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Now that Election Day is finally here, there are a few counties that experts are closely watching as their results could indicate who the next president will be.

Known as “bellwether counties,” these swing counties have, with some exceptions, consistently sided with the winning candidate for decades.

Matthew Bergbower, a political science professor at Indiana State University, described a bellwether county as a “microcosm of the nation” in terms of political preferences.

Though his county, Vigo County in Indiana, deviated by voting for Donald Trump in 2020, it has chosen the winning candidate in every election since 1952.

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Clallam County in Washington state stands out as the only county to have voted for the winning presidential candidate in every election since 1980. The people of Clallam County are proud of their history as the “last bellwether county” in America.

This year, the county looks just as divided as ever.

Pam Blakeman, chair of the Clallam County Republicans, told Fox News Digital that she thinks the election “will be close in our County, but I see it swinging towards Trump.”

She bases this on good Republican turnout and a ground game that she said “is the most active I have ever seen.”

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However, Ben Anderstone, a progressive Washington-based political consultant, told Fox News Digital that “a Trump win in Clallam County would be a bit of a surprise at this point.”

“This year, it looks likely that Clallam County will be to the nation’s left,” he said. “In our August primary, Clallam County was very Democratic, about 57% to 43%. Lower-turnout voters in Clallam County are much more Republican, so we expect the presidential election will be a lot tighter. Still, our model suggests Clallam will only tighten to 53%-47% Democratic or so.”

Like Clallam County, the presidential election could easily go either direction. Yet with GOP nominee former President Trump and Democrat nominee Vice President Harris facing razor-thin margins, three counties – Bucks, Erie and Northampton in Pennsylvania – stand out as particularly important.

Pennsylvania, which has 19 electoral votes, is the largest swing state and thus the biggest target for both Trump and Harris. During this election cycle, Trump and Harris have had a significant presence in the state and in these three counties.

On the final day before election day, Trump campaigned in both eastern and western Pennsylvania and Harris devoted the entire day to stops across the state. Vice presidential candidates Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have similarly been making stops in Pennsylvania throughout the campaign.

“Both campaigns see the path to the White House running through Pennsylvania,” said Berwood Yost, the director of the national survey group the Center for Opinion Research. Similarly, he said the path to victory in Pennsylvania runs through Bucks, Erie and Northampton counties.

Bucks is a primarily suburban county just north of Philadelphia. Erie, which is situated in far northwestern Pennsylvania on Lake Erie, is primarily rural and significantly smaller in terms of population. Finally, Northampton in eastern Pennsylvania is suburban and home to Lehigh University, a private research college.

According to Yost, all three mirror many of the key demographics, such as racial composition, educational attainment and population density, that make Pennsylvania so competitive.

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President Biden won Pennsylvania by a narrow 1.17 percent margin in 2020. The margins in Bucks (4.37), Erie (1.03) and Northampton (0.72) were similarly close.

Yost said that like the rest of the country, people in these counties are “generally dissatisfied” with the economy and want to see some kind of change, something that is a positive indicator for Trump. However, he said “the closest to the closeness of the race makes it seem that they haven’t been able to take advantage of that.”

“I think part of the reason the race is so close is that that message has not been consistently articulated by the top of the ticket,” he said. “Those distractions have raised some concerns among some voters.”

Yost said the race will come down to what independents and traditional Republicans who are not enthusiastic about Trump decide at the ballot box.

“That to me is really going to be the inflection point of this election,” he said. “If they’re wobbly, and they think it’s the economy, that’s a plus for Trump. If they go into the voting booth, and they think about something else, that’s a negative for the Trump campaign.”  

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Nearly two years after launching his campaign to return to the White House, former President Trump’s bid to win back his old job is now in the hands of America’s voters, as Election Day 2024 has arrived.

Facing off against the Republican presidential nominee is Vice President Kamala Harris, who just three and a half months ago replaced her boss – President Biden – atop the Democrats’ national ticket.

With roughly 75 million ballots already cast across the country in early voting, and in-person day-of voting now getting underway, both major party nominees are optimistic about their chances in this historic showdown.

“Momentum is on our side,” Harris told supporters at a rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Monday. “Can you feel it.”

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And hours later, at a rally in Pittsburgh, the vice president reiterated, “make no mistake, we will win.

Trump, also campaigning in battleground Pennsylvania, told supporters “we’ve been waiting for this. I’ve been waiting four years for this.”

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And even though the final national polls and key swing state surveys pointed to a margin-of-error race, the former president has touted that “we have a big lead. We have a big lead.”

Trump and Harris held dueling rallies on Election Eve in Pennsylvania, which, with 19 electoral votes at stake, is the biggest prize among the seven key battleground states.

Harris closed out her campaign schedule with a large late night rally in Philadelphia, by the famed “Rocky Steps” outside the city’s Art Museum.

Around the same time Harris was in Philadelphia, Trump held his final rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the same spot where he closed out his 2016 and 2020 campaigns.

Pennsylvania and Michigan, along with Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, are the seven swing states whose razor-thin margins decided President Biden’s 2020 victory over Trump and will likely determine whether Trump or Harris wins the 2024 election.

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Harris, Trump, their running mates and top surrogates, have fanned out across the seven battlegrounds the past couple of months. And the two presidential campaigns and allied super PACs have spent nearly all the $2.3 billion they’ve shelled out to run ads in the White House race in the battleground states.

The vice president and the former president closed out their campaigns with very divergent messages.

Harris, who for a second straight day avoided mentioning Trump by name, closed with a positive and upbeat message as she painted a unified future for the nation.

Trump painted a negative picture of the country the past four years under the Biden administration, as he railed against Democratic policies and spotlighted the dangers of unchecked immigration.

For Trump, the 2024 campaign has been a grueling two-year marathon. He announced his candidacy at his south Florida Mar-a-Lago club days after the 2022 midterm elections. After a slow start, the former president easily dispatched a field of GOP primary opponents – which last year briefly expanded to over a dozen contenders – and ran the table earlier this year in the Republican presidential primaries.

