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Michael Green

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Trump’s success was driven more by economic anxiety than red-hatted MAGA diehards.

Don’t worry: America and Australia will survive this election

Harris was hindered and Trump boosted by the economic issues that have plagued incumbent governments around the world.

September

People watch the presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, at the Gipsy Las Vegas in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Harris should get the polling bump from this debate

The vice president did a better job of highlighting Trump’s extremism than he did of painting her as a Californian liberal.

May

US allies in Indo-Pacific can breathe easier as election nears

There is a long list of reasons why even a second Trump presidency may – as Mark Twain might have said – not be as bad as it sounds.

November 2020

Joe Biden in Melbourne during a vice-presidential visit in 2016.

Australia can shape Biden's diplomacy

Neither four years of President Trump nor the prospect of President Biden changes fundamental foreign policy facts in US politics.

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