Donald Trump has been elected for a second term as US president. International affairs editor Rachael Jolley spoke with US expert Thomas Gift, founding director of the UCL Centre on US Politics, about what Americans will expect the president-elect to do once in office, and what he will prioritise.
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Donald Trump faces his own debate fallout
How Donald Trump evoked a history of white authorities to define race
Donald Trump’s third presidential nomination has never been in doubt
Donald Trump’s political obituary has been written many times. His dominant performance in the Super Tuesday Republican primaries marks one more instance of him outlasting those who counted him out. While Trump has yet to officially clinch the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential contest, his near-sweep of the Super Tuesday
Should Donald Trump be disqualified from state ballots in presidential poll?
The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week in former President Donald Trump’s appeal against the decision to exclude him from the ballot in the Colorado Republican primary for this year’s presidential election. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled in December that Trump was disqualified from holding the office of
Trump rejects Democrats’ accusations who compared him with Hitler
Out-Trumping the Trump
It’s been seven months since Florida Governor Ron DeSantis celebrated a brilliant re-election victory in the midst of an otherwise mixed Republican midterm performance. He had come in with nearly 20 per cent more votes than Democrat Charlie Crist. This was an almost surreally good result for a state that, until
Why Trump’s dinner with a white supremacist is so revealing
Former Presidents don't typically end up breaking bread with national pariahs. And certainly not by accident. Staff and security protocols regularly protect them from such encounters—both as a practical matter and as a political one. Even lowly mayors who make the trek to D.C. to meet with donors, wonks, and
Trump declines to answer questions in civil investigation
Former U.S. President Donald Trump declined to answer questions in a civil investigation into his business dealings on Wednesday morning. After arriving at the New York attorney general's office for a deposition, Trump issued a statement saying that he would invoke the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The Republican also lashed out
Accountants drop Trump, say records can’t be relied upon
Donald Trump's longtime accountants have ditched the former US president as a client, saying a decade's worth of financial statements could not be relied upon, court documents showed Monday. Mazars informed the Trump Organization in a letter last Wednesday that it would no longer work for the company, which is being