It’s poetic that when the U.K. began its Covid vaccinations Tuesday, the second person to receive an injection was 81-year-old William Shakespeare from Warwickshire, his famous namesake’s home county.
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America’s political attention is now focused not on Washington but Georgia, 700 miles south, where a Jan. 5 runoff election will decide that state’s two U.S. Senate seats—and with them, which party controls the upper chamber.
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Democrats seemed to do everything right to turn Texas blue this year. Joe Biden won 5,211,406 votes, 1.3 million more than Hillary Clinton in 2016 and 1.9 million more than President Obama in 2012.
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It has been an eventful, unsettling year: A deadly virus struck without warning and claimed almost a quarter-million American lives; a lockdown demolished personal routines and left us gasping for normality; a sudden, deep recession snatched newfound pros...
In this wild year of challenge and disruption, nobody should have expected a simple and easy finish to the presidential contest.
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Joe Biden offered his closing argument on Tuesday with a speech at Warm Springs, Ga., the site of President Franklin Roosevelt’s death on April 12, 1945.
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This is among history’s most bizarre presidential elections.
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The 2020 campaign has entered its stretch run. Though early voting just began, at least 14.9 million people have already cast a ballot.
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