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The “Nostradamus” of US polling, Allan Lichtman, is still baffled by the US election result after he wrongly predicted winner for only the second time since 1984. Lichtman, an American historian, initially reacted with despair at Donald Trump’s win, calling it “unfathomable” and saying: “Once democracy’s gone, it’s almost impossible to recover.” Loading He posted […]
Billionaire entrepreneur and ardent Donald Trump supporter Elon Musk has celebrated the Republican’s second victory after providing an unprecedented level of support to the campaign. On social media site X, which he owns, Musk said Americans had given Trump “a crystal clear mandate for change”. “The future is going to be fantastic,” he wrote. In […]
A federal judge has ruled that Iowa can continue challenging the validity of hundreds of ballots from potential non-citizens even though critics said the effort threatens the voting rights of people who’ve recently become US citizens. US District Judge Stephen Locher, an appointee of President Joe Biden, sided with the state in a lawsuit filed […]
Live from New York, it’s a presidential candidate scrounging for every vote in the final days before the election. Vice President Kamala Harris made a surprise trip to New York City on Saturday to appear on Saturday Night Live, briefly stepping away from the battleground states where she’s been furiously campaigning in favour of the […]
Donald Trump has set off a fresh firestorm after suggesting former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney should have guns pointed at her face, prompting Vice President Kamala Harris to declare that such violent rhetoric should disqualify him from the presidency. The remarks were made during an onstage interview in Arizona with sacked former Fox News host […]
Donald Trump has travelled to traditionally Democratic-voting New Mexico and plans to visit Virginia in the campaign’s final days, taking a risky detour from the seven battleground states to spend time in places where Republican presidential candidates have not won in decades. The former president campaigned in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Friday (AEST) and will […]
Donald Trump’s Truth Social is now worth more than Elon Musk’s X, thanks to a recent run-up in the shares of the parent company of the former president’s social media platform. Trump Media & Technology Group is now valued at over $US10 billion after its shares more than quadrupled since late September. Meanwhile, X Holdings […]
The upshot? “I can’t, in good conscience, recommend the military to my kids or other people.” Nor to his country, except in highly selective circumstances. They don’t counsel isolationism, but they do urge what they call “restraint”. Caldwell went to work on Capitol Hill, advised several Republican members of Congress and their staff, and now […]
Ecuadorian migrants walk across treacherous jungle to reach the United States.Credit: AP When he launches into an immigration tirade, Trump gets animated, florid, dark and tribal. And there is a difference in how the audience and the news media responds, compared with the response he gets when he talks about grocery prices, taxes or tariffs. […]