Poll sheds light on where Trump and Harris stand in battleground Michigan
A new poll has found that former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are essentially tied among voters in the battleground state of Michigan.
The Washington Post poll of 1,004 registered voters reveals that Trump is leading Harris there 47 to 45%. Among that group, those who said they were likely to vote for Harris over Trump 47-46%.
The poll was conducted between Oct. 24-28 and has a margin of error of 3.7%. Of those who responded, six out of every ten voters view the state of the economy negatively, according to The Washington Post.
Fifty-seven percent of those surveyed listed the economy as an “extremely important issue,” followed by immigration at 47%, taxes at 44%, healthcare at 42%, abortion at 41% and U.S. policy on the war in Gaza at 29%.
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On those issues, Trump leads Harris 49-42% among registered voters who believe he would do a better job handling the economy, 51-38% on the issue of immigration, and 48-38% on the war in Gaza.
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Harris, meanwhile, leads Trump 49-36% among voters who believe she will do a better job handling abortion, and 46-40% on healthcare.
The poll found that voters are split evenly over which candidate would better serve middle class workers.
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When asked about what to do with undocumented immigrants who currently are in the U.S., 48% said they should be offered a chance to apply for legal status, while 46% say they should be deported to the countries from which they came from.
Harris picks up endorsements from Republicans just days before election
Vice President Harris on Wednesday picked up endorsements from three longtime Republican leaders in New Hampshire who supported former President Trump’s rival Nikki Haley in the Republican primary.
Former U.S. Senator Gordon Humphrey, former U.S. Congressman and former New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice Chuck Douglas and former New Hampshire Attorney General Thomas Rath condemned Trump as a divisive and unstable candidate in statements declaring their support for Harris. Her campaign said the endorsements reflect growing enthusiasm for the vice president among registered Republicans both in the Granite State and the rest of the nation.
“I voted Republican for fifty years, but I’m voting against Donald Trump and I plead with all Republicans to do the same,” Humphrey said in a statement. “As a father, a grandfather, a veteran, and a former United States Senator, I cannot vote for Trump. He’s dangerous to our democracy.”
Douglas said that Trump “believes in himself over service” and views the election “as the change to jail his political opponents.” Harris would be a “steady hand at the ship of state” in contrast to Trump’s “fragile mental state and anger,” according to the former lawmaker.
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Rath likewise condemned Trump’s “campaign of division, anger, thinly veiled prejudice, and rejection of our core values as a nation.”
The Harris-Walz campaign welcomed their support and noted that hundreds of current and former Republicans across the country have backed Harris, including former GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.
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In New Hampshire specifically, the campaign said there has been a 47% increase in registered Republican volunteers compared to 2022 and a 76% increase in the number of GOP voters who have told canvassers they plan to vote for Democrats next week.
“While Vice President Harris has made clear there is a home in her campaign for all Americans – including Republicans and independents – Donald Trump continues to double down on his extreme agenda,” the campaign said in a news release.
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Reached for comment, the Trump campaign noted that Haley is supporting his candidacy, along with former Democrats Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii.
“President Trump is building a historic and diverse movement to make America great again,” Trump national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. “He’s been endorsed by many respected leaders from Nikki Haley to RFK Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard. We welcome anyone who wants to secure our border, restore law and order, and end inflation to join our team.”
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New Hampshire has been an important swing state in prior presidential elections, although Harris has held a consistent lead over Trump in public opinion polls this year. Fox News’ Power Rankings rate the state as “Likely D.”
Jim Jordan has message for tech giant after people had trouble finding Trump interview
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is accusing YouTube of potentially repressing former President Trump’s interview with podcast host Joe Rogan.
In a letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pitchai sent late Wednesday, Jordan said the tech giant’s subsidiary “appears to have censored the video of Joe Rogan’s recent interview with President Donald Trump.”
“We write to seek an immediate briefing on (1) YouTube’s decision to censor Joe Rogan’s interview with President Trump; and (2) Google Search’s elevation of material critical of the interview,” Jordan wrote.
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The Ohio Republican cited a New York Post report that said people were having difficulty finding the three-hour interview on YouTube.
“Recent news coverage reports that ‘search[es] on YouTube using the terms ‘Joe Rogan Trump’ or ‘Joe Rogan Donald Trump’ did not bring up Friday’s three-hour sit-down at the top of the list,’” the letter said
The report claimed the full interview was also “absent” from YouTube’s trending videos page the following day.
