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NEW YORK (AP) — Foreign adversaries have shown continued determination to influence the U.S. election –- and there are signs their activity will intensify as Election Day nears, Microsoft said in a report Wednesday.
Russian operatives are doubling down on fake videos to smear Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, while Chinese-linked social media campaigns are maligning down-ballot Republicans who are critical of China, the company’s threat intelligence arm said Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Iranian actors who allegedly sent emails aimed at intimidating U.S. voters in 2020 have been surveying election-related websites and major media outlets, raising concerns they could be preparing for another scheme this year, the tech giant said.
The report serves as a warning – building on others from U.S. intelligence officials – that as the nation enters this critical final stretch and begins counting ballots, the worst influence efforts may be yet to come. U.S. officials say they remain confident that election infrastructure is secure enough to withstand any attacks from American adversaries. Still, in a tight election, foreign efforts to influence voters are raising concern.
Microsoft noted that some of the disinformation campaigns it tracks received little authentic engagement from U.S. audiences, but others have been amplified by unwitting Americans, exposing thousands to foreign propaganda in the final weeks of voting.
Russia, China and Iran have all rejected claims that they are seeking to meddle with the U.S. election.
“The presidential elections are the United States’ domestic affairs. China has no intention and will not interfere in the US election,” the Chinese Embassy said in a statement.
“Having already unequivocally and repeatedly announced, Iran neither has any motive nor intent to interfere in the U.S. election; and, it therefore categorically repudiates such accusations,” read a statement from Iran’s mission to the United Nations.
A message left with the Russian Embassy was not immediately returned on Wednesday.
The report reveals an expanding landscape of coordinated campaigns to advance adversaries’ priorities as global wars and economic concerns raise the stakes for the U.S. election around the world. It details a trend also seen in the 2016 and 2020 elections of foreign actors covertly fomenting discord among American voters, furthering a divide in the electorate that has left the nation almost evenly split just 13 days before voting concludes.
“History has shown that the ability of foreign actors to rapidly distribute deceptive content can significantly impact public perception and electoral outcomes,” Clint Watts, general manager of the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center, said in a news release. “With a particular focus on the 48 hours before and after Election Day, voters, government institutions, candidates and parties must remain vigilant to deceptive and suspicious activity online.”
The report adds to previous findings from Microsoft and U.S. intelligence that suggest the Kremlin is committed to lambasting Harris’ character online, a sign of its preference for another Donald Trump presidency.
Russian actors have spent recent months churning out both AI-generated content and more rudimentary spoofs and staged videos spreading disinformation about Harris, Microsoft’s analysts found.
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Among the fake videos were a staged clip of a park ranger impersonator claiming Harris killed an endangered rhinoceros in Zambia, as well as a video sharing baseless allegations about her running mate Tim Walz, which U.S. intelligence officials also attributed to Russia this week. Morgan Finkelstein, national security spokeswoman for the Harris campaign, condemned Russia’s efforts.
Another Russian influence actor has been producing fake election-related videos spoofing American organizations from Fox News to the FBI and Wired magazine, according to the report.
China over the last several months has focused on down-ballot races, and on general efforts to sow distrust and democratic dissatisfaction. A Chinese influence actor widely known as Spamouflage has been using fake social media users to attack down-ballot Republicans who have publicly denounced China, according to Microsoft’s analysts.
Candidates targeted have included Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama, Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, all of whom are running for reelection, the report said. The group also has attacked Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.
All four politicians sent emailed statements condemning China’s aggression against American political candidates and its efforts to weaken democracy.
In its statement, the Chinese embassy said U.S. officials, politicians and media “have accused China of using news websites and social media accounts to spread so-called disinformation in the US. Such allegations are full of malicious speculations against China, which China firmly opposes.”
Iran, which has spent the 2024 campaign going after Trump with disinformation as well as hacking into the former president’s campaign, hasn’t been stymied by ongoing tension in the Middle East, according to the Microsoft report.
Quite the opposite, groups linked to Iran have weaponized divided opinions on the Israel-Hamas War to influence American voters, the analysts found. For example, an Iranian operated persona took to Telegram and X to call on Americans to sit out the elections due to the candidates’ support for Israel.
Microsoft’s report also said it observed an Iranian group compromising an account of a notable Republican politician who had a different account targeted in June. The company would not name the individual but said it was the same person who it had referenced in August as a “former presidential candidate.”
The report also warned that the same Iranian group that allegedly posed as members of the far-right Proud Boys in intimidating emails to voters in 2020 has been scouting swing-state election-related websites and media outlets in recent months. The behavior could “suggest preparations for more direct influence operations as Election Day nears,” Watts said.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations said in a statement that the allegations in the report “are fundamentally unfounded, and wholly inadmissible.”
Even as Russia, China and Iran try to influence voters, intelligence officials said Tuesday there is still no indication they are plotting significant attacks on election infrastructure as a way to disrupt the outcome.
If they tried, improvements to election security means there is no way they could alter the results, Jen Easterly, director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told The Associated Press earlier this month.
Intelligence officials on Tuesday also warned that Russia and Iran may try to encourage violent protests in the U.S. after next month’s election, setting the stage for potential complications in the post-election period.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump will compete for West Virginia’s four electoral votes in the Nov. 5 general election. Voters will also cast ballots for a full slate of federal and state contests, including a U.S. Senate race that will help decide control of the chamber next year.
Neither Harris nor Trump have campaigned in West Virginia, and the state has not been a competitive presidential battleground for years. West Virginia was reliable Democratic territory for most of the 20th century, but Republican presidential candidates have won the state by comfortable margins since George W. Bush’s victory there in 2000.
Also appearing on the presidential ballot this year are three independent or third-party candidates, including Jill Stein and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who dropped out of the race in August and endorsed Trump.
In the U.S. Senate race, Republican Gov. Jim Justice is running against Democrat Glenn Elliott and Libertarian David Moran to succeed Democrat-turned-independent Joe Manchin, who is not seeking a third full term. Manchin’s retirement has complicated Democratic hopes of maintaining control of the chamber next year. A win by Justice would be enough to give the GOP a majority if Trump wins the White House, assuming they hold their other seats.
Republican state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is running against Democrat Steve Williams and three third-party candidates to replace Justice as governor. Voters also will decide two U.S. House races, including the 2nd Congressional District seat Republican incumbent Alex Mooney gave up to run in the U.S. Senate primary against Justice.
Other races on the ballot include state Senate, state House, attorney general and other state offices, as well as a ballot measure that would prohibit medically assisted suicide.
In recent years, West Virginia has increasingly chosen Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate and House and for statewide offices. Before switching party affiliations, Manchin was one of the last remaining Democrats representing the state.
The Associated Press doesn’t make projections and will declare a winner only when it has determined there is no scenario that would allow the trailing candidates to close the gap. If a race hasn’t been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, like candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear it hasn’t declared a winner and explain why.
Here’s a look at what to expect in the 2024 election in West Virginia:
Nov. 5.
7:30 p.m. ET.
4 awarded to statewide winner.
President: Harris (D) vs. Trump (R) vs. Jill Stein (Mountain Party) vs. Chase Oliver (Libertarian) vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (independent).
U.S. Senate: Elliott (D) vs. Justice (R) and one other.
Governor: Williams (R) vs. Morrisey (R) and three others.
Ballot measure: Constitutional Amendment 1 (prohibit medically assisted suicide).
U.S. House, state Senate, state House, attorney general, agriculture commissioner, auditor, secretary of state and treasurer.
2020: Trump (R) 69%, Biden (D) 30%, AP race call: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, 7:30 p.m. ET.
