Author: Joey Garrison, USA TODAY

Trump will join presidents Andrew Johnson, John Adams and John Quincy Adams in choosing not to attend the inauguration of his successor.

Republican efforts to object to Electoral College results would ignore state sovereignty and exert enormous federal power, experts say.

Lawmakers rejecting results. A vice president presiding over his own election loss. It will happen this year, and it’s happened before.

Americans cast 101 million mail-in ballots in the 2020 election, accounting for 63% of the vote, with Biden leading in mail-in voting by 2 to 1.

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt led a tour of the monument this week before testing positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.

The discord comes weeks before a joint session of Congress convenes Jan. 6 to count votes cast by the Electoral College.

Bernhardt, 51, is “following all CDC guidelines and consulting with medical professionals as appropriate,” his department said in a statement.

With Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recognizing Joe Biden’s election win, the dam has broken for President Donald Trump.

Facing a loss in the Electoral College, Trump’s allies have shifted their focus to Jan. 6, when Congress will count the electoral votes.

The safe harbor deadline falls six days before the Electoral College meets to formally cast votes for president based on the popular votes in states.