Showing posts with label Election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Election. Show all posts

31 July 2026

Keiko Fujimori Latest Latin American Conservative Leader Elected

Keiko Fujimori
Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru's president last 27 July, becoming the latest in a string of conservative leaders elected across Latin America by voters frustrated by crime, weak economic growth and political instability.

The 51-year-old daughter of former President ‌Alberto Fujimori is Peru's first-ever elected female head of state.

17 May 2026

Federal Courts Reject Virginia Redistricting

Redistricting
Virginia's top court threw out last 8 May a new electoral map that was crafted to flip four Republican-held U.S. congressional seats to Democrats, in a setback to Democratic hopes of retaking the House of Representatives in November's midterm elections.

In a 4-3 decision, the Virginia Supreme Court rejected a Democratic-backed ballot measure approved by voters in April that reconfigured the state's U.S. House of Representatives districts for partisan advantage.

12 April 2026

Obama Library Requires ID, But Dems Oppose Voter ID Laws

Obama Center
The Obama Presidential Center is facing a wave of backlash ahead of its opening, with critics blasting its admission policies and raising broader concerns about the project’s cost and management.

Conservative commentators on social media are taking aim at the center’s requirement that Illinois residents show valid identification to receive free admission on certain days, arguing it contrasts with Democratic opposition to voter ID laws.

11 December 2025

Matt Van Epps Wins Tennessee Special Election

Van Epps
Majority of voters in Tennessee decided to elect Republican Matt Van Epps to fill a vacant U.S. House of Representatives seat, U.S. media outlets reported, padding the narrow lead by President Donald Trump's party in the chamber heading into next year's midterm elections.

Van Epps, a former commissioner of the Tennessee Department of General Services, defeated Democratic state Representative Aftyn Behn, outlets including the Associated Press and NBC News announced. Van Epps will fill the seat vacated by former Representative Mark Green, who resigned in July. The Middle Tennessee district includes parts of Nashville.

06 May 2025

Portugal To Deport Illegal Aliens Ahead Of Election

Portugal PM
Portugal’s caretaker government is planning to expel some 18,000 foreigners living in the country without authorization, a minister said last 3 May in the buildup to a national election.

Minister of the Presidency António Leitão Amaro said the center-right government will issue approximately 18,000 notifications to people in the country illegally to leave. The minister said officials will begin next week by asking some 4,500 foreigners to leave voluntarily within 20 days.

15 January 2025

LA Times Owner: "Competence Matters"

LA Times Owner
The owner of the Los Angeles Times just doubled down on his recent criticism of LA Mayor Karen Bass last 13 January, saying his paper made an error when it endorsed her candidacy in 2022.

"We’ll accept some blame. At the LA Times, we endorsed Karen Bass. I think, right now, up front, that’s a mistake, and we admit that," Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong said.

07 November 2024

President Trump Lost In New York, But He Actually Won

Donald Trump and Melania
It has now became crystal clear that the Democrats are losing their grip on New York. It was evident in the last presidential election.

Donald Trump won a suburban county on Long Island last 5 November — outperforming the Republican Congress member who narrowly lost to a Democratic challenger. He actually made gains with Latino voters in the Bronx. He also picked up significant support in heavily immigrant areas of Queens.

13 September 2024

Pres. Biden Gave Confusing Message On Who He Supports

Biden with Trump Hat
Nobody can really make anything about the reason why President Biden briefly donned a "Trump 2024" hat during a visit to a Shanksville, Pa., fire station a few days ago. However, before speculation run wild, the White House said it was intended as a show of unity on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

"At the Shanksville Fire Station, @POTUS spoke about the country’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that," White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates posted on the social platform X. "As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS should put on his Trump cap. He briefly wore it."

03 September 2024

Google Adopting A Series Of Election-Related Safeguards

Election-Related Safeguards
Election time is near for American citizens. It is considered as the most consequential elections in it the country's history. For this reason, tech giant Google is rolling out strict safeguards to ensure users get reliable information.

In addition to the measures it announced late last year, the company said last 30 August that it’s adding election-related guardrails to YouTube, Search, Google Play and AI products.

28 August 2024

WhatsApp Accounts Connected to Iranian Hackers Were Taken Down

WhatsApp
Social media giant Meta has taken some bold steps by blocking WhatsApp accounts involved in "a small cluster of likely social engineering activity" on the service.

