Battleground state steelworkers buck union’s endorsement of VP Harris
Pennsylvania steelworkers showed up for former President Trump’s rally Monday night, despite their union endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.
A sea of white and orange hard hats mixed in with those wearing MAGA baseball caps in line waiting to get inside the PPG Paints Arena for Trump’s second-to-last rally of his campaign in Pittsburgh, Politico reported.
“He saved us once with tariffs,” steelworker Ron Anderson told the news outlet. “He’s gonna save us again.”
Despite unions having a long association with Democrats, Harris missed out on three endorsements that went to President Biden in 2020, including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. A polling of its members showed more support for Trump.
Both Trump and Harris oppose the sale of U.S. Steel to Japanese firm Nippon, a transfer Anderson and his fellow steelworkers at the rally said they were vehemently opposed to.
They still think Trump is the better candidate, the outlet said.
“Democrats haven’t done anything for us in 40 years,” Anderson said. “They ain’t gonna do anything for us now.”
Former President Trump’s granddaughter, Kai, offered words of support for the Republican White House hopeful on the day before Election Day.
“One more day!” Kai wrote on the social media platform X.
“Let’s go Grandpa!” she added.
The 17-year-old internet personality is the daughter of Donald Trump Jr.
A Black Lives Matter activist said he plans to cast his vote for former President Trump on Election Day, arguing that black voters have been “blindly loyal to the Democrat Party.”
Mark Fisher, who says he is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Rhode Island, told the New York Post that he “definitely will not be supporting” Vice President Kamala Harris.
“If she ever got anywhere close to power, it would be a disaster for this country,” Fisher said.
Fisher pointed to the lack of improvement in black communities such as failing urban school districts and challenges with crime and poverty as to why black voters should not support Democrats in the election.
“For so long, we’ve just been blindly loyal to the Democrat Party — the Democratic Party — for no reason,” Fisher said. “They have given us no reason to have such loyalty — to maintain such loyalty — to them.”
He first expressed support for Trump in November 2023, saying on “Fox & Friends” at the time that “the Democratic Party is not for us.”
“They don’t really understand because they don’t educate themselves on Donald Trump as a person and his history,” Fisher said.
The national Black Lives Matter organization and Black Lives Matter Rhode Island PAC have publicly distanced themselves from Fisher and his endorsement of Trump, calling his support for the former president “a publicity stunt.”
“The right-wing continues to use and amplify fringe Black voices to create an idea of broad support for their corrupt candidates,” the two groups said in a joint statement to CNN last year.
Black Lives Matter Rhode Island PAC also released a separate statement in which they said Fisher “is not and has never been affiliated with our organization.”
Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to the Pittsburgh area on Monday evening where she rallied support in the battleground state, while again steering clear from naming her political opponent in her remarks.
“Tomorrow is election day. And the momentum is on our side. Our campaign has tapped into the ambitions, the aspirations and the dreams of the American people. And we know it is time for a new generation of leadership in America. And I am ready to offer that leadership as the next president of the United States,” Harris said from the rally in Rankin, which is about eight miles from Pittsburgh.
“We still got some work to do because, look, the race is not over, and we must finish strong,” she continued.
Harris again did not name former President Donald Trump during her remarks, which is a departure from her typical stump speeches as of Sunday. Harris did not name Trump during her four campaign stops across Michigan on Sunday, nor did she name him during her events in Scranton or Allentown earlier Monday.
Harris rallied in Pittsburgh late Monday, where she was joined by celebrities such as Katy Perry, who performed during the rally, and actor Cedric the Entertainer.
“I will listen to people who disagree with me because I do not believe that people who disagree with me are the enemy. In fact, I will give them a seat at the table. That is what real leaders do. That is what strong leaders do. And I pledge to always put country above party and self, and to be a president for all Americans,” Harris told the crowds.
Former President Donald Trump touted an American “golden age” if re-elected to the Oval Office while delivering his final campaign pitch to battleground state voters in Pennsylvania, where he was joined by high-profile supporters such as baseball legend Roberto Clemente’s son and Megyn Kelly.
“Your paychecks will be higher. Your streets will be safer and cleaner. Your communities will be richer, and your future will be brighter than ever before,” Trump said Monday evening from Pittsburgh.
“This will be the golden age of America,” he said to applause and cheers from the crowds.
Trump’s final day on the campaign trail included rallies and stops in North Carolina and Pennsylvania before heading to Grand Rapids, Michigan, later Monday for his final rally before Election Day. While in Pittsburgh, he was joined by Roberto Clemente Jr., a former baseball player and son of the Pittsburgh Pirates legend.
“I’m very proud to be here. For the first time, I had to take a step forward. And it is very important for me to support this man, because I believe tomorrow is a change of time. … The name Clemente, what it means is goodwill and unity. I believe that your team is going to bring it all home,” Clemente Jr. told the crowds.
“I believe in everything that you stand for right now, being able to make the change for our families. My three kids that are very young, and we live here in Pennsylvania. And I told this man that I commit myself to helping RFK JR. with … our kids and making America healthy again,” he continued.
Trump took the stage at Pittsburgh’s PPG Paints Arena just after 7:30 p.m., where he revealed more than an hour into the rally that he had just heard Joe Rogan officially endorsed him for president.
“It just came over the wires that Joe Rogan just endorsed me,” Trump said, following Megyn Kelly joining him on stage where she rallied support for the Trump-Vance ticket.
This is an excerpt from an article by Emma Colton.
The son of Puerto Rican baseball legend Roberto Clemente endorsed former President Trump on Monday in the city where his father played.
Robert Clemente Jr., joined Trump on stage in Pittsburgh where he praised the former commander-in-chief.
“For the first time,” Clemente Jr., said. “I had to take a step forward. It is very important for me to support this man, because I believe tomorrow is a change of time.”
“My father, the name Clemente, what it means is goodwill and unity. I believe that your team is going to bring it all home. I believe in everything that you stand for right now,” he told Trump.
Clemente, a beloved figure in Puerto Rico, played 18 seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates
as a right fielder. He died in 1972 in a plane crash while delivering emergency relief goods for the survivors of a massive earthquake in Nicaragua.
He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame the next year. In his honor, Major League baseball renamed the Commissioner’s Award, which is given to the player who “best exemplifies the game of baseball, sportsmanship, community involvement and the individual’s contribution to his team”, to the Roberto Clemente Award.
Joe Rogan endorsed former President Trump on Monday, a day before Election Day, and after he hosted the former commander-in-chief on his popular podcast last month.
“The great and powerful @elonmusk. If it wasn’t for him we’d be f*****,” Rogan wrote on X. “He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way. For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump. Enjoy the podcast.”
