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Nigel Farage has claimed that the UK government is taking a similar approach to Donald Trump by “draining the swamp”, as he defended the US president’s strategy. The Brexit Party leader insisted he believed Trump would return to the White House for a second term. Endorsing the president during an interview on ITV News, Farage […]

Twitter has slapped a warning on a tweet by Donald Trump suggesting the elections was being “stolen” from him. The social media organisation said it had placed a warning on Trump’s tweet “for making a potentially misleading claim about an election”. “This action is in line with our Civic Integrity Policy,” the firm’s @TwitterSafety account said. […]

Joe Biden has told the nation it will need to be “patient” as the count of votes for 2020 US presidential election continues to tighten. Biden, the Democratic Party nominee, told supporters in Delaware “we are going to win this” but warned patience would be needed, and the election would not be over until every […]

Many polls gave Joe Biden a strong lead in the race for the White House but Election Night is giving a closer race than many expected.  The Democratic nominee was thought to have a comfortable lead over the Republican incumbent. But close results in a number of swing states have made the path to the […]

A US election turnout that is expected to be historic in size may be bad news for Donald Trump, Nigel Farage has said. The Brexit Party leader is in Washington DC and has been on the campaign trail with Trump in recent weeks. He told the PA news agency: “Obviously, it’s tough to judge. We’re […]

Dear America, We all know Trump’s only campaign tactic is to stop people voting. He doesn’t want you to vote, because he knows that if you do, he will lose. He won four years ago because people that didn’t like Trump and didn’t like Clinton, stayed at home. You cannot afford to stay at home, […]

Even if Joe Biden seemingly triumphs on November 3, the question of who will be US president may remain unanswered, with Donald Trump having raised the prospect of a legal battle. Winning the last election did not stop Trump from questioning its legitimacy, and the nation being in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic only […]

If you’re looking to kill time while withing for America’s big decision, our fun game will tick (or rather, cross) all the boxes. Download and print out these cards and tweet us when you’ve filled the card! The New European’s Republican Bingo Card – Credit: TNE The New European’s Democrat Bingo Card – Credit: TNE

A number of high-profile Republicans and Trump supporters have been fooled into thanking Satan for supporting the president’s re-election bid. Fox News commentator Corey Lewandowski, former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka, Conservative political pundit Tomi Lahren, and outspoken Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio were among people duped into thanking someone called “Iblis” for campaigning on behalf of […]

Labour peer and political commentator Andrew Adonis has claimed that the US election result next week could spark the “end of Brexit”. Lord Adonis, a TNE contributor, provoked a debate after pointing out that if Donald Trump fails to make it back into the White House it could cause a domino effect with populist politicians – […]

Nigel Farage has pledged to bet £10,000 on Donald Trump winning a second term in the White House, claiming Trump would prove pundits wrong as he had done in 2016. This comes as Farage fights allegations he broke US quarantine rules to attend a Donald Trump rally in Arizona Wednesday night. The Brexit Party leader claimed he was […]

Nigel Farage has said he could enter the US to attend a Donald Trump rally – where many spectators did not wear masks – because he has a “journalistic visa”. The Brexit Party politician appeared on Good Morning Britain to answer questions as to why he thought it was a good idea to travel across the globe […]

Mitch Benn says Joe Biden’s altruism beats Donald Trump’s cynicism. I do realise that I’ve been talking about America a lot just recently (and that this paper is called The New European) but I feel I should cast at least a nervous nod across the pond this week as this will be the last column […]

With passions at fever-pitch, many Americans believe the November 3 election is make or break for the US, regardless of whether they back Donald Trump or Joe Biden. But whether the Republican business tycoon remains in the White House or if his Democratic challenger ousts him will also have a profound effect on the rest […]

So what is a role model? Before I give you the definition offered by the Oxford English Dictionary – itself a role model, dare I say, in the world of words – just put the paper down, and have a think about that question… what is a role model? Who, if you have or have […]

What do the beheading of a teacher in France, the suspension of a digital portal in Belarus and tweets about postal ballots in the US elections have in common? They are all different ways in which freedom of expression is being abused. The issue is sometimes seen as ephemeral, but it shouldn’t be. It is […]

