How ProPublica’s Investigation of a Pregnant Teen’s Death Could Sway Voters

Trump retaining national support among Hispanics despite Puerto Rican backlash

Former President Donald Trump appears to be retaining most of his national support among Hispanic voters days before the presidential election, according to recent polls.

Trump has been facing a furious backlash from some Puerto Ricans and other Latinos following his October 27 rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, which featured comedian Tony Hinchcliffe referring to Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, as a “floating island of garbage.” Trump has so far ignored calls to apologize while insisting that he does not “know” Hinchcliffe.

While the “garbage” remark could hurt Trump in the election in ways that might not be captured by polling—such as increasing turnout among Hispanic voters who support Vice President Kamala Harris—limited polls from the days after the rally suggest that the former president has lost only a small amount of support nationally in the demographic just before Election Day.

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Secretaries of state say they’re ‘ready to protect people who protect democracy’ amid election threats

Secretaries of state on both sides of the aisle have said they are prepared to protect election workers.

Democrats Adrian Fontes, for Arizona, and Michigan’s Jocelyn Benson, and Republicans David Scanlan, for New Hampshire, and Kentucky’s Michael Adams, were discussing threats against election workers on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’

“Just today, we’ve gotten reports about the potential for disturbances on election day throughout the northern part of our state,” Benson said.

“We’re ready, and we have partnerships with law enforcement and others to protect the people who protect democracy,” Benson said.

Scanlan said that he was not aware of any public threats against polling places in New Hampshire but “we’re not being complacent about that either.”

Trump could be about to achieve something that hasn’t happened for 132 years

Donald Trump could make history as only the second U.S. president to serve nonconsecutive terms if he wins the 2024 presidential election, a feat that was last accomplished 132 years ago.

Trump is the first defeated president to run for office again since the late 19th century. While President Theodore Roosevelt ran for a third term in 1912, he was not previously defeated and didn’t secure a major party nomination.

Only one person has served two non-consecutive terms in the White House: Grover Cleveland. The Democrat was first elected president in 1884. He was defeated in his re-election bid in 1888 by Republican Benjamin Harrison despite winning the popular vote on both occasions.

Read More: Donald Trump May Achieve Something That Hasn’t Happened for 132 Years

Trump claims U.S. being taken advantage of by allies, ‘who are worse than our so-called enemies’

Donald Trump claimed, without evidence, that America is being taken advantage of by its allies around the world.

“We’re being taken advantage of by every country all over the world,” he told supporters at a Warren, Michigan rally, “including our allies.”

“In many cases our allies are worse than our so-called enemies,” he added.

Judge denies Musk’s request to move $1 million giveaways lawsuit to federal court

A judge has kicked the legal battle over Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day giveaways to voters, back to state court.

Lawyers for Musk, and his America PAC, filed a “motion of removal” to move the civil case from the state to a federal judge yesterday arguing it involves claims of federal election interference.

But Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who filed the suit, called for it to stay in state court as it “involves state law issues.”

On Friday, a federal judge sent the case back to state court, saying that he doesn’t have jurisdiction.

Musk has been running the million dollar sweepstakes in battleground states to encourage people to register to vote.

Trump says he’s having a bad hair day during rally

Donald Trump told supporters at a rally in Michigan that he was having a “bad hair day.”

The Republican presidential nominee paused his speech on Friday, after pledging to defeat Kamala Harris, to focus on his hair.

“I’m studying my hair,” he said, after a short pause.

“It’s not so good today. It’s not a good hair day. But who cares? Not a good hair day for me, aye, aye, aye.

“I don’t want to look,” he added.

Opinion: The Young Turk’s Cenk Uygur on the ‘real political spectrum’: populism vs establishment

We’re all used to the political spectrum going Left to Right. Almost everyone in politics looks at issues through this prism. I believe they’re missing a second spectrum, however—one that can change how you view all of American politics. This spectrum goes from populist to establishment. Right now, I believe this second dynamic is more important than the first, and is the one driving electoral results.

