Brits nostalgic of a past music age

Die-hard Oasis fans trying for tickets to see the band’s reunion tour in July 2025 have shared their “nightmare”, “frustration and anger” after missing out. General tickets went on sale for the band’s comeback tour at 9am on Saturday 31 Augustb2024 for those in the UK and 8am for fans in Ireland. Fans vented their frustration at Ticketmaster after being kicked out of the queue or being told they were deemed to be bots, which prevented them from purchasing tickets to see Noel and Liam Gallagher perform together once again on the same stage. Long-time fan, Scott McLean, 28, tried for tickets to see Oasis in Dublin next year. The data analyst from Belfast, Northern Ireland, logged into his account on the ticket-selling website at 7.30am on Saturday ahead of Irish sales opening at 8am. He was in a queue of 20,000 for about 30 minutes before selecting four tickets to see the band’s show at Croke Park. However, his browser began buffering for half an hour as he tried to make the purchase, prompting him to contact the Ticketmaster customer service account on X, formerly Twitter, for advice. “I followed their advice, cleared my cookies and cache on my browser and then it kicked me out completely. It just came up to that error screen after I followed their guidance,” he told the PA news agency. “I had to rejoin the queue and I ended up about 700,000 places worse off after following their guidance.” He said he feels “frustration and anger, not much more than that”, adding: “It’s just tickets for a concert after all, but I really wanted to go.”

Meanwhile, George Buka, 35, from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, attempted to buy tickets to see Oasis in the UK and described his experience on Ticketmaster as a “nightmare”. “It’s been an absolute nightmare of an experience. I’ve been doing it since 8am this morning, you have to queue in order to join the queue, you can’t log in,” he told PA. “They don’t have the facilities or capacity to run this kind of event. But it’s not the first time Ticketmaster has made it difficult for fans to try and buy tickets.” Mr Buka, who began waiting at 8am on Saturday, said he faced long waiting times in queues, website crashes and failed log-ins. He added: “One of my sessions was suspended because they thought I was a bot. I only had one tab open and then I finally was able to join a queue at about 10am.” He is concerned tickets have been purchased for the purpose of being resold at a higher rate via third-party ticket providers. “If you go on other websites, even though Oasis said it wouldn’t be happening, people will still find a loophole,” Mr Buka said. “The touts, the influencers, they’ll find a way of getting to the show and just absolutely kill the music industry day. “I really wanted to go, but it’s just ruined my morning now.”

The Ukrainian army is one of the best guarantors we have against future Russian aggression

