Which foreign conflicts are vital to the national interest — and which are a distraction?

All these questions are vexing. But Americans do face a more dangerous world than many realize. The unexpected global turmoil of the past decade makes that clear.

-- New York Times, The Morning, September 23, 2024

health care

 9/19/24 - United States ranks last in health care among wealthy countries

Maui fires

9/14/24 - Report finds no evidence that officials acted on warnings about fire

8/18/24 - Insurance companies lay blame on Bishop Estate, Hawaiian Electric, and Oceanic

8/14/23 - Lahaina after the fire (photos)

8/10/23 - Maui fires devastate Lahaina (Hawaii News Now)

2020 Presidential Election: Trump vs. Biden

1/15/24 - Republicans find 4000 votes taken away from Biden

7/25/22 - Bret Baier interview with Liz Cheney

7/22/22 - Bannon found guilty of contempt

7/22/22 - Trump shares his thoughts on McConnell, Hillary, Abrams, McCarthy, Cheney, Pelosi, Tapper after January 6 hearing

7/21/22 - 40% of Republicans now believe that Trump was at least partly to blame for the January 6 riot

7/14/22 - Report by conservatives says there was no evidence of fraud that would have changed the outcome in even a single precinct

7/12/22 - Executive order to military to seize voting machines was presented at December 18 meeting

6/30/22 - Et tu, Washington Examiner?

6/29/22 - Melania said no

6/29/22 - Fox News ratings drop during January 6 hearings

6/29/22 - Et tu, Fox News?

6/28/22 - Mulvaney comments on Hutchinson testimony

6/28/22 - Trump comments on Huntchinson testimony

6/28/22 - Trump reportedly knew that the crowd had weapons

6/23/22 - Trump has an escape hatch for the naïve and the deluded.

6/15/22 - Trump issues 12 page statement reiterating baseless claims

6/14/22 - Mike Huckabee and Scott Adams on the January 6 hearings

6/11/22 - New York Post writes that Trump was delusional

6/10/22 - Takeaways from the first January 6 Committee hearing

6/9/22 - Capitol Riot hearings: Barr called fraud claims "bullshit",  Ivanka accepted

2/9/22 - McConnell comments after RNC censure of Cheney and Kinzinger

2/9/22 - The majority of Republicans think Trump won the election

1/13/22 - Republicans may withdraw from Presidential debates

1/11/22 - McConnell thinks Rounds told the truth

1/8/22 - Carlson gets Cruz to backtrack on comments on the January 6 riot

1/4/22 - Hannity was worried about January 6 event

12/14/21 - Ingraham, Hannity, Kilmeade texted Meadows to tell Trump to stop the riot

12/9/21 - Poll indicates Trump would defeat Harris should they run in 2024

11/22/21 - Two Fox News contributors quitting the network due to Tucker Carlson special

11/17/21 - QAnon Shaman sentenced to 41 months in prison

11/16/21 - Mnuchin and Pompeo considered using the 25th Amendment, according to Jonathan Karl's book

11/16/21 - Chris Christie says Trump's speech made him sick to his stomach, but won't rule out supporting him

11/15/21 - Bill Barr (reportedly) said Bartiromo screamed at him

11/15/21 - Steve Bannon surrenders after bring charged with contempt

11/12/21 - Trump wasn't worried about Pence on January 6 because he was in "good shape"

9/7/21 - Dominion describes Mike Lindell as "talented"

6/29/21 - Obama describes what the actions of his successor

6/27/21 - Barr comments on evidence of fraud

6/25/21 - Pence says he had no authority to reject or return electoral votes

6/24/21 - Giuliani suspended from practicing law in New York state

6/17/21 - Chris Cuomo calls Fox News a disgrace for not disclaiming Tucker Carlson while he's on the air.

