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Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day.

Kamala Harris now leads Donald Trump in Iowa -- a startling reversal for Democrats and Republicans who have all but written off the state's presidential contest as a certain Trump victory. A new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows Vice President Harris leading former President Trump 47% to 44% among likely voters just days before a high-stakes election that appears deadlocked in key battleground states... "It's hard for anybody to say they saw this coming," said pollster J ...

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AP Sources: Kamala Harris will appear on SNL in last episode before presidential election

Updated 7:55 PM EDT, November 2, 2024 NEW YORK (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has made an unannounced trip to New York to appear on an episode of “Saturday Night Live,” briefly stepping away from the battleground states she’s been campaigning in with just three days to go before the election. Harris departed on Air Force Two after a campaign stop on Saturday in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was scheduled to head to Detroit. But once the aircraft was in the air, aides said it was actuall ...

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Harris planning to vote by mail to 'model behavior'

11/02/24 1:22 PM ET Vice President Harris will vote by mail ahead of Election Day as a way to “model” the different modes of voting for Americans, the campaign told reporters Saturday. The team, however, didn’t provide an update on whether Harris had already sent her ballot. The vice president is from California, but she has not traveled back to the state recently. Instead, she has prioritized her travel on the swing states, as the White House race remains close with less than a week left un ...

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Pittsburgh Has Seen More Political TV Ads Than Anywhere Else

November 2, 2024 at 11:31 AM EDT Pittsburgh viewers tuning into Monday Night Football this week watched their Steelers beat the New York Giants — and 26 political ads. That’s just a small slice of the roughly 2,300 political ads the typical Pittsburgh household has seen on television this year, according to AdImpact, more than any other market in the country. The nonstop political onslaught for viewers, however, means a windfall for the stations. The local ABC affiliate broadcasting Monday’s ...

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Attorneys who represented Trump during Mueller probe look to kneecap Mar-a-Lago case -with an assist from Antonin Scalia

Nov 2nd, 2024, 11:47 am A legal group founded by late evangelical minister Pat Robertson has joined the fray in an effort to convince a federal court of appeals that Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago indictment should remain dismissed. In their 39-page amicus curiae – or friend of the court – brief filed late Friday afternoon, the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) stakes out a by-now familiar position to docket-watchers. Namely: The idea that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointe ...

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Trump Fumes Over Mic Issues At Wisconsin Rally: Want Me To 'Knock The Hell Out' Of Someone?

The GOP nominee toyed with attacking those backstage just one day after his violent Liz Cheney fantasy. Ben Blanchet Nov 2, 2024, 12:28 AM EDT Donald Trump used apparent technical issues during a campaign rally on Friday to attack those working the event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “You got to be kidding? Do you want to see me knock the hell out people backstage?” asked the GOP nominee, who called it a “pretty stupid situation” after supporters chanted “fix the mic” during his speech. Adver ...

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Trump Boasts He Has 'Beautiful White Skin' Right After Slamming Kamala Harris

Nov 1st, 2024, 7:19 pm Former President Donald Trump stumped in Michigan on Friday, where he told rally-goers he has ‘beautiful white skin” after criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump is locked in a tight race with Harris, who, if elected, would become the first woman president. She would also become the first president of Indian descent and the second Black president. The Republican nominee has repeatedly referred to Harris as “a low I.Q. individual” at rallies. Rather infamously ...

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Kamala Harris Scores Major Endorsement in Texas

Published Nov 01, 2024 at 12:57 PM EDT | Updated Nov 01, 2024 at 6:16 PM EDT Texas's largest newspaper, the Houston Chronicle, has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. After a lengthy criticism of former President Donald Trump, saying that Democratic presidential nominee "Harris' best asset is that she's not Trump," the endorsement, written by the newspaper's editorial board, states: "Beyond her basic qualifications of human decency, self-con ...

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Ex-officer found guilty in death of Breonna Taylor

A former police officer in the US state of Kentucky has been found guilty of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor, a black woman killed in her own home during a botched raid four years ago. Brett Hankison, 47, could face up to life in prison after being convicted of using excessive force against the 26-year-old emergency room technician. But the jury also found him not guilty on another charge of violating the civil rights of one of Taylor's neighbours. It was the third time Hankison h ...

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Trump's campaign accuses The Post of campaign rules violations

November 1, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. EDT Former president Donald Trump’s campaign released a copy of a Federal Election Commission complaint against The Washington Post on Friday, alleging that the newspaper made illegal in-kind contributions to the campaign of his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, through the advertising of its journalism. The six-page complaint, dated Thursday, cites an Oct. 30 article in Semafor that suggests, without citing a source, that The Post purchased advertising to ...

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Harris rally in Atlanta brings out thousands of supporters on little notice

4 hrs ago - Sat 2 Nov 2024 14.29 EDT Last modified on Sat 2 Nov 2024 14.32 EDT Kamala Harris struck a contrast between her work as a prosecutor and a Donald Trump campaign “obsessed with revenge and consumed with grievance” on Saturday in Atlanta, thre ... (The Guardian)

Georgia judge rejects Republican lawsuit seeking to block acceptance of hand-returned mail ballots in Fulton County

5 hrs ago - November 2, 2024 / 7:24 PM EDT A Georgia judge on Saturday rejected a Republican lawsuit trying to block counties from opening election offices on Saturday and Sunday to let voters hand in their mail ballots in person. The lawsuit only named Fulton C ... (CBS News/AP)

Watchdog secures FEC fine from pro-Trump advocacy group for failing to disclose donors

