American elections
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It was a busy morning for Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy on Sky News, with lots of subjects to cover. She was asked if Donald Trump and the Republican Party have a “point” in accusing Labour of foreign interference in the presidential election. “I don’t think he does,” she says. Ms Nandy points out that all…
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Sir Keir Starmer has insisted his relationship with Donald Trump has not been jeopardised after the Republican candidate’s team accused Labour of “blatant foreign interference” in the US election. The prime minister said on Tuesday he had “established a good relationship” with Mr Trump despite the Trump campaign filing a legal complaint against Labour officials travelling to the US…
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If there’s a prototypical Kamala Harris voter it might seem to be Charles Johnson, a 23-year-old Black college student. Johnson is informed and politically engaged; he went to hear former President Barack Obama speak Friday at a Democratic campaign rally on the University of Arizona campus. Yet he isn’t all that impressed with Obama, the…
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Democrats, who are already divided over the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, are becoming more concerned the war has spread, which will further separate the party and cost Vice President Kamala Harris votes, according to party strategists. Progressives who are dissatisfied with the Biden administration’s policies on the Middle East might choose not to…
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Vice President Kamala Harris agreed Saturday to another debate with former President Donald Trump — but Trump declined. Harris accepted an invitation from CNN to a debate on Oct. 23 and wrote in a post on X: “I hope @realDonaldTrump will join me.” Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement to CNN that “Donald Trump…
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Donald Trump said during his debate with Kamala Harris that she has been the “worst vice president in the history of our country.” So, Miami Herald asked two scholars who have studied the vice presidency if that was so. Harris, vice president since 2021, was rated 11th of 18 modern vice presidents in a study by Justin Vaughn,…
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When Donald Trump in 2016 promised to appoint conservative Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, white evangelicals made an uneasy bargain — and hoped he meant what he said. Now, eight years later, they’re hoping he doesn’t. Trump, who decades ago described himself as “pro-choice” and then, as president, appointed the judges who…
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