https://www.scmp.com/rss/33413/feed Republican Party candidate for the US presidential election 2012. Romney was born in 1947 and is a Mormon. He gained popularity for successfully organising the US$100 million surplus 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, which helped him win the position of Massachusetts governor from 2003-2007. After losing to John McCain in 2008, Romney came back to win as Republican nominee in 2012 and faces Barack Obama in November elections with running mate Paul Ryan. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would create a White House faith office and direct Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead a task force on eradicating what he called anti-Christian bias within the federal government. “The mission of this task force will be to immediately hold all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ, which was absolutely terrible, the IRS, the FBI and other agencies,” Trump said in remarks at the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3297684/trump-create-religious-office-white-house-target-anti-christian-bias?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3297684/trump-create-religious-office-white-house-target-anti-christian-bias?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:52:37 +0000 Among the country’s most powerful lawmakers, US senators are responsible for the duties of the Senate and functioning of the federal system. The Senate and the House of Representatives make up the two chambers of Congress, with the Senate having 100 members – two from each state, who are elected to serve a six-year term. All eyes are on the US this election day: also included in this voting cycle is control of 34 Senate seats. So who are some of the richest US senators today? We take a look at... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3285277/6-richest-us-senators-office-2024-net-worths-ranked-former-presidential-candidate-mitt-romney-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3285277/6-richest-us-senators-office-2024-net-worths-ranked-former-presidential-candidate-mitt-romney-and?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Nov 2024 20:00:08 +0000 West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin said on Friday that he is not running for president, according to his spokesman Jonathan Kott. Manchin announced his decision in a speech at West Virginia University, as part of a national listening tour he was making. “I will not be seeking a third-party run. I will not be involved in a presidential run,” Manchin said in his speech in Morgantown. “I am not going to be a deal-breaker, if you will, a spoiler, or whatever you want to call it. I just don’t think... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3252254/senator-joe-manchin-announces-he-wont-run-us-president-2024?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3252254/senator-joe-manchin-announces-he-wont-run-us-president-2024?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:37:59 +0000 US Senator Mitt Romney will not seek re-election in 2024, capping a roller-coaster ride through Republican politics from the height of his party’s 2012 presidential nomination to the depths of tribal warfare in the age of Donald Trump. Casting aside the hopes and appeals of colleagues, including Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, the 76-year-old Utah Republican said he would retire as a one-term senator when his term ends in early 2025, rather than seek another six years among a dwindling... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3234466/us-senator-mitt-romney-wont-seek-re-election-marking-end-wild-ride-through-republican-politics?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3234466/us-senator-mitt-romney-wont-seek-re-election-marking-end-wild-ride-through-republican-politics?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Sep 2023 22:07:59 +0000 A bill to boost semiconductor production in the United States has managed to do nearly the unthinkable – unite the democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders and the fiscally conservative right. The bill making its way through the Senate is a top priority of the Biden administration. It would add about US$79 billion to the deficit over 10 years, mostly as a result of new grants and tax breaks that would subsidise the cost that computer chip manufacturers incur when building or expanding chip... https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3186438/us-semiconductor-bill-unites-bernie-sanders-conservative-right?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3186438/us-semiconductor-bill-unites-bernie-sanders-conservative-right?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Jul 2022 02:00:01 +0000 US President Joe Biden held a meeting on Monday with a bipartisan group of politicians who have all previously served as governors or mayors, as the White House seeks a deal on his more than US$2 trillion jobs and infrastructure proposal. “I am prepared to compromise and prepared to see what we can do and what we can come together on,” Biden said at the outset of the meeting. “I’ve noticed everybody’s for infrastructure. The question is, who’s going to pay for it?” The group is made up of five... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3130201/joe-biden-meets-politicians-discuss-us2-trillion?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3130201/joe-biden-meets-politicians-discuss-us2-trillion?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Apr 2021 19:20:56 +0000 The United States has recorded more than 20 million cases of Covid-19, Johns Hopkins University said on Friday in its real-time tally, as the New Year brought another grim milestone underlining the country’s struggle to quell the virus. The US has so far registered 20,007,149 cases and 346,408 deaths in the pandemic, the Baltimore-based university said, making it the country with by far the highest official number of cases and the highest death toll. Senator Mitt Romney on Friday urged the US... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3116163/united-states-passes-20-million-coronavirus-cases?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3116163/united-states-passes-20-million-coronavirus-cases?