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Former president Donald Trump claims US presidential election as count continues (www.abc.net.au)

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In short:

Donald Trump has claimed victory in the US presidential election, saying his political movement is the greatest the world has ever seen.

The Republican candidate swamped his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in critical swing states.

What's next?

The Republicans were on track to win both chambers of congress, too, paving the way for Trump's agenda to be enacted in full.

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[–] eureka@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly, they should be. Even their rank and file members have been betrayed. As for supporters, the CFMEU fiasco gave many people in my union's chat rooms cold feet, with the pro-Labor peeps in disbelief they would do what they have, and that's on top of the Party's active complicity in the Middle East conflict. Labor have mirrored the US Democrat Party in many clear ways. The main difference I see in the situation is that is much easier for Australia to swing left instead of right, since we don't have the same FPTP spoiler effect in our federal voting system, so they can't just fearmonger over the Coalition to scare the socdems and socialists into joining them.

It will be interesting to see how the Victorian council elections pan out as a litmus test, interestingly in NSW council elections the Labor Party lost 26 seats, with the Greens gaining 8. That's just surface level looking at numbers but its enough for me to wonder if Federal Labor are worried.