Trump appeared on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast in October where they spoke for nearly for three hours in Rogan’s Austin, Texas studio.
Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., implied that her past suggestion former President Trump would open internment camps for political prisoners “really wasn’t a joke.”
Although she did not mention what “joke” she had made, Dingell referenced how she “got in trouble” in the previous week for comments she said regarding Trump.
“I was listening to the discussion with your panel before this, you know, I got in trouble this week because I made a joke, one that really wasn‘t a joke, that someone might have to…I was talking about Donald Trump‘s comments, about his political enemies, and the enemy within this country,” Dingell said on CNN Sunday.
She added, “I think people do get disturbed by his language at times, and it makes people take a pause and think about it. And I have seen that impact people that I talked to a month ago.”
The “joke” was likely her claim last week on CNN
that Trump would put Muslim Americans in internment camps. The remark seemed to stun host Jake Tapper at the time.
“The Arab American community needs to be reminded and cannot forget. He wants to ban Muslims. He wants to deport Muslims, and he wants to start internment camps. And that‘s what we are busy talking to every voter. He‘s telling you what he‘s going to do. Believe him,” Dingell said.
“Internment camps?” Tapper asked. “Yes. He has talked internment camps,” Dingell argued.
“You know what, Jake, you may have to visit me in one. I get worried enough when he talks about what he‘s going to do to his political enemies, but he has talked about them in this with different groups of people.”
This is an excerpt from an article by Lindsay Kornick.
New York conservatives are warning that New York’s Proposition 1 on the ballot today is a “Trojan horse” to enshrine an array of abuses into the state constitution, including allowing illegal immigrants to vote.
Those in favor of the proposition say it is necessary to protect abortion rights in the state. However, opponents say it has nothing to do with abortion, which they say is already protected by New York law.
“It’s being portrayed as necessary to protect abortion rights, but that’s false,” John Faso, an attorney and former New York state representative, told Fox News Digital. “Abortion was legalized in New York State by the legislature in 1970, 54 years ago. And it’s not under any threat whatsoever, regardless of what your position is on it.”
Abortion is currently legal in New York through 24 weeks of pregnancy
. After 24 weeks, a woman can still obtain an abortion if her medical provider decides the unborn baby is not viable or the woman’s life or physical or mental health is at risk.
According to information on the website for New York Attorney General Letitia James, “people of all ages have the absolute right to abortion” in New York.
Faso said that “to argue that somehow abortion rights are at risk in New York State is just a complete lie.”
“If passed, the proposition would amend the state constitution to prohibit any discrimination based on ethnicity, national origin, age, disability and sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive health care and autonomy.”
This is an excerpt from an article by Peter Pinedo.
Journalist Mark Halperin on Monday said that early voting is a worrying indicator for Vice President Kamala Harris, as Republicans have reportedly made gains compared to 2020.
“My sense of the early vote is it is not as disastrous as it was in the first three days to the Democrats
, but it’s still really bad,” Halperin said on “The Morning Meeting with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer & Dan Turrentine.” And the Harris campaign has done a great job of spinning the national media on it. And when you talk to people in the states, there’s two categories of people in the states.”
“There’s more junior people who don’t lie about the data and what it means,” he added. “What you have now is tons of senior Democrats are in the states, they’re door-knocking, like people who have run presidential campaigns are literally going to Michigan and Pennsylvania and door-knocking.”
On Sunday, former President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina said on “Inside with Jen Psaki” that early voting numbers “are a little scary.”
His remarks are “the biggest indication that we’ve seen that the early vote is a problem for her [Harris],” Halperin said, noting that Messina has been optimistic about Harris during television interviews.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump have increased efforts to appeal to young men in the final days of a hotly contested election.
Trump has greater support among young male voters, but that may not translate into them showing up at the polls. Harris has the advantage among young women.
“The young men who are voting for Harris say that they’re definitely voting at a higher rate,” Anil Cacocdar, the chair of the Harvard Youth Poll, told The Hill. “Voter intention among those young men who are voting for Harris, or say they’re voting for Harris, is higher than that for young men voting for Trump.”
Last week, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz played video games on Twitch with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., which the Harris-Walz campaign pointed to as evidence of their efforts to “meet young men where they are.”
“[Trump] has put more machismo out there, and there are young men out and loud for Trump, but then there are young men out and loud for Kamala,” Simon Isaacs, who helps plan events for Hotties for Harris, told the news outlet. “But I also think there are definitively fewer MAGA hats on young men compared to 2016 and 2020…there is certainly a very loud minority of men but I think we are also reaching young men and beginning to invest in a space that Democrats have historically ignored.”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is making multiple stops in Wisconsin on Monday in an effort to appeal to voters in the crucial swing state.
Walz was in Stevens Point where he expressed the differences between Harris and Trump.
“We’re going to elect a new generation of leadership with Kamala Harris. A new way forward,” Walz said.
Later in the day, he will speak in Milwaukee after a stop in La Crosse. Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance also campaigned in La Crosse Monday.
On Sunday, former President Barack Obama also campaigned for Harris in Milwaukee.
Harris and Trump held dueling rallies in the city last week as well.
Wisconsin’s 10 electoral college votes have long been a coveted prize, forming part of the famed “Blue Wall” that held in 2020 to deliver a Biden victory, along with its counterparts Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Elon Musk’s $1 million daily giveaway to voters can continue, a Pennsylvania judge ruled Monday.
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Angelo Foglietta rejected arguments from Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s district attorney, who argued that the move by the Tesla CEO was an illegal lottery aimed at influencing the results of the presidential election and a violation of state law.
Krasner filed a lawsuit to stop Musk and his Trump-supporting political action committee from continuing the sweepstakes to swing-state voters.
Musk billed the $1 million daily giveaways as an effort to increase voter registration across seven major swing states, and said its daily winners are selected at “random.”
Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign said it could take several days to determine the final result of the presidential election.
Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told reporters that the race is still “incredibly close.”
“So, we may not know the results of this election for several days, but we are very focused on staying calm and confident throughout this period as the process goes through,” she said. “And we really know that we as a campaign have a really important role to play in keeping people calm and communicating and being transparent about our process.”
She said the campaign expects “near complete” results from Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan and “partial results” from Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Arizona by Tuesday night, The Hill reported.
More results from Wisconsin and additional results from Pennsylvania and Michigan should be available by Wednesday, she added. After Wednesday, the campaign expects “additional results” from Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada.
O’Malley Dillon noted that ballots will be counted for several days.
