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Miami (AFP) - For seven years, Rich Logis was a staunch supporter of Republican Donald Trump, attending his rallies and using far-right media to assail his detractors. But on Monday at the Democratic National Convention, he will lay out why he is voting for Democrat Kamala Harris. The 47-year-old Florida businessman is set to appear in a DNC video broadcast, sharing his evolution from a member of Trump's MAGA -- or Make America Great Again movement -- to vocal Harris backer. His journey is something of an anomaly in American society which is often divided along seemingly rigid partisan lines. ...
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Washington (AFP) - Republican delegates adopted Monday a platform that softens the party's position on abortion and gay marriage, on the first day of their national convention. The platform, titled "America First: A Return to Common Sense," was presented at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where former president Donald Trump was officially anointed the Republican presidential nominee. It notably drops a call for a national ban on abortion as advocated by staunch anti-abortion activists, and adopts Trump's position of leaving the question up to the states. The platform abandoned...
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Huntington Beach (United States) (AFP) - Like most Republican voters casting their vote Tuesday in Huntington Beach, California, Tom Jones is delighted at the thought that Donald Trump could soon be the party's presidential nominee. While Trump cannot mathematically seal victory, a sweep of the 15 US states and one territory voting on Super Tuesday would pretty much leave Nikki Haley out for the count. "He's transparent. He has a lot more integrity than she does," says Jones, 61, a professional athlete. Trump's four criminal indictments, his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, hush money p...
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Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump on Saturday inched ahead in his quest to become the Republican Party's presidential nominee, winning internal party elections in the states of Missouri, Michigan and Idaho, US media reported. The former president has now won every state nominating contest heading into next week's "Super Tuesday," when voters in 15 US states choose their preferred candidate for each party. Trump has gained huge momentum in the race to capture the Republican nomination at the party convention in July and Tuesday is expected to all but secure the result. He is likely to face Presid...
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Des Moines (United States) (AFP) - Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis pitched Republicans Wednesday on their bids to be the 2024 presidential candidate in the final debate before nominating begins -- but spurned repeated chances to make the case for abandoning front-runner Donald Trump. The head-to-head showdown in Iowa capital Des Moines came five days before the state's pivotal opening vote in the primary season, considered crucial for winnowing the field and giving those left standing a springboard for the rest of the race. Trump has a commanding lead despite the multiple legal challenges he face...
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Washington (AFP) - Americans will vote over the next five months to choose a Republican candidate for the November 2024 presidential election, selecting between party top dog Donald Trump and an array of distant underdogs. The former US president leads the chasing pack by at least 50 percentage points and is unlikely to be toppled, save a major shakeup -- like criminal conviction that rocks public opinion or removal from multiple state ballots. In the event of a fumble, here are the candidates hoping to pick up the ball and run: Nikki HaleyFormer UN ambassador Nikki Haley's primary campaign ha...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Two Republicans jostling for a distant second place behind Donald Trump in their race to be party flag-bearer took potshots at the former US president on Thursday, days before the first vote in the White House nomination process. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and one-time UN ambassador Nikki Haley turned their fire on their party's presumptive nominee just 11 days before Republican voters in Iowa make their choice. Neither candidate mentioned the other much during back-to-back "town hall" events on CNN. Instead, they both sought to paint their own candidacies as a better be...
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Washington (AFP) - With Donald Trump so far ahead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Americans could be forgiven for dismissing it as a coronation rather than a genuine contest. Yet with days to go until the first votes in Iowa and New Hampshire, the ex-president's rivals insist there is much more at stake in the "undercard" contest than a second-place consolation prize. They point to polling data showing voters turning against Trump in the all-important swing states if he is convicted in any of the four criminal trials he faces as he runs for a second White House term. T...
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Washington (AFP) - There is Trump, there are wannabe Trumps, and then there is Nikki Haley -- the sole woman in the Republican presidential field and now on the cusp of consolidating second place after showing there may be another way than simply aping the main man. Ex-president Donald Trump leads the US Republican primaries by dozens of percentage points, but should the scandal-embroiled populist's campaign implode, experts increasingly believe Haley might be ready to pick up the pieces. The only woman in the field, Haley has notched strong debate performances and attracted robust fundraising...
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Washington (AFP) - A far-right lawmaker launched a bid on Monday to oust US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his post, triggering the most serious showdown yet within the Republican party as it battles to contain firebrand supporters of ex-president Donald Trump. Matt Gaetz, a representative from Florida, entered his resolution from the House floor, later telling reporters McCarthy "doesn't have my support anymore, and he doesn't have the support of a requisite number of Republicans to continue as the Republican Speaker." "Bring it on," McCarthy quickly responded on X, formerly known as Twitt...
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