Tag: US election
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No evidence of widespread voter fraud yet — U.S. Attorney General
U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday said the Department of Justice had found no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could upturn the Nov. 3 elections. “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” The Associated Press (AP) quoted Barr as saying.…
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US election: No evidence of lost or changed votes —Officials
Senior US federal and state election officials said Thursday that there was “no evidence” that votes were lost or changed, or voting systems corrupted, in the presidential election. The officials, responsible for election security across the country, rejected claims made by President Donald Trump and Republicans that fraud and lost ballots led to his loss…
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Boris Johnson, Macron, Merkel, other World leaders congratulate Joe Biden as US President-elect
World leaders have congratulated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on their victory in the US presidential election. Biden defeated President Donald Trump to emerge US President-elect after he garnered 273 electoral votes with results in some states still pending. French President, Emmanuel Macron said on his twitter handle that “The Americans have appointed their President.…
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BREAKING: Biden knocks out Trump, wins U.S. presidential race
Former United States Vice President, Joe Biden has won the race to become the country’s next president, defeating incumbent Donald Trump following a cliff-hanger vote count after Tuesday’s election. The BBC projects that Mr Biden has won the key battleground of Pennsylvania, propelling him over the 270 electoral college vote threshold required to clinch the…
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Trump’s long good night – Chidi Amuta
By Chidi Amuta In a matter of days, America’s democracy will self -correct and present a bulky casualty. Mr. Donald Trump’s presidency is unlikely to be revalidated for a second term. As the various polls indicate once again, the American electorate seems poised to deal the disruptive Mr. Trump a merited ‘F’ grade. The imminent…
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Donald Trump slams Steve Jobs’ widow
The President of the United States of America (POTUS), Donald Trump on Sunday called out the widow of Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports President Trump called out Mrs Jobs, for donating to support the candidacy of Joe Biden, Trump’s major opponent in the 2020 US presidential election. The widow of Steve Jobs…
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Facebook to ban new political ads in week before U.S. elections
Facebook Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg said his company would not allow new political advertisements to run on the platform in the week before the U.S. presidential election. The company will, however, allow ads that began running before the final week to remain. And Zuckerberg did not say that Facebook would stop allowing politicians to run…
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Biden’s agenda made in China — Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday night drew the curtains on the Republican National Convention with blistering attacks on his Democratic challenger in the Nov. 3 presidential election, Mr Joe Biden. In a speech that lasted a little over an hour, Trump dismissed Biden as a puppet of China, repeating his claim that China would…
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Trump casts aspersions on Biden’s presidency
President Donald Trump painted a grim picture of life in the U.S. if his rival, Joe Biden, were to win the November presidential election, promising that there would be insecurity economic decline, and an end to basic rights such as free speech and gun ownership. “No one will be safe in Biden’s America,” Trump said,…
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Biden vows end to ‘American darkness’
Joe Biden accepted the nomination of the Democratic Party to become president of the U.S., in a resounding speech on Thursday that sharply denounced President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. “Our current president has failed in his most basic duty to the nation. He’s failed to protect us, he has failed to protect…