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Representative image | Photo Credit: AFP Former President Donald Trump leads a pack of six Republican candidates jostling to be their party’s presidential nominee for the 2024 election, while President Joe Biden faces little opposition in the Democratic Party. Here is a timeline of events related to the Nov. 5, 2024, election between Jan 01, … Read more
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy, on June 28, 2023, at the Old Post Office in Chicago. | Photo Credit: AP President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign ended last month with about $20 million in the bank, just trailing the $22 million plus reported by leading Republican candidate Donald Trump, according to financial disclosures … Read more
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy flipped 15 colleagues to support him in dramatic votes for House speaker on Friday, January 6, 2023, making extraordinary gains on the fourth day and the 12th and 13th ballots of a historic standoff that was testing American democracy and the GOP majority’s ability to govern. The switched votes from conservative … Read more
Object previewFor a third day, divided Republicans left the speaker’s chair of the U.S. House sitting empty Thursday, January 5, 2023, as party leader Kevin McCarthy failed and failed again in an excruciating string of ballots to win enough GOP votes to seize the chamber’s gavel. Pressure was building as McCarthy lost the seventh and … Read more
The story so far: “The central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump…None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him,” concluded the U.S. House Select Committee in its final report released on Thursday, December 22, after an 18-month-long probe in which it conducted over 1,000 interviews, 10 … Read more
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., joined by Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., speaks to reporters after they were elected by House Democrats to form the new leadership. | Photo Credit: AP Emboldened House Democrats ushered in a new generation of leaders on November 30 with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries elected to be the … Read more
In Pennsylvania, Democrat John Fetterman flipped a Republican-controlled Senate seat key to the party. In the evenly split Senate, battleground was focussed on the deeply contested States of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin In Pennsylvania, Democrat John Fetterman flipped a Republican-controlled Senate seat key to the party. In the evenly split Senate, battleground was focussed … Read more
The outcome of races for House and Senate will determine the future of President Joe Biden’s agenda and serve as a referendum on his administration The outcome of races for House and Senate will determine the future of President Joe Biden’s agenda and serve as a referendum on his administration Control of Congress hung in … Read more
9.21pm GMT 21:21 Joe Biden will have a meeting with members of his national security team in Delaware tomorrow, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters. Right before Psaki’s briefing started, the White House updated the president’s official schedule to note that he will travel to his home in Wilmington, Delaware, this evening and … Read more
3.40pm GMT 15:40 In a fascinating new interview, Politico’s Ryan Lizza sits down with J Michael Luttig, a former appeals court judge and conservative legal thinker who played a central role in the behind-the-scenes wrangling between Trump and then vice president Mike Pence over whether a vice president could overturn the results of the election. … Read more