Jordan also said YouTube acknowledged “censorship” of the interview, referring to a statement posted to X earlier this week that read, “For some searches on Monday the original 3-hour interview didn’t appear prominently. Short excerpts uploaded by the Joe Rogan channel appeared, but we know it was frustrating for users looking to find the full video.”
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“We’ve worked to resolve this and viewers will begin seeing the full podcast in more YouTube search results soon,” the statement said.
Jordan wrote in his letter to Alphabet, “Americans deserve access to political speech, especially in the closing weeks before an election.”
“Given the company’s recent history of censorship, including at the behest of the Biden-Harris Administration, YouTube’s censorship of former President Trump is particularly troubling,” he wrote.
“Please arrange for this briefing as soon as possible, but no later than 10:00 am on November 14, 2024.”
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Republicans have accused Google of censoring speech in the past. Most recently, the attorney general of Missouri said he would investigate the company, though Google called the accusations “totally false” in a statement to Reuters.
As of late Wednesday evening, Rogan’s interview with Trump has over 41 million views on YouTube.
Congressional leaders take action over Biden insulting Trump supporters as ‘garbage’
FIRST ON FOX: President Biden is getting hit with a resolution in Congress condemning his “garbage” remarks while discussing former President Donald Trump’s supporters earlier this week.
“President Biden must be condemned for calling millions of Americans who support Donald Trump garbage,” Rep. John Rose, R-Tenn., who is introducing the measure later this week, told Fox News Digital.
He linked it to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s infamous quip that half of Trump supporters were a “basket of deplorables” during her doomed 2016 presidential bid.
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“First, Democrats called half the country deplorables. Now, they are doubling down, calling us garbage. Democrats’ disrespect for half the country’s views and opinions is exactly what is wrong with the leadership of extreme far-left liberals,” Rose said.
Republicans have been hammering Biden – and by extension 2024 Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris – over the remarks, even forcing top Democrats to distance themselves from the controversial comment.
The White House has denied that the president called Trump supporters “garbage,” and interpretations of what the 81-year-old leader said have been hotly debated.
Biden was asked about Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden during a virtual call with Voto Latino. Democrats had accused Republicans of racist rhetoric during the event, particularly one of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes referring to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”
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He responded by saying, “Donald Trump has no character. He doesn’t give a damn about the Latino community. He’s a failed businessman. He only cares about the billionaire friends that he has and accumulating wealth for those at the top.”
“And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’ Well, let me tell you something…in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters – his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been,” Biden said.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted Wednesday that he was referring to Hinchcliffe’s joke.
“He does not view Trump supporters or anybody who supports Trump as garbage. That is not what he views,” she said.
Biden himself posted a similar explanation on X earlier this week.
“His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation,” the post said.
BIDEN CALLS TRUMP SUPPORTERS ‘GARBAGE’ DURING HARRIS CAMPAIGN EVENT AS VP PROMISES UNITY AT ELLIPSE RALLY
However, that has done little to stem the Republican backlash, particularly with Election Day less than a week away.
Trump arrived at his Wednesday campaign stop in Wisconsin in a garbage truck and wore a high-visibility vest throughout his rally.
Vivek Ramaswamy, one of his surrogates, posted a video of himself on the job with sanitation workers.
Harris distanced herself from the comments Wednesday morning, telling reporters, “I think that, first of all, he clarified his comments. But let me be clear, I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for.”
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Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., who is running in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country, went even further.
“In terms of what President Biden said yesterday, he shouldn’t have said it. I mean, it’s inappropriate. And, for me, I just think that kind of talk is the last thing we need in our politics,” Slotkin told Michigan radio station WWJ Newsradio.
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment on Rose’s resolution.
Stock market expert says 2024 election could be like 1968 all over again
Wall Street is becoming increasingly convinced former President Trump will emerge the victor from next week’s long-anticipated election.
Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) shares continue to surge, making a comeback from a low in September, but what other signs point to that conclusion?
CFRA Research chief investment strategist Sam Stovall weighed in on Tuesday, telling FOX Business’ Charles Payne the feel of this election cycle is abnormal, reminiscent of another tumultuous time when the challenger prevailed over the incumbent.
“It does [seem different this year], because we’re up more than 5% since July 31st and, whenever the market has been higher in that three-month period – July 31 through October 31– the incumbent person or party has been reelected 82% of the time,” he surmised.