6/15/21 - Justice Department rebuffed Trump's efforts to overturn election

6/6/21- Rep. Mo Brooks served with lawsuit by Rep. Eric Swalwell

6/4/21 - Pence not seeing eye-to-eye on with Trump regarding January 6

6/4/21 - Facebook suspension of Trump to last at least until 2023

5/31/21 - Lawyer for Capitol rioter prepares defense

5/28/21 - Senate Republicans filibuster creation of January 6 commision

5/26/21 - MyPillow guy kicked out of GOP governors conference

5/19/21 - U.S. House votes to create commission to investigate Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol

3/19/21 - Proud Boys charged with conspiracy

3/5/21 - Swalwell sues Trump for the Capitol riot

2/25/21 - Trump supporters have indicated that they want to blow up the Capitol and kill members of Congress says Capitol police chief

2/8/21 - Stelter on why Fox cancelled Dobbs

2/8/21 - Dobbs keeping busy retweeting

2/7/21 - Liz Cheney says GOP should not be embracing Trump, raises possibility of criminal investigation of Trump

2/7/21 - Lindsey Graham says Trump will get his share of blame in history but thinks impeachment is unconstitutional 

2/7/21 - Chris Wallace questions Rand Paul on second impeachment

2/5/21 - Fox Business cancels Lou Dobbs

2/4/21 - Trump turns down request to testify

2/4/21 - House Democrats ask Trump to testify in impeachment trial

2/4/21 - Smartmatic files $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News, Dobbs, Bartiromo, Pirro, Giuliani, Powell

2/3/21 - Sacha Baron Cohen says if he doesn't win Golden Globes, he'll hire Giuliani to contest the results

2/2/21 - Even Newsmax shuts down the My Pillow guy

1/29/21 - QAnon Shaman offering to testify

1/28/21 - AOC says Ted Cruz almost had her murdered

1/26/21 - My Pillow guy banned by Twitter

1/25/21 - CNN analysis of Rand Paul's answer on election fraud

1/20/21 - Trump supporter shows up at State Capitol

1/20/21 - Hannity goes after Mitch McConnell

1/19/21 - Max Boot wants to give Fox News the boot

1/19/21 - McConnell says Trump fed lies and provoked mob

1/18/21 - Scarborough calls Lindsey Graham weak

1/16/21 - Alex Azar resigns as Health and Human Services Secretary

1/15/21 - Liz Cheney says she's not going anywhere

1/15/21 - Pence calls Harris to offer assistance

1/14/21 - Federal prosecutors say the rioters intended to "capture and assassinate election officials" 

1/14/21 - Yes, the mob was overwhelming made up of Trump supporters

1/14/21 - Eugene Goodman hailed a hero

1/14/21 - Trump wanted to join the march to the Capitol (and other juicy gossip)

1/14/21 - Trump told mob to "peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard"

1/13/21 - Giuliani disagrees with McCarthy on Antifa involvement in the riot

1/13/21 - Kilmeade and Doocy spar on impeachment

1/13/21 - Trump reportedly angry at Ivanka and Jared over their plans to attend Biden's inauguration

1/12/21 - Three House Republicans say they would vote to impeach Trump / McConnell reportedly pleased with Democrats' move

1/12/21 - Trump gave Pence a choice

1/12/21 - No, Chuck Norris wasn't at the riot

1/12/21 - Jim Jordan won't say Biden won fair and squared

1/12/21 - University of Kentucky supports Calipari and players kneeling before game

1/21/21 - Belichick won't move forward in receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom

1/12/21 - Trump says his speech that incited the riot was totally appropriate

1/11/21 - The pied pipers of Trumpism

1/11/21 - Hannity refutes viscous Olive Garden rumor

1/11/21 - Melania releases statement about the riots

1/11/21 - House Democrats introduce article of impeachment

1/10/21 - Hillary trolls Trump

1/10/21 - Mulvaney says he didn't expect the mob to take him literally

1/10/21 - Bill O'Reilly says Trump's legacy has been destroyed

1/10/21 - Arnold Schwarzenegger says Wednesday was the day of broken glass

1/10/21 - Trump cries he's not going to resign

1/10/21 - Tapper goes off on Trump and enablers

1/9/21 - Pence to attend Biden inauguration

1/9/21 - Google Store boots Parler app, Apple may follow

1/9/21 - YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel after Giulani appearance

1/8/21 - Josh Hawley rebuked / stood alone in the room

1/8/21 - It's a grim life predicts Mary Trump

1/8/21 - Twitter permanently suspends Trump

1/8/21 - Country music wives still believe

1/8/21 - Lindsey Graham harassed by Trump supporters

1/8/21 - Trump says he won't attend Biden inauguration

1/7/20 - Betsy DeVos resigns too

1/7/21 - Wall Street Journal calls on Trump to resign

1/7/21 - Mark Thiessen blames the media too

1/7/21 - Geraldo says blood is on the hands of the President, Don Jr., and Giuliani