The Washington D.C. National Guard has been authorized to assist local authorities starting on Election Day ahead of Tuesday’s election, Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said on Monday.
“Secretary Austin approved a request last week from the District of Columbia for DC National Guard troops to support the DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services from November 5th through 13,” Ruder told reporters.
He added that 60 Guard members from six states have been activated by their state governors for election support, with roughly another 600 from 17 states on standby if needed.
Whoopi Goldberg floated the idea Monday of former Rep. Liz Cheney serving as U.S. attorney general under Vice President Kamala Harris should she win the presidency.
Cheney appeared on “The View” where Goldberg, a critic of former President Trump, asked her if she was also a lawyer.
“You could conceivably be a great AG,” said Goldberg. “I say this because your moral core is magnificent.”
Goldberg said she would “feel a lot better” with Cheney leading the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies.
“I’m just saying. Should it be floated, just think about it,” said Goldberg.
Cheney responded, saying “we have to get Vice President Harris elected.”
Cheney has been a vocal critic of Trump following the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, which she said he incited in an effort to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Last week, Trump called her a war hawk who pushed for conflict for the safety of Washington.
The editor of an online news site in Nevada is predicting Kamala Harris to carry the swing state.
Jon Ralston of The Nevada Independent said Harris will squeak out a win against former President Trump by a 48.5% to 48.2% margin in what he called a unicorn election because of the unusual voting patterns.
New numbers released last week in Nevada showed that Republicans had virtually erased the Democrat voter-registration lead, on top of historic early-voting numbers for Republicans.
Figures released by the Nevada Secretary of State on Friday showed that Democrats held a 9,200-vote lead in registrations over Republicans after October data was added. Four years ago, Democrats held an advantage of roughly 86,000 votes heading into Election Day.
“There are a lot of nonpartisans who are closet Democrats who were purposely registered by Democrat-aligned groups as nonpartisans,” Ralston wrote Monday. “The machine knows who they are and will get them to vote. It will be just enough to overcome the Republican lead – along with women motivated by abortion and crossover votes that issue also will cause.”
Ralston noted that it won’t be clear who carries the state on election night.
“It’s going to be very, very close,” he said.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is telling Americans “do NOT vote for me” on the eve of Election Day, adding in a video that a vote for Trump is “the only way that we can get me and everything I stand for into Washington, D.C. and fulfill the mission that motivated my campaign.”
The fresh plea comes after the Supreme Court last week denied separate appeals by RFK Jr. to remove his name from the ballots in Wisconsin and Michigan.
“I’ve asked my voters repeatedly to vote for President Trump, but even a few votes for me in [Michigan] could swing the ballot in a way that the public doesn’t intend and the voters don’t intend,” he told “America’s Newsroom” on Sunday.
Kennedy, who once was running as an independent presidential candidate, has been trying to get his name off ballots in key battleground states since he suspended his campaign in August and endorsed Trump.
“Hey everybody, a lot of people are asking me if they live in a red state or blue state should they still be voting for me? What about swing states? The answer is easy – no,” RFK Jr. then said in a video posted to his X account on Monday.
“No matter what state you live in, you should be voting for Donald Trump. And let me tell you why. That’s the only way that we can get me and everything I stand for into Washington, D.C. and fulfill the mission that motivated my campaign,” he continued.
“Outnumbered” panelists discussed Vice President Kamala Harris’ refusal to reveal her stance on a California crime measure and many other issues.
“Axios is now labeling Harris as the no-comment candidate. Just yesterday, she refused to say whether she voted for or against a tough-on-crime measure in California,” hosts explained.
Harris was filmed declining to say whether she voted in favor of the measure this weekend. She said simply that her ballot is “on its way to California.”
“I trust the system that it will arrive there, and I am not gonna talk about the vote on that because, honestly, it’s the Sunday before an election and I don’t intend to create an endorsement one way or another around it,” Harris said.
Harris has also refused to clarify her positions regarding reparations for Black Americans; support for sanctuary cities; taxpayer-funded gender surgeries for inmates and many other issues.
At a time when the public is deluged with conflicting polls and statistical ties, Donald Trump’s campaign is unusually confident.
The Kamala Harris operation also sees reason for optimism, with news that late deciders are breaking her way by more than 10%. But she still casts herself as the underdog. Her “SNL” appearance doesn’t change that; nor does Trump saying that RFK’s plan to remove fluoride from the water “sounds okay to me.”
The climax of the campaign seems built around a gaping gender gap–with Kamala doing far better among women and Trump much better among men.
The view from the Trump camp is that registration figures favor Republicans, based on mail-in voting, in the battleground states that will decide the race. Nearly half the country has already voted.
Take the crucial commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 2020, Democrats had a 7.5% advantage, and that’s now shrunk to a 3-point edge.
Further illustrating the partisan gender gap, just 39% of Democrats who have voted there so far are men, compared to 49% among Republicans.
Democratic strategist Tom Bonier, who appears on MSNBC, says the Pennsylvania electorate is much more Republican, and much more male, than last time.
This is an excerpt from an article by Howard Kurtz.
Former President Trump’s campaign is touting data reportedly showing Republicans gaining ground in the early vote in battleground states compared to figures in the 2020 election cycle.
A source in the campaign told the New York Post
that new and infrequent voters are leaning more toward Republicans than Democrats based on the latest indications from the four battleground states – Arizona, North Carolina, Nevada and Pennsylvania — that reveal partisan registration during early voting.
In three other battleground states where data about party affiliation in early voting is not available, the Trump campaign is seeing bright spots that could foreshadow a favorable outcome, the source said.
There have been about 76 million early votes cast across the country, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab. For context, a grand total of 252 million turned out in the 2020 election, the Post reported.
Trump has encouraged his supporters to vote early this time around.
In 2020, early voting generally favored Democrats while in-person voting leaned more toward the GOP.
Vice President Kamala Harris addressed supporters at one of three rallies she has scheduled in Pennsylvania on Monday.
Harris continued
her closing message of unity, urging a crowd full of Democratic canvassers to “be intentional about building community.”
“There is so much more that we have in common than what separates us,” she said.
“Over these next 24 hours let’s enjoy this moment to knock on a neighbor’s door,” she said before thanking each of the canvassers for their efforts.
The crowd broke into a chant of “Ka-ma-la” near the end of her speech. Harris then attempted to start another chant of “Let’s get out the vote,” but it soon petered out.
Former President Trump’s campaign says Vice President Kamala Harris is facing a voter turnout problem on the eve of Election Day.
The campaign highlighted comments from former Obama Campaign Manager Jim Messina, who said on MSNBC that “the early vote numbers are a little scary.”
