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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.”

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Georgia Republicans have filed a federal suit regarding alleged early voting infractions. (Getty Images / iStock)

“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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Voters cast their ballots at an early voting location in Atlanta, on October 31, 2024. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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.

Voters cast their ballots during the last day of early voting in Gwinnett County, Georgia on November 1, 2024. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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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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WASHINGTON – MAY 15: Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., walks through the Senate subway in the Capitol after a vote on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“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. 

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to reporters after delivering remarks at a church service at Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, in Detroit.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

“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. 

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA – SEPTEMBER 24: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Johnny Mercer Theatre on September 24, 2024 in Savannah, Georgia. The former president spoke to attendees on various plans including the tax code, U.S. manufacturing, and future economic opportunities if reelected a second term. Trump continues campaigning around the country ahead of the November 5 presidential election.  (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) ( Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

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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. 

After an Orthodox Jewish man was shot while walking to his synagogue on the Sabbath in Rogers Park, Chicago, last weekend, media outlets quickly gathered and disseminated information about the victim’s background. It was the media that also first confirmed that the suspect, 22-year-old Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, was a Mauritanian national who was in the U.S. illegally.

After the attack, fear rose within Chicago’s Jewish community about the lack of information from the Chicago Police Department and Mayor Brandon Johnson, who took five days to acknowledge the religious background of Abdallahi’s Jewish victim. Police also did not tell the public what Abdallahi shouted while shooting at officers, refusing to confirm the substance of Ring camera footage that was circulating, although they did acknowledge that “there was something stated.”

Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital that “there is a clear cover-up going on to seal off information flow before next week’s election. They knew about the shooter’s illegal status from the moment they ran his ID.”

“This should be a national scandal,” Goldberg added.

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Police investigate a shooting on Oct. 26, 2024, in the West Ridge neighborhood of Chicago. (Fox32 Chicago)

Abdallahi’s address, listed in a police news release, is 27 miles from Rogers Park. Goldberg noted that he went out of his way to travel a significant distance for the alleged attack.

The suspect’s alleged antisemitic motives then became a key theme during the Oct. 31 news conference where Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling announced long-awaited additional felony charges against Abdallahi for a hate crime and terrorism, bringing the total number of charges against Abdallahi to 16. 

“We did not secure these charges because of public pressure or because of media attention,” Snelling told reporters. “Gathering evidence and facts takes time.” Snelling explained that detectives had been unable to interview Abdallahi, who remains hospitalized after being shot by police. Evidence on the suspect’s phone “indicated he planned the shooting and specifically targeted people of the Jewish faith.” 

Chicago officials did not provide details about Abdallahi’s immigration status in their news conference. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson Erin Bultje confirmed to Fox News Digital that Abdallahi was apprehended while entering the country near San Ysidro in March and was subsequently released inside the U.S. 

“It’s pretty obvious what happened here,” said Goldberg, a former NSC official in the Trump administration. “We have an act of terrorism committed by someone who entered the country illegally and was allowed to stay under Biden-Harris policies. And the second Democratic officials realized the potential impact that might have on the presidential election, they panicked and tried to lock down information flow. But the Jewish community fought back.”

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Chicago Police Chief Larry Snelling announced terrorism and hate crime charges against Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi after Abdallahi allegedly shot an Orthodox Jewish man. (WFLD)

Just two months ago, Canadian authorities arrested a 20-year-old Pakistani man who had plotted to carry out an attack on the Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York.

At Thursday’s news conference, a WGN journalist brought up ICE’s confirmation of Abdallahi’s Mauritanian nationality and asked whether State’s Attorney Kim Foxx planned to comply with the ICE detainer for Abdallahi lodged with the Cook County jail.

“What we’re doing today is announcing the charges,” Foxx replied. “Next week, when we do the full-on proffer, we can confirm the information that you have.” Because the suspect “is presumed innocent until proven guilty” and “has not had the opportunity to appear before a judge and face the charges,” Foxx said she was “not going to give a level of specificity that has not been afforded to him.”

Pat Brady, former federal and state prosecutor in Illinois, confirmed to Fox News Digital that “it’s not unusual that the details are not made publicly available until the formal arraignment.”

Stay-at-home mother Malka Reich, who reportedly witnessed a portion of the attack that partially took place in her front yard – Ring camera footage of the incident taken at her home has been widely disseminated – told Fox News Digital that she believes “the mayor and potentially people in the federal government are trying to hide” key elements of the hate crime.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FACES HATE CRIME, TERRORISM CHARGES IN SHOOTING OF JEWISH MAN IN CHICAGO

The victim, described by the Jewish United Fund as a “Jewish community member,” reportedly was shot in the shoulder in Chicago. (Fox32 Chicago)

During Thursday’s press conference, Johnson was asked why he had failed to identify the victim’s religious background in previous statements. Johnson was widely condemned for sending “heartfelt thoughts and prayers” to the victim without describing him as being Jewish.

Rather than answer the question, Johnson explained that “my responsibility as the mayor of Chicago is to keep every single community safe, and I take that responsibility seriously.” Johnson added that “terror wants to incite and ignite and make people feel isolated and alone. But the Jewish community is not alone. We’re standing firm with our Jewish siblings as I always have.”

Johnson has received condemnation in the past for adding to an environment of antisemitism inside Chicago, including through his tie-breaking vote in support of a January cease-fire resolution passed by the City Council. 

According to the Chicago Police Department’s Hate Crime Dashboard, there have been 71 anti-Jewish hate crimes in the city in 2024, up from 50 in 2023, and 39 in 2022.

Among many Jewish Chicagoans dissatisfied with early responses to Saturday’s shooting was Alderman Debra Silverstein, who spoke with Fox News Digital before Abdallahi’s hate crime charge was announced. Silverstein expressed the feeling in Chicago’s Jewish community that “City Hall does not have their back.” 

Silverstein is also worried about antisemitism in Chicago Public Schools. After the Chicago City Council cease-fire resolution was passed, students staged a pro-Palestinian walkout in which Silverstein said that some Chicago students “were told not to wear blue and white” because the schools “weren’t sure that they would be able to protect them.” 

Amid the battle over facts in Abdallahi’s shooting, the Jewish Insider broke a story that the newly appointed president of the Chicago Board of Education, the Rev. Mitchell Johnson, had “a lengthy history of posting inflammatory antisemitic, anti-Israel and pro-Hamas content on social media.”

Silverstein said she quickly rallied around 40 aldermen and the city clerk to call for the Rev. Johnson’s resignation. By Oct. 31, the mayor stated that he asked for and received the Rev. Johnson’s resignation, calling the reverend’s comments “not only hurtful but deeply disturbing.” The mayor stated that “antisemitic, misogynistic and conspiratorial statements are unacceptable.”

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Silverstein said that she was “happy that [the Rev. Johnson] resigned” but that “he never should have been appointed in the first place; and my question is who and how was he vetted in the beginning, and now I’m concerned about the other members and the vetting process for them as well.”

Fox News Digital repeatedly reached out to Mayor Johnson and Gov. J.B. Pritzker for comment and clarification about the shooting victim’s religion, the environment of antisemitism in Chicago and other developments in Abdallahi’s case. Neither office responded.

The Chicago Police Department, in response to questions about the shooter, referred Fox News Digital to its prior news releases.

The senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission lambasted NBC’s decision to host Vice President Kamala Harris on “Saturday Night Live” in the final episode ahead of Election Day, while not offering equal time to former President Trump or other candidates in the presidential cycle. 

“This has all the appearances of, at least some leadership at NBC, at SNL, making clear that they wanted to weigh-in in favor of one candidate before the election. That’s exactly why, for decades, we’ve had an equal time rule on the book, is to prevent that. Because remember, broadcasters are placed in a special position of trust. They’re not just like any other person with a soapbox on the corner. They have a license from the federal government that obligates them to operate in the public interest,” FCC commissioner Brendan Carr told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview Sunday morning. 

