Tag: 2020 US presidential elections

Grievous wounds

With Michigan having officially certified that Mr Biden won the state – notwithstanding a last-ditch effort by Mr Trump to coerce Republican legislators to hijack the result – the incumbent’s fate has been effectively sealed.

November 25, 2020

Upheaval on cards?

The latest legal ploy being talked about by Mr Trump’s camp ~ with considerable seriousness, we may add ~ is to have legislators in at least three Republican-controlled state legislatures overturn the popular vote to certify that he and not Mr Biden was elected

November 22, 2020

US legal structure causes uncertainty

American election law is riddled with uncertainties and in the absence of any interpretation by the Supreme Court of the critical Electoral Count Act, the process will remain under a cloud.

November 5, 2020

American muddle

The Democrats maintain that an election can be declared only after all votes are counted; Mr Trump argues that votes that have not reached by counting day should not be considered and says he will challenge legally any process that goes beyond this.

November 5, 2020

Trump calls 2020 election ‘fraud’, says he’ll go to SC

Without providing any evidence and despite millions of votes yet to be counted, the President said: "This is a fraud on the American public. This is an embarrassment to our country.Frankly we did win this election." Trump added that he would go to the US Supreme Court and wanted "all voting to stop".

November 4, 2020

First Indian-American Senator Kamala Harris announces her 2020 US presidential bid

A rising party star and vocal critic of President Donald Trump, Harris is the fourth Democrat to join the battle for the party's nomination in the 2020 election

January 22, 2019

First Hindu in US Congress, Tulsi Gabbard, to run for President

The race for US presidency in next year's election is likely to see a Hindu representative and a senator of part-Indian-American descent vying for the Democratic Party's nomination.

January 12, 2019