The campaign also pointed to a report from NBC News claiming that Trump had a “16-point lead” among voters who plan to cast their ballot on Election Day.
“Democrats are spinning themselves and reporters by claiming that their voters will turn out on Election Day when polls show otherwise and, most importantly, that’s asking Democrat voters to do something they have absolutely no history of doing,” reads a memo released by Trump 2024 National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “If Democrats, who historically vote ahead of Election Day, haven’t been motivated to show up for Kamala yet, why do we expect them to show up tomorrow?”
“Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host Pete Hegseth reacted to Vice President Harris’ plans to rub elbows with celebrities at a Philadelphia rally on election eve.
Hegseth argued the celebrities attending Harris’ rally would conjure up interest in attending the event, but wouldn’t change anyone’s mind about Harris as a candidate.
Harris has had a litany of top celebrities attend her rallies in recent weeks, boasting endorsements from much of Hollywood.
The New York Times Tech Guild that represents hundreds of the giant newspaper’s tech staffers went on strike on Monday, one day before Election Day.
The guild said in a statement that members would begin protesting outside the Times headquarters on a daily basis, beginning at 9 a.m. on Monday, according to the New York Times.
The planned walkout came after a vote on Sept. 10 to go on strike at a critical juncture if a deal wasn’t made: Election Week. Anticipation and interest in the 2024 election is at a fever pitch, and the New York Times has the largest online subscription base of any American newspaper and one of the most highly trafficked news websites.
According to the Times, the Tech Guild’s 600 members are in charge of the back-end systems that power the paper’s extensive digital operations, working in Engineering, Product, Design, Data and the project management office. The strike could affect the paper’s ability to cover the election results of the presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, as well as the hundreds of House and dozens of Senate races dominating the national conversation and determining who will control of Washington in 2025.
“They have left us no choice but to demonstrate the power of our labor on the picket line,” Kathy Zhang, the guild’s unit chair, said in the statement, according to the New York Times. “Nevertheless, we stand ready to bargain and get this contract across the finish line.”
According to the Times, negotiations went late into Sunday and there were still disagreements over issues like a “just cause” provision that would prevent termination for reasons unrelated to misconduct, as well as pay raises and return-to-office policies. Times management told workers on Sunday it had offered a 2.5% annual wage hike, a 5% pay increase minimum for promotions and a $1,000 ratification bonus.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ David Rutz
First lady Jill Biden will stump for Vice President Kamala Harris in a key battleground state on the last day before the general election, while President Biden, the former Democratic nominee, is absent from the campaign trail.
The first lady will spend election eve campaigning for Harris in North Carolina – a state of 16 key electoral votes that former President Donald Trump won in both 2016 and 2020.
Neither Harris nor her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, have events scheduled in North Carolina on Monday. However, Jill Biden is expected to make stops in three cities across the state: Winston-Salem, Carrboro and Durham.
The first lady was also on the campaign trail Sunday, speaking at a get-out-the-vote event in Pennsylvania.
While his wife hits the trail for the Democratic presidential nominee, President Biden’s public schedule shows he will remain off the campaign trail until Election Day.
The president will spend Monday making calls to thank service members for “recent successful counterterrorism operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria,” according to his public schedule.
The president attended a get-out-the-vote event in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, but has remained largely distant from the campaign trail since Harris stepped in as his replacement in July.
Harris, herself, has also appeared to distance herself from Biden throughout her campaign.
The vice president recently told Fox News’ Bret Baier that her presidency would “not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency.”
“Like every new president that comes into office, I will bring my life experiences, my professional experiences, and fresh and new ideas. I represent a new generation of leadership,” Harris told Fox News.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Aubrie Spady
Former President Trump vowed to impose massive tariffs against Mexico on day one of his administration if the country doesn’t act to halt the flow of migrants through its territory.
Trump made the statement during a campaign appearance in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Monday. The threat is just one example of how the former president has said he plans to use tariffs to achieve his goals if he wins election on Tuesday.
Trump recalled his relationship with former Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, saying he had convinced Obrador to deploy troops to the U.S.-Mexico border during wall construction.
“They actually laughed at me when I suggested it,” Trump said of Obrador’s governemnt. “I said, here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to put a tariff of 100% on all your cars and everything that comes into the United States. They said, you know, they said, sir, we would be greatly honored to let you have our soldiers free of charge.”
“One of the first calls I’m going to make is to Mexico. You stop letting people come in through our border and come in through your southern border, and you stop them,” Trump continued.
He said he would threaten Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum with a 25% tariff if she does not address the issue.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., appeared on MSNBC on Monday to claim that former President Trump’s brain is deteriorating.
“I think that what, uh, um, um the ex-president just said is further indication of his cognitive degeneration,” Pelosi argued. “You saw recently when he talked about whether he chose electrocution or being eaten by sharks.”
“Something is very wrong there, and indicative in it also is diminishing the power of the press, which is the guardian of our freedom,” she continued. “People who are thinking about voting for him have to know that he can’t last as president for four years with his brain deteriorating at the rate that it is.”
Pelosi went on to say that a vote for Trump may very well be a vote for a JD Vance presidency, which she argued would be a disaster.
DAYTON, OH – A competitive Senate race in Ohio has resulted in voters being flooded with ads about national issues, but a lesser known state ballot measure to amend the state constitution could, according to its critics, fundamentally change the makeup of elections for the worse for years to come.
On Tuesday, Ohio voters will vote “yes” or “no” on a measure “to create an appointed redistricting commission not elected by or subject to removal by the voters of the state.”
The ballot question
states that it would, among other things, “repeal constitutional protections against gerrymandering approved by nearly three quarters of Ohio electors participating in the statewide elections of 2015 and 2018, and eliminate the longstanding ability of Ohio citizens to hold their representatives accountable for establishing fair state legislative and congressional districts.”
Ohioans voted overwhelmingly in 2015 to create the commission and have it draw State House districts. During that bipartisan campaign, which was called Fair Districts for Ohio, they were promised the new system would “protect against gerrymandering.” In 2018, voters gave the commission an additional role in a new system set up to draw congressional districts.
Citizens Not Politicians (CNP) argues the existing system has failed. The group is calling for replacing the current regime with an independent body made up of average citizens. Current and former politicians, party officials and lobbyists would be ineligible. The 15-member Ohio Citizens Redistricting Commission would include Republicans, Democrats and independents and represent a mix of the state’s geographic and demographic traits.
CNP sued the Ohio Ballot Board and Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose over the wording of the ballot measure, and small tweaks were made. However, the court ruled the phrase “required to gerrymander” was accurate and upheld the majority of the wording.