‘LOTS OF LEADERS ON WALL STREET’ PRIVATELY SUPPORTING TRUMP, TRANSITION TEAM CO-CHAIR SAYS
“One of those times in which it was not successful was 1968, and I have to say that this election sort of reminds me of ’68 when LBJ stepped aside. Hubert Humphrey stepped in. The public was not happy with an unpopular war in Vietnam the way, today, questions are raised about inflation and immigration. We had a Chicago [Democratic] convention. We also had the Fed cut interest rates before the election, but it didn’t seem to matter. The replacement ended up winning rather than the incumbent.”
Other commentators during the highly-contentious and erratic election season have drawn similar comparisons between the 1968 and 2024 races, each commonly grounded on President Biden’s and LBJ’s decisions to not seek reelection.
Bloomberg’s MLIV pulse survey on the market outlook, meanwhile, indicates 38% of those surveyed believe a Trump victory would “accelerate” the current market rally, compared to 13% should Vice President Harris win.
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A larger majority believed the market would either stay the same, slow, or turn into losses if Harris wins, however.
With less than one week left until voters head to the polls to make their final decisions, former President Trump and Vice President Harris are deadlocked in the polls, with the winner expected to walk away with a razor-thin victory.
All eyes currently linger on a set of key swing states – Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona – assuming that the narrow victory for either candidate will boil down to these states.
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Dodgers World Series celebrations erupt into chaos as ‘hostile’ crowd turns violent
Los Angeles Dodgers fans celebrating the team’s eighth World Series title late Wednesday night erupted into a “hostile” crowd that saw “various projectiles” being launched at LAPD officers, the looting of several businesses and even an MTA bus set on fire, police said.
The chaos unfolded after the Dodgers overcame a five-run deficit to beat the New York Yankees, 7-6, in Game 5 of the World Series. Despite the victory in the Bronx, fans flooded the streets of downtown Los Angeles.
Law enforcement issued a warning to Dodgers fans on social media to avoid the area and “celebrate responsibly.” However, the LAPD quickly issued a dispersal order after the crowd appeared to get out of hand.
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According to several updates shared on X, the LAPD said a “hostile crowd” began throwing fireworks and projectiles at officers. In another post shared by the LAPD, disorderly fans were also seen throwing rocks and bottles at officers.
Police also said several stores in the area were also looted and vandalized, and that arrests had been made. It was not immediately clear how many suspects were taken into custody.
An MTA bus in the area of Sunset and Echo Park was also vandalized and eventually set on fire.
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass released a statement congratulating the Dodgers organization but added that violence during celebrations “will not be tolerated.”
“Tonight, we showed the world that Los Angeles is made of champions. On behalf of our entire city, I want to express our pride and heartfelt congratulations to the Dodgers – to the players and their families, the coaches, the trainers, the front office, and everyone who had a hand in making history tonight. Every night, each of you exemplified the very best of our city and put greatness on display,” the statement read.
“As we celebrate this achievement tonight and in the coming days, violence will not be tolerated. LAPD is currently on tactical alert and has activated a strategic plan to protect communities and businesses, which includes proactive deployment and a coordinated strategy with regional partners to ensure that all Angelenos are able to celebrate safely.”
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Bass said city officials will hold a press conference Thursday to discuss a safety plan going forward with two celebration events planned for Friday.
“This will be a celebration fitting for our championship team and our dedicated fans. I look forward to seeing everyone there.”
Truckers share five things that are driving them to vote for Trump
Many big-rig truckers are backing former President Trump this cycle, amid worries surrounding how a Harris administration would affect the crucial auto industry, a trucking company executive admitted.
The presidential election is just five days away, and Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have presented different futures for the auto industry while on the campaign trail.
Mike Kucharski, co-owner and vice president of JKC Trucking, Chicago’s largest specialty contract carrier, said that there are five reasons truckers are more in favor of a Trump presidency this cycle: costs, increased regulatory burdens, infrastructure, driving range of the trucks and less cargo capacity due to the battery.
“I personally don’t vote along party lines, but I support candidates with policies. And I would say policies are the gateway to truckers’ vote — policies that help small business thrive,” Kucharski said in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital. “Right now, a lot of small business owners in the trucking industry are seriously concerned about Kamala Harris’ impact on our industry if she takes office.”
The number one issue, according to Kucharski, is costs.
“Truckers are already struggling to stay afloat due to issues like skyrocketing diesel costs. It’s pouring too much for diesel. Truckers are driving less miles, paying more for fuel,” he said. “Another blow to truckers is this increased regulatory burdens. Truckers are overregulated.”
Kucharski added that truckers are supportive of electric trucks, but that the industry is not ready for mandates such as those being pushed under the Biden-Harris administration.