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 01 Jan 2021 19:11:02 +0000 A poll released on November 17 showed that many American voters believe US President Donald Trump should immediately concede the presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden, who has secured more than enough electoral votes to become the United States’ 46th president. Trump has long claimed that the election was “stolen” from him, with his legal team suggesting that large-scale voter fraud occurred in cities such as Atlanta, Detroit and Philadelphia, which tipped their respective states’... https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3110526/trumps-refusal-concede-sets-bad-precedent-us-and-world?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3110526/trumps-refusal-concede-sets-bad-precedent-us-and-world?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Nov 2020 04:35:10 +0000 This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Ally Mutnick on politico.com on August 19, 2020. Whether he wins re-election or not, US President Donald Trump is remaking the Republican Party for years to come, as candidates ride to Congress by studiously observing the new first commandment of Republican primaries: the Trumpiest person wins. Dozens of safe-seat Republican veterans are retiring in 2020, some of whom have only grudgingly acceded to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3098049/how-trump-reshaping-congress-ground?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3098049/how-trump-reshaping-congress-ground?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:42:54 +0000 Seven US senators have urged Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to limit Chinese companies from taking advantage of stock prices depressed by the coronavirus pandemic to buy strategic US assets. In the letter, sent on Wednesday by a group led by Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, the lawmakers said they took the action after receiving “disturbing” reports that “government-backed Chinese companies are reportedly approaching banks to identify and facilitate the purchase of American and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3085534/us-senators-urge-safeguards-keep-china-buying?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3085534/us-senators-urge-safeguards-keep-china-buying?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 21 May 2020 16:30:59 +0000 I made the decision to leave China to study in the United States early in 1949. It was a turbulent time for China. Mao Zedong’s army had reached Beijing and I was not optimistic about the Kuomintang’s prospects. Months later, Mao proved victorious, and my stay in the US became extended indefinitely. Now, 70 years later, both my adopted country and my homeland face significant domestic hurdles, laid bare by recent events. In the US, the impeachment and acquittal of President Donald Trump and his... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3051438/neither-trump-nor-xi-can-escape-blame-their-national-crises?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3051438/neither-trump-nor-xi-can-escape-blame-their-national-crises?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Feb 2020 18:00:11 +0000 There was never any doubt that United States President Donald Trump would be acquitted by the Senate, yet it does not diminish the historical importance of this verdict. By pronouncing him not guilty on the two articles of impeachment, Republican senators have, in essence, declared that the president is above the law. The heavy task of safeguarding American democracy now falls on the electorate. The case against the president has all along been extraordinarily simple. The transcript that the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3050686/trump-found-not-guilty-its-now-american-voters-protect-their?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3050686/trump-found-not-guilty-its-now-american-voters-protect-their?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:00:16 +0000 US President Donald Trump on Thursday apologised to his family for having to endure his impeachment, but in a vindictive and gloating “celebration” of his Senate acquittal he offered the nation no remorse for the conduct that led lawmakers to consider his removal from office. “It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops, it was leakers and liars,” Trump said on Thursday in an address from the White House. “This should never happen to another president ever.” After entering the East Room to a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3049417/donald-trump-takes-victory-lap-rambling-white-house?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3049417/donald-trump-takes-victory-lap-rambling-white-house?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 06 Feb 2020 19:11:22 +0000 US President Donald Trump drew on staunch Republican support Wednesday to defeat the gravest threat yet to his three-year-old presidency, winning acquittal in the Senate on impeachment charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Only the third US leader ever placed on trial, Trump readily defeated the effort to expel him from office for having illicitly sought help from Ukraine to bolster his 2020 re-election effort. I will be making a public statement tomorrow at 12:00pm from the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3049251/us-senate-acquits-donald-trump-abuse-power?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3049251/us-senate-acquits-donald-trump-abuse-power?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Feb 2020 21:36:45 +0000 US President Donald Trump lashed out on Wednesday at John Bolton, a potentially damaging witness at his Senate impeachment trial, amid White House efforts to block publication of an explosive book by the former national security adviser. The fight over whether Bolton should testify intensified as Trump’s trial entered a new phase, with senators who hold the president’s fate in their hands directly questioning prosecutors and White House defence lawyers. The 100 members of the Senate have been... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3048149/donald-trump-attacks-john-bolton-impeachment-trial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3048149/donald-trump-attacks-john-bolton-impeachment-trial?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Jan 2020 21:39:26 +0000 Former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick is telling allies that he will join the 2020 presidential race, according to two people familiar with his plans. An official announcement is expected before Friday, the filing deadline for the New Hampshire primary. His move injects a new layer of uncertainty into the contest less than three months before the first votes. Patrick, a popular two-term Democratic governor with a moderate bearing and close ties to former president Barack Obama, is starting... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3037630/ex-massachusetts-governor-deval-patrick-plans-2020?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3037630/ex-massachusetts-governor-deval-patrick-plans-2020?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:06:07 +0000 A group of US lawmakers introduced legislation on Wednesday that would block a federal retirement fund from investing in Chinese stocks. The group, led by Republican Senator Marco Rubio, say the bill is aimed at reversing a decision to allow federal employees and military service members to invest their retirement savings in a fund that includes China-listed stocks. Amid heightened US-China trade tensions and efforts to limit the flow of US capital to Chinese companies because of security... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3036641/us-lawmakers-introduce-new-bill-ban-federal-pension-fund-investing-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3036641/us-lawmakers-introduce-new-bill-ban-federal-pension-fund-investing-china?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 Nov 2019 20:39:47 +0000 US President Donald Trump fired back at Mitt Romney on Saturday morning, calling the Utah senator a “pompous 'ass'” while defending his calls for Ukraine and China to investigate political rival Joe Biden. “Somebody please wake up Mitt Romney and tell him that my conversation with the Ukrainian President was a congenial and very appropriate one, and my statement on China pertained to corruption, not politics,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “If Mitt worked this hard on Obama, he could have won. Sadly,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3031714/donald-trump-fires-back-after-mitt-romney?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3031714/donald-trump-fires-back-after-mitt-romney?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Oct 2019 15:53:05 +0000 The US Senate on Thursday rejected competing Republican and Democratic plans to end the partial government shutdown, now in its 34th day. The Republican bill included funding for US President Donald Trump’s border wall while the Democratic plan did not. Both measures failed to win the 60 votes needed to move forward. But some lawmakers and analysts have expressed hope that the exercise could lead to more serious talks about a compromise. The Senate rejected Trump’s proposal on a 50-47 vote, with... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2183563/us-senate-votes-down-two-bills-end-government?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2183563/us-senate-votes-down-two-bills-end-government?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 24 Jan 2019 21:34:18 +0000 Mitt Romney announced on Friday he will run for the US Senate in Utah, potentially bringing to Washington a popular Republican who has been a scathing critic of President Donald Trump. The 2012 Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts governor said he will seek to succeed Orrin Hatch, a strong Trump supporter who decided not to run for an eighth term despite the president’s efforts to persuade him to stay. “I am running for United States Senate to serve the people of Utah and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2133625/mitt-romney-running-us-senate-utah-will-he-keep-his?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2133625/mitt-romney-running-us-senate-utah-will-he-keep-his?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:44:49 +0000 In his first interview since losing his 2012 White House bid, Mitt Romney likened his experience as a presidential candidate to an unpredictable and bumpy roller-coaster ride. "We were on a roller coaster, exciting and thrilling, ups and downs. But the ride ends," Romney said, according to advance excerpts of the interview set to air on Fox News Sunday. "And then you get off. And it's not like, 'Oh, can't we be on a roller coaster the rest of our life?' It's like, no, the ride's over." Romney... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1173801/romney-recalls-ups-and-downs-his-first-post-defeat-interview?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1173801/romney-recalls-ups-and-downs-his-first-post-defeat-interview?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Their relationship seemed doomed from the start. It was mostly a long-distance affair conducted in public exchanges, tempered by occasional awkward gestures of warmth but more often singed by open hostility. It most likely ended, mercifully, on Thursday over white turkey chili and Southwestern grilled chicken salad. US President Barack Obama and the vanquished Mitt Romney ate lunch in a private dining room steps from the Oval Office, the seat of power they battled over for months. The meeting, a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1094759/barack-obama-and-mitt-romney-break-bread-if-not-ice?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1094759/barack-obama-and-mitt-romney-break-bread-if-not-ice?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 The US Republican Party needs to stop insulting voters and broaden its appeal, say some of its leading figures following the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama thanks to overwhelming support from Hispanics, blacks and single women. Comments made by two top Republican governors and an influential US senator on Sunday reflected the soul-searching taking place in the party after Obama's victory over Republican Mitt Romney on November 6. "If we want people to like us, we have to like... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1086244/stop-insulting-voters-senior-republicans-urge-party?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1086244/stop-insulting-voters-senior-republicans-urge-party?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 On hearing that I worked and lived in the mainland for three years (from 2007-2010), people often ask me if they should be afraid of the country. Had I not experienced it for myself I might sympathise with such xenophobic trepidation. Reading news about China, even I get a bad taste in my mouth. The Western press tends to favour stories about corruption, murder, internet censorship, the one-child policy and hor-rific working conditions. No wonder Barack Obama and Mitt Romney took such a hard... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1082979/city-scope-politricks-trade?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1082979/city-scope-politricks-trade?