Carr was reacting to Harris’s last-minute appearance on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” just days ahead of Election Day. The FCC commissioner had weighed in on X this weekend that the broadcasting company had violated the FCC’s equal time rule by hosting the Democratic presidential nominee, but not Trump or other presidential candidates such as Jill Stein or even Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – who is still on election ballots after dropping out of the race earlier this year and endorsing Trump. 

The Federal Communications Commission’s equal-time rule was established in 1934 and requires radio and television broadcast stations to provide the same amount of time for competing political candidates. There are exceptions to the rule such as newscasts, documentaries and political debates.

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Commissioner Brendan Carr speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on Feb. 24, 2024. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

“NBC has structured this in a way that’s plainly designed to evade the FCC’s rules. We’re talking 50 hours before Election Day starts, without any notice to other candidates, as far as I can tell,” Carr continued. “And after previously coming out and saying they weren’t going to do this precisely because they did not believe that they could do this consistent with election laws and the FCC’s equal time rule.”

“I think every member of the FCC needs to speak up immediately, given how close we are to an election and make clear that we will follow through, enforce our laws. And I think every single remedy needs to be on the table in these circumstances,” he said. 

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Harris was scheduled to fly to Detroit on Saturday evening, but her flight landed at Laguardia, teeing up speculation she would appear on “SNL” during its final airing ahead of Election Day. 

Harris did in fact appear on Saturday evening, depicting the “mirror image” of herself while speaking with former “SNL” cast member Maya Rudolph, who was depicting the Democratic nominee for president. Harris’ appearance came at the end of the cold open, which poked fun at Trump for wearing a sanitation vest at a rally last week, as well as Joe Biden’s repeated gaffes.

Rudolph, depicting Harris, wondered during the sketch: “I wish I could talk to someone who’s been in my shoes. You know, a Black, south Asian woman running for president. Preferably from the Bay Area.”

Harris then was revealed to be sitting across the table from her, leading to cheers from the audience. Harris grinned and said, “You and me both, sister.”

Maya Rudolph and Vice President Kamala Harris appear on NBCs “Saturday Night Live” on Nov. 2, 2024 in New York City. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)

“I’m just here to remind you, you got this. Because you can do something your opponent cannot do. You can open doors,” she said in a shot at Trump, referring to him climbing into a garbage truck last week while on the campaign trail. 

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“The American people want to stop the chaos,” Rudolph said at a later point in the sketch, with Harris adding, “And end the drama-la.”

Kamala Harris made a cameo on “Saturday Night Live” on Nov. 2. (NBC/Saturday Night Live)

“With a cool new step mom-ala. Get back in our pajama-las. And watch a rom-com-ala,” Rudolph said, with the two later touting their “belief in the promise of America.”

Carr is urging his fellow FCC commissioners to join him in calling for action and investigation into NBC hosting Harris on Saturday evening. 

“One commissioner standing alone, there’s no real consequence that I can impose at this point. You need the FCC chairperson or at least three commissioners on the FCC to agree to take action. We’ll see if we end up there with this commission or otherwise,” he said.

“At the end of the day, the penalties range all the way up to potentially, in egregious situations, license revocations. And in my view, every single remedy needs to be on the table, at least as an initial matter. What we investigate more and find out – maybe they have some defense that I’m not aware of – but all remedies should be on the table because you obviously have to engage in some sort of response that if this proves to be an entire violation, there is a consequence sufficient enough that no broadcast station does this again. Whether it’s to benefit Republican or Democrat, that doesn’t matter to me. We have rules on the books, we have to uphold them.”

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Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller told the Fox News Channel earlier this weekend that SNL did not extend an invitation to Trump. Campaign spokesman Steven Cheung lambasted Harris’ appearance as a sign of desperation to appeal to voters as “her campaign spirals down the drain into obscurity.” 

“Kamala Harris has nothing substantive to offer the American people, so that’s why she’s living out her warped fantasy cosplaying with her elitist friends on Saturday Night Leftists as her campaign spirals down the drain into obscurity. For the last four years, Kamala’s destructive policies have led to untold misery and hurt for all Americans. She broke it, and President Trump will fix it,” Cheung told Fox News Digital earlier this weekend. 

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s running mate during her failed 2016 presidential run, also appeared in a skit on Saturday as a contestant on a game show who couldn’t remember who Kaine was.

Carr said Kaine’s appearance also likely violated the equal-time rule, as he is running for re-election in Virginia against Republican challenger Hung Cao.

“Later on in the program, Sen. Kaine here in Virginia, where I am, appeared on the program, and he’s up for election on Tuesday as well. There’s an opposing campaign, the Hung Cao campaign, they may also have a right now to comparable time in programming,” he said. 

Brendan Carr, FCC commissioner, speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2020. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Lorne Michaels, the creator of “Saturday Night Live,” said just last month that it was highly unlikely that either Trump or Harris would appear on the comedy show, explicitly citing the equal time provision laws. 

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“You can’t bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and the equal time provisions,” Michaels told the Hollywood Reporter in October. “You can’t have the main candidates without having all the candidates, and there are lots of minor candidates that are only on the ballot in, like, three states and that becomes really complicated.”

Carr noted in the Fox Digital interview that Michaels was aware of the FCC’s equal time rule just the other week. 

“This is exactly why Lorne Michaels just weeks ago went public and said they would not be doing any candidate appearances, because he understood the thicket that it would throw NBC into. Something changed at the last minute, and they’ve now gone down this path. And again, I think it’s important that the FCC come together and we take action. Otherwise, our rules are absolutely meaningless,” he said. 

Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris at recent campaign events in North Carolina. (AP/Evan Vucci/Jacquelyn Martin)

Carr noted in an X thread on Saturday that during the 2016 election cycle, Trump appeared on “SNL,” which sparked NBC affiliates to file equal opportunity notices to ensure that Trump’s challengers during the cycle were offered the same “SNL” opportunity. When Clinton also appeared on the show that cycle, affiliates again publicly filed equal opportunity notices. 

Following the last-minute appearance on the comedy show, critics on social media also took issue with the sketch itself, saying it appeared eerily similar to Trump’s 2015 sketch on Jimmy Fallon’s “The Tonight Show.” Fallon dressed up like Trump during that sketch, with the pair speaking to one another through a mirror, like Harris’ “SNL” appearance. 

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Critics called Harris’ sketch a “rip off” of Trump’s 2015 Fallon appearance. 

Host Jimmy Fallon and Donald Trump during the “Trump in the Mirror” skit on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Sept. 11, 2015. (Douglas Gorenstein/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images )

“Kamala ripped off the same bit Trump did when he was on Saturday Night Live in 2015… and Trump’s was double the length,” radio host Ari Hoffman posted on X.

Both the Harris and Trump sketches follow other “in the mirror” sketches Fallon has performed with other high-profile celebrities and politicians, including Mick Jagger in 2001 on “SNL” and now-Utah Sen. Mitt Romney in 2015. 

Harris and Rudolph’s Harris character capped off the appearance with the iconic message: “Live from New York, it’s Saturday night!”

An NBC spokesperson told Fox Digital that the broadcaster will comply with any regulatory obligations, and has hosted numerous political figures from either side of the aisles across the decades. 

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Fox News Digital’s David Rutz and Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report. 

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A new series of polls released Sunday show former President Trump and Vice President Harris are neck and neck in seven battleground states with less than 48 hours to go until Election Day. 

The New York Times/Siena College polls of likely voters show Trump and Harris are tied in Pennsylvania and Michigan. 

In Arizona, Trump is leading Harris 49-45%, while Harris is ahead of Trump 49-46% in Nevada, 49-47% in Wisconsin, 48-46% in North Carolina and 48-47% in Georgia. 

