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Wednesday 21 October 2020
Larry Donnelly looks at the numbers, the fact that Joe Biden is not Hillary Clinton and concludes that Donald Trump faces an uphill battle to return to the White House.
A Democratic presidential candidate has not won Georgia in nearly three decades.
US President Donald Trump is campaigning in North Carolina.
Amy Coney Barrett agreed that no-one is above the law on the third day of her confirmation hearing.
Twitter suspended the identified profiles because they were deceiving users about their intention and their identity.
This comes after Trump declared over the weekend he is healthy enough to return to the campaign trial.
Strict new coronavirus measures are now in effect – here’s what they mean for you.
A bullish Donald Trump is returning to campaigning but his rival Joe Biden has labelled his behaviour “reckless”.
The US President compares Covid-19 to the seasonal flu in the post.
The US President sent 15 block-capital tweets in 30 minutes today, followed by a later tweet about yesterday’s waving to supporters.
Controversy has been mounting over the possibility the US President might have exposed numerous others to the virus.
US President Donald Trump earlier confirmed he has tested positive for Covid-19.
Larry Donnelly looks at the state of the US election after this week’s ‘shameful’ debate, in the wake of the news about Trump and FLOTUS.
The US President has been waging a legal battle to keep his tax returns hidden, but the New York Times has published details.
At the age of 48, she would be the youngest justice on the current court if confirmed.
Barrett, of Indiana, was at the White House at least twice this week.
Donald Trump was heckled as he stood near the coffin of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Trump has for several months been pressing a campaign against mail-in voting by tweeting and speaking out against it.
Democrats argue that any Senate vote should be delayed until after the November election.
Larry Donnelly says based on recent events in his home country, it’s hard to argue that America is still the ‘land of opportunity’.
The US justice died from complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Trump has hinged his election campaign on core supporters rather than focusing on winning over a narrow slice of undecided voters.
Larry Donnelly says we are in a crucial phase of the US election cycle and if the Democrats don’t tackle Trump’s fear-based message, they could be in trouble.
Trump has furiously defended himself in the wake of the story in The Atlantic.
Three people were shot during the protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
The US president claims he is the only thing standing between ‘democracy and the mob’, and said ‘no-one is safe’ in an America under Joe Biden.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, says he doesn’t know much about the protest and criticised the league’s TV ratings.
The app has been downloaded 175 million times in the US and more than a billion times around the world.
The nomination was one of the first acts of a Republican convention.
The baseless theory suggests the US President is saving the nation from a satanic cult of child sex traffickers.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has been under intense pressure from Congress amid the reforms he has been implementing.
China meanwhile slammed Washington for using “digital gunboat diplomacy” in the TikTok case.
On the tarmac in Minneapolis, Trump addressed about 150 supporters.
The US president had visited his brother on Friday at a hospital in New York.
It remains unclear what the TikTok orders mean for the app’s 100 million users in the US.
The company and its US employees are planning to take Donald Trump’s administration to court.
Donnelly dismays at the polarised and simplistic discussion of politics in the US from all media sources, not just Fox News.
An independent commission said both candidates had agreed to participate in the three scheduled debates.
Facebook removed a post from the president while Twitter blocked a Trump campaign account.
Lebanese officials say they have not determined the cause of the explosion.
Trump said that Microsoft was in talks to buy TikTok.
WITH LEVEL 5 restrictions coming into effect at midnight until 1 December, many businesses will be forced to close for the next six weeks.
Of course, many Irish businesses have an online presence and in the run-up to Christmas will rely heavily on support here at home.
As the festive season approaches we want to know: Will you make an extra effort to ‘buy irish’ this Christmas?
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