<By Brendan Simms -The New Statesman

Photo by Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images < In Ukraine, the summer often brings surprises. Nobody predicted that at the end of August 2022, Ukrainian forces would begin the offensive that would push the Russians out of Kherson in the south; a few days later, they struck in the north-east around Kharkhiv and ejected the Russians from most of the territory they had taken in that area at the beginning of the war. In June 2023, the Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin unexpectedly launched a one-day revolt that shook Vladimir Putin’s regime to its foundations. Two weeks ago, we were again surprised when Ukrainian tanks rolled into Kursk oblast and occupied an area a third of the size of Cambridgeshire. The rationale behind the offensive was fivefold. First, President Volodymyr Zelensky wanted to secure sufficient territory to exchange for Ukrainian lands in the south and south-east when it came to negotiations. Second, he sought to establish a buffer zone to protect the population on the other side of the border from incursions. Third, the Ukrainians wanted to draw off some of the Russian forces currently inching forward in the Donbas region. Fourth, they planned to test Russia’s much-vaunted “red lines”. Finally, they hoped to change the narrative of the conflict, which had stagnated into a war of attrition that Ukraine was slowly losing. It is too early to tell if any of these objectives will be met. The Ukrainians achieved both strategic and tactical surprise. Even two weeks into the operation, the Russian response has been sluggish. That said, the enemy has not yet withdrawn substantial forces from Donbas; in fact, it continues to advance there. There is still a risk that Zelensky’s gambit might backfire if the Russians eventually bring in artillery and the pattern of the past two years repeats itself. What the operation has exposed beyond doubt, however, is the military and political fragility of the Russian regime. Not only did their defences give way at the first touch, but the population has reacted in a curiously subdued way to what is, after all, a violation of their sovereign territory. Russian society seems to regard the Ukrainian forces with the same passivity as they did Prigozhin’s mutineers. There has been no mass mobilisation. To the fury of Russian commanders, parents are objecting to the deployment of their conscript sons even for the defence of the motherland. Contrast this with the spontaneous Ukrainian response to the invasion of their country in February 2022. Zelensky has reminded us that Russia is beatable. The tsars were defeated in Crimea in 1856 and in Manchuria in 1905; in the 1980s, the Soviet Union performed no better in Afghanistan than Britain had in the 19th century. Each of those defeats was followed by a turn for the better (albeit regrettably brief) in Russian domestic politics. The Crimean War forced the tsar to emancipate the peasants; defeat by Japan precipitated the first moves towards constitutional government; and the Afghan debacle helped bring down the communist dictatorship. We have an interest in seeing not only a Ukrainian victory but a Russian defeat. Britain has some capacity to make this happen. Sadly, after making an exceptional contribution to the survival of Ukraine at the start of the war, we have fallen behind. On 17 August, Zelensky said the UK’s leading role in supporting Ukraine had “slowed down” and that “barriers”, such as the withholding of “long-range capabilities”, prevented Ukraine from further weakening Russian positions. Britain’s military contribution, which was once surpassed only by the US, has long been overtaken by Germany, but the “long-range capabilities” that Zelensky wants are a matter of permission: Britain has supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine, but it is not allowed to use them to strike targets within Russia. Keir Starmer’s new government is not to blame for this state of affairs, but it will be responsible for a failure to correct course now. The government urgently needs to do two things. First, to increase defence expenditure, probably to about 3 per cent of GDP (back to where it was in 1994). This would fund the additional conventional and nuclear capabilities necessary to maintain strategic deterrence against Russia. This will take time. Secondly, we must supply the Ukrainians with the capability to force Russia to withdraw from their country, or at least to maintain the momentum of the Kursk operation. Some of this can be done immediately, such as lifting restrictions on the use of the British-supplied Storm Shadows. With a range of at least 250 kilometres and a warhead twice the size of the American ATACMS cruise missile, the Storm Shadow is particularly suited to attacking deep-bunker complexes at long range, such as headquarters and ammunition dumps, or large infrastructural targets such as bridges. We have seen how Ukraine destroyed or seriously damaged three crossings over the river Sejm, greatly restricting Russia’s ability to reinforce that side of the Kursk salient. Storm Shadows could enable them to repeat this pattern in the neighbouring Bryansk and Belgorod oblasts. Russia’s mobility would be greatly curtailed, its command and control and logistics threatened, and Ukraine could wage a war of movement inside enemy territory instead of trying to batter its way through well-prepared defences in the south and south-east. This would be particularly important at a time when the Russians are not fighting from prepared positions, as in Donbas, but scrambling to meet an unexpected threat. The missiles could also support the use of drones attacking softer targets – such as aircraft – that are left out in the open. Russia will begin storing this equipment under some form of protection as soon as it can, so the Ukrainians will need more lethal weapons to destroy it. Finally, the Storm Shadows could enable Ukraine to attack the airfields from which the aircraft carrying Russia’s dreaded “glide bombs” take off, creating an aerial buffer zone. Britain has the ability to help Zelensky create the space he needs to protect Ukraine from some of Russia’s most effective weaponry, and perhaps even to take enough Russian territory to force the Kremlin into withdrawing from his country. This makes the insistence on restricting the Storm Shadows very puzzling. If it is to avoid crossing Russian “red lines”, then these were flouted as far back as late 2022 when the Ukrainians ignored them to recapture parts of the oblasts recently annexed by Russia, and they have been comprehensively erased by the Kremlin’s muted reaction to the Kursk operation. If the strategy is to force Ukraine to settle for the partition of their country, this is not only unjust but shortsighted. We know from past performance that giving Putin a win only encourages him to come back for more. It is worth reminding ourselves what is at stake. If Putin is not defeated and forced to withdraw from Ukraine, this will endanger much more than just the viability of that country. It will enable the Russians to reconstitute their forces facing the Baltic states and Finland, constituting a threat that we will have to face without support from Kyiv. The Ukrainians are thus fighting not only for their own sovereignty but our security as well. Their army is one of the best guarantors we have against future Russian aggression. All they ask is our help. We should give them what they need. Brendon Simms is a Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for Geopolitics of the UNiversity pf Cambridge. He is a New Statesman Contributing Writer

