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US Senate confirms Trump's new ambassador to China, David Perdue, amid trade war
President Trump had selected David Perdue as the new ambassador for China in December, and since then trade relations between China and the US have worsened.
Published on Apr 30, 2025 12:19 AM IST
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Democrats’ Georgia alliance is diverse and broad. Is it durable?
Black voters were driven by the possibility of Warnock becoming the state’s first Black senator, an achievement coveted even more coming two years after Democrat Stacey Abrams narrowly missed becoming the first Black female governor in US history.
Published on Jan 07, 2021 07:47 AM IST
Atlanta | Associated Press | Posted by Prashasti Singh
Dems poised to take Senate as Congress meets to certify Biden win
US Congress will hold a joint session later in the day to grant one final certification to President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
Updated on Jan 06, 2021 11:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Washington | Yashwant Raj , Edited by Vinod Janardhanan
Trump claims voter fraud in Georgia Senate runoffs, Republican candidate calls for ‘transparency’
Amid unsubstantiated voter fraud claims by the US president, Republican David Perdue’s campaign has called for “time and transparency to be certain the results are fair and accurate.”
Updated on Jan 06, 2021 08:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com | Edited by Kunal Gaurav
Democrats win one Georgia runoff election, poised to pick the second
If Democrats secure victories in the two seats, they will wrest control of the Senate from Republicans and complete a trifecta, with the House of Representatives and the White House already in the bag, starting January 20.
Updated on Jan 06, 2021 10:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Washington | Yashwant Raj , edited by Vinod Janardhanan
Biden flexes Georgia muscle alongside GOP in Senate races
Biden and his team have steered at least $18 million to help Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock try to unseat Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. Biden’s campaign manager and incoming White House deputy chief of staff, Jen O’Malley Dillon, confirmed the figures Saturday.
Published on Jan 03, 2021 03:59 AM IST
Atlanta | Associated Press| Posted by Mallika Soni
A closer look at the four candidates in Georgia’s senate runoffs
A look at the four candidates: Republican incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, and Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.
Updated on Jan 02, 2021 05:18 PM IST
Bloomberg | Posted by Shivani Kumar
Georgia US senate runoff: Loeffler, Perdue run hard-line pitch
In the final days of campaigns that will decide control of the US Senate, the Republican incumbents are appealing to the most conservative part of the electorate.
Updated on Jan 02, 2021 04:53 AM IST
Atlanta | Associated Press| Posted by Mallika Soni
A record 3 million early votes cast in Georgia’s US senate runoff races
The 3,001,017 early votes amount to 38.8% of all registered voters in the state, according to the US Elections Project. That puts turnout at a record high for a Georgia runoff, exceeding the 2.1 million ballots cast in a 2008 Senate contest.
Published on Jan 02, 2021 02:52 AM IST
Atlanta | Reuters| Posted by Mallika Soni
#MyNameIs: Indian-Americans launch online campaign after Trump’s partyman mocks Kamala Harris’ name
Spokesperson of David Perdue said the Senator mispronounced the name and he did not mean anything by it. But the damage had already been done.
Updated on Oct 18, 2020 03:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com | Edited by: Amit Chaturvedi
Outcry as Republican senator mocks Kamala Harris’ name
“Kamala? Kamala? Kamala-mala-mala? I don’t know. Whatever,” Republican Senator David Perdue said in Macon, Georgia, in a comment that’s being seen as a racist ploy.
Published on Oct 18, 2020 05:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Washington | Yashwant Raj
Georgia’s Republican senator mispronounces Kamala Harris’s name at a rally for Donald Trump, sparks outrage
“Kamala? Kamala? Kamala-mala-mala? I don’t know. Whatever,” David Perdue said at a campaign stop in Macon, Georgia, in a comment that is being seen by many as a deliberately racist ploy to denigrate Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris
Updated on Oct 17, 2020 12:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Washington, DC | Yashwant Raj
Republican senator Perdue’s mocking ‘mispronunciation’ of Kamala Harris’ name earns him flak
Harris, a US senator from California, is the daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica. Former Vice President Joe Biden named Harris as his running mate in August.
Updated on Oct 17, 2020 09:50 AM IST
Washington | Reuters | Posted by Shankhyaneel Sarkar