What to know about the 2024 Election
Registered voters: 1,201,724 (as of Sept. 30, 2024). About 29% Democrats, 41% Republicans and 25% no party.
Voter turnout in 2020 presidential election: 63% of registered voters.
Votes cast before Election Day 2020: about 50% of the total vote.
Votes cast before Election Day 2022: about 29% of the total vote.
Votes cast before Election Day 2024: See AP Advance Vote tracker.
First votes reported, Nov. 3, 2020: 7:57 p.m. ET.
By midnight ET: about 96% of total votes cast were reported.
Associated Press writer Maya Sweedler contributed to this report.
Read more about how U.S. elections work at Explaining Election 2024, a series from The Associated Press aimed at helping make sense of the American democracy. The AP receives support from several private foundations to enhance its explanatory coverage of elections and democracy. See more about AP’s democracy initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Utah voters will cast ballots for the full range of federal and state offices in the Nov. 5 general election, including president, Congress, governor, state Legislature and others.
Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, Republican former President Donald Trump and half a dozen third-party candidates are competing for Utah’s six electoral votes to replace outgoing Democratic President Joe Biden. It has been 60 years since a Democratic presidential candidate has won Utah.
GOP Congressman John Curtis, Democrat Caroline Gleich and independent candidate Carlton Bowen are squaring off to replace Republican U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, who announced last year he would not seek a second term.
Republican Gov. Spencer Cox is running for reelection against Democratic state Rep. Brian King and three other candidates on the ballot. Cox received 64% of the vote in 2020.
Utah’s four congressional seats, all held by Republicans, are up for election, including the 3rd District seat Curtis is vacating to run for the Senate.
Two constitutional amendments are on the ballot but votes for or against them won’t count after state courts voided the measures. Both amendments, however, remain on the ballot to keep printing and other election deadlines on track. One amendment would have allowed state lawmakers to rewrite citizen-approved initiatives and the other asked voters to consider changing how state income tax revenue is spent.
Polls close in Utah at 10 p.m. ET. Utah’s elections are conducted predominantly by mail, and all registered voters are sent absentee ballots, which can returned to a drop box or by mail. Mailed votes must be postmarked by Nov. 4, the day before Election Day. Utah tallies advance ballots prior to Election Day.
Utah counted a third of its votes after Election Day in 2022 and those additional ballots favored Democrats by 4 percentage points. That’s a substantial change from recent prior elections when the shift expanded the margin of victory for Republicans by one half to almost a full percentage point. The main counties to watch for additional votes have been Davis, Salt Lake and Utah.
Utah’s mandatory recount provision is triggered when the difference in votes for each candidate is equal to or less than 0.25% of the total number of votes cast.
Utah has been solidly Republican. Lyndon Johnson was the last Democratic presidential candidate to win there, carrying the state in 1964.
Still, Utah bears watching. As the state’s Mormon population has dropped, Utah has become more diverse. And some of the state’s Mormon voters have half-heartedly embraced Trump. Although Trump won Utah by 18 and 20 percentage point margins in 2016 and 2020, he far underperformed previous GOP nominees, who carried the state by nearly 30- to almost 50-point margins from 2000 through 2012.
The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it has determined there is no scenario that would allow the trailing candidates to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.
Here’s a look at what to expect in the 2024 election in Utah:
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Nov. 5.
10 p.m. ET.
6 awarded to statewide winner.
President: Harris (D) vs. Trump (R) vs. Jill Stein (Green) vs. Chase Oliver (Libertarian) vs. Cornel West (unaffiliated) and three others.
U.S. Senate: Curtis (R) vs. Gleich (D) and one other.
Governor: Cox (R) vs. Smith King (D) and three others.
U.S. House, state Senate, state House, attorney general, auditor, state Board of Education, treasurer and ballot measures.
2020: Trump (R) 58%, Biden (D) 38%, AP race call: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, 11:07 p.m. ET.
Registered voters: 2,025,754 (as of Oct. 21, 2024). About 14% Democrats, 50% Republicans and 29% unaffiliated.
Voter turnout in 2020 presidential election: 80% of registered voters.
Votes cast before Election Day 2020 and 2022: almost all votes cast by mail.
Votes cast before Election Day 2024: See AP Advance Vote tracker.
First votes reported, Nov. 3, 2020: 10:01 p.m. ET.
By midnight ET: about 63% of total votes cast were reported.
Associated Press writer Maya Sweedler contributed to this report.
Read more about how U.S. elections work at Explaining Election 2024, a series from The Associated Press aimed at helping make sense of the American democracy. The AP receives support from several private foundations to enhance its explanatory coverage of elections and democracy. See more about AP’s democracy initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, Republican former President Donald Trump and five third-party candidates will compete for New Mexico’s five electoral votes, but the most competitive race on the ballot will likely be a U.S. House race that could determine control of the narrowly divided chamber.
New Mexico was once one of the nation’s most competitive presidential battlegrounds, having gone for Democrat Al Gore in 2000 and Republican George W. Bush in 2004 by less than 1 percentage point. Democratic presidential candidates have since won seven of the last eight general elections in the state, where neither of the major party candidates has campaigned this year.
In the U.S. House, Democratic Rep. Gabriel Vasquez is seeking a second term in the 2nd Congressional District against the Republican he narrowly defeated in 2022, former Rep. Yvette Herrell. Immigration has been a major issue in the sprawling district that spans the state’s entire border with Mexico. Republicans hold a slim majority in the House, and a Herrell victory would complicate Democratic hopes to retake the chamber.
In the U.S. Senate, Democratic incumbent Martin Heinrich is seeking a third term against Republican Nella Domenici. She is the daughter of the late Republican Sen. Pete Domenici, who served six terms, from 1973 to 2009 and was the last Republican elected to the Senate from New Mexico.
More than 60% of New Mexicans typically vote before Election Day. A 2023 law requires counties to post early and absentee results no later than 11 p.m. ET.
Democratic presidential candidates historically have won most of the state’s largest counties — Bernalillo, which includes Albuquerque; Santa Fe, the state’s capital; and Dona Ana, in the south part of the state. Republicans tend to do well in the east of the state bordering Texas, and in San Juan County in the Four Corners area in the northwest.
The Associated Press doesn’t make projections and will declare a winner only when it has determined there is no scenario that would allow the trailing candidates to close the gap. If a race hasn’t been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, like candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear it hasn’t declared a winner and explain why.
Here’s a look at what to expect in the 2024 election in New Mexico:
Nov. 5.
9 p.m. ET.
5 awarded to statewide winner.
President: Harris (D) vs. Trump (R) vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (DTS) vs. Chase Oliver (OTH) vs. Jill Stein (Green) and two others.
U.S. Senate: Heinrich (D) vs. Domenici (R).
2nd Congressional District: Vasquez (D) vs. Herrell (R).
U.S. House, state Senate, state House, district attorney, bond measures, ballot measures.
2020: Biden (D) 54%, Trump (R) 44%, AP race call: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, 9 p.m. ET.
Registered voters: 1,361,117 (as of Sept. 30, 2024). About 43% Democrats, 31% Republicans and 24% other.
Voter turnout in 2020 presidential election: 68% of registered voters.
What to know about the 2024 Election
Votes cast before Election Day 2020: about 85% of the total vote.
Votes cast before Election Day 2022: about 63% of the total vote.
Votes cast before Election Day 2024: See AP Advance Vote tracker.
First votes reported, Nov. 3, 2020: 9:24 p.m. ET.
By midnight ET: about 78% of total votes cast were reported.
Associated Press writer Maya Sweedler contributed to this report.