1/7/21 - Schumer calls for Trump to removed from office immediately

1/7/21 - Barr calls Trump's conduct a betrayal of his office

1/7/21 - Stuart Varney says Trump cannot come back from this / Kennedy and Hume agree

1/7/21 - Richard Barnett left Pelosi a quarter / arrested anyway

1/7/21 - Elaine Chao resigns

1/7/21 - Facebook bans Trumps indefinitely

1/7/21 - Mike Pence was reportedly angry

1/7/21 - Pence affirms Biden as the winner

1/7/21 - Mick Mulvaney resigns

1/7/21 - Trump says there will an orderly transition

1/7/21 - Trump suspended from Twitter and Facebook

1/6/21 - Jim Mattis blames Trump, Stephanie Grisham resigns, RNC condemns violence, Bill Clinton says Trump lit the match, George W. Bush appalled, Obama joins Bush and Clinton

1/6/21 - Trump supporters storm the Capitol / woman protestor shot and killed

1/6/21 - Fox News cuts away from Trump Jr.

1/6/21 - Fox News projects Ossoff as winner giving Democrats majority in the Senate

1/6/21 - Pence says he doesn't have the power to accept or reject electoral votes

1/6/21 - Cleta Mitchell resigns from law firm after participating in Trump's Georgia phone call

1/3/21 - Chuck Todd confronts Senator Ron Johnson over election challenge

1/3/21 - Trump calls Georgia Secretary of State looking for 11,780 votes / AP fact check

12/22/20 - Gorka cuts off the My Pillow guy

12/20/20 - ‘Simple Math’ Shows Biden Claims 13 MILLION More Votes Than There Were Eligible Voters Who Voted in 2020 Election (fact check)

12/20/20 - Chris Christie would advise Trump not to have any more meetings with Flynn or Powell

12/20/20 - Fox News caves to Smartmatic regarding election fraud claims

12/17/20 - Navarro releases dubious election fraud report

12/16/20 - Trump says Fox News is dead

12/15/20 - McConnell congratulates Biden

12/14/20 - Biden wins Electoral College vote

12/14/20 - Bill Barr will be leaving as Attorney General

12/13/20 - And now, Sportsmax

12/12/20 - Trump tweets that the Supreme Court has no wisdom or courage

12/11/20 - Supreme Court rejects Texas lawsuit

12/11/20 - Biden and Harris named Time Person of the Year

12/10/20 - Time person of the year candidates include Trump, Biden, Fauci

12/10/20 - 17 states support Texas election lawsuit against battleground states

12/9/20 - Supreme Court quickly dismisses challenge to Pennsylvania election

12/7/20 - Federal watchdog agency concludes that Navarro violated federal law

12/7/20 - Ossoff debates empty podium

12/5/20 - Georgia rally fact check

12/3/20 - Trump doubles down on election fraud

12/2/20 - Georgia elections official appeals to president to stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence

12/1/20 - Barr proclaims that the Justice Department has not seen fraud that would have changed the results of the election

11/30/20 - Biden favorability rating doubles among Republicans

11/29/20 - Bartiromo interview of Trump criticized (don't they know it's Fox News?)

11/27/20 - Philadelphia court rejects Trump election challenge

11/25/20 - Xi Jinping congratulates Biden on winning the election

11/25/20 - Raffensperger writes that Trump threw him under the bus 

11/23/20 - Emily Murphy releases GSA funds for Biden transition

11/23/20 - Michigan certifies Biden victory

11/23/20 - 160 business executives urge Trump to begin the transition process

11/23/20 - Former Republican National Security Officials call on GOP leadership to insist that Trump cease his anti-democratic assault on the integrity of the presidential election

11/22/20 - Apparently Sidney Powell's conspiracy theory was too crazy

11/22/20 - Chris Christie calls Trump legal team a national embarrassment

11/22/20 - Georgia will conduct another recount as requested by Trump campaign

11/22/20 - Breaking News: Trump didn't ask Michigan lawmakers to break the law 

11/19/20 - Georgia hand tally affirms Biden's lead

11/19/20 - Another explanation of why Trump did so well in the election / and another why he didn't

