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Pro-Trump business tycoon Elon Musk is predicting a Democratic drubbing in the 2024 presidential election.

“Last election, I didn’t know a single independent/swing voter who was voting for Trump. This time, I don’t know anyone who isn’t. And one person after another has confided in me that they’re voting for Trump, but they’re afraid to say so publicly, because it will affect their friends/job/customers,” Musk noted in a post on X.

“Crushing defeat is coming for the oppressive, big government machine represented by the Kamala puppet,” he added.

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Musk, who endorsed Trump earlier this year, has suggested that celebrity endorsements will not enable Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, to win the White House contest.

“Even if everyone in music & entertainment endorses the Kamala puppet, it won’t matter. The public sees through it,” he opined in a social media post.

Trump has said that as president he would establish a “government efficiency commission” to audit the federal government and recommend “drastic reforms.” He said that Musk has agreed to helm the task force.

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Former Rep. Ron Paul, who is the father of Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., indicated during an interview with David Gornoski that he would be willing to help if asked to do so, but noted that he would not want an official position.

Musk suggested in a post on X that he would like to have former Rep. Ron Paul involved in the effort.

“Would be great to have Ron Paul as part of the Department of Government Efficiency!” Musk tweeted.

“I’d be happy to talk with you about it, Elon,” Paul responded. 

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Musk has advocated for increased government transparency, suggesting that Freedom of Information requests should not be necessary.

“There should be no need for FOIA requests. All government data should be default public for maximum transparency,” he wrote in a post on X.

Musk made the post while retweeting a post that contains a clip of him discussing the issue. In the clip, Musk suggested that all government information should be publicly available, unless making it public would pose a real risk to the nation.

BELLBROOK, OHIO – Ohio Republican Bernie Moreno is making his closing pitch to voters as one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country and the most expensive in American history enters its final days.

Moreno addressed a large group of enthusiastic supporters on Saturday night in Greene County, Ohio, and also spoke to Fox News Digital about what he hopes undecided voters know about his race against incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown. 

“Sherrod Brown is too liberal for Ohio,” Moreno said. “I’m for Ohio. He’s for they/them. The reality is I’m going to work every single day to make the lives of Ohioans better. Sherrod Brown has failed: 200,000 manufacturing jobs lost, Generationally high inflation, instability in every corner of the world. He’s for the Green New Deal. He doesn’t represent Ohio’s values.”

“He’s too liberal for Ohio. I’m going to make a change. I’ll work hard every single day and always remember that voters are in charge.”

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After trailing Brown in most polls all summer, Moreno has pulled virtually even with Brown in the last few weeks. Moreno was asked whether he is “nervous” about the race given that the polls are so tight.

“No, because, look, the polls had to be tied with Matt Dolan in the primary and we won by 18,” Moreno said. “Now, I don’t think it’s going to be an 18-point victory. But based on the energy, the enthusiasm, the early vote, the idea that people just want a change.”

“They’ve been crushed by the last four years. High prices, open borders, instability all over the world. They see the people in Washington, D.C., taking better care of illegal immigrants than American citizens. They see this country sending billions of dollars overseas when we have real needs here. So I think the temperature in the country, in Ohio, they want to change. Now, here’s Sherrod Brown trying to run as a change candidate, which of course, is nonsense, considering they’re the party in charge right now. They have been for four years.”

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Moreno, who drew a loud applause from the crowd after saying he is looking forward to “firing” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., assuming Republicans take control of the Senate, criticized Brown for lamenting the idea that “greedy corporations” are generating high inflation. 

“Come on, look, you know the greediest organization on earth? Government,” Moreno said. “You talk about powerful, greedy corporations? That’s the government. You don’t love your people and your country when you allow government spending combined with an assault on American energy to drive our prices up so that you can’t afford McDonald’s.“

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On immigration, Moreno also made the case that politicians in Washington, D.C., can’t claim to love the country while at the same time allowing millions of illegal immigrants to cross the southern border.

“If you love the people of this country, I mean, when I tell you genuinely love Americans, not just the country, but the people in the country, you don’t allow 12 million people to come into this country without being vetted,” Moreno said. “Uncontrolled illegal immigration, you just would never allow that if you love this country.”

Brown’s ads have blanketed the airwaves, hitting Moreno on abortion and his business record, while Moreno has labeled Brown a career politician who is essentially a rubber stamp for the Biden-Harris administration.

“Ohioans know Sherrod has worked with Republicans and stood up to his own party to get things done for Ohio – from taking on special interests to lower costs, to standing up to bad trade deals that shipped Ohio jobs overseas, to passing bipartisan laws to protect Ohioans from dangerous fentanyl,” a Brown campaign spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

“While Sherrod fights to make sure hard work pays off for all Ohioans, Bernie Moreno has made it clear that he only looks out for himself, refused to pay his own employees the overtime they earned and destroyed the evidence to get away with it, and would overturn the will of Ohioans by supporting a national abortion ban.”

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The contentious ad campaign between the two candidates has become the most expensive Senate race in American history and is expected to exceed $500 million, eclipsing the $412 million price tag of the 2020 Georgia Senate race between Jon Ossoff and David Perdue, NBC News reported.

Tuesday’s Ohio Senate election is expected to play a key role in whether Republicans are able to take control of the Senate, with many believing Brown represents one of the strongest chances Republicans have to do so.

The Cook Political Report ranks the race as a “toss up.”

As the world watches the U.S. election unfold, many, especially people in Latin America, believe that Trump is the only option to prevent the decline of American economic power and influence.

Joseph Humire, an expert on Latin America and executive director of the think tank Center for a Secure Society, told Fox News Digital that many Latin Americans hope for a Trump victory on Nov. 5.

Humire said the Biden administration’s policy toward Latin America has resulted in it being “the worst that I’ve seen.”

“The last four years the region has gone into a very difficult direction,” he said. “Food inflation is really high. Organized crime and violence are really high. And, you know, little by little, they’re losing their democratic practices. There’s a huge democratic backsliding happening in the region.”

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According to Humire, Latin Americans believe that if elected Vice President Kamala Harris would continue the policies of the Biden administration and thus continue the economic decline and stagnation in the region.

