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Charleston (United States) (AFP) - US President Joe Biden set his sights Sunday on the Nevada primary, a day after his overwhelming victory in South Carolina brought a tense rematch with Donald Trump another step closer. The 81-year-old Democrat will speak at two campaign events in the gambling city of Las Vegas, where he is odds-on favorite in Tuesday’s vote to continue his march towards the party's nomination. Nevada is a battleground state which has largely voted for the White House winner in recent decades and which backed Biden in 2020 by a narrow margin -- less than 35,000 votes separate...
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Charleston (United States) (AFP) - US President Joe Biden cruised to victory in the South Carolina Democratic primary Saturday, vowing afterwards that he would make Republican rival Donald Trump a loser for a second time in November's election. Democrats will now pore over the results to see how well the 81-year-old incumbent, battling low approval ratings, mobilized the Black voters who helped propel him to the White House four years ago against Trump. Kicking off his march to his party's nomination, Biden secured a massive 96.4 percent of the votes in the first Democratic primary of the 2024...
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Columbia (United States) (AFP) - If there's one place US President Joe Biden can count on for support from Black voters, it is Toliver's Mane Event barbershop in the South Carolina state capital Columbia. A framed photo on the wall pictures the moment a smiling Biden visited the shop before his turnaround Democratic primary win in 2020. "We think that he's done a wonderful job," says co-owner Christopher Toliver, 53, a viewpoint echoed by customers arriving for early morning appointments at this veritable institution for the city's Black community. Not everyone agrees. A number of polls have ...
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Charleston (United States) (AFP) - One is a best-selling self-help writer, the other a US congressman -- and both are applying their rhetorical talents to pitch themselves to Democrats as better bets than President Joe Biden to beat Donald Trump in November. Short of a major upset, Americans are unlikely ever to find out. Biden is expected to cruise past Marianne Williamson and Dean Phillips as he kicks off his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in South Carolina's primary on Saturday. Harnessing love - Williamson tried her luck once before, in the 2020 presidential race, but...
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San Diego (AFP) - Hundreds of migrants congregate by the huge wall marking the US-Mexico border in southern California, a tiny glimpse of the crisis unfolding in American cities as new arrivals strain resources to breaking point. The dysfunction in the border city of San Diego is repeated on a larger scale in hubs like New York and Chicago -- testing the patience of local Democratic leaders who say their own man in the White House is failing on a very pressing problem. "The reality is that we don't have sufficient funds," Nora Vargas, a Democrat on San Diego County's Board of Supervisors, told...
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Philadelphia (AFP) - President Joe Biden was welcomed at a conference of his Democratic Party on Friday with chants of "four more years," as the Philadelphia crowd voiced strong support for his yet-unannounced reelection bid. "Let me ask you a simple question: Are you with me?" the octogenarian leader asked the hotel auditorium, which responded with cheers, many attendees waving "Go Joe" placards. Gathered for two days in historic Philadelphia, members of the Democratic National Committee are working to lay the groundwork for a successful 2024 campaign, with Biden's name now widely expected to...
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Philadelphia (AFP) - It once looked like an outside bet, but US President Joe Biden's bid for a second term is being treated as a given among grassroots Democrats plotting the course to the next election at their winter get-together. The octogenarian leader, who was due to deliver the headlining address on Friday at the Democratic National Committee's convention, is something of a rock star for activists eager to hear him speak at a plush hotel in historic Philadelphia. "All of you have to be his... evangelist in the next two years," Ken Martin, the leader of the Minnesota Democratic Party, to...
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Washington (AFP) - Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday chose Hakeem Jeffries to succeed Nancy Pelosi as their leader in the House of Representatives, making him the first Black person to ever lead a US congressional caucus. The 52-year-old, who has been in Democratic leadership since 2019, ran unopposed in the closed-door vote, which also saw new faces elected to the number two and three positions. With Jeffries 30 years Pelosi's junior, the New York congressman's election marks a generational shift for the Democrats. "This new generation of leaders reflects the vibrancy and diversity of our gre...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - It was decried as risky and even a threat to democracy - but the Democrats' gamble of helping far-right, election-denying candidates to earn Republican nominations for key midterm races appears to have paid off. Democrats spent millions of dollars boosting the primary campaigns of radical Republicans, initially helping them to fend off more moderate alternatives from within their party, only to defeat them handily in Tuesday's nationwide votes. In Maryland, election-denier Dan Cox -- who was dubbed a "QAnon whack job" by the state's outgoing governor, a fellow Republican --...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden hailed a breakthrough Wednesday in getting a major chunk of his seemingly doomed healthcare and climate crisis agenda through Congress after Senate Democrats overcame divisions. "This is the action the American people have been waiting for. This addresses the problems of today -- high health care costs and overall inflation -- as well as investments in our energy security for the future," Biden said in a statement. The bill still has some way to go before becoming law but the multi-billion dollar package finally won crucial support from conservative Democ...
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