American voters in London pitch competing visions of US
More than 4,000 miles from home, small groups of Democratic and Republican voters in the British capital gathered within 2 miles of each other to witness what both sides have framed as one of -- if not the -- most important elections in American history.
There are some 306,000 American voters in the U.K., according to the Federal Voting Assistance Program, making them the second largest foreign voting block behind their 660,000 compatriots in Canada.
Those who gathered in London on Tuesday were pitching vastly different visions crafted by wildly different directors.
Vice President Kamala Harris had vowed to give opponents "a seat at my table," promising to bridge the widening divides fracturing American political culture. She decried former President Donald Trump as a "fascist" seeking "unchecked power."
Trump had threatened to set the military on what he called the "enemy within," telling supporters they "won't have a country anymore" if he does not win back the White House. The...
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