Will the future be bright – or will it be orange? These are the key times for the American election results for those watching in the UK. Britons have got used to waking up the morning after the US elections and knowing right away whether to happily spring out of bed for the TV remote […]

International Trade Secretary Liz Truss has issued a dig about Donald Trump’s approach to trade, and has insisted British values would not be compromised for post-Brexit trade deals. Truss said Britain would reject a Donald Trump-style “Britain First” approach as she criticised “values-free globalisation” in a keynote speech in London. In a Chatham House address Truss said […]

Rikha Sharma Rani looks at whether Donald Trump could lose a section of his religious support to Joe Biden. On a Monday afternoon in June, Donald Trump stood holding a bible in front of St John’s Episcopal Church in Washington DC. He turned it over to look at the spine – seemingly checking to see that […]

Bonnie Greer looks at Sam Elliott’s adverts for Joe Biden, which aim to sway Donald Trump voters away from the president. In the United States, the various voting demographics are labelled in terms that most British citizens, and just about anyone else, might find offensive. So, there are ‘white suburban women with college degrees’, and […]

James Ball looks at how a Donald Trump defeat would effect the USA, and the world. The consensus is in: there is something like an 85% to 90% chance that Democratic candidate Joe Biden will win the presidential election next week and begin the countdown to his inauguration in January 2021. But if people have strong […]

Questions have been raised over Nigel Farage’s quarantine status after he appeared on stage at a Donald Trump rally in the US. Footage of Farage giving a speech at Trump’s re-election rally in Arizona overnight has raised concerns the Brexit Party leader flouted US quarantine regulations. According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the US’s national public […]

With just one week until the US election, we want to know who you think will win the vote? Will we wake up to the horrors of another four years of Donald Trump, or is it the end of populism and the emergence of decency in politics again with the election of Joe Biden? Have […]

Britain will not have the same prominence in Washington it has been previously used to be because it is “less useful to the US administration”, a  former senior diplomat and crossbench peer has claimed. Peter Ricketts, who has spent 40 years defending Britain’s interests in the world, believes our interest in the world will be severely […]

Boris Johnson’s administration is said to be “frantically repositioning” itself for Joe Biden to win the US election, former Tory chancellor George Osborne has claimed. Osborne appeared on CNN to claim that the Brexiteers in government will find it “hard to pivot toward a Biden administration”. “There’s no doubt that the Brexit government here will […]

I read that Dame Julie Walters, having recently turned 70 and survived a brush with cancer, has said that she’s considering retiring from acting, although she might be tempted back to do Mamma Mia 3 if it happens. What’s perhaps interesting about this announcement is the fact that it’s considered newsworthy at all… A woman […]

Given the low-level background dread that is life in 2020, picking out any individual source of anxiety can often be all-but impossible – but one obvious exception for many of us is looking towards the impending US presidential election, now less than two weeks away. In the pit of our stomachs, many of us have […]

Recent developments in the Middle East do not represent a significant shift towards the settling of the fundamental problems that still blight the region, says PAUL KNOTT The recent agreements normalising relations with some small Arab states are a success for Israel. For decades, it has sought recognition from the Arab world while avoiding making […]

One of the few times that Columbo was almost killed by a person he was investigating was in a 1994 episode called Butterflies In Shades Of Grey. It starred William Shatner as a radio talk show host who killed a friend of his stepdaughter. What is remarkable about the episode is that it is the first time […]

Everybody has a different reason for sitting down and writing a book. Martin Bell wrote his latest because he nearly died.  Almost two years ago the former BBC war correspondent and independent MP suffered head injuries similar to those from a car crash when he tripped over his suitcase at Gatwick Airport after returning from […]

Never mind the polls in the race for the White House, a new survey shows a more complex picture of America’s deeper fault lines. The bitter polarisation of the American election is only too obvious. For many of us, the contours of the battle are clear: in one corner, Joe Biden: a decent, moderate candidate […]

The world knows by now that Kamala Devi Harris, the junior senator from California and number two at the top of the Democrats’ electoral ticket this election cycle, was born in October 1964 to a Jamaican father and a Tamil Nadu mother. Both were immigrants and both were PhDs. Her babyhood was spent being taken […]