Dem bus takes the fight to Georgia
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are campaigning across Georgia in a bid to hold it after Joe Biden won the key southern state by just 12,000 votes in 2020.
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Biden’s failure: burning tanker oozing oil in the Red Sea
As the ship Sounion drifts in the Red Sea after an attack by the Houthis, does Joe Biden or Kamala Harris have a plan to revive order in a global shipping lane now controlled by terrorists?
Rewriting history books: King Henry V, we hardly knew you
Shakespeare described King Henry V as a lightweight, but the real King was tougher, says Dan Jones.
Harris the poll favourite as 200 Republican aides back her
The Vice-President’s lead represents an 11-point reversal of fortunes for the Democrats since Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race.
CNN to interview Harris, Walz as Trump confirms Sept debate
Kamala Harris will be interviewed on Friday AEST for the first time since Joe Biden dropped out of the White House race.
‘Record’: Harris campaign raises $540m in a month
The record amount of half a billion dollars comes as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump embark on the final 10-week sprint to election day on November 5.
96 hours at the Kamala Harris show: schmaltzy soundbites and spray-on chinos
The Democrat National Convention was all about ‘magic’, barnstorming rhetoric and the ruthless erasure of Joe Biden
Rude awakening for US voters when Harris ‘joy bubble’ bursts
The intelligence of American voters is being insulted by the Democrats with the “joy bubble” narrative they’ve created around Kamala Harris.
Harris’s style over substance in accepting nomination
Donald Trump faces a sterner challenge than he expected, but he will put Kamala Harris under severe pressure if he pierces her threadbare policies, especially on the economy.
The Kamala Harris joy bubble will be hard to burst
Politics can be a brutal business but the elimination of Joe Biden by the Democrats has been among the most efficient and ruthless acts since Henry VIII decided he wanted a new wife.
Can Kamala Harris make it in the talkies?
Like Lina Lamont in Singin’ in the Rain, Kamala Harris is barred from speaking for her own good (and that of the Democratic Party). That they’ve kept her confined to scripted performances confirms her managers’ view that she simply isn’t up to it.
Democrats ramp up the gender politics in pursuit of the White House
Single women have become a powerful voting cohort, increasingly targeted by Democrats as they embrace sexual politics to maintain control of the White House.
Biden can’t lose by backing Harris
If the vice-president loses to Donald Trump, Joe Biden can smile smugly and tell the Democrats that he would have beaten Trump, and no one will ever be in a position to prove otherwise.
Harris camp is now carefully erasing Joe Biden’s presidency
The ruthless dispatch of the former president was less Brutus and Cassius and more Jack Kevorkian – not a hail of knives in the back but a soft word in the ear, a gentle squeeze on the syringe, and farewell, my lovely.
Goodbye, Joe. You showed us why it is definitely time to go
The President’s speech to the Democratic National Convention was a rolled gold reason why the Democrats were right to get rid of him off the top of their ticket.
‘Kamala will be a historic president’: outgoing Biden lights the Harris flame
Joe Biden has passed the torch to Kamala Harris as his Democratic successor, delivering a strident defence of his presidency and declaring ‘America, I gave my best to you’.
A bittersweet farewell to America from a stubbornly proud president
The best protection for Joe Biden’s long term legacy is if Kamala Harris defeats Donald Trump. At least then he will not be blamed for his part in her downfall.
‘Kamala will be historic president’: Biden hands torch to Harris
Joe Biden has told a cheering, whooping crowd that choosing Kamala Harris as his successor was the ‘best decision I’ve made in my whole career,’ and urged voters to ‘save democracy,’ as he farewelled Democrats on the first day of their national convention.
Anti-Israel protesters march on Democrats’ convention
Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters are seeking to disrupt the Democratic Convention in an attempt to pressure Kamala Harris to take a tougher line on support for Israel.
A sad exit for a President that could have been so much better
After Joe Biden’s speech to the DNC today, the Democrats will drop him like a passing fad. Such is the fate of a president who promised to be a unifier but governed as a divisive progressive.
Biden to pass torch to Harris as Democratic Convention begins
In an address at the Democratic Convention, Joe Biden will point to his joint accomplishments with Kamala Harris and warn of the ramifications of a second term under former Trump.
Democrats’ lovefest not so happy for party’s awkward uncle Joe
For the ageing Biden, still smarting from the party leaders’ coup against him, the Democratic National Convention is just the latest awkward moment in a difficult transition from being the contender to a lame duck president.
Why Zelensky is gambling it all on Kursk
The plan is to force Moscow to shift troops from Ukraine resulting in the need to raise troop numbers with a general mobilisation which could, threateningly for Putin, cause splits in the army.
Gaza ceasefire deal could deter Iran attack: Biden
Ahead of a critical ceasefire summit this week, Joe Biden says it’s his ‘expectation’ that a truce between Hamas and Israel could stave off a strike.
Win or lose, Vance has sparked a revolution across conservatism
Vance won’t win Trump the centrist voters he needs. But in picking JD Vance, Trump has, possibly inadvertently, guaranteed the transformation of his party – and of American politics.
Lengthy X love-in as rattled Trump tries to regain momentum
In a friendly chat with Elon Musk, Donald Trump blasted Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and the Democrats, while talking up his own talents and supposedly exemplary policy record.
US election race has changed
Donald Trump needs a consistent, reassuring message.
Hamas demands truce roadmap
US military team has been ordered to speed up its arrival in the Middle East as Palestinians fled a new Israeli military operation.
‘Dems thought I’d hurt them’: Biden explains election exit
In his first TV interview since withdrawing from the election, Joe Biden says he acted under pressure from fellow Democrats and out of a determination to see Donald Trump beaten.
Leaders plan for last-ditch peace bid
The countries say they are prepared to offer a proposal to bridge the differences between Israel and Hamas.
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