Let’s take my political beliefs as an illustration. On the Right-Left spectrum, I’m center-Left. I believe in policies like paid family leave, universal health care, and protecting Social Security and Medicare. I don’t believe in defunding the police or decriminalizing border crossings. From this vantage point, I appear to be a moderate Democrat.

However, on the second spectrum I am an enthusiastic populist. I believe members of the establishment exclusively work for their donors, don’t mean a word of what they say, and help to maintain corporate rule over our lives. I believe we should get all big money out of politics, from corporate money to union largesse. I’m against George Soros or Elon Musk funding our elections. This leads me to believe that almost all politicians are enormous frauds. That kind of language will get you escorted out of the building anywhere in D.C., no matter where you are on the Left-Right spectrum.

Read More: The Real Political Spectrum: Populism vs Establishment | Opinion

JD Vance criticizes Harris on underwhelming job growth

JD Vance attacked Kamala Harris on lackluster job growth in October during a Friday campaign event.

America’s employers added just 12,000 jobs in October, the Bureau of Labor Statistics report today showed. It is a marked slowdown from the average forecast of 100,000 in a poll of economists by Bloomberg.

“While Kamala Harris goes out there and brags about the economy being great, we’ve got Michigan families who can’t afford the price of groceries, and importantly, over the last month, our country lost 28,000 private sector jobs — and it actually gets even worse than that. We lost 46,000 manufacturing jobs,” Vance told the crowd at a Michigan airplane hangar.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics report suggests that 44,000 of the 46,000 fewer manufacturing jobs were due to the Boeing’s machinists strike.

Economists have also suggested that recent hurricanes have affected the slower job growth.

The economy has consistently been the most important issue in this election cycle.

Trump suggests he’ll continue rallies even after he’s elected as president

Donald Trump told a crowd that his rallies will continue “in a different form” if he is elected president next week.

“We’ll miss these rallies,” he said as he took to the stage for an event in Warren, Michigan, on Friday, “but there’ll be even better rallies in a different form.”

Arizona AG investigating Trump’s Liz Cheney remark as potential ‘death threat’

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has said she is investigating whether Donald Trump’s remarks about Liz Cheney violated the law.

“I have already asked my criminal division chief to start looking at that statement, analyzing it for whether it qualifies as a death threat under Arizona’s laws,” Mayes said Friday on 12NEWS’ ‘Sunday Square Off.’

“I’m not prepared now to say whether it was or it wasn’t, but it is not helpful as we prepare for our election and as we try to make sure that we keep the peace at our polling places and in our state,” Mayes, a Democrat, said.

Mark Ruffalo touts Harris’ support for Palestine at campaign event

Mark Ruffalo took the stage at a Kamala Harris campaign event in Michigan Friday.

The actor touted the vice president’s support for Palestine, a critical issue for Harris, during his speech.

“I believe Kamala means it when she says ‘Every Palestinian has the right to self determination. She means it,” he said. “And I believe it when she says she’s going to try for a two-state solution.

“We’re not going to bomb our way into a better future.”

Ruffalo is one of many Disney Marvel stars who have endorsed Harris.

The actor joined his fellow ‘Avengers’ Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson in a video call where they expressed their support.

Harris calls Trump’s record on auto industry ‘a disaster’

Kamala Harris laid into Donald Trump’s record on the auto industry on Friday.

Speaking at a campaign event with union leaders in Wisconsin, she said that Trump had promised not shut a single manufacturing plant while he was president. Six closed during his administration, she said.

“Trump’s record on auto industry is a disaster,” she said, adding that he was known for “big empty promises.”

“All talk, no walk,” she said of her Republican presidential candidate rival.

Harris takes to stage with union workers in Wisconsin

Kamala Harris was joined on stage by union members at an event in the battleground state of Wisconsin, on Friday.

The vice president once again told supporters in Janesville, that, “while Donald Trump stews over his enemies list, I will work on my to do list.”

She also emphasized supporting U.S. manufacturing as she was joined by members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and other local union members.

