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Category: Election 2024
November 4, 2024
Election 2024
News
Politics

NBC Grants Trump Campaign Airtime During NASCAR, NFL After Harris SNL Spot.

Broadcaster NBC has granted the campaign of President Donald J. Trump a 90-second ad spot amig allegations the surprise appearance of Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live (SNL) violated FCC rules. Harris’s brief appearance on SNL was for one minute and 30 seconds, allowing other presidential campaigns to request equal airtime—about 90 seconds—per FCC regulations.

Harris’s SNL sketch, featuring Maya Rudolph, concluded with both discussing the vice president’s campaign. The sketch, however, was criticized by FCC commissioner Brendan Carr, who stated before the show aired, “This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule.”

Carr also noted that SNL creator Lorne Michaels had previously stated in an interview last month that the show would not feature Harris or Trump because of the equal time rules.

Trump’s ad, meanwhile, appeared during Sunday’s NASCAR playoff broadcast. In it, Trump wore a red “Make America Great Again” cap and warned that electing Harris could lead to a “depression.” The ad urges viewers to vote.

Additionally, Trump received 60 extra seconds of airtime during NBC’s Sunday Night Football post-game coverage. The same ad from the NASCAR event aired after the game, closely following a paid campaign advertisement.

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Broadcaster NBC has granted the campaign of President Donald J. Trump a 90-second ad spot amig allegations the surprise appearance of Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live (SNL) violated FCC rules. Harris's brief appearance on SNL was for one minute and 30 seconds, allowing other presidential campaigns to request equal airtime—about 90 seconds—per FCC regulations. show more
November 4, 2024
Election 2024
Immigration

Tlaib Snubs Harris at Michigan Rally.

Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib withheld her endorsement from Vice President Kamala Harris during a critical rally in Detroit, Michigan, a decision with potential electoral consequences for the Democratic candidate. The state is crucial to the so-called “blue wall” that Democrats need to secure in the 2024 presidential election. It is home to a sizeable Muslim population, typically inclined towards the Democrats—but the Biden-Harris government’s stance on Israel has soured many on the Vice President.

Tlaib, a prominent member of the progressive “Squad” in the House of Representatives, avoided Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz at the United Auto Workers union rally. Tlaib has expressed discontent with the Biden-Harris government’s support for Israel, which she cites as a reason for her reluctance to endorse the ticket.

On November 1, she stated on social media, “The reality is that the Biden admin’s unconditional support for genocide is what got us here. This should be a wake-up call for those who continue to support genocide,” adding: “This election didn’t have to be close.”

Recent polling from Cygnal indicates that a majority of American Muslims sympathize with Hamas’s position in the Gaza war.

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Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib withheld her endorsement from Vice President Kamala Harris during a critical rally in Detroit, Michigan, a decision with potential electoral consequences for the Democratic candidate. The state is crucial to the so-called "blue wall" that Democrats need to secure in the 2024 presidential election. It is home to a sizeable Muslim population, typically inclined towards the Democrats—but the Biden-Harris government's stance on Israel has soured many on the Vice President. show more
November 4, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Data
Election 2024

Final Emerson Poll Hands Trump Six of Seven Swing States — By Razor-Thin Margins.

Former President Donald J. Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris in six of seven swing states when leaners are included in Emerson College Polling Center’s final poll. However, the margins are razor-thin, with five of Trump’s six leads under one percent.

Trump’s strongest lead is in Arizona, where he is up by 2.1 points. This falls to 0.7 in Pennsylvania, 0.5 in Georgia, 0.4 in North Carolina, 0.3 in Wisconsin, and a minuscule 0.1 in Nevada. Harris leads in Michigan by 1.6 points.

Results without leaners are also very mixed: Trump leads by two points in Arizona, and by one point in Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. The race is a dead heat in Nevada and Wisconsin, and in Michigan, Harris holds a two-point lead.

Emerson’s results suggest a battle of the sexes may decide the presidential contest, with men breaking for Trump and women breaking for Harris in all seven states. Men break more strongly for the America First leader than women break for the Democratic candidate in every case—but women have outpaced men in early voting turnout so far, at 54 percent to 43.6 percent.

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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Former President Donald J. Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris in six of seven swing states when leaners are included in Emerson College Polling Center's final poll. However, the margins are razor-thin, with five of Trump's six leads under one percent. show more
November 4, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Election Integrity

Missouri Sues Biden-Harris DOJ Over Election Interference.

