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Donald Trump has issued a statement praising a sweeping elections bill signed into law by Republicans in Georgia - introducing tough new voting restrictions - that has otherwise provoked an outcry and which Joe Biden called “Jim Crow in the 21st Century”, “un-American” and “an atrocity,” saying his Justice Department will be “taking a look”.
Fellow Republican populist Ted Cruz has meanwhile been rebuked for his midnight appearance at the Rio Grande attempting to stoke controversy over the immigration crisis at the US-Mexico border, with Democratic activist Beto O’Rourke accusing him of engaging in “cosplay”.
Elsewhere, Mr Biden has invited both Russia and China to return to global climate crisis talks, hoping to bolster international cooperation on the issue and unite the superpowers despite recently attacking both Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.
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