Harris’ campaign told Fox News Digital that she does not support electric vehicle mandates. However, the Biden-Harris Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced a final rule in March to require up to two-thirds of all new car sales to be electric by 2032. The agency also set a goal to require 40% of heavy-duty trucks to be zero-emissions by 2032.
The EPA previously projected the standards could lead to 50% of vocational trucks, 35% of short-haul tractor-trailers and 25% of long-haul tractor-trailers produced in 2032 being electric.
“The small trucking companies simply can’t absorb these extreme costs. And people are saying the larger companies could do it. But I think they’re going to have an issue. It’s a great idea, but I don’t think it’s going to work,” Kucharski said of the final rule.
This is an excerpt from an article by Aubrie Spady.
CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell said former President Trump is offering President Biden “no grace” over his remark disparaging Trump supporters after the GOP nominee showed up to a campaign event in a garbage truck on Wednesday.
“Former President Donald Trump was in North Carolina earlier, and tonight, he is also in Wisconsin. He landed in Green Bay just a short time ago and then pulled this campaign stunt, speaking to reporters from a garbage truck, proof that he and his supporters are giving no grace to a gaffe by President Biden where he, in his explanation, inadvertently called Trump supporters garbage,” O’Donnell said in the opening segment of “CBS Evening News.”
Biden sparked backlash Tuesday night after he appeared to call former President Trump’s supporters “garbage” during a virtual Harris campaign call with Voto Latino. He took a swipe at former President Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden, which made headlines after insult comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made jokes mocking different ethnic groups, with one joke referring to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said on the call. “His- his- his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it is un-American.”
As Democrats in the media rushed to defend, dismiss or downplay the comment, Republicans have embraced it as the new line of attack against the Harris campaign with less than a week to the hotly contested election.
On Wednesday, Trump rolled up to the battleground state of Wisconsin in a garbage truck to answer questions from reporters, wearing an orange reflective vest with “Trump Make America Great Again 2024” emblazoned on the vehicle.
“How do you like my garbage truck?” he asked reporters. “This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.”
This is an excerpt from an article by Yael Halon.
Vice President Kamala Harris suggested she would sign federal abortion protections into law during a speech in Wisconsin on Thursday evening.
“One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree, the government shouldn’t be telling her what to do with her body,” Harris said, referring to women.
“When Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom nationwide, as President of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law.”
Harris has made abortion rights a cornerstone of her 2024 campaign, and has spoken on the issue frequently in her capacity as President Biden’s vice president.
Democrats are hoping that continued fallout from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022 will be a potent political cudgel in November. In the previous midterm races, it was partially credited with aiding them in keeping the Senate and blunting Republicans’ margin of victory in the House.
Harris said on Wednesday evening that Trump “would ban abortion nationwide” and likewise institute a ban on contraceptives – both stances the ex-president has explicitly denied.
While Democratic lawmakers have rallied around federal abortion legislation to codify it into law, Republicans have insisted it’s an issue best left up to the states.
The Republican Senate nominee in New Mexico says former President Trump’s stop in the blue-leaning southwestern state on Thursday “will infuse our state with a lot of momentum.”
Nella Domenici, the 2024 GOP Senate nominee and the daughter of New Mexico’s last Republican senator, is trying to defeat Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich, who is running in November for a third six-year term, as her party works to win back the chamber’s majority.
“Trump is definitely going to help us with the independents,” Domenici predicted in a Fox News Digital interview on the eve of the former president’s visit to the state.
With five days until Election Day next Tuesday, the former president is making a rare detour from campaigning in the seven crucial battleground states in the White House race that will likely determine if Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris wins the 2024 election.
It’s been two decades since a Republican carried New Mexico in a presidential election. You’ve got to go back to President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election.
There hasn’t been an abundance of polling in New Mexico, but most recent surveys indicate Harris with an upper single digit lead over Trump, although one survey suggests a tighter contest for the state’s five electoral votes.
With time such a precious commodity for presidential campaigns and the clock quickly ticking toward Election Day, New Mexico Democrats say Trump’s trip to the state – his first in five years – is a fool’s errand.
“Trump is wasting his time coming to our state as polling shows New Mexicans are set to reject his MAGA extremism and divisive rhetoric yet again,” Democratic Party of New Mexico spokesperson Daniel Garcia claimed in a statement.
This is an excerpt from an article by Paul Steinhauser.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is accusing YouTube of potentially repressing former President Trump’s interview with podcast host Joe Rogan.
