Author: Adrian Beaumont
(MENAFN - The Conversation) With less than three weeks left until the March 13 Western Australian election, the latest Newspoll gives Labor a 68-32 lead, two-party-preferred. If replicated on election day, this would be a 12.5% swing to Labor from the 2017 election two party result.
Analyst Kevin Bonham describes the Newspoll result as scarcely processable and says it is the most lopsided result in Newspoll history for any state or federally.
Primary votes were 59% for Labor, up from 42.2% at the 2017 election, 23% for the Liberals (down from 31.2% in 2017), 2% National (5.4%), 8% Greens (8.9%) and 3% One Nation (4.9%). This poll was conducted February 12-18 from a sample of 1,034.
File photo of former US President Donald Trump. | Mandel Ngan/AFP
United States’ Senate on Saturday acquitted former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, voting that he was not guilty of the charge of inciting the January 6 riots at the Capitol, Reuters reported.
The final count came at 57 members voting guilty, as compared to 43 not guilty. At least 67 guilty votes were required to convict Trump, according to CNN. Significantly, however, as many as seven Republican senators voted against Trump, which according to CNN, was higher than what the former president’s legal team had anticipated.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who voted “not guilty,” in the trial, offered scathing remarks about Trump after the verdict.
Senator Richard Shelby (R., Ala.) announced on Monday that he will not run for reelection in 2022. Shelby is the third Republican senator to say he will not seek reelection at the end of his current term, along with Rob Portman of Ohio and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. At age 86, Shelby is currently in his sixth term in office and is the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Sen SHELBY: "Today I announce that I will not seek a seventh term in the United State Senate in 2022. For everything, there is a season." pic.twitter.com/oRo3pX7YXl — Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) February 8, 2021 “For everything, there is a season,” Shelby wrote in his announcement. “Thank you again for the honor you have given me—the honor to serve the people of Alabama in Congress for the last 42 years.” Initially elected in 1986 as a Democrat, Shelby switched parties in 1994 one day after Republicans won a Senate majority in the midterm elections.
Richard Shelby announces retirement from U.S. Senate
Updated Feb 08, 2021;
Posted Feb 08, 2021
In this image from video, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., speaks on the Senate floor about the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. The Senate will vote on the Articles of Impeachment on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 5. (Senate Television via AP)AP
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Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby announced Monday he would retire from the U.S. Senate in a move that has been anticipated for several months.
Shelby, 86, issued a statement confirming his plans not to run again in 2022. He will serve the remainder of his term.
Another Republican Senator announced his upcoming retirement on Monday morning, as the 2022 midterm election is underway. Alabama GOP Senator Richard Shelby will not seek reelection next year. This upcoming