Kylie Morris
Going, going, gone – Democrats lose control of the US senate
So it turns out the midterms did matter, that every vote counted, that politics is still a bloodsport in the US.
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33m
Could Walz and Harris force ‘weird’ Trump out of the race?
Is Kamala Harris’s pick as Presidential running-mate a disaster for ‘weird’ Donald Trump? Matt Frei discusses the rise of Tim Walz with senior figures from Democrats Abroad and Republicans Overseas.
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4m
US House Speaker ousted for first time in history
There’s a vacancy in one of the top jobs in US politics after the ousting the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Third in the presidential line of succession, the person who’d have to take charge if the President and Vice President were both indisposed, Republican Kevin McCarthy was voted out by his own party.
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4m
Is this the ‘single greatest witch hunt of a politician’?
Remember how a few days ago the White House was still saying that NO special counsel was needed to investigate links between Russia and the Trump campaign. Well now there is one.
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5m
Despair in Democrat camp
What went wrong for Hillary Clinton? Never the most popular of candidates, it looked like she’d done enough to hold on to the states she needed to be assured of the keys to the White House.
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Kylie Morris
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Matt Frei
Second-term Obama – lame duck or lifeless cicada?
You can compare President Obama’s second term with the fate of the cicada swarms that hit Washington in May: a lot of preparation, but within weeks the frenzy has gone.
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Matt Frei
Guns in America: was Sandy Hook a tipping point?
It could be one of the biggest issues of Barack Obama’s presidency. Can the US let go of its guns? Matt Frei takes a look in the first of our special series, Guns in America.
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Matt Frei
Susan Rice: another victim of the Washington game
Why did Susan Rice pull out of consideration as America’s next secretary of state? Was she too strident, too forceful – or did she simply fail to play the Machiavellian game of Washington politics?
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Matt Frei
On the brink of the fiscal cliff – and it’s no road movie
No more Mr Nice Guy from Barack Obama as America peers over the fiscal cliff – but what are the implications?
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Matt Frei
Obama: Can the good candidate become a great president?
His place in history is already assured – but can a greyer, wiser Barack Obama, less crushed by expectation, finally live up to his promise as president?
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Matt Frei
‘If a state doesn’t swing, the voter’s phone won’t ring’
In the final feverish days of the campaign both Obama and Romney are outdoing each other in air miles, rally counts, hands shaken, cheeks squeezed and flossed smiles flashed across this vast country.
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Matt Frei
Debate? This was more like Fight Club
Round two in the US presidential debates and both candidates came out fighting. This time, with so much at stake, Obama and Romney got personal. And it wasn’t nice.
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Matt Frei
Vice presidents clash in generation game debate
Washington Correspondent Matt Frei looks at who came out top of the Veep debate and the implications it will have on the race to the White House.
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Matt Frei
Obama camp’s alarm as the Romney robot springs to life
Until last week’s presidential debate, the US electorate had been flirting with a robot. That robot has now sprung to life and displayed unmistakeable traces of humanity.
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Matt Frei
‘The hoarse whisperer’ electrifies his audience
Bill Clinton rolls back the years with a performance worthy of a superstar at the Democratic convention. Matt Frei blogs from Charlotte.