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...But her tally was larger than Trump’s margin of victory over Hillary Clinton in Michigan and Wisconsin. The Democrats have every incentive to make life as hard as possible for Kennedy and Shanahan....
...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....
...As a former opponent but fellow Democrat, Clinton, Goodwin advised, could strengthen the new administration....
...Her history of Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet, Team of Rivals, won academic prizes but also influenced Barack Obama, who cited it after including a former primary opponent (Hillary Clinton) and a member of the...
...US political strategist James Carville uttered this as being one of the keys to Bill Clinton winning the presidency in 1992....
...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....
...Simon Harris, the newly elected head of the ruling party Fine Gael, is expected to take up the mantle and become modern Ireland’s youngest taoiseach....
...This is one area where Kamala Harris, Biden’s equally unpopular vice-president, could be put to better use....
...Separate bids by Robert Kennedy Jr, or the scholar Cornel West, could also skew the electoral college in unpredictable ways....
...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....
...Baker’s remarks chimed with an attempt by DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr, which has failed to get off the ground, to pass a law requiring a supermajority for any border poll....
...Robert Kennedy Jr, a scion of the famed US political dynasty and nephew of the late former president John F Kennedy, has been running for president as an independent for several months, as has Cornel West...
...Vice-president Kamala Harris would be Biden’s most natural successor, but her approval ratings are also low....
...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....
...Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary, has yet to outline what guarantees he can provide. Hopes that the executive could be resurrected in the autumn already look in doubt....
...“Voters are gilding the lily about Trump,” says Matt Bennett, a former Clinton aide and co-founder of Third Way, a centre-left think-tank....
...Then there’s the conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr. Biden will crush him in the Democratic primaries....
...I think Robert F Kennedy Jr has said he’s already running. Is that correct?...
...Kissinger had easy access to every president, whether they were Democratic, including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Biden, or the Republicans George Bush Sr and Jr, and Donald Trump....
...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)....
...DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr said Heaton-Harris was seeking to “coerce unionists back into the Northern Ireland assembly” by setting a tough budget for the region, adding: “But . . . his strategy is failing.”...
...They included Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News presenter who later became engaged to his son, Donald Trump Jr, and played a key role in the former president’s 2020 campaign....
...But it felt kind of like Pussy Hat 2.0 feminism, Hillary Clinton feminism. I felt like we already knew . . ....
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