Double standards in Ukraine war

Kyiv's shock offensive coincided with the intensification of the war,of its drone war against military and fuel targets which sparked blazes deep in Russia this week. New details yesterday emerged about damage and injuries caused by some of those attacks.A Ukrainian drone attack targeting a distant Russian air base in its Volgograd region caused significant damage to an airfield that reportedly housed glide bombs used by Moscow in the war. How corruption can ruin the war in Ukraine? Whilst Prime Minister Modi was visiting Kyiv days ago on invitation of President Volodymir Zelensky of Ukraine, the Times of India quoted the real reason for Russian forces are being pushed back in Kursk, Western Russian region. It quoted former US National Security Advisor who spent 18 months working under President Trump, who has declared as follows: “Ukraine saw a weak point in a series of weak points and took full advantage of it.” “The situation was similar to the one in which Ukraine had expelled Russian forces from Northern Ukrainian territory seized in the early part of the war after Putin’s invasion of February 24,2022, Bolton said. He further explained: “They (Ukrainians) noticed the Russian positions were undermined because the troops had been shifted to the Donbas and in very short order the Ukrainians pushed the Russians out of all their fortresses in Northern Ukraine that they had taken in the aftermath of the initial invasion”. Bolten went further: “I think it shows that all of the Russian efforts to overcome corruption, to try and build a really modern army for 20 years now have proven ineffective”. “It is hard to explain the inadequacy of their performance, other than by concluding that their units really had not come up to the standards they want. They were not combat ready”. That says little of the Russian Fighter Jets, SU 24 and SU34 or their pilots? But, note the real reason for his assessment? “Maybe a battalion of 500 men actually had 300 men in it, but they were saying they were 500 to get the salaries and the rations and the equipment that the Commander could then use or sell.” “That is how corruption under cuts a military’s capability, “he concluded?

The terrible cost of the War, which was thought to end in days? It has been a terrible human cost on both sides. We don’t know really what Russian casualties are? Some say 600,000 soldiers. Small wonder whether we will ever know or ever will? The Ukrainians too have suffered a lot, but mainly civilian casualties, in their towns and cities by daily bombardment. But, no one will admit, it has been a very costly war for the Russians so far, without a lot of territorial gain to speak of or even for the Ukrainians? What was the game of the West to allow the Ukrainians to suffer human life,” by doing their work for them,” for nearly two years, to get them battle ready? They talk about the human fodder, what about the Ukrainian refugees they have to house in the West? My experience in USSR and Ukraine some 62 years ago. Is it pertinent? As a Sri Lankan citizen I was treated very well in both territories, which then was one country? I was in Ukraine which was then part of the USSR. I spent more time in USSR than in Kiev. I had the facility, if not the “freedom” to stop over in the varied parts and met peoples of the then Soviet Empire. Besides Moscow, I visited Leningrad, Kiev, Odessa, Erevan, Tbilisi, Baku, and Tashkent. I returned to Ceylon in March 1962 and contributed my views in several articles in “Times of Ceylon”. I revisited Moscow and Kiev in 1966. During my stay in the USSR, I was happy to meet people of all walks of life. The times under Khrushchev and now are worlds apart, but the Russian people are a very warm and friendly people. Should I state, I have no grievances against any, but I wonder all the time, if I am capable of giving an unbiased account in my pieces. We in Sri Lanka are facing the problem of State Debt due to Corruption, which has caused many problems. We can correct it at the next Presidential Election, if we so desire? We have a very big lesson to learn from the war in Ukraine? We like to show we are invincible, we want to live beyond our means and the world will once again bail us out? Khrushchev put the fear of the Almighty in the four corners of the USSR then? We, in Sri Lanka are not Ukraine or Russia, and/or never will, but we have to completely eradicate corruption, if we want to move forward as a respected nation? Victor Cherubim

Kamala Harris accepts Democratic Presidential nomination at Chicago

Vice President Kamala Harris ceremonially accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president last night, issuing a call for unity and a warning that Donald Trump is an “unserious man” whose return to the White House could have devastating consequences for the U.S. Here’s the latest. “With this election, our nation has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism and divisive battles of the past,” she said. And she warned, of Trump: “Consider the power he will have — especially after the United States Supreme Court just ruled he would be immune from criminal prosecution.” Harris also devoted time to her personal biography, explaining that she was driven to be a prosecutor to protect people like a high school friend who had confided to her that she was being sexually assaulted by her stepfather. The speech culminated Harris’s swift ascent to the top of the Democratic ticket — and kicks off what will surely be a furious 74-day sprint to Election Day.

