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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump clinched enough support last week to become the standard-bearers for their parties in November's presidential election. Under the US Constitution, each of the 50 states holds its own vote for the next commander-in-chief and candidates are awarded "electors" from each state according to its size. With candidates needing 270 electors to win the White House, elections tend to be decided in the hotly-contested "swing states" with a history of alternating between Republican and Democratic candidates. In the 2024 cycle, those c...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A documentary released Monday traces the fallout of a brief 2006 tryst that Stormy Daniels allegedly had with Donald Trump, from the perspective of one of the world's most famous adult film stars. The movie hits US streamer Peacock just weeks before the former president goes on trial for allegedly covering up hush-money payments to her, one of a number of criminal cases the presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee faces. The documentary uses interviews and contemporary footage to tell the story of what happened when Trump's team tried to keep news of their alleged ...
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Vandalia (United States) (AFP) - Donald Trump told a rally in Ohio on Saturday that November's presidential election will be the "most important date" in US history, painting his campaign for the White House as a turning point for the country. Days after securing his position as the presumptive Republican nominee, the former president also warned of a "bloodbath" if he is not elected -- though it was not clear what he was referring to, with the remark coming in the middle of comments about threats to the US auto industry. "The date -- remember this, November 5 -- I believe it's going to be th...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden joked about Donald Trump and his own age at an annual media dinner on Saturday -- before unloading deadly serious criticisms of his rival in November's election. "One candidate's too old and mentally unfit to be president," the 81-year-old Democrat quipped at the Gridiron Club in Washington. "The other guy's me." Democrat Biden was making his first speech as president at the annual white tie gala for the US media and political elite, an event that Republican former president Trump addressed in 2018. Biden is trailing in a number of polls and faces vote...
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Moscow (AFP) - Ukrainian bombardments killed two people and set an oil facility ablaze in Russia on Saturday, the second day of showpiece elections guaranteed to cement President Vladimir Putin's hardline rule. Presidential polls opened this week but voting has been marred by a surge in fatal Ukrainian aerial attacks and a series of incursions into Russian territory by pro-Ukrainian sabotage groups. Fresh bombardments Saturday prompted authorities to close schools and shopping centres in the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine. Putin, who cast his vote online, has vowed a harsh response to the ...
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Washington (AFP) - A Georgia judge on Friday rejected a bid to disqualify the top prosecutor who brought charges in the southern state against Donald Trump, clearing an obstacle to a trial of the former president for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said District Attorney Fani Willis can remain on the high-profile case, though if she does so the lawyer she hired to be her lead prosecutor, Nathan Wade, must step aside. Wade submitted his resignation just hours after McAfee's ruling. "I am offering my resignation in the interest of d...
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Washington (AFP) - Former US vice president Mike Pence said Friday he would not be backing Donald Trump as his old boss runs for a second term in the White House. "It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year," Pence said in an interview with Fox News. US media called the announcement a "bombshell" and "startling," although in reality deep divisions have driven the two men apart since leaving office, and an endorsement would have been a surprise. The pair became estranged after Trump tried to pressure Pence to help him overturn his 2020 election defeat to J...
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Washington (AFP) - US Vice President Kamala Harris toured an abortion clinic Thursday, highlighting the key election issue of reproductive rights in what is believed to be the first such visit by a president or vice president. "We have to be a nation that trusts women," the Democrat said as she met staff at the Planned Parenthood center in Saint Paul in the Midwestern state of Minnesota. "These attacks against an individual's right to make decisions about their own body are outrageous," said Harris, who is the first female, Black and South Asian vice president in US history. The landmark visi...
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Cottonwood (United States) (AFP) - In his rural California barbershop, Woody Clendenen proudly displays "Trump 2020" and "Make America Great Again" caps alongside rodeo posters, references to the US Constitution, and a double-barreled shotgun. For this conservative businessman from Cottonwood, four hours north of liberal bastion San Francisco, Donald Trump is the obvious -- in fact, only -- choice for president come the November election. "Nobody can argue that things weren't better when he was in there, versus now with Joe Biden," the 57-year-old tells AFP. "Interest rates were low. Fuel was ...
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Milwaukee (AFP) - President Joe Biden needled "loser" Donald Trump Wednesday, in his first battleground campaign stop since the two rivals secured their parties' nominations for what promises to be one of the most rancorous elections in US history. Speaking to supporters in Milwaukee in the crucial swing state of Wisconsin, the Democrat also blasted his hard-right Republican nemesis for describing immigrants as "vermin." The return to the campaign trail came a day after incumbent Biden, 81, and Trump, 77, both won enough delegates to clinch their parties' nominations for a rematch in November....
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