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Donald Trump Jr., JD Vance to make stop in usually-blue New Hampshire
Vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance and Donald Trump Jr. will make a campaign stop on Sunday in New Hampshire, a source tells Fox News.
According to the source, the event will take place at around 7 p.m. local time. New Hampshire, though considered a swing state, tends to lean blue in presidential elections.
The move to visit New Hampshire comes in the wake of former President Trump stopping in New Mexico on Thursday and Virginia on Saturday. Both states lean blue.
On Friday, former President Bill Clinton made stops in the New Hampshire cities of Portsmouth and Nashua to speak with voters and Harris campaign staff.
"Your family needs you. My family needs you," the Democrat said. "America needs you. Let's go win these races."
Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this update.
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Hollywood outlet reports that industry insiders are dreading very possible Trump win
Hollywood insiders are expressing dread over Tuesday’s presidential election because it’s so close.
According to a new report from Hollywood outlet Deadline, the fact that former President Trump has a good shot at re-taking the White House is driving serious anxiety in Hollywood circles.
"Fascism is at the door, and her campaign isn’t fighting back enough, aren’t breaking through," a PR executive told the outlet, fretting that the Harris campaign hasn’t taken a clear lead.
Read the full article about the 2024 election by Gabriel Hays
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New Harris ad focuses on unity days after Biden uttered 'garbage' remark about Trump fans
Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign posted a new ad called "Brighter Future" on Saturday, showing the Democratic candidate emphasizing a message that focuses on unity.
The ad paints Harris as a candidate who seeks to bring Americans together rather than divide. The video comes days after President Biden remarked that Trump supporters are "garbage," following an widely-condemned joke about Puerto Rico at the Republican candidate's MSG rally.
"The vast majority of people in our country have so much more in common than what separates them," Harris says in the video. "Good people, hardworking people. We see in our fellow Americans neighbors, not enemies."
"We believe in each other, we believe in our country. We’re not falling for these folks who are trying to divide us."
In the ad, the former California senator also promised to represent all Americans if elected.
"I pledge to seek common sense solutions to make your life better," Harris says in the video. "And I pledge to be a President for all Americans."
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Minnesota Somali and Muslim leaders endorse Trump for president
A group of Somali-American and Muslim leaders in Minnesota endorsed former President Trump for re-election on Saturday at the Minnesota state capitol.
At a press conference, Imams and other leaders highlighted concerns over the economy and inflation, public safety and family values as reasons for supporting the Republican ticket.
"All these people in this room were former Democrats, we were diehard supporters. Republicans had no opportunity, no room to come and talk to us because we were loyal to the Democratic Party, but that party is no longer loyal to us," said Abshir Omar, a Somali-American refugee who previously worked on Independent Sen. Bernie Sander's 2020 presidential campaign.
"The Democratic Party is now the party of war. It's the party of the billionaires. It's the party of silencing free speech," he said.
The election has divided the Somali community in Minnesota, a traditionally Democratic constituency. Though some community leaders endorsed Trump on Saturday, Vice President Harris picked up the endorsement of a coalition of 35 religious leaders and scholars in St. Paul last month, Mshale reported.
“Donald Trump is actively promoting division and hatred, from his racist Muslim travel ban to his extremist Project 2025 plan,” said Imam Mohamed Mukhtar, one of the leaders. “We cannot stand by while he threatens our brothers and sisters in Palestine and fuels Islamophobia.”
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Donald Trump says press has lost all credibility, blasts Liz Cheney over distorted comments
Former President Donald Trump joined "Fox & Friends Weekend" to speak about the loss of public trust in the media and to respond to criticisms levied against him over comments that he made about Liz Cheney.
Trump targeted "60 Minutes" for allegedly selectively editing an interview that the show gave with Vice President Harris. Talking to Fox News, Trump also called out The Washington Post and other outlets for being "corrupt."
"They don't have credibility anymore," Trump said of the Washington Post. "They have no credibility. The media has to have credibility and the media doesn't have any credibility."
Regarding "60 Minutes," CBS News has refused to release the full transcript, citing the First Amendment, and rejected the assertion that it had "doctored" the Harris interview to mislead the American people. The network insisted that "the interview was not doctored" and that the program "did not hide any part of the vice president’s answer to the question at issue."
On "Fox & Friends Weekend, "Trump spoke out against Liz Cheney after he was criticized for comments he made at an event in Glendale, Arizona.
"I don’t blame [former Vice President Dick Cheney] for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter is a very dumb individual. Very dumb, she’s a radical war hawk," Trump said. He added, "All I’m saying is she’s a nutty war hawk. She wanted to go to war with anyone that moves and lose a lot of people, lose a lot of soldiers. Put the nation in trouble."
"Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face," Trump said at an event on Thursday. "You know, they're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in the nice buildings saying ‘Oh gee well, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy."
This is an excerpt from an article by Jeffrey Clark.
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Biden cancels all campaign calls after 'garbage' controversy
Multiple campaign calls that were publicly advised on President Biden’s schedule Thursday afternoon were cancelled, FOX News has learned.
Organizations that expected the president’s attendance did not immediately respond to inquiries about whether the Zoom calls still happened as scheduled, without the president.
None of the calls were officially affiliated with the Harris campaign. Biden has no official campaign events scheduled ahead of the election, still facing fallout from his ‘garbage’ remark on a Zoom with Voto Latino this week – which was also not directly tied to the campaign.
The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
Biden’s campaign calls were listed on the week ahead guidance, which was released Sunday.
Biden participated on a campaign call Tuesday with Voto Latino where he took a swipe at former President Trump's rally in Madison Square Garden. The rally made headlines after insult comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made a joke referring to Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage."
"The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters," Biden said. "His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it is un-American."
Biden's remarks provoked outrage from Republicans, who accused him of showing contempt for half of the country.
Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich and Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this update.
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Cardi B suffers teleprompter glitch during Harris rally in Wisconsin
Rapper Cardi B took the stage in Wisconsin to deliver a speech at a campaign rally for Vice President Harris on Friday, but an apparent teleprompter glitch had the performer stumbling before she could begin.
Cardi B was among the celebrities at Harris' third and final Wisconsin rally, in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis. Milwaukee is home to the most Democratic votes in Wisconsin, but its conservative suburbs are where most Republicans live.
As Cardi B stood before the podium, it appeared the teleprompter wasn’t displaying her speech.
"One second guys, one second," the rapper said as the crowd cheered.
For nearly two minutes, the "WAP" singer tried to work the crowd until the apparent glitch was fixed.
"I’m a little nervous, guys! I’ve been waiting for this moment my whole life," she said as the crowd continued to cheer the rapper on.
"I need Patience over here. Patience, where are you girl?" Cardi B said, referring to a staffer.
A woman eventually brought Cardi B a cell phone on which the rapper could begin her speech.
"I took my time writing this speech so I’m going to make sure I deliver it right," Cardi B told the crowd.
This is an excerpt from an article by Stephen Sorace.
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Trump hammers Harris over poor jobs numbers in prepared remarks for NC speech
Former President Trump will hammer his rival Vice President Harris on the Biden-Harris administration's economic record after a disappointing jobs report was released Friday.
At a rally later this afternoon in Gastonia, North Carolina, Trump will blame "Hurricane Kamala" for jobs losses that have been attributed to recent natural disasters, including Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
"Yesterday, it was announced that our country lost nearly 30,000 private sector jobs last month alone, along with nearly 50,000 manufacturing jobs in a single month. They’re trying to blame the Hurricane for the jobs numbers—but it wasn’t Hurricane Helene, it was Hurricane Kamala," Trump will say, according to his prepared remarks.
