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Building on exploration success at flagship Matagami project

Nuvau Minerals Inc. (TSXV: NMC,OTC:NMCPF) is pleased to provide a corporate update, highlighting the success of 2025 exploration programs and plans for 2026. Previous exploration has resulted in significant gold and base metal discoveries and has expanded the Company’s base metal mineralized inventory at its Matagami Project in the Abitibi region of Québec.

‘We went public in late 2024 with a mandate to increase base metal resources, initiate gold-focused exploration that has been overlooked on our large-scale property, and accelerate work toward restarting mining operations,’ said Peter van Alphen, Nuvau’s President and Chief Executive Officer. ‘With extensive existing processing and permitted mining operations, the Matagami Property truly represents a near-term production opportunity with limited start-up capital. We have made significant progress, developing two zones of volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) mineralization, discovering a new orogenic gold system at Bracemac, and expanding mineralization at the Bracemac-McLeod Mine. This work sets the groundwork for an updated mineral resource estimate on the property, updated economic studies, and advancing the completion of the earn-in from Glencore.’

Key achievements in 2025

Exploration continued across the property, while also progressing multiple initiatives aimed at advancing the planned restart of production:

  • A sonic drilling program was completed to explore for mineralization in the glacial till, which delivered a significant gold grain anomaly with more than 2,000 gold grains per 10 kg of material, in an underexplored part of the property, supported by a near-contiguous sample with 295 gold grains, in hole PD-23-030s.
  • Caber Complex Base Metal Project – The company completed a successful drilling program that returned numerous high-grade intercepts at the Caber Complex deposit. This work was completed to increase drill density in preparation for the completion of an updated Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE).
  • Renaissance Zone – Following the 2023 new VMS discovery, from the first geophysical target tested by Nuvau to the north of the Caber deposits. Twenty-seven holes were drilled, with 16 holes containing semi-massive to massive sulphide mineralization. Additional VMS mineralization was discovered at the PD1-East target, a nearby geophysical anomaly tested in 2025.
  • McLeod Extension – Seven new intersections from 5,526 metres of drilling in 2024 and 2025, following up on the 2023 program that discovered potential to expand mineralization proximal to existing mine workings, including an impressive intercept of 15.30 metres grading 2.92% copper, 15.32% zinc, 0.39 g/t gold, and 98.16 g/t silver.

A new prospective gold horizon was discovered in 2025, immediately east of the Bracemac Mine within a Tonalite intrusive, where the very first drill hole intersected visible gold in quartz veining that returned 8.87 g/t gold over 1.05 metres, including 16.02 g/t gold over 0.55 (BRCG-25-01). Follow-up drilling confirmed continuity of a broad, near-surface mineralized system within a large-scale target area, not tested in historic programs. Assay results are provided in Table 1 and 2 at the end of the document.

Strategic focus in 2026

The Matagami camp uniquely combines district-scale exploration potential with a near-term production restart opportunity, supported by a large land package, existing mineral endowment, and permitted infrastructure. Figure 1 highlights some of the priority exploration target areas.

Figure 1: Nuvau’s 2026 exploration focus areas for gold and base metals (volcanogenic massive sulfides)

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The company is preparing for a large-scale exploration program in 2026, continuing to test multiple high-quality gold targets and several promising base metal targets, including the Daniel 25 VMS area and untested geophysical anomalies in the central camp.

Gold exploration will focus on the underexplored area hosting the high-grade gold-in-till anomaly, advancing the Thunder Mine target where historic drilling intersected multiple high-grade zones that remain open, and evaluating the broader prospectivity of the footwall gold occurrence at the Bracemac Mine. All permits have been received for the expected exploration program for 2026.

Nuvau will continue to advance work aimed at updating its Mineral Resource Estimates for the multiple deposits located on the property, targeting upgrades to the Caber Complex, as well as initial mineral resource estimates for Bracemac-McLeod and Renaissance.

Following the resource updates, the company anticipates updating the previously completed PEA to include portions of those additional resources, as well as updating the associated economics and mine plans. Permitting initiatives will also continue to prepare the Matagami Property for the restart of mining operations.

Update on Matagami earn-in

Nuvau continues to advance its earn-in with respect to the Matagami Property. On January 28, 2026, Nuvau, Nuvau Minerals Corp. and Glencore Canada Corporation (‘Glencore’) entered into a second amended and restated earn-in agreement (the ‘Second A&R Earn-In Agreement’), which further amends and restates the terms of the earn-in agreement dated March 25, 2022, as previously amended and restated on June 28, 2024.

As Nuvau has satisfied all work requirements to earn the right to acquire a 100% interest in the Matagami Property, Nuvau has been working closely with Glencore to complete the transfer of Glencore’s interest in the Matagami Property to Nuvau. In order to facilitate such transfer, Nuvau and Glencore have agreed to certain technical amendments in the Second A&R Earn-In Agreement to address, among other things, certain regulatory considerations, the obligations of Nuvau with respect to the replacement of financial assurances, and the transfer of permits and authorizations to Nuvau. In addition, Nuvau also agreed to guarantee certain deferred obligations under the Second A&R Earn-In Agreement, updated to reflect status of Nuvau Minerals Inc. as guarantor of the obligations. Pursuant to the Second A&R Earn-In Agreement, Nuvau must complete the earn-in by no later than February 27, 2026.

For additional information, please refer to the Second A&R Earn-In Agreement, a copy of which will be available on SEDAR+ (www.sedarplus.ca) under Nuvau’s issuer profile.

Table 1: Bracemac gold showing assay intervals

DDH interval* From To Length Gold g/t
BRCG-25-01 255.75 265.00 9.25 1.13
Including 255.75 256.80 1.05 8.87
BRCG-25-02 273.60 274.10 0.50 7.07
BRCG-25-03 187.20 195.40 8.20 0.20
Including 187.20 188.00 0.80 1.37
BRCG-25-04 96.25 96.75 0.50 1.17
BRCG-25-04 196.80 233.40 36.6 0.40
Including 196.80 197.30 0.50 7.61
Including 202.30 202.85 0.55 3.15
Including 228.00 229.00 1.00 4.27
BRCG-25-04 293.70 294.20 0.50 2.23
BRCG-25-05 100.00 100.75 0.75 1.98
BRCG-25-05 394.10 401.30 7.20 0.30
Including 394.10 394.90 0.80 1.35
Including 400.80 401.30 0.50 1.54

 

Intervals conveying more than 1 g/t of gold or more than 5 m of composites > 0.2 g/t gold.
* All lengths are core lengths; true width is unknown.

