A Ghanaian author has said Donald Trump’s surprise ascension to the U. S. Presidency was the result of what he calls a systematic erosion of the country’s conservative values. Francis Cudjoe Jnr said Donald Trump, and not Hilary Clinton, is the best choice for the United States because Barack Obama’s administration championed policies that persecuted … Read more
American allies woke up to Donald Trump’s victory early Wednesday deeply unsettled, questioning whether the US will remain a stalwart partner and a stable pillar of the international order. Trump himself promised change and uncertainty in his first major foreign policy address in April, saying he would “shake the rust off America’s foreign policy” and … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump’s early list of potential appointments to top positions appears to reward people who were loyal to him after a campaign in which many Republican Party leaders kept their distance. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama senator who was one of Trump’s most fervent supporters in the U. S. Congress, is said to be under … Read more
US President Barack Obama is set to meet his successor Donald Trump in the Oval Office for talks aimed at ensuring a smooth transition of power. Mr Trump will become the 45th US president after securing a surprise victory over Hillary Clinton. Mr Obama mounted a fierce campaign to prevent Mr Trump from winning the … Read more
Americans vote for change: The lessons are clear for Ghanaians The electorate in the United States of America on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, voted for change by electing Donald Trump of the Republican Party as the 45th President of the most powerful nation in the world. At the time of writing this piece, the available … Read more
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Donald Trump’s presidential victory has sparked protests across America with some demonstrators setting trash on fire, smashing windows and burning the US flag. Supporters of rival candidates clashed outside the White House as Americans woke up to the reality of Trump’s surprise win after the most divisive presidential campaign in recent history. Meanwhile, parties held … Read more
President John Dramani Mahama has patted Donald Trump on the back for winning the US elections. The Republican becomes the 45th US president after a stunning victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton. Ghanaian president Mahama took to microblogging platform – Twitter – to salute his contemporary. Trump’s projected victory came down to a handful of key … Read more
Hillary Clinton, the defeated presidential candidate, says US President-elect Donald Trump must be given a chance to lead. Appearing in public for the first time since conceding defeat, the Democrat said she hoped Mr Trump would be a successful president for all Americans. “We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we … Read more
Samira Bawumia has said she was all out for defeated Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton in the US presidential race. According to the wife of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the Vice Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, she supported Bill Clinton’s wife because she was the suitable candidate in the race to the White House. “I … Read more
Hillary Clinton, the defeated presidential candidate, says US President-elect Donald Trump must be given a chance to lead. Appearing in public for the first time since conceding defeat, the Democrat said she hoped Mr. Trump would be a successful president for all Americans. “We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we … Read more
She attempted to break the ultimate glass ceiling in politics after becoming the first ever female presidential candidate in history. But on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton‘s presidential bid came to a full stop as she addressed reporters and a small crowd of her closest aides to concede the election to President-Elect Donald Trump. Urging Democrats to … Read more
The Canadian immigration site has broken as people look to leave the US in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s election as the country’s new president. The official website for ‘Citizenship and Immigration Canada’ has stopped working, apparently because of the sheer number of people looking to emigrate to the country from south of the … Read more
“I’m sorry.” With those simple words, Hillary Clinton, who thought she would wake up Wednesday as the first woman president-elect but crashed to a stunning election defeat to Donald Trump, ended her White House quest and likely her political career. The Democratic nominee unequivocally conceded the presidential race, and said that the Constitution requires a … Read more
Donald Trump’s election victory proved — once and for all — that 2016 was the year that everything the political class thought it knew was wrong. Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton turned on its head years of wisdom about how campaigns operate, how America’s demographics are changing and how a controversial nominee can affect down-ballot … Read more
Donald Trump’s campaign manager said Wednesday the president-elect has been given a mandate unlike any other in American history and that Hillary Clinton’s concession phone call was “very gracious.” “He’s being given a mandate,” Kellyanne Conway told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on “New Day.” “And that mandate is going to be somewhat different than what we’ve … Read more
An emphatically upbeat President Barack Obama promised Wednesday to work toward a “smooth transition” of power to the man he’s spent the last year denigrating, insisting that despite his differences with President-elect Donald Trump he would uphold the central tenet of American democracy. Speaking in the Rose Garden as some of his aides sobbed, Obama … Read more
Hillary Clinton, the defeated presidential candidate, says US President-elect Donald Trump must be given a chance to lead. Appearing in public for the first time since conceding defeat, the Democrat said she hoped Mr Trump would be a successful president for all Americans. “We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we … Read more
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton finds herself on the wrong end of an electoral split, moving ahead in the popular vote but losing to President-elect Donald Trump in the Electoral College, according to the latest numbers emerging Wednesday. As of 11:55 a.m. ET, Clinton had amassed 59,458,295 votes nationally, to Trump’s 59,265,380 — a margin … Read more
This election, surely the most extraordinary in American history, was a revolt against the political establishment. And few people personify the political establishment more than Hillary Clinton. During this campaign, for millions of angry voters, she became the face of America’s broken politics. Donald Trump managed to persuade enough voters in enough states that he … Read more