11/19/20 - A state-by-state look at Trump's legal challenges

11/18/20 - 52% of Republicans believe Trump rightfully won the election

11/18/20 - Georgia finds more votes for Trump

11/17/20 - Trump fires top cybersecurity official Chris Krebs, after election called the most secure in American history

11/17/20 - Georgia finds no evidence of hacking or tampering of voting machines

11/17/20 - Biden not inclined to have Justice Department investigate Trump

11/17/20 - Trump legal team has scored a few inconsequential victories

11/16/20 - Eric Shawn provides counterpoint to Bartiromo 

11/15/20 - Trump and Biden discussed on Russian State TV

11/15/20 - Trump says Biden won ... in the eyes of the FAKE NEWS MEDIA.  I concede NOTHING!

11/12/20 - Arizona AG states there is no evidence that election results will change

11/12/20 - Trump retweets messages slamming Fox News

11/11/20 - Georgia orders hand recount

11/11/20 - CNN beat Fox News on Election Week

11/10/20 - Pompeo says there will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration

11/9/20 - Barr tells prosecutors not to pursue far-fetched claims

11/7/20 - Even though the race has been called, there are two states that haven't been.  Biden leads in Georgia 2,463,889 to 2,454,729 with 99% reporting.  Trump leads in North Carolina by 2,733,645 to 2,463,889 with 99% reporting.  Biden leads 290-214 in electoral votes.

11/7/20 - Winners and losers from the election

11/7/20 - World leaders, Obama send congratulations

11/7/20 - Biden and Harris pledge to unify, not divide (video)

11/7/20 - Trump not conceding, promising more lawsuits / Trump supporters protest

11/7/20 - Major outlets call the election for Biden

11/7/20 - The votes are trending in Biden's way (at 4 AM).  Now up 7000 in Georgia with 99% reporting.  Up 29,000 in Pennsylvania with 99% reporting.  Up 30,000 in Arizona (this lead is shrinking) with 90% reporting.  Up 33,000 in Nevada with 87% reporting.  Trump still leading buy 77,000 in North Carolina with 99% reporting.

11/6/20 - Trump has no intention of conceding

11/6/20 - Biden has taken the lead in Georgia by 1558 votes and in Pennsylvania by 12,497 votes (as of 8:30 AM on Cavuto's show)

11/5/20 - They're trying to steal an election says Trump / fact check

11/5/20 - Trump campaign announces lawsuit against Nevada

11/5/20 - Judges in Georgia and Michigan quickly dismiss Trump lawsuits

11/5/20 - Fox News topped election night ratings, followed by CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, Fox, Fox Business, CNBC.  (Didn't CBS cover it? -- That makes me think this article is incomplete and maybe inaccurate.)  That's surprising that cable news topped the broadcast networks.

Yeah, this USA Today story has the ratings at: Fox News (14.1), CNN (9.4), MSNBC (7.6), ABC (6.3), NBC (5.7), CBS (4.5), Fox (3).  [Personally I was mostly watching Fox, so count me among the 3.]

11/5/20 - Five hours later (9:47 AM).  Pennsylvania: Trump leads by 108K with 88% reporting.  North Carolina: no change.  Georgia: 13K with 99% reporting.  Nevada: Biden by 11K with 76% reporting.  Arizona: no change.

11/5/20 - The Trump lead in the battleground states is shrinking.  Pennsylvania: Trump leads by 140K with 87% reporting.  North Carolina: Trump leads by 77K (the same) with 94% reporting.  Georgia: Trump leads by 18K with 99% reporting.  Nevada: Biden leads by less than 8000 with 75% reporting.  Arizona: Biden leads by 68000 with 88% reporting.  (4:51 AM HST)

11/4/20 - Trump campaign files lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia

11/4/20 - Eric Trump proclaims Philadelphia is cheating and they're suing.  And now here's Rudy.  Meanwhile, as Rudy is talking about Democrat crooks, Fox calls Michigan for Biden.  Now it's Biden 264-214.  Trump now needs to win GA, NC, PA, and NV (or the lawsuits).  (This is actually kind of entertaining watching Rudy.)  And now Rudy says maybe there will be a national lawsuit including states like WI, NV, MI.