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Trump – who was indicted in four different criminal cases – saw his support surge and his fundraising soar in the late spring, after he made history as the first former or current president convicted of felonies.

A month later, Biden suffered a major setback after a disastrous late June debate performance against Trump reignited longstanding questions over whether the 81-year-old president was physically and mentally up for another four grueling years in the White House – and sparked calls from within his own party for him to step down.

Trump’s polling advantage over Biden widened, and the former president was further politically boosted after surviving an assassination attempt on his life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania two days before the start of the Republican National Convention in July.

But the race was instantly turned upside down days later, as Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed his vice president. Democrats quickly coalesced around Harris, and her fundraising surged as her poll numbers soared.

The Harris honeymoon continued through the late August Democratic National Convention, and into September, when most pundits declared her the winner of the one and only presidential debate between her and Trump. 

But as the calendar moved from September into October, Trump appeared to regain his footing, and public opinion surveys indicated the former president gaining momentum.

Veteran Republican strategist and Fox News contributor Karl Rove called the Harris-Trump showdown a “coin toss.”

But longtime Republican consultant Alex Castellanos, taking issue with the polls, pointed to voter registration gains by Republicans.

“I think the pollsters are getting this wrong. We’re all missing something because they’re giving us the same poll over and over again. .. Somebody’s missing something.”

And Castellanos, a veteran of numerous presidential campaigns, argued “what I think they’re missing a massive shift in voting registration underneath all of this. Thirty-one states have voter registration by party. Thirty of them in the past four years have seen movement by Republicans.”

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Longtime Democratic pollster Mark Penn, on Fox News’ “Special Report,” pointed to an apparent surge in early voting by Republicans – after Trump, long a vocal critic of early voting – in recent days embraced the GOP’s longstanding effort to make Republicans more accepting of early voting – and said “the only fact we know is that Republicans have done a lot better in the mail in and early voting that they ever have.”

Harris, a California resident, cast her vote by mail ahead of Election Day. 

The Trump campaign said that the former president would cast his ballot in-person on Election Day in Palm Beach, Florida, where he resides.

Trump, according to his campaign, also planned to spend Election Day with family, friends, and staff, and also do some phone-based tele rallies to targeted spots. 

The former president was set to hold his Election Night headquarters at a convention center in West Palm Beach, Florida..

Harris was expected to spend part of Election Day making her case in radio interviews. And the vice president was scheduled to hold her Election Night headquarters at her alma mater, the historically Black Howard University in Washington D.C.

During the closing final week of the campaign, Trump – who for four years has made false claims that his 2020 loss was due to a rigged election – appeared to be trying to discredit the 2024 election.

Trump, on Sunday, once again argued without providing proof that the Democrats were trying to cheat.

“They are fighting so hard to steal this damn thing,” the former president charged on Sunday.

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On the eve of the U.S. election, President Trump received a round of last-minute endorsements from high-profile names, including Joe Rogan and Roberto Clemente Jr., son of the baseball legend. 

With less than 24 hours to go before the election, podcaster and comedian, Joe Rogan formally endorsed Trump for president, ending speculation. 

Posting on X, Rogan highlighted his nearly three hour interview with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who has already supported Trump. 

“The great and powerful @elonmusk. If it wasn’t for him we’d be f—ed,” Rogan said. “He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way.” 

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And leaving no room for doubt, Rogan wrote: “For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump.” 

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Earlier Monday, Robert Clemente Jr., son of the Puerto Rican baseball legend, formally endorsed Trump in the city where his father played. 

Clemente Jr. joined Trump on stage in Pittsburgh where he praised the former commander-in-chief. 

“For the first time, I had to take a step forward. It is very important for me to support this man, because I believe tomorrow is a change of time,” Clemente Jr. said. “My father, the name Clemente, what it means is goodwill and unity. I believe that your team is going to bring it all home. I believe in everything that you stand for right now,” he told Trump.

And earlier Monday, Randi Mahomes, the mother of star Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, endorsed Trump during a game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 

In an exclusive video to OutKick, Randi Mahomes, wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat with a Chiefs sweatshirt revealed her endorsement of Trump. 

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“Make America great again. Let’s do it. Woo!” Randi Mahomes said. 

Additionally, Trump was joined on stage in Pittsburgh earlier Monday by podcast host Megyn Kelly, who touted the former president as a “protector of women.”

Fox News Digital’s Scott Thompson contributed to this report. 

Tim Walz spoke about abortion rights to cap off his final campaign rally before Election Day during a barely five minute address to Michigan voters Monday night.

At a star-studded campaign rally from Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit on Election Day eve, which included a performance from Jon Bon Jovi and others, Walz told rally goers that he wanted to talk to them about “one issue in particular.”

“Everything’s on the line,” Walz began in his short address from downtown Detroit. “But I want to take tonight to talk about one issue in particular that really underlines the stakes in this election. So let me speak to the guys in the crowd tonight. I want you to think about the women in your life that you love. Their lives are at stake in this election” Walz continued, before slamming Trump for appointing “Supreme Court Justices who repealed Roe v. Wade.” 

“And he brags about it,” Walz added. “He is glad that those women you’re thinking about – and you love – have fewer rights than their mothers and their grandmothers.”

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Walz lamented that women were allegedly being turned away from emergency rooms and being forced to undergo miscarriages in the parking lot, blaming Trump and the work he did to overturn federal abortion protections. Walz also blamed Trump for rape victims having to carry unwanted pregnancies to full term. Such claims from Walz – that state abortion laws have resulted in the deaths of pregnant women – previously earned him heat on the campaign trail from OB-GYNS, who decried Walz for claiming a Georgia woman died due to the state’s abortion laws during a debate with his opponent, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio.  

“When Congress passes that bill to restore reproductive freedom, President Harris will sign it into law,” Walz said. “Kamala and I trust women. It’s that simple.”

