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Canada As 51st US State? Republicans Would Never Win Another Election

January 8, 2025 admin

Since his re-election, Donald Trump has drawn plenty of attention for neo-annexationist propositions made on social media about the Panama Canal, Greenland and Canada — including in the hours following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation announcement. A day later, he threatened to use “economic force” to make Canada the 51st American state. For a supposed…

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Trump Owns Republicans Now, Critics Wary Of Unchecked Quest For Power

July 18, 2024 admin

Milwaukee: Five days after narrowly escaping assassination, Donald Trump will accept his presidential nomination on Thursday before an adoring crowd of supporters, the final act in his transformation of the Republican Party into the party of Trump. His brush with death has fueled the growing quasi-religious fervor among the party faithful, elevating him from political…

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Watch: What is the Republican National Convention?

July 16, 2024 admin

Watch: What is the Republican National Convention? | Video Credit: PTI As United States of America prepares for its presidential election later this year, the 4-day Republican National Convention began at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee Wisconsin on July 15. The convention is an event in which delegates of the United States Republican Party will…

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J.D. Vance, following in Trump’s footsteps

July 15, 2024 admin

Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, is now one of Trump’s fiercest allies and defenders and among those short-listed to be Trump’s vice presidential pick. | Photo Credit: AP J.D. Vance appeared on the scene of American public life with his 2016 best-seller memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. President Barack…

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Donald Trump teases Marco Rubio as potential VP pick

July 10, 2024 admin

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) speaks during a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump, at Trump’s golf resort in Doral, Florida, U.S., on July 9, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday revelled in the mounting turmoil surrounding President Joe Biden ’s campaign in…

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Nikki Haley’s supporters not all in favour of backing Republican nominee Donald Trump

March 26, 2024 admin

Now that Nikki Haley has ended her U.S. presidential campaign, one person who voted for her refuses to back former President Donald Trump and plans to reluctantly vote for President Joe Biden. Another Haley primary supporter acknowledges that he was probably always a “closet Trump fan” and will vote for the former president again in…

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Internal tumult affects Republicans in Michigan with U.S. presidential poll ahead

March 2, 2024 admin

A threat of duelling party conventions to choose a presidential nominee this weekend. Accusations of adultery, corruption and incompetence. A barrage of social media attacks and a police investigation. The Michigan Republican Party is in turmoil, raising fears among some Republicans that support for former President Donald Trump’s re-election bid could suffer in a battleground…

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Mitch McConnell will step down as the Senate Republican leader in November

February 28, 2024 admin

Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step down from that position in November. He represents Kentucky in the Senate. Mr. McConnell, who turned 82 last week, was set to announce his decision on February…

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U.S. House speaker nominee Steve Scalise drops out of race, deepening crisis

October 13, 2023 admin

U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, talks to reporters as he announces he is ending his campaign to be the next House speaker after a Republican meeting at the Capitol in Washington, on October 12, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Representative Steve Scalise, who Republicans nominated to be the next speaker of the House of…

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Biden Blames “Small Group Of Extreme Republicans” For Shutdown Threat

September 24, 2023 admin

US lawmakers have until midnight on September 30 to reach an agreement on a spending bill. Washington: President Joe Biden on Saturday blamed “a small group of extreme Republicans” for a budget impasse that has placed the US government a week away from a shutdown, urging the lawmakers to resolve the issue. Speaking at a…

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