Table 2: Bracemac gold DDH collar position (NAD83/UTM zone18) and drilling direction

DDH X Y Az. Dip.
BRCG-25-01 307638 5506552 179.1 64.5
BRCG-25-02 307638 5506552 170.9 63.4
BRCG-25-03 307638 5506552 177.6 57.6
BRCG-25-04 307690 5506630 200.5 51.3
BRCG-25-05 307690 5506630 196.6 66.2

 

About Nuvau Minerals Inc.
Nuvau is a Canadian mining company focused on the Abitibi Region of mine-friendly Québec. Nuvau’s principal asset is the Matagami Property that is host to significant existing processing infrastructure and multiple mineral deposits and is being acquired from Glencore.

For further information, please contact:
Nuvau Minerals Inc.
Peter van Alphen
President and CEO
Telephone: 416-525-6023
Email: pvanalphen@nuvauminerals.com

Qualified Person and Quality Assurance
Bastien Fresia P. Geo. (Qc), Technical Services Director of Nuvau and a ‘qualified person’ as is defined by National Instrument 43-101, has verified the scientific and technical data disclosed in this news release, and has otherwise reviewed and approved the scientific and technical information in this news release.

Sonic Core has been quicklogged on drilling site and shipped by truck to IOS facilities in Saguenay for detailed logging and sampling by a qualitifed quartenary geologist. Hole core from selected intervals has been bagged and queued for processing in the same facility, where samples were sifted and gold grain concentrated with a proprietary fluidized bed. Concentrates were then dry sifted at 50 μm, the +50 μm being examined under an optical microscope, while the -50 μm was scanned by an automated electron microscope. Every suspected gold grain has been analyzed by Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometer (EDS), and high magnification back-scattered images have been acquired in order to classify morphology. Quality control is ensured via various mass balance calculations and EDS analysis of all grains of interest, prior to results being cross-examined by experienced geologists. In the course of sifting, an aliquot of the sample has been saved and shipped for analysis to Activation Laboratories in Ancaster, Ontario, for ICP-MS-QQQ ultra-trace analyses after aqua-regia digestion. Quality control has been conducted by a certified chemist and includes approximately 15% blanks, certified reference materials and internal reference materials.

Diamond Drill core samples are sawn by staff technicians in Nuvau’s Matagami’s core shed to create half-core splits. One split is retained in the drill core box for archival purposes with a sample tag affixed at each sample interval, and the other split is placed in a labelled plastic bag along with a corresponding sample number tag and placed in the shipment queue. Quality control samples, including blind certified reference material (‘CRM’), blank material, and core duplicates, are inserted at a frequency of 1 in every 20 samples and sample batches of up to 60 samples were then shipped directly by Nuvau personnel to the ALS Canada Ltd. preparation laboratory in Rouyn-Noranda, Québec. All submitted core samples are crushed in full to 95 % passing less than 2 mm (ALS code CRU-32). A 1000-gram sample was then riffled, split from the crushed material and pulverized to 90 % passing 75 μm (SPL-22 and PUL-32a). Pulps are shipped from the preparation laboratory to ALS Canada Ltd.’s analytical lab in North Vancouver, British Columbia, for assay. Lead, silver, copper and zinc analyses were determined by ore grade four acid digestion with an inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (‘ICP-AES’) or atomic absorption spectroscopy (‘AAS’) finish (ALS codes Pb-OG62, Ag-OG62, Cu-OG62 and ZnOG62), whereas gold was determined by 50 g fire assay analysis with an AAS finish (code Au-AA23).

PhotonAssay analysis (code Au-PA01) is used on the samples from Bracemac Gold. The samples are sent to Val d’Or MSALabs. Up to 1kg per sample is pulverized to 70% passing 2mm (CRU-CPA), encapsulated in 500g capacity separated plastic lids, adapted for the method and identified with barcodes and unique ID numbers. The Gamma Ray-based Photon Assay is directly processed in the MSALabs Val d’Or facilities. As the method is non-destructive, the assays can be reprocessed and are conserved for archive and future use in the plastic lids. For comparison, at the initiation of the drilling campaign, the method was tested against Fire Assays in ALSLabs, a 50 g fire assay analysis returned 15.75 g/t Au, compared to 16.02 g/t Au by PhotonAssay.

Cautionary Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information (collectively, ‘forward-looking statements’) within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Any statements that are contained in this news release that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often identified by terms such as ‘may’, ‘should’, ‘anticipate’, ‘will’, ‘estimates’, ‘believes’, ‘intends’ ‘expects’ and similar expressions which are intended to identify forward-looking statements. More particularly and without limitation, this news release contains forward-looking statements concerning drill results relating to the Matagami Property, the results of the PEA, the potential of the Matagami Property, the timing and commencement of any production, the restart of the Bracemac-McLeod Mine, the completion of the earn-in of the Matagami Property and the timing and completion of any technical studies, feasibility studies or economic analyses. Forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain, and the actual performance may be affected by a number of material factors, assumptions and expectations, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, including expectations and assumptions concerning the Company and the Matagami Property. Readers are cautioned that assumptions used in the preparation of any forward-looking statements may prove to be incorrect. Events or circumstances may cause actual results to differ materially from those predicted as a result of numerous known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. Readers are further cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, as such information, although considered reasonable by the management of the Company at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect and actual results may differ materially from those anticipated.

The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date of this news release, and are expressly qualified by the foregoing cautionary statement. Except as expressly required by securities law, neither the Company nor Nuvau undertakes any obligation to update publicly or to revise any of the included forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein.

