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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have met in the first presidential debate of the 2016 United States election campaign.
The debate took place at Hofstra University in New York.
The full audio, video and transcript of the debate appear below. [Read more…]
Donald Trump has accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, in a speech at the party’s national convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
The speech went for 77 minutes.
The annotated copy of the speech shown below was distributed by the Trump campaign.
Following her success in today’s Democratic Party primaries, Hillary Clinton has claimed victory in her quest to claim the party’s presidential nomination.
Clinton won the Californian, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota primaries. Her opponent, Bernie Sanders, won North Dakota and Montana.
US media organisations yesterday claimed Clinton had passed the required number of delegates to win the nomination. There was some concern that she might not win California but these have proved unfounded.
Clinton spoke to her supporters tonight and claimed her historic victory as the first woman to win the nomination of a major party. She also becomes the only spouse of a nominee or president to win nomination. [Read more…]