Trump’s favorability has taken a hit in swing states after his Madison Square Garden rally, polls show

Swing voters are not viewing former President Donald Trump favorably following the Republican nominee’s Madison Square Garden rally, according to new polling.

An analysis for Newsweek compiled by Impact Social of US social media discussions from October 25 to 31 of 240,000 posts found that Trump has lost six points in “swing,” or independent voters, sentiment due to “Madison Square Garden racism row.” During the six-day period, Trump experienced 34 percent negative sentiment, 15 percent positive and 51 percent neutral.

Newsweek reached out to Trump’s campaign for comment.

Impact Social’s experts read statistically representative samples of posts to produce an analysis. Each post is read from the perspective of a candidate and whether it is seen as “positive” or “negative” depending on who the post is in favor of. The analysis shows Trump is “around the same position he was four years ago.” Most of the negative discussion he faced recently is around anti-Trump (32 percent), racism (19 percent), the “Trump agenda” (14 percent) and anti-GOP (9 percent).

Read More: Donald Trump’s MSG Rally Cost Him With Swing State Voters

Trump says he and RFK Jr agree ‘very strongly’ on health

Donald Trump said that he and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. agree “very strongly” on healthcare, during a campaign stop in Dearborn, Michigan.

“We’ll be talking about a lot of things, but he’s gonna have a big role in healthcare, very big,” Trump saying last night that Kennedy Jr. could do “anything he wants” in his administration.

“He knows it better than anybody, views that I happen to agree with very strongly, and I have for a long time.”

Harris to spend election night at her HBCU alma mater

Kamala Harris will spend election night at her alma mater Howard University, a her campaign announced.

The Democrat presidential nominee has said previously she’s “proud” to be the first Historically Black College and University (HBCU) vice president.

She told Charlamagne tha God that she “intend[s] to be the first HBCU president of the United States.”

Harris says RFK Jr. is ‘last person in U.S.’ who should be in charge of health

Kamala Harris has warned that Robert F. Kennedy is “the exact last person in America who should be setting health care policy for America’s families and children.”

The vice president was addressing reporters after Donald Trump said Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic, can “do anything he wants” on health care policy under his administration if he wins a second term on Tuesday.

“Trump has indicated that the person who would be in charge of health care for the American people is someone who has routinely promoted junk science and crazy conspiracy theories and who once expressed support for a national abortion ban,” Harris said Friday.

“The exact last person in America who should be setting health care policy for America’s families and children.”

Five takeaways from Michael Wolff’s new allegations about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein

Author and journalist Michael Wolff has made a new series of claims surrounding the relationship between former President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, including what he described as their competitive playboy lifestyles, allegations about a real estate deal in Florida, and a claim that embarrassing photographs of Trump were found in Epstein’s safe.

Wolff, who has written a number of books about Trump, discussed the friendship between the Republican candidate and the late convicted sex offender on his Fire and Fury podcast. The episode was released on Thursday, just five days before the election.

Below, Newsweek has compiled five key moments from Wolff’s podcast. Newsweek has not independently verified these claims and has contacted Trump’s team for comment via email on Friday outside of business hours. This article will be updated if a response is received.

Wolff did not speculate that Trump was involved in the sex trafficking, and other crimes, committed by the billionaire financier for years, but he did say that the former president would have been aware of “girls” being at Epstein’s home.

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Washington Post columnist quit after storming out of live podcast

Longtime Washington Post columnist Hugh Hewitt has quit after storming out of the newspaper’s live podcast today.

“I’m done. This is the most unfair election ad I have ever been a part of,” he said, pulling off his headpiece and walking out on the Washington Post Live show.

Hewitt had been discussing the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, voting lawsuit with WashPo’s Jonathan Capehart and Ruth Marcus when he accused them of unfair reporting.

“We are news people even though we have opinions but we have to report the whole story if we bring up part of the story,” he said.

He later confirmed he had resigned to Fox News.

Walz tells autoworkers union ‘the only thing Trump knows how to manufacture is bullsh*t’

Tim Walz told an autoworkers union Friday that for all Donald Trump’s talk about manufacturing, “the only thing he knows how to manufacture is bullsh*t.”