Missouri’s Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and Attorney General Andrew Bailey are suing the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) over allegations that the federal government is interfering in the state’s election process. The lawsuit claims the DOJ is dispatching unauthorized monitors to polling locations in St. Louis in contravention of several federal statutes and the Supreme Court’s Shelby County v. Holder decision.

“To secure elections, Missouri exercised that traditional authority by enacting a law that strictly limits who, besides voters, can be present in a polling location,” the court filing states, adding: “Poll monitors employed by DOJ are not on that list. Yet without specifically citing any federal authority authorizing its actions, DOJ announced on Friday November 1 its intent to displace Missouri law and place unauthorized poll monitors in polling locations in the City of St. Louis.”

Ashcroft and Bailey note in the filing that the Biden-Harris DOJ attempted a similar move during the 2022 midterm elections. However, the DOJ reversed its decision after Ashcroft argued in a letter that they lacked statutory authority.

“No one is above the law,” the Missouri Secretary of State said in a statement on Monday. He added: “The law clearly and specifically limits who may be in polling places and this action by the DOJ is not allowed. Once again the federal government is attempting to illegally interfere in Missouri’s elections.”

“Two years ago, we met with the DOJ. We showed them the law and explained that they have no jurisdiction to interfere in Missouri elections. Now they are doing the same thing; trying to go through the back door by contacting local election officials and making false jurisdictional claims for access rather than contacting my office directly,” Ashcroft continued before concluding: “It would be highly inappropriate for federal agents to violate the law by intimidating Missouri voters and harassing poll workers.”

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Missouri's Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and Attorney General Andrew Bailey are suing the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) over allegations that the federal government is interfering in the state's election process. The lawsuit claims the DOJ is dispatching unauthorized monitors to polling locations in St. Louis in contravention of several federal statutes and the Supreme Court's Shelby County v. Holder decision. show more
November 4, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Crime
Election 2024

NY Man Attacked for Pro-Trump Hat.

A man in Bath, New York, was taken into custody on Friday after an alleged altercation with a man wearing a ‘Trump 2024’ hat at a local supermarket. The Bath Police Department has charged Robert Yott, 60, with felony second-degree assault and misdemeanor fourth-degree criminal mischief.

Authorities responded to a disturbance report at Tops Friendly Markets on West Morris Street at approximately 10 AM. Upon arrival, they found that Yott allegedly attacked a stranger for wearing a ‘Trump 2024’ cap.

Investigators revealed that Yott confronted the individual. In the ensuing altercation, he allegedly struck the victim multiple times, causing visible injuries, including broken teeth. The two men reportedly had no prior acquaintance. Yott is now in custody at the Steuben County Jail, awaiting arraignment.

Democrats and their media allies have consistently demonized former President Donald J. Trump and his supporters in recent months, with the Democratic nominee calling the former a “fascist” and President Joe Biden calling the latter “garbage.”

Trump has been subjected to two assassination attempts over the course of the campaign, with the first in Butler, Pennsylvania, resulting in him and three supporters being shot, one fatally. The America First leader blames the Democrats’ “highly inflammatory” rhetoric for inspiring “dangerous fools” to try to end his life.

Image by Steuben County Sheriff’s Office.

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A man in Bath, New York, was taken into custody on Friday after an alleged altercation with a man wearing a 'Trump 2024' hat at a local supermarket. The Bath Police Department has charged Robert Yott, 60, with felony second-degree assault and misdemeanor fourth-degree criminal mischief. show more
November 4, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Election 2024
Politics

Republican Early Voting Surges in Pennsylvania Ballot Returns.

Returned ballots in Pennsylvania suggest that Republican voters are casting far more early votes than in 2022 and are leading Democrats in 40 counties, compared to just two in 2022. Over 587,000 registered Republicans have voted early in the crucial swing state, an increase of over 323,000 compared to 2022. Democrats, who are more likely to vote early, have seen a smaller increase since 2022 of just over 140,000 votes, for a total of 997,450 overall.

When looking at 2020 numbers, Republicans have 30,692 fewer ballots returned, but Democrats have a massive 721,276 fewer returned ballots. At the county level, the GOP led the Democrats in just eight counties in 2020, a number which fell to just two counties in 2022. This year, the GOP leads the Democrats in 40 counties going into tomorrow’s election.

