Amel Ahmed, Associate Professor of Political Science at UMass Amherst, is quoted in an article exploring the ways Pennsylvania’s 20 presidential electors can – and cannot – potentially influence the outcome of the presidential election when they meet in December to ostensibly cast their votes for President-elect Biden.

In a Washington Post editorial entitled “Trump’s presidential library will be a shrine to his ego,” Paul Musgrave, Assistant Professor of Political Science at UMass Amherst, writes about how former presidents have used their presidential libraries to frame their legacy. Musgrave writes that President Trump’s library “will be a shrine to his ego… Following a trail blazed most successfully by Richard Nixon, turning his presidential library into an image-making prop will be among the most normal things Trump ever does.”

Paul Musgrave, Assistant Professor of Political Science at UMass Amherst, is quoted in an article about academics urging colleges and universities to refrain from hiring top-level Trump administration officials as they exit their government positions. “This is an abnormal administration that has been hostile to science, to universities, to immigrants,” he said. “This is not an administration whose officers can be treated normally.” 

A UMass Amherst/WCVB poll asking voters who they would pick to replace Senator Elizabeth Warren found Representative Ayanna Pressley to be the top choice, followed by former Representative Joe Kennedy III. These results were cited in an article in the Boston Globe about the possibility of elected officials from Massachusetts becoming part of the Biden administration. (The Boston Globe, WHDH 11/11/20).