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Friday 4 December 2020
This was Trump’s first public remarks since 5 November, when he falsely claimed to have won the election.
Joe Biden now has 264 electoral college votes – just six shy of the presidency.
The two are expected to meet for a second and final debate next week.
With 99.97% of votes counted, Andrzej Duda was on 51.21% and ahead of liberal rival Rafal Trzaskowski.
Kanye West made the announcement on Twitter on US Independence Day.
This is in contrast to his rival Trump’s large campaign rallies.
US president Donald Trump has so far refused to wear a face mask in public.
Biden committed to “not pulling a Gerald Ford” when asked in an interview today.
Clinton joins former president Barack Obama and rivals Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in endorsing Biden for the presidency.
On Monday Ohio governor Mike DeWine declared a state of emergency.
The decision comes almost a year after he threw his hat into the ring.
The 77-year-old is expected to file paperwork in at least one state this week declaring himself a candidate.
“I feel like I’ve contributed all I can to this primary election, and it’s clearly not my time.”
Biden’s defence comes amid a growing row about a kiss on the campaign trail
Data from the company shows how 2018 was another year for political discussion on the platform.
We all know who won, but what else do you remember from the campaign?
Gallagher has committed to introduce 20 ‘special initiatives’ in his first 20 weeks in office if he is elected.
The first official debate took place on RTÉ Radio’s News at One this afternoon.
Candidates need the backing of four local authorities to get on the presidential ballot paper.
After weeks of speculation, the former candidate has formally declared he will seek to run again.
The businessman also said he wouldn’t be a ‘Trump president’.
He said that he was concerned when he read some of the cases of gambling among sporting athletes.
Fianna Fáil has also said it will support the incumbent president.
The Vice President earlier said he wished he was in school with Trump and could ‘take’ him.
The Republican presidential nominee has had a series of high-profile controversies in recent days.
John McCain says he can not “emphasise enough how strongly I disagree” with Trump’s statement regarding Khizr and Ghazala Khan.
The presumptive Republican nominee for the US presidency unleashed a no-holds-barred attack this evening in New York.
This morning we’re asking which way you would cast your vote in the US presidential election.
1,000 protesters representing various groups in opposition to the billionaire candidate attended outside the rally in San Diego.
Rowdy standoffs between pro- and anti-Trump protesters — often with a racial edge to them — appear to have become the norm at rallies.
Votes were split in states yesterday with Trump and Clinton still coming out on top.
The billionaire has come up short in his first concrete attempt at turning media savvy into votes at the polls.
He told him he’s “not a natural born citizen”.
Hamid said one supporter shouted at her: “You have a bomb, you have a bomb.”
And it seems that it’s quite deliberate. Trump’s rhetoric consistently comprises the most basic language to make what he says as understandable as possible for voters.
He has quite a few of them, and it looks like his anti-Muslim rhetoric isn’t doing them any favours.
“He should stop using his disability to grandstand and get back to reporting for a paper that is rapidly going down the tubes.”
Whoever wins the race, they will most certainly be up against Hilary Clinton, writes Larry Donnelly.
The presidential candidate is a consistent advocate of gun rights.
THIS YEAR HAS given us a lot of unexpected things, but one of the bigger cultural changes of 2020 has been the wide-scale move to working from home.
Writing in TheJournal.ie today, Arlene Vithaldas of the UCC Academy argues that it’s time for society to change its view of a workplace that includes commuting to offices.
Some people have found that working from home has given them more time, because they don’t have to commute both ways or end up getting stuck in the office after hours.
However, others miss the collaborative nature and social aspect of being in the office, as well as the chance to regularly be in urban centres where offices tend to be located.
Today we’re asking: Do you enjoy working remotely?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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Trump continues to push on Joe Biden’s oil comments
The president told a rally that voters in states such as Texas and Pennsylvania oppose a transition away from the oil industry.