Amber Duke

Americans were failed by the Trump-Harris debate

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The first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump was a missed opportunity for both candidates and, as such, a disappointment for American voters.  Trump had three points he needed to land against Kamala Harris: that voters cannot trust her because she is constantly changing her policy positions without a

The Kamala interview was a missed opportunity

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CNN was the lucky winner of the first sit-down media interview with Vice President Kamala Harris since she was pushed to the top of the ticket nearly 40 days ago and, well, it didn’t go great.  It was not a particularly long interview. Dana Bash confirmed nothing was cut, but we still got only about

Kamala Harris picks Tim Walz as running mate

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US vice president Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota governor Tim Walz to be her running mate. Walz, a Midwestern Democrat with deep ties to labour movements, will be seen as an opportunity for Harris to hang on to some of the ‘blue wall’ states that president Joe Biden flipped from Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

Donald Trump accepts Republican nomination

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Last night, former president Donald Trump accepted the Republican party’s nomination for president, and started his much-anticipated speech at the Republican National Convention by retelling the events of the attempt on his life at last Saturday’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. ‘I’ll tell you what happened, and you’ll never hear it from me a second time,