"Under her catastrophic economic agenda, more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs have been wiped out since the start of this year. 150,000 Americans joined the unemployment rolls last month, and nearly a quarter of a million people dropped out of the labor force.
"This is DISQUALIFYING—we cannot take 4 more years of this calamity."
U.S. job growth slowed down in October, coming in well short of economists' expectations, while the unemployment rate was unchanged.
The Labor Department on Friday reported that employers added 12,000 jobs in October, well below the 113,000 gain that was predicted by LSEG economists and the lowest tally since December 2020.
The unemployment rate was 4.1%, in line with expectations.
The number of jobs added in the prior two months were both revised downward, with job creation in August revised down by 81,000 from a gain of 159,000 to 78,000, while September was revised down by 31,000 from a gain of 254,000 to 223,000.
Private sector payrolls contracted by 28,000 in October after LSEG economists projected they would rise by 90,000.
The manufacturing sector saw employment decline by 46,000 jobs in October, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) noted was largely due to strike activity in the transportation equipment manufacturing sector. About 33,000 unionized machinists at Boeing have been on strike since early September.
The construction sector added 8,000 jobs — below the average of 20,000 jobs per month in the past 12 months.
Health care added 52,300 jobs in October, near its average monthly gain of 58,000 in the last year.
The government added 40,000 jobs in October, mostly in line with its average monthly gain of 43,000 over the past 12 months.
The BLS noted that Hurricane Helene made landfall in the southeast before the reference period for its employment surveys, while Hurricane Milton hit the same region during the report period.
Fox Business' Eric Revell contributed to this report.
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Finance expert warns Harris has been silent on key economic theory
With the economy top-of-mind for voters heading to the polls, one finance expert is sounding the alarm about Vice President Kamala Harris' "lack of conversation" surrounding international economic theory.
"There is a potential red flag there with Harris's lack of conversation surrounding tariffs and really confronting China head on," "What Should I Do With My Money?" author Bryan Kuderna told Fox News Digital.
"She has been so quiet on any international economic theory, whether that's to have tariffs, not to have tariffs, how we're going to move forward the next four years in comparison to the other superpower, China, kind of the elephant in the room. She's been very, very quiet on this."
Harris has largely focused her economic platform on domestic issues and supporting America families through proposed credits and incentives. She has also touted policies which would make the rich "pay their fair share in taxes."
Kuderna, however, warned if Harris is elected and her economic policy goes into place, it could leave America vulnerable on the world stage.
"If we step back and say, well, let's just kind of see how things unfold. Let's focus on America and helping young professionals, helping first-time homebuyers, things of this nature, that's all well and good. But meanwhile, if that allows China and their economy to really become a bit more dominant, that can have long-term consequences to our global standing as No. 1."
This is an excerpt from an article by Madeline Coggins.
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NFL legend's daughter endorses Trump, opposes biological males in women's sports
The daughter of the late NFL legend Jim Brown endorsed former President Donald Trump, explaining how his support for the Black community shifted her perspective during his first term in office.
Kimberly Brown revealed how her father's involvement with Trump "opened" her eyes during "FOX & Friends," and explained why she decided to endorse the former president as opposed to Vice President Kamala Harris.
"My dad went to go meet with President-elect Trump, and when my dad went to go meet with the president-elect, that really opened up my eyes," Brown said on Friday. "I stayed neutral for about a year within his presidency, and after that… I came out as a Trump supporter because I saw the moves that Donald Trump was making."
"Within the first 100 days, he gave us our religious rights with an executive order," she continued. "I saw that he was defunding Planned Parenthood, the No. 1 killer of Black lives. He created the First Step Act, signed that in for prison reform. My father consulted on the First Step Act. School choice, record-breaking HBCU funding, so I saw that Trump was doing a lot for Black people."
Brown, who is a professional athlete herself, explained that protecting the sanctity of women's sports is a key issue for her this election, and that is another reason she will cast her ballot for the former president.
"I play tackle football. I don't want to be on the field with a man wearing a wig, taking hormones, taking hits," she said. "That's already going to affect me physically with injuries. I'm already susceptible to CTE, to concussions, and for a 300-pound man to go against me, that's going to put me at risk and is going to put other girls and women at risk, as well as the mental trauma of them coming into our safe spaces."
"It's unfair. They're taking away opportunities. They're taking away funding. They're taking away women's rights," she continued. "And Title IX was to protect us. Title IX was to give us a fair, equal playing field and not to be discriminated against. This is not similar. This is a whole other sex coming into our sport and taking over, and I don't understand how the Biden-Harris administration is pushing this agenda."
This is an excerpt from an article by Bailee Hill.
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Bill Maher warns that Biden's 'garbage' comment is a 'bigger gaffe than people think'
"Real Time" host Bill Maher fumed over President Biden's "garbage" comment about Trump supporters, suggesting it could have a big impact on Election Day.
"I think it's a bigger gaffe than people think," Maher began his panel discussion Friday night. "It's so funny, Joe Biden, his whole career, he was like Mr. Gaffe, and then here at the very end- he's like Aaron Judge in Game Six. He just f--kin' muffed the fly ball and at the end of the thing, and blew the whole [game]."
"Because I feel like it epitomizes everything that the Trump people hate about the Democrats. They look down at us. It's like ‘deplorables’ times ten," Maher said.
"The Fifth Column" podcast co-host Michael Moynihan agreed with Maher, saying it reaffirms the belief that "the elite" hate Trump supporters and swiftly dismissed the media's debate over "the apostrophe" because it was "clear" what Biden was talking about, stressing it was "not a net-positive for Democrats."
The Bulwark's Tim Miller suggested the "dumb" comment wasn't so damaging, telling Maher "I don't know if Trump took advantage of it as much as some people might want to think."
The HBO host then pivoted to the "garbage" joke told by insult comedian Tony Hinchcliffe that sparked the controversy, which was made at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally when he referred to Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage."
"Did the Democrats look weak because they can't take a joke?" Maher asked. "Because I think that's another Achilles heel that they have."
This is an excerpt from an article by Joseph A. Wulfsohn.
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'This man stood up': Pro-Trump group launches blistering seven-figure ad buy as closing pitch to vot
A pro-Trump group has launched a seven-figure ad buy as a closing pitch for the former president after the clip went viral on social media.
On Friday, Building America’s Future (BAF), a conservative nonprofit, released the clip titled "Moments" that it says highlights the "attacks on Donald Trump and his supporters in recent months."
The ad, posted on X by Elon Musk and others, has garnered over 20 million views on X.
"Think about all they've done to Donald Trump," the ad says. "First it was hoaxes, witch hunts, and impeachments. Then it was FBI raids, courtrooms, and mug shots. Finally, it was bullets in a Pennsylvania field.
"And after all that, this man stood up, with blood draining down his face, pumped his fist in the air and told us to ‘Fight. Fight. Fight.’"
The ad then plays a clip from Trump saying. "America's future will be bigger, better, bolder, brighter, happier, stronger, free-er, greater, and more united than ever before. And we will Make America Great Again."
This is an excerpt from an article by Andrew Mark Miller.
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court sides with GOP in last-minute mail-in ballot dispute
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court shut down an effort to allow mail-in ballots lacking a handwritten date to be counted in the 2024 election.
The ruling overturns a decision from a Commonwealth Court finding that the state law requiring a handwritten date was unconstitutional. The Pennsylvania GOP appealed that ruling to the state supreme court, and now undated mail-in ballots will not be counted in the upcoming election.
Justice Kevin Dougherty admonished the Commonwealth Court for its ruling in a forcefully-worded opinion relating to Friday's ruling.