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 I recently read a shocking quote from a top member of Mitt Romney's team in the US presidential election: "We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers." He admitted that his team would aim to mislead voters; after all, the rival Barack Obama camp had done the same. Commentators noted during the 2012 race that false claims in negative TV adverts were less likely to be corrected or withdrawn than before. Campaigns can now get away with falsehoods. The polarisation of the US... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1083185/cy-leung-should-see-hope-citys-under-represented-moderates?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1083185/cy-leung-should-see-hope-citys-under-represented-moderates?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Mitt Romney His campaign team had planned fireworks, and media reports said he had already written a 1,118-word victory speech. Then Romney went and lost. Wife Ann was in tears and the US presidential candidate himself was said to be shell-shocked as he went to break the news to Republican supporters gathered at a Boston hotel.   DNA Galleria retailers As Christmas decorations go up in stores and as buying a coffee suddenly seems like walking into Santa's grotto, 69 tenants of the city's DNA... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1079617/bad-week-november-11-2012?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1079617/bad-week-november-11-2012?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 They predict he will write a book, convinced that the daily diary he kept on the campaign trail would make for a compelling read. They speculate that he will return to the corridors of finance, where his reputation as a savvy chief executive and investor remains unblemished. They suspect he could take on a major role in the Mormon Church, picking up where he left off two decades ago. In conversations over the past 24 hours, friends, aides and advisers to Mitt Romney have begun turning their... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1078952/white-house-aside-world-mitt-romneys-oyster?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1078952/white-house-aside-world-mitt-romneys-oyster?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 At the private air terminal at Logan Airport in Boston early on Wednesday, men in unwrinkled suits sank into plush leather chairs as they waited to board Gulfstream jets, trading consolations over Mitt Romney's loss. "All I can say is the American people have spoken," said Kenneth Langone, the founder of the Home Depot and one of Romney's top fundraisers, briskly plucking off his hat and settling into a couch. The biggest single donor in political history, casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1078953/mitt-romneys-money-men-lick-their-wounds-wake-election?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1078953/mitt-romneys-money-men-lick-their-wounds-wake-election?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 There is a kind of war under way in the US nowadays between fact and fantasy. President Barack Obama's re-election marked a victory, limited but unmistakable, for the cause of fact. Events in the days leading up to the election provided a stark illustration of the struggle. Among senior aides to Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a belief developed that he was on the cusp of victory. Their conviction had no basis in poll results. Nevertheless, the feeling grew so strong that aides began to... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1077964/reality-sweeps-away-republican-fantasies?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1077964/reality-sweeps-away-republican-fantasies?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 The day had started optimistically, as Mitt Romney cast his ballot early, then made one last trip to scour for votes. But it ended with stony silence in the ballroom where his supporters watched state after state that they hoped would break the Republican nominee's way tilt towards President Barack Obama. Nearly two hours after the US television networks called the race for Obama, Romney appeared onstage at a waterfront convention centre in Boston to congratulate his opponent and thank his... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1077250/silence-descends-mitt-romney-camp-results-come?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1077250/silence-descends-mitt-romney-camp-results-come?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 To gauge the depth of the questions facing the Republican Party after its defeat on Tuesday, just consider one fact. It was the fifth time in the past six elections that the Republicans had lost the popular vote. While some looking for scapegoats will point to recent events, particularly the intervention of superstorm Sandy in killing the momentum of Mitt Romney, or even the claim from some in the party he was not a "genuine conservative", far larger issues loom. It is an old US political saying... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1077249/tea-party-influence-leaves-bitter-taste-republicans?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1077249/tea-party-influence-leaves-bitter-taste-republicans?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 We know in our hearts that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come Barack Obama after being re-elected U.S. president   I have just called President Obama to congratulate him on his victory U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney concedes defeat   I think the criticism is fair. It's a World Golf Championship event, one of the big ones. It was a tough one to miss Rory McIlroy on his decision not to compete at Mission Hills Dongguan https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1077330/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1077330/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Republican Mitt Romney conceded the US presidential election to President Barack Obama early on Wednesday morning after a bitterly fought battle. “This is a time of great challenges for America and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation,” Romney told supporters after calling Obama to congratulate him. Obama defeated Romney in a series of key swing states, despite the weak economic recovery and stubbornly high unemployment that dogged his campaign. Television networks... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1077002/romney-concedes-us-presidential-election-obama?