Agi: Canada addio, Trump rinuncia ad annettere il 51esimo Stato

AGI - Il presidente degli Stati Uniti, Donald Trump, ha rinunciato ad annettere il Canada dopo aver parlato per mesi di renderlo il "cinquantunesimo Stato" dell'Unione. "Hanno duecento anni di storia e tutta quella faccenda 'Oh Canada', non si può risolverla in tre anni e mezzo, immagino non accadrà'", ha spiegato Trump nello Studio Ovale a Robert Hardman. "Riconoscono ancora il re [d'Inghilterra?]. O hanno già smesso?", si è poi chiesto il presidente americano.
La conversazione tra Trump e l'autore britannico, biografo della Casa Reale britannica, è estratta dal libro "Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. The Inside Story", che sta venendo pubblicato a puntate dal Daily Mail.
Le rivelazioni del libro
Nel libro Hardman ricorda che nella sua conversazione con Trump, avvenuta mesi fa, il presidente aveva domandato se i canadesi ritenessero ancora Carlo III il loro re e aveva fatto marcia indietro sui suoi intenti espansionistici per via del suo rispetto per il monarca britannica.

Trump aveva comunque sottolineato che il Paese confinante è governato da "politici terribili" e che Washington è interessata solo alla fascia di territorio meridionale dove vive la maggior parte dei canadesi. "Il problema è che qualche tizio ha tracciato questa linea retta per fare un confine", aveva detto Trump, secondo quanto ricostruito da Hardman, "avrebbe dovuto semplicemente segnarla cinquanta miglia più a Nord e non ci sarebbero stati problemi".

Goodbye Canada, Trump renounces annexing the 51st State.

AGI - The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has abandoned plans to annex Canada after months of speaking about making it the “fiftieth state” of the Union. “They have two hundred years of history and all that ‘Oh Canada’ nonsense, you can’t solve that in three and a half years, I imagine it won’t happen,” Trump explained in the Oval Office to Robert Hardman. “They still recognize the King [of England?]. Or have they already stopped?” the American president then asked.

The conversation between Trump and the British author, biographer of the British Royal Family, was excerpted from the book “Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. The Inside Story,” which is being published in installments by the Daily Mail.

Revelations from the book
In the book, Hardman recalls that in his conversation with Trump, which took place months ago, the president had asked whether the Canadians still considered Charles III their king and had backed down from his expansionist intentions due to his respect for the British monarch.

Trump had nevertheless emphasized that the neighboring country is governed by “terrible politicians” and that Washington is only interested in the southern territory where most Canadians live. “The problem is that some guy drew this straight line to make a border,” Trump had said, according to Hardman, “it should have simply marked it fifty miles further north and there wouldn’t have been any problems.”

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https://www.agi.it/estero/news/2026-04-06/trump-canada-rinuncia-36458850/

Dems tout another special election as a boost for their party ahead of midterms

Democrat won a special election for an Iowa state Senate seat Tuesday,
denying Republicans the opportunity to regain a supermajority in the chamber
and handing the Democratic Party a large-margin victory ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.


#Renee #Hardman,
a member of the West Des Moines City Council, received 71.4 percent of the vote in the special-election race for state Senate District 16, according to unofficial results from the Iowa secretary of state.

Republican candidate Lucas Loftin received 28.5 percent of the vote in the race,
which encompasses a suburban Des Moines jurisdiction.

A Republican win Tuesday would have restored the party’s former two-thirds supermajority
and allowed Republican Gov.
Kim Reynolds’s nominees to be approved on a party-line vote.

Reynolds will now need to win over at least one Democratic lawmaker to confirm nominees. Hardman’s election fills a vacancy after the death of state Sen. Claire Celsi, a Democrat, in October.

Hardman will be the first Black woman to serve in the Iowa Senate. In 2017, she became the first Black woman to be elected to the West Des Moines City Council. She also served as mayor pro tem in West Des Moines.

Democrats say the large margin in the race,
in which some 10,300 votes were cast,
is yet another sign of momentum for their party
after Iowa Democrats flipped two right-leaning Senate seats earlier this year.

Democrats tend to over-perform in off-year races and special elections,
but in the wake of 2024 losses, the party has attributed several recent off-year gains around the country to national momentum against Donald Trump and Republicans.

Along with the Iowa wins, Democrats saw gains earlier this year in a special election for the state Senate in Georgia
and a state Supreme Court race in Wisconsin.

And while Republicans retained a ruby-red congressional district in Tennessee earlier this month,
the race was more competitive than initially expected.

Democrats also swept major off-year elections in Virginia and New Jersey,
including governors’ races in both states.

Hardman’s winning margin has also surpassed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s 2024 margin in Polk County
— the county that encompasses much of Senate District 16.

Hardman received 71.46 percent of the vote in Polk County on Tuesday, while Harris won Polk County last year with 54.8 percent of the vote.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/31/iowa-renee-hardman-election-win/

New blog alert!

To mark World Photography Day, the post focuses on the photographic collection of Edward Chambré and Margaret Hardman, held by the The National Trust.
https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/shining-a-light-on-the-photographic-collection-of-edward-chambre-and-margaret-hardman/

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I love this. Tears roll down my face when I watch it.

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