On the other hand, Humire said the Latin American populace associates Trump’s presidency with a time when they experienced greater prosperity and that they see him as a sign of hope for better times when the U.S. had greater investment in the region and the economy was not so bleak. These people believe that Trump’s plan to lessen U.S. dependency on China would mean greater U.S. investment in Latin America.

“Most of the countries in Latin America are very eager to have investment from the United States,” he explained. “If Kamala Harris wins, then you may have a lot of agnostic attitudes, but you’ll have people say, ‘The United States is pretty much done with.’ On the flip side, if President Trump wins, I think you’ll see a huge reaction in Latin America. I think you’ll see a lot of enthusiasm, not even just from the government leaders, from the people.”

He also said that many politicos are closely watching the U.S. election, hoping it will bolster the ambitions of existing conservative, populist movements in South America. As U.S. influence in Latin America has waned, that vacuum has been filled by Russia, China and Iran, which has had a degrading effect on democracy in the region, Humire said.

Argentine President Javier Milei serves as an example of a recently arisen populist leader who has said he was inspired by Trump’s success in the U.S. Humire believes that a Trump victory on Election Night could lead to a slate of additional conservative leaders rising across Latin America, especially in countries close to Argentina such as Chile and Colombia.

As for the cartels, Humire said a Harris victory would essentially mean business as usual.

“If Kamala wins,” he said, “they know they’ll look at that as an extension of President Biden, and they know how to work that. They’ve been pretty successful over the last four years, turning a lot of the policy failures of the Biden administration into profits and success for the transnational criminal organizations. And so, they’ll be more of the same.”  

Meanwhile, though some believe Trump’s strongman rhetoric projects the type of strength that is needed today, the consensus in Europe and the United Kingdom is that Harris should be the next U.S. president, according to Alan Mendoza, a British political analyst and founder of the Henry Jackson Society. 

Mendoza told Fox News Digital that “if Europe and the U.K. were voting, Kamala Harris would win by a landslide.”

“Donald Trump does not obviously play to the European audience. He’s not trying to win over European hearts and minds,” he said.

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Mendoza said many Europeans are fearful that Trump will cut off all aid to Ukraine and pull the U.S. out of NATO at a time when the Russian threat is looming large over the continent.

“We understand the threats. Russia is on the doorstep,” he said.

On the other hand, he pointed out that Harris is inexperienced in foreign policy. He said some believe Trump would “restore” a sense of American strength and power that dissipated during the Biden administration.

Mendoza said a Trump or Harris administration’s impact on Europe will depend on who they appoint to crucial roles, such as secretary of state. 

“A lot of this depends on which version of the administrations turn up,” he said. “It’s clearly going to be a gamble either way as far as Europe is concerned.”

Beyond that, Mendoza said Trump’s persona does not play well with European sensibilities. Whether justified or not, Mendoza said that Europeans have an impression, reinforced by European media coverage, that Trump is anti-democratic, isolationist and ultraconservative on social issues such as abortion.

“It was put very well by the historian Niall Ferguson fairly recently who said, if your main concern is the American empire, i.e., America’s power overseas, you’re going to back Trump, and if your main concern is the American republic, i.e., democracy at home, you might well vote for Kamala Harris,” he said.

Regardless of who they support, like most Americans, Mendoza said Europeans will be watching as the election results pour in.

“The U.S. election is being watched all around the world,” he said. “And, of course, Europe and the U.K. are no different in this. It is the big one. Even in this year of many elections, everyone understands the importance of the American election.”

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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has suggested that if Democrats sweep the 2024 elections, they will control the nation for a century.

He predicted that if Democrats win both chambers of Congress and the White House, they will eliminate the filibuster in the Senate, add justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, grant Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico statehood, and establish federal control over elections, redistricting, and campaigns.

“Day 1: Nuke the filibuster,” Lee wrote on X. “Day 2: Pack SCOTUS. Day 3: Make DC & PR states. Day 4: Enact federal takeover of elections/redistricting/campaigns. Days 5 – 36,500: Rule America uncontested for 100 years.”

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Lee, who has been serving in the Senate since 2011, endorsed former President Donald Trump in January prior to the Iowa GOP presidential caucus, which Trump decisively won.

The senator has been active on X, frequently responding to 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.

“In the global struggle between tyranny and democracy, the President of the United States must always be on the side of freedom,” Harris tweeted.

“Exactly,” Lee responded. “That’s why most of us are voting for Trump.”

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Lee offered a blunt response to a post in which Harris called Trump “weak.”

“Your policies suck,” Lee fired back, adding, “And make Americans poorer & less free.”

And while many on social media have been discussing the death of Peanut, a pet squirrel that was seized and euthanized in New York, Lee suggested swapping the GOP’s elephant mascot for a Peanut the squirrel mascot.

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“The elephant is cool, but elephants don’t live in America,” he wrote, adding, “Squirrels do! Let’s immortalize Peanut the Squirrel,” Lee suggested. “Let’s make him the official mascot of the GOP.”

PHILADELPHIA – Vice President Kamala Harris – making a last minute pitch to her supporters in the biggest of the battlegrounds.

“We need you to vote, Pennsylvania.  We need you to vote,” Harris emphasized as she spoke to a large crowd in the Keystone State’s capital city – Harrisburg – last week. “No one can sit on the sidelines.”

The vice president and Democratic presidential nominee returns to Pennsylvania on Monday – holding rallies in Allentown, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia on Election Eve.

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Her rival for the White House – Republican nominee former President Donald Trump – held a rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday. 

“A very, very special hello to Pennsylvania….What a great place. And I’m thrilled to be back in this beautiful Commonwealth with thousands of proud, hardworking American patriots,” the former president told the crowd at his rally in Lititz. 

Trump’s message to his supporters: “Pennsylvania, go vote.”

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On Monday, the final full day of campaigning ahead of Election Day, Trump returns to the state to hold rallies in Reading and Pittsburgh.

It is no surprise that both major party nominees are heavily concentrating their final campaign schedules in Pennsylvania.

With 19 electoral votes up for grabs, it is the biggest prize among the seven key battlegrounds whose razor-thin margins decided President Biden’s 2020 election victory over Trump and are likely to determine if Trump or Harris succeeds Biden in the White House.

“Pennsylvania is the one state that it’s hard to see someone losing and then still winning the presidential race,” Mark Harris, a Pittsburgh-based longtime Republican national strategist and ad maker, told Fox News. “It’s clearly ground zero.”

