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Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump and Joe Biden have both stressed "unity" in the wake of the stunning assassination attempt on the Republican presidential contender, but any shift to a more civil political discourse is likely to be short-lived. For months, the two campaigns have shredded the other's candidate with a ferocity that exceeds the already bruising nature of US political races, and observers say there is little chance of that dynamic being altered in any significant way. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, both men struck a moderate...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden defended both his "mental acuity" and his rhetoric about Donald Trump Monday, in a second TV interview aimed at ending calls for him to quit his reelection bid following a disastrous debate. The 81-year-old delivered an often combative defense of his mental and physical fitness for office during the one-on-one with broadcaster NBC, which nevertheless featured some of the word salads that have worried Democrats. "I'm old," Biden told host Lester Holt in the interview at the White House. "But I'm only three years older than Trump, number one. And number ...
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Milwaukee (AFP) - Donald Trump won the formal nomination Monday as the Republican presidential candidate and picked a right-wing loyalist for his running mate, kicking off a triumphalist party convention in the wake of the weekend's failed assassination attempt. The Milwaukee gathering erupted into cheers as Trump announced 39-year-old Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his vice presidential pick, rewarding a one-time harsh critic who has become one of his most uncompromising supporters. "As Vice President, J.D. will continue to fight for our Constitution, stand with our Troops, and will do everything...
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Washington (AFP) - Facing growing criticism over a massive security failure, the US Secret Service on Monday vowed to cooperate with an independent review after a shooter was allowed to open fire on Donald Trump. The 78-year-old former president was injured but survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, a brazen attack that shocked a nation already deeply polarized ahead of the November election. "The Secret Service is working with all involved federal, state and local agencies to understand what happened, how it happened, and how we can prevent an incid...
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Milwaukee (AFP) - Dubbed "the Nostradamus of pollsters," when Frank Luntz talks elections, America's political establishment sits up and listens. He may work for Republican causes but the focus group czar has provided his prognosticating talents to a wide array of politicians, TV networks and Fortune 500 companies for decades. So his takeaways from Day One of the Republican National Convention -- full steam ahead for a Trump ticket bolstered by Ohio Senator J.D. Vance -- will likely alarm Democrats desperate to avert the tycoon's return to the Oval Office. In an AFP interview, Luntz discuss...
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Washington (AFP) - The assassination attempt on Donald Trump has forced Joe Biden's campaign to dial down its attacks for now, with the US president admitting he was wrong to say his rival should be put in the "bullseye." But Biden has more broadly defended his rhetoric describing his Republican predecessor as a threat to democracy, and is signaling he will not hold back for long while criticizing the man he beat in 2020. When Biden urged Americans to "lower the temperature" in a rare Oval Office speech on Sunday after the Trump shooting, it seemed it could deprive him of his core attack line....
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Washington (AFP) - Combative and ultra-loyal, J.D. Vance's rise to Donald Trump's running mate this November completes a remarkable transformation for a 39-year-old senator now seen as the future face of the Republican party. Vance has been one of Trump's most effective attack dogs in Congress, promoting the dominant populist ideology -- opposing immigration, insistent on Christianity as a touchstone of public and private morality, and opposing support for Ukraine's fight against Russian invasion. Earlier this year, the Ohio senator warned those who don't step into line behind Trump that he h...
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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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Milwaukee (AFP) - After dodging a bullet at a rally and seeing the US Supreme Court bolster his presidential immunity claims this month, Donald Trump was handed another gift Monday: the dismissal of his classified documents case. As the only president ever to be twice impeached -- and twice acquitted -- and the country's only ex-president convicted of criminal charges, the septuagenarian has often struggled to stay afloat. His blunders, multitude of scandals and vitriolic statements have shocked millions of Americans. Many heads of state see him as a danger to global stability and the fight ag...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden sought to calm a divided nation Sunday after his rival Donald Trump survived an assassination bid, saying in a rare Oval Office address that it was time to lower the temperature of America's hostile politics. "It's time to cool it down. We all have a responsibility to do that," Biden said in a televised address following the attack in which Republican Trump was injured in the ear and a bystander was killed by gunfire. As the country reeled from images of a bloodied Trump waving his fist after the gunman opened fire at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, ...
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