... as Modi ramped up polarizing rhetoric that targeted Muslims, who make up 14% of the population, a tactic seen to energize his core Hindu majority voters.The opposition INDIA alliance has attacked Modi over his Hindu nationalist politics, and campaigned on issues of joblessness, inflation and inequality. But the broad ...
... of racist comments, including an assertion that his criminal indictments boosted his support among Black Americans, that aren't likely to win over more moderate voters.Still, Trump’s speedy path to the nomination reflects more than a year of quiet work by his team to encourage states to adopt ...
... the total number of votes cast is 20,000 or fewer, the margin to request a recount is 2 percentage points or fewer than 200 votes.The AP may declare a winner in a race that is eligible for a recount if it can determine the lead is too large ...
... Republicans approved new voting restrictions in 2021 that outlawed expanded voting options that Houston had put in place, Democrats called it an attack on minority voters.Turner is finishing up his final term as mayor, and the leading contenders in the officially nonpartisan election to succeed him are all Democrats ...
... overall control in the Scottish Parliament, the election of a record number of Scottish Green lawmakers means there is a majority for a new independence vote.Sturgeon said that if there was no lawful way for the Scottish government to hold a referendum, and if Johnson’s government refused to ...
... battling the pandemic that dissolved a year ago, when a far larger, $1.9 trillion measure proposed by the new president cleared Congress with only Democratic votes.That bill was laden with spending to help struggling families, businesses and communities, while this one would be aimed exclusively at public health.
... so many deductions they end up paying zero in taxes. Some moderate Democrats in the House said they want to see the final assessment from the Congressional Budget Office on its entire budgetary costs, before taking the vote.Associated Press writers Kevin Freking and Alan Fram contributed to this report.
... instead of the usual 60 needed for most legislation. The Senate is split 50-50, but Vice President Kamala Harris can cast a tie-breaking vote.As the process drags on, it's a reminder that it took more than a year in Congress to pass Affordable Care Act, which ...
... Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, was allowing absentee ballots to be counted without teams of bipartisan observers as well as challengers. She’s accused of undermining the “constitutional right of all Michigan voters...to participate in fair and lawful elections.” Michigan Democrats said the suit was a longshot.
... she didn't know what Republicans planned to do with the ballots they collected and worried they could target Democratic areas with boxes to suppress votes.There also were reports of GOP drop boxes at a church in the Los Angeles County community of Castaic and at various locations in ...
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