In a letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pitchai sent late Wednesday, Jordan said the tech giant’s subsidiary “appears to have censored the video of Joe Rogan’s recent interview with President Donald Trump.”
“We write to seek an immediate briefing on (1) YouTube’s decision to censor Joe Rogan’s interview with President Trump; and (2) Google Search’s elevation of material critical of the interview,” Jordan wrote.
The Ohio Republican cited a New York Post report that said people were having difficulty finding the three-hour interview on YouTube.
“Recent news coverage reports that ‘search[es] on YouTube using the terms ‘Joe Rogan Trump’ or ‘Joe Rogan Donald Trump’ did not bring up Friday’s three-hour sit-down at the top of the list,’” the letter said
The report claimed the full interview was also “absent” from YouTube’s trending videos page the following day.
Jordan also said YouTube acknowledged “censorship” of the interview, referring to a statement posted to X earlier this week that read, “For some searches on Monday the original 3-hour interview didn’t appear prominently. Short excerpts uploaded by the Joe Rogan channel appeared, but we know it was frustrating for users looking to find the full video.”
“We’ve worked to resolve this and viewers will begin seeing the full podcast in more YouTube search results soon,” the statement said.
Jordan wrote in his letter to Alphabet, “Americans deserve access to political speech, especially in the closing weeks before an election.”
“Given the company’s recent history of censorship, including at the behest of the Biden-Harris Administration, YouTube’s censorship of former President Trump is particularly troubling,” he wrote.
“Please arrange for this briefing as soon as possible, but no later than 10:00 am on November 14, 2024.”
This is an excerpt from an article by Liz Elkind.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has indicated that former President Donald Trump plans to give him “control” over the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Kennedy indicated that Trump “promised” him “control” over “public health agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agencies, CDC, FDA, NIH, and a few others,” plus the USDA.
He made the comments in a video clip that has been circulating online.
The New York Times
reported that Kennedy noted via text that the video was a recording from an internal talk with campaign workers regarding get-out-the-vote efforts for Trump.
“I stand ready to help him rid the public health agencies of their pervasive conflicts and corruption and restore their tradition of gold-standard, evidence-based science,” Kennedy said in a statement, according to the outlet.
The HHS secretary and USDA secretary posts are both cabinet-level positions.
“No formal decisions about Cabinet and personnel have been made, however, President Trump has said he will work alongside passionate voices like RFK Jr. to Make America Healthy Again by providing families with safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic plaguing our children,” Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, according to reports.
This is an excerpt from an article by Alex Nitzberg.
A Fox News focus group of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents gave their real-time reactions to President Biden’s recent comments seeming to call supporters of former President Trump “garbage,” with the latter two groups registering a strongly negative impression of the president’s words.
The groups recently participated in a dial test while watching Biden’s controversial statements that he made during a virtual Harris campaign call with Latino voters on Tuesday evening. The test allowed viewers to input their reactions while watching the moment in real time. These reactions showed up as a moving line on a graph indicating whether they were reacting positively, neutrally, or negatively to Biden’s words as he spoke them.
The test revealed that, while Democratic participants remained somewhat positive about Biden’s anti-Trump statements – including when he appeared to call Trump supporters “garbage” – Republicans and Independents sharply dipped into negative reactions as he made them.
Though Republican watchers’ reactions appeared to be the most negative, with the red line representing them veering down well below the neutral line for most of Biden’s 49-second statement, the yellow line representing independents also dipped low into negative response for the majority of the clip as well.
While never registering as intensely negative as the red line, the yellow line sharply dropped off the neutral plane as Biden declared that Trump “doesn’t care about the Latino community” and that he’s a “failed businessman.”
The Independent line stayed low until it briefly ticked up (while still in the negative) when Biden mentioned Trump wanting to end “birthright citizenship.”
Once Biden appeared to say, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” the yellow line took a notable downturn again, getting close to the Republican reaction line that was at its lowest point.
Meanwhile, the blue Democrat line represented the inverse reaction to both Independents and Republicans, traveling well above the neutral reaction line and gradually climbing as Biden made the “garbage” remarks.
This is an excerpt from an article by Gabriel Hays.
Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 102 days as the presumptive, and now, official Democratic nominee for president without holding an official press conference.
Trump has held at least six news conferences where he took questions from the media since the beginning of August. Harris has done brief, informal press gaggles this week with the media while on the campaign trail, including on Monday when she criticized the tone and rhetoric at Trump’s rally in New York City over the weekend.
She gave a speech on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., outlining her path forward for the United States and how she differs from what she calls Trump’s radical, dark vision.
