After airing grievances, RFK Jr. suspends campaign, endorses Trump
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After airing grievances, RFK Jr. suspends campaign, endorses Trump

Politics tamfitronics Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday suspended his long-shot White House bid and endorsed Donald Trump, which the GOP nominee hopes will deliver a small boost in key swing states.The son and nephew of Democrats who dominated politics before they were killed by assassins, Kennedy never seriously challenged Trump, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris or President Joe Biden before he also dropped out. Still, his roughly 5 percent support among voters nationally could affect results in battleground states expected to decide the election.“In a fair system, I believe I would have won the election,” Kennedy said during remarks in Phoenix. But he accused the Democratic National Committee and mainstream media outlets — without presenting actual proof — of colluding against him.Kennedy...
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Hungarian politician talks about revolution of national cohesion in Hungary
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Hungarian politician talks about revolution of national cohesion in Hungary

Politics tamfitronics The last three and a half decades have seen a “revolution of national cohesion”, the head of parliament’s foreign affairs committee said at the Tranzit Festival in Tihany, at Lake Balaton, on Friday.At a panel discussion on the unification of the nation following the transition to democracy, Zsolt Németh said Hungarian politics had “questioned the status quo that essentially said it was impossible to build any sort of political, economic or cultural structure on national cohesion and a unified Hungarian nation”.He said one important step in this had been the establishment of the Hungarian Permanent Conference (MÁÉRT) during the first government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Afterwards, he added, there had been “countless political, economic, educational, church and civil structures built on this sense of national cohesion”.“That’s why we can consider the last...
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On a mission to fix health care, Jane Philpott is open to a return to politics
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On a mission to fix health care, Jane Philpott is open to a return to politics

Politics tamfitronics PoliticsFormer Liberal cabinet minister Jane Philpott says that, should the right circumstances arise, she would consider returning to politics to focus on fixing primary health care in Canada.Philpott and Jody Wilson-Raybould were expelled from the Liberal caucus in 2019Dr. Jane Philpott says that, given the right circumstances, she would consider returning to politics. (Submitted by Jane Philpott)More than five years after she was expelled from caucus in the fallout from the SNC-Lavalin affair, former Liberal health minister Jane Philpott is leaving the door open to a possible return to politics.Philpott was asked about her future in an interview airing Saturday on CBC's The House."If a door ever opened that was the right one, that would allow me to go back into a political role, I would certainly consider it," she told host Catherine Cullen.In the interview —...
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