"'This Court will neither impose nor countenance substantial alterations to existing laws and procedures during the pendency of an ongoing election.’ We said those carefully chosen words only weeks ago. Yet they apparently were not heard in the Commonwealth Court, the very court where the bulk of election litigation unfolds," Dougherty wrote.
"Today’s order, which I join, rights the ship. And it sends a loud message to all courts in this Commonwealth: in declaring we would not countenance substantial alterations to existing laws and procedures during the pendency of an ongoing election, we said what we meant and meant what we said," he continued.
Pennsylvania Republicans hailed the Friday ruling, saying Democrats have repeatedly tried to subvert the dating requirement.
"The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the law, and the dated ballot requirement will be in effect for this election. Democrats have repeatedly tried to eliminate this important ballot safeguard, and we have stopped them each time," RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement. "We are committed to protecting critical ballot safeguards to ensure every ballot is cast and counted properly and will continue to fight across Pennsylvania to Protect the Vote."
State officials in favor of allowing undated ballots to be counted argue the change would make process easier for election workers. The Pennsylvania Department of State filed a brief in favor of the change prior to the court's ruling on Friday.
This is an excerpt from an article by Anders Hagstrom.
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Republicans topple Dem voter registration advantage in crucial swing state as early vote wraps up
New numbers released in a key swing state show that Republicans have virtually erased the Democrat voter-registration lead, on top of historic early-voting numbers for Republicans, which one expert tells Fox News Digital is part of an effective strategy on the ground targeting a key demographic.
Figures released by the Nevada Secretary of State on Friday showed that Democrats hold 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.
On top of significantly narrowing the registration gap, Republicans have had a historically high early-vote turnout and lead Democrats by about 5% in the early vote, which ended in person on Friday, while trailing in mail-in votes.
Early voting concluded in Nevada with 393,811 votes cast for Republicans, 344,539 for Democrats, and 287,762 for other affiliations, according to the Secretary of State website.
The roughly 49,000 vote advantage that Republicans had over Democrats at the end of the week is a stark contrast from 2020, when Democrats ended early voting with a 43,000-vote advantage.
Biden won Nevada by roughly 34,000 votes in 2020.
This is an excerpt from an article by Andrew Mark Miller.
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'Squad' member Tlaib declines to endorse Harris at Detroit rally
Far-left "Squad" member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., declined to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president Friday at a United Auto Workers union rally in Detroit.
Tlaib, the lone Palestinian-American member of Congress, has been critical of the Biden-Harris administration's support for Israel in the war against Hamas since the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack, in which 1,500 people were slaughtered. Her decision to withhold an endorsement from Harris is significant as Michigan is one of three "blue wall" states Democrats view as must-win to defeat former President Trump.
Rather than lend her support to Harris, Tlaib made a general plea for voters to get to the ballot box on Tuesday, according to the Detroit News.
“Don’t underestimate the power you all have,” she said. “More than those ads, those lawn signs, those billboards, you all have more power to turn out people that understand we’ve got to fight back against corporate greed in our country... We’ve got to make sure that the nonpartisan part of the ballot gets filled in.”
Tlaib spoke at the UAW rally alongside fellow "Squad" member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. and UAW president Shawn Fain, both of whom endorsed Harris.
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Donald Trump Jr., Kristi Noem join Franklin Graham in Helene-torn North Carolina with Samaritan's Pu
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Donald Trump Jr. joined Franklin Graham of Samaritan's Purse Friday to help airlift warm clothing to Hurricane Helene-torn North Carolina as temperatures fell in the region.
Samaritan's Purse, a Christian disaster relief and evangelism organization, has served its home state of North Carolina since Hurricane Helene ripped through the southeast in late September.
Noem joined Trump and Graham, the president of Samaritan's Purse and son of the late Rev. Billy Graham, in the Bat Cave community near Chimney Rock Friday afternoon.
With donations personally delivered from California-based Kirstyn Hairston of KUIU and Dan and Agatha Genter of Genter Capital Management, Samaritan's Purse airlifted over 1,200 articles of winter clothing to the storm-torn survivors of Bat Cave, including winter jackets, fleece sweaters and pants, according to a release.
"Today was an amazing opportunity to be the hands and feet of Jesus and to be a blessing to people alongside Samaritan’s Purse," South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital. "Today, we saw the devastation of entire communities that have lost homes and all their belongings and even lost lives.
"So, we’re not only here today — we’re not going to forget about these folks. They will need our help for weeks and years to come. They will still need us to pray for them and lift them up. And they’ll need an organization like Samaritan’s Purse to walk alongside them."
This is an excerpt from an article by Jasmine Baehr.
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Bolton says Americans should be ready for Trump to challenge election results
Former national security adviser John Bolton said Friday he thinks his ex-boss former President Trump is unlikely to accept a loss in the 2024 presidential election.
"We should be ready for it," he told CNN's Kaitlan Collins in an interview.
He also said the pre-election litigation that is ongoing across the U.S. is a "good thing" that may resolve several issues ahead of Nov. 5.
“I actually think that’s a good thing. I think the more issues that — it’s getting late now, obviously. But the more issues that are litigated before the election, the better,” Bolton said.
High-profile election cases before various state and federal courts include an unsuccessful attempt by Republicans to block the counting of certain provisional ballots in Pennsylvania, a challenge to Virginia's effort to purge voter rolls of non-citizens and challenges to overseas voter eligibility.
“At least now, some of this litigation is filed beforehand, and we’re getting results, some favorable to Trump, some not favorable to Trump,” said Bolton. “It’s taking those issues off the table.”
Still, he said Americans should be prepared for Trump to contest the results of the election.
“But I think everybody ought to be ready. Because Trump never loses,” Bolton said. “And if he loses, it’s because it’s stolen. So, it will be difficult.”
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Harris holds commanding 10-point lead over Trump in Virginia: poll
With just four days to Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris holds a commanding 10-point lead over former President Trump in Virginia among likely voters, according to a new poll by Roanoke College.
The Trump campaign is hoping to flip the Old Dominion State red after losing in 2016 and 2020, with the former president making a last-minute stop in Salem on Saturday for a campaign rally. No Republican presidential candidate has won Virginia since former President George W. Bush's re-election in 2004.
Only 2% of likely voters say they are undecided and another 2% say they will vote for someone other than the five candidates on the ballot, according to the poll.
Harris leads Trump by 51% to 41%, with independent Cornel West and Libertarian Chase Oliver both polling at 2%. Green Party candidate Jill Stein is polling at 1%.
The economy was named as the most important issue by 43% of respondents, followed by abortion (20%) and immigration (12%). Foreign affairs (8%) came in next, followed by crime (3%).
In the U.S. Senate race, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., leads his Republican challenger Hung Cao by 51% to 40%.
The poll interviewed 851 likely registered voters in Virginia from Oct. 25-29 and has a margin of error of 4.6%.
This is an excerpt from an article by Michael Dorgan.
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House Oversight ramps up demands for White House to release accurate Biden 'garbage' transcript
The House Oversight Committee is applying pressure on the White House to release accurate transcripts, after they allegedly altered President Biden's remarks after he called Trump supporters "garbage."
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Oversight Chair James Comer, R-KY, sent a letter to the White House counsel's office Friday demanding they preserve all documents related to the transcript.
"To date, the White House has not issued a corrected transcript, and the false transcript remains on the White House webpage," they wrote.
The top members condemned the White House's alteration of the official transcript, writing that the stenography office cannot "simply rewrite President Biden’s rhetoric."
"In this case, it appears the White House is doing so to safeguard Vice President Harris’s presidential campaign," they wrote.
Stefanik and Comer referred to an AP report, which cited an internal email from the head of the stenographer's office, that noted that the press office "conferred with the president" to change the transcript.