11/4/20 - Trump campaign predicts they will win Arizona even though Fox has called it for Biden

11/4/20 - Biden making victory speech, even though he hasn't won yet

11/4/20 - Trump campaign declares victory in Pennsylvania.  (So why the lawsuit?)

11/4/20 - NBC calls Wisconsin for Biden (up 49.4% to 48.8% with 99% of expected votes in), Trump campaign to request recount / Biden now leads 248-214 / so now it's down to Nevada or Michigan for Trump (conceding Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina to Trump).

11/4/20 - Kanye concedes (apparently).

11/4/20 - The Squad re-elected

11/4/20 - Odds have shifted wildly in the last 36 hours.  Biden odds now up to 81.7%.  Biden has gone from a high of 82.9% to a low of 25.8% and now back up near the high.

11/4/20 - Biden leading by about 7000 in NV, 21000 in WI, 27000 in MI / Trump leading by 470,000 in PA, 77,000 in NC, 100,000 in GA / Current electoral count: Biden 238, Trump 213

11/4/20 - Biden is now leading narrowly in Wisconsin and Michigan.  Fox News (Baier and Hemmer) now speculates that it may come down to Nevada, Wisconsin, or Michigan.  If Trump can win one of those states, then he'll win.

11/3/20 - Trump, leading in voting in several key states, says he won and wants voting to stop now

11/3/20 - Trump tweets they're trying to steal the election.  Twitter flags the tweet.

11/3/20 - Fox is saying Biden won MN

11/3/20 - Looking at the current map, Trump is leading in Michigan, Wisconsin.  Biden is leading in Minnesota.

11/3/20 - Trump wins Florida.  Trump wins Ohio.

11/3/20 - Ari Fleischer is now predicting Biden 270, Trump 268.  But says Trump could win if he wins Michigan, Wisconsin, or Minnesota.  Biden now takes lead in popular vote

11/3/20 - Not looking good for Biden.  Trump takes the lead in North Carolina (but still close).  Trump looks like he's going to take Florida.  But Biden looks like he's going to take Arizona.  I thought Biden was leading Pennsylvania earlier, but Trump has taken the lead.  Trump also leading in Wisconsin.  What about Michigan?  Trump leading bigly.  [Not only that, Trump is winning the popular vote.]

11/3/20 - Trump is winning on the issues (Cal Thomas)

11/3/20 - Bloomberg opinion: Four years of President Trump has brought the country to a terrible low

11/3/20 - If Biden wins Pennsylvania, he'll likely win the presidency, if not Arizona could be plan B

11/3/20 - Trump's chances have improved massively 24 hours before election day

11/2/20 - Trump says after "the election is over, we're going in with our lawyers"

10/31/20 - Helmut Norpoth gives Trump a 91% chance to win, Allan Lichtman disagrees

10/30/20 - Opinion: Trump deserves a second term

10/30/20 - Glenn Greenwald resigns from The Intercept

10/30/20 - Comparing Biden and Trump tax plans

10/29/20 - Jack Nicklaus voted for Trump

10/27/20 - Trump disappointed that Fox aired Obama speech

10/27/20 - Giuliani says he's being defamed after Kennedy compares him to Christopher Steele

10/25/20 - The 60 Minutes interview

10/25/20 - One of Billy Graham's granddaughters is voting for Biden, another isn't 

10/24/20 - The sleaziest campaign ever? (Washington Post)

10/23/20 - Wall Street Journal cold war on Hunter Biden

10/23/20 - GOP pollster thinks Biden's positive approach will bring him victory

10/23/20 - Debate fact check: CBS, factcheck.org, CNN, NY Times, Politifact, NPR, AP, ABC, BBC, ABC7, LA Times, NBC

10/23/20 - Who won the debate?  CNN, Fox News, LA Times, Tennessean, FiveThirtyEight, CBS, McClatchy Mediaite, Sylvain Saurel

10/23/20 - The final debate: CNBC, Fox News, CNN, CBS, Washington Post, azcentral, ABC, Yahoo, Vox

10/22/20 - Vox's take on the Hunter Biden emails 

10/22/20 - Trump posts video of his magnificently brilliant answers on 60 Minutes, breaking agreement with CBS

10/21/20 - Obama tells the audience to honk

10/21/20 - This year's election could have the highest turnout since Taft

10/21/20 - Eric Trump says the enthusiasm is unlike anything that we've seen before

10/21/20 - Wall Street giving less to Trump this time

10/21/20 - Trump campaign attacks Biden for building a business on the family name

10/21/20 - Debate commission member describes Trump's strategy

10/20/20 - Trump lasts 45 minutes with Leslie Stahl

10/20/20 - 85% of Oahu Republicans support Trump

10/20/20 - Glenn Greenwald describes how Adam Schiff fabricates accusations

10/20/20 - I wonder who the New York Times poll has in front?