A total of 7,879 likely voters were surveyed across the seven battleground states between Oct. 24 to Nov. 2, with 1,025 in Arizona, 1,004 in Georgia, 998 in Michigan, 1,010 in Nevada, 1,010 in North Carolina, 1,527 in Pennsylvania and 1,305 in Wisconsin, according to The New York Times. The polls have a margin of error of 3.5%.  

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Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris at recent campaign events in North Carolina. (AP/Evan Vucci/Jacquelyn Martin)

Of the 8% of voters who indicated that they only recently decided who they were voting for, 55% said they are backing Harris, compared to 44% for Trump, The New York Times reported. 

The newspaper also reported that 11% of voters still remain undecided or persuadable, down from 16% a month ago. 

Across all the battleground states, 24% of the likely voters said the economy – which includes jobs and the stock market – is their top issue, followed by abortion with 18% and immigration with 15%.  

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Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Savannah, Georgia, on Sept. 24. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Harris is underperforming compared to President Biden in 2020 among younger voters, Black voters and Latino voters, according to The New York Times. 

In Pennsylvania, incumbent Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat, is leading challenger David McCormick 50-45%, which is down from nine points in September, the newspaper says. 

In Wisconsin, the polls show incumbent Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s lead over Republican Eric Hovde is narrowing as well, as it’s currently 50-46%, which is down from eight points around a month ago, The New York Times adds. 

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally on Saturday, Nov. 2, at the PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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The race for Michigan’s open Senate seat is also closely contested, with Democrat Rep. Elissa Slotkin leading Republican challenger Mike Rogers 48-46%, the polls show.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Saturday that a potential Trump White House would advise communities to remove fluoride from drinking water, which would overturn decades of public health guidance. 

Fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral in water that oral physicians say can help to prevent cavities at the right doses. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes community water fluoridation – the practice of adding fluoride to drinking water to increase its concentration to optimal levels – as a “cornerstone strategy” to prevent cavities and one of the “10 great public health interventions of the 20th century.” 

However, health agencies warn long-term ingestion of fluoride in excess doses carries various health risks, and critics like Kennedy have campaigned to end community water fluoridation. The Environmental Protection Agency has established a maximum allowable concentration of fluoride in public drinking water to prevent adverse health effects. 

Kennedy declared the Trump White House would advise bringing that allowable concentration to zero on its first day in power. 

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Former President Trump welcomes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the stage at a Turning Point Action campaign rally at the Gas South Arena on Oct. 23, 2024, in Duluth, Georgia. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“On January 20, the Trump White House will advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water,” Kennedy posted on X. “Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease,” he claimed, adding that former President Trump and first lady Melania Trump “want to Make America Healthy Again.” 

His statement provoked a wave of criticism on social media and renewed expert concerns about Kennedy – who has often clashed with the scientific consensus on vaccine safety – being placed in a position of authority over public health. 

“While President Trump has received a variety of policy ideas, he is focused on Tuesday’s election,” Trump campaign senior adviser Danielle Alvarez said in response to media questions about Kennedy’s statement. 

Currently, more than 200 million Americans, or about 75% of the population, drink fluoridated water.

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A photo illustration of tap water in a clear glass drinking glass in West Reading, Pennsylvania, June 15, 2021. (Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

In 1950, federal officials endorsed water fluoridation to prevent tooth decay, and they continued to promote it even after fluoride toothpaste brands hit the market several years later. In 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first city in the world to fluoridate its water supply. 

Experts have long said that washing teeth with fluoride is not comparable to the risks posed by ingesting fluoride, with the latter potentially triggering harmful neurotoxic effects. 

Officials lowered their recommendation for drinking water fluoride levels in 2015 to address a tooth condition called fluorosis, that can cause splotches on teeth and was becoming more common in U.S. kids.

In August, a federal agency determined “with moderate confidence” that there is a link between higher levels of fluoride exposure and lower IQ in kids. The National Toxicology Program based its conclusion on studies involving fluoride levels at about twice the recommended limit for drinking water.

Then in September, a federal judge in California cited that study in an order requiring the EPA to further regulate fluoride because high levels pose “an unreasonable risk” to children.

“Indeed, EPA’s own expert agrees that fluoride is hazardous at some level of exposure,” U.S. District Judge Edward Chen said. “And ample evidence establishes that a mother’s exposure to fluoride during pregnancy is associated with IQ decrements in her offspring.”

Even so, the judge said the court “does not conclude with certainty that fluoridated water is injurious to public health.”

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visits “The Story With Martha MacCallum” at Fox News Channel Studios on Sept. 25, 2024, in New York City. (Jason Mendez/Getty Images)

Since 2015, federal health officials have recommended a fluoridation level of 0.7 milligrams per liter of water. For five decades before that, the recommended upper range was 1.2 “after evidence increasingly established fluoride’s connection to adverse effects, including severe enamel fluorosis, risk of bone fracture, and potential skeletal fluorosis,” the judge wrote. Skeletal fluorosis is a potentially crippling disorder which causes weaker bones, stiffness and pain.

The World Health Organization has set a safe limit for fluoride in drinking water of 1.5. Separately, the EPA has a longstanding requirement that water systems cannot have more than 4 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water. 

Kennedy has said that Trump has promised to give him “control” over the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), should the former president win the White House on Tuesday.

“I stand ready to help him rid the public health agencies of their pervasive conflicts and corruption and restore their tradition of gold-standard, evidence-based science,” Kennedy told the New York Times in a statement. 

The Trump campaign has said no decisions have been made about Cabinet-level positions or personnel, including the secretaries of HHS and USDA.   

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“No formal decisions about Cabinet and personnel have been made, however, President Trump has said he will work alongside passionate voices like RFK Jr. to Make America Healthy Again by providing families with safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic plaguing our children,” Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. 

“President Trump will also establish a special Presidential Commission of independent minds and will charge them with investigating what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic illnesses,” she added.

Trump told supporters at a rally on Saturday that he told Kennedy he “can work on food, you can work on anything you want,” except energy policy.

“He wants health, he wants women’s health, he wants men’s health, he wants kids, he wants everything,” Trump said.

Fox News Digital’s Michael Dorgan, Alex Nitzberg and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have spent months traveling the country on the 2024 presidential election campaign trail, vying for America’s vote to move into the White House.

With every new presidential election cycle, U.S. citizens ask themselves the same question, keeping in mind the power of the Electoral College: “Does my vote count?”

Local and state officials elected into office in the U.S. are able to do so by winning the popular vote. However, the President of the United States is selected with the help of the Electoral College and the popular vote.

In order to win the White House, a candidate must receive at least 270 electoral votes.  (Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images)

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Most often, the popular vote and the electoral vote mirror each other, but there are few instances in history when the two have differed. Most recently, in 2016, Trump won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton.

What is the Electoral College?

The Electoral College is the formal process in which the President and Vice President of the United States are elected into office.

“The Electoral College, as we know it, was created by the 12th Amendment of the Constitution, which was ratified in 1804. Today, there are a total of 538 electoral votes, and a candidate needs at least 270 to win,” Fox News’ Todd Piro explained on “Fox and Friends” in November 2020. 

In the Electoral College, Washington D.C. has its own three electors. 

In 48 states, plus Washington D.C., the winner of the popular vote gets all the electoral votes for that state, according to USA.gov. This is apart from Maine and Nebraska, where a proportional system is used, per the source.

In 2016, Donald Trump was elected president after winning the electoral vote, but losing the popular vote to his democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.  (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

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How does the Electoral College work?

While the popular vote takes place in November, the electoral vote doesn’t take place until about a month later, in mid-December. 

Who is chosen as a state’s electors, how they are chosen and when they are picked vary state-by-state, but there is a two-part system in place, according to the National Archive’s website.

Slates of electors are chosen at state party conventions, or they are voted on by the party’s central committee based on state or national party rules.

During a general election, voters across the states cast their ballots to select their electors who will represent their decesion in the presidential election. The names of electors may or may not appear on the ballots.

