Tag: republican party

Trump laying sight on 2020 reelection

by Adedotun Michael President Donald Trump is proactively building a 2020 reelection campaign machine, deflecting doubts about his viability for a second term despite his controversial first few months in…

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Trump-McConnell exchange reveals crack in the GOP

The squabble between President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over the chamber's failure to repeal Obamacare and Trump's social media director, Dan Scavino’s tweet that the Senate GOP…

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“We must fight them and Democrats” | Trump declares war on a faction of the Republican party

by Dolapo Adelana US President Donald Trump has said Republicans must resist The Freedom Caucus, a faction of the party. Trump said this Thursday via his Twitter account. He said…

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You can’t convince this woman that Trump isn’t a sexual predator – you can’t!

Since the release of the Trump tape showing The Donald casually discussing propositioning a married woman, and speaking of women in sordid terms, his campaign has pretty much unravelled. And…

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Donald Trump attacks Paul Ryan, says he’s a weak leader

Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked Speaker of the US House, Paul Ryan. Ryan, the highest ranking Republican official had said he would no longer supporter Trump in his…

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America braces up as Hurricane Trump approaches…

Hurricanes are huge tropical storms that begin to appear as summer turns to fall. Storms cause damage and flooding but once the wind speed of a storm reaches or exceeds…

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Praying for a Donald Trump presidency? Here’s 5 reasons why you shouldn’t

by Tolu Omoyeni The US general elections will hold in less than 3 months and the world has been abuzz with news of candidates, nominations, polls, conventions and all the…

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Open revolt against Donald Trump at Republican National Convention

It was a rowdy scene and open revolt at the US Republican Party National Convention as those opposing the candidacy of Donald Trump broke into chaos, shouting, “Roll call vote!…

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‘She must become our next president’ | Hillary Clinton endorsed by Bernie Sanders

At a campaign event on Tuesday, July 12, the world watched with bated breath as Bernie Sanders finally endorsed Hillary Clinton for the presidency at a New Hampshire rally. "Secretary…

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Opinion: A million reasons why Nigeria needs a Donald ‘loudmouthed’ Trump

While many Nigerians are busy ridiculing Donald Trump's rather unorthodox bid for the Republican Party's Presidential ticket, he's busy surging in the polls. Since his surprise declaration on June 6, 2015, he's…

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Opinion: Why Hillary Clinton will be United States’ 45th President

Before we are misunderstood, let us make ourselves clear. We support Hillary Rodham Clinton not because we believe she is faultless (we know of no one who is), but because…

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5 reasons why women rarely run for public office

by Nina Bahadur The researchers found that men were almost 60 percent more likely to view themselves as "very qualified" to run for office. Women's self-doubts were almost as influential…

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Lady Gaga reportedly turned down $1 million to perform at Republican Party event

The Washington Examiner reports that the GOP, a party whose stance towards gays has been nothing if not fraught, approached LGBTQ icon Lady Gaga to perform at the Republican National Convention’s Hispanic Leadership Network last August.…

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Opinion: Someone needs to call Tinubu out on this lie

by Stanley Azuakola Tinubu told a lie. His party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) is expectedly standing firmly by his side, defending him, but what they really should do…

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“Delusory frenzy, desperate manoeuvring, reprehensible” – PDP lambasts Tinubu over U.S Democratic convention “fraud”

by Stanley Azuakola The National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is used to taking potshots at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but certainly…

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#NaijaTeamObama? Tinubu, Fayemi to attend US Democratic Party convention

by Stanley Azuakola The US presidential election season is heating up. The Republican party held its convention last week in Tampa, Florida where the position of Mitt Romney as the…

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How ridiculous the media gets (Romney-Ryan Edition)

by Oliver Willis Photo credit: Politica So it appears that the Romney campaign briefed multiple news outlets about the behind the scenes of how they hid Paul Ryan’s selection from…

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Twitter Roundup Xtra: A Twitter War between Advisers

It did not even take the full 140-characters to start the great Twitter war on Monday afternoon. In fact, it started innocently enough, just after noon, with a Twitter posting…

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