“The only thing Donald Trump knows about working people and middle class people is how to take advantage of them,” the Democratic vice presidential candidate said at the UAW union hall in Taylor, Michigan.

“He talks about manufacturing. The only thing he knows how to manufacture is bullsh*t.”

Walz also warned that Trump’s previous promises that no U.S. manufacturing plants would close under his presidency had been proven to be false.

“He said under his presidency you won’t lose a single plant. Technically he did not lie, you lost six plants,” he said.

Bill Clinton takes the stage at Harris campaign event in Maine

Bill Clinton joined Maine U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree at the Portland, Maine, campaign event on Friday.

The former president took to the stage in front of around 500 Kamala Harris supporters on Friday afternoon in a final push to persuade undecided voters.

Trump campaign claims Cheney remarks were taken out of context

Donald Trump’s spokesperson Karoline Leavitt has claimed that his comments about putting a gun in the face of Liz Cheney were being taken out of context.

“President Trump was clearly explaining that warmongers like Liz Cheney are very quick to start wars and send other Americans to fight them, rather than go into combat themselves,” she wrote on X, along with a clip of Trump at the campaign event where he attacked Cheney.

“Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her,” Trump said in the clip. “OK, let’s see how she feels about it.

“You know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let’s send a — let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.'”

Republican voters skeptical if ballots will be counted accurately

Some Republican voters have expressed skepticism over their ballots being counted accurately in the upcoming 2024 Presidential election, a new poll found.

On Friday, a poll released by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that Republicans are significantly more doubtful than Democrats about the accuracy of ballot counting.

44 percent of Republicans lack confidence in accurate counts

The poll found that 49 percent of registered Republican voters express “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence in their local election officials to count votes accurately, while roughly 4 in 10 feel the same about their state’s count.

However, when it comes to nationwide vote counts, only 24 percent of Republicans said they have “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence that their vote will be accurately counted. According to the poll, 44 percent of Republicans said they have “only a little” or “none at all” when asked about confidence levels that their vote will be accurately counted nationwide.

Republican voters’ trust levels across all three categories fall notably below those of Democrats. Approximately three-quarters of Democratic voters express at least “quite a bit” of confidence in the accuracy of vote counts at the local, state, and national levels.

According to the poll, voters are generally more confident in the accuracy of vote counts handled by their local election officials or within their state than they are in the national tally. About 6 in 10 voters express “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of trust in local or state-level vote counting for the 2024 presidential election, while only around half hold the same confidence in the nationwide count.

Read More: Republicans Skeptical Ballots Will Be Counted Accurately, Poll Finds

Trump will win in ‘landslide,’ predicts former Clinton adviser

Dick Morris, a former adviser to Bill Clinton, predicted on Thursday that Donald Trump, the GOP nominee, will win this year’s presidential election by a “landslide.”

Morris appeared on The Jeff Katz Show on Thursday where a variety of topics from transgender surgeries to Trump’s McDonald’s appearance as well as Electoral College predictions were discussed. Morris predicted an upset for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign which would branch from all of the swing states as well as “a few surprises.”

“I think Trump is going to win and I don’t think it’s going to be that close,” Morris said. “I think that he’ll win the popular vote narrowly but that will translate into an electoral landslide.”

Read More: Donald Trump Will Win in ‘Landslide,’ Ex-Clinton Adviser Predicts

Florida election workers ‘bombarded’ with threats as vitriol ‘escalates’

Election workers in Duval County, Florida, say they are receiving calls and threats after a viral video showed an employee telling a man that he could not film inside a polling station.

County elections supervisor Jerry Holland shared one text he received with local station News4JAX, calling him a “Nazi” and threatening to dox him and his family.

“We are going to let everyone know where you live to redress their government,” it read.

Holland said that he’d worked in politics for 25 years but he’d seen hatred and vitriol escalating in recent years.

Walz makes final pitch to voters in battleground Michigan at Detroit event

Minnesota Gov. and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is speaking at a campaign event in Detroit, Michigan, to make a final appeal to voters in the swing state.