Electors pledge to vote for specific candidates, though they are not legally obligated to do so. While there is no federal law in place for electors to vote a certain way, penalties, like being disqualified from future ballots, are in place.

Through the years, there have been many calls made to change the Electoral College as we know it. 

Vice president Kamala Harris became the presidential nominee for the Democratic Party after Joe Biden dropped out of the race.  (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

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“Over the years, there have been hundreds of proposed amendments to change the Electoral College, but only one has gotten remotely close to being passed after the 1968 presidential election saw Richard Nixon win against Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace,” Piro said. “A 1969 bill to replace the Electoral College with the popular vote passed in the House of Representatives, and though it was endorsed by Nixon, the bill eventually died in the Senate after it was filibustered, and it still stands today.”

Recently, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called for the elimination of the Electoral College altogether. 

“I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go,” he said at a California fundraising event in October, according to a pool report at the event, Bloomberg reported. “We need a national popular vote, but that’s not the world we live in.”

In order to do away with the system created by the Founding Fathers, a major constitutional change would need to be made.

Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz called former President Trump a “dictator” who wants to “overturn the Constitution” during his final pitch to voters in the battleground state of Arizona. 

Speaking in Tucson, Walz said, “Momentum is on our side, but we take nothing for granted” and “We know in Arizona a vote or two per precinct could be what it takes to win the whole damn race for the country.” 

“Someday you’re going to be sitting on that porch. You’re going to be in that rocking chair, and a little one is going to come up to you after being in school where they’ve been studying the 2024 election, and they’re going to ask when everything was on the line and the American experiment was on the line, and there was somebody running who asked to be a dictator and to overturn the Constitution and talk about using the military against our own people. What did you do to stop that from happening?” Walz told the crowd on Saturday. 

“And you’re going to be able to say every damn thing we could, every damn thing we could,” he said. 

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Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a campaign rally at Tucson High Magnet School on November 2, 2024 in Tucson, Ariz.  (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Walz closed his speech by saying: “Make a plan to vote. Make a plan to get out and canvass. Make a plan to take a neighbor to the polls.” 

Arizona is a state that leans Republican in the presidential race, according to the final Fox News Power Rankings forecast before the election. 

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Supporters wait for Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to arrive at a campaign rally in Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

In eight high-quality polls conducted in Arizona since August, Trump has been ahead in seven. His edge has been between 1-6 points. 

Immigration continues to be a highly important issue in Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico.  

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump gestures after a Tucker Carlson Live Tour show at Desert Diamond Arena, on Thursday, Oct. 31, in Glendale, Ariz.  (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

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In the latest Wall Street Journal survey, 25% of voters said immigration was the most important issue to their vote, higher than any other battleground. It was a “deal-breaker” issue for 24% of voters. And Arizona voters preferred Trump on the issue by 10 points. 

Fox News’ Remy Numa contributed to this report. 

Election Day 2024 is nearly upon us, and Fox News Channel and Fox News Digital are your home for up to the second election news, race calls and breaking developments from swing states to reliably red precincts and blue bastions.

Visit our Fox News Go stream and sign in with your paid cable, satellite or streaming provider for continuing coverage all day and night.

On FoxNews.com, there will be several blogs with up-to-the-minute developments in Senate races, state presidential race calls and the close-fought House races attracting the most attention this cycle. FOX Nation will also feature some election coverage.

Fox News Digital will also have running delegate counts, and results from the national races.

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Fox News Digital will feature the latest news surrounding the election, results and information. Up-to-the-minute data and developments will be provided for the digital audience as users can review Fox News Voter Analysis as polls close in each state. Users can also follow both the Democracy ‘24 and Balance of Power live blogs throughout the day as the latest races are called across the country. 

FOX News Digital’s election hub will feature real-time data for users to track the presidential race, congressional and gubernatorial races, complete with a fully interactive map of the country and probability dials displaying the likelihood of the outcome and the congressional balance of power. 

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Viewers can also customize and select races on the “My Races” page to follow along with their favorite contests. 

Foxnews.com will livestream the channel’s special coverage, including race results, election trends and in-depth political analysis.

Fox News Channel will also have special programming throughout the day, and Fox News’ Decision Desk will be checking in with the network’s anchors throughout the night with their latest analysis and race calls.

Make Fox News Channel and Fox News Digital your home on Election Night for all the developments you’re looking for during Democracy ’24.

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Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Washington, D.C., have their final day of early in-person voting on Sunday as the nation sits just two days away from Election Day.

Here is how you can still cast your ballot early, and a breakdown of the states’ key races.

All eyes on the Senate race in Ohio

Ohio is home to one of the most competitive Senate races on the map.

Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown has won the Midwestern state three times, but with Trump pushing White working-class voters toward the GOP and record spending from both parties, this is set to be a tight race. Brown faces Republican businessman Bernie Moreno.

Moreno, left, and Brown, right. (Getty Images)

Republicans have made inroads in the northeastern and heavily industrial areas bordering Pennsylvania. Trumbull County flipped to the GOP in 2016, and Trump increased his margin to 10 points in 2020; Mahoning County flipped in 2020 by almost two points. These counties played a key role in Trump’s statewide wins.

Democrats are performing better than ever in the “three C’s”: Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. These areas have the highest percentages of college-educated voters. President Biden won the counties home to these cities by double-digit margins in 2020, with roughly 30-point wins in Franklin (Columbus) and Cuyahoga (Cleveland).

Unlike in other competitive states, Republicans still hold up in Ohio’s suburban and exurban areas, particularly those surrounding Cincinnati.

Ohio’s Senate race is a toss-up and the presidential race is ranked Likely R on the Fox News Power Rankings.

Key down-ballot races in today’s states

• Connecticut’s 5th District: Rep. Jahana Hayes has represented this longtime Democrat-held district since 2019, but it includes some of the reddest parts of the state, including Wolcott, Thomaston and Watertown counties. Hayes is up against former Connecticut state Sen. George Logan, who ran for the same district unsuccessfully in the midterms. It’s Lean D on the Power rankings.
• New Jersey’s 7th District: New Jersey’s 7th district is the only competitive House race on the state map. The district includes Trump’s Bedminster Golf Club and a raft of wealthy, suburban areas. It became more Republican in the last round of redistricting. Freshman Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. is the incumbent. He faces local Democrat and political organizer Sue Altman. It was last ranked Lean R.
• New York’s 1st District: Occupying the east side of Long Island, New York’s 1st District is one of the most politically diverse in the region. It includes the ultra-wealthy Hamptons suburbs and farming communities in Suffolk County. Republican Rep. Nick LaLota, who replaced Rep. Lee Zeldin in 2023, is the incumbent against former CNN anchor and Democrat John Avlon. This race is ranked Likely R.

