Joe Biden

America’s battered and bruised democracy has taken another beating. And that means pain for the rest of the world, says JOHN KAMPFNER. A month or so before the US election, European officials were under no illusions. They were wargaming scenarios around legal challenges and civil disobedience in the event of Joe Biden securing the votes […]

JAMES BALL gives his initial analysis on the US election as the results pour in.  In Hamilton – a musical many of us have watched and rewatched during our pandemic confinement – there is a moment shortly after America wins its war of independence when an aghast and outright baffled King George III has one […]

The UK has been warned that it might not secure a post-Brexit trade deal with America regardless of who wins the presidential election. Former Labour foreign secretary David Miliband said that a deal with Boris Johnson’s government is just as unlikely if Donald Trump is returned to the White House. He refuted suggestions that the […]

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 […]

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, […]

An adviser to Joe Biden, tipped to become the next UK ambassador to the US, has issued a warning over Brexit – saying in almost every area it would have negative consequences for his country. Anthony Gardner, a former American ambassador to the EU, told an audience in Germany that Brexit was the “biggest own-goal” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A win for Joe Biden in next week’s US presidential elections could force Boris Johnson to water down his Brexit bill. Peers in the House of Lords are set to vote down six clauses in the internal market bill that would undermine Britain’s divorce deal with the EU during a vote on November 9, almost a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Voters in America believe that Joe Biden is the best candidate to help the country recover from coronavirus, polling suggests. With three weeks to go until the November 3 election, analysis suggests Covid-19 remains “front and centre” for the American voting public. Ipsos USA, a public opinion specialist, interviewed thousands of Americans to understand the key […]

Boris Johnson’s administration is said to be wooing Joe Biden ahead of the US election, after reportedly becoming increasingly convinced that Donald Trump will not win. Downing Street are said to have been reviewing private polling which showed that Biden is on track to win by a landslide, leading to Johnson to increase communication with the […]

Dr Sean Conley, in one of his appearances outside the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center – where Donald Trump received his treatment for coronavirus – put his best diplomatic foot forward. What was the president’s mental fitness? We should look at ‘the tweets’ as a gauge, he replied. So I did. “Don’t be afraid […]

There are now fewer than 30 days left until the USA goes to the polls to select its next president: Donald Trump or Joe Biden. That polling day will come just two weeks after Trump should stop self-isolating to protect those around him from catching the deadly illness his White House admitted he’d contracted late […]

As tighter lockdown looms, what does Donald Trump’s response to his coronavirus infection tell us about leadership in a crisis like this, his own and that of others stricken by illness at a crucial moment? How does it compare with Boris Johnson’s behaviour after he too succumbed as the pandemic took hold last spring? And […]

Boris Johnson will not be given a “warm” reception from the White House if Joe Biden wins the presidential election, according to Britain’s former ambassador to Washington. Lord Kim Darroch said there was still some “resentment and unhappiness” over comments Johnson made while mayor of London and in newspaper columns about the former US president. He also said Johnson would […]