Tag: US elections

Biden denounces ‘irresponsible’ Trump fight to reverse election

  by Jerome Cartillier with Michael Mathes and Shaun Tandon in Washington Agence France Presse WILMINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday accused Donald Trump of brazenly damaging democracy as the incumbent pressed on with a campaign to reverse his election loss through fraud claims and personal outreach to election authorities. Trump is behind “incredibly damaging messages being sent to the rest of the world about how democracy functions,” Biden told […]

Likely days before a clear winner declared in US presidential election

  By Thomas I. Likness Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — American voters will have to wait, perhaps to the end of the week, to find out who won Tuesday’s presidential election. More than 150 million people cast ballots in the election, two-thirds of them either in advance or by mail. Incumbent Republican, President Donald Trump and Democrat rival Joe Biden seesawed back-and-forth in key swing states. A few states will accept mail-in ballots for […]

Claims of US mail-in ballot fraud threaten confidence in US presidential elections

  by Louis BAUDOIN Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The allegations of potential voter fraud look plausible, featuring US mail-in ballots addressed to dead people or former residents. But the claims posted on social media are inaccurate, and threaten to undermine confidence in the presidential election. “Strange how this keeps happening,” Donald Trump Jr, son of the president, wrote in a tweet sharing a photo of eight mail-in ballots allegedly sent in […]

‘New race:’ Biden seizes momentum with Super Tuesday surge

By Julia Benarrous with Sebastian Smith in Washington HOUSTON, TX (AFP) — A resurgent Joe Biden seized the momentum in the race to become the Democratic challenger to President Donald Trump with a string of Super Tuesday victories, including key prize Texas, against rival Bernie Sanders. Sanders, a 78-year-old leftist who wants to reshape America’s economy, had been the clear leader and was looking for a knock-out blow on the most consequential voting day on […]

Republicans, Democrats in frenzied final push ahead of US elections

  by Brian Knowlton Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Republicans and Democrats were making frenzied, final pushes Sunday to motivate their voters ahead of midterm elections seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump’s divisive first two years in office. With Trump continuing a hectic schedule of campaign appearances and former president Barack Obama making a last appeal for a Democratic candidate in Chicago, both sides say voter turnout will be key. […]

US indicts 13 Russians for election interference

by Andrew Beatty Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States – US Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday indicted 13 Russian nationals and three companies accused of running a secret campaign to tilt the 2016 presidential election. The unsealed indictment details a stunning operation that began in 2014 and aimed to sow social division inside the United States, influence US politics “including the presidential election of 2016.” Mueller alleges the campaign — under the direction of Yevgeny Prigozhin, a […]

Trump calls state election recount a ‘scam’ as Clinton campaign joins vote recount

  WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump called a recount of votes being prepared in Wisconsin a scam, insisting Saturday that his presidential win should be respected, not “challenged and abused.” The recount, which was requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who received a minute fraction of the total vote, flew in the face of an election “that has already been conceded,” Trump said. Hillary Clinton’s campaign said it would join the recount […]

Defeated U.S. candidate Clinton says – ‘Fight for our values’

      WASHINGTON, DC, Unites States (Reuters) Defeated Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called on Wednesday (November 16) for a renewed fight for a more-inclusive United States despite disappointment over an election loss that laid bare national divisions. In her first public remarks since conceding to Republican Donald Trump last week, Clinton said that many Americans were asking whether his victory meant the United States was still the country they thought it was. “The […]

Trump and his aides plan next moves as protests spread

  by Thomas Urbain New York, United States | AFP | — President-elect Donald Trump was expected to huddle with advisers at his Manhattan residence Sunday, plotting next moves after thousands of protesters besieged Trump Tower and marched in other US cities for a fourth day. The demonstrations have become daily affairs following Trump’s upset defeat of rival Hillary Clinton, who blamed FBI director James Comey for her loss during a conference call to campaign […]