(Photo: Alan Díaz – AP) If Republican candidate Donald Trump wins Florida, as some polls predict, and goes on to win the Nov. 8 election — a big if, but not an impossible outcome — he might have President Obama to thank for lending him a hand in the final stretch of the race. Obama’s […]

(Photo: Evan Vucci – AP) I have seen many U.S. elections since I arrived in the United States four decades ago, but this is the only one that has polarized the country to the point of ending long-time friendships and straining family ties. For the first time, this feels like an election in a populist...

(Photo: Brennan Linsley – AP) For the first time ever, the Organization of American States (OAS) will monitor the upcoming U.S. presidential elections, putting the United States in the same league as Haiti and other politically-volatile Latin American countries. That’s largely thanks to Republican...