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US: Election conspiracist Kristina Karamo to lead Michigan GOP through 2024

Election conspiracist Kristina Karamo, who was overwhelmingly defeated in her bid to become Michigan's secretary of state, was chosen Saturday to lead the state's Republican Party for the next two years. Karamo defeated a 10-candidate field dominated by far-right candidates to win the Michigan GOP chair position after a state convention that lasted nearly 11 hours. A former community college professor, she lost her secretary of state race in the 2022 midterms by 14 percentage points after mounting a campaign filled with election conspiracies. Karamo inherits a state party torn by infighting and millions in debt. She will be tasked with helping win back control of the Legislature and flipping one of the nation's most competitive Senate seats, while attempting to help a presidential candidate win the battleground state. Addressing delegates before the vote, Karamo said that "our party is dying" and it needs to be rebuilt into "a political machine that strikes fear in the heart of ...

Ex-prez Obama urges Georgia Democrats to push turnout for Warnock

Former President Barack Obama and Sen. Raphael Warnock on Thursday urged Democratic voters to keep pushing an apparent head start in early voting in the Georgia Senate runoff against Republican Herschel Walker, ahead of Friday's last day of early in-person voting and Tuesday's election day. If they didn't get tired, you can't get tired, Obama told a crowd gathered in a cavernous former railroad repair shop east of downtown Atlanta. Voters have already cast more than 1.4 million ballots amid an all-hands-on-deck push by Democrats to bank as many votes as possible while Republicans, especially Walker, have taken a less aggressive approach that could leave the GOP nominee heavily dependent on runoff Election Day turnout. We've got to keep on showing up, Warnock told the crowd at his largest event of the four-week runoff blitz. We've got to keep on voting. We cannot let up for even a moment. We've got to keep our foot on the gas all the way to victory. Both Obama and Warnock criticised

Twitter's big headache: Brand impostors thanks to the $8 verification

Users started creating accounts pretending to be major brands and politicians, fooling users and potentially jeopardizing Twitter's now-shaky reputation with top advertisers

Can the outcome of US midterm election trigger a market rally?

The US midterm elections have historically marked bullish pivot points for the stock market, notwithstanding the outcome. Will this time be any different? And will this money chase Indian equities?

US not near recession, needs more time to cool prices: US president Biden

'We're not anywhere near a recession right now, in terms of the growth,' said Biden at the White House on Wednesday

Running for 2024 presidential election to be a family decision: Joe Biden

US President Joe Biden has said he intends to run again for presidency in 2024, but ultimately it is going to be a family decision. That decision might come as early after the Christmas-New Year timeline, he indicated. Our intention is to run again. That's been our intention, regardless of what the outcome of this election was, Biden told reporters at a White House news conference. The fact that Democratic Party outperformed anything anyone expected and did better than any off-year presidency since John Kennedy is one that gives everybody, like, Hoo -- sigh of relief -- that the mega Republicans are not taking over the government again, et cetera, he said. And so, my judgment of running, when I announce ...Now, my intention is that I run again. But I'm a great respecter of fate. And this is, ultimately, a family decision, Biden said in response to a question. He said he thinks everybody wants him to run again for the presidency. But we're going to have discussions about it. I d

The giant Red Wave didn't happen: President Joe Biden on US mid-term polls

Biden said "Our Democracy has been tested in recent years, but with the votes of American people we have proved once again that it's Democracy who we are," he said.

Republicans, Democrats notch victories in competitive midterm races

Control of Congress hung in the balance early on Tuesday, with both parties notching victories in some of the most competitive races in a midterm election that centred on voter frustration over high inflation and the sudden rollback of abortion rights. Democrats held a crucial Senate seat in New Hampshire, where Democratic Sen. Sen. Maggie Hassan defeated Republican Don Bolduc, a retired Army general who had initially promoted former President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election but tried to shift away from some of the more extreme positions he took during the GOP primary. Republicans held Senate seats in Ohio and North Carolina. A district-by-district fight was underway for control of the House, where Democrats held closely watched seats in moderate suburban districts from Virginia to Kansas and Rhode Island. Rep. Elaine Luria, a Navy veteran who serves on the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, was the first Democratic incumbent to lose a highly ...

