Joey D’Urso

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Nov 12, 2024 | thetimes.com | Joey D’Urso

It has been a tough week to be a Democrat. For the first time in 20 years and only the second since 1988, the party’s candidate was outvoted in a US presidential election. Al Gore lost in 2000 and Hillary Clinton in 2016, but both could cling to the cold comfort that they narrowly won the popular vote while losing in the electoral college. There is no such nuance this time. Trump won in style.

Nov 9, 2024 | thetimes.com | Joey D’Urso

‘Why didn’t you just whack it in?” Barbara Southgate asked. Her son, Gareth, had missed the decisive penalty in England’s Euro 1996 semi-final defeat to Germany at Wembley Stadium. Southgate became a national punchline. He appeared in a Pizza Hut advert with a paper bag over his head. Redemption took a while, coming 22 years later in Moscow.

Nov 6, 2024 | thetimes.com | Tom Calver |Joey D’Urso |Narottam Medhora |Anna Dowell

For once, maybe the polls got it right: this was, as many predicted, one of the closest US presidential election races in years. Yet with more than half of votes counted, Kamala Harris’s path to election victory has narrowed considerably. With Donald Trump winning North Carolina and Georgia, Harris must win the three northern rust belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to stand any chance of the presidency. That looks increasingly unlikely.