The shocking comment came during Biden's remarks to Latino activists regarding comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's comments at a Trump rally. Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage."
Biden, according to a transcript prepared by the official White House stenographers, told the Latino group on a Tuesday evening video call, "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American."
The transcript released by the White House press office, however, rendered the quote with an apostrophe, reading "supporter’s" rather than "supporters."
The White House insisted that Biden was criticizing Hinchcliffe's comments – and not the huge swath of Americans supporting a Trump presidency.
This is an excerpt from an article by Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Jacqui Heinrich.
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Trump clarifies he meant Cheney wouldn’t have ‘guts’ to fight a war with rifle comment
Former President Trump on Friday clarified that he meant former Rep. Liz Cheney doesn’t have the "guts" to fight on the front lines of war after he received a backlash from Democrats over comments he made Thursday about having guns trained on her.
"All I’m saying about Liz Cheney is that she is a War Hawk, and a dumb one at that, but she wouldn’t have ‘the guts’ to fight herself," the Republican presidential nominee wrote on Truth Social. "It’s easy for her to talk, sitting far from where the death scenes take place, but put a gun in her hand, and let her go fight, and she’ll say, ‘No thanks!’ Her father decimated the Middle East, and other places, and got rich by doing so. He’s caused plenty of DEATH, and probably never even gave it a thought. That’s not what we want running our Country!"
Trump caused controversy when he called Cheney a "radical war hawk" at an event in Arizona on Thursday, adding, "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. They're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let's send 10,000 troops into the mouths of the enemies,’ but she’s a stupid person and I used to have meetings with a lot of people and she always wanted to go to war with people."
Trump also told reporters at a campaign stop in Dearborn, Michigan, on Friday: "Even in my administration, she was pushing that we go to war with everybody, and I said if you ever gave her a rifle and let her do the fighting, if you ever do that, she wouldn't be doing too well, I will tell you right now. But she's a war hawk. She wants to go kill people unnecessarily."
The remarks prompted accusations from liberals of violent rhetoric and that Trump was suggesting Cheney should face a firing squad.
This is an excerpt from an article by Brie Stimson.
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Carville slams 'f---ing stupid' pundits for focusing on polling, policy rather than Trump rhetoric
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville blasted the "truth teller caucus" in the media who "have to be fair" instead of condemning former President Trump's political rhetoric.
Trump’s comments this week attacking Republican Liz Cheney for being a "radical war hawk" have set off controversy, with numerous critics framing it as a call for violence, and others pointing to the full context as exoneration.
Carville, who recently declared he was uninterested in being "fair" this election, said, "The wormiest and slimiest people in this is what I call the ‘truth teller’ caucus. The people out there that are just so burdened with the obligation to tell y’all the truth. And you see these a--wipes everywhere. You see them in commentary, you see them in newsrooms, you see columns, you see them on cable TV, and you see it in the newscasts."
He juxtaposed pundits analyzing polling averages with Trump allegedly calling to arrest his political opponents and blasted the media for acting "like these are two equal godd--- things."
Carville went on to paraphrase the false narrative about Trump wanting to set a firing squad on Cheney.
"You also have the professional centrists, the people who just have to take a centrist approach," and try to converge in the middle. "Let's say Trump wants a 9-person firing squad to execute Liz Cheney," Carville said, before mocking centrist pundits by suggesting they would be asking, "Is the middle position a 4-person firing squad or a 5-person firing squad?"
"These people are so f---ing stupid," Carville said, adding that they are "victims of idiotic tunnel vision of what they are and their own exaggerated sense of fairness. It's hard to make the whole thing up."
Carville said that if the country is "done in," it will be the fault of these "professional ‘truth tellers,’ you know, the kind of people that have to be fair."
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104 days: Kamala Harris has yet to do formal press conference since emerging as Democratic nominee
Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 104 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 several 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 last 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.
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Georgia's nearly 4 million early votes bode well for Trump, top state Republican says
Georgia Republicans appear confident the state’s record-setting early voting numbers will favor their 2024 presidential nominee.
"It’s been record turnout, something unbelievable — voting from all across the state," Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones told Fox News Digital. "I think the enthusiasm, the momentum, is with President Trump."
The former commander in chief lost Georgia by less than 1% in 2020, and Republicans have poured enormous time and resources into winning it back Nov. 5.
A significant part of that strategy has been convincing people to cast ballots early, traditionally a voting method more favored by Democrats.
And both parties’ emphasis on early voting has had a seismic effect. During the early voting period between Oct. 15 and Nov. 1, nearly 4 million Georgians cast in-person or absentee ballots, more than half the state’s active voters.
Over 700,000 people who voted already in 2024 did not vote at all in 2020, according to Georgia Votes.
Meanwhile, the top three counties for voter turnout rates are rural areas won by Trump in 2020.
Both of those factors, Jones argued, were favorable indicators for the ex-president.
"We've got a lot of voters that voted in 2016 but didn't vote in 2020. … What makes me believe that they are Trump voters is that most of them are ... from parts of the state that are pretty strong Republican strongholds," he said.
"You start breaking down where they live, where they were historically as far as the Republican cards they pulled in the past, and, like I said, the on-the-ground enthusiasm for [Trump] right now is pretty off the charts."
This is an excerpt from an article by Elizabeth Elkind.
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Liz Cheney urges George W. Bush to endorse Harris: 'I think it's time'
Former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., is calling on former President George W. Bush to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris.
Cheney made the comment during a Friday episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour.
"I can't explain why George W. Bush hasn't spoken out but I think it’s time, and I wish that he would," Cheney said.
This comes after Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who served under Bush, endorsed Harris for President. The former Republican congresswoman has been campaigning with Harris in recent weeks.
Bush's daughter, Barbara, has also endorsed Harris and is campaigning for the vice president.
"It was inspiring to join friends and meet voters with the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania this weekend," the former first daughter told People Magazine on Tuesday. 'I'm hopeful they'll move our country forward and protect women's rights."
But the former president and his wife, Laura, have said they have no plans to endorse a presidential candidate.
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Harris, Trump 'leave nothing on the field' in final weekend before Election Day
Vice President Kamala Harris is urging her supporters to vote with the clock ticking down toward Election Day.
"We're going to get this done, but nobody can sit by the sidelines," the Democratic presidential nominee emphasized as she campaigned in battleground Wisconsin. "You don't want to look back on these four days and have any regrets about what you could have done."
Harris and the Republican nominee, former President Trump, held dueling rallies Friday night a few miles apart in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's largest city.
Hours earlier, while campaigning in Michigan, another crucial Great Lakes swing state, Trump told his supporters "nothing matters except what happens on Tuesday."
"Just pretend that we're one point down. We're not. We're up. But pretend that we're one point down on Tuesday," the former president stressed. He once again touted that he's leading Harris, even though the latest polls continue to indicate it's a toss-up.
With time running out, the campaign strategy now shifts.
"The closing arguments have been made. It’s not really about persuasion now. It’s about turnout. And that’s where all the energy of the campaigns are going to be directed," longtime Republican strategist David Kochel told Fox News.
Kochel, a veteran of numerous GOP presidential campaigns, said, "At this point, people's minds are made up. There are very few people out there to convince at this point. And if they’re deciding, they’re deciding between voting or sitting on the couch."
Harris and Trump on Thursday each held their final events in the western battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada, and Friday's competing rallies were their last stops in Wisconsin ahead of Election Day.
The razor-thin margins in those three states, along with Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, decided President Biden's 2020 victory over Trump and will likely determine if Harris or Trump wins the 2024 election.
This is an excerpt from an article by Paul Steinhauser.
