Headline RoundupNovember 20th, 2020

White House Legal Team Decries Alleged Election Fraud, Projects Trump as Winner

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President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell led a press conference Thursday, claiming to have proof of a mass conspiracy to elect Joe Biden and manipulate the 2020 presidential election results against Trump. Trump's legal team described him as the election's winner on Thursday; Joe Biden is widely projected to be elected the next president, and there's currently no public evidence of the decisive voter fraud claimed by Trump, Giuliani and others. The conference was covered by outlets on all sides, but particularly left- and center-rated outlets, many of which framed Giuliani's behavior during the event as bizarre. Most left- and center-rated coverage also focused on debunking purportedly inaccurate claims made by Giuliani and others. Right-rated coverage differed. Some reports painted the conference in a neutral light and didn't move to discount the legal team's claims; other voices, such as Fox News' Tucker Carlson, condemned voter fraud while calling on Trump's lawyers to present hard evidence of the election-deciding manipulation they say took place.

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