In its recent report, they disclosed that it traced the activity to APT42 (also called UNC788 and Mint Sandstorm), which the FBI previously linked to a phishing campaign that targeted members of the Trump and Harris camps. The company said that the suspicious activity on WhatsApp "attempted to target individuals in Israel, Palestine, Iran, the United States and the UK." It also seemed to have focused on political and diplomatic officials, which included people associated with both presidential candidates.

23 July 2024

Biden Drops Out. Is Harris in?

President Biden DRops Out
After intense pressure from within his own party, President Joe Biden announced that he was ending his campaign and backing Vice President Kamala Harris to run in his place. Ms. Harris said she would seek the nomination, adding: "Together, we will fight. And together, we will win."

"While it has been my intention to seek re-election, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus entirely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term," Mr. Biden said in a statement. He called it "the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president."

21 June 2024

"Make Europe Great Again" Slogan Spreads Far and Wide

Make Europe Great Again
Nobody was really surprised when Hungary revealed an official slogan with Donald Trump overtones recently for its six-month stint holding the EU presidency, but "Make Europe Great Again" still raised a few eyebrows in Brussels.

Hungary's ultranationalist, populist prime minister, Viktor Orban, a close ally of former US President Trump, is the most outspoken euroskeptic leader in the European Union.

03 October 2021

Protest Against Rewriting Phil. Martial Law History

Phil. Martial Law
Election fever in the Philippines are heating up and some of the potential candidates are trying to rewrite history in their favor.

In a recent interview from Toni Gonzaga's Youtube Channel, former senator Bongbong Marcos said, "I’m the son of the longest-lasting president who brought the Philippines into the modern world really, and who brought the Philippines a sense of nationhood."

17 September 2021

WH Staffers Want To Be Hidden When Biden Is Speakin'

Biden Speakin'
There are several White House staffers who decided to mute their TV or turning it off altogether whenever President Joe Biden speaks with reporters because they are nervous their boss will commit a gaffe or veer off message, Politico reported.

"I know people who habitually don't watch it live for that reason," one White House official told Politico's West Wing Playbook newsletter.

28 August 2021

Facebook Will Launch Advisory Group on Election Policy Issues

FB Election
Social media giant Facebook is looking to create a standalone advisory committee for election-related policy decisions, according to a new report from The New York Times. The company has reportedly approached a number of policy experts and academics it is interested in recruiting for the group, which could give the company cover for some of its most consequential choices.

The group, which the Times characterizes as a commission, would potentially be empowered to weigh in on issues like election misinformation and political advertising — two of Facebook's biggest policy headaches. Facebook reportedly plans for the commission to be in place for the 2022 U.S. midterm elections and could announce its formation as soon as this fall.

15 July 2020

Poland Elected Duda Again

President Duda Wins
The National Electoral Commission of Poland has just declared the incumbent President Andrzej Duda as the clear winner in the national election with 51.2 percent of the votes beating challenger Rafal Trzaskowski.

It is one of Poland's slimmest presidential election victory since the end of communism in 1989, where one of the major issues was the future of the country's strained relations with the European Union.

25 September 2019

Tulsi Gabbard: DNC Lacks Transparency

Tulsi Gabbard
Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is among the many Democratic presidential candidates who did not qualify for September’s debate round by the recent deadline.

She claims it was because the criteria for making the debate stage "lacks transparency."

12 February 2018

Illinois Election Ad Just Became A Very Popular Topic

Popular Ad
The Republican primary challenger in Illinois’ gubernatorial race gained popularity and praised for a campaign ad that reveals the true agenda of the transgender community, Women's March activists and immigration activists.

State Rep. Jeanne Ives, who is running against Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner in the Republican primary, released the ad last 3 February in an attempt to challenge her opponent’s conservative values.

22 June 2017

Liberals In the U.S. Got Thrashed ... Again

Karen Handel
Do we expect another blame game from liberals ... again? What will it be now? Russians? Hackers? Martians?

These are just some of the questions analysts raised after former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in the one-sided contested congressional special election in suburban Atlanta last 20 June. The conservative Handel garnered 52 percent of the vote compared to Ossoff’s 48 percent when the Associated Press called the race.

13 April 2017

Hillary Has No Idea Why She Lost

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is still in denial that the reason why she lost the Presidency is because of her and her alone. There were no Russian interventions, there were no clandestine conspiracy within her party and definitely no anti-feminist movement aimed at taking her out.

Unfortunately, she is still delusional. Last 6 April, Clinton said that that misogyny "certainly" played a role in her bruising defeat to Donald Trump in last year's US presidential election, giving her first public interview since that shock loss.