While CNP argues that this measure puts citizens in control of district mapping, opponents warn that the measure is a partisan power grab funded by progressive groups, including dark money.
“Issue 1 doesn’t empower citizens, it does the exact opposite,” Honest Elections Project Executive Director Jason Snead told Fox News Digital. “It creates a new class of politicians who are wholly unaccountable to the people of Ohio. It’s nothing more than a liberal power grab designed to send more progressive politicians to Washington and Columbus.”
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Andrew Mark Miller
FCC Commissioner Senior Republican Brendan Carr joined Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo to discuss Kamala Harris’ appearance on “Saturday Night Live.”
Carr was among the first to cry fowl over Harris’ appearance, arguing that NBC may have infringed on the federal equal time rule. The rule requires that public networks provide equal and similarly placed time to qualifying election candidates.
Carr noted that NBC would be required to offer former President Trump comparable time following Harris’ appearance.
NBC did file a notice with the FCC following Harris’ appearance, saying it gave the candidate two minutes of airtime during the SNL episode.
Carr noted that NBC only made the admission “after a ruckus was made and they were called out for this.”
“The FCC needs to speak up and hold them accountable,” he said.
Carr is the sole Republican in the 3-person leadership over the FCC. The FCC chair would be required to pursue any action relating to NBC.
ABC’s Jonathan Karl revealed on Sunday that he spoke to former President Trump on the phone earlier in the day and the president said he could lose the race.
“I asked him, is there any way you could lose?” Karl said. “He said something I’ve never really heard him say before, which was, ‘Yeah I guess it could happen. Things happen. Bad things happen.'”
“But one thing he was upset with me about–I had pointed out that his campaign wants him to focus on a fundamental issue of the economy, the border…and he’s out there talking about putting guns in Liz Cheney’s face…I said he’s not disciplined, he doesn’t have a message, and he was upset with that. He said the weave, is what he calls it where he bounces around, is what got him elected president,” Karl said.
PHILADELPHIA – Vice President Kamala Harris is making a last-minute pitch to her supporters in the biggest of the battlegrounds.
“We need you to vote, Pennsylvania. We need you to vote,” Harris emphasized as she spoke to a large crowd in the Keystone State’s capital city of Harrisburg last week. “No one can sit on the sidelines.”
The vice president and Democratic presidential nominee returns to Pennsylvania on Monday – holding rallies in Allentown, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia on Election Eve. She’ll begin her final day with a canvass kick off in Scranton, and also make a stop in Reading.
Her rival for the White House, Republican nominee former President Donald Trump, held a rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday.
“A very, very special hello to Pennsylvania… What a great place. And I’m thrilled to be back in this beautiful Commonwealth with thousands of proud, hardworking American patriots,” the former president told the crowd at his rally in Lititz.
Trump’s message to his supporters: “Pennsylvania, go vote.”
On Monday, the final full day of campaigning ahead of Election Day, Trump returns to the state to hold rallies in Reading and Pittsburgh.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has suggested that if Democrats sweep the 2024 elections, they will control the nation for a century.
He predicted that if Democrats win both chambers of Congress and the White House, they will eliminate the filibuster in the Senate, add justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, grant Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico statehood, and establish federal control over elections, redistricting, and campaigns.
“Day 1: Nuke the filibuster,” Lee wrote on X. “Day 2: Pack SCOTUS. Day 3: Make DC & PR states. Day 4: Enact federal takeover of elections/redistricting/campaigns. Days 5 – 36,500: Rule America uncontested for 100 years.”
Lee, who has been serving in the Senate since 2011, endorsed former President Donald Trump in January prior to the Iowa GOP presidential caucus, which Trump decisively won.
The senator has been active on X, frequently responding to 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Democrats are in a position to possibly flip two of Iowa’s four House seats, according to a new poll.
The state’s four House seats are currently controlled by Republicans.
Democrats have the upper hand in the 1st and 3rd Congressional Districts, while Republicans remain ahead among voters in the 2nd and 4th Districts, according to a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll.
In the 1st Congressional District, 53% of respondents said they preferred the Democratic candidate, while 37% said they would vote or have already voted for the Republican.
Democratic challenger Christina Bohannan, therefore, has a 16-point lead over Republican incumbent Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in their 2022 rematch contest.
Miller-Meeks secured victory over Bohannan by nearly 7 percentage points in 2022.
“This race was always going to be competitive,” Miller-Meeks campaign spokesman Tyler Menzler said in a statement. “In 2020, Mariannette Miller-Meeks won by 6 votes and in 2022, she won by 7 points.”
“Just like yesterday, the final Selzer poll greatly defies the reality on the ground,” Menzler said. “And not even the Democrats are buying it. On Tuesday, Mariannette Miller-Meeks will win the only poll that matters and be re-elected.”
The Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows 48% of voters in the third congressional district prefer the Democratic candidate, while 41% said they voted or will vote for the Republican. Democratic challenger Lanon Baccam has a 7-point lead ahead of Republican incumbent Rep. Zach Nunn.
In the 2nd Congressional District, 45% of respondents prefer the Republican, while 42% prefer the Democrat. Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson has a three-point lead over Democrat Sarah Corkery.
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Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance is predicting a Trump victory in New Hampshire on Election Day, telling voters there that the campaign is “expanding the map” compared to past presidential races.
“I believe that in two days we’re going to turn New Hampshire red and make Donald Trump the next president of the United States,” the Ohio senator and Trump’s running mate told a crowd in Derry on Sunday night.
“I got to be honest, a couple of months ago, I wasn’t necessarily sure that the day before the last full day of the campaign, we’d be in the great state of New Hampshire. But I think that it suggests that what we’re doing is expanding the map,” Vance continued. “We’re bringing new voters into this coalition and for the folks in New Hampshire who want to live free, we are the only ticket in town, Donald J. Trump is the only president for you.”
Vance said a margin of just .37% in 2016 “was the difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump.”
The state went blue that year, and then in 2020 President Biden defeated Trump in New Hampshire 52.9 to 45.5%.
“I think what’s different this time around is that we have seen for the last four years the incredible failures of Kamala Harris’s governance and the way that it has affected people in this great state as much as anybody else in the union,” Vance said Sunday.
“I’ve heard already since I’ve been in the state of New Hampshire, about the terrible toll of Kamala Harris’ open border, about the migrant crisis that has made its way hundreds of miles from the American southern border, right here to the state of New Hampshire,” Vance added. “I hear from New Hampshire families who can’t afford the cost of groceries, who can’t afford to buy a home, and I think our message in just two days to Kamala Harris is going to be very simple and my running mate loves to say it, you are fired. Go back to San Francisco, where you belong. We don’t want you in the White House.”
