As it happened: Trump claims historic victory
Donald Trump vows to ‘help the US heal’, winning both the electoral college and popular vote. A win in Wisconsin confirmed his second term as president and victory over Kamala Harris.
Donald Trump vows to ‘help the US heal’, winning both the electoral college and popular vote. A win in Wisconsin confirmed his second term as president and victory over Kamala Harris.
Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, has blasted the adequacy of Australia’s defence spending and called for investment in sea mines, drones and an Israel-style ‘iron dome’.
Whatever you think of the man, a 78-year-old Donald Trump’s ability to speak for hours, largely without notes, on the final day of campaigning for the presidency is impressive.
The Republican made the announcement, which would up-end North American free-trade deals, during the first of four rallies on the last full day of campaigning.
The pandemic isn’t much mentioned in the US presidential campaign but it’s a referendum on Covid-19 policy in one critical sense – the destructive wave of global inflation it triggered.
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart has heaped praise on Donald Trump as a model for other world leaders, and blasted Australia’s economic policies.
Three days before the US presidential election America’s most respected pollster predicts a Democrat landslide.
If Kamala Harris loses the election to Donald Trump it will fundamentally be because as the embodiment of this new class of Democrat politician, she has failed to win the support of the American working class.
As Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart looked on, Donald Trump influencer Steve Bannon has predicted a convincing Republican victory at Miranda Devine’s book launch, just hours after being released from US federal prison.
If neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris win 270 Electoral College votes in next week’s presidential election, it would trigger political chaos and an obscure constitutional provision for a ‘contingency election’.
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