Hints and tips:
...Just hours ago the Biden campaign announced that it would raise more than $25mn later today at a star-studded fundraiser featuring former US presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton....
...And I had been on the Clinton Campaign, really pushing, often alone, against things like Trans-Pacific Partnership and for harder lines on China earlier....
...This is one area where Kamala Harris, Biden’s equally unpopular vice-president, could be put to better use....
...Harris is about as good a politician as she will ever be, which mightn’t be quite good enough....
...We saw those tensions boil over in 2016, when Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders had an ugly, protracted battle for the party’s presidential nomination....
...For starters, the party could get rid of Kamala Harris, and get not only a new presidential candidate but a new vice-presidential candidate too....
...US political strategist James Carville uttered this as being one of the keys to Bill Clinton winning the presidency in 1992....
...Biden defeated Trump there in 2020 by just 150,000 votes, while Trump defeated Hillary Clinton four years earlier by fewer than 11,000 votes....
...But the book I finished the year with, and which has lingered for days in my mind, was Act Of Oblivion by Robert Harris, one of my favourite authors (here’s the FT review)....
...But it felt kind of like Pussy Hat 2.0 feminism, Hillary Clinton feminism. I felt like we already knew . . ....
...“Real leaders know when to say ‘yes’,” Chris Heaton-Harris said....
...With some reason, he believes that had he, rather than Hillary Clinton, been the Democratic nominee in 2016, Trump would never have become president....
...But the whole Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory that a paedophile ring was being run out of a pizza parlour, a lot of people believe that....
...In an ideal world, the president might replace Harris with a more credible and seasoned running mate....
...And that’s not straightforward,” says Harris. “I’m optimistic but I’m not going to say these are calm waters.”...
...of Joe Biden’s office were on full display in the days leading up to his re-election announcement: he spent the weekend at the presidential retreat Camp David, had lunch with his vice-president Kamala Harris...
...Former president Bill Clinton is among the dignitaries due to attend a conference on the peace deal between April 17 and 19....
...Ed, I had the good fortune to catch most of your big-stage interview with Hillary Clinton at the festival — well done on that....
...Another by Harris, part of marketing group Stagwell, found that Disney had become one of the country’s most polarising brands after a sharp drop in favour among Republicans....
...“Biden and Harris are a team joined at the hip from day one ,” Gaspard says. In Philadelphia, Biden gave a shout-out to Harris — “She’s a great vice-president.” She had spoken just before Biden....
...Clinton was the first US president to appoint a special envoy for Northern Ireland in 1995....
...I will be interviewing author Salman Rushdie, who will join the festival virtually and Hillary Clinton who will be there in person....
...This is invariably followed by: is Kamala Harris up to it?...
...He led the 2019-20 Democratic primaries almost from start to finish, even as opinion-formers preferred Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and almost any bipedal mammal in the...
...“America’s oldest president can now boast of a stronger legislative record in less than two years than either Obama or Bill Clinton achieved in eight,” I write....
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