Category: Election

Election Summary: Victory For Rand Paul, Marijuana & MAGA Candidates In Primary Elections

✪ Five statesĀ held primary electionsĀ on Tuesday:Ā Idaho, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. One of the big questions going in was how Trump-endorsed candidates would fare (which many see as a proxy for measuring the former president’s influence within the party). The results on that front were a mixed bag...

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Europe: Macron Holds Onto Power

✪ On Sunday evening, as the minutes ticked by until 8 PM, when the French polls would close and the results of the presidential election would be announced, a correspondent for the English-language service of France 24 stood outside Emmanuel Macron’s campaign headquarters and said that the 1300-odd international journalists who were gathered there exuded an ā€œoptimismā€ that the incumbent ā€œhas this in the bag.ā€ And once again the French forgo an opportunity to change course…

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Flipping France: Will Populism Finally Triumph In France’s Election?

✪ The result of the first round of the presidential election has confronted France with the prospect of power in the hands of Marine Le Pen, the far-right populist leader. She is only two to four points behind President Emmanuel Macron in the lead-up to the second round, a very different scenario from five years ago, when Macron, then an aspiring young leader, defeated Mrs. Le Pen handily...

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