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States across the country are wrapping up early voting as Election Day nears. Here, voters arrive at a polling station at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York City, Oct. 26, 2024.  (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

• New York’s 4th District: Closer to New York City, the ultra-competitive 4th district in Nassau County includes Long Beach, Garden City and Uniondale, where former President Trump held a rally last month. Incumbent Rep. Anthony D’Esposito spoke at that event. He’s up against local Democratic Town Supervisor Laura Gillen. It’s ranked toss-up on the Power Rankings.
• New York’s 17th District: This Hudson Valley district offers one of the highest-profile races of the cycle. This race was decided by less than 2,000 votes in the midterms, when voters elected moderate Republican Rep. Mike Lawler. This year, he’ll face the former occupant of this seat, Democratic Rep. Mondaire Jones. It recently shifted from toss-up to Lean R in the Power Rankings.
• New York’s 18th District: Into the mid-Hudson Valley and the Catskills, the 18th District is represented by another well-known moderate congressman, Democratic Rep. Pat Ryan. And like its neighbor, this race was tight in the midterms. It was ultimately settled by fewer than 5,000 votes. GOP Rep. Alison Esposito is the Republican candidate here. She served in the New York Police Department for 25 years before announcing her run. It’s a Lean D district.
• New York’s 19th District: The third Hudson Valley battleground with a moderate incumbent, the 19th District includes the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. GOP Rep. Marc Molinaro flipped this seat in the midterms with a roughly 5,000-vote margin. This year, he faces Democratic attorney Josh Riley. This race is a toss-up.
• New York’s 22nd District: Further upstate to Syracuse and Utica, GOP Rep. Brandon Williams, first elected in the midterms, is threatened by redistricting. He faces Democratic challenger and state Sen. John Mannion in a race ranked Lean D on the Power Rankings.
• Ohio’s 9th District: This northwestern Ohio seat has been held by populist Democrat Rep. Marcy Kaptur since 1983, but her margins have shrunk as Ohio has drifted right. She faces conservative Republican state Rep. Derek Merrin on the ballot this year; it’s another Power Rankings toss-up.
• Ohio’s 13th District: Finally, the northeastern 13th District includes Youngstown and parts of Akron; it has been represented by Democrat Rep. Emilia Sykes since 2023. Sykes faces Republican former state Sen. Kevin Coughlin this year. It’s also a toss-up.

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Former President Trump is making his final pitch to voters across the country. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

How to vote in Connecticut

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

How to vote in Delaware

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

How to vote in New Jersey

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

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Vice President Kamala Harris is making a final push for support in swing states. (Kylie Cooper for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

How to vote in New York

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

How to vote in Ohio

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

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How to vote in Washington, D.C.

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

Three years have passed since the Taliban’s swift takeover upended Afghanistan.

Women have largely taken up home confinement, and men live in fear of being suspected of aiding the resistance, a charge that could result in death. In the chaos, as the U.S. hastily withdrew, countless Afghan allies were abandoned to an uncertain fate.

While the wall-to-wall press coverage of what’s been called President Biden’s “Saigon moment” has largely quieted down, the Afghan diaspora living in the U.S. has not forgotten relatives in the homeland. 

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Zoubair Sangi helped found a movement for the Afghan diaspora to unite and bring a sense of betrayal by the Biden administration to the ballot box with the new advocacy group Afghans for Trump.

“If you were to ask [Afghans in Afghanistan], would you want a continuation of the last three years, which has been the failed policy of the Biden-Harris administration? They would say no because their lives are miserable right now,” Sangi told Fox News Digital.

“It’s been three years where women can’t go to school. Terrorism has been on the rise. We have the attacking of ethnic and religious minorities.”

A burqa-clad Afghan woman searches for recyclable materials in plastic waste at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif Sept. 28, 2024. (Atif Aryan/AFP via Getty Images)

Sangi’s parents came to the U.S. in the 1980s as the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. 

Much of his family still lives in the nation. 

“What they say is that it feels like they’re living in a prison,” Sangi said. 

“Anyone who’s suspected of resistance, just being kidnapped, jailed, tortured, killed. For the last three years, this has been going on. But zero coverage. So, you know, those who are living here, they feel like they’ve lost everything.“

Sangi says Afghans for Trump is reaching out to the diaspora, those who are Afghan by background but U.S. citizens, and has been in touch with recent refugees who left after the withdrawal, most of whom are not citizens and can’t vote in the election. 

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“It’s a U.S. national security concern as well,” Sangi said. The Taliban “have been in connection with al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. So, this resurgence is a threat to the West as they are coordinating and planning [attacks].” 

Biden often blames former President Trump for the withdrawal, arguing he was constrained to a deadline agreed to under Trump’s deal with the Taliban. Trump now says that deal was meaningless because the Taliban had not been holding up their end of the deal, and he wouldn’t have abided by it, though he has not voiced support for a continued presence in the region. 

Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait anxiously at the Kabul airport in Kabul Aug. 16, 2021. (Getty Images)

If Trump wins the presidency, Sangi said he hopes Trump will stop the funneling of money to Afghanistan, dollars that are earmarked for humanitarian aid but often end up in Taliban hands.

“There is also a resistance in Afghanistan whose values align with the American people who have been allies of the Americans for over 20 years,” he said. 

“The National Resistance Front in Afghanistan is a perfect alternative where we don’t have to get boots on the ground. … We just need to support this moderate resistance.”

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Sangi called to mind the acts of past administrations, such as former President Reagan providing aid to Afghanistan’s Mujahideen to fight the Soviets and former President George W. Bush’s War on Terror.

“They supported the people of Afghanistan. And, you know, we fought our own battle. And it proved successful. So, fighting the Taliban should be much less of a challenge than that time,” he said. 

“We believe it’s in our best interest to have support from a president who cares about the implications of what’s going on in Afghanistan … such as cutting off the funding to the Taliban at $40 million a week.” 

A burqa-clad Afghan woman walks with children along a street in the Argo district of Badakhshan Province Sept. 26, 2024. (Omer Abrar/AFP via Getty Images)

According to an August 2023 World Bank report, in only a year’s time, the U.N. flew in by helicopter bags of cash worth some $2.9 billion to Afghanistan since the Taliban seized control. The bulk of that was from funds allocated by the U.S., and at least some of which ended up in the Taliban-controlled central bank, according to a SIGAR report. The Taliban then “taxes” this cash at multiple points of distribution. 

“The Taliban are pocketing this money, and we see them using it for things such as military parades of suicide bombers,” said Sangi. 

“None of it is going to the people who are living there. You know, I have family there, and they’re not receiving any of this aid. The population is facing starvation, mass unemployment.”

With a sense of optimism, Sangi predicted Middle East policy may decide next week’s election despite the long-running assumption that elections are decided by domestic issues. 

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“This is the one time where I think every single person across almost every spectrum of society feels the repercussions of what’s going on, the turmoil in the Middle East,” he said. “This cannot continue because, if it does, we can go further into World War III, and nobody wants that.”

Hundreds turned out to participate in the Woman’s March in Massachusetts ahead of Election Day, in a strong show of support for Vice President Kamala Harris and abortion access.

People marched on Boston Common, holding signs that read, “We won’t go back” and “Abortion is health care.” Some men joined with them.

The woman’s march happened in Boston, as well as in Washington, D.C., and in Kansas City, Missouri.

Speakers urged people to vote in the election — highlighting that abortion is on the ballot in nine states.

“How many of you are going to vote on Tuesday? How many of you can’t wait to wake up to a woman president?” Rev. Dr. Deborah Haffner, of First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton, Massachusetts, asked.

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Marji Roy, foreground right, of Ashford, Conn., holds signs during the National Women’s March, Saturday, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Leslie Rosenberg, of Boston, cheers during the National Women’s March, Saturday, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Tracy Murphy told NBC 10 Boston that she organized the women’s march because she wanted to give it her all no matter who wins.

“Today’s message is that we want everybody to vote,” Murphy said.

People rally on Boston Common during the National Women’s March, Saturday, in Boston.  (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Mimi Balsamo, of Quincy, Mass., attends the National Women’s March on Boston Common, Saturday, in Boston.  (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Abortion and the 2024 election

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, abortion access has returned to the state level.

Abortion has remained a hot-button issue in the 2024 election – with abortion being a top issue for many female voters.

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Nine states will consider constitutional amendments that would enshrine abortion rights — Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada and South Dakota.

People rally on Boston Common during the National Women’s March, Saturday, in Boston.  (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

A record number of voters think abortion should be legal, with two-thirds favoring a nationwide law guaranteeing access, according to a Fox News national survey conducted on March 22-25, 2024.

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Fifty-nine percent think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, up from the previous high of 57% in September 2022 and a record low of 44% in April 2022. 

Ami Faria and her daughter Amelia, of Exeter, N.H., attend the National Women’s March on Boston Common, Saturday. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Support for legalization has been up (mostly by double-digits) across the board since April 2022, two months before Roe was overturned. That includes increased support among voters ages 65 and older (+16 points should be legal), conservatives (+12), Republicans (+11), and White evangelical Christians (+10). 

