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Washington (AFP) - Kamala Harris will be confirmed as the Democratic US presidential nominee in an electronic vote starting Thursday that replaces the fanfare of in-person balloting that usually kicks off the party's national convention. Less than two weeks after Joe Biden ended his reelection bid, his 52-year-old vice president is in full control of the party, having emerged as the only Democrat in the running to challenge Republican Donald Trump in November. Just under 4,000 delegates, the grassroots activists and politicians allocated during the primary process, sent in signatures backing H...
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Harrisburg (United States) (AFP) - Donald Trump supporters snapped up T-shirts calling rival Kamala Harris a vulgar slur as they filed into the Republican's first rally in Pennsylvania since he narrowly survived an attempt on his life in the US state. Hawkers at the gathering in Harrisburg Wednesday did a brisk trade in shirts emblazoned with the words "say no to the hoe -- vote Trump 2024" around a crossed-out image of Vice President Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee. The rally saw thousands of Trump supporters snaking through an exposed field and parking lot under baking conditions,...
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Chicago (AFP) - Donald Trump questioned Wednesday whether Democrat Kamala Harris is really Black or is using race as a political convenience in an interview that sent shockwaves through the 2024 presidential contest. "She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black," Trump told a panel of interviewers at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago. "And now she wants to be known as Black. So I don't know, is she Indian or is she Black?" he said of Harri...
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Washington (AFP) - If Kamala Harris wins the US presidential election she will make history -- and so will her husband Doug Emhoff. The ebullient 59-year-old lawyer will be the first-ever First Gentleman if Harris, succeeds in becoming the first woman president in the United States' nearly two-and-a-half-century existence. Emhoff has already got used to blazing something of a trail of his own alongside his trailblazing wife, who's also 59. He has leaned into his role as the first Second Gentleman, proving an energetic campaigner and fierce defender of Harris in her initially bumpy tenure as th...
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Washington (AFP) - Bot-like accounts on social media platform X that spread misinformation and hate ahead of Britain's election are now amplifying conspiracy theories around US politics, a watchdog investigation revealed Tuesday, as the race to the White House kicks into high gear. Forty-five accounts analyzed by Global Witness, which collectively generated more than four billion impressions since late May, were active in the run-up to the British polls earlier this month. Some of them subsequently pivoted to other high-profile events ahead of the US presidential election in November, includin...
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Atlanta (AFP) - US presidential hopeful Kamala Harris launched a searing attack on Donald Trump Tuesday, telling her biggest campaign rally yet that the momentum was shifting in the White House race and daring the Republican to debate her face to face. Vice President Harris's trip to Atlanta, Georgia, comes as reenergized Democrats regard the swing state as being in play again, after it looked beyond hope under President Joe Biden before his shock withdrawal from the 2024 election. The presumptive Democratic nominee is aiming to expand the party's 2024 battleground map and appeal to young Blac...
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Washington (AFP) - "Weird." Democrats want this to be the word of 2024 -- their secret weapon to bring down Donald Trump. "Trump is old and quite weird?" as a Kamala Harris campaign statement put it. "Just plain weird," Harris said. Trump has built a political career on mocking everyone from opponents to his own staffers. But being the butt of the joke makes him furious. "I hate when people laugh at me," he told a rally earlier this month. That "weird" jibe is Harris's bid, in her come-from-behind campaign, to get the whole country laughing. Where President Joe Biden used formal -- often grand...
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Washington (AFP) - The executive behind a radical governing blueprint for Donald Trump's second term in office stepped down Tuesday, prompting a statement from the Republican presidential candidate's campaign welcoming the project's "demise." Paul Dans built the hard-right Project 2025 "from scratch and bravely led this endeavor over the past two years," Kevin Roberts, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank that launched the effort, said in a statement. He didn't give a reason for the shake-up but added that he would lead the project and see it "conclude its policy drafti...
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Caracas (AFP) - Fresh demonstrations were expected in Venezuela Tuesday after one person died when security forces tried to break up protests triggered by a hotly disputed election result that gave Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a third term in power. Security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets Monday at angry protesters challenging the reelection victory claimed by Maduro but disputed by the opposition and questioned by many other countries. Thousands of people flooded the streets of several neighborhoods in the capital, chanting "Freedom, freedom!" and "This government is going t...
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Washington (AFP) - From false claims of a "staged" assassination attempt on Donald Trump to a viral joke about his running mate having sex with a couch, American liberals have taken a page from the far-right's playbook in pushing wild conspiracy theories ahead of US elections. The liberal and left-wing warping of reality -- a trend some call "BlueAnon," a play on the QAnon conspiracy cult -- is fueling information chaos on social media platforms that are already a cesspool of right-wing falsehoods. The trend underscores how Americans on both sides of the political divide are prone to outlandis...
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