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Investor Insight

Sranan Gold offers early-stage exposure to a high-impact gold discovery in Suriname’s Guiana Shield, one of the world’s most underexplored gold belts. Backed by the same technical team behind some of the region’s largest gold discoveries, Sranan is a high-leverage discovery story in a mining-friendly jurisdiction, now with demonstrated drill-confirmed continuity and growing scale at its flagship project.

Overview

Sranan Gold (CSE:SRAN,OTCQB:SRANF,FSE:P84) is a junior gold explorer operating in Suriname, a South American nation producing more than 600,000 ounces of gold annually. The company’s flagship 29,000-hectare Tapanahony gold project is located within the prolific Guiana Shield, one of the world’s most prospective yet underexplored gold provinces.

The 29,000-hectare Tapanahony project covers one of the oldest and largest small-scale mining areas in Suriname.

The project overlays a historic mining belt with strong geochemical and structural indicators. Sranan’s objective is to convert extensive local mining activity, legacy drilling and modern datasets into an inaugural gold resource along the 4.5 km Poeketi–Randy mineralized corridor.

Following systematic trenching and drilling in 2025, the company has confirmed a large, structurally controlled orogenic gold system extending from saprolite into fresh bedrock. With drilling resuming in 2026, Sranan is focused on expanding known mineralization, testing parallel shear zones identified by LiDAR and geophysics, and advancing toward resource definition.

Company Highlights

  • District-scale land position: The 29,000-hectare Tapanahony Project covers one of Suriname’s oldest and most productive artisanal gold districts within the underexplored Guiana Shield.
  • Active drilling with demonstrated continuity: A 4,189-metre drill program completed in 2025 confirmed a broad, shear-hosted gold system, expanding defined mineralization at Randy’s Pit to over 800 metres within the 4.5 km Poeketi–Randy trend. Drilling resumed in January 2026.
  • High-grade discovery momentum: Recent drilling has delivered wide, high-grade intercepts, including 64 m at 3 grams per ton (g/t) gold and 11 m at 7.33 g/t gold, confirming strong vertical and lateral continuity.
  • World-class discovery pedigree: The technical team has been directly involved in major regional discoveries, including Merian (7 Moz), Rosebel (13.7 Moz), and Saramacca (1.5 Moz).
  • Deep in-country knowledge: Locally trained geologists with decades of experience in Suriname provide a strong operational and geological advantage.

Key Project

Tapanahony Gold Project

Suriname and Guiana Shield

The Tapanahony gold project is Sranan’s flagship asset, covering 29,000 hectares in southeastern Suriname. The project lies within the Paleoproterozoic Guiana Shield, which hosts multiple Tier-1 gold systems. The property is situated at the intersection of a regional NW-striking structural corridor crosscut by penetrative NE–SW fabrics, creating excellent ground preparation for high-grade, shear-hosted gold mineralization. These relationships are clearly defined in LiDAR and aeromagnetic datasets.

Artisanal miners have historically exploited saprolite-hosted gold along the Poeketi–Randy trend. Sranan’s exploration strategy has been to systematically transition this surface production into a drill-defined hard-rock system. Historical exploration exceeds US$10 million, including soil geochemistry, auger programs and approximately 4,000 metres of diamond drilling by IAMGOLD, which intersected significant gold mineralization and validated the structural model.

Sample collected from the Tapanahony project’s Poeketi Pit in 2021

In 2025, Sranan advanced the project from surface sampling and trenching into systematic diamond drilling. Trenching confirmed near-surface continuity with results including 5 m at 36.7 g/t gold and 5 m at 8.9 g/t gold, extending mineralization beyond known artisanal workings. Subsequent drilling intersected wide zones of gold mineralization in both saprolite and fresh basaltic host rocks, confirming a 50 to 150 m wide mineralized shear corridor.

By year-end 2025, drilling had expanded the defined mineralized strike at Randy’s Pit to over 800 metres, with mineralization remaining open along strike and at depth and forming part of the broader 4.5 km Randy–Poeketi trend. Drilling resumed in January 2026 to continue step-out testing, define additional high-grade shoots, and evaluate shallow open-pittable potential.

LiDAR interpretation has also identified three parallel mineralized corridors and multiple targets in the western lobe of the concession, where soil geochemistry and small-scale mining suggest additional discovery potential. These areas represent priority targets for ongoing drilling and future expansion of the project footprint.

Management Team

Oscar Louzada – CEO and Director

Fluent in Dutch and active in Suriname for over a decade, Oscar Louzada has taken two Suriname-based exploration companies to IPO (Sela Kriki and Nassau, now Miata Metals). With 25+ years’ experience in natural resources finance (Canaccord, Investec), he brings capital markets depth and local execution credibility.

Dennis LaPoint – EVP, Exploration and Corporate Development

Dennis LaPoint is a veteran geologist with 35+ years’ experience. LaPoint discovered Merian (Newmont, 7 Moz) and oversaw major exploration programs at Rosebel and Omai. He leads strategy and resource targeting, and sits on multiple boards, including ASBOG. He also teaches geology at Anton de Kom University in Paramaribo in Suriname.

Rayiez Bhoelan – VP, Exploration

A Surinamese national and key member of the Saramacca discovery team (IAMGOLD, 1.5 Moz), Rayiez Bhoelan specializes in regolith geology and shear zone mapping. He has worked across the Guiana Shield at Omai and Founders Metals, and lectures locally on geochemistry.

Mario Stifano – Director and Audit Chair

Mario Stifano is a CPA and seasoned mining executive with prior leadership roles at Cordoba Minerals, Lake Shore Gold and Galantas Gold. He led the 2020 acquisition and re-listing of Omai Gold Mines in Guyana.

John Alcock – Director and CFO

John Alcock is a chartered professional accountant with over 30 years’ experience as an accounting and financial professional and an investor in the junior mining sector. He currently serves on the board of Altiplano Metals.

Ron Shenton – Director

Ron Shenton is a capital markets professional with 40 years’ experience. He is the founder of several public companies and has served as CEO/director, leading investor relations, public relations and capital raising across multiple sectors including mining exploration.

