Republicans had was hoping for a resurgence in California thru the recall, however it now looks as if they have got reinforced Gov. Gavin Newsom’s hand for 2022 – and in all likelihood even given him a higher launching pad for his capability White House ambitions. Newsom’s “prevent the recall” marketing campaign raised greater than […] Read more
Most Latin American presidential systems have runoff elections if the first place candidate fails to meet a legal threshold. However, Mexico is not one of them, important when considering that three of the last four presidential elections resulted in winners with less than half of the vote. The 2000 election ended the PRI’s 74 years […] Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi gave his first press conference since the country’s election, saying Monday his priorities would be to improve ties with regional neighbors and revive the 2015 nuclear deal — and at the same time squarely ruling out meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden. “We support the negotiations […] Read more
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made great efforts ahead of Israel’s March 23 elections to ensure that Jewish supremacists from the Jewish Power party will make it into Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. Why it matters: This move is equivalent to a U.S. president cutting a political deal with David Duke, the former KKK leader. Netanyahu and […] Read more
As the clock ticked towards 12am on Monday, young men counted the seconds to midnight before firing a hail of bullets into the calm dark skies over the Somali capital to celebrate the end of President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s term in office. Rewind four years, and young men in Mogadishu were also turning their guns […] Read more
President Donald Trump made a series of “provably false” claims during his controversial phone call to pressure Georgia’s secretary of state to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s win there, a top elections official said Monday. Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s voting system implementation manager, gave a point-by-point refutation of Trump’s allegations at a press conference, which came two days after Trump […] Read more
The conservative lawyer John Yoo is among the latest legal voices to throw water on U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempts to reverse the result of the 2020 election with claims of voter fraud. “He has the right to mount legal challenges, but we should be clear that these are Hail Mary passes we might think […] Read more
Biden leads in Arizona and Nevada as Trump’s margin in Pennsylvania narrows Democratic nominee Joe Biden is still leading President Donald Trump in Arizona and Nevada, as counting continues Friday. Biden holds a margin of 47,052 votes in Arizona, with 90% of total expected votes in. The state’s next election results update will come at […] Read more
North Carolina, a crucial state for President Donald Trump’s path to victory, won’t update its total vote count until Nov. 12 “with very few exceptions,” the North Carolina State Board of Elections said, NBC News reported. Officials said in a public meeting that the count will largely stay the same for the next eight days […] Read more
Joe Biden delivered a scathing critique of the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic during a drive-in rally in Philadelphia, telling his supporters that the future of the country is in the hands of Pennsylvania voters. “Pennsylvania is critical to this election,” the former vice president said, as supporters honked their car horns in […] Read more
