🇺🇸 🗳️ How does the concept of the #ElectoralCollege, and the resulting phenomenon of #battleground states, come into play after polls close in the #USAElections2024? FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert explains ⤵️

Yesterday’s news: An election-eve headline in Le Monde - when, for millions of Americans, “historic” still held a promise of hope. #USElection2024

“#Trump storms back”: The The New York Times limns the starkly differing perspectives on a historic reckoning. #USElection

max seddon Serhiy Fursa, a Ukrainian political analyst, said the return of Trump meant “the world once again turned the wrong way”. “Putin celebrates, Orban celebrates, [Elon] Musk opens champagne. Today is a holiday for a lot of very unpleasant people.” ft.com/content/627509…

Lisa Lerer, in a news analysis, says voters gave #Trump a “permission slip” to make good on his threats. (via The New York Times) #USElection

The owner of the The Washington Post, whose decision not to have his newspaper endorse a candidate on the eve of the #USElection provoked an outcry, is quick to congratulate the president-elect. (Compare this with the editorial in today’s The New York Times, on the morning after the election.)

An old old editorial cartoon from the @newyorker that may resonate louder for some this Wednesday.

Here's our statement on the results of the 2024 presidential election:

Role reversal? A #Republican pollster tells the The Washington Post that “Donald #Trump has recast the Republican Party into a multiethnic, working-class party that appeals more to those on the lower than the upper end of the income scale.” These groups used to lean #Democratic. #F24

David Axelrod, a former #Obana strategist, tells TIME #Harris may have been doomed from the start by forces outside her control. He says, “No incumbent party has ever won with a president with a 40% approval rating or under.” Harris, he argues, faced anti-establishment rage.

A note to readers from the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair magazine following the #USElection. #F24

“I am pretty devastated and worried. There’s real, imminent danger for people here. There is real danger here ahead for Americans - including many Americans who voted for Trump.” -Representative Veronica Escobar of Texas, a co-chair for the Harris campaign (via The New York Times)

Turning momentarily away from the crucible of the week’s big headlines: This #book has my name written all over it. Can’t wait to start #reading…maybe tomorrow? Or the day after? Or…?

In the mountains above Sochi, praise for Donald Trump & questions over America's superpower status. Russia (and its president) react to the US election result. Our report for BBC News (UK) Camera anton chicherov Producer Liza @BenTavener

“In the absence of a shared reality, or shared #facts, or a shared threat, reason had no weight beside emotion,” said Nicole Bacharan, a French political scientist. “And so a dislocated world of danger has produced a hunger for the strongman.” nytimes.com/2024/11/08/wor… via @NYTimes

“It is always darkest before pitch black.” #USElection podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/the…

Cruise control: The ultimate escape…from #Trump. Travelers (with deep pockets) can join the four-year journey on the high seas at any time. vice.com/en/article/you…

Here's the video released by the Kremlin. It clearly shows Witkoff pointing at the young woman and asking "Interpreter?", to which Putin & Co say "yes". Following that, cryptically Witkoff asks "from Embassy?", to which he again gets a confirmation.

First, a statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin appears in the Moscow Metro. Then a Kremlin adviser says that “from a legal standpoint the USSR still exists.” In Russia the past hangs over the present. My report from Moscow.