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Midterm primaries in the United States: “embarrassing defeats for Trump”
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Donald Trump at a meeting in Florida on February 27, for the annual high mass of American conservatives in Orlando.
(Illustrative image) AFP - CHANDAN KHANNA
By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |
Mikael Ponge Follow
2 mins
Republican candidates backed by Donald Trump in the state of Georgia suffered their biggest defeat in the midterm primaries yesterday, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Would the former president's influence on the Republican Party have taken a blow ?
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All the polls announced it, but the defeat was much wider than expected
" analyzes our guest Lauric Henneton, specialist in American civilization and lecturer at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
David Perdue, the candidate on whom Donald Trump had tried to exert all his political influence, was largely defeated yesterday, during the primaries in Georgia.
He will not be the Republican candidate for governor in that state in November in the midterm elections.
It is the incumbent, the conservative Brian Kemp who was largely elected.
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The outgoing bonus has been verified again, but it's embarrassing for Trump
" analyzes Lauric Henneton.
Proof that contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election "
is not automatic to prevail
", even in Georgia.
The only consolation prize for Donald Trump, the one he supported for the nomination in the Senate race, Herschel Walker, won.
Next November, will Georgia remain a Democrat or will it switch back to the Republican side?
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The Democrats are in a position to win
” believes our guest, but “
the question of mobilization will be crucial
”.
US in shock after Uvalde shooting
A screed of lead covers the town of Uvalde, Texas, where the inhabitants are torn between mourning, dread and amazement the day after the massacre of 19 children and two teachers in an elementary school.
A shooter, identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, carried out one of the worst killings in recent years in the United States.
Inevitably, the firearms debate comes back to the table.
President Joe Biden calling for law reform.
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A debate which always comes up against the same blockages, in the Senate in particular and the arms lobby which was said to be weakened
” notes Lauric Henneton.
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The only thing that could change
,” he believes
,
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it's the accumulation of mass killings in schools, but since nothing happened after Sandy Hook in 2012, we can be pessimistic about the agenda
”.
And on the front page of the Journal de la 1ère
The fed up of road users in Guyana faced with the poor state of infrastructure.
Faced with more and more accidents, they demand immediate work.
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