A truism of politics is that there’s always a winner and always a loser.
In the case of the 2020 presidential election, Democrat Joe Biden has emerged as president-elect, after clinching Pennsylvania’s Electoral College votes Saturday morning. Sitting President Donald Trump has not conceded and shows no indication he is going to, with attorneys general friendly to his cause filing suit aimed at halting late-arriving mail in ballots. Monday, U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr gave prosecutors the authority to investigate specific instances of voter fraud.
- A view of the several hundred people at Nashville’s “Stop the Steal” rally in December 2020. (Photo: Alex Kent)
- NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 7, 2020 -A supporter of Donald Trump yells at a Black Lives Matter supporter during a “Stop the Steal” rally, the same day President-elect Joe Biden clinched his win. (Photo: Ray Di Pietro)
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- Make America Great Again. (Photo: Alex Kent)
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- Family affair. (Photo: Alex Kent)
- A man, his daughter clinging to his legs, displays a hybrid American-Gadsden flag. (Photo: Alex Kent)
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- Flying their flag Saturday. (Photo: Ray Di Pietro)
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- Tennessee State Troopers on the scene at “Stop the Steal.” (Photo: Ray Di Pietro)
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John Partipilo got the happier job of covering the spontaneous pro-Biden celebrations that broke out in artsy East Nashville, capturing the Champagne toasts on lawns and jubilant dancing, pots-and-pans beating partiers on Woodland Street, site of the Black Lives Matter mural.
- Arlo Suiker,8, sits on the fence at his home in East Nashville that he, mother Andrea Jacobs, father Colin and sister Ruby painted Saturday after Joe Biden became President-elect. (Photo: John Partipilo)
- People celebrating Saturday night on Woodland Street in East Nashville. (Photo: John Partipilo)
- Bobby Hopkins celebrates in her yard with neighbors on Shelby Street in East Nashville (Photo: John Partipilo)
- Tom Copp hold a sign at the State Capitol during a protest celebration Saturday. (Photo: John Partipilo)
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