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Global gold demand surged past 5,000 tons in 2025 for the first time on record driven by a historic wave of investment inflows and sustained central bank buying, according to the World Gold Council’s (WGC) latest Gold Demand Trends report.

Total gold demand, including over-the-counter transactions, exceeded the 5,000-ton threshold as investors, institutions, and official buyers responded to geopolitical risk, falling real rates, and growing uncertainty across bond and equity markets.

Combined with a year of relentless price gains, the surge pushed the total value of global gold demand to a record US$555 billion, up 45 percent year-on-year.

Consequently, gold prices themselves rewrote the record books. The LBMA PM gold price set 53 new all-time highs during 2025, with the average price in the fourth quarter climbing to US$4,135 per ounce, up 55 percent from a year earlier.

Investment demand dominates, central banks remain a critical anchor

The WGC reported that investment demand was the primary driver of growth, accounting for the bulk of incremental buying during the year.

Global gold exchange-traded funds recorded net inflows of 801 tons in 2025, the second-strongest annual increase on record, which reversed years of subdued ETF participation.

At the same time, bar and coin demand accelerated sharply. Demand rose to a 12-year high as retail and high-net-worth investors sought safe-haven exposure in the midst of persistent geopolitical tensions and uncertainty around monetary policy trajectories.

That momentum carried into the final months of the year. Total fourth-quarter gold demand reached 1,303 tons, the highest ever recorded for a fourth quarter, further supported by ETF inflows of 175 tons and bar and coin buying of 420 tons.

Meanwhile, central banks continued to provide a firm foundation for demand even as purchases eased modestly from the extraordinary levels of recent years.

According to the report, net official-sector buying reached 863 tons in 2025, remaining historically elevated but below the more than 1,000 tons added in each of the previous three years. In the fourth quarter, buying accelerated with central banks purchasing 230 tons, up 6 percent quarter-on-quarter.

For instance, the National Bank of Poland emerged as the largest buyer for the second consecutive year, adding 102 tons in 2025 and lifting its gold reserves to 550 tons. Gold now accounts for 28 percent of Poland’s total reserves, approaching its revised 30 percent allocation target.

In January, the bank’s governor signaled an intention to increase reserves further to 700 tons, citing national security considerations.

Supply growth muted, technology demand holds steady

On the supply side, the response to soaring prices remained unexpectedly subdued. Total gold supply rose just 1 percent year-on-year to 5,002 tons, the highest level in the WGC’s annual data series dating back to 1970.

Mine production inched up to an estimated 3,672 tons, potentially setting a new record, while recycling increased only 3 percent to 1,404 tons. This was a muted reaction given the 67 percent rise in the US-dollar gold price.

The council explained the weak recycling response reflected the absence of economic distress, expectations of further price appreciation, and structural behaviours in key markets. This included the use of gold as collateral and the prevalence of trade-in transactions rather than outright selling.

Meanwhile, gold demand in the technology sector remained broadly stable at 323 tons for the year, supported by continued growth in artificial-intelligence-related applications.

The AI boom increased demand for high-speed computing and data-center infrastructure. However, the report also noted that rising gold prices continued to push manufacturers toward thrifting, substitution, and research into alternative materials.

From a commodity to a strategic asset

Overall, 2025 marked an evolution of how industry stakeholders view the metal in relation to changing market dynamics.

Randy Smallwood, president and chief executive officer of Wheaton Precious Metals (TSX:WPM,NYSE:WPM) said investors are increasingly recognising gold as a monetary asset rather than a cyclical commodity.

“For the last 40 years, we’ve thought of gold as a commodity,” Smallwood said. “We forgot that it’s a currency, and it is a currency,” said Randy Smallwood, president and chief executive officer of Wheaton Precious Metals, in a fireside chat at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference (VRIC).

“The mining industry doesn’t have an impact on pricing. Doesn’t have an impact on value. It is a currency. It has been a currency for thousands of years,” he added, further noting that new mine supply adds only less than 2 percent annually to the total stock of gold held globally

Smallwood, as well as the council, expects many of the forces that drove 2025’s record demand to remain in place.

“We still see continued strength and appetite for swapping out US dollars, treasuries, whatever you want to call it, any exposure towards gold,” he said. “And that’s not going away.”

Securities Disclosure: I, Giann Liguid, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.

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Nuvau Minerals Inc. (TSXV: NMC,OTC:NMCPF) (the ‘Company’ or ‘Nuvau’) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Clarus Securities Inc. and Integrity Capital Group Inc., as co-lead agents and co-lead bookrunners (collectively, the ‘Agents’), in connection with a proposed ‘best efforts’ brokered private placement for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $20,000,000, comprised of the offer and sale of up to (i) 18,750,000 units of the Company (each, a ‘Unit’), at a price of $0.80 per Unit, for gross proceeds of up to $15,000,000, and (ii) 5,000,000 flow-through shares of the Company (each, a ‘FT Share’), at a price of $1.00 per FT Share, for gross proceeds of up to $5,000,000 (together, the ‘Offering’). The Agents will have an option (the ‘Agent’s Option’), exercisable in whole or in part up to 48 hours prior to the Closing Date (as defined herein), to offer for sale up to any combination of additional Units, Common Shares andor Warrants to raise up to an additional $5,000,000 in gross proceeds.

Each Unit will consist of one common share of the Company (each, a ‘Common Share‘) and one-half of one transferrable common share purchase warrant of the Company (each whole warrant, a ‘Warrant‘), with each Warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase one Common Share at a price of $1.30 per Common Share for a period of 36 months following the closing of the Offering. All FT Shares will be Common Shares that qualify as ‘flow-through shares’ within the meaning of subsection 66(15) of the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the ‘ITA‘) [and section 359.1 of the Taxation Act (Québec)].

The Company intends to use the proceeds of the Offering for working capital and general corporate purposes and for the completion of exploration and development activities at its Matagami property. The gross proceeds from the offering of FT Shares will be used by the Company to incur eligible ‘Canadian exploration expenses’, some portion of which may qualify as ‘flow-through critical mineral mining expenditures’, (as both terms are defined in the ITA) (the ‘Qualifying Expenditures‘) on or before December 31, 2027, which Qualifying Expenditures will be renounced in favour of the subscribers of the FT Shares with an effective date on or before December 31, 2026.