Read more about how U.S. elections work at Explaining Election 2024, a series from The Associated Press aimed at helping make sense of the American democracy. The AP receives support from several private foundations to enhance its explanatory coverage of elections and democracy. See more about AP’s democracy initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Alabama voters head to the polls on Nov. 5 with a newly drawn congressional district and a long history of Republican dominance in the state on the line.
The Democratic candidate for president hasn’t carried Alabama since Jimmy Carter in 1976. Since then, the state has become reliably red. Both U.S. senators, six of the state’s seven members of the U.S. House and the governor are Republicans. Former President Donald Trump won the state by 28 percentage points in 2016 and 26 points four years later.
Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and three independent candidates round out the field on the presidential ballot. Alabama has nine electoral votes.
Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District was redrawn this year after the Supreme Court ruled that the state had illegally diluted the influence of Black voters. The district stretches across the lower third of the state and includes the cities of Mobile and Montgomery. Democrat Shomari Figures and Republican Caroleene Dobson are both seeking the open seat. Its voting-age population is 49% Black, up from 30% from when the district was reliably Republican.
The current representative, Barry Moore, opted to run in the neighboring 1st District where he beat incumbent Jerry Carl in the primary. The other five incumbent representatives are running for reelection in their current seats.
Neither senator nor the governor is on the ballot this year, and the state’s lone ballot measure would affect only Franklin County.
Alabama doesn’t offer early in-person voting. It also is one of the few states that still requires an excuse to vote by mail. As a result, nearly all Alabama voters cast their ballots in person on Election Day. In recent elections, the state has reported more than 80% of its votes between poll close and midnight on Election Day.
Here’s a look at what to expect in the 2024 election in Alabama:
Nov. 5.
8 p.m. ET (portions of some counties that operate in Eastern Time have the option to close at 7 p.m. Eastern).
9 awarded to statewide winner.
President: Harris (D) vs. Trump (R) vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Independent) vs. Jill Stein (Independent) vs. Chase Oliver (Independent).
U.S. House, state Supreme Court, Civil Appeals, Criminal Appeals, Public Service Commission, state Board of Education and a ballot measure.
2020: Trump (R) 62%, Biden (D) 37%, AP race call: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, 8 p.m. ET.
Registered voters: 3,776,498 (as of September 2024).
Voter turnout in 2020 presidential election: 62% of registered voters.
Votes cast before Election Day 2020: about 13% of the total vote.
Votes cast before Election Day 2022: about 3% of the total vote.
Votes cast before Election Day 2024: See AP Advance Vote tracker.
First votes reported, Nov. 3, 2020: 8:11 p.m. ET.
By midnight ET: about 84% of total votes cast were reported.
AP writer Hannah Fingerhut contributed to this report.
Read more about how U.S. elections work at Explaining Election 2024, a series from The Associated Press aimed at helping make sense of the American democracy. The AP receives support from several private foundations to enhance its explanatory coverage of elections and democracy. See more about AP’s democracy initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump will compete for North Dakota’s three electoral votes in the Nov. 5 presidential election. Voters will also pick candidates for a full slate of federal and state offices.
North Dakota briefly played a heightened role in the 2024 campaign when Republican Gov. Doug Burgum made it to the short-list to be Trump’s running mate. But the state historically has not attracted much attention in general elections and has a long track record of supporting the Republican nominee. The only Democratic presidential candidate to win North Dakota in the last 84 years was President Lyndon Johnson in 1964.
Republican U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer faces a challenge from Democrat Katrina Christiansen in his bid for a second term, while Republican Kelly Armstrong, Democrat Merrill Piepkorn and independent Michael Coachman look to succeed Burgum as governor.
Further down the ballot, voters will decide Ballot Measure 4, which would abolish the state property tax, and Ballot Measure 5, which would legalize recreational marijuana.
North Dakota is the only state that does not have statewide voter registration. Residents must present a valid ID to vote. Only the small tourist town of Medora has voter registration.
In 2020, Republican candidates captured all partisan national and statewide races. Democrats won just two legislative seats, both in the Fargo area.
The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it has determined there is no scenario that would allow the trailing candidates to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.
Here’s a look at what to expect in the 2024 election in North Dakota:
Nov. 5
8 p.m. and 9 p.m. ET. North Dakota covers two time zones, so most of the state will start reporting results while some voters in the southwest are still casting ballots until 7 p.m. MT (9 p.m. ET).
3 awarded to statewide winner.
President: Harris (D) vs. Trump (R) vs. Chase Oliver (Libertarian).
U.S. Senate: Cramer (R) vs. Christiansen (D).
Governor: Armstrong (R) vs. Piepkorn (D) vs. Coachman (independent).
Ballot measure: Measure 5 (legalize marijuana).
U.S. House, state Senate, state House, auditor, insurance commissioner, public service commission, superintendent of public instruction, treasurer and additional ballot measures.
2020: Trump (R) 65%, Biden (D) 32%, AP race call: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, 9 p.m. ET.
Voting eligible population: 575,817 (as of Sept. 1, 2024).
Voter turnout in 2020 presidential election: 62% of registered voters.
Votes cast before Election Day 2020: about 75% of the total vote.
Votes cast before Election Day 2022: about 44% of the total vote.
Votes cast before Election Day 2024: See AP Advance Vote tracker.
First votes reported, Nov. 3, 2020: 8:46 p.m. ET.
By midnight ET: about 92% of total votes cast were reported.
What to know about the 2024 Election
Associated Press writer Hannah Fingerhut contributed to this report.
Read more about how U.S. elections work at Explaining Election 2024, a series from The Associated Press aimed at helping make sense of the American democracy. The AP receives support from several private foundations to enhance its explanatory coverage of elections and democracy. See more about AP’s democracy initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The presidential election and the race for control of the closely divided U.S. House are expected to dominate attention in Oregon on election night on Nov. 5. Voters will also decide a ballot measure to establish ranked-choice voting.
At the top of the ballot, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump will compete for Oregon’s eight electoral votes. The state had one of the closest vote margins in the 2000 presidential election but was overshadowed by the Florida recount. Since then, Oregon has moved sharply towards Democratic candidates in presidential elections, so much so that neither ticket has stepped foot in the state since becoming their parties’ nominees.
In the U.S. House, Republican incumbent Lori Chavez-DeRemer faces a tough reelection bid for a second term in a district where voters preferred President Joe Biden over Trump by almost 10 percentage points in 2020. The Democratic nominee is Janelle Bynum, a state representative. Three third-party or independent candidates are also on the ballot. Chavez-DeRemer was first elected in 2022 by a 51%-49% margin.
Republicans are targeting two first-term incumbents in Democratic-leaning districts covering the Salem and Eugene areas. Both Reps. Val Hoyle and Andrea Salinas won their seats in 2022 with a fraction more than 50% of the vote, although Hoyle enjoyed an 8-point margin of victory over her Republican opponent. Biden carried both Hoyle’s 4th District and Salinas’ 6th District with 55% of the vote.
Voters will also consider Measure 117, which would establish ranked-choice voting. If passed, the measure would represent a significant shift in Oregon’s voting system. It’s one of five statewide questions on the ballot.
Voters are also casting ballots for Portland mayor and the city’s new 12-member City Council.
Oregon’s first reports typically focus on votes cast before Election Day, as the state primarily uses mail-in ballots. Oregon allows ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they arrive up to seven days later. This means initial results can shift as later ballots are processed. Key areas to watch include Clackamas and Deschutes counties, which are often pivotal in close races. Ballots were mailed out starting Oct. 16.
Here’s a look at what to expect in the 2024 election in Oregon:
Nov. 5.
11 p.m. ET.
8 awarded to statewide winner.