Harris, a veteran of multiple GOP presidential campaigns, called Pennsylvania “a big tipping point state.” 

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Pointing to the state’s major cities – Philadelphia and Pittsburgh – its electorally crucial suburban areas, and its vast swath of rural counties, Harris highlighted, “I think it’s a good microcosm of America.”

The former president, the current vice president and their running mates – GOP vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance and his Democratic counterpart – Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz – as well as top surrogates, have repeatedly stopped in the state this summer and autumn.

While the campaigns and their allied super PACs have poured resources into all seven battlegrounds, more money has been spent on running spots in Pennsylvania than any of the other swing states, according to figures from AdImpact, a top national ad tracking firm.

Pennsylvania, along with Michigan and Wisconsin, are the three Rust Belt states that make up the Democrats’ so-called “Blue Wall.”

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The party reliably won all three states for a quarter-century before Trump narrowly captured them in the 2016 election to win the White House.

Four years later, in 2020, Biden carried all three states by razor-thin margins to put them back in the Democrats’ column and defeated Trump.

A New York Times/Siena College poll in Pennsylvania last Tuesday through Saturday and released on Sunday indicated Harris and Trump deadlocked at 48% among likely voters in the state. It was the latest survey to indicate a tied or margin-of-error race. 

Senior Harris campaign officials, taking questions from reporters on Sunday evening, noted that roughly three-quarters of Keystone State voters will cast ballots on Tuesday “because unlike other states, the guidelines, and availability of early voting is just more limited in Pennsylvania.”

However, they added that when it comes to the early vote in the state, “we really like what we’re seeing.”

They predicted that “we expect in Pennsylvania, we’ll have a very strong Election Day.”

However, Pennsylvania is also the state where Trump survived an assassination attempt in July – two days before the start of the Republican National Convention. Additionally, the former president returned to the site in Butler – in the western part of the state – for a massive rally last month.

Ahead of his two rallies in Pennsylvania, Trump kicks off his Monday campaign schedule in North Carolina, where he will hold his fourth rally since Saturday, which has raised eyebrows among political operatives.

“We’ve had a lot of luck in North Carolina. We won it twice,” Trump said Sunday in Kinston. “We are going to win North Carolina.”

A day earlier, at another North Carolina rally, he warned his supporters that “when you’re winning by a lot, you can still lose by a little.”

Polls indicate a margin-of-error race in North Carolina, the only one of the seven key battlegrounds that Trump narrowly carried over Biden four years ago. A source in the former president’s political orbit confided to Fox News that there were concerns of a possible setback in the Tar Heel state.

While Harris closes out her campaign with a late night rally in Philadelphia, Trump will be in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for his final rally. For Trump, it is tradition. He closed out his 2016 and 2020 campaigns in the southwestern Michigan city.

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Trump, as he has in recent days, 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 at his Pennsylvania rally.

Later, at his rally in North Carolina, he also reiterated his claim that “we have a big lead. We have a big lead. The fake news, they don’t tell you this. We have a big, beautiful lead.”

Responding, Harris told reporters on Sunday that “I would ask in particular people who have not yet voted to not fall for his tactic, which I think includes suggesting to people that if they vote, their vote won’t matter. Suggesting to people that somehow the integrity of our voting system is not intact so that they don’t vote.”

“It is meant to distract from the fact that we have and support free and fair elections in our country,” Harris argued. “We did in 2020. He lost.”

The Harris campaign on Sunday night also touted its very formidable get-out-the-vote operation, highlighting that it had more than 90,000 volunteers over the weekend helping to turn out voters, and that they knocked on more than three million doors in the key battlegrounds.

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Ten more states are wrapping up their early in-person voting periods on Monday as the country sits on the eve of Election Day.

Here is everything you need to know to cast an early ballot in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Rhode Island and Wyoming. 

Montana’s hotly contested Senate race

Montana is a Republican stronghold at the presidential level, but it also hosts one of the most competitive Senate races in the country this cycle. Incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester faces Republican Tim Sheehy in a race where Trump’s popularity and Sheehy’s discipline gives the GOP an edge. It’s Lean R on the Power Rankings.

Other key down-ballot races in today’s states

• Alaska’s at-large district: In 2022, moderate Democrat Mary Peltola pulled off a historic upset when she beat former Gov. Sarah Palin in the final round of the state’s ranked choice ballot tabulation. This year, Republicans hope that second-time candidate Nick Begich will return the state to GOP hands. Peltola has made the fishing industry a focal point of her campaign; Begich is focusing on energy policy. This race was last ranked Lean D on the Fox News Power Rankings.
• Iowa’s 1st District: Second-term GOP Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks won this seat by six votes in 2020, and while redistricting gave her a more comfortable win in the midterms, she remains vulnerable in the Davenport and Iowa City district. Former state Rep. Christina Bohannan is the Democrat candidate. It’s a toss-up in the Power Rankings.

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• Iowa’s 3rd District: The southern 3rd District is represented by Republican Rep. Zach Nunn, who flipped the seat during the midterms. It was another close race, with 2,145 votes separating him and his Democrat opponent. This year, he’s up against Democrat Lanon Baccam, who recently worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This is a Lean R race.
• Colorado’s 3rd District: The 3rd District stretches across most of western Colorado. Thanks to a largely rural working-class population (Aspen is the exception), it’s been safely Republican for over a decade. But in 2022, the race came down to just 546 votes. Incumbent Rep. Lauren Boebert is moving to safer Republican turf this year, making this a race between her former Democratic challenger, Adam Frisch, and Republican attorney Jeff Hurd. It’s Lean R on the rankings.

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• Colorado’s 8th District: The 8th District starts in rural Weld County, where Trump won by 18 points in 2020. But the further down you go, the more suburban it becomes. Strong Democratic turnout in Adams County, which Biden won by 16 points, gave Democratic Rep. Yadira Caraveo her first win in 2022. This time, the incumbent is up against Republican state politician Gabe Evans. This is a toss-up race.
• Indiana’s 1st District: Democrat Rep. Frank Mrvan has held this northwest Indiana district since the last presidential election; he won it by 5.6 points in the midterms. This year, he faces Republican Lake County Councilman Randy Niemeyer. It shifted from Lean D to Likely D in the Power Rankings.
• Montana’s 1st District: Montana’s 1st Congressional District is the less Republican of the two; incumbent GOP Rep. Ryan Zinke took it by a slim three-point margin in the midterms. He has an edge in this western district established just two years ago following redistricting, and will compete against the same Democrat he faced two years prior: Olympic rower Monica Tranel. It’s a Lean R race.

