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Trump names son-in-law as senior presidential advisor

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — US President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday that his son-in-law Jared Kushner, a property developer and publisher, will serve as senior White House advisor, flouting myriad legal and ethical concerns. The incoming Republican, who has never previously held elected office, said Kushner, who also has no political experience outside his father-in-law’s campaign, would serve as “senior advisor to the president.” Kushner, whom Forbes estimates is worth $1.8 billion together with his […]

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Clinton leads Trump by over two million in popular vote

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton is now more than two million votes ahead of President-elect Donald Trump in the popular vote count for the US presidential elections, a tally compiled by the Cook Political Report showed Wednesday. The Democratic candidate’s 1.5 percent lead in the popular vote makes no difference to the outcome of the November 8 election, which Trump won by taking a majority of electoral votes. Clinton conceded the following day. […]

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Clinton plots final push as race tightens

by Andrew BEATTY WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton saturated the airwaves and deployed star surrogates to battleground states Thursday, looking to snuff-out an eleventh-hour insurgency that has put Donald Trump at the gates of the White House. As a slew of polls showed the race tightening, President Barack Obama shuttled into Florida for multiple rallies aimed at firing up the Democratic base and turning out the vote for Clinton in a must-win state. […]

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Clinton still frontrunner despite FBI emails letter: poll

WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Democrat Hillary Clinton maintained her lead over Republican Donald Trump in their race for the White House, even in the wake of renewed scrutiny of her use of a private email server, a poll showed Monday. Barely a week from the election, the NBC News/SurveyMonkey weekly poll showed Clinton’s six-point national lead remained essentially unchanged since last week. FBI Director James Comey’s announcement on Friday of the recent discovery […]

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Trump says will only accept ‘clear election result’

DELAWARE, United States (AFP) — Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump said Thursday that he would accept a “clear election result” next month, but reserved the right to challenge the outcome if he felt it was “questionable.” Trump stuck firm to his unprecedented defiance of US democratic norms, telling supporters: “I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election — if I win.” But he went on to say: “I will […]

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Clinton: Trump is ‘most dangerous’ White House candidate

LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton on Wednesday accused Donald Trump of being the most dangerous White House candidate in modern history, ending a sharp debate exchange about their fitness to serve as president. After Trump used statements by Clinton’s primary rival Bernie Sanders and Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta against her, she retorted: “You should ask Bernie Sanders who he is supporting. He said you are the most dangerous person to run […]

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Trump refuses to say he will respect election result

LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump doubled down on controversial claims that the US election is rigged during a presidential debate Wednesday, refusing to say he will respect the result. “I’ll look at it at the time,” Trump said. “What I’ve seen is so bad.” An angry Clinton responded with incredulity to the highly controversial charge that questions the very health of US democracy. “Let’s be clear about what he’s […]

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Trump denies groping claims, accuses Clinton of manufacturing them

LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump on Wednesday denied allegations that he has groped several women, saying at his last presidential debate with Hillary Clinton that the charges were drummed up by her campaign. “I believe,” Trump said, “she got these people to step forward,” accusing Clinton of running a “very sleazy campaign” and adding of the claims aired by several women dating back decades: “It was all fiction.” © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse

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Clinton says Trump deportation plan would ‘rip country apart’

LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton said Donald Trump’s plan for forcible deportations of millions of illegal migrants would rip families and the country apart, in the final 2016 presidential debate Wednesday. “I don’t want to see the deportation force that Donald has talked about,” Clinton said. “I think it is an idea that would rip our country apart.” Trump defended his plans, saying there are some “bad hombres” in the country who […]

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No handshake as last Trump-Clinton White House debate begins

  LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump began the third and final debate of the 2016 US presidential campaign Wednesday, with the stakes high for the Republican challenger, who has faltered in the polls. The Democratic and Republican nominees took the stage in Las Vegas without shaking hands for a 90-minute televised clash before tens of millions of viewers, with just 20 days to go before Americans vote on November […]

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Clinton widens lead in latest poll as Trump cries foul

by Michael Mathes NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over Donald Trump nationally and in key swing states three weeks before Election Day, a poll showed Monday, as the Republican presidential nominee struggled to find a way back into the race. Trump, whose campaign has been reeling in the face of lewd comments about women and accusations of sexual assault, has doubled down on claims of “large scale voter […]

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Trump attacks, Clinton lies low as last debate nears

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump fired off an erratic new broadside at Hillary Clinton on Sunday, making more explosive claims that American media and a conspiracy to commit voter fraud are rigging the presidential election against him. Amid the latest Twitter blasts from the Republican White House nominee, his running mate Mike Pence sought to lower tensions by insisting his camp would accept defeat if that’s what voters decide on November 8. Two […]

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