Frozen out of power in Washington and having lost a string of congressional races this year, Democrats are struggling to craft winning strategies to convert disillusionment with President Donald Trump into victory in 2018’s midterm elections. The party fielded a hodgepodge of candidates in four special elections in recent months, including a banjo-strumming cowboy poet … Read more
Finally, some good news for Donald Trump: battling dismal approval ratings, the US president on Wednesday relished a Republican victory in a closely-watched congressional election in Georgia, calling it a vote of confidence in his administration. Establishment Republican Karen Handel defeated Democratic novice Jon Ossoff in Tuesday’s contest after a bitter, months-long race, retaining a … Read more
Final score: Republicans 14, Barack Obama’s last-minute regulations, one. Congressional Republicans anxious to show voters they can get something done are hailing their reversal of more than a dozen Obama-era regulations on guns, the internet and the environment. Over a few months, lawmakers used an obscure legislative rule to ram through changes that will have … Read more
A massive partisan split has opened among Americans on the role of the news media since the election of President Donald Trump, a new poll showed Wednesday. In the Pew Research Center poll, nearly nine in 10 Democrats (89 percent) said the media serves as a check against political leaders while just 42 percent of … Read more
With US Republicans relishing a win in the Obamacare repeal process, Democrats Friday girded for battle, warning that despite President Donald Trump’s optimism, the health bill’s fate is far from certain. Republicans took major political risks by backing a deeply controversial bill, and Democrats hope to make them pay at the polls in midterm elections … Read more
US President Donald Trump held last-minute negotiations with fellow Republicans to avoid a humiliating defeat Thursday in his biggest legislative test to date, as lawmakers vote on an Obamacare replacement plan which conservatives threaten to sink. Seven years to the day since Barack Obama signed his landmark health care reforms into law, House Republican leaders … Read more
Okay, let’s say the United States of America (USA) has spoken .The controversial Republican candidate,Donald John Trump has been dully elected the 45th president. He takes over from Barack Hussein Obama’s led Democratic government. The world they say is a global village, and whatever happens in America (a superpower) of the world impacts Ghana. (You … Read more
As voters head to the polls in Tuesday’s U. S. election, hopes have dampened among Democrats that they will make major gains in the U.S. Congress, even if their nominee, Hillary Clinton, wins the presidency. Enough wind may have come out of Clinton’s sails to slow the Democrats’ Senate and House of Representatives headway because … Read more
The most enduring cliché of every presidential election is that it is the most important in history. The nominees proclaim this because, for them, this is certainly true. They also hope that it will motivate their base to vote. That said, this time it could be true. America is having a political nervous breakdown. It’s … Read more