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How to vote in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Rhode Island, Wyoming

Voters who have received their mail-in ballot have until Nov. 5 to deliver it to state officials. Monday is the final day for early in-person voting.

Republicans are feeling good about their chances of retaining a majority in the House of Representatives this cycle, with a focus on two key states that could determine which party will hold the gavel in the next Congress.

Republicans currently hold the majority in the House with 220 GOP seats, compared to the Democrats’ 212. There have also been three vacancies in the chamber this year.

Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) chair, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that he’s “confident we’re [Republicans] going to hold the House majority” for the 119th Congress.

“Our candidates are running strong. If you look at early voting, the numbers look really good for Republicans. The enthusiasm’s out there. I think the momentum is definitely with President Trump and the Republicans,” Hudson said. “We have a lot of close races, so we’re not taking anything for granted.”

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Republicans have focused on building infrastructure in the two key states where the party is defending the most seats: California and New York.

In California, Republican Reps. John Duarte, David Valadao, Mike Garcia, Ken Calvert and Michele Steel are all considered to be running in “toss-up” races, according to the Cook Political Report, a top nonpartisan political handicapper.

Several Republican representatives are also vulnerable in New York. New York Rep. Marc Molinaro’s re-election race is considered a “toss-up,” while the Empire State seats held by Reps. Anthony D’Esposito and Brandon Williams are considered “Lean Democrat” by the Cook Political Report.

“Our incumbents are running very strong there,” the chair said. “Those states take a long time to count their votes. So they may be the races we’re waiting on after midnight on election night and beyond. But it really may come down to those states to determine how big our majorities are going to be.”

Hudson noted several other pickup opportunities across the country that are key to creating a path to the majority in the House.

“There are a lot of close races right now across the country. But I think some of the key races are Alaska, where our candidate, Nick Begich, is doing extremely well. I think we’re going to flip that seat and go all the way to Maine on the other side of the United States.”

The chair also noted that he anticipates picking up four seats in North Carolina, as well as flipping the blue seat in Maine’s 2nd congressional district.

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Hudson recalled observing a significant change within the GOP in the push for early voting, which he says has given the party a boost this cycle.

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“I believe Donald Trump is going to win the White House. But if we keep Jefferies as Speaker of the House, the House is a majority-take-all with a one-seat majority. We were successful in passing legislation because Republicans stuck together,” he added. “If you want to see Donald Trump in the White House because you want to see his policies, you need a Republican House to enact those policies.”

At a time when we’re all deluged with conflicting polls and statistical ties, Donald Trump’s campaign is unusually confident.

The Kamala Harris operation also sees reason for optimism, with news that late deciders are breaking her way by more than 10%. But she still casts herself as the underdog. Her “SNL” appearance doesn’t change that; nor does Trump saying that RFK’s plan to remove fluoride from the water, a major public health advance, “sounds okay to me.”

Most media folks, either publicly or privately, believe Trump will win, even as the anti-Trumpers beg their followers to turn out for the VP – such as MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace asking her ex-boss George W. Bush to publicly back Harris.

The climax of the campaign seems built around a gaping gender gap–with Kamala doing far better among women and Trump much better among men. 

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The view from the Trump camp is that registration figures favor Republicans, based on mail-in voting, in the battleground states that will decide the race. Nearly half the country has already voted.

Take the crucial commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 2020, Democrats had a 7.5% advantage, and that’s now shrunk to a 3-point edge.

What’s more, just 39% of Democrats who have voted there so far are men, compared to 49% among Republicans.

Democratic strategist Tom Bonier, who appears on MSNBC, says the Pennsylvania electorate is much more Republican, and much more male, than last time.

Harris needs a huge turnout in Philadelphia to carry the state, and numerous news reports say she’s still struggling to win over some Black men.

In Wisconsin, the view from Trump World is that in-person voting (which tends to favor the former president) is outnumbering mail ballots (which lean Democratic). Trump’s strength is among male, white and rural voters. So, as in the case of Philly, Harris must do very well in Milwaukee and Madison to carry the state.

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Michigan, which Rep. Debbie Dingell recently told me is a toss-up, remains an enigma, because it doesn’t track party registration. So the ballgame there may turn on how well Harris does in Detroit. 

The Trump camp sees similar advantages in such swing states as Georgia and North Carolina, where public polling is close but would be a bigger stretch for a Harris win. The election really turns on the three Blue Wall states.

Maybe Harris should have picked Josh Shapiro?

In one key state after another, local Black leaders are quoted on the record as saying they’re worried about warning signs in their community:

Politico: “The city of Milwaukee is trailing the rest of the state by about 7 percent both in its mail-in return rate and in overall registered voter turnout. It’s a warning sign, even some Democrats privately say, for Harris as her campaign looks to run up the score with urban and suburban voters to overcome Wisconsin’s rural counties.”

Capital B, Atlanta: The turnout of Black voters in Georgia “has dropped from more than 29 percent” on the first day of early voting “to about 25 percent…That’s the bad news for Harris…

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“Elected leaders and political observers say Democrats looking for a guaranteed win in statewide office races in Georgia usually need to hit a 30 percent Black turnout rate.”

Charlotte Observer: “As of Wednesday, Black voters had cast 207,000 fewer ballots compared with four years ago — a drop of almost 40 percent.”

“I am worried about turnout in Detroit. I think it’s real,” said Jamal Simmons, a former Harris aide, told ABC.

A sunnier view is offered by this Politico piece, which says that public polls appear to be undercounting Harris’ support.

The story says that “shy Trump voters” – who don’t want to tell pollsters who they’re supporting–are a thing of the past, given the aggressive nature of his campaign. 

Instead, many “forgotten” Harris voters are missed by the polls, especially Republicans frustrated with their own party: Nikki Haley voters.

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Citing a national survey, Politico says 66% of those voting for Haley in the primaries backed Trump in 2016, dropping to 59% four years ago and an estimated 45% this time. “Meanwhile, their support for the Democratic presidential nominee has nearly tripled from only 13 percent supporting Hillary Clinton in 2016 to 36 percent indicating an intent to vote for Kamala Harris.”