In the final Fox News Power Rankings forecast before Election Day, New Hampshire was placed in the “leans Dem” category.
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An election ad for former President Donald Trump aired on NBC toward the end of the broadcast of NASCAR’s Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Speedway and the NFL’s coverage of the Minnesota Vikings-Indianapolis Colts game on Sunday night.
The ad started with “A special message from Donald J. Trump.”
Trump was seen with his “Make America Great Again” hat as he told viewers that electing Vice President Kamala Harris would bring along another “depression.” He also told viewers to go out and vote with only a handful of hours left before Election Day comes and goes.
“We’re losing everything, including viability,” Trump said in the ad. “We’re going to end up in a depression based on what’s been happening. We’ve never seen anything like it, at least in the last 40 years.”
The appearance of the Republican presidential candidate appeared to be connected to Harris’ surprise appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” according to multiple reports.
The uproar over her appearance and whether Trump would get free time on some NBC broadcast was the talk of Sunday.
The uproar over her appearance and whether Trump would get free time on some NBC broadcast was the talk of Sunday.
NBC News filed an Equal Time notice with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) late Sunday following the backlash, disclosing Harris “SNL” appearance after the network was accused of violating the longstanding rule.
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Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris remain deadlocked in polls as the nation sits on the eve of Election Day on Monday.
Fox News political correspondent Brooke Singman reported the latest on the razor-thin race between Trump and Harris in a Monday morning appearance on “Fox & Friends First.”
Harris will spend Monday hopping across Pennsylvania, making her final pitch to voters with a concert featuring “plenty of A-list celebrities.”
Meanwhile, Trump will hold four rallies across three swing states Monday, including a stop in Michigan to speak with auto workers.
“On Tuesday you have to stand up and tell Harris that you’ve had enough, you can’t take it anymore, that you’re the worse vice president in the history of our country. It’s the worst administration in the history of our country. Kamala, you’re fired. Get out. Get out, you’re fired,” Trump said in a Sunday rally.
Early in-person and mail-in ballots have begun pouring in across the country, and the tally in each state reveals mounting voter enthusiasm.
Recent polling suggests a razor-thin margin in the race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, and the results are expected to come down to each candidate’s performance in seven swing states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and North Carolina.
States have long allowed at least some Americans to vote early, like members of the military and people with illnesses unable to get to the polls. Many states expanded eligibility in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the last presidential election, mail ballots tended to skew Democratic. In 2020, 60% of Democrats reported voting by mail, compared to 32% of Republicans, according to a 2021 study from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.
As of Sunday morning, over 77 million ballots have been cast nationwide.
Here is a breakdown of where early ballots have been cast, either by mail or in person, in the seven battleground states, according to The Associated Press. Some states, like Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania also provide a party breakdown of the early votes that have been cast.
New security fencing was placed around the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence and the U.S. Capitol on Sunday as authorities in Washington, D.C., prepare for potential unrest following Tuesday’s presidential election.
The Secret Service erected eight-foot-high metal fences around the White House and Treasury Department complex, and the adjacent parts of Lafayette Square, as well as the Naval Observatory and Harris’ D.C. residence, according to The Washington Post.
The Capitol brought back temporary bicycle-rack barriers posted with signs surrounding its perimeter that read: “Police Line: Do not cross.”
Physical security measures will also be set up by the Secret Service outside the West Palm Beach, Florida, convention center where former President Trump will hold a watch party on election night.
Metropolitan Police in Washington, D.C., also announced street closures, no parking zones and transit detours starting at 7 p.m. Monday in the area around Harris’ election night watch party at Howard University.
“The Secret Service is working closely with federal, state and local partners in Washington, DC and Palm Beach County, Florida to ensure heightened levels of Election Day safety and security,” the Secret Service said in a statement to The Washington Post. “These enhancements are not in response to any specific issue but are part of wide ranging public safety preparations for Tuesday’s election.”
This comes after officials have sought to reassure residents and businesses bracing for post-election protests following damage suffered in 2020 during Black Lives Matter and post-election demonstrations.
Fox News’ Landon Mion contributed to this report
‘Star Wars’ icon Harrison Ford makes presidential endorsement
Iconic “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” actor Harrison Ford became the latest Hollywood A-lister to publicly endorse Vice President Kamala Harris, just days before Tuesday’s presidential election between her and former President Donald Trump.
“Look, I’ve been voting for 64 years,” the 82-year-old star told fans in a video endorsement the Harris-Walz campaign posted over the weekend.
“[I] never really wanted to talk about it very much, but when dozens of former members of the Trump administration are sounding alarms, saying, ‘For God’s sake, don’t do this again,’ you have to pay attention.”
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Seated alone and in grayscale against a dark background, Ford warned viewers in the brief video that those former Trump officials are telling voters something “important.”
He continued, “These aren’t soft people. They’re governors, generals, standing up against the leader of the party they spent their lives advocating for. For many of them, this will be the first time they have voted for someone who doesn’t have an ‘R’ next to their name, because they know this really matters.
“The truth is this: Kamala Harris will protect your right to disagree with her about policies or ideas… and, as we’ve done for centuries, we’ll debate them, we’ll work on them together, and we’ll move forward.”
HARRIS PICKS UP ENDORSEMENTS FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICANS 6 DAYS BEFORE ELECTION
He concluded by insisting former President Trump demands “unquestioning loyalty” and wants “revenge,” telling viewers he plans to use his vote to “move forward.”
Ford’s endorsement follows a swath of others from Hollywood who have backed the Democratic nominee, including Oprah Winfrey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Taylor Swift and even his co-star from the “Star Wars” franchise, Mark Hamill.
Former President Trump has also received celebrity endorsements this election cycle, however, including the likes of “Reagan” star Dennis Quaid, country music star Jason Aldean, wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, business magnate Elon Musk, actors Jon Voight and Dean Cain and music star Kid Rock.
Harris has failed to reel in some support among typical rank-and-file Democratic loyalists, including select unions like the Teamsters, who declined to make an endorsement for either candidate this election cycle. She has also received fewer endorsements from newspapers than former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or President Joe Biden did in 2016 and 2020, respectively.
FAR FEWER NEWSPAPERS ARE ENDORSING HARRIS THAN BACKED CLINTON OR BIDEN
Harris and Trump are currently deadlocked in many polls, with select numbers indicating a slight favorite for either candidate in a series of swing states.
The outcome of Tuesday’s race is expected to boil down to a series of key battleground states – Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Arizona.