Overall, just 7% think abortion should never be permitted, while five times as many say it always should be (35%). Another one-third (32%) say abortion should be illegal except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. 

Former President Donald Trump and VP Kamala Harris (Getty Images)

Trump

Former President Trump has shifted his stance on abortion during the election cycle, with the Republican nominee hoping to attract independents and some disillusioned Democrats, but running the risk of alienating his pro-life base.

Trump notably opposes a federal abortion ban, but has remained opposed to late-term abortions. In July, the Republican Party abandoned its long-standing position of advocating against abortion. 

Harris

Throughout Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, she has argued that Trump — who nominated three conservative justices to the Supreme Court who later voted to overturn Roe v. Wade — is responsible for worsening medical care for women and that he would seek further restrictions.

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Harris has cast her position on the topic as creating legislation to restore the national abortion right that was eliminated following Roe v. Wade. 

She has also vowed to protect access to the abortion drug mifepristone, calling the drug “essential medication.”

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Fox News’ Victoria Balara and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

Vice President Kamala Harris leads former President Donald Trump by three points in the final Des Moines Register-sponsored poll of Iowa three days before the election. 

The shock poll showed a seven-point shift from Trump to Harris from September when he had a four-point lead over the vice president (47% to 43%) in the same poll. 

“It’s hard for anybody to say they saw this coming,” pollster J. Ann Selzer, president of Selzer & Co., who conducted the poll, told the newspaper on Saturday. “She has clearly leaped into a leading position.” 

The poll was conducted between Oct. 28-31, and Harris’ lead is within the 3.4% margin of error. 

Still, the poll appears to be an outlier. Another poll from Emerson College released Saturday showed Trump with a 10-point lead (53% to 43%) and he maintains a decent lead in other polls. 

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Vice President Kamala Harris leads former President Donald Trump by three points in the final Des Moines Register-sponsored poll of Iowa three days before the election.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin; Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

The Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll, which measures support in the Hawkeye State, is nationally recognized, and its final results mirrored the state’s results of the 2016 and 2020 elections, according to the Des Moines Register. 

The 2016 poll showed Trump with a seven-point lead over Hillary Clinton and the 2020 poll showed him with the same lead over President Biden. 

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A Trump supporter’s Halloween display in Iowa.  (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Iowa, which is not considered a swing state, is geographically near the Rust Belt swing states of Pennsylvania and Michigan, and it shares a border with Wisconsin. 

The same poll taken in June showed Trump with a considerable 18-point lead over Biden before he dropped out of the race in July following a shaky debate performance.

The Nov. 2 poll shows Harris increasing her support among women in a race with a historic gender gap as the vice president has made the issue of abortion front and center in her campaign, according to the newspaper. 

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The remaining 9% of the people polled said they would vote for another candidate, weren’t sure who the would vote for or didn’t plan to vote. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who dropped out of the race as an independent candidate and endorsed Trump, got 3% in the poll. 

FIRST ON FOX: A pro-Trump group has launched a seven-figure ad buy as a closing pitch for the former president after the clip went viral on social media.

On Friday, Building America’s Future (BAF), a conservative nonprofit, released the clip titled “Moments” that it says highlights the “attacks on Donald Trump and his supporters in recent months.”

The ad, posted on X by Elon Musk and others, has garnered over 20 million views on X. 

“Think about all they’ve done to Donald Trump,” the ad says. “First it was hoaxes, witch hunts, and impeachments. Then it was FBI raids, courtrooms, and mug shots. Finally, it was bullets in a Pennsylvania field.

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American voters will decide between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on November 5th. (Getty Images)

“And after all that, this man stood up, with blood draining down his face, pumped his fist in the air and told us to ‘Fight. Fight. Fight.’”

The ad then plays a clip from Trump saying. “America’s future will be bigger, better, bolder, brighter, happier, stronger, free-er, greater, and more united than ever before. And we will Make America Great Again.”

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Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump visits The Great Commoner café November 1, 2024, in Dearborn, Michigan.   (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“We know what they think of us,” a narrator says before a clip of President Biden speaking.

“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden says, echoing his comment that sparked a political firestorm earlier this week. 

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Jennifer Lopez (L) introduces Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at a “When We Vote We Win” campaign rally at Craig Ranch Amphitheater. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

“So, if Donald Trump can get through all of that, We can get out to vote,” the ad closes.

BAF will begin airing the ad as part of a $1.2 million spend on national television across battleground states as well as paid digital and texting. 

A Republican congressional candidate in New Hampshire blasted her Democratic opponent Thursday evening, reminding her she is a multimillionaire after the Democrat accused her of favoring the rich. 

“She believes that we should give a break to the wealthiest and the biggest corporations and hope for the best, hope that the results will trickle down to hardworking people,” Democratic congressional candidate Maggie Goodlander, who is married to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, said of Republican Lily Tang Williams during a debate.

“I take a very different approach. I believe that the middle class deserves a tax cut, and I believe that we will do a lot for this country by ensuring that we don’t continue this disastrous tax policy.” 

Raising her hand to respond, Republican Lily Tang Williams hit back at Goodlander, saying, “You are wealthy. You’re worth $20 million to $30 million. How do you know about regular people’s suffering? Do you go shopping? Go to Walmart? Buy food? I talk to those people. And you pretend to be a renter in Nashua a few months ago, move back to run for this open seat with millions of dollars from Washington, D.C., insiders. … I don’t have money to run a TV ad, and you pretend you are poor, complain rent is so high.

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Republican Lily Tang Williams, left, and Democrat Maggie Goodlander clashed in a congressional debate Thursday evening.  (Lilytangwilliams.com I Maggiefornh.com)

“You do not understand regular people’s concerns.”

Goodlander has an apartment in Nashua, New Hampshire, in the 2nd District and said during the debate that she would own property in the district if elected, the New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism reported.

Both candidates are millionaires, but Goodlander appears to be worth far more than Tang Williams. 

Tang Williams is worth between $3.8 million and $8.6 million, while Goodlander is worth between $9.9 million and $39 million, with most of her wealth in a trust fund, according to WMUR-TV, citing financial disclosures. 

When Tang Williams came to the U.S. from China, she only had $100 in her pocket, according to the New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism.

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The two women are running for the open seat in New Hampshire’s 2nd District vacated by Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster.

The latest poll shows Goodlander with an eight-point lead ahead of Tuesday. 

Goodlander is married to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. (Reuters/Violeta Santos Moura)

Tang Williams is a Chinese immigrant who became a U.S. citizen in 1994. She has also previously run as a Libertarian in Colorado. 

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Goodlander is a native of New Hampshire and part of a well-connected political family in the state. 

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu has called Tang Williams a “phenomenal success story,” according to the New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism. 

A judge in Georgia on Saturday dismissed a Republican lawsuit that sought to block voters from hand-returning mail-in ballots in the state over the weekend. 

The lawsuit centered around officials in Fulton County, a Democratic stronghold, opening normally closed country offices on Saturday and Sunday to allow voters to hand in their ballots. 

Five other Democratic-leaning counties in the state also announced that county offices would be open over the weekend. 

Early voting in Georgia ended on Friday and the lawsuit, filed Friday night, cited a section of state law that says ballot drop boxes cannot be open past the end of advance voting. 

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A worker at the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections works to process absentee ballots at the State Farm Arena, Saturday, in Atlanta.  (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

But state law also states that voters can hand in mail ballots until the polls close on Tuesday night. 

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GOP lawyer Alex Kaufman argued in a Saturday emergency hearing that while it’s OK to mail absentee ballots, they shouldn’t be hand-delivered after early voting ends, but Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kevin Farmer rejected all of his arguments. 

