Written by Are the polls ‘improbably tight’? Some experts think so Robert Tait The US presidential election campaign enters its final weekend with polls showing Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in seemingly permanent deadlock and few clues as to which of them will prevail on Tuesday. At the end of another unruly week that began with Trump’s […]
Supreme court rejects Republican argument on Pennsylvania ballot counting: AP The supreme court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania, the Associated Press reports. The justices left in place a state supreme court ruling that elections officials must count provisional […]
Ann Arbor, Michigan — Hind Omar is a Palestinian-American mother from Ann Arbor, Michigan. She and her husband Andrew are longtime Democrats who feel let down by the party and President Biden. “We canvassed for Biden,” Omar said. “We showed up for Biden. And this experience during his administration under his watch has been a […]
The recent QLD Election only exemplified our broken, violent “democratic” system. Neither women nor children stood to be protected — not by the Liberals and not by Labor, writes Tom Tanuki. THE LNP WON the recent Queensland State Election with a campaign marked by proposals to criminalise abortions and introduce “adult time, adult crime” laws, which would contravene international […]
Donald Trump has called former congresswoman Liz Cheney a radical war hawk and said she should face being under fire with rifles “shooting at her” – prompting the anti-Trump Republican to warn the public against dictatorship and a presidential candidate who “wants to be a tyrant”. Cheney recently endorsed Kamala Harris and has campaigned with […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Kamala Harris has taken the stage in Phoenix, telling supporters: “We have five days leftin one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime.” She emphasized the threats a Trump administration would pose to reproductive rights. “Did everyone hear what he […]
American voters worry that the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas will escalate into a larger regional conflict in the Middle East, a new poll finds. While Democrats and Republicans both agree that the ongoing war is a problem and both are wary of U.S. involvement in the Middle East, there’s a stark partisan divide […]
Kamala Harris will call on voters to ‘turn the page’ in Washington DC speech Lauren Gambino With the presidential race deadlocked a week before election day, Kamala Harris will call on voters to “turn the page” on the Trump era, in remarks delivered from a park near the White House where the former president spoke […]
Washington: There are concerns brewing regarding the fragility of the world’s oldest democracy. American voters are increasingly anxious about the upcoming presidential election, with apprehension about political violence, attempts to overturn election results and the broader implications for democracy. According to the findings of a poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Centre for Public Affairs […]
More than 30 years have passed since President Bill Clinton persuaded Congress to ratify the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) and yet the trade agreement still infuriates many voters and hangs over Kamala Harris’s – and the Democrats’ – chances in this year’s elections. Zombie-like, Nafta just keeps coming back, decades after many Democrats […]