President: Harris (D) vs. Trump (R) vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (We the People) vs. Cornel West (Progressive) vs. Chase Oliver (Libertarian) vs. Randall Terry (Constitution) vs. Jill Stein (Green).
5th Congressional District: Chavez-DeRemer (R) vs. Janelle Bynum (D) and three others.
Ballot measures: Measure 117 (establish ranked-choice voting).
U.S. House, state Senate, state House, attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer, Portland mayor and other ballot measures.
2020: Biden (D) 56%, Trump (R) 40%, AP race call: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, 11 p.m. ET.
Registered voters: 3,051,923 (as of Oct. 2, 2024). About 33% Democrats, 24% Republicans and 36% nonaffiliated.
Voter turnout in 2020 presidential election: 80% of registered voters.
What to know about the 2024 Election
Votes cast before Election Day 2020 and 2022: Almost all votes cast by mail.
Votes cast before Election Day 2024: See AP Advance Vote tracker.
First votes reported, Nov. 3, 2020: 11 p.m. ET.
By midnight ET: about 80% of total votes cast were reported.
Associated Press writer Maya Sweedler contributed to this report.
Read more about how U.S. elections work at Explaining Election 2024, a series from The Associated Press aimed at helping make sense of the American democracy. The AP receives support from several private foundations to enhance its explanatory coverage of elections and democracy. See more about AP’s democracy initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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Van Jones recently hit the nail on the head by succinctly describing the double standardbetween Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
With Election Day less than two weeks away, polls are still predicting an incredibly tight race between Trump and Harris. However, it shouldn’t be tight at all. Harris has a history as a capable and experienced leader with an impressive legal and political career. As President, she has promised to protect women’s rights, give tax breaks to the middle class and small businesses, expand the child tax credit, make healthcare accessible, and promote gun safety regulations. Meanwhile, billionaire corrupt businessman and convicted felon Trump wants to abolish the Department of Education, defund Planned Parenthood, defund schools that teach about slavery, spark the “largest deportation” in U.S. history, and give tax cuts to billionaires. Not only that, but he is allegedly tied to Project 2025, which lays out a plan for banning abortion nationally and dismantling democracy in America. Yet, there’s a chance that Trump could take home the election.
Finally, Jones came forward to call out the blatant double standard for the presidential candidates.
On October 23, CNN political commentator Jones spoke out about the unfair dynamics in the presidential election. The discussion arose after Harris partook in a Pennsylvania town hall with undecided voters. Strategist David Axelrod later analyzed her performance and noted she had very strong moments and was “well-prepared.” However, he did criticize her occasional “word salad,” in which she’d get off track when asked certain questions, such as about the Israel-Hamas War. Of course, all the media focused on was the one “word salad” criticism. Numerous outlets quickly reported that Harris was brutally “roasted” for her “word salad,” while right-wing pundits laughed and screamed about her supposed incompetence and how she was unqualified to be President.
However, Jones defended her, pointing out the apparent double standard in the race. He stated plainly, “Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are not taking the same exam. And I think it bothers people. They’re not taking the same exam.” The major problem is that Harris is held to an incredibly high standard while Trump is held to no standard. Jones explained, “He gets to be lawless. She has to be flawless. That’s what’s unfair.”
Jones’ statement quickly started trending on X because it so plainly and simply called out the truth. For example, he references Trump’s bizarre comments about Arnold Palmer’s penis. He acknowledged that Harris might occasionally stumble while speaking, but “she’s fighting for actual ideas that will help real people, and he’s talking about peoples’ penises.” As if that wasn’t proof enough of the double standard, at the same time the media was having a field day over Harris’ “word salad,” Trump received his umpteenth sexual assault allegation and was accused of defending Hitler and making horrific racist remarks about the late Vanessa Guillén.
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Of course, MAGA doesn’t care that their candidate is a convicted felon displaying increasingly erratic and bizarre behavior while new skeletons are discovered in his closet by the minute. They’re too busy policing Harris’ supposed teleprompter use and trying to figure out what earrings she’s wearing. It’s not just MAGA, though. Democrats and liberals also have high expectations for Harris, just as they had high standards for Biden and called him out when he displayed an inability to lead. While it’s good that the left cares about who their candidate is, it still adds to the double standard. Harris faces high standards from her supporters and impossible standards from the right, and Trump enjoys zero standards from both sides. Trump could do literally anything and still earn MAGA’s praise, while most Democrats have, sadly, had to resign themselves to not expecting anything but the worst from him.
The fact that this unfairness is encroaching on the presidential election is emblematic of a much larger problem within America of holding women and BIPOC individuals to different standards than men and Caucasians. There is no greater indication of the urgent need for change when the archaic notion of expecting perfection from women while chanting, “Boys will be boys,” is playing out in the race for the highest office in America.
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“Who runs the world? Girls” — at least, according to pop star Beyoncé, who will appear Friday night in Houston at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris as she seeks to become the first female commander-in-chief, a source familiar told CBS News.
The Harris campaign hopes Beyoncé’s persuasion can build a nation, or at least, get out the vote, with less than two weeks to go before polls close. The “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer’s performance in her hometown of Houston comes as the Harris campaign is trying to rally support around Democratic Rep. Colin Allred of Dallas in his race against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, and highlight Texas’ strict abortion laws.
A number of Texas-based stars are expected at Friday’s rally, including country singer Wilie Nelson and Beyoncé’s mother Tina Knowles.
Beyoncé’s song “Freedom,” released in 2016, is Harris’ campaign theme song and walkup song, as Democrats try to pitch themselves as the freedom party, given the overturning of Roe, red states’ abortion restrictions, and Trump’s governing style that his former White House chief of staff described as “authoritarian.”
Harris has won the support of other big-name stars, including Taylor Swift, Lizzo and Charlie XCX.
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Former President Donald Trump leveled “Comrade” Kamala Harris as the true “threat to democracy” after the Vice President called a press conference Wednesday to further amplify a report that he praised Adolf Hitler’s generals.
It’s rather remarkable that we’re going down this road.
“Donald Trump is out for unchecked power. He wants a military like Adolf Hitler had, who will be loyal to him, not our Constitution,” Harris wrote on X, sharing a clip of her speech.
“He is unhinged, unstable, and given a second term, there would be no one to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses.”
Just so we’re clear here – saying “there would be no one to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses” is a dog whistle for yet another assassination attempt. She’s calling on her own unhinged, unstable supporters to follow their impulses.
Democrats painting Donald Trump as Hitler is nothing new. Democrats painting any Republican as Hitler is nothing new. It’s been going on for decades. One of the original ‘Hitler’s’ was George W. Bush, nearly 25 years ago.
What is different here is that this isn’t coming from some dweeb in the comments section of the Huffington Post. It’s coming from a woman seeking the highest office in the land.
Harris denouncing her political opponent as ‘literally Hitler’ is evidence of authoritarian behavior she’s trying to cast as coming from him.
So where is she getting it from? You may or may not know that Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic magically produced another report about Trump supposedly saying something wild many years earlier – just in time for the election.
You may recall Goldberg and his band of misfit toys at The Atlantic produced the ‘suckers and losers‘ story just before the last presidential election.
In this new intonation, Goldberg cites former Gen. John Kelly for having suddenly remembered something that was allegedly said five years ago about wanting “Hitler’s generals.”
And Kamala fell for it. Either that or she’s so desperate seeing the polls that she felt the need to try anything.
“Trump said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had,” Harris claimed without evidence. “He wants a military that is not loyal to the Constitution, but loyal to him.”
“This is a window into who Donald Trump really is from the people who know him best.”
