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Sky News US contributor Michael Ware says if Donald Trump creates his own political party it will split the conservative vote and will almost certainly guarantee Democratic control for almost a generation. Reports emerged this week that Mr Trump has discussed forming the Patriots Party as an alternative for the American voters. A record number of Americans cast their votes in the 2020 election with Donald Trump receiving close to 75 million – the highest for a sitting president. “Former pres...

Formerly the diversity director of McCarthy Holding’s Southern Region, Kamecia Mason has been selected as the firm’s vice president of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In this new role, she will build upon and expand significant company DE&I efforts already in place to evolve the firm’s national internal and external strategy and implementation. Kamecia Mason, McCarthy Holdings Based in Dallas, Mason will work in close collaboration with regional diversity directors across the company a...

Footwear Company Hari Mari Hires Former Billy Reid CEO as President Plus, former City of Dallas exec tapped to head Cristo Rey Dallas College Prep, Whitley Penn partner named chair of the Frisco Chamber, and more. By Kelsey Vanderschoot Published in Business & Economy January 19, 2021 1:39 pm Jake Szczepanski Footwear brand Hari Mari has tapped former board member Jake Szczepanski to be its new president. In his new role, Szczepanski will scale and manage the company’s internal operations an...

Sky News US contributor Michael Ware says Washington DC looks more like Baghdad in the lead up to Joe Biden’s inauguration. Mr Biden will take the oath of office on January 20 in a scaled down inauguration ceremony due to COVID-19. “There’s actually a militarised green zone that has been set up around the Capitol building and the executive area in Washington,” Mr Ware told Sky News. “There’s up to 25,000 armed troops on the streets – that’s more troops than there are in Iraq and...

Amid calls for President Trump to be removed early from office, impeachment or invoking the 25th Amendment are both “very difficult” options, according to Sky News US contributor Michael Ware. “They’re both very difficult options, whichever way you go,” he told Sky News. “Impeachment is a somewhat lengthy process and to try to compress that inside 13 days may be too difficult to pull off but even beginning the process might in itself be a statement.” Mr Ware said the “unteste...

Sky News US contributor Michael Ware says the storming of Capitol Hill by pro-Trump rioters is the “darkest day” in modern American history with “no question” it was an “insurrection”. “This is the darkest day in modern history for American democracy, it also diminishes America’s power and standing across the world,” Mr Ware told Sky News. “This will be the signature note of the Trump administration. “There is no question, this was an insurrection." Mr Ware said even...

The United States is in the grip of a “great Shakespearean drama” as it awaits the results of the hard-fought Georgia Senate run-off election according to Sky News contributor Michael Ware. Republicans need to win one of the two races to retain their Senate majority while Democrats need both in order to see the Senate split 50/50 which would result in Vice President Kamala Harris holding the tie-breaking vote. Mr Ware said since the presidential election 75,000 new voters under the age of 35...

The crucial Georgia Senate runoff elections margins are going to be razor thin, according to Sky News US contributor Michael Ware. “There is no way that anyone can reliably predict which way this is going to go,” he told Sky News. Mr Ware highlighted the significance of this race for the Republicans. “If the Republicans lose both Senate races then the Democrats run the House of Representatives, they run the Senate and of course they run the executive in the office of the president,” he ...

Vaccine rollout has become ‘Operation Walk Speed’: Ware31/12/2020|5min Sky News US contributor Michael Ware says the United States government’s vaccine rollout has become “Operation Walk Speed” due to a lack of national strategy. This comes as only 2.1 million doses have been received despite the government’s goal to have 20 million delivered by the end of the year. “The government effort was codenamed Operation Warp Speed, it certainly seems it’s operating more like Operation...

Sky News US contributor Michael Ware says President Trump is “holding much-needed coronavirus aid hostage,” as the deadline for a stimulus bill worth over $3 trillion draws near. “The coronavirus stimulus package is $900 billion and that’s attached to the $2.3 trillion the government needs to keep functioning through until next year, it’s what in Australia we would call a supply bill,” he told Sky News. Mr Ware said both the supply bill and the stimulus package were overwhelmingly su...