Vice President Kamala Harris holds a rally in Savannah, Georgia, in August.  ( Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Former President Trump in Savannah, Georgia, in September.  ( Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

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

A Fulton County spokesperson said on Saturday afternoon that only a couple dozen ballots had been returned to the four open county offices. 

An early voting center in Atlanta.  (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

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Former President Trump narrowly lost Georgia, a usually reliably Republican state, to President Biden by fewer than 12,000 votes in 2020, and afterward Trump made unsubstantiated accusations of fraud in Fulton County.

Both Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have been actively campaigning in the state, now considered a battleground. 

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The Republican National Committee (RNC) is celebrating after GOP poll watchers were allowed into four blue-leaning counties’ election offices for extended absentee ballot hours this weekend, according to party Chair Michael Whatley.

Federal and state GOP groups had threatened to sue Fulton County late Friday after it and the counties of Cobb, DeKalb and Gwinnett announced several election offices would be open this weekend for people to turn in absentee ballots in person. 

Republicans also accused Fulton County of not allowing any public observers into those locations open on the weekends, which Whatley and Georgia GOP Chairman Josh McKoon argued was against the Peach State’s election observer laws.

“Following our efforts, our poll watchers have now been let into the building in all four Georgia counties. Our lawsuit over the offices remaining open is still pending, but we have eyes in the room as votes are being counted,” Whatley wrote on X. “We will continue our aggressive efforts to enforce Georgia law and protect the vote.”

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Former President Trump is hoping for a political comeback in Georgia. (Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached out to the four relevant county governments for comment.

RNC co-chair Lara Trump, former President Trump’s daughter-in-law, posted on X, “Update on Georgia — working with the [Georgia Secretary of State] and [state Attorney General], we have been able to confirm that our observers WILL be allowed in the room while these ballots are being processed.”

The alleged exclusion of poll watchers from the weekend absentee ballot submission hours was not limited to just the GOP. It included all observers, Republicans said.

An RNC spokesperson told Fox News Digital having public poll observers through the weekend benefited both Republicans and Democrats but argued their absence would hurt the GOP more in left-leaning areas.

The spokesperson said the RNC worked with Georgia election officials to secure access for poll observers.

Fulton County includes the city of Atlanta, while DeKalb, Gwinnett and Cobb counties make up the Georgia capital’s suburbs. All four were critical to President Biden flipping Georgia blue by less than 1% in 2020.

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President Biden won the state by less than 1% in 2020. (Getty Images)

The Friday night lawsuit threat came after the state GOP learned that election officials planned to open four election offices this weekend “to accommodate voters seeking to hand-return their absentee ballots.”

“This is a blatant violation of Georgia law … which states ‘all drop boxes shall be closed when the advance voting period ends,’” the Georgia GOP said in a statement late Friday.

“To make matters worse, the four election office locations are situated in areas of the county that will clearly favor Democrat candidates.”

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Drop boxes are a way for voters to turn in their absentee ballots at election offices without human contact, which is different from submitting them in person at the office itself.

Drop boxes were available through Georgia’s early voting period, from Oct. 15 through Nov. 1.

But Republicans are arguing that the extended hours for turning in absentee ballots over the weekend run afoul of the state’s rules.

Meanwhile, Democrats have accused Republicans of trying to sow chaos and uncertainty in Georgia’s election processes, particularly in blue-leaning counties like Cobb and Fulton.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, is also pouring enormous resources into the state. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)

NPR reporter Stephen Fowler wrote on X of the lawsuit threat, “Multiple counties are doing it, and there’s nothing illegal about it – these aren’t drop boxes.”

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It comes after a Fulton County Superior Court judge rejected Republicans’ bid to force the county to hire more Republican poll workers for Election Day on Tuesday.

State, federal and local Republican parties accused the Fulton County Department of Registration and Elections of not hiring enough GOP poll workers. They alleged that nine out of 45 qualified applicants were hired to help with early voting, while just six of 62 were hired for Election Day, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Judge Kevin Farmer said the case would be looked at further but declined to order emergency measures to force more Republican poll workers in by Tuesday.

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Democratic 2024 presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris blasted former President Trump and praised young voters in what was likely her final campaign speech in Georgia.

Harris spoke to supporters in downtown Atlanta on Saturday, three days before voters across the country who haven’t already cast ballots head to the polls on Election Day.

“We have three days left – three days in one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime – and we still have work to do,” the vice president said.

She pivoted to attacking Trump just a few minutes into her roughly 22-minute speech.

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Fox News Digital spoke with voters in Atlanta about who they think will win their swing state between former President Trump and Vice President Harris. (Getty Images)

“We have an opportunity in this election to finally turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump, who spends full time trying to keep us divided and afraid of each other. We’re done. We’re done with that,” Harris said. 

“This is not someone who is thinking about how to make your life better, this is someone who is increasingly unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance. And the man is out for unchecked power.”

She later asked “young leaders” to raise their hands and lavished praise on members of Generation Z – a voting bloc that both Republicans and Democrats have fought to win over.

“I love Gen Z. I love it,” Harris said. “Because, see, this generation, you are rightly impatient for change. You are rightly impatient for change. You are determined to live free from gun violence, and tackle the climate crisis, and shape the world you inherit.”

“I see your power. And I am so proud of you.”

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Filmmaker Spike Lee was a speaker at the star-studded rally ( Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

The speech mined familiar territory, with Harris repeating slogans and promises that she has already uttered on the campaign trail – as is typical of presidential candidates this close to Election Day.

She vowed to crack down on grocery price gouging, which critics have panned as attempts at price-controlling goods, and pledged to cut taxes for small businesses.

Harris also pledged to lower health care costs and accused Trump of wanting to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), despite his campaign already insisting that is not his policy position.

The rally also featured appearances from famed director Spike Lee, rapper 2 Chainz, and both of Georgia’s Democratic U.S. senators.

Georgia has smashed turnout records already, with more than four million people casting early in-person or absentee ballots during the early voting period from Oct. 15 through Nov. 1.

More than 50% of active voters cast ballots early, including over 700,000 people who did not vote at all in 2020.

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President Joe Biden won Georgia by less than 1% in 2020 (Getty Images)

The counties leading in terms of turnout percentage have been largely rural, Republican-leaning areas. Bluer counties like DeKalb and Fulton, however, have significantly larger populations and have outpaced the redder areas in terms of sheer numbers.

Both Harris and Trump have poured enormous resources into Georgia, a state that President Biden won by less than 1% during the previous election cycle.

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Trump’s campaign criticized Harris’ visit to the Peach State in a statement on Saturday morning.

“Kamala Harris’ last-ditch attempt to gaslight Georgians and distract them with out of touch liberal Hollywood elites and flashy celebrities shows how desperate she is to distract Georgians from the last four years of her failed policy agenda,” said Morgan Ackley, a spokeswoman for Trump’s campaign in Georgia.

“That’s why Georgians are ready to elect President Trump on Tuesday to fix our problems and fire Kamala Harris.”

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FIRST ON FOX: Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is investigating coordinated efforts by international and local nonprofit organizations, as well as employers and a health department, to bring migrants —including those without legal status — into Indiana communities.

“Illegal immigration caused by ‘border czar’ Kamala Harris’ perversion and misapplication of federal law has made every state a border state and imposed unsustainable costs on Logansport and other cities across the nation,” Rokita told Fox News Digital in a statement. 

“It has also created serious sex and labor trafficking risks in all communities. I’m creatively trying to use every tool in the law to stop the Left’s intentional destruction of Indiana.”

Logansport has a population of 18,366 according to the 2020 Census.

Rokita’s office filed six Civil Investigative Demands (CID) on Friday, Fox News Digital learned first. The recipients are: the Cass County Health Department, Berry Global packaging company, the Evansville-based nonprofit God is Good foundation, the Jackson County Industrial Development Corporation, the Logansport Community School Corporation and the Tent Partnership for Refugees, a network of over 400 major companies connecting refugees to jobs.