Trump visits Arizona: Trump traveled to the southwestern border to highlight immigration, an issue Republicans believe will give them an edge in November. Talking about the 2020 election results, he seemed to actually acknowledge his defeat. “I got many millions more votes than I got the first time, but didn’t quite make it — just a little bit short,” he said.

Russians in captured Sudzha, for how long?

In 1918, the western portion of the current Kursk Oblast with the towns of Rylsk and Sudzha were part of the Ukrainian State. The Soviet Russian army fought against Nazi Germany in the war 81 years ago at the confluence of the Kur, Thakur and Seym rivers and captured Kursk, losing 700,00 of its soldiers in the famous Battle of Kursk. Kursk has deep memories in the Russian psyche.

Breakthrough report of Peace talks to resume in Gaza?

Israel accepted the latest cease-fire proposal, said Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, yesterday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had accepted a “bridging proposal” aimed at closing the gap between Israel and Hamas on a cease-fire deal for Gaza. Hamas officials did not immediately comment, but they have called the proposal slanted toward Israel. A spokesman for P.M. Netanyahu confirmed that the prime minister had told Blinken that Israel had agreed to the proposal, which U.S., Egyptian and Qatari mediators presented last week. Blinken discussed it during a three-hour meeting with Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Israel's demand for lasting control over two strategic corridors in Gaza which Hamas has long rejected threatens to unravel the ceasefire talks aimed at ending the 10 month old war,freeing scores of hostages on both sides and preventing an even wider conflict. Israel is wanting to mauntain a military presence in a narrow buffer zone along the Gaza-Egypt border it calls the "Philadelphi Corridor" as well as the areas that cuts off the Northern Gaza from the south, known as the "Netzarim Corridor".

What’s next: Negotiations are expected to resume this week in Egypt. Blinken said the talks represented “probably the best, maybe the last” chance to bring the Israeli hostages home and “put everyone on a better path to enduring peace and security.” Israel said it had carried out strikes across central and southern Gaza. Palestinian officials said the strikes had killed 25 people since Sunday 18 August 2024. .

The US Presidential Polls

Why are older voters in US turning to Kamala Harris? Kamala Harris has two possible paths to the White House compared to Donald Trump's one and would be the favourite to win if the election were held today,(16 August 2024) as new polling shows. Victory in either the Rust Belt states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania or the Sun Belt states of Georgia, Arizona and Nevada and North Carolina would see her secure the presidency, while Trump would have to win in both regions. The prediction comes from the Washington Post's polling average, which suggests that the race has effectively reversed itself since Joe Biden was replaced by his Vice President on the Democrat ticket. Compared to July 21 - the day President Biden dropped out of the race - Harris has gained two percentage points nationally, meaning she leads on her Republican rival as it stands. Another recent poll by Outward Intelligence puts her even further ahead nationally - suggesting she would have a six-point edge over former President Trump, in a hypothetical two-way race. < Trump has been seething since Biden bowed out of the presidential race and passed the torch to Harris on July 21 The move towards Harris could be put down to an apparent shift among older voters from their traditional allegiance to the Republican Party, according to separate analysis.