The Units and FT Shares are to be offered for sale by way of private placement in all the provinces of Canada, pursuant to applicable prospectus exemptions under National Instrument 45-106 – Prospectus Exemptions. The Agents will also be entitled to offer the Units for sale to eligible purchasers resident in the United States pursuant to available exemptions from the registration requirements of the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the ‘U.S. Securities Act‘), and in those other jurisdictions outside of Canada and the United States provided that such offer and sale does not require the filing of a prospectus or registration statements, or comparable obligation arises in such other jurisdiction.

In consideration for the Agents’ services, the Company will pay to the Agents on the Closing Date a cash commission equal to 6.0% of the gross proceeds of the Offering (including any gross proceeds raised pursuant to the exercise of the Agents’ Option) (the ‘Cash Fee‘); provided that such Cash Fee shall be reduced to 3.0% in respect of the gross proceeds raised from sales to purchasers included on a president’s list to be formed by the Company in consultation with the Agents (the ‘President’s List Purchasers‘). In addition, the Company shall issue to the Agents on the Closing Date, such number of non-transferable compensation options of the Company (the ‘Compensation Options‘) as is equal to 6.0% of the aggregate number of Units and FT Shares sold under the Offering (including pursuant to exercise of the Agents’ Option); provided that such number of Compensation Options shall be reduced to 3.0% of Units and FT Shares sold to subscribers of the President’s List. Each Compensation Option will entitle the holder thereof to purchase one Unit at the Offering Price, at any time and from time to time for a period of 36 months following the Closing Date.

Closing of the Offering is expected to take place on or about February 19, 2026 (the ‘Closing Date‘), and is subject to certain conditions including, but not limited to, the conditional approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. All securities issued under the Offering will be subject to a hold period expiring four months and one day from the Closing Date.

The securities offered have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements. This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any State in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.

About Nuvau

Nuvau is a Canadian mining company, incorporated under the OBCA, currently in the exploration and development phase. Nuvau’s principal asset is its right to earn-in a 100% undivided interest from Glencore in the Matagami property located in Abitibi region of central Québec, Canada pursuant to an amended and restated earn-in agreement dated January 28, 2026 among Nuvau, Nuvau Minerals Corp. and Glencore.

Cautionary Statements

This news release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information (collectively, ‘forward-looking statements‘) within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Any statements that are contained in this news release that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often identified by terms such as ‘may’, ‘should’, ‘anticipate’, ‘will’, ‘estimates’, ‘believes’, ‘intends’ ‘expects’ and similar expressions which are intended to identify forward-looking statements. More particularly and without limitation, this news release contains forward-looking statements concerning the timing and ability of the Company to close the Offering on the terms announced, the proposed use of proceeds of the Offering, the Company’s ability to incur Qualifying Expenditures and renounce the Qualifying Expenditures to subscribers, and the Company’s ability to obtain exchange approval for the Offering. Forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain, and the actual performance may be affected by a number of material factors, assumptions and expectations, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, including expectations and assumptions concerning the Company and the Matagami Property. Readers are cautioned that assumptions used in the preparation of any forward-looking statements may prove to be incorrect. Events or circumstances may cause actual results to differ materially from those predicted as a result of numerous known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. Readers are further cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, as such information, although considered reasonable by the management of the Company at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect and actual results may differ materially from those anticipated.

The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date of this news release, and are expressly qualified by the foregoing cautionary statement. Except as expressly required by securities law, the Company does not undertake any obligation to update publicly or to revise any of the included forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Further Information

All information contained in this news release with respect to the Company was supplied by the respective party for inclusion herein, and each party and its directors and officers have relied on the other party for any information concerning the other party.

For further information please contact:

Nuvau Minerals Inc.
Peter Van Alphen
President and CEO
Telephone: 416-525-6023
Email: pvanalphen@nuvauminerals.com

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein.

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GRANDE PRAIRIE, ALBERTA TheNewswire – (January 30, 2026): Angkor Resources Corp. (TSXV: ANK,OTC:ANKOF) (‘ANGKOR’ OR ‘THE COMPANY’) announces the voting results from its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the ‘Meeting’), held on Thursday, January 29, 2026, including the appointment of Dr. David Johnson to the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

All resolutions presented to the Shareholders were approved. Each of the resolutions are explained in detail in the Management Information Circular published in connection with the Meeting. It is available for reference on the Company’s website https://angkorresources.com.

 

A total of 96,855,431 common shares, representing approximately 47.78 % of the Company’s outstanding common shares, were voted in person and by proxy at the Meeting. Shareholders voted in favour of:

 

  • Reappointing Davidson Company LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants auditors of the Company; 

 

  • Setting the number of directors at six, with the following six nominees elected as directors: Russ Tynan, Mike Weeks, Terry Mereniuk, Ken Booth, Grant T. Smith and Dr. David Johnson; 

 

  • Approving the Company’s Rolling stock option plan; and 

 

  • Approving the sale of the Corporation’s 40% participating interest (the ‘Assets‘) in the Evesham Macklin oil and gas lands in Saskatchewan to an arm’s length party (the ‘Purchaser‘) at a fair market value sale price of $4,800,000 (the ‘Purchase Price‘) 

 

  The sale of the oil and gas assets was a strategic decision that removed a debt of $3,800,000 off the books and provided the Company with $1,000,000 in net proceeds. The original Letter of Intent and announcement is provided here:  Angkor Resources SIGNS LETTER OF INTENT TO SELL EVESHAM OIL PRODUCTION – Angkor Resources Corp.  Because it was a fundamental transaction, approval from shareholders was required at the AGM and over 99% of the voters were in favor of the transaction.  The Company wanted to push its resources into the Cambodian onshore Block VIII Project for potential growth of the Company.

 

Delayne Weeks, CEO, commented ‘On behalf of the Company, I would like to thank shareholders for their participation and continuing support. We welcome Dr. Johnson to the Board.’

