The UK foreign secretary, David Cameron, has suggested the Aukus pact and Nato alliance must get into the best possible shape to increase their chances of surviving Donald Trump’s potential ret...
In the vital swing state of Michigan, growing fractures among the Democratic base could spell trouble for Joe Biden in the November election. As party loyalists canvas in the run up to a primary ...
The Democratic Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, has said Benjamin Netanyahu has emerged as a 'major obstacle to peace' in Gaza, in a further sign of growing tensions between the US and its ...
Special counsel Robert Hur said his report on declassified documents held by President Biden didn't exonerate him, insisting 'that is not a part of my task as a prosecutor'. Hur also didn't rule ...
The former special counsel has defended comments he made on Joe Biden's memory in his report on the US president's handling of classified documents. Robert Hur appeared before a house judiciary c...
Abortion and reproductive rights took centre stage at the 2024 State of the Union, as Joe Biden sought to overcome concerns about his re-election chances by emphasising an issue that has energise...
Alabama lawmaker gave the Republicans' formal response to Joe Biden's State of the Union address, criticizing the president on issues such as immigration and the state of the US economy Continue ...
Donald Trump confused Barack Obama for Joe Biden at a rally in Virginia, triggering further questions about the age of the likely Republican presidential nominee who has made a string of such gaf...
Donald Trump defeated Nikki Haley in her home state of South Carolina , a stinging setback that narrows her vanishingly thin path to the nomination. The Associated Press called the South Caroli...
Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney, vehemently denied wrongdoing while testifying at a court hearing on Thursday as she rebutted accusations that her romantic relationship with a d...
Margaret Hoover takes issue with president and rival for using predecessor who battled Great Depression as example of failure Joe Biden is taking a “cheap shot” whenever he gleefully compar...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/13/biden-comparing-trump-herbert-hoover-cheap-shot
Mockery over ‘Two Corinthians’ slip and endorsement battles in 2016 echo in 2024 race as Republican contenders seek first win In the heat of the Republican primary of 2016, Donald Trump cal...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/23/trump-iowa-evangelicals-pieces-of-shit-book-says
Biography says Romney considered 2016 pairing with senator – who he saw as a ‘demagogue’ – to block Trump nomination Mitt Romney considered a desperate, third presidential bid in 2016, ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/18/mitt-romney-book-election-2016-ted-cruz-trump
Hugely successful adaptation of dystopian novel began airing three months after 2016 US presidential election Margaret Atwood was “the only person who benefited from the election of Donald Tr...
The option to bypass the legislature, which allowed for marijuana legalization and minimum wage increases, is under threat In November, voters in Arizona will decide whether to limit citizens�...
Vice-president warns that the elections will determine whether ‘age-old sanctity’ of right to vote would be protected Kamala Harris warned on Sunday that the midterm elections in November w...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/11/kamala-harris-midterm-elections-voting-rights
Jena Griswold urges Americans to pay attention to crucial but often overlooked races for secretary of state Colorado’s secretary of state, Jena Griswold, is warning anyone who will listen tha...
Eric Calhoun, a Black resident who sued Pleasant Grove’s discriminatory voting system in 2018, was sworn in as council member on Monday A few years ago, Eric Calhoun felt out of touch with hi...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/25/alabama-pleasant-grove-city-council-black-majority
Only a Democratic landslide can ward off the nightmare prospect of this president simply refusing to leave office Were we not thoroughly spooked by what happened in 2016, we’d find it easier ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/17/trump-biden-win-democrat-landslide
The former New York mayor championed stop and frisk as well as Muslim surveillance programs During his tenure as mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg oversaw one of the most discriminatory...
The special counsel offered no startling new material, but his testimony was nonetheless valuable Is it possible to talk of political theatre when the star of the show refuses to take centre sta...
The president is locked in the politics of nostalgia – and fails to recognize that fearmongering works best for candidates when they’re out of power Donald Trump’s 2015 announcement speec...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/20/trump-2020-election-campaign-kick-off-freedom
It is no surprise that the document bears little resemblance to that portrayed by the Trump administration. It must not be allowed to draw a line beneath it Finally we have heard from Robert Mue...