Others have speculated that other states such as New Hampshire, Virginia and Iowa could be in play as well.
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VP Harris bungles interview with influencer so badly he doesn’t air it: ‘Taken aback’
Kamala Harris’ interview with a Muslim social media influencer never saw the light of day after the vice president refused to answer questions about Gaza but oddly gushed about bacon – a food religiously forbidden for Muslims.
Kareem Rahma, host of the popular “Subway Takes” which boasts almost a million combined followers on Instagram and TikTok, made the decision to scrap the interview with Harris, which was filmed over the summer, he told the New York Times.
Prior to the interview, Rahma was hoping to press Harris on policy, specifically the Biden administration’s support for Israel amid the ongoing war in Gaza, which he opposes, per the Times. But, despite asking on three calls with her team and the Democratic National Committee, he was “rejected.”
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Instead, the campaign agreed that Harris would offer a “hot take” against people taking off their shoes on airplanes. The show’s premise revolves around guests, some of them notable, defending an unpopular opinion or perspective.
“[Rahma] ultimately agreed to the terms, reasoning that he could choose not to publish the video if it made him uneasy,” the New York Times story said.
But when Rahma sat down with Harris for the interview, she shared a different hot take, declaring that “bacon is a spice.” Rahma and other observant Muslims do not eat pork in adherence with their faith.
“I don’t know,” he reportedly pushed back in the unaired interview. The Times described him as “taken aback.”
“Think about it, it’s pure flavor,” she said, according to footage reviewed by the Times.
Rahma then reportedly paused the interview to tell her he doesn’t eat pork, then attempted to redirect Harris to the agreed upon topic of taking off shoes mid-flight. But Harris doubled down with another food take, which the Times said was on the advice of a staffer, praising anchovies on pizza.
“Well,” Rahma told Harris in the recording. “I’m 100% unsure on both of those.”
TRUMP, HARRIS SPRINT TO THE FINISH LINE WITH LESS THAN 24 HOURS BEFORE ELECTION DAY
Rahma ultimately chose not to air the interview, fearing that it would upset the Muslim community.
“He had been apprehensive about potential criticism from other Muslims, and the bacon talk had thrown him off,” the Times reported.
“It was so complicated because I’m Muslim and there’s something going on in the world that 100 percent of Muslims care about,” Rahma told the outlet. “And then they made it worse by talking about anchovies. Boring!”
Two senior Harris campaign officials told the Times that Rahma had been told about the bacon topic in advance but Rahma and his manager disputed this. Still, the campaign reportedly apologized for the bacon reference and offered to reshoot, per the Times, but Rahma made the decision not to move forward.
In August, Rahma aired a separate interview with Harris’ running mate Tim Walz, who talked about gutter maintenance in an exchange that has since gone viral.
Harris, who has been faulted for largely avoiding the press in the early months of her candidacy, has a history of bungling interviews and media engagements. She has repeatedly come under fire for “word salads,” a term coined by her critics that refers to redundant, oftentimes nonsensical statements she has made publicly throughout the election season.
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The Harris campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Colorado’s top election official explains scope of major security breach
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold revealed voting equipment passwords were posted online for four months before being noticed and taken down in a concerning security breach ahead of the election.
Griswold, a Democrat, said the passwords were posted on June 21 and were taken down on Oct. 24.
A former staff member created a spreadsheet that contained the passwords in a hidden tab. The spreadsheet was then posted on the Colorado Department of State’s subpage for voting system equipment, Griswold’s office said.
Griswold’s office said the employee left “amicably” before the breach was made public. However, Griswold refused to share specific details about the employee’s departure.
COLORADO SECRETARY OF STATE SITE ‘IMPROPERLY’ DISPLAYED PARTIAL PASSWORDS FOR VOTING SYSTEMS
Griswold’s office determined that 34 of Colorado’s 64 counties were affected by the password breach.
While the breach was discovered on Oct. 24, it wasn’t made public until the Colorado Republican Party revealed it in an email five days later.
Griswold defended her office’s decision not to detail the breach to the public right away, claiming she didn’t know if the passwords were active. She said she wanted to understand the “size and scope of the disclosure” first.
ARIZONA COUNTY DEFENDS RESTORING 98,000 WITH UNCONFIRMED CITIZENSHIP TO VOTER ROLLS
The Colorado Libertarian Party is suing the state over the breach.
Griswold’s office said all affected active equipment had undergone password updates with support from the Governor’s Office of Information Technology, Colorado Bureau of Investigation and Colorado’s dedicated County Clerks.
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Griswold insisted Colorado’s elections are safe.
“Colorado’s elections are safe and Coloradans will have their voices heard on Election Day. Our elections have many layers of security. Ensuring that Colorado’s elections are secure and accessible has been and will always be our top priority, which is why the Department of State, along with County Clerks and election workers across the state, address any and every potential risk to our elections with the utmost seriousness. I am regretful for this error. I am dedicated to making sure we address this matter fully and that mistakes of this nature never happen again.” — Secretary of State Jena Griswold
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The secretary’s office said it is working with a law firm on an outside investigation to determine how the breach happened, how it could be prevented and any recommendations for improvement.
It added it will also require additional cybersecurity training with all staff, including password management and security procedures.
County defends restoring 98,000 voters with unconfirmed citizenship to voter rolls
The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office is standing by its choice to restore voter registration status of individuals affected by a glitch that impacted 218,000 voters.
“Maricopa County did not receive a complete list from the Secretary of State’s Office regarding who may have been impacted by the MVD data oversight,” the Recorder’s Office said in a statement to Fox News in part.
“However, if impacted voters submitted a new voter registration form after the oversight was found, they appeared in our system as needing to provide DPOC upon their new registration form being processed. These voters were contacted individually to let them know their registration was incomplete. However, after further consideration, the decision was made to fully restore those voters from the not registered status, only if they were previously an existing, registered voter,” the statement read.
ARIZONA HIGH COURT RULES SECRETARY OF STATE MUST TURN OVER LIST OF NONCITIZENS ON VOTER ROLL
Now, these voters can participate in the upcoming election as they did before, the recorder’s office said.
“Additionally, we know roughly 2,000 voters who were impacted in the MVD data oversight submitted voter registration updates and some of those may have been contacted about providing DPOC,” the statement read.
The county recorder added, “but since then, regardless of if they have provided that additional information, they have since been restored their original status for this election.”
Arizona’s high court ruled last Thursday the county must provide a conservative watchdog group with a list of noncitizens currently registered to vote after a lawsuit was lobbed against the county last year.