10/20/20 - 50 Cent endorses Trump

10/20/20 - Michael Steele endorses Biden

10/19/20 - Debate commission decides to put Trump on mute

10/19/20 - Biden admits that he'll listen to the scientists

10/18/20 - Biden answers tweets

10/18/20 - Trump fell short on infrastructure pledges

10/18/20 - (some) Avengers assemble for Biden

10/16/20 - Trump shares Babylon Bee story

10/16/20 - Town Hall takeaways

10/15/20 - Biden Town Hall fact check

10/15/20 - Trump defends his record in Town Hall / CNN fact check

10/15/20 - Dueling Town Halls draws boycott threats / Trump crying beforehand

10/15/20 - Twitter blocks New York Post report about Biden / Ted Cruz! / FBI investigating

10/15/20 - Star Advertiser endorses Biden

10/14/20 - Focus group thought Pence won the debate over Harris

10/13/20 - Michelle Obama and LeBron James partner to push for voting

10/13/20 - Elizabeth Warren calls Trump a total chicken for skipping debate

10/13/20 - Biden apparently forgets Romney's name

10/13/20 - Romney is troubled by our politics

10/12/20 - How Trump and Biden stand on: economy, taxes, education, health care, coronavirus, abortion, trade, foreign policy

10/12/20 - Fact check weekly

10/10/20 - Taliban hopes Trump will win the election

10/10/20 - Ballots found in trash cans in Santa Monica

10/10/20 - Second presidential debate has been cancelled

10/9/20 - Wallace, Rove, and Spicer Defend Debate Moderator Steve Scully

10/8/20 - Trump refuses to take part in October 15 virtual debate

10/7/20 - VP Debate fact check: ABC, CNN, NYT, AP, CBS, NPR, NBC, Factcheck, Politifact / the fly on Pence's head / health of America

10/7/20 - Who would pay more under Biden's tax plan

10/4/20 - Steve Cortes tells Chris Wallace he was not a neutral moderator

10/1/20 - Breitbart and C-SPAN polls show Trump winning big

10/1/20 - General McChrystal endorses Biden

10/1/20 - Has Biden failed to condemn Antifa?

10/1/20 - McEnaney states that Trump has condemned white supremacy more than any president in modern history

10/1/20 - Former Republican National Security Officials to endorse Biden

10/1/20 - Koch network staying out of 2020 Presidential election

10/1/20 - Trump asks why he would allow Debate Commission to change the rules

10/1/20 - Chris Wallace thought debate was revealing

9/30/20 - Presidential Debate Commission to adopt changes to format

9/30/20 - Trump supporters bash Chris Wallace

9/29/20 - The first debate: Fox News, CNN, CBS, NBC, BBC, WSJ, AP / fact check, Portland sheriff, Inshallah

9/29/20 - Trump team wants to inspect Biden's ears

9/29/20 - Biden releases tax returns before debate

9/28/20 - AARP interviews Trump and Biden

9/27/20 - Finally the Rock endorses Biden/Harris

9/24/20 - Trump says debate moderator Chris Wallace will be controlled by the radical left

9/24/20 - Trump campaign reportedly discussing bypassing popular vote in battleground states

9/24/20 - Trump not a fan of Meghan Markle

9/24/20 - 489 generals, admirals, and former security officials sign letter endorsing Biden

9/22/20 - Cindy McCain to endorse Biden

9/18/20 - Only six former Trump administrative officials have indicated they will not vote for Trump

9/17/20 - Former Pence aide becomes a Republican Against Trump

9/17/20 - Federal judge to issue preliminary injunction against Trump, DeJoy, and the U.S. Postal Service