Walz did not touch on any other policy issues during his barely five minute speech, which was preceded by his wife, Gwen, and the Democrat Governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer. Earlier in the day, Walz campaigned in several spots around Wisconsin, including Milwaukee. 

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In closing on Monday evening, Walz insisted that “women all across America” would be “send[ing] a loud and clear message to Donald Trump” on Election Day in response to his efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade. 

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“Here’s the deal, folks, there’s going to be a day you’re going to be sitting in that rocking chair, and you’re going to be rocking on that porch, and a little one’s going to come home from school and ask, ‘What did you do in the 2024 election?’” Walz concluded at his last rally before Election Day. “And you’re going to be able to answer, ‘Every damn thing I could.”

Former President Donald Trump bid farewell to his trademark rallies during an early morning stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, his last event on the 2024 campaign trail.

“Your support means more than anything you can even understand… this is my last rally, can you believe it? The rallies, these big beautiful rallies, there’s never been anything like it and there never will be,” Trump told supporters at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan at a rally in the early morning hours on Tuesday.

The comments come after a whirlwind day for Trump, who wrapped up his 2024 campaign with stops in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

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The former president didn’t take the stage in Grand Rapids until after midnight Tuesday, meaning Trump spoke to supporters at his last event on election day in his final pitch to be sent back to the White House.

Trump’s Grand Rapids event marked the third time the former president ended his campaign in the West Michigan city, having concluded his former runs at DeVos Place in Grand Rapids in 2016 and the city’s airport in 2020.

The event also signified how critical of a prize the swing state of Michigan would be for his White House bid, a state where both campaigns have combined to double the number of events and visits that were held there in 2016 and 2020.

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Trump was able to narrowly capture the state in his race against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016, but then lost it to President Biden in another nail-biter in 2020. Michigan promises to play a similar role in determining who ultimately wins in 2024, joining the states of Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as the critical battlegrounds in this year’s election.

Trump, who has said this will be his last campaign even if he were to lose to Vice President Kamala Harris, at times struck a reflective tone during the Grand Rapids event, thanking supporters in Michigan who have supported him through three runs for president.

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“You’re really incredible people,” Trump said.. “Now it’s nine years and we’ve been fighting side-by-side every step of the way we’ve been together.”

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Shortly before Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage on the “Rocky Steps” of the Philadelphia Art Museum at her final rally before Election Day, billionaire Oprah Winfrey declared her fear a Donald Trump presidency could curtail Americans’ right to vote.

Winfrey was introduced by Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff around 11 PM ET on Monday, and brought to the dais with her 10 first-time voters who have or will be casting a ballot for Harris, including MLS Philadelphia Union forward Eddy Davis III.

Winfrey recounted hiking on a recent Sunday and meeting a woman who said she would “sit this [election] out.”

“So I said, ‘sit this one out’. We don’t get to sit this one out. — If we don’t show up tomorrow, it is entirely possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast a ballot again.”

“And let me be very clear, if you do not make sure that the people in your life can get to the polls, that is a mistake.”

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Winfrey added that supporting Harris is a vote to protect and defend the Constitution.

She also quoted from former President John F. Kennedy’s “ask not what you can do for your country” address, adding “what you can do for every young woman who has died because she was not eligible to receive the emergency medical care she desperately needed because of the abortion ban – and what you can do for yourself and what you can do for everyone and everything you cherish, is vote.”

Winfrey was followed by musician Will.i.am. The performer, whose real name is William Adams Jr., performed a song with the refrain “Yes, She Can,” in support of Harris.

In her address, Harris said her campaign has shown “who America is,” and that “we are all in this together.”

“Philadelphia; are you ready to do this?” she asked, adding the city was where “democracy was forged,” and nodded to the 1976 Sylvester Stallone classic in saying the location of the rally was a “tribute to those who start as the underdog and climb to victory.”

Harris called Tuesday the “most consequential election of our lifetimes, and the momentum is on our side.”

Our campaign has tapped into the ambitions and the aspirations and the dreams of the American people. We are optimistic, and we are excited about what we can do together. And we know it is time for a new generation of leadership in America. And I am ready to offer that leadership as the next president of the United States of America.”

Harris went on to pledge that she will be a president who knows the “true measure of a leader is not based on who you beat down but who you lift up.”

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“It is my pledge to you that if you give me a chance to fight on your behalf as president, there is nothing in the world that will stand in my way… Instead of stewing over an enemies list, I will spend every day on your behalf working on my to-do list full of priorities to improve your lives.”

Chants of “we are not going back” soon erupted.

She added that she will listen to people who disagree with her and that they will have a “seat at the table” as is custom for “strong leaders.”

“I pledge to put country above party and self and to be a president for all Americans,” she said. “We are the promise of America.”

Harris also credited Republicans who may or may not have ever voted for a Democrat in the past but endorsed her in this cycle. Such figures have included former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., former Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., former Pence aide Olivia Troye, former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci, former Melania Trump aide Stephanie Grisham, former G.W. Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Reagan-era FBI Director William Webster.

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“Tonight, we finish as we started with optimism, with energy, with joy, knowing that ‘we the people’ have the power to shape our future and that we can confront any challenge we face when we do it together,” Harris said, later adding, “When we fight, we win.”

Other speakers at the rally included Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro – widely considered the runner-up to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the vice presidential sweeps. Shapiro also noted Philadelphia’s prominence in the founding of America, adding, “we are not going back to a king.”

In an apparent response to a comic at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally making a crack about Puerto Rico being an “island of garbage,” two Puerto Rican musicians took the stage Monday night.

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Rapper Fat Joe said, “I heard they needed a Puerto Rican in Philly, and I was so happy to be here” and slammed Trump’s comments about the immigration crisis at his first campaign launch:

“Seeing Donald Trump come down that escalator and call my Mexican brothers and sisters rapists and drug dealers, he obviously didn’t know the contributions of Mexican-Americans to this country,” the Bronx-born Joe, né Joseph Antonio Cartagena, said.

