Forced into hasty retreat by Harris’ meteoric rise, Trump now faces a threat bigger than Biden
Internally, nine sources revealed that they see Harris as a far tougher opponent than Biden, who had been struggling for months in the face of doubts about his mental acuity and weakening poll numbers. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits last week fell to a lower than expected 233,000,
Leaked report details how political class in Germany ignored own scientists and imposed punitve Covid vaccine, mask mandates
“A whistleblower, a former employee of the RKI, approached me and passed on the data set to me” for reasons of “conscience,” Velázquez wrote on Substack. According to the files, German regulators sought to skip Phase 3 trials of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine and “go straight into broad application.”
Vance and other Trump allies brandish race card in false claims about Harris’ racial identity
Vice President Kamala Harris has frequently talked about being Black in addition to being Indian American during her political career. She was the first African American to serve as California attorney general and became the first Indian American to serve as a US senator and the second Black woman, after Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois.
Harris support among Black voters surges as ex-president Trump’s numbers rise amng Whites
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is drawing more support from Black voters than President Joe Biden did when he was in the race this year, while Republican Donald Trump’s support among white voters has risen somewhat in recent months, according to an analysis of Reuters/Ipsos polling. The analysis, which examined...
US businesses brace for digital financial markets as Trump talks says he plans to hoard billions in bitcoin
When former US president Donald Trump announced a plan to establish a national “bitcoin stockpile” if he is re-elected, the crowd at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, erupted into a fit of celebration. The frontrunner in the upcoming election was speaking their language. “For too long, the government...
Picking running mate: Inside 16 days between Kamala Harris’ launch and choice of Tim Walz
As factions squabbled over Kelly and Shapiro, Walz may have benefitted from having a fan in former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. A San Francisco Democrat like Harris, Pelosi has maintained that she had no preference and does not tell presidential nominees who to pick as running mates. But one former Pelosi aide described the former speaker and Walz as “super tight,” and Pelosi has recently demonstrated her status as a leading party elder via her private conversations with Biden about bowing out.
Details emerge of how US top brass were caught conspiring to duck questions on Covid origins at Wuhan Lab
EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organisation focused on emerging infectious diseases, has been at the centre of debates surrounding the origins of Covid-19 due to its work with bat coronaviruses and its partnership with the Wuhan lab.
When bitcoin bros and MAGA faithful met in Nashville and the result was insults overflow – an enduring right wing hallmark
It was an hour before the motorcade was set to arrive in downtown Nashville, and the lady in the “Trump Save America” T-shirt was explaining why she hates Kamala Harris. “I’m not meaning to say I’m a prejudiced person,” she began. Of the many ways to end such a sentence,...
Democratic Party nominee Kamala settles on fiery Minnesota governor as running mate in US presidential election
Walz gave the nascent Harris campaign the new attack line in a late July interview: “These are weird people on the other side: They want to take books away. They want to be in your exam room,” referring to book bans and women’s reproductive consultations with doctors.
US Vice President Harris clinches Democratic party ticket, to face Trump in November poll
Harris’ nomination became official after a five-day round of online balloting by Democratic National Convention delegates ended on Monday night, with the party saying in a statement released just before midnight that 99 per cent of delegates casting ballots had done so for Harris. The party had long contemplated the early virtual roll call to ensure Biden would appear on the ballot in every state.