Prior data indicates that newly registered women dominate the early voting in Pennsylvania, with many voting Democrat. As of October 30, the state had seen at least 100,000 new voters cast their ballots early in the election.

Polling puts Trump only slightly ahead of Harris in the state. The final Emerson College Polling poll released Monday, November 4, gave President Donald J. Trump 49 percent and Vice President Kamala Harris 48 percent, well within the margin of error.

Over the weekend, the Harris campaign implied it would force key counties in battleground states like Pennsylvania to keep counting votes until Harris wins.

The Trump campaign also won an important victory in the state after Democrats and police shut down lines of voters requesting absentee ballots, as a court allowed the absentee process to be opened for several days ahead of tomorrow’s election.

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Returned ballots in Pennsylvania suggest that Republican voters are casting far more early votes than in 2022 and are leading Democrats in 40 counties, compared to just two in 2022. Over 587,000 registered Republicans have voted early in the crucial swing state, an increase of over 323,000 compared to 2022. Democrats, who are more likely to vote early, have seen a smaller increase since 2022 of just over 140,000 votes, for a total of 997,450 overall. show more
November 4, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
News

Leftist Commentator Threatens to Kill Herself On Air if Trump Wins.

Progressive “comedian” and podcaster Francesca Fiorentini is illustrating just how extreme the leftist meltdown may be if President Donald J. Trump wins the 2024 election. During a recent appearance on The Sun‘s ‘Never Mind the Ballots’ with host Harry Cole, Fiorentini darkly joked she’d “drink cyanide on air and just podcast into the night” if Trump bests Vice President Kamala Harris.

When Cole pressed what the progressive left will actually do in reaction to a Trump victory, Fiorentini stressed they’d keep fighting—though she demurred when pressed if she would accept Trump as the legitimate president. The leftist comedian argued that resisting Trump and his judicial nominees is the paramount cause for progressives, suggesting Republican abortion laws are killing women.

“Women are dying right now from preventable infections related to miscarriages. Mothers, two women we know this week, died in Texas because they were suffering miscarriages. They had an infection, and they needed treatment immediately,” she claimed, alleging: “They were turned away from emergency rooms in Texas because there was a fetal heartbeat and so no doctor could attend to them until there was no more fetal heartbeat. Those women lost their life.”

“We’re voting for our human rights. Because women all around this country, their lives are in peril,” Fiorentini continued, claiming that women have been reduced to being second-class citizens.

Democrats have sought to turn abortion access into a wedge issue in the 2024 election, coordinating with activists and nonprofits to place abortion rights on several state ballots across the country. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign sought to turn a Georgia woman’s death into an attack line against Trump—even though the woman died from the abortion procedure itself.

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Progressive "comedian" and podcaster Francesca Fiorentini is illustrating just how extreme the leftist meltdown may be if President Donald J. Trump wins the 2024 election. During a recent appearance on The Sun's 'Never Mind the Ballots' with host Harry Cole, Fiorentini darkly joked she'd "drink cyanide on air and just podcast into the night" if Trump bests Vice President Kamala Harris. show more
November 4, 2024
Election 2024
Election Integrity

What Were Those Ballot Box Fires About?

Authorities in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, are investigating incidents involving incendiary devices found in ballot boxes, marked with messages supporting Gaza and Hamas. The first occurrence was reported on October 8 in Vancouver, where a device with “Free Palestine” and “Free Gaza” notes was placed in a drop box. In the early hours of this past Monday, additional devices ignited in two more locations—Portland and another in Vancouver—similarly marked “Free Gaza.”

A law enforcement source, who wished to remain anonymous, confirmed the messages to the Associated Press. However, both the Portland and Vancouver Police Departments have refrained from commenting, redirecting inquiries to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The federal agency’s Portland office states it is actively investigating these incidents, which are believed to be related. According to police, the incendiary devices were attached externally to the ballot boxes.

The suspect is described as a white male between 30 and 40 years of age, balding with short hair, and reportedly an experienced metalworker. Surveillance footage previously identified the suspect driving a black or dark-colored Volvo S-60, model years 2001 to 2004. The vehicle lacked a front license plate and had an unreadable rear plate.

