TOI Correspondent from Washington: Cherrypicking data from the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report during a heated election campaign, some pro-Trump economists and the MAGA media are alleging foreign-born workers are scoring “nearly all job gains” at the expense of native-born Americans amid a toxic undercurrent of resentment and racial abuse of Indian tech…
TOI CORRESPONDENT FROM WASHINGTON: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a female Democrat, has opened an investigation into comments by MAGA supremo Donald Trump wondering how “war hawk” Liz Cheney would feel if guns were “trained on her face” as a potentially prosecutable offense, amid a raging gender clash in the US Presidential election. “I have…
TOI Correspondent from Washington: Americans are bracing for gridlock on November 5/6 with fervid talk in political circles about voting fraud and stolen elections. Partisan judges and litigators in a deeply polarized country are already duking it out in courts, questioning voter registrations and balloting procedures amid wild conspiracy theories that do not augur well…
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”…
TOI Correspondent from Washington: MAGA Supremo Donald Trump asserted on Monday that he is the “opposite of a Nazi” as reverberations from a vile and toxic rally he headlined at Madison Square Garden on Sunday continued to rattle the US political arena. “The newest line from Kamala and her campaign is that everyone who isn’t…
TOI correspondent from Washington: The rally was enormous — and raucous. Madison Square Gardens was filled to the rafters with 20,000 people, with thousands more outside. The speeches were fierce, vitriolic, and in some instances, racially loaded. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and MAGA’s social media megaphone, introduced Melania Trump, making a rare campaign…
MAGA poster at Trump rally (left), as Donald Trump (right) speaks at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, October 27, 2024, in New York. (Photo/Agencies) TOI CORRESPONDENT FROM WASHINGTON: It was meant to be funny. Instead, it could turn out to be a serious mistake. Throwaway lines by a comedian who labeled Puerto Rico a “floating island…
Several MAGA speakers on Sunday hurled racist insults at the illegal immigrants and Vice President Kamala Harris at former President Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York City.During his address, Radio host Sid Rosenberg called to Hillary Clinton as a “sick bastard” and a “sick son of a b*tch” for drawing parallel between…
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…
Republican presidential candidate for the White House Donald Trump TOI Correspondent from Washington: In a sign that some political mavens and liberal scribes see as fear of retribution from MAGA supremo Donald Trump if he returns to the White House, two prominent US newspapers, both owned by billionaire businessmen, have withheld their traditional endorsement for…
