US presidential race yields slew of chaotic ‘surprises’ leading up to Election Day
The 2024 US presidential race has been filled with astonishing events, presenting chaotic "surprises" each month.
The 2024 US presidential race has been filled with astonishing events, presenting chaotic "surprises" each month.
During the election of 2016, I observed that “Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the two most hated people in America. One of them is going to be our president.” Such is the chokehold that the Democrats and Republicans (or the “duopoly” as some call it) have on American political life.
Fear stalks the land, including the Upper West Side,” I wrote to a friend the other day. A week before the election, everyone seems to be afraid.
With the election just days away, campaign signs for both Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Republican candidate Donald Trump are seen side by side along a main road in Door County, northeastern Wisconsin.
Pharmaceutical multi-millionaire Vivek Ramaswamy in protest against US President Joe Biden calling Donald Trump's supporters "garbage" has gone picking trash with the crew of garbage truck.
Trump also said he was thinking about revealing information from a first telephone call he had last April with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
At another remove, Democrats were ecstatic following their victories in Virginia and Kentucky. But the successful candidates were largely political moderates able to win over suburban voters in conservative areas.
Trump's remarks appeared to push back against Beijing's claims this week that the two sides had agreed to remove tariffs in stages as part of a partial deal announced last month.
Most other countries have been represented by their Presidents or Prime Ministers, with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang present in the Bangkok conference.
With Trump administration’s ‘America First’ policy, denial rates for H-1B petitions have increased significantly from just six per cent in 2015 to 24 per cent in the third quarter of the current fiscal.