During an evidentiary hearing, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes testified that a system error had affected approximately 218,000 registered voters, the court document states.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ON VOTER ROLLS SPURS WATCHDOG GROUP TO SUE MARICOPA COUNTY
The order notes that Fontes acknowledged having a partial list of about 98,000 voters who have not confirmed their proof of citizenship but stated that no complete list of all 218,000 affected voters exists. Fontes attributed a government press release’s mention of a complete list to “hasty drafting” and unclear language. He also claimed that the Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) had not provided him with any list containing personal information for the additional voters potentially lacking sufficient documentation.
However, the court concluded his testimony was inconsistent; Fontes initially denied possessing the list of 98,000 voters before amending his statement.
“His testimony suggested that he lacked detailed familiarity with the AZSOS’s [Arizona Secretary of State] efforts with regard to the issue and with regard to the records in the possession of the AZSOS related to the 218,000 individuals,” the court document states.
The decision comes after AFL filed suit on behalf of the nonprofit group Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona and Yvonne Cahill, a registered voter and naturalized citizen in Maricopa County.
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AFL had previously given Maricopa County one week to address the alleged noncitizens on its voter rolls.
The lawsuit claims that, as of April 2024, more than 35,000 registered voters in Arizona had not provided proof of citizenship, limiting them to voting only in federal races, according to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office.
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Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, through his attorney, stated that he would not take any action, “citing, among other things, concerns for the safety of voters, and concerns about the accuracy of the list,” and claimed his office is already complying with the law, the Arizona high court document read.
Liberal filmmaker weighs in on election and says one side may be in for a ‘surprise’
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore is confident that former President Trump will not be making a political comeback on Tuesday, going so far as to say he’s “toast.”
The polls indicate that Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are neck-and-neck in key battleground states, but Moore, the filmmaker behind liberal films like “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “Bowling for Columbine,” said he’s “optimistic” Harris will win because Americans are sick of the “divisiveness” on the other side.
“The gift that the Trump campaign keeps giving us. I don’t think they realized, I don’t think they really are in touch with where the majority of Americans are at,” Moore said on MSNBC Sunday. “The majority of Americans do not want this divisiveness, they don’t want a threat of violence. We are okay to disagree with each other, but that’s where it ends. We go to vote, who wins, wins. Half the time, I have been very happy with who has won, and the other half of the time, I haven’t been. And we move on with our lives.”
MICHAEL MOORE MOCKS DEMOCRATS PANICKED BY TIGHT 2024 RACE: ‘SHOCKING TO ME’ THEY BELIEVE TRUMP IS GOING TO WIN
He predicted the outcome would shock the Make America Great Again movement and that he has “a lot of personal, deep faith in my fellow Americans.”
“I think they are going to be very surprised – I’m talking about the Trump people and the MAGA nation – by what is going to happen on Tuesday,” he said. “Not only do I feel… I feel the same way that I felt a few weeks ago, that Trump is toast, absolutely. I feel it more now. I know – I don’t want to say it too loudly as our work isn’t done.”
Moore said more of the same in October, even chiding Democrats who were nervous about the election. He suggested Harris would get a big boost from female voters frustrated by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
DEM STRATEGIST JAMES CARVILLE CERTAIN HARRIS WILL WIN, KNOCKS ‘SWEATY’ DEMOCRATS
“Democrats, they’re such a frightened group of people,” Moore said on CNN. “I mean, they still think that Trump is going to win.”
“This is kind of shocking to me,” he continued. “Like, don’t you live with people? Are you not aware that there’s going to be a tsunami of women voting between now and Election Day?” he said.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
Democratic strategist James Carville similarly said he’s “certain” about Harris’ chances, and also like Moore, mocked “sweaty” Democrats worried about Tuesday.
“America, it will all be OK. Ms. Harris will be elected the next president of the United States. Of this, I am certain,” he wrote in a New York Times column.
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“More than in any other election in my lifetime, I’ve been consistently asked by people of all stripes and creeds: ‘Can Kamala Harris win this thing? Are we going to be OK?’ This sentiment is heard over and over from sweaty Democratic operatives who all too often love to run to the press with their woes,” he wrote.
“The biggest reason Mr. Trump will lose is that the whole Republican Party has been on a losing streak since Mr. Trump took it over,” Carville argued.
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But others like pollster Nate Silver – despite announcing he’s voting for Harris – is predicting a Trump victory.
“So OK, I’ll tell you,” Silver wrote in The New York Times last month. “My gut says Donald Trump. And my guess is that it is true for many anxious Democrats.”
RNC takes victory lap after high court’s absentee ballot ruling in key swing state
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday that absentee ballots that were mailed late to voters in Cobb County will only be counted if they arrive back to election officials by Election Day, sparking GOP leadership to take a victory lap.
“HUGE election integrity victory in Georgia. Democrat-run Cobb County wanted to accept 3,000 absentee ballots AFTER the Election Day deadline. We took this case to the Georgia Supreme Court,” RNC chair Michael Whatley posted to X on Monday.
“We just got word that we WON the case. Election Day is Election Day – not the week after. We will keep fighting, keep winning, and keep sharing updates,” he added.
Last week, it was revealed that about 3,000 absentee ballots were mailed late to voters in Cobb County, with just days to spare ahead of Election Day. A county judge ruled on Nov. 1 that the Cobb County Board of Elections could count the ballots if they arrived by 5 p.m. Nov. 8, and were postmarked by 7 p.m. Nov. 5.
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On Monday, the state’s Supreme Court granted an emergency motion ruling that ballots will only be counted if they are received by 7 p.m. Tuesday.
“Consistent with OCGA § 21-2-386, the Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration (the ‘Board’) may count only those absentee ballots received by the statutory deadline of 7:00 p.m. on Election Day, November 5, 2024.” the order reads.
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The ruling comes after the ACLU, ACLU of Georgia, and Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit last week regarding roughly 3,000 voters in Cobb County who did not receive absentee ballots. A Superior Court judge subsequently ordered election officials to overnight mail the delayed absentee ballots, and ruled that the ballots should be counted if they are received by Nov. 8.
The ACLU lamented the state Supreme Court ruling on Monday, and urged “all affected voters to prioritize voting in person on Election Day, November 5, 2024, if at all possible.”
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“This afternoon, the Georgia Supreme Court denied relief for Cobb County voters who requested absentee ballots on time but did not receive them on time due to the county’s failure to mail them promptly. The lower court had ruled that an extension of the absentee receipt deadline was necessary in order to protect these voters’ constitutional right to vote, but the Georgia Supreme Court stayed that ruling, removing the relief that the lower court had ordered. The November 8 extension deadline that the earlier order had issued is no longer in effect,” the ACLU said in a statement.