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Jan 16, 2025 | 
almendron.com | Leslie Vinjamuri
The boldness with which President Donald Trump is remaking the rules of US diplomacy has been dizzying. His threat to levy tariffs against America’s friends comes at a bad time. Growth has stalled across many G7 countries, states are struggling to cope with inflation, and tariffs will be harmful to trade-dependent sectors. Trump’s geopolitical gambits are categorically worse. Countries that depend on US security assistance, like Ukraine and Taiwan, already feared abandonment.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Leslie Vinjamuri |Max Yoeli
The United States is failing in the global South. Its popularity and influence have waned, and policies that recent U.S. administrations have designed to close the gap have fallen short.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Leslie Vinjamuri
In a landslide victory, former President Donald Trump has been elected to be the 47th president of the United States. This election was laden with the expectation that a dead heat would lead to delay, legal challenge, extremism, and possible violence. It has instead passed quickly, decisively, and peacefully. More than 67 million Americans who voted for Kamala Harris have demonstrated restraint and accepted the result. By this measure, democracy in the United States has prevailed.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Leslie Vinjamuri
With less than two weeks to election day in the United States, polls suggest the gap between Harris and Trump has narrowed even further in the swing states where the election will be decided. A fierce contest has ensued as each campaign seeks to drive voter turnout. In such a tight race, this will be decisive. But in an election that many Americans perceive as being existential for the country’s future, a narrow victory by either side will heighten the risk of a contested election.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Leslie Vinjamuri
Kamala Harris went on the offensive against Donald Trump in Tuesday’s debate – and a CNN poll found that she outperformed her opponent by a landslide, at 63-37 per cent. But multiple polls also confirm that the election continues to be a dead heat, and too close to call where it matters most, in the small number of states that will swing the election. Undecided voters matter, but there are few of them in America today.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Leslie Vinjamuri
In an act of profound patriotism, US President Joe Biden has announced his decision to withdraw his candidacy from the 2024 election and to embrace his legacy as a one-term president. The question of Biden’s future has been widely discussed since June’s presidential debate, an event that changed the course of history. The decision has been widely anticipated and a source of great division in the Democratic Party.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Leslie Vinjamuri
President Biden and former President Trump held their first debate in Atlanta on Thursday night with the election on a knife’s edge. Given Biden’s faltering performance, this may also turn out to be the only debate. Recent polls have the candidates tied 50-50. But 20 per cent of voters were ‘undecided’ and 60 per cent of Americans had planned to watch the debates. In Europe, where the UK and France hold their own significant elections in July, most slept through this debate.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |Leslie Vinjamuri |Doug Klain |James Batchik
On Thursday, June 27, CNN will host the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle. After months of speaking at each other in campaign rallies, Joe Biden and Donald Trump will finally have an opportunity to directly engage in discussion. Domestic politics often dominate presidential debates, but with ongoing conflicts in Europe and the Middle East in addition to U.S.-China competition, 2024 could be different.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
lse.ac.uk | Leslie Vinjamuri |Helen Thompson |Gideon Rachman
LSE Player is home to the latest films and podcasts from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Here you can watch videos on cutting edge research, find the award-winning LSE IQ podcast, and listen to more than 5,000 public event recordings featuring some of the world’s leading thinkers.
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Mar 9, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Leslie Vinjamuri
After one of the most important weeks in the US political calendar, there is a little more clarity on what to expect from the United States, but not much. Super Tuesday ushered in Nikki Haley’s departure from the race and confirmed President Biden and former President Donald Trump as the presumptive nominees for their parties. If things go as is currently expected, one of these men will become a second term president.
