Republicans won one but lost another special election Tuesday in what will be received as mixed news for U.S. President Donald Trump.

A federal judge in Washington State ruled Friday that Trump cannot enforce parts of an executive order he issued last year about how elections are run.

Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, challenging long-established democratic norms.

During his first term, he publicly suggested delaying the 2020 election, despite lacking the authority to do so. More recently, in a meeting in August with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump appeared to voice approval of Ukraine’s ban on elections under martial law, prompting laughter in the room but alarm among his critics.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham said Trump was so intent on finding some rationale for overturning his defeat that “if you told him Martians came and stole votes, he’d be inclined to believe it.”

PHOENIX (AP) — Mark Brnovich, Arizona’s top law enforcement officer when the state became the epicenter of efforts by President Donald Trump and his allies to find proof that the 2020 election was marred by fraud, has died. He was 59.

In an interview with The New York Times last week, Trump revealed that he regretted not ordering the National Guard to seize ballot boxes after the 2020 election.

A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing most of his executive order on elections against the vote-by-mail states Washington and Oregon, in the latest b

In an interview, the president said he should have ordered the National Guard to take the machines to find evidence of fraud, but added that the Guard might not have had the sophistication to do so.

Parts of an executive order on elections exceeded President Donald Trump's authority, a judge ruled Jan. 9 in a suit filed by Oregon and Washington.

President Donald Trump's lawyers in Georgia filed a motion this week seeking more than $6 million from the Fulton County District Attorney's Office.