US Election

November 5, 2024 11:10 PM

“Most important day in American history….deliver your vote no matter how long it takes”: Trump urges supporters

Republican candidate and former US President Donald Trump on Tuesday rallied his supporters to persevere in casting their votes, calling Election Day "the most important day in American history." In a post on X, Trump emphasized high voter enthusiasm, stating, “It is now officially ELECTION DAY! This will be the most important day in American History. Voter enthusiasm is THROUGH THE ROOF because people want to Make America Great Again. That means lines are going to be long!” Encouraging pe...

November 5, 2024 6:37 PM

Harris or Trump will inherit a mixed legacy in 2024 US election

Americans head to the polls on Tuesday in a mood of discontent and division, with opinion polls showing nearly two-thirds of voters believe the country has been heading in the wrong direction under President Joe Biden. While the United States economy is the envy of the industrialized world, emerging from COVID shutdowns with strong job growth and wage increases, many Americans complain those gains were gobbled up by high grocery and housing prices. Biden's promise of a return to a more humane ...

November 5, 2024 10:24 AM

Australia, India say US election result won’t impact Quad group

Australia and India's foreign ministers said on Tuesday they were confident the Quad group of the U.S., India, Australia and Japan would continue to cooperate in the Indo-Pacific region regardless of the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong told reporters in Canberra she had met Mike Pompeo, who served as Secretary of State in the previous Trump Administration, ahead of the U.S. election and had "a very good discussion". "One of the priorities for ...

October 29, 2024 11:59 AM

Trump appeals to religion, Harris talks jobs as millions vote early

Republican Donald Trump on Monday appealed to religious voters in the southern swing state of Georgia as his campaign distanced itself from racist remarks by supporters that could alienate key voter groups. Millions of Americans have already cast their vote before the Nov. 5 election, which national polls including the latest one from Reuters/Ipsos, and surveys in swing states, show is a close race between Trump and his Democratic rival Kamala Harris. In Georgia, where in-person early ...

October 26, 2024 8:40 AM

Harris focuses on abortion in Texas, as Trump heads to Michigan

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump took a detour from barnstorming the battleground states that will decide November's election with Friday stops in Texas, a conservative state that was the first to implement a near-total abortion ban. Texas hasn't backed a Democratic president since 1976, and Republican Trump is almost certain to win the state's 40 electoral college votes. But Democrats are betting it will provide a powerful backdrop for Vice President Harris to talk about abortion rights in the ...

September 16, 2024 5:58 PM

Biden makes a series of verbal gaffes at NATO summit

U.S. President Joe Biden had a series of verbal slip-ups on Thursday alongside the NATO summit in Washington, an unfortunate development for the 81-year-old as he tries to move past concerns that he is too old to run for re-election. Verbal gaffes are not unusual in the long political career of Biden, who overcame a childhood stutter, but there is closer attention on him amid the fallout from his dismal debate performance against Republican candidate Donald Trump last month. Trump, who is 78, ...