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by Ivan Couronne, with Michael Mathes in Washington NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Millions of Americans voted Tuesday for their new leader in a historic election that will either elevate Democrat Hillary Clinton as their first woman president or hand power to maverick populist Donald Trump. As the world held its collective breath, Americans were called to choose between two radically different visions for the most powerful nation on Earth. While Clinton has a […]
DIXVILLE NOTCH, United States (AFP) — The US presidential election got underway — on a small scale — as seven people in a tiny New Hampshire village cast their ballots at the stroke of midnight. Dixville Notch has had the honor of launching the voting, symbolically, since 1960. A man named Clay Smith was the first of the seven residents — five men and two women — to cast ballots as Tuesday’s long awaited Election […]
by Ivan Couronne / with Michael Mathes in Raleigh, North Carolina GRAND RAPIDS, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Monday gave US voters a stark choice as their brutal White House battle neared its end — between her vision of unity and his promise to take back power from Washington’s corrupt elites. On the final day of a presidential campaign that has left a bemused world looking on in concern for […]
by Michael Mathes with Jennie Matthew in Manchester, New Hampshire RALEIGH, United States (AFP) — Striding onto the stage in the waning hours of an exhilarating and extraordinary 511-day election campaign, Republican Donald Trump sounded as if he wasn’t quite ready for his American roadshow to end. And if he wins the White House on Tuesday, it won’t. Exhausted as he must be, having hop-scotched to campaign stops in a dozen cities in two days, Trump […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – by Jim MANNION Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump launched into the frenzied final day of their historic fight for the White House Monday, with blow-out rallies in the handful of swing states that will decide who leads the United States. Clinton, the front-running Democrat, aimed to nail down her narrow lead with stops in three battleground states, as President Barack Obama covers for her elsewhere before they join up at […]
by Michael Mathes LEEBURG, United States (AFP) — Five campaign stops in five states in a single frenzied day. An FBI bombshell announcement. Painful delays. And supporters both jittery and exuberant about Election Day, desperate to hear from their outsider hero. Republican Donald Trump careened into the final 48 hours of a toxic and bruising US presidential campaign Sunday, shifting into overdrive his effort to flip Democratic states as he battles Hillary Clinton for the […]
by Brigitte DUSSEAU WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Even if, as most polls predict, he loses Tuesday’s US presidential election, Donald Trump’s populist charge will leave its mark on the American body politic. The 70-year-old billionaire tycoon is the Republican flag-bearer even though part of the Grand Old Party’s establishment has rejected him, and others are voting for him while holding their noses. But Trump has managed to craft his own political brand, building a […]
by Jewel Samad, with Michael Mathes in Washington RALEIGH, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton unleashed top surrogates including campaigner-in-chief President Barack Obama to bolster her case Thursday in the election’s homestretch, as rival Donald Trump deployed wife Melania to soften his image in crucial battleground states. As a slew of polls showed the race tightening with just five days to go, the campaigns brought all hands on deck in a handful of states that […]
by Thomas URBAIN BERWYN, United States (AFP) — Melania Trump, the Slovenian-born former model who could become America’s first foreign-born first lady in two centuries, appealed to her husband’s soft side in the battleground state of Pennsylvania Thursday. Dressed in a filmy pink blouse and white skirt, it was the 46-year-old’s first solo campaign appearance — the third wife of Donald Trump she is a full-time mother to the mogul’s youngest child, Barron. “He will […]
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AFP) — Just days before America votes for its next president, Donald Trump has drawn yet another unlikely international endorsement with Cambodian strongman Hun Sen joining a colourful coterie of foreign leaders backing the real estate mogul to win. Hun Sen, an authoritarian premier who leans heavily on bombast and brash statements, said Thursday he “really wanted” Trump to clinch next week’s US presidential poll, extolling the billionaire Republican’s potential as a […]
by Dave Clark WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton painted a grim picture of life under a Donald Trump presidency Wednesday, warning undecided voters as the ever tighter White House race entered its final five-day stretch. Clinton made an optimistic choice in staging a huge rally in Arizona, a swing state she hopes to poach from the Republicans, but the Democrat’s tone was grim as she invited voters to envisage her defeat. “Imagine it […]
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Almost half the population of the Middle East and North Africa would abstain if given the right to vote in next week’s US presidential election, an opinion poll revealed Thursday. But Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton came far ahead of her Republican opponent Donald Trump as the preferred candidate to lead the United States, which plays a key role in the Arab world. Out of 3,017 people polled across 18 countries, […]