To which I say: Who the hell knows?

We’re at the point now before tomorrow’s election that pollsters are analyzing the polls to figure out which ones are off. And–here comes the cliché – it all depends on turnout. Despite raising a billion bucks, if some of Harris’ potential supporters stay home, that sinks her candidacy.

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The scenarios favored by the Trump team rest largely on party registration, not polls that have missed the mark in the last two cycles.

That explains why the former president is more confident, even as he asks his advisers whether they really believe he’s going to win.

The Michigan Arab-American mayor who made headlines for endorsing former President Trump says the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the Middle East is one of the “most important determining factors” of his decision. 

Mayor Amer Ghalib, the Democrat leader of Hamtramck – a city outside of Detroit – said on “Sunday Morning Futures” that his choice to back Trump “was like sailing against the waves” and has brought him some pushback. 

“It was a combination of both disappointment and hope – disappointment [with] the current administration on how they handled the situation in the Middle East, because that is one of the most important, determining factors of our decision, who to vote for as Arab-Americans this time,” Ghalib said when asked to explain his endorsement.

Ghalib added there is “a hope that some change will bring peace to the Middle East and we found President Trump is so determined about that.” 

WHO IS AMER GHALIB, THE TRUMP-ENDORSING MAYOR OF THE US’ ONLY MUSLIM-MAJORITY TOWN? 

“The priority for us at this time is accomplishing a cease-fire and bringing peace to the Middle East. Kamala Harris has been in the office for the past three years and during the whole year of war in the Middle East, I supported the Uncommitted movement in Michigan to send a strong message to the current administration, to take our concerns into consideration but nothing was happening,” he continued. “In fact, they completely neglected us and negligence become the norm.” 

“We are hoping that President Trump will come and do something different to bring peace – that is all we want,” Ghalib continued.  

The mayor also said Trump “is doing everything possible to show respect to this community,” including visiting his city following his endorsement.

“The other side decided to neglect us and I think they should be punished for what they have been doing,” he added. 

MAYOR OF MUSLIM-MAJORITY MICHIGAN CITY ENDORSES TRUMP: ‘RIGHT CHOICE FOR THIS CRITICAL TIME’ 

Ghalib, who became Hamtramck’s first Muslim mayor after being elected in 2021, was born in Yemen and immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager in 1997, according to a profile of the mayor posted by Henry Ford College. 

Ghalib spent most of his career as a medical professional in Hamtramck, an enclave of Detroit with about 28,000 residents. The town was known as a mostly Polish settlement until recent decades, with a large influx of Middle Eastern immigrants eventually making it the nation’s first Muslim-majority city. 

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He made history when he defeated former Hamtramck Mayor Karen Majewski, breaking an over 100-year streak of the city being represented by a Polish-American mayor. The city also became the first in the nation with an all-Muslim elected leadership that same year, with Hamtramck’s six city council seats being won by Muslim candidates. 

Fox News’ Michael Lee contributed to this report.   

Two new national polls released Sunday show former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are engaged in an extremely close race for the White House, even if a majority of voters are dissatisfied with having to choose between either of the candidates. 

An ABC News/Ipsos poll of 2,267 likely voters has Harris leading Trump 49%-46%, with a 2% margin of error.  

Seventy-four percent of those voters say they feel the country is heading on the “wrong track,” including 50% of those who are backing Harris, the results show. Among Trump supporters, that figure rises to 98%. 

The poll, which was taken from Oct. 29-Nov. 1, also revealed that 60% of voters are dissatisfied with the candidates presented to them in this race for the presidency.  

TRUMP, HARRIS NECK AND NECK IN BATTLEGROUND STATES WITH UNDER 48 HOURS UNTIL ELECTION DAY, POLLS FIND 

Meanwhile, 42% of likely voters say their personal financial situation has worsened under the Biden-Harris administration, according to the poll.

In another national survey, Trump and Harris are tied at 49%.

The NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters, which was conducted from Oct. 30 to Nov. 2, has a margin of error of 3.1%. 

BILL MAHER JOKES ABOUT UNDECIDED VOTERS BEFORE ELECTION: ‘CHRISTMAS EVE SHOPPERS OF POLITICS’ 

Of those who responded, Harris leads Trump among Black voters by 87%-9%, voters under 30 years old by 57%-41% and White voters with college degrees 55%-43%, according to NBC News. 

Trump leads among rural voters 75%-23%, White voters in general 56%-42% and white voters without college degrees 64%-34%, the outlet added. 

Between genders, Harris leads Trump 57%-41% among women, while men back Trump over Harris 58%-40%, NBC News reported.

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The poll also found that 60% of registered voters think America will still be divided no matter who prevails on Election Day. 

Actor and comedian Will Ferrell is throwing his star power behind Kamala Harris – it’s just another in a long list of celebrity endorsements for the vice president.

In an official Harris campaign ad, Ferrell jokingly threatens voters if they don’t vote for Harris.

“This election is going to be one of the closest in history. Your vote will make the difference,” Ferrell begins.

He then mocks a voter disagreeing about their vote making a difference. 

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“That means you, Gary. ‘Oh, blah blah blah, I’m just one person.’ No. Shut the f–k up Gary,” Ferrell says. 

“Last time, only a few thousand votes kept Trump out of office. And this time, we will hold you personally responsible, Gary” Ferrell threatens.

Critics took to X, telling the actor to stick to comedy and stay out of politics.

“Democrats have now resorted to physically threatening people to vote for Kamala. Will Ferrell should’ve stuck to comedy. This isn’t funny at all,” one user wrote.

“Will Ferrell is making it REAL tough for me to watch Elf this season,” another user commented. 

Ferrell joins a list of actors and celebrities who have used their status to endorse Harris in the homestretch of the campaign. 

On Thursday, actors Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Danai Gurira, Don Cheadle and Paul Bettany took part in a video endorsement, mocked as “new cringe” for Harris and Tim Walz, that was posted on Ruffalo’s X account.

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“We’re back. Let’s #AssembleForDemocracy. In the #ElectionEndgame, every vote counts,” Ruffalo wrote, encouraging people to vote for Harris and Democrats.

In the video, they jokingly suggested Harris needed a catchphrase, referencing their past movies.