Younger voters have shifted towards Harris since Biden stepped back, with those under 30 moving towards her by nine points, according to Emerson College Polling. But perhaps more surprisingly, older voters over 70 are supporting Harris over Trump by 51 percent to 48 percent, the poll released Thursday shows. A New poll shows Kamala Harris beating Trump by 4 points. Despite the positive stats for the Harris campaign ahead of the Democratic National Convention next week, all eyes remain on predictions for the all-important electoral college. According to the Washington Post's modelling, Harris still trails Trump in the Electoral College tally if the election were held today and every state voted as their polling average currently suggests. However, the newspaper's polling also suggests that Harris is more competitive in more states that could add up to 270 votes - the amount needed for an Electoral College victory. The vice president has been carried by surging enthusiasm, bolstered by new government figures this week showing inflation cooling. More Americans now trust Harris to handle the economy than her Republican rival Donald Trump, according to a new University of Michigan poll, the first time in this election cycle that the former president has been behind on the issue. But Trump has been unable to stay on message, griping about Harris's crowd sizes, attacking her mixed race heritage and calling the former California attorney general stupid. In a rambling North Carolina speech meant to focus on his own economic message, Trump devoted much of his attention to personal insults and even said he was 'not sure' that the economy is the 'most important subject' in the election. As both Trump and Harris tour the crucial swing state this week, a new poll shows the Democrat nominee leading in what has so far been an extremely tight race. It appears to be the first polling giving the vice president a slight edge in the state that the Republican ex-president won in both 2016 and 2020. The Cook Political Report poll showed the candidates in a statistical tie with Harris at 48 percent and Trump at 47 percent among likely voters in the Tar Heel State with less than three months to go before the election.

Ukrainian incursion into border Russian territory as Russia ready to evacuate Kursk?

Russian forces will not be able to maintain the offensive initiative indefinitely across the entirety of eastern Ukraine, according to a report from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Do the rewards outweigh the risks? While the risks may not outweigh the rewards for Acton, there are three major benefits that Ukraine can receive from attacking Russian territory, and Kyiv has proven that it does not need to use advanced weapons from its allies to strike these targets. The report noted that currently, Russia maintains the initiative across the entire theater of operations, allowing it to dictate the location, timing, intensity, and demands of combat operations in Ukraine. Russian forces have leveraged this advantage to set the pace of their offensive, enabling them to conduct more sustained offensive operations and largely avoid reaching a climax. The ISW highlighted that Russian forces have made extensive efforts to build strategic and operational reserves ahead of the summer of 2024 to support ongoing offensive operations. However, the Russian army has likely expended and utilized many of these reserves in its offensives in eastern and northeastern Ukraine during the spring and summer of 2024.

Looking ahead, the Institute for the Study of War anticipates that Ukrainian operations in the Kursk region and the increased Russian focus on maintaining the pace of offensive operations in the Donetsk region will likely put additional strain on remaining operational reserves. Over time, this strain is expected to impact Russia's ability to sustain coherent offensive actions across the entire theater of operations. "Further Russian redeployments to the Kursk region would also further weaken Russia's ability to sustain offensive operations in northeastern and eastern Ukraine, although Russian forces are more likely to begin decreasing offensive activity on lower-priority sectors of the front than to do so equally throughout the frontline," the ISW stated. Ukraine attacks Russia's key supply routes (WION)in the surprise operation that Kiev hopes will change the frontline. Ukraine's incursion into Russia: Day 11 | Ukraine attacks Russia's key supply routes (WION) in the surprise operation that Kiev hopes will change the Frontline situation. According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russian troops are actively attempting to advance on three fronts in the Donetsk region. Over the past day, approximately 100 combat engagements have occurred, with the enemy focusing their attacks most heavily on the Pokrovsk direction.

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What is Kyiv's goal?

Apparent damage inside Kursk Oblast?

Over the past 24 hours, Russia lost 1,330 soldiers, 26 armored combat vehicles, and 52 artillery systems in the war against Ukraine. In total, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has lost 601,800 soldiers.

Investment strategies in property

Historically, investing in property’s been a great way to make a strong and sustainable second income. Buy-to-let was particularly popular with those looking to invest their savings. Rental contracts meant they could expect a dependable passive income, even during economic downturns. And soaring property prices meant that buy-to-let investors booked jawdropping profits when they eventually came to sell up. But conditions have become a lot tougher for private landlords over the past decade. So I’d forget buy-to-let. Here, I’ll reveal what I think’s a much better way to make money from the UK property market. Fading appeal let’s quickly look at why buy-to-let’s become increasingly unattractive with Britons. The Tenant Fees Act in 2019 brought in measures like transferring certain costs from tenants to landlords, and capping deposits. The restriction of mortgage interest relief and higher stamp duty on second properties has also had an impact.

