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Terry McAuliffe has won the Democratic nomination for governor of Virginia, in what will be the first major election under President Joe Biden. McAuliffe was governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018, and if he wins, he will be the first governor to hold the office twice since 1978. The Associated Press called the election in McAuliffe’s favor an hour after the polls closed. The Republican nominee, Glenn Youngkin, is a former private equity executive and this is his first time running. In terms of experience, McAuliffe holds the upper hand in a race that many have called one of the most competiti...
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Michael Flynn, former President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, appeared to suggest on Sunday that a Myanmar-style coup should happen in the United States – and that there’s really “no reason” against it. Flynn was a White House adviser to Trump for less than a month before he was fired for lying to former Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with the Russian ambassador during the 2016 presidential transition. Although he pleaded guilty after making false statements to the FBI during the Mueller investigation, the Justice Department eventually dropped charges again...
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Democrats have expressed hopes that they would be able to seize control of the Senate, as a total of 33 of the 100 seats were up for grabs in the regular general election, another two seats are holding special elections. Of the seats up for election, 12 were held by Democrats and 23 by Republicans.The GOP had 53 seats going into the election, meaning Democrats would have to net a total of four seats.Seats that have flipped or are in danger of flipping: Alabama (flipped D to R), Arizona (likely to flip R to D), Colorado (flipped R to D), Michigan (leaning to flip D to R) and Montana (leaning to...
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On Monday, White House senior adviser and son-in-law to the president Jared Kushner made some controversial remarks regarding President Donald Trump and his relationship with black Americans.“One thing we’ve seen a lot in the black community, which is mostly Democrat, is that President Trump’s policies are the policies that can help people break out of the problems that they’re complaining about,” Kushner told Fox News. “But he can’t want them to be successful more than they want to be successful.”“What you’re seeing throughout the country now is a groundswell of support in the black community...
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Former President Barack Obama set out on Wednesday to campaign not only for his former Vice President and Democratic nominee Joe Biden, but to campaign specifically against President Donald Trump.While Obama has generally stayed quiet about the Trump presidency over the past four years, Trump has reversed multiple policies the Obama Administration put into place. Obama is scheduled to make two campaign stops in Philadelphia on Wednesday.One of the highly anticipated points of attack against Trump is on the president’s attempts at dismantling the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was the Obama A...
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American Muslims flocked to Twitter after Democratic nominee Joe Biden responded to President Donald Trump using an Arabic word during the first presidential debate on Tuesday night.Moderator Chris Wallace had asked Trump for a statement regarding the recent New York Times report on his tax returns and whether or not the American public will ever have access to viewing them.“I’ve paid millions of dollars,” Trump said, despite the Times reporting he paid only $750 in 2016 and 2017. “You’ll get to see it.” “When?” Biden asked, adding “inshallah,” an Arabic word that means “God willing” and is in...
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After the messy presidential debate on Tuesday night, CNN took a poll of debate watchers on their opinions of the candidates.Out of this sample, 60% said that Democratic candidate Joe Biden won the debate, while only 28% said that President Donald Trump won. This contrasts with the group’s expectations of how the debate was going to go; 56% said they originally expected Biden to win, and 43% expected Trump. This parallels with the results of polls after the first debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election; 62% thought Clinton won, while only 27% thought that Trump did.Th...
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On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden will face each other in the first of three presidential debates. It is expected that the main goal of each candidate will be to win over voters in battleground states, which will ultimately decide the direction of the election, and each candidate has been advised to work the debate from angles to support their chances at swaying voters.Biden’s advisers have instructed him to avoid fact-checking Trump, unlike 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton did during her debates against Trump. He has reportedly been told to a...
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