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With just eight days left in the 2024 presidential election cycle, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are making their final push to voters across the U.S., especially in battleground states.
Trump is expected to hold a rally in Atlanta, Georgia on Monday evening after hosting a blockbuster campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday.
The Republican nominee stands little chance of winning his home state on November 5 but was nevertheless joined by an army of MAGA cheerleaders, including his running mate JD Vance, billionaire Elon Musk, ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson and wrestler Hulk Hogan.
President Joe Biden called the rally “embarrassing” after casting his ballot on Monday.
Meanwhile, the Harris campaign is getting ready to host a rally in Ann Arbor Michigan, featuring singer Maggie Rogers on Monday.
It’s part of its “Get Out the Vote” concert series, where the campaign hopes to reach large fan bases to support Harris and Governor Tim Walz.
Musician Bruce Springsteen will join former president Barack Obama in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a separate rally.
Trump’s team keeps losing in court ahead of the election – but it isn’t stopping them
Despite a lack of evidence, Trump allies have fixated on alleged claims of illegal voting and voter roll purges across battleground states and beyond as the presidential race against Kamala Harris tightens.
The GOP said it has been involved in 130 legal cases this election cycle after it launched an initiative earlier this year around “election integrity.”
Ariana Baio28 October 2024 18:30
Trump ally says ‘no one worked harder’ for Puerto Rico than former president
One of Donald Trump’s loyal allies asserted the former president worked harder to assist Puerto Rico than any other president in an attempt to help distance Trump from a comedian who made an offensive joke at his Madison Square Rally on Sunday evening
“No one worked harder for Puerto Rico after the hurricanes hit than [Trump],” Peter Navarro wrote.
Navarro worked in the Trump administration and is one of the people who assisted Trump in trying to overturn 2020 election results. He was jailed for contempt of Congress this past year.
Ariana Baio28 October 2024 17:35
Harris responds to Trump comedian’s ‘joke’ about Puerto Rico
Vice President Kamala Harris criticized a comedian’s remarks about Puerto Rico at Trump’s MSG rally last night.
“I’m very proud to have the support of both like Bad Bunny and Jennifer Lope and others who were supporting me before that nonsense last night at Madison Square Garden.”
Ariana Baio28 October 2024 17:10
President Joe Biden casts his ballot
President Joe Biden arrived in Wilmington, Delaware this morning to cast his ballot in the 2024 presidential election – likely a bittersweet moment for the president who initially believed he would be voting for himself had his party not pushed him out.
Monday morning, Biden arrived at the polling location and waited in line. While waiting he greeted other voters, according to the White House poll report.
Ariana Baio28 October 2024 16:48
Hundreds of ballots burned in Oregon after ‘incendiary’ device placed inside box
Hundreds of ballots were burned inside a ballot box that was set on fire after “an incendiary device” was placed inside the box, police say.
Authorities in Portland, Oregon said police officers received a call around 6 a.m. local time that there was a fire inside a ballot box approximately a block away from the Multnomah County Elections Office.
By the time police arrived, a nearby person had begun to put the fire out.
The Clark County elections auditor told KATU that only a few ballots could be saved. Anyone who placed a ballot in the box after 11 a.m. on Saturday can request a replacement from the auditor’s office.
Police say some sort of incendiary device was placed inside the ballot box and started the fire.
Ariana Baio28 October 2024 16:00
Lawsuit accuses Elon Musk of ‘illegal lottery scheme’ with $1 million giveaway to registered voters
Philadelphia’s district attorney is suing Elon Musk’s political action committee to stop his multimillion-dollar stunt that the Department of Justice has warned could be illegal.
A lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania on Monday by District Attorney Larry Krasner argues that Musk’s Donald Trump-supporting America PAC “hatched an illegal lottery scheme to influence voters in that election.”
“America PAC and Musk must be stopped, immediately,” before Election Day, according to the lawsuit, which was first reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“Though Musk says that a winner’s selection is ‘random,’ that appears to be false,” according to the lawsuit. “Multiple winners that have been selected are individuals who have shown up at Trump rallies in Pennsylvania.”
The lawsuit marks the first legal action against the billionaire’s stunt, which offered people who signed the PAC’s petition supporting First and Second Amendment rights the chance to win a random daily $1 million prize drawing.
Alex Woodward28 October 2024 15:30
AOC mocks Trump with McDonald’s E. coli conspiracy
Tim Walz teamed up with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for a Sunday campaign appearance on Twitch as they played video games and the New York Democrat promoted a McDonald’s conspiracy involving Trump.
Here’s John Bowden to explain.
Joe Sommerlad28 October 2024 15:00
Harris’s team keeps Biden from campaign in ‘slow-moving breakup’
The Democrat’s campaign is reportedly keeping President Joe Biden at arm’s length as the 81-year-old is itching to get out on the campaign trail for his former running mate.
Three people told Axios that the Harris campaign keeps saying that they’ll get back to the president’s team on when to send him out into the field.
The Harris campaign views Biden as a political liability but doesn’t want to say directly that they don’t want him to stump for the vice president.
Democrats and some of Biden’s staff keep walking on eggshells around Biden’s ego and feelings, according to the outlet.
Gustaf Kilander has more on a really rather sad state of affairs.
Joe Sommerlad28 October 2024 14:40
Historic gender gap will likely decide if Trump or Harris wins
With just over a week left before Election Day, a historic gender gap is emerging that may decide whether Trump or Harris wins the White House.
Recent national polling has noted that women decisively backed the Vice President 53 percent to 36 over her Republican rival.
The figures are an almost exact mirror image when it comes to men, who support Trump 53 percent to 36 percent over Harris.
If such margins hold until Election Day, it would be the biggest disparity since a gender gap emerged more than four decades ago, in 1980, according to USA Today/Suffolk University, which carried out the survey.
Joe Sommerlad28 October 2024 14:20