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Donald Trump Jr., JD Vance to make stop in usually-blue New Hampshire
Vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance and Donald Trump Jr. will make a campaign stop on Sunday in New Hampshire, a source tells Fox News.
According to the source, the event will take place at around 7 p.m. local time. New Hampshire, though considered a swing state, tends to lean blue in presidential elections.
The move to visit New Hampshire comes in the wake of former President Trump stopping in New Mexico on Thursday and Virginia on Saturday. Both states lean blue.
On Friday, former President Bill Clinton made stops in the New Hampshire cities of Portsmouth and Nashua to speak with voters and Harris campaign staff.
"Your family needs you. My family needs you," the Democrat said. "America needs you. Let's go win these races."
Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this update.
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Hollywood outlet reports that industry insiders are dreading very possible Trump win
Hollywood insiders are expressing dread over Tuesday’s presidential election because it’s so close.
According to a new report from Hollywood outlet Deadline, the fact that former President Trump has a good shot at re-taking the White House is driving serious anxiety in Hollywood circles.
"Fascism is at the door, and her campaign isn’t fighting back enough, aren’t breaking through," a PR executive told the outlet, fretting that the Harris campaign hasn’t taken a clear lead.
Read the full article about the 2024 election by Gabriel Hays
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New Harris ad focuses on unity days after Biden uttered 'garbage' remark about Trump fans
Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign posted a new ad called "Brighter Future" on Saturday, showing the Democratic candidate emphasizing a message that focuses on unity.
The ad paints Harris as a candidate who seeks to bring Americans together rather than divide. The video comes days after President Biden remarked that Trump supporters are "garbage," following an widely-condemned joke about Puerto Rico at the Republican candidate's MSG rally.
"The vast majority of people in our country have so much more in common than what separates them," Harris says in the video. "Good people, hardworking people. We see in our fellow Americans neighbors, not enemies."
"We believe in each other, we believe in our country. We’re not falling for these folks who are trying to divide us."
In the ad, the former California senator also promised to represent all Americans if elected.
"I pledge to seek common sense solutions to make your life better," Harris says in the video. "And I pledge to be a President for all Americans."
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Minnesota Somali and Muslim leaders endorse Trump for president
A group of Somali-American and Muslim leaders in Minnesota endorsed former President Trump for re-election on Saturday at the Minnesota state capitol.
At a press conference, Imams and other leaders highlighted concerns over the economy and inflation, public safety and family values as reasons for supporting the Republican ticket.
"All these people in this room were former Democrats, we were diehard supporters. Republicans had no opportunity, no room to come and talk to us because we were loyal to the Democratic Party, but that party is no longer loyal to us," said Abshir Omar, a Somali-American refugee who previously worked on Independent Sen. Bernie Sander's 2020 presidential campaign.
"The Democratic Party is now the party of war. It's the party of the billionaires. It's the party of silencing free speech," he said.
The election has divided the Somali community in Minnesota, a traditionally Democratic constituency. Though some community leaders endorsed Trump on Saturday, Vice President Harris picked up the endorsement of a coalition of 35 religious leaders and scholars in St. Paul last month, Mshale reported.
“Donald Trump is actively promoting division and hatred, from his racist Muslim travel ban to his extremist Project 2025 plan,” said Imam Mohamed Mukhtar, one of the leaders. “We cannot stand by while he threatens our brothers and sisters in Palestine and fuels Islamophobia.”
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Donald Trump says press has lost all credibility, blasts Liz Cheney over distorted comments
Former President Donald Trump joined "Fox & Friends Weekend" to speak about the loss of public trust in the media and to respond to criticisms levied against him over comments that he made about Liz Cheney.
Trump targeted "60 Minutes" for allegedly selectively editing an interview that the show gave with Vice President Harris. Talking to Fox News, Trump also called out The Washington Post and other outlets for being "corrupt."
"They don't have credibility anymore," Trump said of the Washington Post. "They have no credibility. The media has to have credibility and the media doesn't have any credibility."
Regarding "60 Minutes," CBS News has refused to release the full transcript, citing the First Amendment, and rejected the assertion that it had "doctored" the Harris interview to mislead the American people. The network insisted that "the interview was not doctored" and that the program "did not hide any part of the vice president’s answer to the question at issue."
On "Fox & Friends Weekend, "Trump spoke out against Liz Cheney after he was criticized for comments he made at an event in Glendale, Arizona.
"I don’t blame [former Vice President Dick Cheney] for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter is a very dumb individual. Very dumb, she’s a radical war hawk," Trump said. He added, "All I’m saying is she’s a nutty war hawk. She wanted to go to war with anyone that moves and lose a lot of people, lose a lot of soldiers. Put the nation in trouble."
"Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face," Trump said at an event on Thursday. "You know, they're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in the nice buildings saying ‘Oh gee well, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy."
This is an excerpt from an article by Jeffrey Clark.
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Biden cancels all campaign calls after 'garbage' controversy
Multiple campaign calls that were publicly advised on President Biden’s schedule Thursday afternoon were cancelled, FOX News has learned.
Organizations that expected the president’s attendance did not immediately respond to inquiries about whether the Zoom calls still happened as scheduled, without the president.
None of the calls were officially affiliated with the Harris campaign. Biden has no official campaign events scheduled ahead of the election, still facing fallout from his ‘garbage’ remark on a Zoom with Voto Latino this week – which was also not directly tied to the campaign.
The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
Biden’s campaign calls were listed on the week ahead guidance, which was released Sunday.
Biden participated on a campaign call Tuesday with Voto Latino where he took a swipe at former President Trump's rally in Madison Square Garden. The rally made headlines after insult comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made a joke referring to Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage."
"The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters," Biden said. "His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it is un-American."
Biden's remarks provoked outrage from Republicans, who accused him of showing contempt for half of the country.
Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich and Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this update.
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Cardi B suffers teleprompter glitch during Harris rally in Wisconsin
Rapper Cardi B took the stage in Wisconsin to deliver a speech at a campaign rally for Vice President Harris on Friday, but an apparent teleprompter glitch had the performer stumbling before she could begin.
Cardi B was among the celebrities at Harris' third and final Wisconsin rally, in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis. Milwaukee is home to the most Democratic votes in Wisconsin, but its conservative suburbs are where most Republicans live.
As Cardi B stood before the podium, it appeared the teleprompter wasn’t displaying her speech.
"One second guys, one second," the rapper said as the crowd cheered.
For nearly two minutes, the "WAP" singer tried to work the crowd until the apparent glitch was fixed.
"I’m a little nervous, guys! I’ve been waiting for this moment my whole life," she said as the crowd continued to cheer the rapper on.
"I need Patience over here. Patience, where are you girl?" Cardi B said, referring to a staffer.
A woman eventually brought Cardi B a cell phone on which the rapper could begin her speech.
"I took my time writing this speech so I’m going to make sure I deliver it right," Cardi B told the crowd.
This is an excerpt from an article by Stephen Sorace.
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Trump hammers Harris over poor jobs numbers in prepared remarks for NC speech
Former President Trump will hammer his rival Vice President Harris on the Biden-Harris administration's economic record after a disappointing jobs report was released Friday.
At a rally later this afternoon in Gastonia, North Carolina, Trump will blame "Hurricane Kamala" for jobs losses that have been attributed to recent natural disasters, including Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
"Yesterday, it was announced that our country lost nearly 30,000 private sector jobs last month alone, along with nearly 50,000 manufacturing jobs in a single month. They’re trying to blame the Hurricane for the jobs numbers—but it wasn’t Hurricane Helene, it was Hurricane Kamala," Trump will say, according to his prepared remarks.
