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By Thomas I. Likness Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — A defiant US President Donald Trump has declared he has won the election and said the vote counting process is a fraud. Trump is upset because several states have not completed vote counting and it may take several days because of the large number of mail-in ballots and early voting. More than 150 million ballots were cast, two thirds of them early voting or […]
FLORIDA, United States (Eagle News) — Some citizens of Florida, considered the swing state in US elections, give their views about the importance of their vote and the options that had been made available to them to be able to cast their vote, including the mail-in voting and early voting With 29 electoral votes at stake, the Florida vote is very important in a close US presidental race such as that happening between Republican Donald […]
by Ivan Couronne GRAND RAPIDS, United States (AFP) — Normally, Republicans don’t win Michigan — but Donald Trump took the US state in a shocking upset four years ago. On Monday evening he headed back to the city of Grand Rapids — exactly like in 2016 — for the last rally of his reelection campaign, and possibly his political career. Is it superstition? Well… yes. “We finished up there four years ago,” the president said […]
JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) — More than 60 percent of Israelis believe a victory for Donald Trump in the US presidential election would be preferable for the Jewish state, an opinion poll indicated on Monday. According to the poll, commissioned by the Jerusalem-based think-tank the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), and released on the eve of the US vote, 63 percent of Israelis, including 70 percent of Jews, think a Trump win is in Israel’s interests. However, […]
by Brendan SMIALOWSKI, with Brian KNOWLTON in Washington Agence France Presse WATERFORD, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump vowed to again defy the polls as he sprinted through five swing states Sunday in a blitz of campaigning against Joe Biden, with just two days left before a US presidential election that has already mobilized a record number of early voters. The last-minute scramble came as polls showed Biden maintaining his overall lead […]
by Richard SARGENT / Su Myat MON NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi cast her ballot Thursday ahead of election day next week with hundreds of thousands of elderly voters across the country expected to follow suit to reduce the risk of coronavirus. Wearing a face mask, rubber gloves and her trademark flowers in her hair, Suu Kyi was one of the first in the country to vote in the […]
by John BIERS Agence France-Presse FLINT, Michigan (AFP) — Authorities say Flint’s water meets federal safety guidelines, outperforming comparable cities. Residents remain unconvinced. On a Tuesday morning this month, blocks and blocks of cars waited near a church in the eastern part of the Midewestern city to receive value packs of bottled water. These giveaways still happen three days a week, some six years after residents began complaining that a decision to supply the city […]
by Prakash Singh and Archana Thiyagarajan Agence France Presse PATNA, India (AFP) — Millions of Indians turned out to cast ballots in a state election Wednesday in the world’s biggest vote since the coronavirus emerged, with booths packed out and many ignoring government advice on wearing masks and social distancing. Some 70 million people are eligible to vote in Bihar, an impoverished eastern state governed by an alliance that includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s […]
by Catherine TRIOMPHE Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Sean Eldridge says he’s “preparing for the worst” in case President Donald Trump tries to undermine the results of next month’s vote or refuses to accept a victory for the Democrats. The 34-year-old is one of the organizers of a coalition planning protests across the United States if Trump loses to his election rival Joe Biden but refuses to concede. The White […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Commission on Presidential Debates announced Monday they will mute the microphones of President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden when they are not answering questions during their final showdown, to avoid the interruptions that disrupted their last debate. Each candidate will be allotted two minutes to answer the moderator’s questions, during which time the other man’s mic will be shut off. Once they both have […]
by Leila Macor, with Mandel Ngan in Prescott, Arizona MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Florida voters converged on early polling stations Monday in a pivotal state fought over relentlessly by President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden, as their contentious White House race enters its final 15-day stretch. Record numbers of Americans have already cast ballots in person or by mail — 30 million, according to one tracker — ahead of the November 3 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — More than 10 million Americans have already cast their ballots in the US presidential contest, a tracking group said late Monday, a record pace three weeks before election day November 3. “Voters have cast a total of 10,296,180 ballots in the reporting states,” the US Elections Project of the University of Florida reported on its website. The project said the early-vote count is multiple times higher than it was at […]