Harris also ended her streak of not appearing on Fox News earlier this month, sitting for an interview in Pennsylvania with chief political anchor Bret Baier. She also did a CNN town hall and interviews last week with NBC News, Telemundo and CBS, as well as several podcasts and local news stations this week.
Harris has stepped up her interviews in recent weeks, including doing radio hits, friendly appearances with “The View,” Stephen Colbert and Howard Stern and other media appearances.
But as for when she’ll actually do a formal press conference as a candidate, that day appears like it won’t come, at least while she’s still a candidate.
This is an excerpt from an article by Brian Flood and David Rutz.
Vice President Harris on Wednesday picked up endorsements from three longtime Republican leaders in New Hampshire who supported former President Trump’s rival Nikki Haley in the Republican primary.
Former U.S. Senator Gordon Humphrey, former U.S. Congressman and former New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice Chuck Douglas and former New Hampshire Attorney General Thomas Rath condemned Trump as a divisive and unstable candidate in statements declaring their support for Harris. Her campaign said the endorsements reflect growing enthusiasm for the vice president among registered Republicans both in the Granite State and the rest of the nation.
“I voted Republican for fifty years, but I’m voting against Donald Trump and I plead with all Republicans to do the same,” Humphrey said in a statement. “As a father, a grandfather, a veteran, and a former United States Senator, I cannot vote for Trump. He’s dangerous to our democracy.”
Douglas said that Trump “believes in himself over service” and views the election “as the change to jail his political opponents.” Harris would be a “steady hand at the ship of state” in contrast to Trump’s “fragile mental state and anger,” according to the former lawmaker.
Rath likewise condemned Trump’s “campaign of division, anger, thinly veiled prejudice, and rejection of our core values as a nation.”
The Harris-Walz campaign welcomed their support and noted that hundreds of current and former Republicans across the country have backed Harris, including former GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.
Former President Trump reiterated his plans to “make America great again” as the 2024 race enters its final days.
Trump sat down with Fox News host Sean Hannity at Mar-a-Lago and repeated the same campaign promises he’s made on the trail, vowing to secure the border, fix the economy and immigration system and utilize tariffs against foreign countries.
The 2024 GOP presidential nominee said a potential second administration of his would be different because, now, he knows “everybody in Washington.”
“I didn’t know anybody [during his first term]. I was not a Washington person. I was rarely there,” Trump said Wednesday on “Hannity.” “I know everybody [now]. I know the good, the strong, the weak, the stupid. I know the — I know everybody. And we’re going to make this country great again, and we have to save our country.”
He rallied against the Biden-Harris administration for its handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, record border crossings and weak foreign policy, pointing to Russia’s war against Ukraine and Israel’s war against Hamas, once again claiming they both would never have started had he been in the White House.
“We’re going to be respected again. We’re going to make America great again. And there’s nothing in the world I’d rather be doing. I don’t want to be on some beautiful beach. I don’t want to be sitting in some faraway hotel where it’s very nice and watching television or doing something. I want to be doing what I’m doing,” Trump said. “It’s so incredible.”
This is an excerpt from an article by Ashley Carnahan.
President Biden
was photographed playfully biting at least two babies dressed in Halloween costumes at the White House trick-or-treat event on Wednesday evening.
Both children were carried by their mothers to visit the 81-year-old commander-in-chief, who didn’t seem to mind the interaction.
One baby who was dressed as a chicken even giggled after Biden took a faux nibble of his or her leg. The president then engaged in some easy banter with the baby’s mother.
The White House event will be the last Halloween-themed celebration of Biden’s term in office. Biden, who dropped out of the 2024 election, will leave office in January.
First lady Jill Biden added an educational theme to the event and named it “Hallo-Read” to help encourage reading. She has been a teacher for 40 years. Earlier Wednesday, she read a short story about spooky pumpkins to a group of costumed children gathered on the lawn.
She and the president later ventured outside at sunset and spent about an hour handing out treats. Biden, in a suit and tie, dropped boxes of White House Hershey’s Kisses chocolates in the kids’ tote bags while the first lady handed out copies of “10 Spooky Pumpkins.”
As many as 8,000 people, including students and children, were expected to attend the White House event, according to the Associated Press.
Fox News Digital’s Jasmine Baehr The Associated Press contributed to this update.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been ordered to attend a hearing Thursday after a Pennsylvania prosecutor sued to block the billionaire’s $1 million-a-day giveaway to registered voters in swing states.
Progressive Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner claims that Musk’s America PAC is engaged in an “illegal lottery scheme to influence voters.”