"Under her catastrophic economic agenda, more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs have been wiped out since the start of this year. 150,000 Americans joined the unemployment rolls last month, and nearly a quarter of a million people dropped out of the labor force.
"This is DISQUALIFYING—we cannot take 4 more years of this calamity."
U.S. job growth slowed down in October, coming in well short of economists' expectations, while the unemployment rate was unchanged.
The Labor Department on Friday reported that employers added 12,000 jobs in October, well below the 113,000 gain that was predicted by LSEG economists and the lowest tally since December 2020.
The unemployment rate was 4.1%, in line with expectations.
The number of jobs added in the prior two months were both revised downward, with job creation in August revised down by 81,000 from a gain of 159,000 to 78,000, while September was revised down by 31,000 from a gain of 254,000 to 223,000.
Private sector payrolls contracted by 28,000 in October after LSEG economists projected they would rise by 90,000.
The manufacturing sector saw employment decline by 46,000 jobs in October, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) noted was largely due to strike activity in the transportation equipment manufacturing sector. About 33,000 unionized machinists at Boeing have been on strike since early September.
The construction sector added 8,000 jobs — below the average of 20,000 jobs per month in the past 12 months.
Health care added 52,300 jobs in October, near its average monthly gain of 58,000 in the last year.
The government added 40,000 jobs in October, mostly in line with its average monthly gain of 43,000 over the past 12 months.
The BLS noted that Hurricane Helene made landfall in the southeast before the reference period for its employment surveys, while Hurricane Milton hit the same region during the report period.
Fox Business' Eric Revell contributed to this report.
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Finance expert warns Harris has been silent on key economic theory
With the economy top-of-mind for voters heading to the polls, one finance expert is sounding the alarm about Vice President Kamala Harris' "lack of conversation" surrounding international economic theory.
"There is a potential red flag there with Harris's lack of conversation surrounding tariffs and really confronting China head on," "What Should I Do With My Money?" author Bryan Kuderna told Fox News Digital.
"She has been so quiet on any international economic theory, whether that's to have tariffs, not to have tariffs, how we're going to move forward the next four years in comparison to the other superpower, China, kind of the elephant in the room. She's been very, very quiet on this."
Harris has largely focused her economic platform on domestic issues and supporting America families through proposed credits and incentives. She has also touted policies which would make the rich "pay their fair share in taxes."
Kuderna, however, warned if Harris is elected and her economic policy goes into place, it could leave America vulnerable on the world stage.
"If we step back and say, well, let's just kind of see how things unfold. Let's focus on America and helping young professionals, helping first-time homebuyers, things of this nature, that's all well and good. But meanwhile, if that allows China and their economy to really become a bit more dominant, that can have long-term consequences to our global standing as No. 1."
This is an excerpt from an article by Madeline Coggins.
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NFL legend's daughter endorses Trump, opposes biological males in women's sports
The daughter of the late NFL legend Jim Brown endorsed former President Donald Trump, explaining how his support for the Black community shifted her perspective during his first term in office.
Kimberly Brown revealed how her father's involvement with Trump "opened" her eyes during "FOX & Friends," and explained why she decided to endorse the former president as opposed to Vice President Kamala Harris.
"My dad went to go meet with President-elect Trump, and when my dad went to go meet with the president-elect, that really opened up my eyes," Brown said on Friday. "I stayed neutral for about a year within his presidency, and after that… I came out as a Trump supporter because I saw the moves that Donald Trump was making."
"Within the first 100 days, he gave us our religious rights with an executive order," she continued. "I saw that he was defunding Planned Parenthood, the No. 1 killer of Black lives. He created the First Step Act, signed that in for prison reform. My father consulted on the First Step Act. School choice, record-breaking HBCU funding, so I saw that Trump was doing a lot for Black people."
Brown, who is a professional athlete herself, explained that protecting the sanctity of women's sports is a key issue for her this election, and that is another reason she will cast her ballot for the former president.
"I play tackle football. I don't want to be on the field with a man wearing a wig, taking hormones, taking hits," she said. "That's already going to affect me physically with injuries. I'm already susceptible to CTE, to concussions, and for a 300-pound man to go against me, that's going to put me at risk and is going to put other girls and women at risk, as well as the mental trauma of them coming into our safe spaces."
"It's unfair. They're taking away opportunities. They're taking away funding. They're taking away women's rights," she continued. "And Title IX was to protect us. Title IX was to give us a fair, equal playing field and not to be discriminated against. This is not similar. This is a whole other sex coming into our sport and taking over, and I don't understand how the Biden-Harris administration is pushing this agenda."
This is an excerpt from an article by Bailee Hill.
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Bill Maher warns that Biden's 'garbage' comment is a 'bigger gaffe than people think'
"Real Time" host Bill Maher fumed over President Biden's "garbage" comment about Trump supporters, suggesting it could have a big impact on Election Day.
"I think it's a bigger gaffe than people think," Maher began his panel discussion Friday night. "It's so funny, Joe Biden, his whole career, he was like Mr. Gaffe, and then here at the very end- he's like Aaron Judge in Game Six. He just f--kin' muffed the fly ball and at the end of the thing, and blew the whole [game]."
"Because I feel like it epitomizes everything that the Trump people hate about the Democrats. They look down at us. It's like ‘deplorables’ times ten," Maher said.
"The Fifth Column" podcast co-host Michael Moynihan agreed with Maher, saying it reaffirms the belief that "the elite" hate Trump supporters and swiftly dismissed the media's debate over "the apostrophe" because it was "clear" what Biden was talking about, stressing it was "not a net-positive for Democrats."
The Bulwark's Tim Miller suggested the "dumb" comment wasn't so damaging, telling Maher "I don't know if Trump took advantage of it as much as some people might want to think."
The HBO host then pivoted to the "garbage" joke told by insult comedian Tony Hinchcliffe that sparked the controversy, which was made at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally when he referred to Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage."
"Did the Democrats look weak because they can't take a joke?" Maher asked. "Because I think that's another Achilles heel that they have."
This is an excerpt from an article by Joseph A. Wulfsohn.
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'This man stood up': Pro-Trump group launches blistering seven-figure ad buy as closing pitch to vot
A pro-Trump group has launched a seven-figure ad buy as a closing pitch for the former president after the clip went viral on social media.
On Friday, Building America’s Future (BAF), a conservative nonprofit, released the clip titled "Moments" that it says highlights the "attacks on Donald Trump and his supporters in recent months."
The ad, posted on X by Elon Musk and others, has garnered over 20 million views on X.
"Think about all they've done to Donald Trump," the ad says. "First it was hoaxes, witch hunts, and impeachments. Then it was FBI raids, courtrooms, and mug shots. Finally, it was bullets in a Pennsylvania field.
"And after all that, this man stood up, with blood draining down his face, pumped his fist in the air and told us to ‘Fight. Fight. Fight.’"
The ad then plays a clip from Trump saying. "America's future will be bigger, better, bolder, brighter, happier, stronger, free-er, greater, and more united than ever before. And we will Make America Great Again."
This is an excerpt from an article by Andrew Mark Miller.
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court sides with GOP in last-minute mail-in ballot dispute
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court shut down an effort to allow mail-in ballots lacking a handwritten date to be counted in the 2024 election.
The ruling overturns a decision from a Commonwealth Court finding that the state law requiring a handwritten date was unconstitutional. The Pennsylvania GOP appealed that ruling to the state supreme court, and now undated mail-in ballots will not be counted in the upcoming election.
Justice Kevin Dougherty admonished the Commonwealth Court for its ruling in a forcefully-worded opinion relating to Friday's ruling.
