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...(NYT) Vice-president Kamala Harris has been cast as the leading player to court young, minority voters that have soured on Joe Biden....
...Harris is about as good a politician as she will ever be, which mightn’t be quite good enough....
...candidate like RFK Jr or Cornel West....
...“The story was, you’d spend 10 minutes on business and 30 on hockey in a 40-minute meeting,” he says....
...The latter is the involvement of Jon Rotheram, Tom Harris and John Ogier of The Marksman pub on Hackney Road....
...Ferdinand Marcos Jr . . . in the Philippines....
...The Washington Post’s always sage EJ Dionne Jr captures the stakes — and utter recklessness — and points out that “the cruelty is the point”....
...Franklin D Roosevelt attempted to smooth US-Soviet relations by stirring a Martini for Stalin. George Washington curried favour with voters on polling day by handing out free punch and rum....
...She has seen Harris, which she wanted, and it’s time to leave....
...George ParkerDo you think he’d fancying Tory leader after an election defeat?...
...A popular Trumpian T-shirt says: “I’d rather be a Russian than a Democrat”. More seriously, the number of rightwing militias in the US has exploded in recent years....
...Some of Biden’s more extravagant backers liken him to Franklin D Roosevelt, whose opening spell in 1933 laid the foundations for the US welfare state and slayed the spectre of American fascism....
...D Roosevelt ushered in the New Deal....
...Conventions hosted the crowds, without the guests of honour — until Franklin D Roosevelt broke with tradition in 1932, appearing in person to promise “a new deal for the American people"....
...D Roosevelt, John F Kennedy and George W Bush had also pulled off such a feat....
...It is often forgotten that Franklin D Roosevelt — America’s most radical 20th century president — was seen as a mediocrity by many of his peers. Joe Biden never came top of his class either....
...November’s contest will be as consequential for the world as any since Franklin D Roosevelt’s victories in the 1930s. From a distance this looks like an election in two parts....
...Busts of civil rights activists Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks and labour leader César Chavez sit near his political hero Bobby Kennedy, and a portrait of Franklin Roosevelt has replaced Mr Trump’s choice...
...Adding to its celebrity status, “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque” (1943) was the only work that the then prime minister painted during the second world war, and was given by him to President Franklin D Roosevelt...
...Kline points to Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host who is leading fundraising efforts for Trump’s re-election bid and dating his son, Donald Jr, as an example of what not to do....
...The scale of the crises facing America today may indeed be comparable to when Franklin D Roosevelt took office in the Depression....
...If it is up to him, then, the signs are that Biden will govern in the mould of Franklin D Roosevelt. But there is a big question mark over whether Biden will be able to do anything all that ambitious....
...But Mr Franklin said that while critics could try to argue that Mr Biden was “ignoring the state”, the party was flooding the TV airwaves with ads....
...“I’d been in therapy for a long time and it grew out of my experience as a patient.”...
...(It was the start of a scandal that would eventually lead to Falwell Jr’s resignation from the university.)...
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