Bettany remarked, “How about ‘I’m down with democracy’? It’s clean and simple.”

“I’m Kamala Harris and I say down with democracy,” Cheadle joked, adding, “Yeah, together we got to tear down democracy.”

Near the end of the video, he phrased it saying, “I’m Kamala Harris, and I am down with democracy.”

Singer Beyoncé introduced Harris at a rally in Houston, Texas.

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The final New York Times/Siena College Battleground poll of the 2024 race shows a razor-tight election in the battleground states just days before the election.

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Trump leads in Arizona, while Harris has a lead in Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada and Wisconsin. Michigan and Pennsylvania are tied between the two candidates, according to the poll.

The poll comes just two days before an election that promises to be one of the closest in recent memory, with the New York Times/Siena poll not being the only one showing tight margins.

Fox News Digital’s Lindsay Kornick, Michael Lee, and Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report. 

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, argued Sunday that Vice President Harris can’t be trusted to negotiate on the world stage if she already “runs from the friendly American media.” 

At a rally in Sanford, North Carolina, Vance recalled to a crowd in the key battleground state his conversation with his running mate, former President Trump, after the second assassination attempt in West Palm Beach, Florida. An armed gunman was accused of lying in wait near Trump’s golf course with a rifle before a Secret Service agent opened fire, preventing any potential bloodshed. 

It happened weeks after Trump survived a gunman’s bullet at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. 

“After a second assassination attempt, the president called me and told me what had just happened. And, you know, I said, ‘oh, my God, sir, are you okay? Clearly, you’re physically okay. But, you know, that’s a traumatic thing to happen,'” Vance told the crowd. “A second assassination attempt in as many months. And he says, ‘yeah, I’m doing fine. I’m kind of pissed off, though, because I was going to make a birdie on the sixth hole and the Secret Service wouldn’t let me finish.'” 

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“And, you know, it kind of occurred to me in that moment that that’s the kind of person you want in the Oval Office when the world goes to hell, because you never know how somebody is going to react under a moment of crisis until you actually see their response under that moment of crisis,” Vance said. 

Vance contrasted that interaction with Trump against Harris “who runs from the friendly American media.” 

“Can we trust that person to negotiate for us with Vladimir Putin, the leader of Russia? Xi Jinping, the leader of China? No, of course we can’t, because she can’t even talk to the friendly American media,” Vance said. “She sure as hell can’t be trusted to negotiate on our behalf on the world stage.” 

“But you know who I do trust?” he added. “The guy who took a second assassination attempt with good humor and didn’t lose his cool and went back to work the very next day.” 

When Harris does do interviews, Vance said the Democratic nominee helps the Trump campaign. 

“It’s funny to watch Kamala Harris, you know, she gives these interviews,” Vance said. “And, you know, on the one hand, obviously, I disagree with Kamala Harris on all these issues. I criticize her every single day on the campaign trail. I criticize what she has done to the United States of America. And then, on the other hand, she goes and does an interview, and I think she picks us up about 100,000 votes. So, you know, Kamala Harris isn’t, isn’t all bad.” 

JOE ROGAN SAYS HARRIS SITDOWN WAS SCRAPPED AFTER CAMPAIGN TOLD HIM SHE ‘ONLY WANTED TO DO AN HOUR’

Vance referenced Harris’ interview on “The View” when she was asked what she would have done differently over the last four years of President Biden’s administration, and she responded “nothing comes to mind.” The Republican vice presidential nominee said Harris’ interview was a “gift.” 

“As much as she’s got these slogans about how she’s going to somehow do something in the next four years that she hasn’t done while she’s actually been the sitting vice president again, she gives us the gift of going out there and giving interviews,” Vance said. “And even though they’re always softball interviews, and even though our friends in the press never ask Kamala Harris difficult questions, sometimes they don’t. They ask her easy questions, and she still screws those up. And the definition, you know, of a Kamala Harris gaffe is when she accidentally tells the truth. Because sometimes she does do that.” 

“How is the person who admits that she would have done nothing different over the last four years? How is she going to solve the problems that have been created by the last four years of policy?” Vance said. “So for the people of North Carolina, the choice is very clear. It’s a choice between more of the same, more high grocery prices, more unaffordable housing, more open borders, more fentanyl in our communities. Or the choice is, do we take this country in a different direction? Do we get back to peace and prosperity? Do we get it back to the leadership of Donald J. Trump?” 

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“You can ask Kamala Harris, day one was 1,400 days ago,” he said. “What the hell have you been doing for the past four years? Stop talking about your job and start doing your job.” 

Residents in a Massachusetts community claim they’re being trolled with fake Kamala Harris campaign postcards informing them that a migrant family would be moving in with them because of their support for Vice President Harris.

One of the residents of Shrewsbury told NBC10 Boston that she received the postcard after she put a sign in her yard supporting Harris and Tim Walz.

“It really creeped me out,” the woman, who did not want to be identified, told NBC10.

The postcard, made to look like mail from the Harris-Walz campaign, thanked her for putting up a sign and showing her support, and alerting her that a family from Nicaragua would be moving into her home.

HARRIS ASKED HOW SHE’S ‘FEELING’ 48 HOURS FROM ELECTION, TELLS REPORTERS TRUMP ‘LOST’ IN 2020

“That’s when I realized it was an obvious attempt to try to either scare me or rage bait me and make me upset,” the woman explained. “It’s really sad that the country has come to this point where you can’t put a lawn sign out and support a candidate without being harassed with something like this.”

Another Shrewsbury resident claimed to have received a similar postcard in the mail, except hers said she’d have a family of five from Guatemala moving in.

“It makes me angry,” the woman, who also did not want to be identified, told NBC10. “But if the takeaway is ‘Don’t put up a lawn sign in support of a political candidate,’ I feel the exact opposite. Next time there’s an election, I’ll put up three signs in my yard.”

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The resident added that she reached out to the Shrewsbury Democratic Town Committee, which told her to file a police report. She was also advised to report it to the post office in case any federal mail laws may have been broken, NBC10 reported. 

A third resident in the Shrewsbury community posted her postcard on Reddit, which matched similar wording from the other residents.

“Thank you for supporting Kamala! We are so appreciative of you putting out a yard sign. But now we need your continued help,” the postcard reads.

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The postcard is addressed to “Resident” with a Kamala Harris logo posted on the front of the postcard.

