Donald Trump (File photo) TOI Correspondent from Washington: MAGA supremo Donald Trump has flipped Arizona, the last state to officially declare results on Saturday to sweep all seven battleground states in the 2024 presidential election. With this, Trump has chalked up 312 electoral votes to Kamala Harris‘ 226 to complete a remarkable win, reversing his…
In the end, it wasn’t close at all. Donald Trump swept all seven swing states, easily returning to the White House. Polls had suggested a neck-and-neck race, but Harris lost every swing state and performed even worse than Joe Biden in every county. Trump’s triumph signals the end of the liberal order established with Barack…
Kamala Harris (File photo) TOI Correspondent from Washington: Harvard has produced eight US Presidents, Yale has given five, and Princeton has produced three. Few expected Howard University, a largely black university in Washington DC — often phonetically mistaken for Harvard and sometimes called Black Harvard much to alumni disapproval — to make the cut anytime…
Nate Cohn, the chief political analyst of The New York Times, recently wrote a piece titled Why Are Democrats Having a Hard Time Beating Trump? He argued, “How is Mr. Trump still so competitive? The simplest answer is that the national political environment just isn’t as conducive to a Democratic victory as many might imagine.”…
When vice president Kamala Harris stepped into the US Presidential race after President Joe Biden dropped out, she embarked on a campaign that looks starkly different from the one Hillary Clinton ran against Former President Donald Trump in 2016. Both women have faced a challenging Republican opponent in Trump, yet Harris has chosen a different…
Donald Trump and Joe Biden TOI Correspondent from Washington: It’s the garbage, stupid. MAGA Trumpers and Democrats took aim at each other over characterizing their opponents as “garbage,” as the stink of mutual denigration enveloped Presidential elections in the self-described greatest country on earth. Seizing on President Joe Biden’s putdown of Trump supporters as “garbage”…
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe on Sunday took a potshot at Vice President Kamala Harris for receiving celebrity endorsements from Hollywood A-listers and compared the Democratic Party with one of Sean “Diddy” Combs’s party and his Freak sessions. Speaking at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York City, Hinchcliffe said, “The other side has a lot…
One of the best moments in Mad Men came when the developers of New York City’s now iconic Madison Square Garden are worried about destroying the dingy Penn State Station. While chiding the developers for having a guilty conscience, the fictional Don Draper points out: “Let’s say that change is neither good nor bad. It…
There are 11 days to go for this election season, and we are entering what Sir Alex Ferguson called “squeaky bum time”. For those who haven’t watched Ted Lasso or think football is played with something shaped like a rugby ball, “squeaky bum time” is a popular term used by the legendary football manager Sir…
WASHINGTON: An American historian dubbed the “Election Nostradamus” for getting nine out of the last ten presidential elections correct, says Kamala Harris will be the next President of the United States.Prof Allan Lichtman predicts the outcome of the US Presidential elections not on the basis of polls and surveys, but on “13 keys” he developed…