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US midterms: Even without a red wave, this could now be Weimar America

Having ridden to popularity on Trump's coattails, most will support The Donald in his expected rematch against President Joe Biden in two years.

US midterms: Americans set to deliver verdict on Biden and Democrats

Biden's party is trying to buck history by holding onto their razor thin congressional majorities with the president's remaining legislative agenda hangs in the balance.

Politics is war, truth is first casualty, says Musk as he attacks Democrats

Elon Musk on Tuesday said that politics is war and truth is first casualty, as he attacked Democrats and supported Republicans during the US mid-term election

I'm open to the idea of voting Democrat again in future: Elon Musk

'Hardcore Democrats or Republicans never vote for the other side, so independent voters are the ones who actually decide who's in charge!'

After firing half of Twitter's workers, Musk now asks some to return

Some of those who are being asked to return were laid off by mistake, according to two people familiar with the moves

Sulking and moping is not an option, says Barack Obama to Democrats

Barack Obama warned anxious Democrats on Saturday that abortion rights, social security and even democracy itself is at risk should Republicans seize congressional majorities next week. "Sulking and moping is not an option, the former president said in Pennsylvania. On Tuesday, let's make sure our country doesn't get set back 50 years, Obama told hundreds of voters on a blustery day in Pittsburgh. "The only way to save democracy is if we, together, fight for it." He was the opening speaker in a clash of presidents past and present in the battleground state as each party's biggest stars worked to energise voters on the final weekend of campaigning before Election Day on Tuesday. Obama was accompanying Senate nominee John Fetterman, the lieutenant governor who represents his party's best chance to flip a Republican-held seat. Later Saturday, they were to appear in Philadelphia with President Joe Biden and Josh Shapiro, the nominee for governor. Democrats are deeply concerned about th

Job cuts at Twitter spur concerns about US midterms, human rights

Product and engineering teams were gutted by well over 50%, according to two sources, and other groups - like communications, marketing, human rights and diversity - were almost completely eliminated

US mid-term elections: Misinformation, conspiracy theories on the rise

Claims about the security of mail ballots have grown in recent weeks, as have baseless rumours about non-citizens voting

Midterm elections: Biden asks voters to save democracy from lies, violence

After weeks of reassuring talk about America's economy and inflation, President Joe Biden turned Wednesday night to a darker, more urgent message, warning in the final days of midterm election voting that democracy itself is under threat from former President Donald Trump's election-denying lies and the violence he said they inspire. Pointing in particular to the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, he said that Trump's false claims about a stolen election have fuelled the dangerous rise of political violence and voter intimidation over the past two years. Six days before major midterm elections, Biden said, As I stand here today, there are candidates running for every level of office in America, for governor, for Congress, for attorney general, for secretary of state, who won't commit to accepting the results of the elections they're in. That is the path to chaos in America.," he declared. "It's unprecedented. It's unlawful. And, it is un-American. The president, who ha

President Joe Biden hits campaign trail, blasting Republicans in Florida

President Joe Biden tore into Republican proposals to undo prescription drug price caps and change Social Security and Medicare on Tuesday, campaigning hard for Democrats in Florida one week before Election Day. In a final-week push, he will be flying to New Mexico on Thursday, California on Friday and Pennsylvania on Saturday. In Florida, a state famously popular among retirees, he declare that the current crop of GOP candidates ain't your father's Republican party" and said that he prayed God would deliver his opponents some enlightenment." After those remarks in Hallandale Beach, he was headlining a fundraiser for gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist and a rally for the state's Democratic Party, including Senate candidate Val Demings. He dinged Demings' Republican opponent, Senator Marco Rubio, for failing to back his Inflation Reduction Act, passed in August by the Democratic-led Congress. It includes several health care provisions popular among elderly people and the ...

Musk effect: Twitter limits content-enforcement tools as US election looms

Most people who work in Twitter's Trust and Safety organization are currently unable to alter or penalize accounts that break rules around misleading information, offensive posts and hate speech