San Juan-born Ricky Martin later took the stage and performed his 1999 hit “Livin’ La Vida Loca” before also endorsing Harris.

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The first results of the 2024 election day are in from Dixville Notch, New Hampshire with former President Donald Trump and Vice-president Kamala Harris splitting the tiny town’s six votes. 

The final count read out by officials around 12:10 a.m. on Tuesday morning were 3 for Trump and 3 for Harris. 

The six citizens of Dixville Notch, which is a remote unincorporated township in New Hampshire’s North Country region, cast their ballots at midnight. 

Before voters cast their ballots, Cory Pesaturo, three-time world accordion champion, performed an accordion rendition of the national anthem as voters held their hands over their hearts. 

The tiny village began its tradition of midnight voting in 1960. Four years ago, then-former Vice President Biden swept all five votes cast in the tiny township near the U.S.-Canadian border, en route to his White House victory over Trump.

All eligible voters in the township – which totaled six in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary in January – gathered in Dixville’s Tillotson House, where voting remained open until everybody cast their ballot.

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Dixville Notch isn’t the only New Hampshire town which has grabbed national attention with midnight voting on Election Day.

Harts Location – in the state’s White Mountains – started midnight voting in 1948. And Millfield, which is near Dixville Notch in New Hampshire’s North Country, has also held midnight voting. 

But in the 2024 general election, Dixville Notch was the only location in New Hampshire holding midnight voting.

Every four years – during the state’s presidential primary and the general election – reporters and media outlets from around the country and the globe descend on Dixville Notch to cover the midnight vote.

Tom Tillotson, the longtime town moderator of the vote, has noted that “we get our 15 minutes of fame every four years.”

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Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, blamed Kamala Harris’ poor leadership over the last four years for the economic woes Americans have faced, such as increased housing costs, lost jobs, inflation and higher than average credit delinquency rates, during a rally in Pennsylvania Monday night. 

“She’s been in Washington for four years, and the consequence is that our fellow citizens are seeing credit card delinquency rates going through the roof, unaffordable housing, unaffordable grocery prices,” Vance said on Election Day eve from a venue in Newtown, Pennsylvania. 

“You know, 8% of our fellow citizens can’t afford to pay their car payments right now because of Kamala Harris’ policies. The state of Pennsylvania, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, has seen a bigger increase in the cost of groceries than any state in the entire union. Pennsylvania families are being crushed by the cost of everything from groceries to housing.”

In battleground Pennsylvania, one of the most coveted states for both candidates this election cycle, inflation remains higher than the national average. In September, food prices in Philadelphia were up 3.7% annually, compared to the national average of 1.3%. Meanwhile, energy prices in the Philadelphia metro area have increased at more than double the rate of the national average.

Vance described Harris’ record when it comes to the economy as a “failure” and insisted she has no plan to fix it. He blasted the vice president over her approach to taxes as well, noting that she plans to let former President Trump’s tax cuts expire, which Vance said will lead to “every single person” paying thousands of dollars in extra taxes each year.

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“She thinks we ought to raise taxes on American citizens and reward foreign corporations that ship American jobs overseas,” Vance argued from his podium Monday night. “You know what Donald J. Trump thinks? President Trump thinks that we ought to cut your taxes and punish the corporations that are shipping American jobs overseas.”

American jobs would be at risk under a potential Harris administration, Vance also added, pointing out that a recent jobs report showed 28,000 private sector jobs disappeared last month. “We lost 46,000 manufacturing jobs under Kamala Harris’ leadership,” he told the crowd. “But you know what? You know who we did hire? We hired a lot of government bureaucrats.”

While Vance insisted that Harris’ policy record was poor on the economy and proves she would do little for Pennsylvanians’ cost-of-living concerns, the Ohio Senator praised former President Trump for already delivering a strong economy when he was president. 

“We want the president who had inflation at 1.5%.” Vance implored rally goers. “We know that Donald J Trump’s leadership delivered the fastest rising take-home pay in 40 years in the United States of America. He already did it.”

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Vance added that Trump has plans to increase the supply of housing, something the Harris campaign has also proposed, and said that the former president would fight to lower mortgage interest rates as well.  

Vance, Trump and Harris all spent time in Pennsylvania on Election Day eve, as they campaigned across numerous battleground states. Trump rallied Monday in Reading and Pittsburgh, while Harris spent time in Allentown, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. During Harris’ rally in Allentown, she told rally goers that she would strengthen the economy by cutting taxes on the middle-class, while raising them for the nation’s most wealthy and for corporations. She also insisted she would make everyday costs, like childcare, more affordable, and work to reduce costs for seniors.  

“It is my pledge to you that when I walk in the White House – instead of stewing over an enemy’s list – I will spend every day working on my to-do list on your behalf full of priorities that are about improving your life about bringing down the cost of living,” Harris said from Allentown Monday. “About banning corporate price gouging on groceries, about making housing and child care more affordable. My plan will be about cutting taxes for workers in middle-class families and small businesses. Lowering health care costs, including the cost of home care for home care for our seniors.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., came under fire on Sunday after falsely claiming on social media that 50,000 attendees at a colonial elections festival in Puerto Rico were rallying for the “anti-Trump, anti-corruption Alianza movement.”

“Eyes on Puerto Rico: Tonight, Puerto Ricans amassed the second-largest political rally this ENTIRE cycle – behind only Harris’ 75k-person Ellipse speech,” AOC wrote in a post on X. “Over 50,000 Boricuas rallying for the anti-Trump, anti-corruption Alianza movement & @juandalmauPR. Political earthquake.”

The representative was referring to a festival that appeared to amass more people than Vice President Harris’s speech last week at the Ellipse, next to the White House, but the post did not tell the entire story.

In fact, critics accused AOC of lying and slapped the social media post with a community note.

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“The depicted rally is the Festival de la Esperanza, hosted by the anti-colonial parties of Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC) and Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (PIP) ahead of the next colonial elections,” the note read. “It had nothing to do with any of the US’s main parties.”

