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Trump campaign loses legal battle over Las Vegas polling station
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, United States (Reuters) — A Nevada judge on Tuesday (November 8) rejected Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s request for records from a Las Vegas polling place that the campaign said had allowed people to vote after a deadline last week. Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton are in a close contest for Nevada’s six electoral votes in Tuesday’s election after a long and contentious campaign. Nevada is one of several states that permits […]
Clinton casts her vote in historic US election
CHAPPAQUA, United States (AFP) – Hillary Clinton cast her ballot early Tuesday as the extraordinary US presidential race draws to a close, with the divided nation choosing whether to elect its first woman president or populist Donald Trump. Chanting “Madam President,” about 150 supporters turned out to cheer on the Democratic nominee who voted with husband Bill Clinton at an elementary school near their home in Chappaqua, New York. “I’m so happy, I’m just incredibly happy,” […]
Clinton, Trump in frenzied campaign finale
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 […]
Watch: US election fever reaches Russia
https://youtu.be/cbe8poau5IM Is Donald Trump Russia’s best friend? Many in the country seem to believe the flamboyant White House candidate could help fix shattered ties between the two former Cold War foes. (Video courtesy AFP TV)
Trump trails Clinton by 8 points after tape scandal, debate – Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump has fallen further behind Hillary Clinton and now trails her by 8 points among likely voters, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, with 1 in 5 Republicans saying his vulgar comments about groping women disqualify him from the presidency. The national tracking poll was launched after Sunday night’s second presidential debate, where Trump was pressed to explain his comments in a 2005 videotape about […]
Trump, Clinton hit campaign trail after fiery debate
WHITE PLAINS, United States (AFP) – by Ivan Couronne Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on Monday headed back to the campaign trail after a fiery presidential debate, with the Republican looking to bounce back after a weekend that crippled his White House bid. With just over four weeks to go before American voters head to the ballot boxes to choose their next commander-in-chief, the candidates traveled to swing states — Trump to Pennsylvania and Clinton to […]
Trump says news media obsessed with ‘alleged’ tax filing
(Reuters) — U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday (October 3) appeared to complain about the public attention he has received over his leaked 1995 of tax filing which showed he had over $900 million in losses that year. The New York Times first reported the story, saying the losses were from bad business deals in the 1990s. Experts have said the losses might have allowed Trump to avoid paying federal income taxes […]
Clinton, Trump clash and interrupt each other in first presidential debate
* Each accuses other of distortions, falsehoods *Clinton called the New York businessman’s tax policies “Trumped-up trickle-down” economics *Trump accused the former secretary of state of being “all talk, no action.” * Clinton criticized Trump for failing to pay some of the business people with whom his company had contracted. *Trump said such incidents of non-payment had taken place when the work was unsatisfactory. *Trump attacked Clinton for her trade policies and said […]
Trump, Clinton show differences on national security
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – by Ivan Couronne Andrew BEATTY Hillary Clinton sought to show a steady hand and Donald Trump claimed “I told you so” Monday, as a fresh spate of terror attacks prompted markedly different tacks from the dueling White House hopefuls. Fifty days out from the presidential election, a bomb in New York, a mass stabbing in Minnesota and a New Jersey pipe blast injured dozens and put national security center-stage in the […]
For some Americans, Trump is ‘lesser evil’
by Ivan Couronne BARBERTON, United States (AFP) — For some voters, Democrat Hillary Clinton in November is the clear choice for the White House — after all, she certainly has more political experience than Republican rival Donald Trump. But a trip through the American Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania and Ohio quickly reveals that for others, such logic doesn’t hold much sway. “Like anyone else, I have my misgivings about Trump,” admits Alex Morton, a 67-year-old […]
Polling places become battleground in U.S. voting rights fight
By John Whitesides LINCOLN PARK, Ga., Sept 16 (Reuters) – Louis Brooks, 87, has walked to cast a vote at his neighborhood polling place in Georgia’s predominantly black Lincoln Park neighborhood for five decades. But not this year. Brooks says he will not vote in the presidential election for the first time he can remember after local officials moved the polling station more than 2 miles (3 km) away as part of a plan […]