“We will be moving a family of 4 from the country of Belize into your home on 11-3-2024. They will need food, toiletries, and transportation. Thank you!” the card reads.

It is not clear where the postcards came from as there was no political organization or return address listed. 

“Well, someone sure seems to be upset with my choice of yard sign. I thought it was pretty funny, so I decided to share it with you all. I could seriously use the help with the leaves, if true…,” the caption read on the Reddit post. 

Democratic and Republican voters have expressed to Fox News that they believed that border security is a big issue this election cycle.

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Last month, the Department of Homeland Security said the terrorism threat environment in the U.S. will remain high over the next year, largely due in part to terror groups exploiting weaknesses at the southern border.

“Over the next year, we expect some individuals with terrorism ties and some criminal actors will continue their efforts to exploit migration flows and the complex border security environment to enter the United States,” the DHS assessment stated in October.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign, Shrewsbury Police, and Shrewsbury Democratic Town Committee but did not immediately receive a response. 

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

A federal judge has allowed Iowa officials to continue disputing ballots cast by potential noncitizens, less than two days before Election Day.

Judge Stephen Locher, an appointee of President Biden, ruled in favor of the Hawkeye State on Sunday. The state was being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of four recently-documented U.S. citizens and the League of Latin American Citizens of Iowa.

Iowa officials, including Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, have recently been attempting to investigate over 2,000 names on voter rolls that may belong to noncitizens.

During a press conference on Oct. 30, Pate said that officials “have questions” about noncitizens voting illegally, and that they “need answers.”

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“That is why none of them have been taken off the voter rolls,” Pate said, according to the Des Moines Register. “But we do owe an obligation to make sure that they are citizens now.”

“That’s why we’ve asked the county auditors, through the poll workers, to challenge those votes, to allow them to confirm their citizenship status, so that we can count their vote as well.”

In the case, the ACLU had argued that the state’s efforts threaten the voting rights of recently-naturalized citizens. Judge Locher found that Iowa officials would not remove anyone from voting rolls, but instead require them to use provisional ballots.

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The ruling came a day after a shocking poll found that Vice President Kamala Harris has a three-point lead in Iowa, contrary to previous reports that Iowa is a safe red state.

The Trump campaign disputed the results immediately, favoring Emerson College’s polls instead.

“Emerson College, released today, far more closely reflects the state of the actual Iowa electorate and does so with far more transparency in their methodology,” the campaign memo read.

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The ACLU did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Harris was asked at the top of a press gaggle of reporters in Detroit, Michigan, “Simply, how are you feeling and have you submitted your ballot?” 

Harris, 48 hours from Election Day, admitted that “everyone’s a little tired” and “sleep-deprived.” 

“I am feeling great, I am looking forward to these next 48 hours to continue to talk with the voters and talk about the stakes and talk about the future of our country,” Harris said, “Which I think is bright when we’re working with the same spirit of building community, building coalitions and building the strength of our economy and our country. I have, I actually just filled out my mail-in ballot, so I have voted.” 

Harris, a former San Francisco district attorney, California attorney general and U.S. senator before she was elected vice president in 2020, declined to answer about how she voted on Proposition 36. The California ballot measure would reverse criminal justice reforms made in her home state in recent years. 

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“I’m not going to talk about the vote on that because honestly it’s the Sunday before the election, and I don’t intend to create an endorsement one way or another around it,” Harris said. “But I did vote.” 

The initiative, if passed, would make the crime of shoplifting a felony for repeat offenders and increase penalties for some drug charges, including those involving the synthetic opioid fentanyl. It also would give judges the authority to order people with multiple drug charges to get treatment.

Harris also addressed election integrity concerns, telling reporters former President Trump “lost” in 2020. 

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“So here we are on the Sunday before the election, and I would ask in particular people who have not yet voted to not fall for his tactic, which I think includes suggesting to people that if they vote, their vote won’t matter,” Harris said.  ‘Suggesting to people that somehow the integrity of our voting system is not intact, so that they don’t vote. And again, I think that it is a tactic.”

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“It is meant to distract from that we have and support free and fair elections in our country,” she said. “We did in 2020. He lost. And the systems that are in place for this election in 2024 have integrity. They are good systems, and the vote of the people will determine the outcome of this election, and everyone must know that their vote is their power to determine the outcome of the election, and the vote will count. It does matter.” 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Former President Trump’s campaign issued a clarification after he joked about shooting “through the fake news” at a rally on Sunday.

Speaking in Lititz,Pennsylvania,, less than two days before Election Day, Trump made the remark while speaking about the July 13 assassination attempt against him.

“I have a piece of glass over here, and I don’t have a piece of glass there,” the Republican candidate said to his supporters, gesturing to the bulletproof glass surrounding him. 

“And I have this piece of glass here. But all we have really over here is the fake news,” Trump added. He appeared to reference the gaggle of journalists in front of him at the time.

TRUMP, HARRIS NECK AND NECK IN BATTLEGROUND STATES WITH UNDER 48 HOURS UNTIL ELECTION DAY, POLLS FIND 

“And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. And I don’t mind that so much. I don’t mind,” he joked, causing the audience to laugh.

On Sunday, the Trump campaign’s communications director Steven Cheung released a statement arguing that the candidate’s remarks “had nothing to do” with journalists being hurt.

“President Trump was brilliantly talking about the two assassination attempts on his own life, including one that came within 1/4 of an inch from killing him, something that the Media constantly talks and jokes about,” Cheung said. “The President’s statement about protective glass placement has nothing to do with the Media being harmed, or anything else.”

The spokesperson added that Trump’s remarks were about “threats against him that were spurred on by dangerous rhetoric from Democrats.”

“In fact, President Trump was stating that the Media was in danger, in that they were protecting him and, therefore, were in great danger themselves, and should have had a glass protective shield, also,” Cheung said. 

BILL MAHER JOKES ABOUT UNDECIDED VOTERS BEFORE ELECTION: ‘CHRISTMAS EVE SHOPPERS OF POLITICS’ 

“There can be no other interpretation of what was said. He was actually looking out for their welfare, far more than his own!”

In response to the remarks, Harris campaign rapid response director Ammar Moussa accused Trump of “violating the Ninth Commandment.”

