US elections

California’s general election is revealing fault lines in the Democratic Party

Republican candidates’ successful showings in the state pose existential questions for the Democratic Party

Trump (centre), flanked by Todd Blanche, acting US attorney-general (left) and Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, meeting the media at the White House after the shooting incident on Apr 25.

Trump and the recurring assassin

Shooting on Apr 25 is third assassination attempt on the US president in under two years

Trump’s economic pitch could be a tough sell for voters already struggling with the cost of gas, health care and other goods.

Trump turns from Iran to economy as Republicans face midterm headwinds

Polls show a majority of Americans disapprove of the president’s handling of the war and blame him for rising petrol prices

Polls show a big shrinkage of working-class support for Trump, particularly among non-white voters.

Trump is not just sinking in the Gulf

As his poll numbers tank, the president’s trade and immigration agendas are encountering judicial resistance too

Democrat Taylor Rehmet won on Saturday in the conservative area in Tarrant County near Dallas by more than 14 percentage points, unnerving Republicans in Texas and beyond.

Texas Democrat’s win a ‘wake-up call’ for Republicans ahead of 2026 elections

Democrats have won several local and state elections since Trump started his second term last year

One way to lower mortgage rates would be the further adoption of mortgages that do not allow for pre-payment, says Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management.

Affordability is Trump’s ‘single biggest weakness’ ahead of US mid-terms: Bill Ackman

The hedge fund manager says at a UBS wealth forum that he is bullish on markets and the overall economy

Over the years, Trump and his supporters have accused his opponents of using mail-in ballots, the lack of a national voter ID law and other processes to steal votes from him.

Trump ‘always’ respects election results, but in the US, he says they’re ‘rigged’

The US president consistently seeks to undermine faith in the voting process

Trump’s current approval sits well below the norm for second-term presidents at this stage.
THINKING ALOUD

The unravelling: Trump’s eroding coalition and the Republican Party’s reckoning

His job approval has fallen to 36 per cent, with disapproval reaching 60 per cent

Donald Trump still has more than three years left to his presidency.

The Trump blitzkrieg is running into resistance

While not yet a lame duck, the US president is encountering signs of pushback

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral race marked not merely a shift in political leadership, but the emergence of a new class coalition – one defined less by ideology and identity, than by a shared experience of economic squeeze. 

Why Zohran Mamdani won New York’s mayoral race: The revolt of the ‘struggling yuppies’

His triumph reflects a profound shift in New York City’s political economy