 

Dr. David Johnson is a geoscientist with more than 40 years of Global, Canadian Frontier, and Western Canadian exploration and production (E&P) experience covering petroleum, natural gas and helium. In positions of progressive responsibility, David has worked for Shell, Exxon Production Research, ExxonMobil Exploration, Husky Energy, the Kuwait Oil Company, and KUFPEC. Dr. Johnson has executive, business development, operations, geoscience research, and technical E&P experience covering more than 40 petroleum jurisdictions in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. He has led bid-round acquisitions of more than 20 Production Sharing Agreements (PSA’s) and exploration licenses (EL’s); and made significant discoveries in the South China Sea, the Canadian Frontiers and Western Canada.

 

Dr. Johnson received a BSc in Geology from the University of Calgary, and a PhD in Geological Oceanography from Dalhousie University and joins the Board of Directors of the Company following the AGM Jan. 29 2026.

 

The Company also notes that Steve Cochrane, and Scott Smith, long-time directors of Angkor, retired effective today’s meeting.  We want to acknowledge their contributions and outstanding service to the Company.  Both expressed their ongoing support of Angkor’s success.

ABOUT Angkor Resources CORPORATION:

Angkor Resources Corp. is a public company, listed on the TSX-Venture Exchange, and is a leading resource optimizer in Cambodia working towards mineral and energy solutions across Cambodia.  

The company’s mineral subsidiary, Angkor Gold Corp. in Cambodia holds two mineral exploration licenses in Cambodia with multiple prospects in copper and gold.  Both licenses are in their first two-year renewal term.    

Its Cambodian energy subsidiary, EnerCam Resources, was granted an onshore oil and gas license of 7300 square kilometres in the southwest quadrant of Cambodia called Block VIII.   The company then removed all parks and protected areas and added 220 square kilometres, making the license area just over 4095 square kilometres.  EnerCam is actively advancing oil and gas exploration activities onshore to meet its mission to prove Cambodia as an oil and gas producing Nation.  Having completed seismic in 2025, the Company looks to identify drill targets and advance to drilling Cambodia’s first onshore oil & gas exploratory wells shortly thereafter.

CONTACT:   Delayne Weeks – CEO

Email:-   info@angkorresources.com   Website: angkorresources.com  

Telephone: +1 (780) 568-3801

Please follow @AngkorResources on , , , Instagram and .

 

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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This release includes certain statements and information that may constitute forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance and reflect the expectations or beliefs of management of the Company regarding future events. Generally, forward-looking statements and information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as ‘intends’ or ‘anticipates’, or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results ‘may’, ‘could’, ‘should’, ‘would’ or ‘occur’. This information and these statements, referred to herein as ‘forward‐looking statements’, are not historical facts, are made as of the date of this news release and include without limitation, statements regarding the anticipated benefits of new leadership expertise, and the Company’s plans to develop its resources and create shareholder value.

In making the forward-looking statements in this news release, the Company has applied certain material assumptions, including without limitation, that the Company will successfully advance the development of its resources and that such efforts will result in creating shareholder value.

These forward‐looking statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties, and actual results might differ materially from results suggested in any forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, that the Company will not advance the development of its resources and that the Company will not create shareholder value.

 

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Amazon said Wednesday it was slashing another 16,000 jobs across the company in an ongoing bid to restructure the sprawling trillion-dollar firm.

‘The reductions we are making today will impact approximately 16,000 roles across Amazon, and we’re again working hard to support everyone whose role is impacted,’ Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, said in a memo to employees.

‘That starts with offering most US-based employees 90 days to look for a new role internally,’ she said. Amazon will ‘continue hiring and investing in strategic areas and functions that are critical to our future.’

Galetti said the cuts would ‘strengthen our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy.’

In October, Amazon cut 14,000 jobs primarily at the corporate level. At the time, Galetti cited artificial intelligence as being the “most transformative technology we’ve seen since the internet.”

Amazon has 1.55 million employees worldwide, the company said in a filing last year.

It said Tuesday that it would close some of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores, planning to convert some into Whole Foods Market stores.

While AI was not explicitly cited in Wednesday’s note to Amazon workers, the cuts come as workers nationwide brace for the impact of artificial intelligence in a sluggish labor market.

Companies have started citing ‘efficiency’ as they pursue the implementation of AI.

On Monday, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said that his firm’s headcount would be ‘more constrained in 2026’ as the company sees ‘opportunities for efficiency and we try to deploy those.’

On Tuesday, Pinterest said it would cut 15% of its workforce as it pivoted ‘resources to AI-focused roles and teams that drive AI adoption and execution.’

Last year, Microsoft said it was eliminating 9,000 jobs to improve efficiency. Target also cut 1,800 corporate jobs to reduce ‘complexity.’ Instagram and Facebook owner Meta Platforms also reduced its workforce by around 600 jobs as it shifted toward artificial intelligence.

At the same time, hiring nationwide is slowing and inflation remains elevated.

After three months of contraction last year, the U.S. economy added only 56,000 jobs in November and just 50,000 in December. Meanwhile, inflation remains at 2.7%, well above the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%.

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A gold-standard guide used by judges nationwide to address subjects they are not particularly versed in is drawing criticism over the latest edition’s inclusion of purported ideological bias focused on its climate section.

Critics have said the fourth edition of the Federal Judicial Center’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence – which includes a foreword by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan – appears to blur the line between neutrally educating judges and indoctrinating them with left-wing advocates’ prose.

The approximately 1,600-page guide was released at the beginning of the year and includes several citations and footnotes to climate change activists and proponents, including climatologist Michael Mann and environmental law expert Jessica Wentz.

Wentz is the topline expert at the Climate Judiciary Project at the Environmental Law Institute — an entity currently under federal investigation, as Fox News Digital recently reported.

‘The Committee on the Judiciary is investigating allegations of improper attempts by the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and its Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) to influence federal judges,’ read a statement from House Judiciary Committee members Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Darrell Issa, R-Calif.

