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Latvia's prime minister announces resignation
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Growing segregation by sex in Israel raises fears for women’s rights
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Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public-school student is going to get free lunch.
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Finland should aim to leave the European Union in the long term, the far-right Perussuomalaiset's Jussi Halla-aho said ahead of his party congress
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Australia will again use the term 'Occupied Palestinian Territories'. Here's why.
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Helsinki could become a 'sanctuary city' for medical treatment, as the new right-wing government continues to crack down on undocumented migrants
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Is keeping Donald Trump in the 2024 US election beneficial to Democrats?
Yes, Trump has a real chance of winning in 2024 and that would be dangerous for the world in many ways. On the other hand Trump seems like the easiest candidate for the presumptive nominee...
Yes, Trump has a real chance of winning in 2024 and that would be dangerous for the world in many ways.
On the other hand Trump seems like the easiest candidate for the presumptive nominee President Biden to beat.
- A lot of Americans are rightly scared shitless of Trump and will turn out to vote against him.
- Trump is likely to try to dodge debates which benefits Biden, who has a stuttering problem and a gaffe problem.
- Trump is elderly, like Biden so that somewhat neutralizes the age issue for Biden.
If Trump was removed from the election DeSantis might become the front runner or nominee
- He is young, and the age issue would be on Biden again
- He might have the debates Trump would have eschewed and do well in them
- DeSantis would likely pick up Trump's base in that situation
The worst scenario with Trump being removed from the election would if someone other than DeSantis became the nominee
- Again, the age issue would be a thing for Biden again
- The unknown nominee could be a better debater than Biden
- The unknown candidate would have neither Trump's nor DeSantis's baggage, causing more voters to stay home or swing voters picking him/her over Biden
Edit:
To clarify, I mean what would happen if Trump was kept entirely out of 2024 - no 3rd party runs, no vote splitting.
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Two prominent conservative law professors write article arguing Donald Trump ineligible to run for US President under 14th amendment
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 7
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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Villavicencio assassination a ‘disturbing moment’ for Ecuador democracy, former running mate says
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US Federal judge orders Southwest Airlines attorneys to attend ‘religious-liberty training’ from conservative Christian legal advocacy group
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The cost to librarians and libraries from the US culture wars
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Environmental experts have criticised the Swedish government's plan to build at least ten nuclear reactors in the next twenty years
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Clarence Thomas’ thirty-eight vacations: The other billionaires who have treated the US Supreme Court Justice to luxury travel
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White House unveils ban on US investment in Chinese tech sectors linked to the military
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Economic Community of West African States activates military forces for possible intervention in Niger
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Ecuadorian presidential candidate Villavicencio reported killed in attack at rally
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Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights
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Laurence Tribe dissects alleged Donald Trump co-conspirator Kenneth Chesebro's misrepresentation of Laurence Tribe's writing to support the false US elector scheme and January 6
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The historic Gullah-Geechee community is fighting to retain its land and culture in South Carolina
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Former US President Donald Trump has been indicted on four counts on Tuesday, by a grand jury in the District of Columbia, over alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election
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US President Joe Biden to designate a new national monument surrounding the Grand Canyon
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A pro-Putin Facebook network is pumping French-language propaganda into Africa. The pages promote Russia’s line on the war in Ukraine to more than four million followers...
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Third racism scandal hits Finland's government in space of a month – Wille Rydman used racial slurs in private messages according to Helsingin Sanomat
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Niger coup: Junta shuts airspace citing military intervention threat
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Alexei Navalny: Russian opposition leader's jail term extended to nineteen years
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Twitter, Elon Musk and the Indigo Blob
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Why do so many Scots cling to a false affinity with Norway?
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‘Republican stooge’: Robert F Kennedy Jr mocked in the US after it’s revealed half his Super PAC funding comes from GOP mega donor
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Canada's digital news subscription tax credit
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Dozens injured after opponents of the Eritrean government stormed a festival, Festival Eritrea Scandinavia, in the Swedish capital organised by regime supporters
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 31
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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The UK NHS in crisis - evaluating radical alternatives
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People are lying to you and will continue to lie about the merits of the Donald Trump US indictment - be aware
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Wisconsin’s dairy industry relies on undocumented immigrants, but the state won’t let them legally drive
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Why India's rice ban could trigger a global food crisis
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US President Joe Biden's IRA shuts Africa out of critical minerals supply chains
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This building nearly broke Taipei. The Taipei Performing Arts Center; Over budget, a decade under construction, and one of Asia's most important cultural buildings.
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"Blood on your hands" - The legal dimension of metaphors in the case of Zooey Zephyr
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US Congress is debating the controversial surveillance power in section 702 - White House and privacy advocates have strong opinions
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Hackers exploited a zero-day flaw in Ivanti's software undetected for at least three months, US and Norwegian cybersecurity agencies warn
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Former US President Donald Trump will find that Special Counsel Jack Smith has dealt with the likes of him—and worse—before
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Michigan prosecutors charge Donald Trump allies with felonies involving voting machines and illegal 'testing'
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Anonymous sources say Alabama political maps are part of a plan by Republicans in the state Senate to break Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, a long-held goal of many conservatives
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Ukraine wasn’t going to get a pathway to join NATO — but Canada had another idea
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Waging war on the Jamaican patty: Canada’s bizarre beef with the delicious snack | Patty vs Patty
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Why technology favors tyranny
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Abortion advocates sue Alabama attorney general over prosecution threats for out-of-state travel
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US President Joe Biden signs historic order moving prosecution of US military sexual assault outside chain of command
133 votes