57.5 million people have already voted in US electionsAnna Betts
With six days until the 2024 election, more than 57.5 million Americans have already cast their votes as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the University of Florida’s Election Research Institute.
Of the 57 million people, just over 30 million voted early in person and about 27 million voted early by mail.
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Updated to 17.08 EDT
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Trump is at the end of his life. “The bottom line is,” he says, repeating various falsehoods, mostly about Harris, whom he previously criticized for talking too much about himself.
Trump starts with a lot of things to make America again. These include “health,” “pride,” “safety,” and, of course, “great.”
President Trump is once again at the mercy of the Village People’s gay anthem, YMCA.
Village People sent Trump a cease and desist letter in 2023, asking him to stop using the song at campaign events.
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The Guardian’s Alice Herman is in Madison, Wisconsin, for the Kamala Harris event. She reports:
British folk-pop band Mumford & Sons are currently performing, aimed at older millennial rally-goers who seem to be far more into this set than Gracie Abrams’ younger fans. It is something that (A young woman who sobbed throughout Abrams’ set seems unfazed by Mumford & Sons so far).
Ms. Harris has fielded a string of celebrity supporters and performers at her rallies so far this year, from Beyoncé, who appeared at Mr. Harris’ rally in Texas, to Jennifer Lopez, who is scheduled to perform at a rally in Nevada later this week. I’ve been doing it.
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The Guardian’s Alice Herman is in Madison, Wisconsin, for the Kamala Harris event.
According to her report, popular Gen Z singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams is performing at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, and Harris is scheduled to speak there soon. Her performance probably appealed to some people in the audience, including the young woman on the riser to my left who sobbed and sang every lyric during Abrams’ performance. It was
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President Trump played a video about Jocelyn Nungaray, who was murdered in Texas by two Venezuelan men who entered the country illegally when she was 12 years old.
This video, in which Nungarai’s mother talks with her daughter about what happened, is very sad.
Trump has spoken about Nungarai before. During Trump’s presidential debate against then-presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, he repeatedly brought up her murder and assault.
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Updated to EDT 20.16
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As President Trump begins to talk about his “favorite chart,” the illegal immigration chart he was talking about when a gunman tried to kill him on stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, a woman in the audience yells, “Fight!” I started. fight! fight! “
Those were the words President Trump shouted as he was being chased away by the Secret Service that July afternoon, and they became a rallying cry for his supporters.
The audience listened to the chant, and Mr. Trump paused to soak in the chant, before saying: “He’s an aggressive young man. He’s going to go all over the place.”
Apparently he didn’t really see who started the chant.
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Updated to EDT 20.13
President Trump continues to make well-worn racist and false statements about immigration.
He claims that he wants to “protect our country’s women from immigration.”
He said he was going to protect women “whether they like it or not.”
This is a statement with threatening overtones, given that President Trump has boasted about restricting women’s access to abortion. This is a procedure that could be key to keeping women safe. He did this despite the fact that the majority of Americans support abortion rights.
More than 60% of Americans now think abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
“Roe v. Wade is settled,” President Trump boasted.
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Updated to EDT 20.11
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris has arrived in Wisconsin and is scheduled to speak within 90 minutes.
Poole reports that her stepdaughter, fashion darling Ella Emhoff, is also with her. The New York Times called her “the second daughter of downtown New York” in a profile published this week.
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Updated to 20.06 EDT
President Trump has said that he has sold 10,000 Kuromaga hats, but it is unclear whether this is true.
The red MAGA hat is the most famous Trump supporter accessory and was the subject of an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” or the inciting incident.
And recently:
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Updated to EDT 20.07
President Trump claims his job is “very dangerous” but if he had to do it again he would do it “every time.”
Trump was wounded in an assassination attempt in July in which the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed. In September, a second person, Ryan Wesley Routh, was indicted on charges of attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate. Authorities say he camped outside Donald Trump’s golf course for 12 hours before being spotted by the Secret Service with a rifle. He has pleaded not guilty to attempted assassination of the former president and other federal charges.
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Updated to 19.57 EDT
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The orange reflective vest Donald Trump wears makes him look even more orange, at least on the Jumbotron at the Resch Center.
Trump’s orange-tinted skin color is a distinctive part of his appearance, often mocked by the left and ridiculed by the right with “orange guys are bad” memes aimed at the ire of liberals. Ta.
President Trump, who rarely wears anything other than a suit (other than when playing golf), is clearly trying to make the most of Joe Biden’s comments yesterday, in which the president called his supporters “trash” However, the White House disputes this.
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Updated to 19.48 EDT
Mr. Trump has been acting up a bit lately, like he’s hesitant to wear a vest on stage and wonders if it’s okay to wear it over a suit.
He said his campaign staff told him it would make him look thinner, and he was sold on the idea at that point. It got laughs and applause from the crowd.
“I’ll never wear a blue jacket again,” he says.
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Updated to 19.46 EDT
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The audience at Green Bay’s Resch Center stood for the first 10 minutes of Trump’s speech, but now they are sitting in their seats.
It’s worth listening to President Trump’s speech to calm down. The former president makes all sorts of excuses, and these days his speeches stretch to about 90 minutes (the length of a movie).
He just played a video of Kamala Harris mentioning his name in a speech, which drew loud applause.
Donald Trump greeted supporters Wednesday at a campaign event at the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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President Trump played recordings of his opponent, Kamala Harris, using his name about 15 times during speeches during the campaign.
“She and Joe have no track record, so this is all she’s talking about,” Trump falsely says.
He keeps talking about Harris.
Then Trump says some crap.
One of his advisors said, “Sir, the hottest word right now is trash.”
Election staff hurriedly arranged for a garbage truck, but he said he felt uncomfortable driving it while wearing a suit. “And they said, sir, we have the best.”
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Updated to 19.46 EDT
Tram says that “the most beautiful words for me” are “first is religion, second is love.”
He paused for a moment, then said, “And tariffs, number three.”
He said this earlier:
President Trump has promised to impose tariffs on all imports in a bid to boost U.S. manufacturing, but economists say the proposal would likely mean higher prices for consumers and hurt U.S. allies. I think it will make him angry.
The International Monetary Fund this week revised up its outlook for the UK economy, warning that tariffs could hurt global growth.
The Washington-based group said the tariffs would spark a tit-for-tat trade war and deplete the conflict-torn economies and the broader global economy.
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Updated to 19.37 EDT
Let me remind you what Trump is spouting.
On Tuesday, Biden appeared to call supporters of Donald Trump “trash.”
The president said he was not referring to Trump supporters, but rather comedians, Latinos, who appeared at Trump’s rallies and made several racist remarks, including calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of trash.” He made it clear that he meant his attitude toward Americans. Biden’s remarks were recorded in the official record. “The only garbage I see is that it’s unconscionable and un-American to demonize his supporters, him, his Latinos.” Nevertheless, this comment , sparking echoes of Hillary Clinton’s infamous “basket of deplorables” crackdown on some Trump supporters in 2016.
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Updated to 19.36 EDT
“By the way, I want to thank all of the amazing sanitation workers across America,” Trump said, continuing in the garbage truck driver’s tone.