Musk, who supports Trump, has promised to give away $1 million a day randomly to registered voters in swing states who sign a petition that pledges to support free speech and gun rights. Eligible voters must reside in one of seven key battleground states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin.
An attendee at an Oct. 19 rally hosted by America PAC in Harrisburg was the first recipient of Musk’s million-dollar pay day.
Krasner filed a lawsuit to stop the payments on Oct. 28, a little more than a week before Election Day on Nov. 5. Prosecutors claim the giveaway is essentially an illegal lottery unsanctioned by the state, which has the sole authority to regulate them. The suit also says it violates consumer protection laws by “deploying deceptive, vague or misleading statements” about its rules, Reuters reported.
“Running an illegal lottery and violating consumer protections is ample basis for an injunction and concluding that America PAC and Musk must be stopped, immediately, before the upcoming Presidential Election on November 5,” the suit said.
Reuters contributed to this update.
The vast majority of Americans report being “anxious and frustrated” rather than “excited” regarding the upcoming election, according to a Thursday poll from the Associated Press.
The poll found that 7 in 10 Americans reported feeling frustrated about the election, while just under a third say they are excited. The AP-NORC poll comes as the presidential race between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris remains neck-and-neck.
The poll found that Democrats in particular are feeling more anxious than usual. Roughly 8 in 10 Democrats said they have negative feelings about the upcoming election, compared to just 7 in 10 in the last election.
Independents are the most even keeled, however, with roughly half of the group saying they are anxious and the other half saying they are excited.
The poll of 1,233 adults was conducted Oct. 24-29, 2024, using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.
This is an excerpt from an article by Anders Hagstrom.
A recent Pew Research Poll gives former President Trump the lead with veterans nationwide over Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of Tuesday’s presidential election.
The poll, conducted with 876 veteran registered voters, gave Trump or “Leans Trump” 61% of the key demographic’s support. Just 37% of the veterans polled responded that they support Harris.
Veterans make up
around 6% of the country, according to the Census Bureau, or about 16 million people per 2022 numbers. The number of veterans nationwide is steadily dwindling, with around 18% of the American population being veterans in 1980.
Veterans 4 America First Institute, a nonprofit, reacted to the recent poll showing overwhelming support for Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election in an interview with Fox News Digital.
“The reason veterans are sticking with Trump, despite all the fake news, all the lies about Trump, is because veterans care about two things: results, and their pension,” Darin Selnick, an Air Force veteran and founder of Veterans 4 America First Institute, told Fox News Digital.
“And so with the VA, you know, veterans all over the country saying, ‘We want Trump back’ because the VA has gone downhill. We’re not getting our choice of staff or not being accountable,” said Selnick.
The Mission Act and the Accountability Acts passed under former President Trump allowed for veterans to seek private providers outside the VA as well as hold poorly performing VA staff accountable.
This is an excerpt from an article by Jasmine Baehr.
Election Day is less than a week away and voters are already heading to the polls and mailing in their ballots, and betting markets have weighed in on whether Republicans or Democrats are favored to win control of Congress.
Control of both the House of Representatives and Senate have been closely contested in recent years, with the last two Congresses having historically thin majorities in both the House and Senate. The GOP controlled a narrow 222-213 majority in the House at the outset of the current 118th Congress, after Democrats began the prior Congress with a majority of the same margin.
In the Senate, Democrats currently have a 51-49 majority when including independent senators who caucus with the Democratic Party. During the previous Congress, the Senate had a 50-50 split with Democrats controlling the majority by virtue of Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaking vote.
Traders on Polymarket see the trend of relatively narrow majorities continuing in the next Congress after this election. While the platform currently sees an 83% chance of a GOP majority in the Senate, bettors are also anticipating that it will be by a relatively small margin.
Since early September, Polymarket traders have seen a 52-seat GOP majority as the likeliest outcome, which peaked at a 52% chance in early October but has since ebbed to a 25% chance. A slightly smaller 51-seat GOP majority is the next most likely outcome according to Polymarket bettors, with a 16% chance.
Bettors see an 11% chance that Republicans will end up with 49 or fewer Senate seats — which would give Democrats a narrow majority. They also see a 9% chance of a 50-50 bipartisan split, which would give the majority to the party that wins the White House and has a vice president who can cast tiebreaking votes in the Senate.
Polymarket’s traders see the battle for control of the House of Representatives as a virtual toss-up, with House Democrats having a roughly 50% chance of winning a majority over the past week.
