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Dick Cheney

October 2024

Across the divide. Kamala Harris and former Representative Liz Cheney campaigning together this week.

Why women will decide the US election

This time around, it’s women who are angry – not so much about the demise of factory jobs as the threats to abortion rights, and the economic risks posed by Trump.

  • Rana Foroohar

September 2024

Kamala Harris

Harris must dazzle in debate or face defeat

The Democratic candidate badly needs a breakthrough in this week’s televised debate to restore momentum to her faltering campaign.

  • Gideon Rachman

August 2024

US President Donald Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the G-20 summit in Osaka last year.

Chinese officials struggle to build ties with Trump’s campaign

The frustrated overtures come amid rising bipartisan hostility towards China and a realisation in Beijing that US policy is unlikely to become less hawkish.

  • Demetri Sevastopulo

July 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a recent campaign event.

‘Vague, tactless’: Can Kamala Harris overhaul her image to beat Trump?

The vice president’s strengths and failings are under renewed scrutiny by Democrats as Joe Biden backs her to replace him as president.

  • Rozina Sabur

August 2022

Liz Cheney addresses supporters at the Mead Ranch in Jackson, Wyoming.

The truth that set Liz Cheney free

Her lonely stance against Donald Trump was seen as treachery by today’s cult-like Republicans.

  • Ed Luce
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Republican Liz Cheney after her primary election loss in Jackson, Wyoming.

Cheney loses Republican primary in Trump victory

Liz Cheney, the Republican who has spearheaded investigations into Donald Trump’s role in the US Capitol uprising, has lost her congressional primary race.

  • Matthew Cranston
“He is a coward,” Dick Cheney said. “A real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters. He lost his election, and he lost big.”

Dick Cheney calls Trump a ‘coward’ in ad for daughter Liz

The former Republican vice president said Donald Trump lost the 2020 election: “I know it, he knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know it.”

  • Meg Kinnard

May 2021

Liz Cheney:  “We must speak the truth. Our election was not stolen.”

Cheney assails Trump in fiery remarks before vote on her ouster

The Republican Representative said former president Donald Trump and his loyalists were undermining democracy and risked inciting more violence.

  • Billy House

October 2020

Donald Trump's positive COVD-19 test result has cast a spotlight Vice President Mike Pence.

No quarantine for the man next in line to Trump

Mike Pence has played a largely behind-the-scenes role in Trump's White House, although he is known to have presidential ambitions of his own.

  • Susan Cornwell and Steve Holland
US President Donald Trump has spoken from hospital for the first time since being diagnosed with coronavirus.

America's long history of secrecy over presidential illness

The history of illness in US presidents is largely one of intense secrecy, and occasionally flat-out lies.

  • Kadhim Shubber

January 2020

Christian Bale as Dick Cheney in a scene from Vice.

How Republicans came to deify the presidency

When US Republicans vote to acquit Donald Trump it will be the culmination of half a century of conservative thinking towards an all-powerful presidency,

  • Janan Ganesh

May 2019

The US Capitol

Why Washington is watching ScoMo's win

Australia has added itself to the long list of examples around the world of voters jabbing a sharp stick in the eye of experts, pollsters and the holders of elite opinion.

  • Jacob Greber

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