Jordan and Issa found evidence of efforts to ‘influence judges who potentially may be presiding over lawsuits related to alleged climate change claims… [which] appear to have the underlying goal of predisposing federal judges in favor of plaintiffs alleging injuries from the manufacturing, marketing, use, or sale of fossil-fuel products.’

A spokesperson for the institute told Fox News Digital at the time that CJP’s curriculum is ‘fact-based and science-first, grounded in consensus reports and developed with a robust peer review process’ and that suggestions otherwise are ‘without merit.’

Wentz, who is also a senior fellow at Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Law, is listed as chief author of the section, along with fellow university faculty Radley Horton, on page 1561.

She served as a witness for the plaintiffs in Juliana v. U.S., where youth activists accused the U.S. government of violating their constitutional rights by failing to implement their preferred climate change policies.

She also signed an amicus brief supporting the Obama administration’s environmental regulations after multiple states filed lawsuits against the EPA in 2016.  

Nonetheless, legal experts warned of the potential repercussions down the line of having such prominent contributors in what is supposed to be an apolitical anthology.

‘It is alarming to see how far the Left has gone in its blatant effort to capture the judiciary. Its feeding of trial lawyers’ climate ‘science’ to sitting judges who will decide contentious litigation in this area short-circuits our system of justice,’ said Carrie Severino, a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and president of the Judicial Crisis Network.

‘When they can’t pass their extreme policies into law, they are attempting to use the courts as an end run around the legislative process,’ said Severino, whose organization has helped vet judicial nominees, including Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

Michael Fragoso of Torridon Law, former chief counsel to Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., agreed that there is rank bias throughout the climate section of the anthology.

‘The whole section of the guide is shockingly inappropriate—and if you look at the organizational meeting at the National Academies, intentionally so,’ Fragoso said.

‘But when you dig into it, it only gets worse. The section on attribution ‘science,’ for example, was lifted in large part by a previous article written by the two authors and Michael Burger, who is himself a climate-plaintiff lawyer.’

‘Given that attribution is at the heart of these lawsuits, it’s shocking that the Judicial Center would let a plaintiff lawyer ‘explain’ it to judges. It’s even worse that it’s hidden in a random footnote,’ said Fragoso, who recently analyzed a key energy-related suit in Louisiana.

The House Judiciary Committee previously alleged CJP’s efforts appear to have the underlying goal of predisposing federal judges in favor of plaintiffs involved in climate litigation.

Mann, a climate change academic in Pennsylvania, authored a book called ‘The New Climate War,’ and the judges’ guide cites the book to claim the energy industry has sought to deceive the public.

He resigned from a role at the University of Pennsylvania in 2025 after disparaging social media comments about Charlie Kirk that invoked the Hitler Youth movement, and previously successfully sued conservative commentator Mark Steyn for $1 million over aggressive criticism of his famous ‘hockey stick graph’ that resulted from his study of human influence on global warming over the centuries.

When asked about criticisms of her role in crafting the guide, Wentz told Fox News Digital, ‘no comment.’ Mann did not respond to a request for comment.

Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.

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A Muslim activist who served a prison sentence for his role in an overseas terror plot is now seeking elected office in Birmingham, Britain’s second-largest city, as local elections approach amid heightened communal tensions.

Shahid Butt was convicted by a Yemeni court in 1999 and sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of forming an armed gang and conspiring to bomb the British consulate in Aden, an Anglican church and a Swiss-owned hotel in Yemen. At the time, Yemeni prosecutors said the group had been sent to carry out violence by Abu Hamza, the extremist preacher who was the father of one of the convicted men.

He is now standing as a candidate for the newly formed Independent Candidates Alliance in the May 7 Birmingham City Council elections.

Butt maintains his innocence, claiming his confession was coerced through torture, and that evidence against him was planted, The Daily Telegraph reported.

He will contest the Sparkhill ward, an area where nearly two-thirds of residents are of Pakistani background, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Butt’s candidacy comes as Birmingham — home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the U.K. — has faced renewed strains over foreign policy, identity politics and public order. Those tensions came into sharp focus last November when Israeli soccer club Maccabi Tel Aviv played Aston Villa in a Europa Conference League match.

Ahead of the game, Butt used social media to call on Muslims from around the country to travel to Birmingham to show solidarity with Palestinians and to prevent the Israeli team’s supporters from, in his words, ‘desecrating’ and ‘dirtying’ the city. In one post, he referred to the visiting fans as ‘IDF babykillers,’ according to Birmingham Live.

Authorities ultimately barred Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from attending the match, citing security concerns, after large-scale protests were planned.

In a video posted from a protest connected to the fixture, Butt made comments that critics say crossed from political speech into the endorsement of violence. ‘Muslims are not pacifists,’ Butt said in the video. ‘If somebody comes into your face, you knock his teeth out — that’s my message to the youth.’

Emma Schubart, a researcher at the Henry Jackson Society, said the developments reveal deeper fractures within British society. ‘Shahid Butt, a convicted terrorist, is standing for election in a ward that is around 80% Muslim. Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were banned from the second-largest city in the U.K. which is now nearly a third Muslim,’ Schubart said.

‘Politically,’ she added, ‘These events foreshadow a likely Muslim sectarian sweep in the local elections, since candidates like Butt are poised to erode Labour’s hold on seats throughout Birmingham.’

The Independent Candidates Alliance was founded by activists Akhmed Yakoob and Shakeel Afsar, both of whom ran unsuccessfully in Birmingham constituencies during the 2024 general election on a pro-Gaza platform. The group is expected to field candidates in around 20 wards across the city.

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Senate Democrats stayed true to their threat by blocking a behemoth funding package, but in a surprising turn of events, they were joined by several Senate Republicans to derail the legislation.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his caucus made it no secret that they would obstruct the government funding process over the last several days, demanding that Republicans strip the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill from the six-bill package. 

But the defection of seven GOP lawmakers – Sens. Ted Budd, R-N.C., Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Mike Lee, R- Utah, Ashley Moody, R-Fla., Rand Paul, R-Ky., Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. – was an unexpected development on Thursday. 

Senate Democrats are willing to support the five other bills in the package, however, and have reiterated that bundle would easily pass if given the chance. 