"'This Court will neither impose nor countenance substantial alterations to existing laws and procedures during the pendency of an ongoing election.’ We said those carefully chosen words only weeks ago. Yet they apparently were not heard in the Commonwealth Court, the very court where the bulk of election litigation unfolds," Dougherty wrote.
"Today’s order, which I join, rights the ship. And it sends a loud message to all courts in this Commonwealth: in declaring we would not countenance substantial alterations to existing laws and procedures during the pendency of an ongoing election, we said what we meant and meant what we said," he continued.
Pennsylvania Republicans hailed the Friday ruling, saying Democrats have repeatedly tried to subvert the dating requirement.
"The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the law, and the dated ballot requirement will be in effect for this election. Democrats have repeatedly tried to eliminate this important ballot safeguard, and we have stopped them each time," RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement. "We are committed to protecting critical ballot safeguards to ensure every ballot is cast and counted properly and will continue to fight across Pennsylvania to Protect the Vote."
State officials in favor of allowing undated ballots to be counted argue the change would make process easier for election workers. The Pennsylvania Department of State filed a brief in favor of the change prior to the court's ruling on Friday.
This is an excerpt from an article by Anders Hagstrom.
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Republicans topple Dem voter registration advantage in crucial swing state as early vote wraps up
New numbers released in a key swing state show that Republicans have virtually erased the Democrat voter-registration lead, on top of historic early-voting numbers for Republicans, which one expert tells Fox News Digital is part of an effective strategy on the ground targeting a key demographic.
Figures released by the Nevada Secretary of State on Friday showed that Democrats hold 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.
On top of significantly narrowing the registration gap, Republicans have had a historically high early-vote turnout and lead Democrats by about 5% in the early vote, which ended in person on Friday, while trailing in mail-in votes.
Early voting concluded in Nevada with 393,811 votes cast for Republicans, 344,539 for Democrats, and 287,762 for other affiliations, according to the Secretary of State website.
The roughly 49,000 vote advantage that Republicans had over Democrats at the end of the week is a stark contrast from 2020, when Democrats ended early voting with a 43,000-vote advantage.
Biden won Nevada by roughly 34,000 votes in 2020.
This is an excerpt from an article by Andrew Mark Miller.
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'Squad' member Tlaib declines to endorse Harris at Detroit rally
Far-left "Squad" member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., declined to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president Friday at a United Auto Workers union rally in Detroit.
Tlaib, the lone Palestinian-American member of Congress, has been critical of the Biden-Harris administration's support for Israel in the war against Hamas since the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack, in which 1,500 people were slaughtered. Her decision to withhold an endorsement from Harris is significant as Michigan is one of three "blue wall" states Democrats view as must-win to defeat former President Trump.
Rather than lend her support to Harris, Tlaib made a general plea for voters to get to the ballot box on Tuesday, according to the Detroit News.
“Don’t underestimate the power you all have,” she said. “More than those ads, those lawn signs, those billboards, you all have more power to turn out people that understand we’ve got to fight back against corporate greed in our country... We’ve got to make sure that the nonpartisan part of the ballot gets filled in.”
Tlaib spoke at the UAW rally alongside fellow "Squad" member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. and UAW president Shawn Fain, both of whom endorsed Harris.
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Donald Trump Jr., Kristi Noem join Franklin Graham in Helene-torn North Carolina with Samaritan's Pu
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Donald Trump Jr. joined Franklin Graham of Samaritan's Purse Friday to help airlift warm clothing to Hurricane Helene-torn North Carolina as temperatures fell in the region.
Samaritan's Purse, a Christian disaster relief and evangelism organization, has served its home state of North Carolina since Hurricane Helene ripped through the southeast in late September.
Noem joined Trump and Graham, the president of Samaritan's Purse and son of the late Rev. Billy Graham, in the Bat Cave community near Chimney Rock Friday afternoon.
With donations personally delivered from California-based Kirstyn Hairston of KUIU and Dan and Agatha Genter of Genter Capital Management, Samaritan's Purse airlifted over 1,200 articles of winter clothing to the storm-torn survivors of Bat Cave, including winter jackets, fleece sweaters and pants, according to a release.
"Today was an amazing opportunity to be the hands and feet of Jesus and to be a blessing to people alongside Samaritan’s Purse," South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital. "Today, we saw the devastation of entire communities that have lost homes and all their belongings and even lost lives.
"So, we’re not only here today — we’re not going to forget about these folks. They will need our help for weeks and years to come. They will still need us to pray for them and lift them up. And they’ll need an organization like Samaritan’s Purse to walk alongside them."
This is an excerpt from an article by Jasmine Baehr.
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Bolton says Americans should be ready for Trump to challenge election results
Former national security adviser John Bolton said Friday he thinks his ex-boss former President Trump is unlikely to accept a loss in the 2024 presidential election.
"We should be ready for it," he told CNN's Kaitlan Collins in an interview.
He also said the pre-election litigation that is ongoing across the U.S. is a "good thing" that may resolve several issues ahead of Nov. 5.
“I actually think that’s a good thing. I think the more issues that — it’s getting late now, obviously. But the more issues that are litigated before the election, the better,” Bolton said.
High-profile election cases before various state and federal courts include an unsuccessful attempt by Republicans to block the counting of certain provisional ballots in Pennsylvania, a challenge to Virginia's effort to purge voter rolls of non-citizens and challenges to overseas voter eligibility.
“At least now, some of this litigation is filed beforehand, and we’re getting results, some favorable to Trump, some not favorable to Trump,” said Bolton. “It’s taking those issues off the table.”
Still, he said Americans should be prepared for Trump to contest the results of the election.
“But I think everybody ought to be ready. Because Trump never loses,” Bolton said. “And if he loses, it’s because it’s stolen. So, it will be difficult.”
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Harris holds commanding 10-point lead over Trump in Virginia: poll
With just four days to Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris holds a commanding 10-point lead over former President Trump in Virginia among likely voters, according to a new poll by Roanoke College.
The Trump campaign is hoping to flip the Old Dominion State red after losing in 2016 and 2020, with the former president making a last-minute stop in Salem on Saturday for a campaign rally. No Republican presidential candidate has won Virginia since former President George W. Bush's re-election in 2004.
Only 2% of likely voters say they are undecided and another 2% say they will vote for someone other than the five candidates on the ballot, according to the poll.
Harris leads Trump by 51% to 41%, with independent Cornel West and Libertarian Chase Oliver both polling at 2%. Green Party candidate Jill Stein is polling at 1%.
The economy was named as the most important issue by 43% of respondents, followed by abortion (20%) and immigration (12%). Foreign affairs (8%) came in next, followed by crime (3%).
In the U.S. Senate race, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., leads his Republican challenger Hung Cao by 51% to 40%.
The poll interviewed 851 likely registered voters in Virginia from Oct. 25-29 and has a margin of error of 4.6%.
This is an excerpt from an article by Michael Dorgan.
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House Oversight ramps up demands for White House to release accurate Biden 'garbage' transcript
The House Oversight Committee is applying pressure on the White House to release accurate transcripts, after they allegedly altered President Biden's remarks after he called Trump supporters "garbage."
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Oversight Chair James Comer, R-KY, sent a letter to the White House counsel's office Friday demanding they preserve all documents related to the transcript.
"To date, the White House has not issued a corrected transcript, and the false transcript remains on the White House webpage," they wrote.
The top members condemned the White House's alteration of the official transcript, writing that the stenography office cannot "simply rewrite President Biden’s rhetoric."
"In this case, it appears the White House is doing so to safeguard Vice President Harris’s presidential campaign," they wrote.
Stefanik and Comer referred to an AP report, which cited an internal email from the head of the stenographer's office, that noted that the press office "conferred with the president" to change the transcript.
