Let Trump be Trump: How arrival of trusted advisor and would-be assassin’s bullet anchored Trump’s victory
Donald Trump forged key alliances, including with tech billionaire Elon Musk, who spent at least $119 million on canvassing for Trump in the seven battleground states. He also resisted calls to fire senior campaign staffers, choosing to keep together a team that avoided the internal chaos of Trump’s previous bids.
Elon Musk antics during US presidential election may have ushered in new era of misformation
While X under Elon Musk has presented a whole host of new issues for advocates and civil society, less attention has been paid to other, established platforms having many of the same problems they’ve had for years. Reporting found that nearly four years after the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, militia groups are still organizing on Facebook, with the platform even autogenerating pages for interested users.
X owner Elon Musk derided his fact-checkers as ‘Election Integrity Team that was undermining election integrity’
A 2020 study from the Harvard Misinformation Review found that people who relied on social media for their news were more likely to believe misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic. A different Pew Research study, also from 2020, found that Americans who relied on social media for their news had lower political knowledge than those who didn’t.
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.
In menory of Quincy Jones: Titan’s 10 career-spanning songs that put him a cut above the rest
Across his career, the 28-time Grammy Award winning Quincy Jones worked with everyone from Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson with hundreds in-between. The best way to celebrate his legacy, of course, is to listen to the music he made.
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.
