Election News and Coverage
Trump predicts ‘bloodbath’ if he loses election and claims ‘Biden beat Obama’
Joe Biden tore into Donald Trump’s mental stability at a dinner in Washington DC on Saturday – just as the former president was making verbal gaffes at a campaign rally in Ohio as well as, during remarks on the economy and auto industry, predicting a “bloodbath” for the country if he met defeat in November’s…
Read MoreMike Pence will not endorse Trump, but will not rule out voting for him
Two days after saying he would not endorse a second Donald Trump presidency, former vice-president Mike Pence on Sunday declared his esteem for fellow Republicans who plan to vote for his former boss anyway – and he declined to rule out eventually following suit. Pence reiterated on CBS’s Face the Nation that he “cannot in…
Read MoreWhy the rift between anti-abortion activists and Republican lawmakers is growing
There is a growing rift in the decades-old marriage between anti-abortion activists and Republican lawmakers. The problem came into view last month, after a bombshell decision from the Alabama supreme court temporarily halted in vitro fertilization (IVF). The ruling, which described frozen embryos as “extrauterine children”, unraveled when the Republican-controlled legislature passed short-term protections for…
Read More‘A campaign for vengeance’: critics warn of a radical second Trump term
The US election primary season is effectively over. Conventional wisdom holds that the two major candidates will now pivot towards the centre ground in search of moderate voters. But Donald Trump has never been one for conventional wisdom. Detention camps, mass deportations, capital punishment for drug smugglers, tariffs on imported goods, a purge of the…
Read MoreAmong the exvangelicals: Sarah McCammon on faith, Trump and leaving the churches behind
For Sarah McCammon, “it was really January 6, watching people go into the Capitol with signs that said ‘Jesus saves’ and crosses and Christian symbols” that made her finally decide to write about her evangelical upbringing and her decision to leave it behind. “I wanted to tell my story,” she says. As a national political…
Read MoreTikTok may be on borrowed time in the US, but it still holds a Trump card | John Naughton
Last week, the US House of Representatives, a dysfunctional body that hitherto could not agree on anything, suddenly converged on a common project: a bipartisan bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app to an owner of another nationality, or else face a ban in the US, TikTok’s largest market. American…
Read MoreTop senator calls on Biden to ‘use all levers’ to pressure Israel over Gaza
Joe Biden should use his leverage and the law to pressure Israel to change how it is prosecuting the war in Gaza, the Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen said. Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, is among a group of senators urging Biden to stop providing Israel with offensive weapons until it lifts restrictions on the…
Read MoreFormer Trump adviser appeals to supreme court to keep him out of prison
Donald Trump White House official Peter Navarro appealed to the US supreme court on Friday to allow him to stay out of prison as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. Navarro is due to report to a federal prison on Tuesday after an appeals court ruled that his appeal wasn’t likely to overturn his…
Read More‘My soul is so tired’: Stormy Daniels stands up to Maga hate in new film
Stormy Daniels, the adult movie star who received hush-money payments at the center of one of Donald Trump’s pending criminal cases, says she is “so tired” as she confronts the prospect of testifying against the former president, whose supporters have flooded her social media accounts with threats. “I’m desensitized to some of it … but…
Read MoreCongress is right to want to curtail TikTok’s power and influence | Nita Farahany
Imagine a world where America’s foreign adversaries don’t need spies or hackers to infiltrate our society or meddle with our democracy. Instead, they can deploy a far more insidious tool: a digital platform, addictive by design, that captivates its users and then mobilizes them to influence our democratic institutions. The scenario may sound farfetched, but…
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