Several users on X accused AOC of lying and misleading people, with one even accusing her of using Puerto Rico for her own political goals.

Fox News Digital has reached out to her for comment on the matter, but did not immediately hear back.

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In a follow-up post on X, AOC attempted to clear up her remarks.

“I did not mention Kamala and stated this is about anti-corruption Alianza,” she wrote. “To build a coalition, it is relevant to note that PNP’s Jenniffer Gonzalez ran Latinos for Trump & campaigns on scare tactics about Dalmau cutting [Social] Security when she’s empowered cuts via membership w/GOP.”

Still, users continue to bash AOC on her post that amassed over 5.7 million views.

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Billionaire Elon Musk, who owns X, also chimed in on her post, simply writing, “lol.”

AOC and Musk have feuded over various issues for at least the last two years.

In an instance in September 2023, AOC slammed Musk on social media after he said she is “not that smart.”

AOC had mocked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., playing off a social media meme of “girl math,” where people use bad math to justify spending habits, by saying, “Boy math is needing 15 attempts to count the votes correctly to become Speaker and then shutting down the government 9 months later.” 

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In response, conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair shared a clip of AOC in which she argued that the numbers of legal immigrants who traveled to Ellis Island, New York, around the turn of the century “far eclipsed what we’re seeing now” in terms of the current migrant crisis.

“Girl math is saying immigrants coming legally through Ellis Island is the same as 3 million undocumented migrants pouring through our border and costing NYC $1,000,000,000 to house migrants for free in hotels,” St. Clair said. 

Musk chimed in, commenting, “She’s just not that smart.”

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The insult grabbed AOC’s attention, who fired back with a list of her accomplishments and a bitter send off for the X owner.

“I wasn’t born rich and became the youngest woman in American history to be elected to Congress. Then I investigated Cohen, authored the largest FEMA funeral assistance program in history and led [the] creation of a US Climate Corps to create tens of thousands of new jobs,” she replied. “Stay mad.” 

Fox News Digital’s Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.

American intelligence officials released a recent statement warning about Russian actors conducting “additional influence operations” to impact the upcoming election on Tuesday.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) published the latest update on its website on Monday evening. Speaking on behalf of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the ODNI detailed the latest intelligence findings.

Last week, officials said that they observed Russian actors creating and disseminating a fake video that showed individuals voting illegally, and a video accusing a politician of taking a bribe. Since then, the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has observed Russia and other foreign adversaries “conducting additional influence operations intended to undermine public confidence in the integrity of U.S. elections and stoke divisions among Americans.”

“The IC expects these activities will intensify through election day and in the coming weeks, and that foreign influence narratives will focus on swing states,” the statement read.

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Of all the foreign adversaries seeking to impact the election, the ODNI said that Russia “is the most active threat.”

“Influence actors linked to Russia in particular are manufacturing videos and creating fake articles to undermine the legitimacy of the election, instill fear in voters regarding the election process, and suggest Americans are using violence against each other due to political preferences, judging from information available to the IC,” the ODNI continued. “These efforts risk inciting violence, including against election officials.”

“We anticipate Russian actors will release additional manufactured content with these themes through election day and in the days and weeks after polls close.”

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In recent days, Russian actors created an article reporting about false plans for swing state officials to orchestrate election fraud, and also made a recent video that “falsely depicted an interview with an individual claiming election fraud in Arizona.

Officials also believe that Iranian actors may be meddling with the election and disseminating false information, as they have done in the past. The meddlers may intend “to create fake media content intended to suppress voting or stoke violence, as they have done in past election cycles,” the ODNI noted.

The FBI encourages anyone who observes suspicious or criminal activity to call 1-800-CALL-FBI. Cyber incidents impacting election infrastructure can be reported to the CISA through the number 1-844-SAY-CISA.

The report came less than 24 hours before polls are set to open on Nov. 5, in what is expected to be a toss-up election between Vice President Harris and former President Trump. Swing states across the country have been on the lookout for fake ballots.

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On Monday, the chair of a Pennsylvania county election board announced that he had found 2,500 suspicious registration and mail-in ballot applications. At least 17% of the applications were fraudulent.

An anti-sex trafficking activist who has been sounding the alarm about the smuggling and trafficking of women and children into the United States through the southern border says that a purported ledger of victims shows how calculated smuggling groups are with those being trafficked.

Jaco Booyens, who is a director and anti-trafficking activist, spoke to Fox News Digital about a document he says he found among a group of migrants, mostly women and children, who his team followed from the Darien Gap, through Mexico and into the U.S. where they were encountered by Border Patrol in Texas.

As some men in the group fled, the logbook ended up being discarded, he says, and picked up by his team.

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“It’s for all intents and purposes, it’s a slave ledger,” he says.

He says the book is typical of smugglers and shows the names of children being moved across the border, and how much is still owed.

“This is how they operate. It’s around $8,500 is the sum. And then whatever portion they can pay. Now, some of the families here pay $50,” he said, adding that they will then owe the rest at a high interest rate to the gangs.

He said the discovery showed the lack of a human element of what the smugglers were dealing with.

“It’s never been this brazen to where really when you read through this, and you translate it, it’s numbers on a page. There’s a complete lack of humanity in this document,” he said.

“When you read a document and it’s names of children and their ages, and you start seeing monetary value next to them, you know, it’s a reality we live through, but the American public don’t understand how human lives are commoditized,” he said.

Booyens stressed how migrants who are brought in are not then left by the cartels but are tracked, and will be forced to pay back the money they owe, whether that be through prostitution or other forms of labor. If they don’t check in, they or their family members in their home country could be at risk of violence.

“The traffickers know where they are. They have a ledger on them, and they check in. They check in like you do with a parole officer because they are fearful for their family’s lives back home, and they pay a debt. They have a debt to pay, so the system is very organized from that perspective,” he said.

