Can Americans who disagree on politics still find common ground?
As Michigan’s fiercely contested Senate race exposes divisions over war in the Middle East, religion, and Trump, Al Jazeera talks to four voters with opposing political views. Can they find common ground, or has American politics become too polarised for dialogue?
Haley Stevens, a former congresswomen who lost out on the Democratic nomination to Abdul El-Sayed, endorses his opponent days before the vote.
Last week, at Donald Trump’s behest, the justice department sued to block the certification of Alaska’s US Senate race, if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses; a judge dismissed that suit on Sunday, though the administration said it planned to appeal. On Wednesday, Trump demanded that Mary Peltola, the Alaska Native Democrat whom polls favor to win, be removed from the ballot and prosecuted.
The Democrats' messy Michigan Senate campaign is again marred by friendly fire, with defeated primaries candidate Haley Stevens breaking ranks and endorsing the Republican nominee in Tuesday's midterm elections.
US Rep Stevens lost Democratic primary to Abdul El-Sayed and now endorses his Republican opponent in the Senate race.
Incumbent Dan Sullivan says he will accept election results after ‘unprecedented intervention’ by Trump’s DoJ A judge has dismissed the Donald Trump-backed lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska’s US Senate race if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses. Trump said on 23 October that he had ordered the justice department to file the lawsuit in a move that voting rights experts called an “unprecedented intervention” by the federal government with control of Congress in the balance.
Al Jazeera has marked 30 years since its first broadcast in 1996, with a ceremony in Doha attended by Qatar’s Emir.