The October 8 incident resulted in no ballot damage. However, the Portland arson damaged three ballots, while the Vancouver attack affected hundreds. Greg Kimsey, Clark County’s elected auditor, reported that officials retrieved approximately 475 damaged ballots from the Vancouver box, although the exact number of ballots destroyed remains uncertain. Kimsey condemned the acts, labeling them a “direct attack on democracy.”

Clark County sits in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, which is currently in a heated race between incumbent Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) and her Republican challenger, Joe Kent. Gluesenkamp Perez narrowly defeated Kent for the seat during the 2022 midterm election.

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Authorities in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, are investigating incidents involving incendiary devices found in ballot boxes, marked with messages supporting Gaza and Hamas. The first occurrence was reported on October 8 in Vancouver, where a device with "Free Palestine" and "Free Gaza" notes was placed in a drop box. In the early hours of this past Monday, additional devices ignited in two more locations—Portland and another in Vancouver—similarly marked "Free Gaza." show more
November 3, 2024
Election 2024
Election Integrity

Harris Camp Implies They’ll Keep Counting Votes Until They Win.

Vice President Kamala Harris‘s presidential campaign is implying they will attempt to force key counties in battleground states to keep counting votes until they attain victory. In a recent press call, a senior Harris campaign official emphasized Democrats would work to ensure they hit their ballot marks in certain localities even if President Donald J. Trump declares victory on election night.

The official, who requested anonymity, said such a move by Trump “won’t work.” They added: “He did this before. It failed.”

The Harris campaign says it is focused on maximizing their base’s turnout and confidence in the closing days of the 2024 election. “We are focused on making sure that all of our voters have the information to get out and vote,” the campaign official said, highlighting efforts to protect the integrity of the voting process amidst what they claim are attempts by Trump to “sow doubt” regarding the election results.

Trump’s campaign, meanwhile, won an important victory in Pennsylvania after Democratic volunteers and local police tried to prematurely shut down lines of voters looking to request an absentee ballot. While not technically “early voting,” Pennsylvania voters are allowed to request an absentee ballot in person, fill it out, and immediately return it. A local court in Bucks County ruled that the absentee process would be kept open for several extra days before November 5.

In Michigan, a Dominion ICX Voter Assist Terminal (VAT) system—which is used to help voters with disabilities mark their ballots—suffered a programming error,  preventing voters from casting split-ticket ballots. This issue is reportedly impacting the same Dominion machine model across the country—though reports indicate election officials have instituted a fix.

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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Vice President Kamala Harris's presidential campaign is implying they will attempt to force key counties in battleground states to keep counting votes until they attain victory. In a recent press call, a senior Harris campaign official emphasized Democrats would work to ensure they hit their ballot marks in certain localities even if President Donald J. Trump declares victory on election night. show more
November 2, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Election Integrity

Legal Voters Are Being Turned Away Because of Voter Roll Error.

Some Arizona voters say they’re being turned away at their polling location, with election workers informing them that their voter registration has been suspended and that they cannot cast their ballot. The registration issue, brought to light by America First Legal, stems from a data transfer error that flagged 218,000 people on the state’s voter roll as not having proof of citizenship.

While a portion of the voters impacted by the error are potentially noncitizens who cannot legally vote in federal elections, the Arizona Secretary of State’s office acknowledges that many are legal voters. On Friday, a state judge ruled that Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) must produce a complete list of the impacted voters to county election officials by Monday.

“County Recorders need the list of 218,000 affected voters to address the issue, but AZ Secretary of State Adrian Fontes stubbornly refuses to share it with them,” America First Legal posted on X (formerly Twitter) after the issue of voters being turned away surfaced on Saturday. The legal group continued: “County recorders need this list. All eligible voters need to be able to vote, and no noncitizens should be able to vote.”

“It’s a win-win solution,” they added.

Earlier this month, The National Pulse reported that the Arizona Secretary of State’s office acknowledged it had discovered over 218,000 individuals on its voter rolls who lacked proof of citizenship at the time of registration. The discrepancy was attributed to data coding issues involving driver’s license information between the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Division and the state voter registration databases.

The massive voter registration error was first identified last month when approximately 97,000 voters were found to be listed as full-ballot voters without providing the required citizenship documentation for state elections.

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Some Arizona voters say they're being turned away at their polling location, with election workers informing them that their voter registration has been suspended and that they cannot cast their ballot. The registration issue, brought to light by America First Legal, stems from a data transfer error that flagged 218,000 people on the state's voter roll as not having proof of citizenship. show more

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