The U.S. approached a historic Election Day on Tuesday (November 5, 2024), with U.S Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump making their final cases to voters across battleground states, especially Pennsylvania, in a election that is tight and where both candidates have a shot at winning. … Read more
On November 5, US voters won’t just decide between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. They will also vote for members of Congress, thousands of state and local officials, and participate in multiple referendums on critical issues, including abortion. Here’s an overview of the key races and questions on the ballot: Congressional … Read more
The dollar fell as the latest raft of US presidential election polling data showed no clear advantage between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Oil rose after OPEC+ delayed a hike in output. The greenback dropped against most major currencies such as the yen and the Australian dollar in early Monday trading, while 10-year Treasury futures … Read more
An African-American man waits in line with other community members in East Tampa to enter the C. Blythe Andrews, Jr. Public Library at an early voting polling precinct to cast their ballots in local, state, and national elections in Tampa, Florida, U.S. on November 2, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The 42 Broadway in New … Read more
Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’s teams are quietly preparing their governments-in-waiting, even as the two nominees remain focused on actually winning the presidency in the final days of an incredibly close election on Tuesday. Not surprisingly, their approaches are as different as their campaigns. Already Harris’s lean transition team has set up shop in … Read more
Why are US Presidential elections held on Tuesdays? | Video Credit: PTI Ever wondered why U.S. Presidential elections are held on Tuesdays? This tradition began in 1845 when Congress established Election Day as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. This decision took into account that America was predominantly agrarian. Farmers needed time … Read more
Joe Biden has been sidelined by Kamala Harris in the final days of her campaign, with his apparent description of Donald Trump supporters as “garbage” underscoring her campaign’s fears that the outgoing president is an electoral liability. Since dropping out of the White House race in July, the 81-year-old Democrat has been hitting the trail … Read more
ROYAL OAK, Mich.: Inside a small community theater in suburban Detroit, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked at a recent forum to talk about her life for the benefit of voters who are still getting to know her. It was the type of question typically asked of a new candidate. But here was Harris getting … Read more
The View from Washington: Who are Trump and Harris appealing to? | Video Credit: The Hindu In the third episode of The View from Washington, as the campaigning in the US elections heats up, we look at the gender divide among supporters of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the ethnic groups they have been targeting, … Read more
Donald Trump‘s allies have tried in vain to persuade him to stop venting his rage against “enemies from within” in the campaign’s waning days. But he keeps going. In his rallies and interviews, the former president is increasingly fixated on the Americans he believes have wronged or betrayed him. They are worse, he says, than … Read more