5 hrs ago - Nov 2nd, 2024, 3:05 pm A pro-Donald Trump advocacy group was recently fined by the Federal Election Commission for failing to disclose some of its donors. In 2021, the nonprofit government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Wash ... (Law & Crime)

Pittsburgh Has Seen More Political TV Ads Than Anywhere Else

5 hrs ago - November 2, 2024 at 11:31 AM EDT Pittsburgh viewers tuning into Monday Night Football this week watched their Steelers beat the New York Giants — and 26 political ads. That’s just a small slice of the roughly 2,300 political ads the typica ... (Bloomberg)

AP Sources: Kamala Harris will appear on SNL in last episode before presidential election

6 hrs ago - Updated 7:55 PM EDT, November 2, 2024 NEW YORK (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has made an unannounced trip to New York to appear on an episode of “Saturday Night Live,” briefly stepping away from the battleground states she’s ... (AP)

Cardi B tears into Trump at Harris rally: 'People like Donald Trump don't believe women deserve rights'

6 hrs ago - 7 hours ago Rapper Cardi B hit out at Donald Trump during a rally for Kamala Harris, warnings voters the former president doesn’t believe women deserve rights. Speaking at the event in Wisconsin on Friday, she bashed Trump for a recent comment ... (The Independent)

Trump Media Outsourced Jobs to Mexico Even as Trump Pushes "America First"

6 hrs ago - Former President Donald Trump's social media company outsourced jobs to workers in Mexico even as Trump publicly railed against outsourcing on the campaign trail and threatened heavy tariffs on companies that send jobs south of the border. The firm's ... (propublica)

Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day.

7 hrs ago - Kamala Harris now leads Donald Trump in Iowa -- a startling reversal for Democrats and Republicans who have all but written off the state's presidential contest as a certain Trump victory. A new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows Vice Pre ... (Des Moines Register)

Harris planning to vote by mail to 'model behavior'

7 hrs ago - 11/02/24 1:22 PM ET Vice President Harris will vote by mail ahead of Election Day as a way to “model” the different modes of voting for Americans, the campaign told reporters Saturday. The team, however, didn’t provide an update on wh ... (The Hill)

Liz Cheney Urges George W. Bush to Endorse Kamala Harris

8 hrs ago - Published Nov 02, 2024 at 6:09 AM EDT Liz Cheney urged George W. Bush to endorse Kamala Harris for president, saying that she can't explain why he hasn't already said something. While speaking with David Remnick at the New Yorker Festival on October ... (Newsweek)

Students at Black US colleges wield political power ahead of Election Day

8 hrs ago - 10h HBCUs were once the only places where Black Americans could pursue higher education when discriminatory laws barred them from attending predominantly white universities. Attracting celebrities and politicians, the festivities featured step shows ... (msn/Reuters)

Attorneys who represented Trump during Mueller probe look to kneecap Mar-a-Lago case -with an assist from Antonin Scalia

9 hrs ago - Nov 2nd, 2024, 11:47 am A legal group founded by late evangelical minister Pat Robertson has joined the fray in an effort to convince a federal court of appeals that Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago indictment should remain dismissed. In their 39-page ... (Law & Crime)

Harrison Ford Endorses Harris: 'We Need a President Who Works for Us All'

9 hrs ago - November 2, 2024 Harrison Ford has endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. In a pair of clips, he explained why, after “votinf for 64 years,” he has decided to tell “people I’ve never met who I’m voting for and why” for th ... (Rolling Stone)

Scottish comedian Janey Godley dies aged 63

9 hrs ago - Scottish comedian Janey Godley has died at the age of 63. She had been receiving palliative care after living for a number of years with ovarian cancer, which forced her to cancel her 'Why Is She Still Here?' tour in September. Godley was perhaps bes ... (BBC)

New York Times tech union threatens to strike on the eve of Election Day

9 hrs ago - Nov. 2, 2024, 1:29 PM EDT / Updated Nov. 2, 2024, 3:00 PM EDT The clock is ticking on the New York Times’ iconic election needle. The New York Times Tech Guild announced that its members will go on strike on the eve of one of the most critical ... (NBC News)

Abortion activists target Latino voters in final push for Florida's abortion amendment

10 hrs ago - 11/02/24 10:00 AM ET With an amendment aiming to enshrine abortion rights in Florida on the Nov. 5 ballot, advocacy groups on both side of the measure are seeking to cut through the noise in trying to persuade Latino voters. Using messaging tailored ... (The Hill)

New Louisiana election laws creating challenges for voters with disabilities

11 hrs ago - November 2, 2024 / 8:30 AM EDT New laws aimed at protecting the 2024 presidential election from fears about fraud are creating unexpected barriers for some of the nation's more than 40.2 million voters with disabilities, disability rights advocates h ... (CBS News)

Kamala Harris Pitches 'Brighter Future' in Final Campaign Ad Before Election

11 hrs ago - Updated Nov. 2 2024 1:15PM EDT / Published Nov. 2 2024 1:12PM EDT Kamala Harris is promising a “brighter future” free of “fear and division” in her final ad spot ahead of Election Day, as she and Donald Trump battle fiercely to w ... (Daily Beast)

Ahead of US election, lawyers duel over ethics breach accusations

12 hrs ago - Sat, November 2, 2024 at 7:03 AM EDT HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - After Donald Trump's bid to overturn his 2020 election loss, an advocacy group was launched to take on the lawyers who aided in his doomed effort, hitting them with more than 8 ... (Yahoo! News/Reuters)

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