US midterm elections: Lesson for Nigeria, by Ikechukwu Amaechi.
President Barack Obama’s word, a “shellacking” for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party on Tuesday – a damning verdict on his presidency.
On November 3, 2010, Obama, the then U.S.
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In what many considered as “a rare display of vulnerability,” Obama not only spoke openly about the Democratic Party’s drubbing, but also took responsibility for the “humbling” losses in an election that was a referendum on his then two-year presidency. Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan found themselves in similar positions in their first terms. Now, post-Obama, it is the turn of Trump to lead the Republican Party to the political guillotine. At the end of the midterm elections, the Democrats flipped both the Senate and House of Representatives.
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