9/15/20 - Scientific American's first ever endorsement is not Trump     

9/13/20 - Bloomberg pledges $100 million to help Biden in Florida

9/13/20 - Trump making inroads with Hispanic voters

9/11/20 - Biden and Pence bump elbows at 9/11 ceremony

9/11/20 - Stark differences between Trump supporters and Biden supporters

9/11/20 - How Trump Could Win (The New Yorker)

9/10/20 - Majority say both Biden and Trump are mentally unfit to be president

9/6/20 - Trump campaign pushing disinformation

9/4/20 - Biden endorsed by over 175 law enforcement officers and officials after NAPO endorsed Trump

9/3/20 - Why Rick Snyder is not supporting Trump

9/2/20 - Body language expert interprets the conventions

8/29/20 - Race tightens after Republican National Convention
8/29/20 - Michael Moore warns of a Trump repeat in 2020
8/27/20 - Trump speaks at the RNC / AP fact check
8/26/20 - Mark Meadows and the Hatch Act
8/25/20 - Day 2 of the RNC
8/25/20 - Tim Scott confident that we will have fair elections
8/25/20 - Trump appreciative of CNN coverage
8/24/20 - Memorable RNC moments
8/24/20 - Gaetz likens the election of Biden to a horror movie
8/24/20 - Trump's statements are a challenge for CNN

8/24/20 - Former GOP lawmakers launch Republicans for Biden

8/24/20 - Biden-Harris interview on ABC
8/23/20 - Twitter adds label to Trump tweet on mail drop boxes
8/20/20 - Four takeaways from the final day of the DNC / Brayden Harrington
8/19/20 - Obama critiques Trump
8/18/20 - Britt Hume calls Jill Biden's speech tremendously effective
8/18/20 - Chris Wallace says Clinton made a cogent argument about how Trump has mishandled the coronavirus (on the other hand, Stephen Colbert)
8/18/20 - Colin Powell endorses Biden at DNC
8/18/20 - High profile Republicans backing Biden
8/18/20 - Nick Sandmann to speak at RNC
8/18/20 - Takeaways from Night 2 of DNC
8/17/20 - Michelle Obama speaks at the DNC (VOTE)
8/17/20 - Kristin Urquiza puts blame on Trump for her father's death
8/17/20 - Bernie speaks at the DNC
8/17/20 - Trump looking forward to eight more years
8/17/20 - Republicans to speak at Democratic National Convention
8/17/20 - ABC, NBC, CBS find Trump 150 times worse than Biden
8/17/20 - Former Homeland Security Chief of Staff endorses Biden
8/16/20 - Biden offers condolences after passing of Robert Trump
8/14/20 - National Association of Letter Carriers endorse Biden
8/14/20 - Marge Simpson responds to Jenna Ellis
8/14/20 - Postal Service warns states that it may not be able to meet mail-in ballot deadlines

8/13/20 - The Pew Research report on the election
8/11/20 - Trump calls Harris a dream opponent
8/11/20 - Biden picks Kamala Harris as running mate
8/11/20 - Trump says some people would say that men are insulted by Biden committing to picking a woman VP
8/11/20 - Kasich to speak at Democratic National Convention
8/8/20 - Friday Night Massacre at the USPS
8/6/20 - Trump says Biden is against God
7/26/20 - Everyone had been so sure in 2016
7/23/20 - Biden/Obama campaign video
7/21/20 - Trump is lowering the bar for Biden
7/19/20 - Trump says Biden doesn't know he's alive
7/19/20 - Where does Charles Djou fit in?
6/29/20 - Biden tells potential donors that he would roll back Trump’s tax cuts – even though “a lot of you may not like that.”
6/26/20 - Scarborough says Trump is acting like he wants to lose badly
6/25/20 - Trump explains why Biden will be president
6/25/20 - Fiorina says she'll vote for Biden
6/23/20 - Bolton on the difference between Biden and Trump

6/19/20 - Klobuchar withdraws from vice presidential consideration

6/19/20 Trump sees mail-in voting as biggest threat to his re-election
6/17/20 - Voters prefer Biden to handle the coronavirus and police violence, while they think Trump will do a better job with the economy and getting people back to work
6/1/20 - Republican Voters Against Trump ad highlights Lindsay Graham in 2015