With less than a week left until the 2024 election, more than 57.5 million Americans have already voted, according to the University of Florida’s Election Research Laboratory. This number represents more than one-third of the total turnout in the 2020 election. It’s hard to say what this means, as many people voted by mail in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but turnout in some states may be due to Republican efforts to encourage supporters to vote early. The efforts are having an impact.
After garbage truck campaign stunt, Republican candidate Donald Trump, wearing an orange high-vis vest, uses rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to attack Democrats over Joe Biden’s “trash” comments He expressed his gratitude to health workers and pledged to: Protect women “whether you like it or not.”
Elsewhere in Wisconsin, Kamala Harris addressed voters for the first time, saying issues of climate change, gun control and abortion access are “not political.” This is your lived experience. ” She spoke shortly after the latest CNN poll showed Trump with a six-point lead in the state.
Here’s what else happened Wednesday.
Kamala Harris Election News and Updates
Harris spoke in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s capital. Harrisburg was one of the few counties that voted for Joe Biden in 2020. Opinion polls show that the race is tied in Pennsylvania, with both sides in a hotly contested race. For candidates who lose Pennsylvania, the path to winning 270 electoral votes becomes even more difficult. Harris did not address the comedian’s racist comments about Puerto Rico at President Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday, but said the state is home to many Latinos and Puerto Ricans. Therefore, the state could become a decisive voting bloc.
Former Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced that he will support Harris in next week’s election. Schwarzenegger, 77, publicly endorsed Harris and her vice presidential pick, Tim Walz, in a lengthy post about He said he felt he had no choice but to do so.
In an op-ed for the Guardian, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders addressed progressives’ concerns about voting for Harris given the Biden administration’s stance on Israel’s war on Gaza. “I know there are millions of Americans who disagree with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on the terrible war in Gaza, and I am one of them,” he wrote. “Donald Trump and his right-wing friends are at fault on this issue,” he added.
Donald Trump Presidential Election News and Updates
Before the Green Bay rally, he refused to apologize for comments he made about Puerto Rico at a rally at Madison Square Garden, repeating his claim that he had no idea who the comedian was or how he was booked. “He’s a comedian, what can I say?” I don’t know anything about him. I don’t know why he’s there. ”
A Pennsylvania judge sided with the Trump campaign Wednesday, agreeing to extend in-person voting options in suburban Philadelphia. Long lines formed on the final day, prompting complaints that voters were being disenfranchised by unprepared election offices.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said a Trump victory next Tuesday would bring “massive” changes to the health care system, including repealing Obamacare. “Health care reform is going to be a big part of the agenda,” Johnson told the audience at a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday. “We said we have a very aggressive plan for the first 100 days, but there are still many things on the table.”
Elsewhere in the campaign
State police announced Tuesday that a former Republican candidate for Congress has been charged with stealing ballots while testing a voting system in Madison County, Indiana. According to Indiana State Police, four voting machines and 136 candidate ballots were marked for testing on Oct. 3, when officials discovered two ballots were missing.
A majority of voters in battleground states don’t think Trump will accept defeat if he loses next week’s presidential election, according to the latest poll, and his supporters are trying to keep him in power. They are concerned that they may turn to violence.
The pace of U.S. economic growth slowed over the summer, but continued to expand for the first time in two years, data released Wednesday showed. U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), a broad measure of economic health, rose 2.8% in the third quarter, short of the 3.1% expected by economists and down from 3% the previous quarter.
Authorities in southwest Washington were able to recover about 500 damaged ballots from a ballot box set on fire Monday in what authorities called an attack on democracy. Someone set up an incendiary device at a drop box in Vancouver, Washington, destroying unspecified ballots, and a fire broke out at a drop box near Portland, Oregon, damaging three ballots. Officials said these fires and others are related.
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