However, a separate market on the platform suggests that House Republicans are more likely to attain a larger majority than what has occurred in recent years, as it sees a 29% chance there will be 230 or more GOP seats in the House in the next Congress. It also shows a 15% chance the GOP ends up with fewer than 200 seats — which would leave Democrats with a majority of more than 235 seats.
BetUS’ odds see control of the House of Representatives as a toss-up with Democrats and Republicans having equal odds. It also has Republicans as the heavy favorites to win control of the Senate.
This is an excerpt from an article by Eric Revell.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced immediate backlash Wednesday after she denied that President Biden had referred to Trump supporters as “garbage.”
“Just to clarify, he was not calling Trump supporters garbage,” Jean-Pierre told reporters at the daily White House press briefing, reiterating the statement Biden put out to clean up his remarks.
“He does not view Trump supporters or anybody who supports Trump as garbage,” she said, adding that Biden has said numerous times that he is a “president for all,” including those who did not vote for him in red states and blue states.
But commentators argued this may say more about Jean-Pierre’s estimation of the American public than Biden’s actual statement.
“Breaking wind from BSNBC!” former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee wrote. “5 Alarm fire at the WH when KJP’s pants catch fire in spontaneous combustion after she claims Joe didn’t really call Trump supporters ‘garbage.’ She does know that we can see the video for ourselves? That we aren’t as clueless as her boss is?”
Tarrant County GOP chairman Bo French commented, “It amazes me more people aren’t appalled by the outright lies these people tell. We watched the video. He clearly called us garbage. I have a feeling the swing voters are done with this kind of BS.”
“JUST IN: Karine Jean-Pierre, while dressed as a piece of Laffy Taffy, says Biden ‘was not calling Trump supporters garbage.’ … even though it’s LITERALLY ON VIDEO Again, these people think you’re stupid,” videojournalist Nick Sortor wrote. “Vote accordingly.”
This is an excerpt from an article by Alexander Hall.
Jennifer Aniston announced Wednesday that she voted for Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be the next president and vice president of the United States of America.
“Today not only did I vote for access to health care, for reproductive freedom, for equal rights, for safe schools, and for a fair economy, but also for SANITY and HUMAN DECENCY,” Aniston wrote in a social media post.
She encouraged others to vote as well and pleaded for Americans to “end this era of fear, chaos and the attacks on our democracy.”
“I very proudly voted for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,” she wrote.
“We are so lucky we get to VOTE and this election is in our hands! We only have one week until Election Day so talk to your friends, your family, your neighbors and let’s find our way back to each other with respect, common cause, and Love.”
Former President Trump said the Biden-Harris administration has treated the American people and “our whole country like garbage,” claiming that it’s now clear what President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris “really think of our supporters.”
Trump held a rally Wednesday afternoon in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, just a day after Harris made her final pitch to voters in a speech from Washington, D.C.
The vice president’s address was quickly overshadowed by Biden’s remarks during a Zoom call with Voto Latino on Tuesday.
During the call with the group, which is one of the largest Latino voter and civic outreach organizations in the U.S., Biden was asked about a comment made Sunday during a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden in which comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”
Biden replied: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”
The White House has since denied that Biden called Trump supporters “garbage” and claimed the comment was taken out of context.
During the rally Wednesday, Trump said Harris has been “comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history, and now, speaking on a call for her campaign last night, Joe Biden finally said what he and Kamala really think of our supporters.”
“He called them garbage — and they mean it, even though, without question, my supporters are far higher quality than Crooked Joe and Lyin’ Kamala,” Trump told supporters.
But Trump said he had a response for the president and vice president.
“My response to Joe and Kamala is very simple: You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans,” Trump declared. “And you can’t be president if you hate the American people, and there’s a lot of hatred there.”
This is an excerpt from an article by Brooke Singman.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Democrats are playing a “dangerous game” by using divisive language about former President Donald Trump during an appearance on “Jesse Watters Primetime” Wednesday night.
DeSantis criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for likening Trump to a “fascist leader” during her Monday campaign rally in Wisconsin and condemned the Hitler comparisons from other Democrat leaders and media pundits.
“He was president for four years, guys. People can watch and see what happened. I didn’t see that happen in those four years,” he said, adding that such language is “stirring up a lot of division in this country.”
“If they are convincing you as a voter that American democracy will end if Donald Trump is president, you can see why you have some of the problems that we have and some of the things that have been stirred up amongst the populous,” DeSantis added.
The Florida governor said he believes the rhetoric “is born out of desperation” and doesn’t think it will ultimately work.