Presidential election

Over 15 million South Koreans cast their ballots as of Friday during early voting session in anticipation of the June 3 special presidential election to replace ousted former President Yoon Suk-yeol.

Democratic strategist James Carville said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that he would back Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for president if she won the nomination.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said recently that Democrats have their sights set on a specific candidate for the 2028 presidential election.

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) did not rule out launching a potential 2028 presidential run.

Incumbent President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa and establishment socialist candidate Luisa González on Thursday closed their respective campaigns ahead of Sunday’s highly polarized runoff election.

President of Peru Dina Boluarte on Tuesday evening called for new general elections to be held on Sunday, April 12, 2026, to end the “period of instability” in the South American nation.

Ecuador is preparing to hold a general election on February 9 to choose the next president, vice president, and members of the National Assembly for the next four years.

The Lebanese legislature on Thursday elected army commander Gen. Joseph Aoun as president, filling an office that has been vacant since President Michel Aoun (no relation) ended his term in October 2022.

The world made dramatic political shifts in 2024, a year unusually full of game-changing federal elections, including in America.

Argentine President Javier Milei congratulated President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday following his electoral victory against Vice President Kamala Harris, sharing art depicting Trump as a friend of Argentina and vowing to work towards improving the bilateral relationship.

In early September 1864, the war was not going well for the North. Lincoln had staked the Republican Party’s political future on military victory over the Confederacy, yet Confederate General Jubal Early’s army had nearly marched on Washington. Another military failure on the battlefield would be disastrous for Lincoln.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Thursday that he would ban the social media platform Twitter (or “X”) in the country, accusing its owner Elon Musk of inciting “hate, civil war, and death.”

A human rights group has documented 24 people killed under the brutal repression of the socialist government of Venezuela.

The Office of Venezuela’s Attorney General, which is loyal to the socialist regime, announced on Monday evening that it has opened a criminal probe against opposition leader María Corina Machado and presidential candidate Edmundo González.

A State Department spokesman requested on Monday that the bloodthirsty socialist regime of Venezuela “respect … the will of the Venezuelan people” after dictator Nicolás Maduro announced thousands of arrests and the construction of “re-education” facilities for dissidents.

The socialist dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced over the weekend that his regime has detained at least 2,000 Venezuelans as part of the ongoing crackdown on protests against Maduro’s attempts to steal the July 28 presidential election.

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Thursday that the United States recognizes Edmundo González as the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election, which socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and the regime-controlled electoral authorities claim Maduro “won.”

Nicolás Maduro announced that his regime will turn maximum security prisons into “re-education” centers for dissidents.

Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro requested the country’s top courts — loyal to him — to “review” the July 28 sham presidential election.

The ongoing tidal wave of civil unrest in Venezuela is the result of a rigged election that President Joe Biden, through his top diplomat Secretary of State Antony Blinken, spent years pressuring the anti-socialist opposition of that country to accept — knowing well the socialist regime’s extensive history of rampant cheating.

Venezuelans began destroying statues of late socialist dictator Hugo Chávez on Sunday and Monday as part of larger protests against the regime of current socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) declared socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro the “winner” of Sunday’s sham presidential election, granting him a six-year term.

Leftist Latin American governments with friendly ties to Venezuela’s regime decided not to send election observers to Sunday’s sham election.

The socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro threatened a “bloodbath” and a “fratricidal civil war” on Wednesday if Venezuelans do not “elect” him in the upcoming July 28 sham presidential election.

Billionaire Mark Cuban is concerned about the influence algorithms will have on the 2024 presidential election, saying they “drive everything.”

A court in Ecuador sentenced five men and women to prison over the weekend for their participation in the assassination of anti-socialist and anti-China presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in August 2023.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro held a phone call on Wednesday with the president-elect of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, ensuring the leader that the Latin American country would continue to seek ways to strengthen ties with the world’s premier state sponsor of terrorism.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping was among the first world leaders to congratulate “moderate” politician Masoud Pezeshkian on winning the sham presidential election in Iran this weekend, ensuring Beijing a priority position in the foreign policy of an Islamist state while continuing his genocide of Muslims at home.

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden urged socialist Venezuela on Tuesday to engage with Washington “in good faith,” confirming plans to resume negotiations towards normal diplomatic relations.

Iranian dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei conceded on Wednesday that the regime documented “less than expected” turnout in last week’s special presidential election – but insisted that low turnout was not the result of an international boycott campaign against the sham vote.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said in an interview on Tuesday that he would consider running for a fourth term in office.

Iran’s theocratic Guardian Council on Sunday announced six candidates have been approved to run for the emergency election on June 28 to replace President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19.

Claudia Sheinbaum, the candidate for the ruling leftist party, was overwhelmingly elected the next president of Mexico in Sunday’s general election.

Iranian state media outlets limited their commentary on Friday regarding former President Donald Trump’s criminal conviction on Thursday.

Venezuela’s socialist regime announced on Tuesday that it would rescind an invitation extended to the European Union to send a group of observers for the upcoming July 28 sham presidential election.