HAITIAN MIGRANTS OVERWHELMING SMALL INDIANA TOWN: ‘IT’S JUST OVERRUN’

This split shows migrants in Mexico, and the town of Logansport, Indiana. (Fox News/ Photo by Christian Torres Chavez/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images))

The investigations will take place in Evansville, Logansport, and Seymour, as officials believe the influx of noncitizens is an alleged “coordinated effort” between nonprofits and employers to attract migrant workers. 

Rokita’s office said the swift increase in immigrant populations has led to overcrowded housing, with multiple families and sometimes dozens of individuals living in homes meant for single families. The crisis has also raised concerns about possible labor trafficking.

The investigative demand for Cass County Health Department comes as the health department has been inspecting apartments and residences, according to the CID. 

Investigators are also seeking to know if any individuals residing in overcrowded residences were employed by or contracted to provide services for the owner or manager, as well as the number of individuals observed in the residence and their citizenship status.

TRUMP SOUNDS ALARM ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MURDERERS: ‘A LOT OF BAD GENES IN OUR COUNTRY’

This image shows the town of Logansport, Indiana. (Fox News)

Last month, residents in the town of Logansport, Indiana, said that an influx of migrants from Haiti and other countries into their little town is overwhelming services. Logansport’s mayor estimates the population has grown by 20%-30% since 2021, most of that being Haitians moving in. More than 3,000 Haitians have arrived.

Meanwhile, in numbers first reported by the New York Post, the number of Haitian students in the schools has gone from 14 to 207.

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 Then-Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., listens during the House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on “State of American Schools and Workplaces: Expanding Opportunity in America’s Schools and Workplaces” on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015.  (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)

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Others have pointed to other effects of Haitian migration, with one mother telling the Post her daughter was accosted by Haitian migrants as she walked to a nearby coffee shop. Multiple residents also told Fox News the new arrivals make them feel uncomfortable and unsafe, with one woman saying some of the male Haitian migrants in town would “stop in front of our porch and just stop and stare. They don’t say a word. They just stare. It’s unnerving.”

Fox News DIgital’s Adam Shaw, Garrett Tenney and Patrick McGovern contributed to this report.

Democratic insiders and strategists heading into the final hours of the election are expressing confidence that Vice President Kamala Harris will defeat former President Donald Trump on Tuesday at the ballot box. 

“Nauseously optimistic,” is how Democrats described themselves to New York magazine as the clock continues ticking for the final 100 hours of the election cycle. 

Trump and Harris both delivered what were their respective closing arguments earlier this week, with Trump addressing massive crowds at a historic rally at Madison Square Garden, and Harris delivering her final pitch in the nation’s capital Tuesday at the Ellipse, located just south of the White House and north of the National Mall. 

Polls are neck-and-neck, with a Fox News national survey published last month finding that Trump had a two-point edge over Harris, while the pair have zeroed-in on campaigning in key battleground states to increase the weight on their respective political scales. As of Saturday morning, Trump has nine events scheduled until Election Day, zig-zagging from battlegrounds such as Pennsylvania and Michigan to Georgia and also Virginia. 

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Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at the Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum on the campus of East Carolina University on October 13, 2024, in Greenville, North Carolina.  (Alex Wong)

Harris is expected to travel to Georgia and North Carolina on Saturday, before delivering her final pitch to voters in Michigan’s rust belt on Sunday. As she caps off her final leg of the campaign since ascending the top of the Democratic ticket in July, when President Biden dropped out of the race, her allies have touted that she has a win within her grasp. 

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David Plouffe, a senior adviser to the Harris campaign, said this weekend that voters deciding for whom to cast their ballot late into the election are going to benefit the Harris campaign and carry them to a victory. 

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during Turning Point’s United for Change rally at the Thomas & Mack Center on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, in Las Vegas. (Madeline Carter/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

“The question is, of the people who have not yet decided who to vote for, who are actually going to vote?” he said on CNN Friday, noting that current polls show Harris and Trump tied. “And our sense in the last week is that the people who have made up their mind in the last week we’re doing quite well with, and we like the people who have yet to make a decision . . . .”

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“It’s very important to look at who those undecideds are,” Plouffe added.

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville, who worked as lead strategist for former President Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 election, touted that Harris’ financial backing and “united” Democrat Party sets her up for a win over Trump come Tuesday. 

“I think she’s going to win,” Carville said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday. “She’s got more money, more energy, has a more united party, has better surrogates, and he’s stone-a–nuts.”

New York magazine detailed in a piece this week that the buzz among Democrats is they are cautiously optimistic of a win on Tuesday, “largely based on the campaign’s close monitoring of early voting data from the seven battleground states, and its evolving understanding of who has already cast ballots and who’s left to convince.”

“The posture is driven both by reports from the field, especially from canvassers in competitive suburbs, and by senior advisers staring at the analytics in Wilmington. It’s far from a prediction of a win. Instead, it’s a belief that Harris maintains achievable paths to winning a majority or plurality of the vote in the tightly contested states — each of which they see as effectively tied, and almost all of which they see as home to a Democratic advantage in get-out-the-vote operations,” the outlet reported. 

Other Democratic insiders are reporting more or less the same on social media and during media interviews. 

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Jon Favreau, former President Barack Obama’s director of speechwriting, posted on X, for example, that though the race is an “extremely close toss-up,” he argued that Trump isn’t ending on a strong note, pointing to jokes made by a comedian at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally that were viewed negatively by the media and Democrats and other political issues he sees as election demerits. 

Daily Beast columnist and political affairs analyst David Rothkopf declared in a column on Friday that, “Kamala Harris is going to be the next president of the United States,” pointing to Harris’ “exceptional campaign,” speeches that were “suffused with a new energy and vision” for the nation, and her “‘closing argument’ on the Ellipse in Washington.” 

“On January 20, 2025, she will become America’s first woman president, America’s first woman of color to be commander-in-chief and America’s first person of Asian heritage to become the country’s chief executive,” he wrote. 

CNN senior political data reporter Harry Enten said Thursday that there are “clear” signs of a Harris win. 

“And the number-one sign is that Harris, simply put, is more popular than Donald Trump,” he said. 

Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris sits with former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) for a town hall at the Royal Oak Music Theatre on October 21, 2024, in Royal Oak, Michigan. Cheney joined Vice President Harris for stops Monday in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.  (Photo by Sarah Rice/Getty Images)

The Trump campaign and its allies have meanwhile remained steadfast that the Republican ticket will be victorious on Tuesday, as Trump rallies his base to vote early and attracts new supporters through his “make America great again” pleddge following the Biden-Harris administration. As the cycle entered its final weeks, Trump said during a Las Vegas rally last month that the Harris campaign is “imploding” and has a victory in his sights. 

“[Harris is] actually imploding, if you take a look. Because, look, I’m not supposed to say it, but we are leading by so much,” Trump said last Thursday. 

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“Now, we’re leading by a lot in Nevada. We’re leading by a lot in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. Even states that are typically never in play for 50, 60, 70 years. . . . But the fact is that states, other states too, big states, are all in play and they like us. But you know what? They think she is grossly incompetent. Let’s face it, she is not doing well,” Trump continued. 

Former US First Lady Melania Trump applauds her husband former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after he spoke at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, October 27, 2024. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Getty Images)

The 45th president added during his Madison Square Garden rally that he will have the “biggest victory in the history of our country” on Election Day. 

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“We’re running against something far bigger than Joe or Kamala. And far more powerful than them, which is a massive, vicious, crooked, radical left machine that runs today’s Democrat Party. They’re just vessels. In fact, they’re perfect vessels, because they’ll never give them a hard time. They’ll do whatever they want. I know many of them. It’s just this amorphous group of people. But they’re smart, and they’re vicious, and we have to defeat them,” he said.

“We’re going to have the biggest victory in the history of our country on Nov. 5, and it’s going to be the biggest victory in history. We’re going to make America great again.”

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