BY SAVANNAH MARTINCIC STAFF WRITER After four nail-biting days (and frankly years) of waiting, we finally have an expiration date on Donald Trump’s presidency. In the morning hours of Nov. 7, Joe Biden became the president-elect after clinching a victory…
On-campus groups discuss election results, get out the vote efforts BY DANA NICKEL SENIOR STAFF WRITER At least 159.8 million people voted in the U.S. presidential election this year. At Mason, both the Mason College Republicans and the George Mason…
Pandemic causes huge decrease in on-campus voting on Election Day BY LAURA SCUDDER CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AND HAILEY BULLIS SENIOR STAFF WRITER Mason students trickled in throughout the day to vote for the 2020 presidential election on Nov. 3. The COVID-19 pandemic…
Former Vice President Joe Biden officially becomes 46th president of the United States, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump in a tight race BY SUDIKSHA KOCHI STAFF WRITER After a narrow margin in the race between the two presidential candidates, former…
BY SAVANNAH MARTINCIC STAFF WRITER In 2016, I was left feeling embittered by a political system and a society that allowed someone like Donald Trump to be elected. At only 16, I felt frustrated that I had no say in…
BY ARJIT ROSHAN CONTRIBUTOR Last week, my friend Alex Madajian, a thoughtful staff writer for Fourth Estate, wrote a piece on how Democrats expanding the Supreme Court would be the very kind of norm violation that they’ve accused Trump of…
Students share conflicting thoughts on polling of 2020 presidential election BY BRAD BYRNE STAFF WRITER As the 2020 presidential election looms in the very near future, polling has become another topic of debate for this election. After some polling was…
Students share thoughts on how the final debate went and what the candidates could have done better BY SUDIKSHA KOCHI STAFF WRITER Participating in their second and final presidential debate before Election Day on Nov. 3, Republican President Donald Trump…
BY DOMINIC PINO OPINION EDITOR People who closely follow politics have been upset recently at Joe Biden’s refusal to answer questions. He has been calling “lids,” the journalistic term for ending a campaign day early, quite often — sometimes before…
Students describe how they felt after watching Donald Trump and Joe Biden go head-to-head during the debate on Sept. 29 BY SUDIKSHA KOCHI STAFF WRITER Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Republican President Donald Trump faced off in the first…