Tag: US election
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Joe Biden wins Washington presidential primary
Former Vice President Joe Biden has won Washington’s presidential primary, further cementing his status as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. As of Monday afternoon, Biden led with nearly 38 per cent of the statewide vote, compared with about 36 per cent for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. There was a gap of 23,000 votes.…
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‘2020 U.S. election will be emotionally charged’
By Dayo Benson Editor Politics,Law/Human Rights New York Professor Robert Shapiro, is a former chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, and he served as acting director of Columbia’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, ISERP, from 2008 to 2009. He is a fellow of the American Association for the…
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Trump picks Brad Parscale to manage 2020 re-election
President Donald Trump on Tuesday named political strategist, Brad Parscale, as manager of his 2020 presidential re-election campaign, rewarding a digital expert, who was critical to Trump’s 2016 victory. In a statement, the Trump campaign said it planned to use Parscale’s talent to help Republicans in the 2018 congressional elections in November as they try…
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US elections: How NASA astronaut, Kimbrough, voted from space
From infinity and beyond, Shane Kimbrough, a NASA astronaut living in space found a way to vote in the United States (US) 2016 November elections. On board the International Space Station, Kimbrough filed his ballot in the presidential election, according to a Tumblr post by NASA, with NASA telling Yahoo News that Kimbrough was able…
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Obama orders review of 2016 election cyber-attacks
US President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to review cyber-attacks and foreign intervention into the 2016 election and deliver a report before he leaves office on January 20, the White House said on Friday. In October, the US government formally accused Russia of a campaign of cyber-attacks against Democratic Party organizations ahead of the…