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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will wait until all votes are finalized in the US election before she acknowledges Donald Trump as the winner. Sheinbaum, who took office last month, told reporters at her daily press briefing in the National Palace in Mexico City Wednesday that she preferred to wait until several states completed the vote count. 'There is news that President Trump won, but we are going to wait, anyway, until today when some states finish counting and we can give the official announcement,' Sheinbaum said. Trump secured a resounding victory over Vice President Kamala Harris and a return to...

Cardinal, exorcists have differing takes on ‘cleansing’ ritual performed on Mexican presidentA Mexican cardinal and three priests, two of them exorcists, have differing takes on the “cleansing” ritual that was performed during the inauguration of the country’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum.Sheinbaum, a candidate of the coalition Let’s Keep Making History — which consists of the political parties National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), Labor Party (PT), and Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) — was the winner of the June 2 presidential elections. She assumed office on Oct. 1.Sheinbaum succeeds President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, founder of MORENA who in December 2018...

Mexico's new president Claudia Sheinbaum has said she would have a "good" relationship with Donald Trump if he becomes president again. Sheinbaum, the candidate of Mexico's current ruling party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), will become the country's first woman president, after winning the presidential election in a landslide. She will succeed her mentor, outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Asked about her thoughts on a possible Trump victory in an interview with Bloomberg News last month, Sheinbaum, Mexico's first Jewish president, said she would be able to maintain good ties regardless of who is commander-in-chief in the U.S. "I...

In a landmark election, Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman, and the first Jewish person, to be elected president of Mexico. This year’s election is considered the largest in Mexico’s history, with the highest number of voters casting ballots for the presidency and more than 20,000 local, state and congressional posts. This page shows preliminary results provided in real time on election night. The vote counts that determine the final result will take place from June 5 to June 8. Claudia Sheinbaum A scientist and former mayor of Mexico City who has pledged to continue President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's...

President Biden on Monday congratulated Claudia Sheinbaum for her historic win after she was elected the first female president of Mexico. “I look forward to working closely with President-elect Sheinbaum in the spirit of partnership and friendship that reflects the enduring bonds between our two countries. I expressed our commitment to advancing the values and interests of both our nations to the benefit of our peoples,” Biden said in a statement. Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former Mexico City mayor, is the first woman and the first Jewish person ever to be president of Mexico. She beat the opposition candidate...

Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: friends and relatives no longer talk politics for fear of worsening unbridgeable divides, while drug cartels have split the country into a patchwork quilt of warring fiefdoms. The atmosphere is literally heating up, amid a wave of unusual heat, drought, pollution and political violence. Opposition presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez has focused her ire on López Obrador’s “hugs not bullets” policy of not confronting the drug cartels. She faces former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, who is running for López Obrador's Morena party. Sheinbaum, who leads in the race, has promised to continue all...

Sheinbaum, 61, is poised to make history as Mexico’s first female president and first Jewish head of state. Polls a week before Mexico’s election show her enjoying a wide lead over the next candidate, the conservative entrepreneur Xóchitl Gálvez. Still, after nearly a quarter-century in the public eye, she remains an enigma, known mainly as the low-key protégé of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the charismatic leader known as AMLO. AMLO doesn’t speak English and dislikes traveling abroad. Sheinbaum did postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley; her sister and daughter live in the United States. The president,...

Melanie Morgan, founder of Move America Forward, the nation’s largest pro-troop organization, led about a dozen conservative activists who protested at the Venice home of Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans at a Saturday afternoon fundraiser for California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown. Morgan reports the pro-American protesters, “blocked the entrance of hundreds of wealthy Democrat liberals, including Sally Kellerman and Cindy Asner, ex-wife of Ed Asner.” Protesters laid down on the sidewalk outside the entrance gate where guests had to step over them. Event host Jodie Evans was visibly angry at getting a taste of her own medicine and had...