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“It’s just stark to get a ledger with the names, and say, ‘Hey, this guy has X amount of children on his book. And he’s going to collect,’” he said.

Smuggling has increased with the crisis at the southern border. The Biden administration has targeted transnational organizations who are bringing migrants in, often working with Mexico to crack down on the smuggling. But critics have said they have incentivized activity with “open borders” policies.

In terms of what can be done to stop the smuggling, Booyens noted a “vicious” demand cycle for children from Americans. But he said that the laws of the U.S. must also be followed to stop incentivizing migrants.

“We got to just start with just letting the law be the law,” he said. “We have immigration law, albeit it needs reform. Yes, but we do have law, and the law has been abandoned.”

Booyens spoke just days before the presidential election, where border security and immigration reform have been top issues for voters. 

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Polls suggest former President Donald Trump holds a significant lead over Vice President Kamala Harris on the issue, with both candidates dueling over who is better suited to secure the border.

Fox News’ Emma Woodhead contributed to this report.

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, shared some political advice for Vice President Harris during a rally in Atlanta on Monday.

“Remember, her whole argument of her campaign is that she doesn’t even know who Joe Biden is, even though she’s the sitting vice president. And ‘The View’ host asked her, ‘What would you have done differently over the last four years? Would you have done anything differently than Joe Biden?’ And Kamala Harris says, ‘Nothing comes to mind,’” Vance said.

“The Harris-Walz slogan could be ‘Nothing comes to mind.'”

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Vance was referencing the vice president’s recent interview with ABC’s “The View” where she conceded she would not have done much differently than President Biden has during their administration so far.

Harris said during the sit-down last month, “There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of – and I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact, the work that we have done.”

The Trump campaign and its allies immediately pounced on the clip as proof of their warnings that Harris would continue Biden’s most unpopular progressive policies if she wins the White House after Election Day on Nov. 5.

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Speaking to voters in deep-blue Atlanta the night before, Vance also used the quote to accuse Harris of a lack of clear policy positions.

“Think about this, Kamala. What would you do to fix the broken policies to make groceries and housing more affordable? ‘Nothing comes to mind.’ Kamala Harris, what would you do to secure that southern border? ‘Nothing comes to mind,’” Vance said. “That’s what Kamala Harris’s campaign slogan could be.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign for a response.

Both the Trump and Harris campaigns have detailed policy platforms available on their websites. Harris’ says relatively little about the border, though she has shown support for the bipartisan border deal that collapsed against Republican opposition this year.

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Vance’s 11th-hour appeal to Georgia voters comes at the end of an election cycle where both campaigns poured enormous time and resources into the Peach State.

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Biden won the traditionally red state by less than 1% in 2020. Democrats also made gains there in 2022, cementing its status as a key battleground.

More than 4 million Georgia voters have already cast ballots going into Election Day, roughly 55.5% of the state’s active voters.

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Just over a week after a comic’s joke about Puerto Rico being an “island of garbage” at a Trump rally attracted days of negative media attention, the former president held another rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, an area rich with Latino pride. 

Pennsylvania’s fourth-largest city was historically the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country, but has in recent decades become home to the highest proportion of Hispanics in the commonwealth. A 2021 report by the Reading Eagle estimated about two-thirds identify as such. 

During the Monday rally, Trump invited Patty Morin onstage. Morin’s daughter Rachel was raped and murdered in 2023 by a Salvadoran illegal immigrant wanted for murder in his home country.

Morin told the crowd everyone in her town loved Rachel, and credited Trump with the proverb, “When the righteous man reigns, the people rejoice.”

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Rachel Morin was murdered in 2023 when Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez encountered her on a jogging path in Harford County, Maryland.

Before Trump took the stage, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., offered a speech partially in Spanish — remarking he never likes the media’s translation.

In Spanish, or dialectically “Cuban,” as the lawmaker joked, Rubio encouraged voters to come out for Trump on Tuesday and laid out a positive vision for the mogul’s second term.

Trump later asked the crowd the same question Ronald Reagan had: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”

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“You built this country; you’re going to save this country too,” he said. “The ball is in our hand, it’s at the two-yard line, maybe the one-yard line.”

“Tomorrow, you have to stand up and tell Kamala you’ve had enough… ‘You’re the most incompetent vice president we’ve ever had… Kamala you’re fired — get the hell out of here,'” he boomed.

Trump said Harris orchestrated the “biggest betrayal” of the American people, before referring to the U.S. as an “occupied country” due to illegal immigration.

Trump also reserved criticism for Sen. Bob Casey, Jr., D-Pa., after inviting challenger David McCormick to speak.

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Trump characterized Casey — in office since defeating Sen. Rick Santorum in 2006 — as a two-decade “survivor” who accomplished little other than retaining his job in Congress.

He appeared to suggest Casey simply followed his namesake father’s coattails into office. The elder Casey, of Casey v. Planned Parenthood fame, was governor from 1987-1995.

A Pennsylvania judge is allowing Elon Musk’s America PAC to continue their $1 million a day contest through Nov. 5, according to a ruling on Monday.

The ruling by Common Pleas Court Judge Angelo Foglietta comes after it was revealed during court proceedings that the contest’s winners are not randomly selected.

“The $1 million recipients are not chosen by chance,” America PAC attorney Chris Gober said in court on Monday. “We know exactly who will be announced as the $1 million recipient today and tomorrow.”

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The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office is standing by its choice to restore voter registration status of individuals affected by a glitch that impacted 218,000 voters.

“Maricopa County did not receive a complete list from the Secretary of State’s Office regarding who may have been impacted by the MVD data oversight,” the Recorder’s Office said in a statement to Fox News in part. 

“However, if impacted voters submitted a new voter registration form after the oversight was found, they appeared in our system as needing to provide DPOC upon their new registration form being processed. These voters were contacted individually to let them know their registration was incomplete. However, after further consideration, the decision was made to fully restore those voters from the not registered status, only if they were previously an existing, registered voter,” the statement read.

