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Can't take democracy for granted any longer: US President Joe Biden

Ahead of the November 8 midterm polls, US President Joe Biden has urged Americans to unite in opposition to "political violence" and warned that "we cant take democracy for granted any longer".

Ex-US Prez Barack Obama gets a midterm do-over to help boost Democrats

Barack Obama is trying to do something he couldn't during two terms as president: help Democrats succeed in national mid-term elections when they already hold the White House. Of course, he's more popular than he was back then, and now it's President Joe Biden, Obama's former vice president, who faces the prospects of a November rebuke. Obama begins a hopscotch across battleground states on Friday in Georgia, and he will travel on Saturday to Michigan and Wisconsin, followed by stops next week in Nevada and Pennsylvania. The itinerary, which includes rallies with Democratic candidates for federal and state offices, comes as Biden and Democrats try to stave off a strong Republican push to upend Democrats' narrow majorities in the House and Senate and claim key governorships ahead of the 2024 presidential election. With Biden's job approval ratings in the low 40s amid sustained inflation, he's an albatross for Democrats like Senators Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Catherine Cortez Ma

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg should focus on US midterms, not the Metaverse

Meta CEO Zuckerberg could start by doing what thousands of managers before him have done, and reconsider his tasks

Indian-American groups launch voting campaigns ahead of midterm elections

Ahead of the midterm elections early in November, two Indian American groups on Wednesday launched a voting campaign for their community. Indian Americans account for over one per cent of the country's population and have one of the highest per capita incomes among ethnic groups. While they are concentrated in some of the major states like New York, New Jersey, California, and Texas, their votes might turn out to be decisive in case of close races in the states of Florida, Atlanta, and Pennsylvania. The Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies (FIIDS), a US-based non-profit institution for policy research and awareness, launched the #IndoAmericanVotesMatter campaign to increase the participation of American voters in the US 2022 elections. On this launch, Professor Ved Nanda, a distinguished law professor at Denver University and a FIIDS advisor said: As an immigrant minority, it is not only a civic duty, but it is also imperative for Indo-Americans to vote in the elections

Democrats delay primary order decision until after November's midterm poll

The Democratic Party on Saturday delayed a decision on potentially reordering its primary calendar for the 2024 presidential election until after November's midterm elections. The Democratic National Committee's rules committee had planned to decide during meetings in Washington beginning next week whether to recommend that presidential voting should continue to begin with Iowa and New Hampshire. That's amid calls by some party leaders and activists that more diverse states, including the current No. 3 and No. 4, Nevada and South Carolina, should move up. The committee was also mulling adding a fifth early primary contest prior to Super Tuesday when a large number of states traditionally vote. But rules committee co-chairs Jim Roosevelt Jr. and Minyon Moore wrote in a memo to members that after speaking with many of you over the past several weeks about the last few steps of this process, it has become clear that the best way to move forward with the final stage of this process is

With midterms looming, Biden may lose support of Big Tech, minority voters

Facing crises like rising inflation to escalating Russian aggression, Biden risks seeing his falling poll numbers translate into the loss of the Democratic Party's tenuous control of Congress

US midterms: President Trump blames media, Republicans for losses

Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives to Democrats, but Trump shrugged that off, casting Tuesday's congressional election results as 'very close to complete victory' for Republicans