2020 Elections
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President Donald Trump intensified scrutiny of the Southern Poverty Law Center following a sweeping federal indictment, declaring that if the allegations are proven true, the 2020 presidential election should be “permanently wiped from the books.” In an early morning Truth Social post on Friday, Trump described the SPLC as “one of the greatest political scams in American…
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Officials in the election battleground state of Pennsylvania on Thursday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign seeking to prevent the state from certifying its results in the vote for president. In court filings in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, lawyers for…
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A Joe Biden presidency is likely to involve a deeper U.S. engagement with Southeast Asia, some analysts say, offering trade for their pandemic-hit economies and security leverage against regional heavyweight China-but also bringing uncomfortable questions on rights and democracy. Southeast Asia knows Biden from his time as vice president in the administration of President Barack…
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President Donald Trump can still win the presidency. Here’s how: Only the Electoral College or the various state legislatures can declare a candidate the winner. To base this decision on network vote totals and projections and to call Joe Biden the president-elect is irresponsible. The recounts in Arizona, Georgia, and the other states are likely…
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Joe Biden has won the key battleground state of Wisconsin but managers for the Trump campaign have said the US President intends to request a recount. CNN projected Biden’s win for Wisconsin on Wednesday but with votes still being counted in several states, the US presidential election result is still too close to call. Hours before…
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Voters choosing between President Donald Trump and former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden in the U.S. presidential election should have no difficulty distinguishing between the two men on policy questions. The differences in the candidates’ positions on a large variety of issues – climate, taxes, trade, race relations, national security, immigration, and above all the…
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Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says Democrats have a 50-50 shot of flipping the upper chamber. ”It’s a 50-50 proposition. We have a lot of exposure. This is a huge Republican class,” McConnell said Wednesday during a campaign stop in Kentucky. “There are dogfights all over the country.” Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate, though several polling…
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Fewer than one-third of Americans think the 2020 elections will be held in an honest, open manner, according to a new Public Affairs Council survey released Thursday. “We’ve never seen an American election with so much doubt about whether the results will reflect the will of the voters,” said Public Affairs Council President Doug Pinkham. “The question…
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More than 50 politically left-of-centre groups in the United States have signed a letter to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, warning he could lose Black voters’ support unless he commits to more transformative policing reforms. Biden’s criminal justice agenda has drawn renewed attention following weeks of nationwide protests since George Floyd, an unarmed Black man,…
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In a debate dominated by discussion of the coronavirus outbreak, Joe Biden promised to pick a woman as his running mate if he becomes the Democratic nominee. “I commit that I will, in fact, pick a woman to be vice president,” the former vice president said. “There are a number of women who are qualified to…
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Independent Bernie Sanders says he wants a “political revolution” in the United States to “transform our country economically, politically, socially and environmentally”. And if his popularity among young Democratic voters is any indication, so do they. The senator from Vermont has become the walking embodiment of Democratic disenchantment with the status quo. A self-proclaimed democratic socialist, the…
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Nancy Pelosi said Sunday night that “once again the president is showing just how little he values the good health, financial security and well-being of hard-working American families.” Donald Trump’s $4.8 trillion budget plan follows a familiar formula that exempts seniors from cuts to Medicare and Social Security while targeting benefit safety net programs for the poor,…
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There appeared to be a noticeable shift in the U.S. political landscape this week. President Donald Trump finally emerged triumphant from the battle over impeachment with rising poll ratings and a Democratic Party in disarray over a major election failure in Iowa. In the span of just a few days, Trump’s reelection prospects appeared more…
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Former United States Democratic Presidential Candidate and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has lauded the United States House of Representatives for impeaching President Donald Trump. Trump was impeached by a majority 230 Democrat votes on Wednesday Reacting to this, Clinton, who lost to Trump in the 2016 US elections, said the President had abused his…
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The FBI is actively investigating incidents of potential foreign interference in the U.S. political system, in various parts of the country. The bureau has a particular focus on the 2020 elections, but says its investigations spread beyond this. The FBI is working to address a number of evolving cyber threats facing the country, including influence…
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Dan Coats, director of national intelligence, will leave his job next month. President Trump made the announcement on Sunday, after a turbulent two years in which Coats and the president were often at odds over Russian interference in the 2016 election. Mr. Trump announced Coats’ departure on August 15 in a tweet that thanked Coats…
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