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Now, these voters can participate in the upcoming election as they did before, the recorder’s office said.

“Additionally, we know roughly 2,000 voters who were impacted in the MVD data oversight submitted voter registration updates and some of those may have been contacted about providing DPOC,” the statement read.

The county recorder added, “but since then, regardless of if they have provided that additional information, they have since been restored their original status for this election.”

Arizona’s high court ruled last Thursday the county must provide a conservative watchdog group with a list of noncitizens currently registered to vote after a lawsuit was lobbed against the county last year.

During an evidentiary hearing, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes testified that a system error had affected approximately 218,000 registered voters, the court document states.

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The order notes that Fontes acknowledged having a partial list of about 98,000 voters who have not confirmed their proof of citizenship but stated that no complete list of all 218,000 affected voters exists. Fontes attributed a government press release’s mention of a complete list to “hasty drafting” and unclear language. He also claimed that the Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) had not provided him with any list containing personal information for the additional voters potentially lacking sufficient documentation.

However, the court concluded his testimony was inconsistent; Fontes initially denied possessing the list of 98,000 voters before amending his statement.

“His testimony suggested that he lacked detailed familiarity with the AZSOS’s [Arizona Secretary of State] efforts with regard to the issue and with regard to the records in the possession of the AZSOS related to the 218,000 individuals,” the court document states.

The decision comes after AFL filed suit on behalf of the nonprofit group Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona and Yvonne Cahill, a registered voter and naturalized citizen in Maricopa County.

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AFL had previously given Maricopa County one week to address the alleged noncitizens on its voter rolls.

The lawsuit claims that, as of April 2024, more than 35,000 registered voters in Arizona had not provided proof of citizenship, limiting them to voting only in federal races, according to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office.

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Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, through his attorney, stated that he would not take any action, “citing, among other things, concerns for the safety of voters, and concerns about the accuracy of the list,” and claimed his office is already complying with the law, the Arizona high court document read.

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Pennsylvania is once again likely the closest-watched state on election night, as the commonwealth’s 19 electoral votes are poised to swing the election one way or another.

Five counties — Bucks, Northampton, Erie, Centre and Luzerne — out of 67 are likely the ones that will tell the tale of whether former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris will win the 2024 presidential election.

BUCKS COUNTY – COUNTY SEAT: DOYLESTOWN

Bucks County made national headlines last week after the RNC and the Trump campaign took legal action against county officials after lines for “on-demand” voting were truncated prior to the stated closing time.

A judge ultimately allowed Bucks voters involved in the process until Friday to cast their early ballots. Bucks is also known as one major county where voters typically split their votes.

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick and his late brother, Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick, both Republicans, enjoyed consistent-but-close wins in the county, while national and gubernatorial results are often a mixed bag. Brian was re-elected in 2020 just as Biden won the county.

The county also flipped to a GOP voter registration advantage this cycle, with the Philadelphia Inquirer reporting the Republicans enjoy just under a 1,000-registrant majority.

While Trump lost all of Philadelphia’s once-Republican collar counties — Delaware, Chester, Montgomery and Bucks — in 2016, only the latter appears in play this cycle.

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY – COUNTY SEAT: EASTON

Bordering Bucks, Lehigh and Northampton counties geopolitically unite to form the key, postindustrial Lehigh Valley region. The congressional seat currently held by Rep. Susan Wild, a Democrat, is always a tight contest.

While Lehigh typically remains in Democrat hands due to Pennsylvania’s third-largest city — Allentown — as its anchor, neighboring Northampton County surprised everyone when Trump took it in 2016.

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Northampton’s Republican Party leader, Andrew Azan III, said in a recent interview he is very optimistic again this year, and said there was recently a “waitlist” for Trump yard signs.

ERIE COUNTY – COUNTY SEAT: ERIE

Far to the west, Erie sticks up into the great lakes like a thumb, and its electorate could put their collective thumb on the scale for either candidate.

Erie GOP chair Tom Eddy recently said that Erie is “unique… in the fact it’s able to pick the winners.” Trump won Erie County and the election in 2016, and Biden won in 2020.

Eddy called the county “Little Pennsylvania” — as it has a bit of every piece of the state within its bounds: an urban area, agricultural lands and industry.

LUZERNE COUNTY – COUNTY SEAT: WILKES-BARRE

Meanwhile, in Luzerne County, anchored by Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton, Republicans recently shocked observers in September by becoming a majority there.

The union-heavy county neighboring Biden’s Lackawanna went for Trump in 2016 and 2020 despite its then-Democratic bent.

“We’d all like to thank the Democrats and the Democratic platform because they’re the ones that really inspired people to leave the party and become Republicans,” Luzerne County GOP 119th District Chairman T.J. Fitzgerald said.

Early Vote Action leader Scott Presler, who has crisscrossed Pennsylvania to register Republican voters, previously said it was a major feat ahead of an expectedly-close election.

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When Fox News Digital covered a weekend of Presler’s work in red counties like Lancaster and Dauphin, he also identified Bucks, Luzerne and Centre as those most ripe for Republicans’ picking.

CENTRE COUNTY – COUNTY SEAT: BELLEFONTE

Centre County is the rare blue dot in the middle of northwestern Pennsylvania’s forested expanse. Much of the county reflects the Republicanism of neighboring Clinton, Huntingdon and Blair — but the presence of Penn State University in State College skews it Democratic.

Of the approximately 110,000 voters there, 41.2% are Democrats and 40.3% are Republicans. Prior to the Nittany Lions’ blowout of Kent State in September, however, Presler and volunteers registered tailgaters to vote and encountered students who were fervently pro-Trump.

State Sen. Cris Dush, a Republican who represents Centre and six other neighboring counties, said the prospect of flipping the blue enclave is “actually getting very exciting.”

Dush said one of them — rural Clinton County — was solidly Democratic until the Trump era and recently went “over 3-1 Republican.”