Donald Trump is out for unchecked power. He wants a military like Adolf Hitler had, who will be loyal to him, not our Constitution.
He is unhinged, unstable, and given a second term, there would be no one to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses. https://t.co/v4f8HbhmGU
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 23, 2024
Donald Trump is serving up fries at McDonald’s and consoling victims of hurricane disasters in North Carolina and Florida, so of course Kamala had to come out and say he’s Hitler.
How are people even considering voting for this unserious person?
Trump fired back at Harris.
“Comrade Kamala Harris sees that she is losing, and losing badly, especially after stealing the Race from Crooked Joe Biden, so now she is increasingly raising her rhetoric, going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler, and anything else that comes to her warped mind,” he wrote on his Truth Social media platform.
“She is a Threat to Democracy, and not fit to be President of the United States — And her Polling so indicates!”
The problem isn’t that Trump is out of control, as Harris and the Democrats want you to believe. The problem is he is out of their control.
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Among the legacy news outlets that have come up empty in their efforts to interview Kamala Harris and Donald Trump during the general election campaign: NPR, The New York Times, PBS and The Washington Post.Yet Harris chose to meet with Alex Cooper for her “Call Her Daddy” podcast and talk a little Bay Area basketball with the fellows on “All the Smoke.” Trump rejected “60 Minutes,” but has hung out with the bros on the “Bussin’ With the Boys” and “Flagrant.”During this truncated campaign, some of the traditional giants of journalism are being pushed aside. The growing popularity of podcasts and their ability to help candidates in a tight race target a specific sliver of the electorate is a big reason why.There are certainly exceptions. Harris spoke to NBC News’ Hallie Jackson on Tuesday and held a CNN town hall on Wednesday. But political columnist John Heilemann of Puck noticed what he called “an ancient, dying beast railing against the diminishment of its status and stature in the new world.”“The campaigns have their structures and their media plans are very carefully thought through, even if we don’t agree with them,” said Sara Just, senior executive producer of the PBS “NewsHour.” “Obviously, we hope they will do long, probing interviews with PBS.”Journalists consider that an important service. Said Eric Marrapodi, vice president for news programming at NPR: “I think Americans deserve to hear the candidates have their ideas challenged.”Big-media interviews used to be a staple for candidatesThat sounds like a campaign staff’s worst nightmare, infinite opportunities for their candidates to trip up and have an unplanned story dominate the news cycle. And to what end? Most legacy news organizations don’t have the reach they used to, and their audience skews old.For half a century, a “60 Minutes” interview near the election was considered a key stop for presidential candidates. But Trump shunned broadcast television’s most influential news show this year, and has criticized the way its interview with Harris was edited.The former president has stuck largely to what he perceives as friendly venues with direct access to his base audience, and continually feeds interviews to Fox News Channel despite grumbling he doesn’t find the network loyal enough. Indeed, Fox has also proven important to the Democratic ticket, which believes that appearing on its shows demonstrates willingness to deal with a hostile environment.Harris’ interview with Bret Baier was so contentious that it became fodder for a “Saturday Night Live” parody. After her running mate, Tim Walz, was interviewed by Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday” earlier this month, the campaign sought and received a return engagement the next week.“I was a little surprised,” Bream admitted to Walz. “What’s that about?”Many news outlets don’t reach as many people as they used toIn general, television networks don’t have the audience they once did. CNN, for example, reached 1.24 million viewers per evening during the third quarter of 2016, when Trump first ran, and 924,000 this year, according to the Nielsen company. Broadcast networks are so named for their ability to reach a broad audience; sometimes candidates need that, often they don’t.The picture is more dire at newspapers, which collectively boasted 37.8 million in Sunday circulation in 2016 and dropped to 20.9 million by 2022, the Pew Research Center said. Candidates once submitted to tough interviews with newspaper editorial boards in the hope of winning an endorsement; now many newspapers don’t even bother making that choice.For years, candidates have been able to target advertising messages with great specificity — a swing state, even competitive cities, for example. The media now offers more opportunities to micro-message in the same way. Eager to shore up support among Black men, Harris appeared on Charlamagne Tha God’s influential radio program — CNN and MSNBC even simulcast it — and was interviewed by MSNBC’s Al Sharpton.“The View” and Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show,” where Harris has appeared, enabled her to talk to people less inclined to follow the news.Podcasts allow for more precise audience targetingFew outlets offer the opportunity to zero in on an audience better than podcasts, which have essentially doubled in listenership since 2016.The format is narrowcasting at its finest, said Andy Bowers, co-founder of the on-demand audio company Spooler Media. People who listen to podcasts often feel an intense loyalty to their favorites, almost like they’re part of a club of people with similar traits and interests — and a candidate has been invited into that club for a day.“You’re talking to a specific audience with a specific bent and frame of mind,” said Tom Bettag, a University of Maryland journalism professor. “That’s very helpful to somebody who is trying to avoid saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.”For her interview with Alex Cooper on “Call Her Daddy,” Harris appeared on the most popular podcast for women. They discussed abortion, and one of Cooper’s questions sounded like a grooved pitch: “What do you think of Trump saying he will be a protector of women?”On the “Flagrant” podcast, hosts asked questions about Trump’s children and how he felt during his assassination attempt. Host Akaash Singh interrupted Trump at one point to compliment him on how he raised his children.“I think I like this interview,” Trump said. His appearance on the podcast, one of several efforts he has made to reach young men, has been seen by nearly 5.5 million people on YouTube alone.Issues come up during these discussions, often mixed with the personal. On “All the Smoke,” the hosts began by asking Harris about the blind date where she met her husband.Don’t write off legacy outlets yetCertainly not everyone is writing an obituary for traditional journalists and their coverage of campaigns. “I don’t view it as a big break that takes away from legacy media,” said Rick Klein, ABC’s Washington bureau chief. ABC’s opportunity to question the candidates came in the most public of forums, when the network hosted the only debate between Harris and Trump.Of the 10 sources of campaign news with the most views on TikTok over the past 60 days, six were legacy news outlets, according to Zelf, a social video analytics company. They were ABC News, CNN, NBC News, MSNBC, Univision and the Daily Mail.For a strong news organization, there’s also a lot more that goes into covering a presidential campaign than sit-down interviews with candidates.“I don’t think journalists should worry too much about access journalism,” said Mark Lukasiewicz, dean of the Hofstra University School of Communication and a former NBC News producer. “We should do journalism.”David Halbfinger, political editor of The New York Times, cautioned against drawing too many conclusions based on a campaign that was unusually short due to Harris’ late entrance into the race. The Times has followed the campaign aggressively with trend stories, investigations and spot news coverage.“It’s hard to know what the lessons will be,” Halbfinger said. “For a long time, candidates have tried to go around the news media. One way or another, the mainstream media does its job so I don’t know how effective that strategy is. But it will be an interesting case study someday to see.”
Among the legacy news outlets that have come up empty in their efforts to interview Kamala Harris and Donald Trump during the general election campaign: NPR, The New York Times, PBS and The Washington Post.
Yet Harris chose to meet with Alex Cooper for her “Call Her Daddy” podcast and talk a little Bay Area basketball with the fellows on “All the Smoke.” Trump rejected “60 Minutes,” but has hung out with the bros on the “Bussin’ With the Boys” and “Flagrant.”
During this truncated campaign, some of the traditional giants of journalism are being pushed aside. The growing popularity of podcasts and their ability to help candidates in a tight race target a specific sliver of the electorate is a big reason why.
There are certainly exceptions. Harris spoke to NBC News’ Hallie Jackson on Tuesday and held a CNN town hall on Wednesday. But political columnist John Heilemann of Puck noticed what he called “an ancient, dying beast railing against the diminishment of its status and stature in the new world.”