“Trump is spending the closing days of his campaign angry and unhinged, lying about the election being stolen because he’s worried he will lose,” Moussa said in a statement. “The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth and will walk into the Oval Office focused on them – that’s Vice President Harris.”

Trump’s remarks came as he and Harris were neck-and-neck in national polls on Sunday. Pennsylvania is a major swing state that is expected to be a deciding factor in which candidate wins the Electoral College.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, spoke on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” and claimed that Harris made a grave mistake by not picking Josh Shapiro, the Keystone State’s governor, as her running mate.

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“Shapiro might well have won the state of Pennsylvania for her,” Cruz said to host Maria Bartiromo. “But the pro-Hamas wing of the Democrat[ic] Party could not imagine, could not tolerate, such a thing.”

Fox News’ Kelly Phares contributed to this report.

Georgia Republicans and former President Trump’s campaign say that they are continuing to take legal action against “coordinated efforts” by Democrat-heavy counties to accept ballots after the early voting period ended. 

A statement from the Georgia Republican Party, which was obtained by FOX Business on Sunday, detailed the party’s latest efforts to stop counties from counting ballots that were hand-delivered over the weekend. 

The lawsuit names seven counties: Clayton County, Cobb, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Fulton, Chatham and Athens-Clarke. Fulton County houses the capital of the state, Atlanta.

In the letter, chairman Josh McKoon claimed that these counties were “illegally accept[ing] ballots this weekend AFTER the end of early voting on Friday.”

TRUMP, HARRIS NECK AND NECK IN BATTLEGROUND STATES WITH UNDER 48 HOURS UNTIL ELECTION DAY, POLLS FIND

“The Georgia Republican Party, in conjunction with the RNC have filed suit in federal court to halt the counting of these ballots,” McKoon wrote. “At minimum, we want to sequester the ballots that were submitted without proper oversight of our election observers.”

“Additionally, we have requested Georgia’s Secretary of State and Attorney General get involved to resolve this matter and find answers to the burning questions we all have,” he added.

McKoon said that the Republican Party intends to find out how a 501c3 organization “knew to inform voters within 15 minutes of early voting closure that six Democrat[ic] counties would be extending their weekend hours.”

“Why didn’t these six counties inform the state board of elections, their county board of elections, the Secretary of State, or their local governments about their plans to essentially extend early voting?” the letter asked. “Who gave the order to Fulton and Chatham County officials to bar poll observers from monitoring the process? Why did they do this?”

McKoon concluded the update by urging Georgia Republicans to “keep our foot on the gas.”

“We will keep the public informed all along the way,” the Republican said. “However, this doesn’t change our overall mission. We MUST keep our foot on the gas and turn out voters on Tuesday like our lives depend on it. Because it does.”

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The Trump campaign released a statement on Sunday identifying themselves as one of the suit’s plaintiffs.

“At the last minute several heavily Democrat counties announced they would open their offices over the weekend to receive mail ballots,” the campaign said in a statement. “This is illegal, so we immediately filed a state court lawsuit. In a win for election integrity, the counties retreated from plans to keep drop boxes open over the weekend, but we continue to fight the illegal re-opening of the centers in state and federal court.”

“This is a clear, partisan violation of the law intended to boost Democrat efforts in Georgia,” the campaign’s statement added. “With just two days until our country’s most important election, it is critical for officials to follow the law and run the election in a fair and transparent manner.”

The new legal action comes a day after a similar lawsuit brought by Republicans was struck down. On Saturday, a judge in Fulton County dismissed a lawsuit about normally-closed offices allowing voters to hand in their ballots over the weekend.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kevin Farmer had rejected all arguments presented by GOP attorney Alex Kaufman, who claimed that absentee ballots should not be hand-delivered and accepted after the early voting period ends.

“I find that it is not a violation of those two code sections for a voter to hand-return their absentee ballots,” the judge claimed.

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Fox News Digital reached out to the Georgia Republican Party for additional comment.

Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman said on CNN that former President Donald Trump has a “connection” with Keystone State voters, before launching expletives aimed at Trump and mocking the former president’s campaign in Pennsylvania. 

“I’ve been saying this, whether it was Biden or then became Harris, I said it’s going to be very close. And Trump definitely has a connection with voters here in Pennsylvania, and that’s why it’s going to be close,” Fetterman said Sunday morning on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Fetterman joined host Dana Bash, who pressed the senator about Trump recently highlighting voter fraud concerns in the battleground state, which Fetterman brushed off with expletives. 

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“It‘s the same sh-t he played in ’20, and it didn’t go anywhere,” Fetterman said. 

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“It’s the same, sad story that he had in ’20, and I would like to remind everybody that Biden wrecked his sh-t by 80,000 votes,” the Pennsylvania senator continued. “… He’s gonna try to lie and claim these baseless things. But we’re gonna have a new team leading America and that’s going to be Harris—but it is going to be close.”

Bash asked Fetterman about one Truth Social message specifically that Trump posted on Thursday about alleged “cheating” in the toss-up state. Election investigations were launched in both Lancaster and York Counties last month, after election officials discovered likely fraudulent voter registration applications, not ballots. 

“We caught them CHEATING BIG in Pennsylvania. Must announce and PROSECUTE, NOW! This is a CRIMINAL VIOLATION OF THE LAW. STOP VOTER FRAUD! CHECK OUT KAMALA’S NEW SLEAZEBAG LAWYER. WE ARE ON THEM ALL THIS TIME! Who would have ever thought that our Country is so CORRUPT?” Trump posted to Truth Social last week. 

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Fetterman responded to Trump’s message by putting his hands to his face to feign anxiety before saying: “It made me tinkle hearing that.”

“But that’s why I’m asking you this question. How worried are you about this being a repeat? Because he didn’t win, but it caused a lot of problems,” Bash later asked of Trump’s Truth Social post and concerns over potential voter fraud. 

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“I’m not worried about it. It’s just like a thing. It’s the same thing that he tried in 2020. And, you know, we had an absolutely a secure election. And now, there are there was voter fraud in Pennsylvania and there was a handful of Republicans and they had their dead moms voting for Trump,” he responded. 

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Political eyes have been locked on Pennsylvania ​​as Keystone State voters are championed as the ones who will likely determine the outcome of the federal election. Trump narrowly won the state in 2016 when he successfully campaigned against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but lost the state in 2020 against President Biden.