‘Democrats are ready to avert a shutdown,’ said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee.

‘We have five bills we all agree on. About 95% of the remaining budget. It is ready to go,’ she continued. ‘We can pass those five bills, no problem. All Leader Thune has to do is tee them up for a vote.’

But Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., sought to call their bluff and barreled forward with the key test vote, which would have opened up several hours of debate and eventually a final vote to send the package to President Donald Trump’s desk.

Ahead of the vote, Thune said he hoped that conversations between the White House and Senate Democrats would produce the ‘the votes that are necessary to get it passed.’

Thune threw cold water on Senate Democrats’ several demands for reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) making their way into the current package, too. 

‘That’s not going to happen in this bill, but there are, I mean, there’s a path to consider some of those things and negotiate that out between Republicans, Democrats, House, Senate, White House,’ Thune said. ‘But that’s not gonna happen in this bill.’ 

With the six-bill package, which included major funding bills for the Pentagon and other agencies, now scuttled, Senate Republicans and the White House are looking for a plan B to keep the government open or to at least minimize the damage from a partial shutdown. 

One option gaining momentum among Republicans would be to strip the DHS funding bill from the broader package, advance the smaller, five-bill bundle and then turn to a short-term funding extension, known as a continuing resolution (CR), for just Homeland Security. 

And there are ongoing negotiations among Senate Democrats and the White House on that particular idea. 

A White House official told Fox News Digital in a statement, ‘President Trump has been consistent — he wants the government to remain open, and the Administration has been working with both parties to ensure the American people don’t have to endure another shutdown.’ 

‘A shutdown would risk disaster response funding and more vital resources for the American people,’ the official said. 

But taking that route presents several hurdles and challenges, particularly with the House out until next week.

That’s because any modification to the current six-bill package would require the lower chamber to agree to it. The same is true for any CR that the Senate produces for DHS. 

Schumer pinned the possibility of a shutdown on Thune, arguing that if he just put the five-bill package on the floor, Senate Democrats would support it. 

‘Well, let me tell you first, if funding lapses, it’s all because of Leader Thune,’ Schumer said. ‘It’s on his back.’

House Republicans have already signaled their unwillingness to support a modified funding package, and turning to a CR is a simmering taboo that many Republicans in the lower chamber aren’t likely to be happy with.

But it’s an option that could be gaining steam with Schumer and the White House, despite Trump administration officials blaming the top Senate Democrat for canning a meeting among rank-and-file Senate Democrats and the administration on Wednesday. 

Turning to a CR would be an about-face for Senate Democrats, too. Last week they argued that a short-term extension for DHS would amount to a ‘slush fund’ for Trump and the administration to use in their immigration operations with no guardrails.

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Longtime Democratic consultant James Carville says Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker could potentially be his party’s best choice to lead Democrats to victory in the 2028 presidential election.

And Carville, who first gained national attention over three decades ago as the chief strategist for former President Bill Clinton’s 1992 White House victory, argues that former Vice President Kamala Harris doesn’t have a shot at winning the next Democratic presidential nomination.

The 2028 Democratic nomination battle in the race to succeed term-limited President Donald Trump is expected to draw a crowded and competitive field.

‘If I had to say one guy… I’d take JD Pritzker,’ Carville said this week in a sit-down interview with Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo on his ‘Arroyo Grande’ podcast. Carville was asked which Democrat he could see carrying the flag into 2028.

The billionaire governor, a member of the Pritzker family that owns the Hyatt hotel chain and who has started several of his own venture capital and investment startups, is running this year for a third term to steer Illinois.

And Pritzker, who has become a leading voice in the Democrats’ opposition to Trump and has taken steps to Trump-proof his solidly blue state, has made a handful of trips in recent years to the key early voting states in the race for the White House.

Carville noted that Pritzker ‘campaigns hard.’

Asked about whether he could see Harris as the party’s standard-bearer in 2028, Carville responded, ‘She has no chance.’

Harris replaced then-President Joe Biden as the Democrats’ 2024 presidential nominee after Biden dropped his bid in July of that year, a month after a disastrous debate performance against Trump. Harris ended up losing the general election to Trump, who narrowly swept all seven key battleground states.

‘No Democrat wants anything to do with anybody that had anything to do with 2024,’ Carville emphasized, as he reasoned why Harris couldn’t win the 2028 nomination. He also questioned whether Harris, the nation’s first female and first Black vice president, had the ability to energize the Black community if she launched another White House run.

Carville said that the Democrats’ mantra heading into 2028 is ‘just win,’ and argued that ‘if we nominate two white males, nobody’s going to give a s—.’

He also doubted whether Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York would be a good 2028 nominee for the party.

Carville said the progressive champion and rising Democratic Party star ‘has talent, and she’s very smart.’

But he said that ‘the reason she is not going to work’ is because ‘there’s a large part of the Democratic Party that like to feel smug.’ Carville argued that Ocasio-Cortez and others on the progressive left of the party have alienated male voters.

‘Democratic culture became very feminized and very judgmental and that’s why we pushed so many of the males away,’ Carville said.

Asked by Fox News Digital if there’s anyone else he thinks is worth watching as a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender, Carville mentioned former Louisiana Lt. Gov. and former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu.

Landrieu mulled but ultimately decided against a 2020 White House and later served in the Biden administration.

Carville, pointing to ‘two huge mistakes that the Democratic Party made,’ also blamed former President Barack Obama and Biden for Trump’s 2016 and 2024 White House wins.

Obama continued and implemented the unprecedented $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, known as TARP, which was initiated by then-President George W. Bush at the very end of his White House tenure to stabilize the nation’s financial system after the 2008-2009 crisis.

The program prevented a total economic collapse, but was widely unpopular with voters.

‘The mistake they made was not going after these bankers,’ Carville said in the podcast, as he pointed to moves by Obama and his administration. ‘We bailed them out.’

And Carville emphasized that ‘there is one person who is responsible for the election of Donald Trump in 2024, and it’s not Donald Trump, it’s Joe Biden.’

Carville argued that if Biden ‘would have gotten out in September of 2023, it wouldn’t have been close.’

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