“The campaigns have their structures and their media plans are very carefully thought through, even if we don’t agree with them,” said Sara Just, senior executive producer of the PBS “NewsHour.” “Obviously, we hope they will do long, probing interviews with PBS.”
Journalists consider that an important service. Said Eric Marrapodi, vice president for news programming at NPR: “I think Americans deserve to hear the candidates have their ideas challenged.”
That sounds like a campaign staff’s worst nightmare, infinite opportunities for their candidates to trip up and have an unplanned story dominate the news cycle. And to what end? Most legacy news organizations don’t have the reach they used to, and their audience skews old.
For half a century, a “60 Minutes” interview near the election was considered a key stop for presidential candidates. But Trump shunned broadcast television’s most influential news show this year, and has criticized the way its interview with Harris was edited.
The former president has stuck largely to what he perceives as friendly venues with direct access to his base audience, and continually feeds interviews to Fox News Channel despite grumbling he doesn’t find the network loyal enough. Indeed, Fox has also proven important to the Democratic ticket, which believes that appearing on its shows demonstrates willingness to deal with a hostile environment.
Harris’ interview with Bret Baier was so contentious that it became fodder for a “Saturday Night Live” parody. After her running mate, Tim Walz, was interviewed by Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday” earlier this month, the campaign sought and received a return engagement the next week.
“I was a little surprised,” Bream admitted to Walz. “What’s that about?”
In general, television networks don’t have the audience they once did. CNN, for example, reached 1.24 million viewers per evening during the third quarter of 2016, when Trump first ran, and 924,000 this year, according to the Nielsen company. Broadcast networks are so named for their ability to reach a broad audience; sometimes candidates need that, often they don’t.
The picture is more dire at newspapers, which collectively boasted 37.8 million in Sunday circulation in 2016 and dropped to 20.9 million by 2022, the Pew Research Center said. Candidates once submitted to tough interviews with newspaper editorial boards in the hope of winning an endorsement; now many newspapers don’t even bother making that choice.
For years, candidates have been able to target advertising messages with great specificity — a swing state, even competitive cities, for example. The media now offers more opportunities to micro-message in the same way. Eager to shore up support among Black men, Harris appeared on Charlamagne Tha God’s influential radio program — CNN and MSNBC even simulcast it — and was interviewed by MSNBC’s Al Sharpton.
“The View” and Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show,” where Harris has appeared, enabled her to talk to people less inclined to follow the news.
Few outlets offer the opportunity to zero in on an audience better than podcasts, which have essentially doubled in listenership since 2016.
The format is narrowcasting at its finest, said Andy Bowers, co-founder of the on-demand audio company Spooler Media. People who listen to podcasts often feel an intense loyalty to their favorites, almost like they’re part of a club of people with similar traits and interests — and a candidate has been invited into that club for a day.
“You’re talking to a specific audience with a specific bent and frame of mind,” said Tom Bettag, a University of Maryland journalism professor. “That’s very helpful to somebody who is trying to avoid saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.”
For her interview with Alex Cooper on “Call Her Daddy,” Harris appeared on the most popular podcast for women. They discussed abortion, and one of Cooper’s questions sounded like a grooved pitch: “What do you think of Trump saying he will be a protector of women?”
On the “Flagrant” podcast, hosts asked questions about Trump’s children and how he felt during his assassination attempt. Host Akaash Singh interrupted Trump at one point to compliment him on how he raised his children.
“I think I like this interview,” Trump said. His appearance on the podcast, one of several efforts he has made to reach young men, has been seen by nearly 5.5 million people on YouTube alone.
Issues come up during these discussions, often mixed with the personal. On “All the Smoke,” the hosts began by asking Harris about the blind date where she met her husband.
Certainly not everyone is writing an obituary for traditional journalists and their coverage of campaigns. “I don’t view it as a big break that takes away from legacy media,” said Rick Klein, ABC’s Washington bureau chief. ABC’s opportunity to question the candidates came in the most public of forums, when the network hosted the only debate between Harris and Trump.
Of the 10 sources of campaign news with the most views on TikTok over the past 60 days, six were legacy news outlets, according to Zelf, a social video analytics company. They were ABC News, CNN, NBC News, MSNBC, Univision and the Daily Mail.
For a strong news organization, there’s also a lot more that goes into covering a presidential campaign than sit-down interviews with candidates.
“I don’t think journalists should worry too much about access journalism,” said Mark Lukasiewicz, dean of the Hofstra University School of Communication and a former NBC News producer. “We should do journalism.”
David Halbfinger, political editor of The New York Times, cautioned against drawing too many conclusions based on a campaign that was unusually short due to Harris’ late entrance into the race. The Times has followed the campaign aggressively with trend stories, investigations and spot news coverage.
“It’s hard to know what the lessons will be,” Halbfinger said. “For a long time, candidates have tried to go around the news media. One way or another, the mainstream media does its job so I don’t know how effective that strategy is. But it will be an interesting case study someday to see.”
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Guerrero said that possible opportunities would be jumping on a campaign bus touring Las Vegas and speaking to voters about reproductive rights or to go door-knocking in battleground states. It sounds like the details are still shaking out, but I reached out to the Harris campaign for more information.
“At the very least, creators should at least be telling our audiences and asking our audiences to vote. I know we feel overwhelmed with the presidential election, but there’s so much more on the ballot in every state and every city too,” says Jeremy Jacobowitz, a NYC food influencer who has worked with the Harris campaign in the past. “I’m still planning a few posts coming up explaining why I’m making the decision that I am for Kamala.”
On Wednesday and Thursday this week, the Harris campaign set up action hubs in New York City and Los Angeles to create a space for influencers to make get-out-the-vote content and phone-bank from the studios. The creators are supposed to sign up for specific shifts, and they will be given interview spaces outfitted with mics, backgrounds, and on-site production teams to turn around content quickly.
In an email to those who signed up, the campaign outlined some of its top-performing GOTV content to provide examples for the creators, like voting day reminders, making plans to vote, specific battleground callouts, and videos explaining “what voting means” to the creators.
Meanwhile, the Heritage Foundation met with a group of conservative influencers last week at the Influence America event, including Emily Wilson from Emily Save America, Savannah Chrisley, Sean Mike Kelly, and John McEntee, the founder of the Peter Thiel–backed Right Stuff dating app. CJ Pearson, a 22-year-old conservative creator, hosted the event, where creators strategized how to synchronize their content over the next few weeks, focusing on some of the Republican Party’s favorite policy issues like immigration and the economy.
“We convened 30 of the most impactful emerging young conservative voices in our movement, with a combined audience of nearly 50 million people, to strategize about how we can actually reach America’s young people where they are,” Pearson told the Daily Mail last week.
In Instagram stories, the Influence America creators toured the Fox News studios and attended panels led by some of the most popular conservative creators on the internet, including Isabel Brown and Xaviaer DuRousseau. Pearson told me he was developing the event as a “Ycombinator” of conservative creators that was bringing in a variety of speakers to educate the group of around 30 influencers, like a former DHS worker who will talk about how to speak effectively on issues like immigration to their combined 50 million followers up until Election Day.
