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Milwaukee (AFP) - Donald Trump will get the red carpet treatment Thursday as he accepts the Republican nomination to run for US president in a hotly-anticipated speech capping a historic party convention dominated by the weekend attempt on his life. The 78-year-old ex-president can expect a hero's welcome on the final day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, as he addresses a nation still reeling from the assassination bid by a lone gunman at a rally in Pennsylvania. Saturday's attack -- which killed one bystander and left Trump with a bloodied ear -- has loomed large at the con...
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Milwaukee (AFP) - Caden Schaefer-Rose will only just be 18 by the time of November's US election, but he is determined to cast his very first presidential vote -- for Donald Trump. The high school student is among a growing number of teens defying liberal stereotypes of America's youngest voters and hopping aboard the Trump train. "I feel like he reflects a lot of my personal values," Schaefer-Rose, wearing mirrored sunglasses, told AFP at a "Youth VoteFest" Wednesday near the Republican National Convention. He first became aware of Trump in 2016, seeing him on television during that year's ra...
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Washington (AFP) - J.D. Vance's formal nomination Wednesday as Donald Trump's running mate completes a remarkable transformation for a 39-year-old senator now seen as the future face of the Republican party. Vance has been one of Trump's most effective attack dogs in Congress, promoting the dominant populist ideology -- opposing immigration, insistent on Christianity as a touchstone of public and private morality, and opposing support for Ukraine's fight against Russian invasion. Earlier this year, the Ohio senator warned those who don't step in line behind Trump that he has "a long memory." "...
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Milwaukee (AFP) - Donald Trump's running mate J.D. Vance delved into his personal history for his big speech at the Republican convention Wednesday -- and no family member earned a bigger cheer than his gun-totin' grandma. Vance, who famously chronicled his difficult upbringing in best-selling memoir "Hillbilly Elegy," reflected on how his Ohio hometown had been blighted by closed factories and addiction. "I had a guardian angel by my side. She was an old woman who could barely walk, but she was tough as nails," he told the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "I called her ...
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Las Vegas (AFP) - US President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid with mild symptoms Wednesday, shortly after conceding he would consider dropping his reelection bid if doctors diagnosed him with a serious medical condition. The 81-year-old Democrat gave reporters the thumbs up and said "I feel good" as he cut short a trip to Las Vegas and flew to his beach home in Delaware to go into isolation, which will take him off the campaign trail for days. Biden thanked well-wishers on X, adding that "I will be isolating as I recover, and during this time I will continue to work to get the job done fo...
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Milwaukee (AFP) - Donald Trump's vice presidential pick J.D. Vance lit up the Republican National Convention Wednesday with a speech leaning heavily on his personal story as he sought to connect his turbulent upbringing with the hardships faced by millions of Americans. In his first formal address since being tapped as Trump's running mate on Monday, Vance offered a powerful account of growing up poor, with no father at home and a mother hooked on drugs. "I grew up in Middletown, Ohio -- a small town where people spoke their minds, built with their hands and loved their God, their family, thei...
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Milwaukee (AFP) - J.D. Vance bashed President Joe Biden, assailed the media and saluted Donald Trump's bravery Wednesday in remarks ahead of a keynote address to grassroots Republicans to accept his nomination as the party's vice-presidential candidate. Speaking on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention -- his first campaign stop as Trump's running mate -- the US senator applauded Trump's reaction to cheating death at the hands of a gunman in Pennsylvania at the weekend. "The contrast between the lie that the media tells about President Trump and the man that all of us actually k...
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Washington (AFP) - Special counsel Jack Smith filed an appeal on Wednesday of a federal judge's dismissal of the criminal case charging former US president Donald Trump with mishandling top secret documents. Smith appealed District Court Judge Aileen Cannon's ruling to the Atlanta-based US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Cannon, in a surprise decision on Monday, dismissed the documents case on the grounds that Smith was unlawfully appointed. In her 93-page opinion, Cannon, a Trump appointee, said Smith's appointment and funding usurped the role of Congress, echoing a recent argument...
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Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Representative Adam Schiff on Wednesday became the most heavyweight Democrat so far to publicly urge US President Joe Biden to step aside for another candidate to face Donald Trump. He called on his ally to "pass the torch." Schiff, a key congressional powerbroker, praised Biden but told the Los Angeles Times that he doubts that the 81-year-old incumbent can defeat Trump -- a threat to "the very foundation of our democracy." The Californian, who is expected to win a Senate seat this November, is one of the party's most influential members and a key ally in t...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Department of Homeland Security's inspector general said Wednesday that it is investigating the Secret Service's handling of security at the campaign rally where a gunman tried to assassinate former president Donald Trump. The office of DHS inspector general Joseph Cuffari said in an online posting that the probe is intended to "evaluate the United States Secret Service's process for securing" the campaign event. The Secret Service has faced intense scrutiny since Saturday's shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, during which a gunman opened fire on the Republican presiden...
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