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For many commentators, Mrs Clinton’s defeat came as a shock, but one of her former advisors has shared insight into how Biden can avoid making the same mistakes she did in the lead up to the November election. The former Secretary of State received nearly three million more votes than Trump. But the electoral college format of the elections meant the votes Trump picked up translate into more electoral votes. Professor James Davis of the University of St.Gallen advised Mrs Clinton’s campaign on foreign and defence policy. He told express.co.uk: “Hillary Clinton was convinced that the Democratic Party’s “Blue Wall”...

NEW YORK, March 2 (Reuters) - The billionaire industrialist Koch brothers, the most powerful conservative mega donors in the United States, will not deploy their $400 million political arsenal to attack Republican front-runner Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential primary election, according to an official from the brother's political umbrella group. "We have no plans to get involved in the primary," said James Davis, spokesman for Freedom Partners, the Koch brothers' political umbrella group.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Local politics in New York rarely makes headlines, but the fight to succeed one councilman has it all -- murder, drugs and sex. Not only was Democratic Councilman James Davis shot dead in July before hundreds of people at City Hall, but his brother, who now wants the job, has a criminal past. Candidate forums have given way to bursts of rage, and top Democrats, including former Mayor Ed Koch, have endorsed a third-party contender who was the slain man's political foe. "The race has certainly turned into a bit of a circus," commented Hakeem Jeffries,...

<p>Five days after he was shot to death by a political rival at City Hall, Councilman James Davis returned to the landmark building Monday to lie in state, joining a list that includes Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Clay.</p>

NEW YORK -- Hours before he gunned down Councilman James Davis, Othniel Askew told the FBI that Davis offered him $45,000 to give up a primary election challenge -- and threatened to hurt his family if he did not, law enforcement sources said Thursday. Askew, in what investigators described as a rambling statement, also claimed Davis threatened to expose him as gay, the sources told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. A City Council spokeswoman called the allegations "preposterous," and investigators said they have not corroborated Askew's claims. But the claims underscore the complex, volatile relationship between the two...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Hours before he gunned down Councilman James Davis, Othniel Askew told the FBI that Davis offered him $45,000 to give up a primary election challenge - and threatened to hurt his family if he did not, law enforcement sources said Thursday. Askew, in what investigators described as a rambling statement, also claimed Davis threatened to expose him as gay, the sources told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. A City Council spokeswoman called the allegations "preposterous," and investigators said they have not corroborated Askew's claims. But the claims underscore the complex, volatile relationship between the...

NEW YORK New York City Councilman James Davis, a retired New York police officer who represented the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, was killed Wednesday when an assailant opened fire at City Hall. Davis, a 41-year-old African-American, was shot twice in the chest by an unknown assailant during a routine City Council meeting, according to preliminary reports. At least one other person was shot and is in critical condition, according to police. An outspoken presence on the council, Davis joined the police department in 1983 after he was allegedly beaten by two white officers. In 1991, he started "Love Yourself,...

<p>July 24, 2003 -- City Councilman James Davis was shot to death inside City Hall yesterday - blown away by a political rival he escorted around metal detectors minutes earlier.</p> <p>Davis, an ex-cop who carried a gun, never got a shot off, but an officer assigned to guard another politician shot and killed Davis' attacker.</p>

NEW YORK - A gunman opened fire during a meeting inside City Council chambers Wednesday afternoon, killing a city councilman who has crusaded against urban violence and wounding another person. Police swarmed the lower Manhattan neighborhood searching for the gunman. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was in his office during the shooting and unharmed, ruled out terrorism. Metal detectors have been installed at either end of the plaza outside the building, along with barricades. "We do not know how someone got a gun in the building," Bloomberg said. "Obviously, there was a breakdown someplace." The gunman's motive was unknown, said the...

NEW YORK, July 23 — A man on the second-floor balcony of City Hall pulled a handgun and began firing Wednesday afternoon, reportedly injuring two people inside the building in lower Manhattan. Screams echoed through City Hall as about a dozen shots rang out shortly after 2 p.m., sending people diving for cover beneath their desks. One police officer at the scene said there were reports of two police officers injured, but that could not immediately be confirmed. However, two ambulances were seen leaving the plaza outside City Hall. Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in his office but was not harmed,...