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Vice President Kamala Harris plans to lay out her campaign’s closing argument by returning to the site near the White House where Donald Trump helped incite a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol in January 2021 — hoping it will crystalize for voters the fight between defending democracy and sowing political chaos.Her campaign says Harris will give a speech at the Ellipse on Tuesday — one week before Election Day — and will urge the nation to “turn the page” toward a new era and away from Trump.The site is symbolic since it’s where Trump delivered a speech on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress was convening to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the election that past November. In it, Trump lied repeatedly about widespread voter fraud that had not occurred and urged supporters to fight. Hundreds then stormed the Capitol in a deadly riot.Word of the speech came from a senior Harris campaign official who insisted on anonymity to discuss an address that is still in development. The Harris campaign is betting that her speaking at the Ellipse can provide an opportunity for the vice president to stress that the country no longer wants to be defined by a political combativeness that Trump seems to relish.Trump has promised to pardon those jailed for their role in the Capitol attack should he reclaim the presidency during the election on Nov. 5.Closing arguments are important opportunities for candidates to sum up their campaigns and make a concise case for why voters should back them. Trump’s campaign suggested he’d begin framing his closing argument while addressing a rally last weekend in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Instead, the former president spent more than 10 minutes talking about the genitals of the late, legendary golfer Arnold Palmer, who was born in Latrobe.Her team announced the coming Ellipse addressed before Harris attended a CNN town hall in suburban Philadelphia on Wednesday night, where she took questions from an audience of undecided voters as part of what was once envisioned as a debate with Trump. Harris had said she would participate in a CNN debate but the two sides never worked out a formal agreement. CNN said it also invited Trump to a town hall. but that it didn’t happen.Harris told the audience that Jan. 6 saw a “president of the United States defying the will of the people in a free and fair election and unleashing a violent mob who attacked the United States Capitol.”The first audience question was from a self-described “anti-Trump Republican” who was concerned about the Jan. 6 attack.“I believe the American people deserve better, and they deserve a president who is focused on solutions, not sitting in the Oval Office plotting every day,” Harris said.When it comes to Jan. 6, about 4 in 10 likely voters in a CNN poll from September said the economy was their most important issue when deciding how to vote, and about 2 in 10 said protecting democracy was. That compared to about 1 in 10 who named either immigration or abortion and reproductive rights.Protecting democracy also seems to be more important to Democrats and Harris supporters. Roughly 4 in 10 voters who back Harris call it their top issue, compared to about 2 in 10 who say that about the economy. For Republicans and Trump supporters, about 6 in 10 name the economy as their top voting issue, followed by immigration. Only 5% of Trump supporters said protecting democracy was their top issue.During the town hall, Harris said Trump is “increasingly unstable and unfit to serve.” Asked directly if she thought her opponent was a fascist, Harris responded, “Yes, I do.”A short time later, Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt responded, “Kamala will say anything to distract from her open border invasion and record high inflation.”During the event, Harris was asked how her presidency would be different from Biden’s given that she’s been a part of his administration for nearly four years — a question she’s answered in recent weeks without naming major contrasts. This time, Harris seemed better prepared to talk about how things would be different, saying, “My administration will not be a continuation of the Biden administration” and saying she represented a “new generation of leadership on a number of issues.”“I’m pointing out things that haven’t been done that need to be done,” the vice president said of Biden’s policies, also noting, “I’m not going to shy away from saying, ‘Hey, these are still problems that we need to fix.’” She pointed specifically to her promises to increase federal grants for small businesses and to expand government funding for home health care to people caring for their elderly parents and children simultaneously.One audience member pressed Harris on key issues where she’s flip-flopped. That includes hydraulic fracturing, which she suggested that she’d support banning while running in the 2020 Democratic primary but now says should be allowed to continue. Harris said Wednesday that the U.S. can invest in a greener energy economy without halting fracking, which is key to the economy of parts of Pennsylvania.She added that she sees many key policies differently now: “Frankly I now have the experience and perspective of having been vice president.”Asked about the greatest weakness she’d bring to the White House, Harris offered, “I’m kind of a nerd sometimes, I confess” while admitting to making “parental mistakes” with her two stepchildren.The vice president also mentioned praying every day, saying, “I was raised to believe in a loving God, to believe faith is a verb.”__Weissert reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Linley Sanders contributed to this report from Washington.
Vice President Kamala Harris plans to lay out her campaign’s closing argument by returning to the site near the White House where Donald Trump helped incite a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol in January 2021 — hoping it will crystalize for voters the fight between defending democracy and sowing political chaos.
Her campaign says Harris will give a speech at the Ellipse on Tuesday — one week before Election Day — and will urge the nation to “turn the page” toward a new era and away from Trump.
The site is symbolic since it’s where Trump delivered a speech on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress was convening to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the election that past November. In it, Trump lied repeatedly about widespread voter fraud that had not occurred and urged supporters to fight. Hundreds then stormed the Capitol in a deadly riot.
Word of the speech came from a senior Harris campaign official who insisted on anonymity to discuss an address that is still in development. The Harris campaign is betting that her speaking at the Ellipse can provide an opportunity for the vice president to stress that the country no longer wants to be defined by a political combativeness that Trump seems to relish.
Trump has promised to pardon those jailed for their role in the Capitol attack should he reclaim the presidency during the election on Nov. 5.
Closing arguments are important opportunities for candidates to sum up their campaigns and make a concise case for why voters should back them. Trump’s campaign suggested he’d begin framing his closing argument while addressing a rally last weekend in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Instead, the former president spent more than 10 minutes talking about the genitals of the late, legendary golfer Arnold Palmer, who was born in Latrobe.
Her team announced the coming Ellipse addressed before Harris attended a CNN town hall in suburban Philadelphia on Wednesday night, where she took questions from an audience of undecided voters as part of what was once envisioned as a debate with Trump. Harris had said she would participate in a CNN debate but the two sides never worked out a formal agreement. CNN said it also invited Trump to a town hall. but that it didn’t happen.
Harris told the audience that Jan. 6 saw a “president of the United States defying the will of the people in a free and fair election and unleashing a violent mob who attacked the United States Capitol.”
The first audience question was from a self-described “anti-Trump Republican” who was concerned about the Jan. 6 attack.
“I believe the American people deserve better, and they deserve a president who is focused on solutions, not sitting in the Oval Office plotting every day,” Harris said.
When it comes to Jan. 6, about 4 in 10 likely voters in a CNN poll from September said the economy was their most important issue when deciding how to vote, and about 2 in 10 said protecting democracy was. That compared to about 1 in 10 who named either immigration or abortion and reproductive rights.
Protecting democracy also seems to be more important to Democrats and Harris supporters. Roughly 4 in 10 voters who back Harris call it their top issue, compared to about 2 in 10 who say that about the economy. For Republicans and Trump supporters, about 6 in 10 name the economy as their top voting issue, followed by immigration. Only 5% of Trump supporters said protecting democracy was their top issue.
During the town hall, Harris said Trump is “increasingly unstable and unfit to serve.” Asked directly if she thought her opponent was a fascist, Harris responded, “Yes, I do.”
A short time later, Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt responded, “Kamala will say anything to distract from her open border invasion and record high inflation.”
During the event, Harris was asked how her presidency would be different from Biden’s given that she’s been a part of his administration for nearly four years — a question she’s answered in recent weeks without naming major contrasts. This time, Harris seemed better prepared to talk about how things would be different, saying, “My administration will not be a continuation of the Biden administration” and saying she represented a “new generation of leadership on a number of issues.”
“I’m pointing out things that haven’t been done that need to be done,” the vice president said of Biden’s policies, also noting, “I’m not going to shy away from saying, ‘Hey, these are still problems that we need to fix.’” She pointed specifically to her promises to increase federal grants for small businesses and to expand government funding for home health care to people caring for their elderly parents and children simultaneously.
One audience member pressed Harris on key issues where she’s flip-flopped. That includes hydraulic fracturing, which she suggested that she’d support banning while running in the 2020 Democratic primary but now says should be allowed to continue. Harris said Wednesday that the U.S. can invest in a greener energy economy without halting fracking, which is key to the economy of parts of Pennsylvania.