Trump’s deputy press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, offered misleading account of Arkansas case in which court filings show no one ineligible voting A case cited by the White House as evi...
Days before the election, a historic African American church in the Mississippi delta was set on fire in and vandalized with the words ‘Vote Trump’. Paul Lewis visits the city of Greenville, ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2017/jan/04/mississippi-black-church-burned-vote-trump-race
When the father of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq spoke at the Democratic national convention in July, he found himself under fire from Donald Trump. Since then, Khan has been bombarded...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/20/khizr-khan-vilified-trump-far-right-voice-heard
Trump victory sealed despite demonstrations across the country, with Congress to formally endorse result in special session on 6 January The denouement of the 2016 election came on Monday, as e...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/19/electoral-college-votes-donald-trump-electors
The ‘alt-right’ conference in Washington wasn’t a gathering of a forgotten white working class. It was a white nationalist movement buoyed by millennials Some of the most prominent member...
From dazed election night revellers in Washington DC to a gay Trump voter in Detroit to kids in Kentucky ... The US writer gauges the mood of a divided nation The word surreal is overused and o...
Two years on the campaign trail revealed an America forgotten in the bicoastal media bubble, leaving our writer unsurprised when Hillary Clinton was beaten Sixty million Americans voted for Don...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/13/donald-trump-president-rust-belt-white-house
For three months, the Anywhere but Washington series has shed light on people and places shaping the presidential election. This final dispatch, from Nevada, captures the hope and despair behind ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2016/nov/11/how-donald-trump-became-president-video
Sabrina Siddiqui relays her experience as a pool reporter, part of a small group shadowing Clinton and her top aides, in the final 24 hours of her bid to make history as the first female US presi...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/hillary-clinton-us-election-night-reaction
Policy details were lacking during his campaign, but there were hints of a disturbing agenda on immigration, healthcare, gun control and women’s rights DONALD TRUMP WINS US ELECTION – LIVE UP...
The people of America have stepped into the abyss. The new president elect is an unstable bigot, sexual predator and compulsive liar; he is capable of anything DONALD TRUMP WINS US ELECTION – ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/09/donald-trump-us-president-nightmare
Follow along throughout the night as America finds out who won the presidential race between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump Continue reading...
The GOP candidate insulted many minority groups, but he also tried to win their votes. He didn’t even seem to want ours The 2016 American presidential election has been an absurd, exhausting ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/08/donald-trump-america-muslim-citizens
Test your knowledge of the candidates, unforgettable soundbites and political controversies in the most dramatic election in recent history Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/07/us-election-quiz-donald-trump-hillary-clinton
The Republican’s long road to election day took in insults, adulation, violence and outlandish claims as the press pack was progressively corralled and vilified In the beginning, Donald Trump...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/06/my-year-with-donald-trump-campaign-2016-election
In search of the people and places overlooked on the campaign trail, I discovered a nation divided by much more than the race between Clinton and Trump Support the Guardian’s independent journ...
Donald Trump’s message resonates in the most forgotten corners of the US, because viewed from these places, America no longer seems a great country The first voter I heard mention Donald Trum...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/03/trump-supporters-us-elections
While we rake over Clinton’s emails and Trump’s late-night tweets, climate has been the elephant in the room, leaving scientists and campaigners asking why there hasn’t been a single direct...
Competitiveness, demographics and voting laws play key roles in whether voters flock to the polls or stay home – but what percentage of voters in your state marked a ballot during the last pres...
Though I predicted that Republican efforts to minimize overt misogyny after Hillary Clinton’s last run would bear fruit this time, the opposite happened Nearly three years ago , I predicted t...
With the Republican candidate’s professed love for the ‘poorly educated’ reciprocated in the polls, socioeconomic class could swing the presidency in 2016 The sign hanging on Main Street ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/02/trump-clinton-election-class-socioeconomic-divide
Donald Trump’s naming of a new campaign chief linked to a fiercely outspoken far-right movement is a dangerous step, Hillary Clinton is set to warn in a speech The appointment of Breitbart Me...
From ‘vehemently oppose’ to ‘all in’: explore the universe of Republican positions on Donald Trump. See which politicians remain stuck in his orbit and which ones have spun out of his pul...