zimbabwe. the country s opposition chief claims victory after contesting the election. the president mnangagwa has been re elected to serve a second term with just over half the vote. the opposition claims there s been widespread vote rigging, and international observers say the vote has fallen short of democratic standards. mr mnangagwa faces many challenges. zimbabwe still faces high inflation currently running at an annual rate of over seventy per cent as well as poverty. the electoral commission say his main challenger, nelson chamisa, secured forty four percent of the vote. hello there. part two of the weekend is looking pretty similar to how it was yesterday. sunshine and showers, but i don t think the showers will be quite as heavy or certainly not quite as widespread
seat, the sorts of seats that liberal democrats have been winning. and if you look at recent byelections in this type of seat, we ve won from third place. while the tories will hope that, as in borisjohnson s old seat of uxbridge and south ruislip, they can hold on. the exit of mid bedfordshire s mp has been dramatic and noisy. choosing her replacement might be no more peaceful. helen catt, bbc news. in zimbabwe, the country s opposition leader nelson chamisa has claimed victory after challenging the results of the election. on saturday, zimbabwe s president emmerson mnangagwa said he had won enough votes to secure a second term. mr chamisa s party, citizens coalition for change, claims there s been widespread vote rigging, and international observers say the election has fallen short of democratic standards. we have won this election, we are in the lead. we re even surprised why mr mnangagwa has been declared the leader, because he s not.
electoral politics and their political future versus how much of it has to do with their underlying core beliefs? i think for joe manchin, it s much more of a core belief. this guy has always been very conservative. at least by democratic standards. for senator sinema, it s a little more complicated. here s arizona that s a state that is quickly changing. it s a state that joe biden carried. it s a state that senator mark kelly was recently elected to. so for senator sinema, it seems to be more of a calculation as to how to maximize her electoral viability. i think there s a difference between the two. i have been talking to the reverend dr. william barber a lot lately. he s been leading protests against both of them. got arrested at sinema s office the other day. this is what he had to say about the people of west virginia and why he thinks joe manchin might be out of sync with them. we were called by poor white people and black people and miners and veterans to come. they re ti
i think the democratic party to be acceptable today you have to be far to the left. bill clinton jfk today would be considered a conservative by democratic standards. he was for strong defense, for tax cuts, he ran against nixon as the missile gap. so you don t have the jfk s or the bill clinton s in today s party. obama was a charismatic figure himself, the democrats got shellacked every other way. could jfk get the nomination today? no. because he would be too much of a centrist. donald trump is going to be reelected in 2020 because he is cutting regulation, stimulating the economy and is showing leadership of the world. what are your problems with
and we ll see. caden we want back he went back to democratic party. we re going to have to work come and sit down and we ll have a talking to. he comes and goes joy? we say democratic on this show. joy? yes. i have a way to fix that. it s the republic party. the republic party. okay, we re going to do that. caden knows. that of course, terror is the challenge. you just saw in kansas ron estes versus james thompson, a squeaker, really, by democratic standards in a state like kansas. 53-46. this was a a district that trump won by 23 points. right. so is coming close enough for the democrats? or do they need to win this race in georgia in order for it to matter? obviously, we need to win. close is close close is close. i want to go back to a point made. a lot of the money that s coming in, yes, the dcc is putting a lot of money in it, but there s a lot of grass roots money coming into this race, which is important. so i think that, you know, a lot of th