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1077002/romney-concedes-us-presidential-election-obama?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Nov 2012 06:23:39 +0000 President Barack Obama told cheering supporters early on Wednesday that “the best is yet to come” for the United States as he stormed to a second term by defeating Republican Mitt Romney. After taking the stage at a raucous Chicago victory party with wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia, Obama returned to the themes of his re-election bid, vowing to fight for the middle class and the American dream. “In this election, you, the American people, reminded us that while our road has been... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076960/re-elected-obama-takes-stage-victory-speech-live-video?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076960/re-elected-obama-takes-stage-victory-speech-live-video?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Nov 2012 05:06:52 +0000 US President Barack Obama swept to re-election on Tuesday, creating history again by defying the undertow of a slow economic recovery and high unemployment to beat Republican foe Mitt Romney. Obama became only the second Democrat to win a second four-year White House term since World War II, when television networks projected he would win the bellwether state of Ohio where he had staged a pitched battle with Romney. “This happened because of you. Thank you,” Obama tweeted to his 22 million... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076880/obama-inches-towards-victory-us-vote?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076880/obama-inches-towards-victory-us-vote?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:48:59 +0000 The aftermath of Superstorm Sandy created chaos and long lines at voting stations in the US Northeast on Tuesday while officials braced for a new storm due to batter the region on Wednesday. The former hurricane that walloped New York and New Jersey eight days ago continued to create misery for the thousands who lost their homes and 900,000 households and businesses that remained without power. Voters casting ballots for the US president endured confusion at makeshift polling stations. In New... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076816/aftermath-sandy-disrupts-voting-us-northeast?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076816/aftermath-sandy-disrupts-voting-us-northeast?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Nov 2012 02:13:29 +0000 President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney were locked in a tight race with three critical battleground states too close to call on Tuesday as US voters decided between two starkly different visions for the country. In early results, Obama and Romney piled up victories in the states they were expected to win easily. Early vote-counting in the swing state of Florida showed them running neck and neck. Obama led in the critical battleground state of Ohio and Romney held an early... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076780/obama-and-romney-tight-swing-state-battle?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076780/obama-and-romney-tight-swing-state-battle?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:49:00 +0000 Millions of Americans were pouring into polling booths this morning (Hong Kong time) to decide one of the closest, most bitterly fought presidential elections in years. With final polls too close to call between Democrat President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney, all eyes will be on 11 or so swing states - particularly Ohio and Virginia - that are vital to both candidates. Thousands of voters were queuing at booths, some amid the rubble left by superstorm Sandy, as dawn broke... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076601/all-eyes-swing-states-america-votes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076601/all-eyes-swing-states-america-votes?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 In July, a woman in West Virginia asked Republican house leader, John Boehner: "Can you make me love Mitt Romney?" Boehner said: "No. Listen, we're just politicians. I wasn't elected to play God. The American people probably aren't going to fall in love with Mitt Romney." But that didn't stop Romney's handlers trying. They used his wife, Ann, to soften him, invoked his Mormon religion to humanise him and even called on Clint Eastwood to vouch for him, but in the end Boehner was right. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076553/romneys-candidacy-improved-months-went?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076553/romneys-candidacy-improved-months-went?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Four also-rans make peace WASHINGTON - The presidential candidates held another animated debate on Sunday night. But it was not Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama sparring, nor was the event broadcast to millions at home. Instead it was four third-party candidates - Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party, Jill Stein of the Green Party, Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party and Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party. They sparred at an event moderated by the most famous third-party candidate in... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076551/briefs-us-election-november-7-2012?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076551/briefs-us-election-november-7-2012?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 US President Barack Obama today stands on the edge of history. Defeat at the hands of Mitt Romney, his Republican rival for the White House, will deny America's first black president the chance not just of redemption after a bruising four years, but a bid for greatness. History warns that only two-term presidents - Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson - have the chance to make that leap. The one-termers - Jimmy Carter, George Bush senior - must face a long retreat before history looks at... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076554/two-men-brink-history?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076554/two-men-brink-history?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Millions of Americans were pouring into polling booths this morning (Hong Kong time) to decide one of the closest, most bitterly - fought presidential elections in years. With closing final national polls too close to call between Democrat President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney, all eyes will be on 11 or so swing states – particularly Ohio and Virginia – that are vital to both candidates. Thousands of voters were queuing at booths, some amid the rubble left by superstorm... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076606/all-eyes-swing-states-us-votes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076606/all-eyes-swing-states-us-votes?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:56:28 +0000 Residents of the tiny northeastern town of Dixville Notch cast the first ballots of the White House race on Tuesday, with Barack Obama and Mitt Romney each receiving five votes. The first-in-the-nation vote, held shortly after midnight, was tied for the first time in its history, another indication of the knife’s edge separating the two candidates in a race that should be decided by the end of the day. Tanner Tillotson, 24, who cast the first ballot just after midnight (US time), said he voted... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076354/tiny-northeast-town-casts-first-votes-us-president?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076354/tiny-northeast-town-casts-first-votes-us-president?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:07:05 +0000 President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney engaged in frantic get-out-the-vote efforts and made final pleas to voters on Monday in a sprint through battleground states that will determine who wins their agonisingly close White House race. Both candidates sought to generate strong turnout from supporters and to sway independent voters to their side in the last hours of a race that polls showed was deadlocked nationally. Obama had a slight lead in the eight or nine battleground... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1075992/obama-romney-focus-swing-states-late-campaigning?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1075992/obama-romney-focus-swing-states-late-campaigning?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:24:58 +0000 It’s not only the US that finds itself fiercely divided as it goes to the polls today.  In hindsight, President Barack Obama’s 2009 Nobel Peace Prize may have represented the zenith of a worldwide devotion that once approached cultish status. Today, deep political infighting, a sluggish economy and the realities of doing business with a recalcitrant Congress may have tarnished his brand back at home, but overseas, the focus is on trade, defence and, of course, foreign policy.   China China’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1075866/more-global-support-obama-over-romney-white-house-race?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1075866/more-global-support-obama-over-romney-white-house-race?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:08:15 +0000 Should US President Barack Obama win re-election - as Electoral College predictions suggest he will, just - then long sighs of relief will be heard in staterooms across Asia. Not necessarily because Obama is hugely popular - although the energy he and his administration have brought to reasserting Washington's regional role is welcomed in at least several East Asian capitals - but simply because it removes nagging uncertainties. For many months now, government officials, envoys and scholars... https://www.scmp.com/comment/article/1075564/asia-wary-chameleon-romney?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/article/1075564/asia-wary-chameleon-romney?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Most people around the world will not be able to vote in the US presidential election, even though they have a great deal at stake in the result. Overwhelmingly, non-US citizens favour Barack Obama's re-election over a victory for his challenger, Mitt Romney. There are good reasons for this. In terms of the economy, the effects of Romney's policies in creating a more unequal and divided society would not be directly felt abroad. But, in the past, for better and for worse, others have often... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1075565/why-obama-win-would-benefit-world?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1075565/why-obama-win-would-benefit-world?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Americans enthusiastically voted four years ago for Barack Obama to be their next president. As they go to the polls today to again choose a leader, they are less certain about who they want. Popularity surveys put the liberal commander-in-chief running neck and neck with his conservative challenger Mitt Romney. That is to be expected after a campaign that has been so negative, with the candidates having offered little to entice the electorate, and a political system that has become disruptively... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1075736/goals-new-us-president?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1075736/goals-new-us-president?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Ignore the choreographed bonhomie and canned gravitas on stage as President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney launch their final rallies - the 2012 race for the White House is coming down to a desperate, gritty fight to the finish. While Romney and Obama have shouted themselves hoarse as they dash across the swing states such as Ohio, New Hampshire, Florida, Wisconsin and Virginia before polls open today, their campaign workers speak of near-exhaustion - and fears the race is... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1075731/us-election-much-too-close-call?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1075731/us-election-much-too-close-call?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 After a gruelling 18-month battle, the final US campaign day arrived on Monday for President Barack Obama and rival Mitt Romney, two men on a collision course for the world’s top job. The candidates have attended hundreds of rallies, fundraisers and town halls, spent literally billions on attack advertisements, ground games, and get-out-the-vote efforts, and squared off in three intense debates. Their running mates – Vice President Joe Biden and Republican congressman Paul Ryan – have laid out... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1075339/do-or-die-final-campaign-day-dawns-obama-romney-presidential-race?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1075339/do-or-die-final-campaign-day-dawns-obama-romney-presidential-race?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:50:01 +0000