Tag: US elections

• Saturday, August 15th 2020 - 08:06 UTC

  Latin America must reject Trump’s attempt to leave his mark on the IDB

  

  By Christopher Sabatini (*) The Trump administration’s intemperate, partisan crusade against international institutions has extended to the Western Hemisphere’s most important multilateral bank.

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• Wednesday, August 12th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  Senator Kamala Harris completes the Democrat ticked with Biden and could be decisive for black voters

  

  Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris as his running mate on Tuesday, a landmark pick that puts the senator in contention to become United States' first female and first black vice-president.

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• Monday, August 3rd 2020 - 10:50 UTC

  White House confirms November 3 election, but has growing concerns about mail-in-ballots

  

  The White House and Donald Trump's campaign on Sunday sought to shut down the Republican president's musings on delaying the 2020 vote, saying there will be an election on Nov 3.

• Friday, July 31st 2020 - 10:49 UTC

  Leading Republicans reject Trump suggestion to delay November presidential election

  

  Top U.S. Republican lawmakers on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s suggestion to delay the Nov. 3 presidential election, saying the contest should be held as planned even as they mostly backed his concerns about mail-in voting.

• Monday, July 27th 2020 - 09:35 UTC

  Opinion polls show Biden ahead of Trump in Michigan, Florida and Arizona

  

  Another wave of opinion polls released on Sunday showed voters leaning to Democrat Joe Biden over President Donald Trump in Michigan, Florida, and Arizona, three key states won by Trump in 2016.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2020 - 08:44 UTC

  “Using masks to defeat the Invisible Chinese virus is Patriotic”, says Trump, fifteen points behind Biden in the polls

  

  US President Donald Trump promised on Monday to resume televised coronavirus briefings and spoke out in favor of mask-wearing - a marked change of tune as polls show him headed for election disaster.

• Thursday, July 16th 2020 - 06:47 UTC

  Trump replaces his campaign manager with less than four months to Election Day

  

  President Donald Trump replaced his campaign manager on Wednesday as he faces a gap in the polls against presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden with less than four months to Election Day.

• Monday, June 29th 2020 - 07:47 UTC

  Rolling Stones threaten legal action against Trump's campaign for the use of one of their songs

  

  British rock legends The Rolling Stones have threatened legal action against Donald Trump for the US president's use of their song You Can't Always Get What You Want at campaign rallies.

• Friday, June 26th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  Biden leads Trump by ten percentage points; only 43% of Republicans feel US is in “the right direction”

  

  US approval of President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has dropped to the lowest level on record, the latest Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll shows, as new COVID-19 cases surged and Trump was widely criticized for suggesting he wanted to slow down testing.

• Saturday, June 13th 2020 - 07:12 UTC

  Trump says he will “go on and do other things”, if he does not win reelection

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump said he will go on to other things if he loses the Nov 3 election, after Democratic opponent Joe Biden said the Republican might cheat and refuse to leave the White House.