JOHN AIDAN BYRNE interviews Author Emily Conrad on her book FAITHLESS which discusses the stunning rise of US Electoral College members who voted against Presidential or VP candidate they’d pledged; death threats & foreign interference in 2016 and 2020. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Emily Conrad has written a comprehensive account of the US […]
Broadly amusing, mainly because of how the American left spends so much of its time, in normal times, accusing people who oppose it of being anti-vaxxers. How times change: “With deaths from the coronavirus nearing 200,000 in the United States, Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday assailed President Trump for playing politics with a potential […]
Two cases of “what was he thinking??”, here: First, what was he thinking when he actually downplayed the risks of Coronavirus? Even if you’re a big Covid sceptic, surely the low-risk play back in March was to go all out and warn people that the virus was potentially deadly, and to stay at home and […]
49-47 to Biden, says Emerson College Polling, which is significant for two reasons. First, there’s an awful lot of crappy polling in American elections – if you want an opinion poll to show your guy winning, then you’ll usually be able to find someone who’ll produce one for you. But Emerson College isn’t a crappy […]
The Democratic National Convention, which will, tomorrow night, nominate Joe Biden to replace Donald Trump, is well underway. And last night, Bill Clinton gave a typically Bill Clinton speech. Preceded, of course, by a typically Bill Clinton headline: New photos show Bill Clinton getting massage from Epstein accuser https://t.co/g6hObcblMt pic.twitter.com/lSiRoNJfuU — New York Post (@nypost) […]
Promises, promises. But RTE is convinced, naturally: Senior Democrats in the US have claimed that Joe Biden will be a friend to Ireland if elected US president. The Biden Campaign held a virtual rally for Irish-American voters and Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle told the event that the Brexit process had put hard won peace and […]
Polling over the last few months in the US election has been fairly consistent: Donald Trump’s goose is well and truly cooked. It’s not just one pollster either – it’s been all of them. An approval rating stuck in the very low forties, and states like Texas and Georgia, which have always been rock solid […]
All of the caveats must apply, obviously, to polls, and the biggest and most important one when it comes to President Trump is that if you believed the evidence of the polling in 2016, as yours truly did, then you’d have been shocked by the result (as yours truly, and many others, were). But still: […]
Former US Vice President Joe Biden holds an interesting and unenviable record. He’s run for President of the United States three times – 1988, 2008, and now in 2020. And in those three campaigns, he has never won a single primary. Not one, not ever. Since entering the present contest as the frontrunner, he’s had […]