The shocking comment came during Biden's remarks to Latino activists regarding comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's comments at a Trump rally. Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage."
Biden, according to a transcript prepared by the official White House stenographers, told the Latino group on a Tuesday evening video call, "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American."
The transcript released by the White House press office, however, rendered the quote with an apostrophe, reading "supporter’s" rather than "supporters."
The White House insisted that Biden was criticizing Hinchcliffe's comments – and not the huge swath of Americans supporting a Trump presidency.
This is an excerpt from an article by Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Jacqui Heinrich.
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Trump clarifies he meant Cheney wouldn’t have ‘guts’ to fight a war with rifle comment
Former President Trump on Friday clarified that he meant former Rep. Liz Cheney doesn’t have the "guts" to fight on the front lines of war after he received a backlash from Democrats over comments he made Thursday about having guns trained on her.
"All I’m saying about Liz Cheney is that she is a War Hawk, and a dumb one at that, but she wouldn’t have ‘the guts’ to fight herself," the Republican presidential nominee wrote on Truth Social. "It’s easy for her to talk, sitting far from where the death scenes take place, but put a gun in her hand, and let her go fight, and she’ll say, ‘No thanks!’ Her father decimated the Middle East, and other places, and got rich by doing so. He’s caused plenty of DEATH, and probably never even gave it a thought. That’s not what we want running our Country!"
Trump caused controversy when he called Cheney a "radical war hawk" at an event in Arizona on Thursday, adding, "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. They're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let's send 10,000 troops into the mouths of the enemies,’ but she’s a stupid person and I used to have meetings with a lot of people and she always wanted to go to war with people."
Trump also told reporters at a campaign stop in Dearborn, Michigan, on Friday: "Even in my administration, she was pushing that we go to war with everybody, and I said if you ever gave her a rifle and let her do the fighting, if you ever do that, she wouldn't be doing too well, I will tell you right now. But she's a war hawk. She wants to go kill people unnecessarily."
The remarks prompted accusations from liberals of violent rhetoric and that Trump was suggesting Cheney should face a firing squad.
This is an excerpt from an article by Brie Stimson.
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Carville slams 'f---ing stupid' pundits for focusing on polling, policy rather than Trump rhetoric
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville blasted the "truth teller caucus" in the media who "have to be fair" instead of condemning former President Trump's political rhetoric.
Trump’s comments this week attacking Republican Liz Cheney for being a "radical war hawk" have set off controversy, with numerous critics framing it as a call for violence, and others pointing to the full context as exoneration.
Carville, who recently declared he was uninterested in being "fair" this election, said, "The wormiest and slimiest people in this is what I call the ‘truth teller’ caucus. The people out there that are just so burdened with the obligation to tell y’all the truth. And you see these a--wipes everywhere. You see them in commentary, you see them in newsrooms, you see columns, you see them on cable TV, and you see it in the newscasts."
He juxtaposed pundits analyzing polling averages with Trump allegedly calling to arrest his political opponents and blasted the media for acting "like these are two equal godd--- things."
Carville went on to paraphrase the false narrative about Trump wanting to set a firing squad on Cheney.
"You also have the professional centrists, the people who just have to take a centrist approach," and try to converge in the middle. "Let's say Trump wants a 9-person firing squad to execute Liz Cheney," Carville said, before mocking centrist pundits by suggesting they would be asking, "Is the middle position a 4-person firing squad or a 5-person firing squad?"
"These people are so f---ing stupid," Carville said, adding that they are "victims of idiotic tunnel vision of what they are and their own exaggerated sense of fairness. It's hard to make the whole thing up."
Carville said that if the country is "done in," it will be the fault of these "professional ‘truth tellers,’ you know, the kind of people that have to be fair."
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104 days: Kamala Harris has yet to do formal press conference since emerging as Democratic nominee
Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 104 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 several 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 last 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.
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Georgia's nearly 4 million early votes bode well for Trump, top state Republican says
Georgia Republicans appear confident the state’s record-setting early voting numbers will favor their 2024 presidential nominee.
"It’s been record turnout, something unbelievable — voting from all across the state," Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones told Fox News Digital. "I think the enthusiasm, the momentum, is with President Trump."
The former commander in chief lost Georgia by less than 1% in 2020, and Republicans have poured enormous time and resources into winning it back Nov. 5.
A significant part of that strategy has been convincing people to cast ballots early, traditionally a voting method more favored by Democrats.
And both parties’ emphasis on early voting has had a seismic effect. During the early voting period between Oct. 15 and Nov. 1, nearly 4 million Georgians cast in-person or absentee ballots, more than half the state’s active voters.
Over 700,000 people who voted already in 2024 did not vote at all in 2020, according to Georgia Votes.
Meanwhile, the top three counties for voter turnout rates are rural areas won by Trump in 2020.
Both of those factors, Jones argued, were favorable indicators for the ex-president.
"We've got a lot of voters that voted in 2016 but didn't vote in 2020. … What makes me believe that they are Trump voters is that most of them are ... from parts of the state that are pretty strong Republican strongholds," he said.
"You start breaking down where they live, where they were historically as far as the Republican cards they pulled in the past, and, like I said, the on-the-ground enthusiasm for [Trump] right now is pretty off the charts."
This is an excerpt from an article by Elizabeth Elkind.
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Liz Cheney urges George W. Bush to endorse Harris: 'I think it's time'
Former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., is calling on former President George W. Bush to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris.
Cheney made the comment during a Friday episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour.
"I can't explain why George W. Bush hasn't spoken out but I think it’s time, and I wish that he would," Cheney said.
This comes after Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who served under Bush, endorsed Harris for President. The former Republican congresswoman has been campaigning with Harris in recent weeks.
Bush's daughter, Barbara, has also endorsed Harris and is campaigning for the vice president.
"It was inspiring to join friends and meet voters with the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania this weekend," the former first daughter told People Magazine on Tuesday. 'I'm hopeful they'll move our country forward and protect women's rights."
But the former president and his wife, Laura, have said they have no plans to endorse a presidential candidate.
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Harris, Trump 'leave nothing on the field' in final weekend before Election Day
Vice President Kamala Harris is urging her supporters to vote with the clock ticking down toward Election Day.
"We're going to get this done, but nobody can sit by the sidelines," the Democratic presidential nominee emphasized as she campaigned in battleground Wisconsin. "You don't want to look back on these four days and have any regrets about what you could have done."
Harris and the Republican nominee, former President Trump, held dueling rallies Friday night a few miles apart in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's largest city.
Hours earlier, while campaigning in Michigan, another crucial Great Lakes swing state, Trump told his supporters "nothing matters except what happens on Tuesday."
"Just pretend that we're one point down. We're not. We're up. But pretend that we're one point down on Tuesday," the former president stressed. He once again touted that he's leading Harris, even though the latest polls continue to indicate it's a toss-up.
With time running out, the campaign strategy now shifts.
"The closing arguments have been made. It’s not really about persuasion now. It’s about turnout. And that’s where all the energy of the campaigns are going to be directed," longtime Republican strategist David Kochel told Fox News.
Kochel, a veteran of numerous GOP presidential campaigns, said, "At this point, people's minds are made up. There are very few people out there to convince at this point. And if they’re deciding, they’re deciding between voting or sitting on the couch."
Harris and Trump on Thursday each held their final events in the western battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada, and Friday's competing rallies were their last stops in Wisconsin ahead of Election Day.
The razor-thin margins in those three states, along with Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, decided President Biden's 2020 victory over Trump and will likely determine if Harris or Trump wins the 2024 election.
This is an excerpt from an article by Paul Steinhauser.
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