She added that she sees many key policies differently now: “Frankly I now have the experience and perspective of having been vice president.”
Asked about the greatest weakness she’d bring to the White House, Harris offered, “I’m kind of a nerd sometimes, I confess” while admitting to making “parental mistakes” with her two stepchildren.
The vice president also mentioned praying every day, saying, “I was raised to believe in a loving God, to believe faith is a verb.”
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Weissert reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Linley Sanders contributed to this report from Washington.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Political analysts agree that the 2024 election will likely come down to the wire.
“This race in each and every battleground state in our estimates could go either way,” said Anthony Salvanto, CBS News’ executive director of elections and surveys. “What we are looking at now are two campaigns that are no longer sleeping. They are sprinting state to state trying to turn out as many voters as they can.”
University of Minnesota professor Larry Jacobs said both campaigns are doing all they can to churn out more voters, especially in battleground states.
“Sleepless nights for the candidates and campaigns,” Jacobs said. “They are just working around the clock.”
Hamline University professor David Schultz thinks the election will come down to young voters, but he’s unsure if the polls are reaching young voters since that group tends to be harder to contact.
“I think the election comes down to what people under the age of 30 are going to do,” Schultz said. “Oftentimes they have not voted in the past, they don’t show up with pollsters in terms of likely voters. To me, I think the polls are undercounting young people.”
University of Wisconsin – La Crosse professor Anthony Chergosky says western Wisconsin is getting a lot of attention, both in national and local races.
“It feels like western Wisconsin is right in the center of the action,” Chergosky said.
And all the analysts agree: the swing states hold the keys to the White House.
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Sarah Jessica Parker announced her endorsement of Kamala Harris in an Instagram post today that made reference to her Sex and the City character Carrie Bradshaw.
She wrote, “For the climate, For hope, For friends and loved ones in the LGBTQ+ community, For freedom, For science, For affordable healthcare, For our union members, For democracy, For my daughters, For my son, For all of our children, For equality, For dignity, For hope, For the constitution, For me, For love, For choice, And for a certain childless cat lady I play on TV. With an abundance of joy, optimism and prideI am voting for Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz. X, SJ”
Parker also showed a picture of herself hanging a Harris Walz sign on her window.
The “childless cat lady” comment is a reference to a statement that JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, made in a 2021 interview on Fox News. Vance had criticized Democrats and said that its leadership was run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.”
She endorsed Joe Biden in his 2020 presidential run, and campaigned for him that cycle. She previously supported Barack Obama. She served on Obama’s President’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities.
In the final days of the presidential race, Harris has tapped celebrities such as Eminem and Bruce Springsteen for campaign appearances, while promoting a get-out-the-vote concert with a mystery guest performer.
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With 13 days to go until the election, Kamala Harris laid out in the starkest terms possible the choice Americans face when they head to the ballot box in less than two weeks: They can vote to elect a man who thinks Adolph Hilter is someone to emulate, or they can vote for a woman who has never said a good thing about a genocidal maniac.
Speaking outside the Naval Observatory on Wednesday, Harris responded to a new story from The Atlantic detailing Donald Trump’s infatuation with dictators, the negative things he has allegedly had to say about members of the armed forces, and the positive remarks he has allegedly made about people like Hitler, all of which he of course denies.
“Yesterday, we learned that Donald Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly, a retired four-star general, confirmed that while Donald Trump was president, he said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had,” Harris told reporters. “Donald Trump said that because he does not want a military that is loyal to the United States Constitution. He wants a military that is loyal to him. He wants a military who will be loyal to him personally, one that will obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the United States. In just the past week, Donald Trump has repeatedly called his fellow Americans the ‘enemy from within’ and even said that he would use the United States military to go after American citizens.”
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She continued: “And let’s be clear about who he considers to be the enemy from within. Anyone who refuses to bend a knee or dares to criticize him would qualify, in his mind, as the enemy within, like judges, like journalists, like nonpartisan election officials. It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans. All of this is further evidence for the American people of who Donald Trump really is. This is a window into who Donald Trump really is from the people who know him best, from the people who worked with him side by side in the Oval Office and in the Situation Room.”
Harris added that Kelly has said Trump meets the definition of a fascist, and would rule like one if given the chance. The vice president ended her remarks by telling voters: “Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable. And in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions. Those who once tried to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be there and no longer be there to rein him in.
“So, the bottom line is this. We know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power. The question in 13 days will be: What do the American people want?”
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ZEBULON, GA. – Former United States President Donald Trump was back in Georgia on Wednesday afternoon. Hours before his rally in Gwinnett County, Trump spoke to supporters in a small South Georgia town in an environment that hasn’t always been where the 45th President of the United States has rallied voters.
At Christ Chapel Zebulon, Trump held a Believers and Ballots Faith town hall event. Zebulon, a city of just under 1,300 residents in Pike County, might be the smallest city the former President has ever attempted to engage voters. Pike County saw 4,684 early votes cast during the first week and a half of the early voting period, according to data from the Secretary of State’s Office.
Georgia Lt. Governor Burt Jones co-hosted the town hall alongside Trump.
Faith & Freedom Coalition founder Ralph Reed warmed up the crowd before Trump arrived at 3:50 p.m.
“I have good news for you, Donald J. Trump has landed on Georgia soil, Reed said.
Reed added that this is the most important election in the country’s history and that Trump was the most pro-life and pro-Israel president in this country’s history.
“It’s time for Christians to be the head and not the tail of our political system,” Reed said.
The pair of big screens in the church’s auditorium showed images of gang members and men in dark alleys with knives. One of the images read, “Your new apartment managers if Kamala’s reelected” and had gang members with tattooed faces staring out at the crowd. Another image with the Vice President’s face read: “Kamala is lying to you”.
Trump, who visited a church in Florida on Tuesday, said his campaign was setting a record with Latino voter support. He called Hispanics, “industrious, hardworking, and beautiful people.” The former President also spoke about the chart that saved his life while on stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, billionaire supporter Elon Musk, and about the border.
He took questions from members of the audience, the first one being about from a young man named Matthew who asked Trump to share a message to Christians that might not be voting this election.
“I think we have really energized a lot of people this time because it’s been horrible, it’s been a horror show,” Trump said.
Trump took questions from Hogansville Mayor Jack Ayers, Republican Georgia State Senator Marty Harbin (District 16, which includes Pike County), and Stephanie, a local restaurant owner’s daughter, asked Trump questions supporting Israel and protecting and improving small businesses. Trump said he would “make this country so good” and took shots at the city of Detroit again.
Trump was in Greensboro, North Carolina on Tuesday night, where he spoke to a smallish crowd about United States Vice President and Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris, who is within the margins of victory in the Tar Heel state.
“Kamala Harris is a radical left lunatic,” Trump said. “We are a failing nation. We won twice here in North Carolina. We won twice everywhere, to be honest,” he said, still perpetuating the idea that he won the 2020 election over current United States President Joe Biden, who was stumping for Harris and other down ballot Democrats in New Hampshire on Tuesday. Harris will host a rally in Atlanta on Thursday, and has plans to bring former United States President Barack Obama, movie mogul Tyler Perry, and music legend Bruce Springsteen on stage with her. Georgia is another battleground state that Harris and Trump are virtually tied in. Georgia has seen nearly two million votes cast during the early voting period.
On the more than 2 million votes that have been cast in Georgia during the early voting period, Trump said that it was good for his campaign. “We are doing really, really well,” he said. “We are doing well across the country.”
He closed the one-hour event with, “We are indeed going to make America great again.”
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