Editor’s note: Dan Abrams is ABC News’ legal analyst. This post first appeared on the website Mediaite. Any opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author.
New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick said Wednesday the letter he wrote to Donald Trump before Election Day was done out of a friendship that goes back many years and was not politically motivated, while Tom Brady said he preferred to focus on football and wouldn’t elaborate on his relationship with him.
Voters in Arizona, Colorado, Maine and Washington approved ballot measures to increase their state’s minimum wage, ABC News has projected based on vote analysis.
For months throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump laid out the major issues he would seek to address in his first 100 days as president. Now, in the aftermath of his surprise electoral victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton, his plans could become reality — concrete designs for a new Republican White House.
Protests erupted across California early this morning after Donald Trump was projected to be the next president of the United States.
Trump has talked a lot about how he wasn’t a politician before he started his campaign in June 2015. Now, if he wins on Nov. 8, he will arguably become the most important politician in the world.
The Clintons will be in uncharted territory for a number of reasons if the former secretary of state is elected — the first woman president and a former president as her spouse — but the terrain itself will be very familiar.
As this historic and wildly unpredictable election comes to a close on Election Day, it may be hard to remember how America got here.
With less than a week before Election Day, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump offered some startling advice to early voters who might be second-guessing these selections: Switch your vote.
It’s a year that has shaken the U.S. political system. It’s also not over yet, and it has unleashed forces that are not likely to settle down after the election.
