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Donald Trump North Carolina governor refused to guarantee event could be held without size restrictions due to coronavirus pandemic Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Donald Trump and Mike Pence at the Republican national convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on 21 July 2016. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP Donald Trump said he will seek a […] More
The fight to vote Texas The state’s restrictive voter registration laws have forced the party to seek imaginative solutions to swell the rolls A resident takes voter registration paperwork from Democratic party volunteers in Garland, Texas, on 18 January 2020, before the pandemic made in-person activities impossible. Photograph: LM Otero/AP Texas Democrats plan to use […] More
US elections 2020 Randy Feenstra unseats nine-term conservative, who was repeatedly reprimanded by party leaders for interactions with white nationalists Steve King in Washington in 2018. Photograph: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call,Inc. The controversial Iowa Republican congressman Steve King has been ousted in Tuesday’s primary, losing his re-election race to the state senator Randy Feenstra. King had […] More
The de facto Democratic nominee vows not to ‘fan the flames of hate’ as the president brandished a Bible and boasted of using ‘overwhelming force’ against protesters George Floyd killing – latest US updates See all our George Floyd coverage The existential choice facing America was laid bare on Tuesday, as Donald Trump and Joe […] More
Play Video 2:13 Joe Biden has addressed the killing of George Floyd and the protests that his death has sparked. During a speech in Philadelphia, the Democratic presidential candidate said Floyd’s last words, ‘I can’t breathe’, were a ‘wake-up call for our nation’. Biden also sought to draw a clear distinction between himself and Donald Trump, saying […] More
The fight to vote US elections 2020 Seven states and the District of Columbia are holding elections Tuesday in the most widespread trial yet of whether it can be done safely George Floyd killing – latest US updates See all our George Floyd coverage Voter Brian Taylor prepares to cast his ballot in the Democratic […] More
Iowa Abandoned by mainstream Republicans for his racist rhetoric, the Iowa congressman finds himself in a nightmare situation Representative Steve King, of Iowa, speaks during a news conference in Des Moines, Iowa, in August 2019. Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/AP This might actually be the year the Iowa Republican congressman Steve King loses re-election. King, the conservative […] More
‘It could have a chilling effect’: why Trump is ramping up attacks on mail-in voting Trump is sowing doubt about mail-in voting at a time when it may be the safest way for people to cast their ballots Donald Trump at the White House in Washington DC on 29 May. Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images Donald […] More