Property owners have faced higher mortgage costs since the Bank of England began hiking interest rates. The effect of all of this has been big. According to price comparison website Finder, the average landlord in April made £4,000 less a year in profit than in 2020, despite monthly rents shooting steadily higher. Potential changes to rental legislation could impact investor returns further down the line. Since the war in Ukraine, nations everywhere are scrambling for energy independence.

Austerity

Austerity has reduced investment in public services. This underfunding hurt the economy directly because it was a simple cut in money spent on wages, maintenance, and delivery. How Austerity Works Governments experience financial instability when their debt outweighs the amount of revenue they receive, resulting in large budget deficits. Debt levels generally increase when government spending increases. As mentioned above, this means that there is a greater chance that federal governments can default on their debts. Creditors, in turn, demand higher interest to avoid the risk of default on these debts. In order to satisfy their creditors and control their debt levels, they may have to take certain measures. Austerity only takes place when this gap—between government receipts and government expenditures—shrinks. This situation occurs when governments spend too much or when they take on too much debt. As such, a government may need to consider austerity measures when it owes more money to its creditors than it receives in revenues. Implementing these measures helps put confidence back into the economy while helping restore some semblance of balance to government budgets.

Austerity measures indicate that governments are willing to take steps to bring some degree of financial health back to their budgets. As a result, creditors may be willing to lower interest rates on debt when austerity measures are in place. But there may be certain conditions on these moves. For instance, interest rates on Greek debt fell following its first bailout. 1 However, the gains were limited to the government having decreased interest rate expenses. Although the private sector was unable to benefit, the major beneficiaries of lower rates are large corporations. Consumers benefited only marginally from lower rates, but the lack of sustainable economic growth kept borrowing at depressed levels despite the lower rates.

Shoring up support in the US Presidential Election?

As the saying goes: “all is fair in love and war”. In the context of the US Presidential Election, “anything goes”. Tim Walz, the Vice Presidential nominee of the Democrats has used humour to jabbing, in fact, has shred J.D. Vance, Republican V.P. nominee, and Donald Trump, at the three recent rallies in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Detroit, Michigan and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania While J.D. Vance, an enlisted Marine who did not see combat but served in Public Relations, in turn has attacked and accused Tim Walz, of never being a serving officer. Trump and his GOP allies have jumped on a new angle of attack of nicknaming Kamala as “Kamal Laa”. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are agreed to go head to head on ABC TV on 10 September 2024, with Trump calling for two more. Earlier this month Trump had declared he would not debate on ABC. Over days Democrats accuse the Republican bandwagon of making disgusting appearances holding their rallies in the same above cities, and using the same airports as them, to antagonise their own supporters. The Republican planes land one right after the other. It is understandable that both sides vie to win a crucial portion of the American vote. It is equally understandable that there has been inter service jokes, but the aggravation it causes in the minds of ordinary citizens, the Democrats say is inexcusable and intolerant. It is compared to duelling appearances, to create dissention. The Trump campaign attacks on both Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz, according to reports, have proven false and inaccurate, while all this is as sparring literally is to create dissention and disgust before the 86 day election. To make the whole process poignant, the Harris campaign has trumped up that Donald Trump is trying “to steal the joy and laughter in the faces of both the Democratic

nominees,” while Donald Trump, is hiding in his bunker at his Palm Beach, Florida resort at Mar-a-Largo. The Campaign as it gathers momentum? Harris boosts confidence that Democrats could win the 2024 election. Moving Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the ticket has reinvigorated Democrats' prospects of winning the White House, according to a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. According to the Daily Telegraph, “ J .D .Vance, the Ohio Senator, who is the Republican Nominee for Vice President, has told a crowd of reporters that Air Force 2 will be “my plane” when the Republicans are elected. For information the youngest person to become US President was Republican Theodore Roosevelt who at the age of 42 (14 September 1901) succeeded at assassination of President William McKinley. According to a new poll indicates that a huge chunk of voters in the Blue Democratic State of New York have ditched her and flocked to Trump. Meanwhile, the contrasting approaches highlight a significant divide in each of their campaign strategies. Harris’ silence might be an attempt to control the narrative and avoid missteps. Anything is possible in the United States, as Donald Trump has an existing large following and continues to dominate headlines? It could be an upset to say the least, according to political observers. Victor Cherubim