Democratic staffers: Harris campaign had hoped economic recovery would be a winning issue, instead it became her achilles heel
Kamala Harris sought to reassure voters about the cost of living. Trump’s proposals to raise tariffs would amount to “a 20 per cent national sales tax” on imported goods, she said. She vowed to “protect hard-working Americans who aren’t always seen or heard.” In the end, not enough of those Americans believed her.
Harris’ failure to halt Trump’s return to White House bears testimony to democracy and politics as strange bedfellows
Following Biden’s dramatic withdrawal just months before Election Day, Harris threw her campaign together as if it were an airplane being built while in flight, her advisers told reporters. The 60-year-old former prosecutor and US senator pressed a case that Trump was a threat to democracy and women’s rights, while promoting a populist economic platform and reproductive freedoms.
Dark rhetoric earns Donald Trump comeback victory to White House, defeating Harris
Donald Trump prevailed despite persistently low approval ratings. Impeached twice, he has been criminally indicted four times and found civilly liable for sexual abuse and defamation. In May, Trump was convicted by a New York jury of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to a porn star.
FBI: Hoax bomb threats linked to Russia target polling places in battleground states
A senior official in Raffensperger’s office, speaking on the condition of anonymity to speak freely, said the Georgia bomb hoaxes were sent from email addresses that had been used by Russians trying to interfere in previous US elections.
Longstanding differences in Israeli government become public as PM Netanyahu sacks defence minister
For months there had been open disagreements between Netanyahu and Gallant reflecting a wider split between Israel’s right-wing governing coalition and the military, which has long favoured reaching a deal to end the fighting and bring home scores of hostages held by Hamas.
Embarrassed Nigerian president orders release of 29 minors facing death sentence over protests
The children’s arrest “highlights significant flaws in our criminal justice system, particularly the child justice system, indicating systemic issues that fail to protect minors’ rights,” said Funke Adeoye, founder of Hope Behind Bars Africa, a nonprofit that has been fighting for their release.
American on trial as election deniers test its limits as standard bearer of democracy
Susan Profitt, another election denial activist who knows Robinson, says she was acting as an observer in a tabulation centre last week when an election official warned her she would be expelled from the building and even threatened to file felony charges against her for harassing election officials.
Presidential candidates’ final push before Election Day brings them to same patch of Pennsylvania
About 77 million Americans have voted early. A victory by either side would be unprecedented.
‘We believe you’re a vessel’: Evangelicals told God wants Donald Trump and sermonised to ‘Vote Like Jesus’
The day after Musk’s visit, the church’s founder, Charles Stock, gave a sermon entitled How to Vote Like Jesus, in which he discouraged congregants from voting third party or writing in a candidate, saying, “The devil will be happy you didn’t vote.” Stock also told congregants that “a flawed leader who does good things is better than suffering under Ahab and Jezebel, who are wicked.
Latest polls strike panic among Republicans as late shifts lean the election to VP Harris
Harris’s gains came as the political conversation turned toward the former president’s liabilities. This included his rally at Madison Square Garden and his former chief of staff’s warning that he would rule like a dictator.