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Centre may have a shot at the red column this year in part because Gen Z is suddenly battling a rough economy for young hires.

While Pennsylvania industry faces hurdles in regulation and more, Dush commented, the most regrettable outsourcing has been among those young voters.

“The fact that they’re putting such restrictions on the development of businesses in the northern tier and western Pennsylvania: There’s not a state in the United States that doesn’t have a Steelers bar in it, and that’s because working-class kids have become our best export. I want them back,” he said.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is telling Americans “do NOT vote for me” on the eve of Election Day, adding in a video that a vote for Trump is “the only way that we can get me and everything I stand for into Washington, D.C. and fulfill the mission that motivated my campaign.” 

The fresh plea comes after the Supreme Court last week denied separate appeals by RFK Jr. to remove his name from the ballots in Wisconsin and Michigan.  

“I’ve asked my voters repeatedly to vote for President Trump, but even a few votes for me in [Michigan] could swing the ballot in a way that the public doesn’t intend and the voters don’t intend,” he told “America’s Newsroom” on Sunday.

Kennedy, who once was running as an independent presidential candidate, has been trying to get his name off ballots in key battleground states since he suspended his campaign in August and endorsed Trump. 

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“Hey everybody, a lot of people are asking me if they live in a red state or blue state should they still be voting for me? What about swing states? The answer is easy – no,” RFK Jr. then said in a video posted to his X account on Monday. 

“No matter what state you live in, you should be voting for Donald Trump. And let me tell you why. That’s the only way that we can get me and everything I stand for into Washington, D.C. and fulfill the mission that motivated my campaign,” he continued. 

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Above the video, RFK Jr. wrote “No matter what state you live in, do NOT vote for me” and “Let’s get President Trump back in the White House and me to Washington so we can Make America Healthy Again, end the forever wars, and protect our civil liberties.” 

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When he suspended his campaign, Kennedy said he planned to keep his name on the ballot in safe Democratic and Republican states, but didn’t want to be a spoiler in battleground states. 

Fox News’ Stepheny Price contributed to this report. 

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who is defending his seat in the upper chamber, slammed outgoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as a “one-man dictator” on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“He’s basically behaved as a one-man dictator. I don’t think we want a leader who does that,” Cruz said of McConnell, the longest-serving GOP leader in Congress. 

“I think when we win in November, and I believe we’re going to see a really good election, I think Trump’s going to win. I think we’re going to win a Republican Senate and Republican House. When that happens, we’ve got enormous work to do when that happens.”

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Cruz’s comments come after he blasted the Senate Leadership Fund — an independent Super PAC aimed at securing a Republican majority in the Senate — for donating “not one penny” to Cruz’s re-election campaign against Democrat Rep. Colin Allred. 

“I want to see a majority leader who changes how the Senate operates, who democratizes it more,” Cruz said. 

“We are getting absolutely zero support from the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF),” the Republican said previously. 

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Despite the legitimate challenge posed by Allred, Cruz is favored to win the contest. 

The SLF has notably spent most of its resources in states with key Republican Senate pick-up opportunities, such as Pennsylvania, Montana, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan. 

Cruz has been critical of McConnell’s leadership and called for him to step down earlier this year, as he and a group of Republicans aired their grievances over the failed bipartisan border bill that McConnell was in favor of at the time.

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In a recent book on McConnell, titled “The Price of Power,” Michael Tackett, the deputy Washington bureau chief of The Associated Press, detailed how the leader allowed conference members to publicly go against him, to an extent, if it was helpful to them electorally.

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Cruz said he has also informed the three Republican candidates vying for the position of his desire for a “full and open amendment process” regarding extensive budget packages that are often thousands of pages long.

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“That would fundamentally change how the Senate operates,” Cruz said.

Fox News Digital’s Julia Johnson contributed to this report. 

Vice President Kamala Harris has had a late push to close some of the gap between her and former President Trump in the election betting odds.

Trump enjoys a 13.1 point lead in the presidential betting odds as of Monday morning, leading Harris 56% to 42.9% in the Real Clear Politics betting average. The number, however, represents a late shift in the odds toward Harris, who trailed Trump by 28.9 percentage points just six days ago.

“Some of the polls have been getting a little bit closer, so I think the betters are seeing some slight momentum toward Harris,” Maxim Lott, who runs ElectionBettingOdds.com, told Fox News Digital on Monday.

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Lott’s website shows a similar trend to the Real Clear Politics average, with Trump having a 56.4% chance to win the election as of Monday morning, while Harris has a 43.1% chance. But like the numbers on Real Clear Politics, Trump’s lead has fallen by 5.3 percentage points over the last week.

Lott, who previously served as a program executive producer for the FOX Business Network, said many inputs can lead to changing betting behavior, pointing to a recent surprising Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll out of Iowa that showed Harris with a one-point lead over Trump in a state few believed to be in play for Democrats.

While one poll could be dismissed as an outlier, Lott noted that betters have seemingly reacted to the news, with Trump’s odds of winning the state dropping from over 94% a week ago to 82.1% as of Monday morning.

“I think there’s this kind of narrative behind that poll that abortion is actually going to be the driver this election, just like it was in 2022, and that women are going to come out in droves and elect Harris,” Lott said. “I think bettors are at least assigning some probability to that being true.”

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What Lott doesn’t believe is behind the Harris surge is a small amount of very large bets in her direction, pointing to betting platforms such as PredictIt, which limit the amount of bettors and bet sizes on certain outcomes, that have tracked in a similar direction as every other platform tracked on his website.

Nevertheless, Lott cautioned against putting too much stock into late momentum when it comes to evaluating the betting odds.

“Momentum doesn’t matter at all… for this kind of thing,” Lott said. “With a market, the current price is the best predictor of the future price… if Harris was supposed to be in the lead, you could make a lot of money by putting her in the lead by putting your money on her now.”

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Add it all up, Lott envisions a close election that will likely come down to turnout.

“I would expect on Election Day, Trump to still be slightly favored,” Lott said.

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