Tag: US Election
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Court dismisses Trump lawsuit in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania judge on Saturday threw out Donald Trump’s claims of widespread electoral fraud there, dealing a new blow to the Republican’s bid to overturn his loss in the US presidential election. The decision — announced in a scathing judgment which excoriated the Trump team’s legal strategy — paves the way for Pennsylvania to certify…
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US Election: Netanyahu salutes Biden, calls him great friend
Israeli Prime Minister and close Donald Trump ally Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Joe Biden on his election victory early Sunday, calling the United States president-elect “a great friend of Israel”. “I look forward to working with both of you to further strengthen the special alliance between the US and Israel,” Netanyahu wrote on Twitter, referring to…
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US election: Biden floats transition website
Votes are still being counted across the United States but Democrat Joe Biden has launched a transition website “so that the Biden-Harris Administration can hit the ground running on Day One”. On the website, buildbackbetter.com, is the short statement, “The American people will determine who will serve as the next President of the United States,…
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US election: Dead candidate, Andahl, wins legislative seat
A candidate who died of coronavirus in October, David Andahl, has won a legislative seat in North Dakota. New York Times and Washington Post reported that Andahl and Dave Nehring were elected to represent North Dakota’s eighth state house district. Official results showed that Andahl won 36 per cent of the votes cast while Nehring…
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US Election: Two Nigerian-Americans Agbaje, Owolewa Elected Into Congress
As the world awaits the final results of the U.S. presidential election, two Nigerian-Americans Esther Agbaje and Oye Owolewa have been elected into the House of Representatives. Esther Agbaje, contested to represent District 59B in the Minnesota House of Reps on the platform of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Channels TV reports. The 35-year-old scored a…
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US Election: Trump vows to stop vote counting at Supreme Court
Donald Trump claimed the election was a ‘fraud on the American people’ and that he was going to the Supreme Court to stop all vote counting immediately in a White House statement at 2.30am. He effectively made his own declaration of saying: ‘Frankly we did win this election.’ He set the stage for a titanic…
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US election: Parade in Nigeria, ‘great honour’ — Trump hails
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday hailed a parade by his supporters in Nigeria, describing it as a great honour. Trump made this known when he shared a video of the parade on his Twitter handle with a caption, “A parade for me in Nigeria, a great honor!” The video shows a procession by men…
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US Election Day begins as voters decide Trump’s fate
The United States started voting Tuesday in an election amounting to a referendum on Donald Trump’s uniquely brash and bruising presidency, which Democratic opponent and frontrunner Joe Biden urged Americans to end to restore “our democracy.” The country is more divided and angry than at any time since the Vietnam War era of the 1970s…
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9 Nigerians running in Tuesday’s U.S. elections
No fewer than nine Nigerian Americans are on the ballot in Tuesday’s general elections in the United States, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Running mostly on the platform of the Democratic Party, the candidates are bidding for different offices at the federal, state, and local levels. NAN reports that besides the presidential election,…