Walz will later travel to Flint for a campaign rally before traveling to Traverse City where he will deliver remarks at 5pm

Dog sniffs out Trump as winner as it predicts election 2024 results

In a lighthearted twist on election predictions, a dog named Joy has emerged as the latest oracle for the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Vice President Kamala Harris of the Democratic Party is engaged in a razor-thin race with her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump.

With days to go until the election, Newsweek can exclusively reveal the K-9’s pick among the two major party candidates.

Joy was presented with a picture of both presidential candidates and two identical treats.

Read More: Dog Predicts 2024 Presidential Election, Sniffs Out Donald Trump as Winner

Historian who successfully called 9 out of 10 presidential elections reveals his 2024 prediction

Polling Nostradamus Allan Lichtman has released his prediction of who he thinks will be the next President of the United States.

Election forecaster Lichtman has correctly predicted the outcomes of nine out of the last ten presidential elections.

And he believes it is Kamala Harris who will win on November 5.

In a clip on his YouTube channel, Lichtman said that he was sticking by his prediction for Harris that he made last month.

“Nothing has changed to change my prediction,” he said, despite polls putting Harris and Donald Trump neck and neck in many states.

Walz releases ‘final pep talk’ ahead of election

Democrat vice president nominee and former football coach Tim Walz has released a final pep talk for voters ahead of the election.

“Huddle up, America. Time for one last pep talk,” Walz said in a video, shared on X.

“It’s the final quarter. But we’ve got the ball and the right team to win this. Let’s get out there and vote.”

Don Jr. and Megyn Kelly leads Trump supporters dressing as ‘garbage’ for Halloween

Donald Trump Jr. and commentator Megyn Kelly were among a number of Republicans and Trump supporters dressing as trash for Halloween in a dig at Biden’s “garbage” comment.

Kelly posted a picture of herself in a black trash bag and MAGA cap on X, with the caption “Happy Halloween Garbage People!”

Donald Trump’s oldest son also donned a MAGA cap and trash bag, as well as pieces of trash as he posed with his family on Halloween in a picture on Instagram.

“Happy Halloween,” he captioned the picture. “Embrace their hate and own it. I’m garbage like the rest of you deplorable and irredeemables!!! Love you all hope you have a blast tonight.”

Meanwhile, Trump supporters in Nevada last night wore fluorescent safety vests and trash bags.

Biden has said that he was referring to a joke made by a comedian at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden when he appeared to refer to Trump supporters as “garbage.”

Blow to Harris as report shows stalling job growth

With only four days to go before Election Day, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris got an unfavorable non-farm payrolls report, which shows that job creation stalled as a likely consequence of the untimely combination of Hurricanes Helene and Milton and the Boeing’s machinists’ strike.

Payroll employment remained essentially unchanged in October, with employers adding just 12,000 positions, far below the average forecast of 100,000 in a poll of economists by Bloomberg. The unemployment rate staying flat at 4.1 percent, according to the report published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday morning.

The economy has consistently been the most important issue in this election cycle. According to polling conducted exclusively by Redfield & Wilton Strategies in October on behalf of Newsweek, 51 percent of voters think the economy is heading in the wrong direction, while 30 percent believe it is going in the right direction.

Read More: Kamala Harris Gets Bad News on Economy as Jobs Report Underwhelms

Ex-Trump aide Griffin condemn his remarks saying Cheney should have ‘guns trained on her face’

Former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin has condemned comments by Donald Trump, calling for Liz Cheney to have “guns trained on her face.”

Griffin called the remarks “dangerous” and “unconscionable” and said she “doesn’t know how Republican leaders who served with Liz Cheney” were not also denouncing it.

“It’s escalatory,” she added during an appearance on CNN Friday. “He’s also already called for war tribunals against her when he’s back as president. It is so unpresidential and reckless and dangerous.

“It needs to be universally condemned.”

Doug Emhoff says it ‘p*sses’ him off when Trump attacks Harris’ intelligence

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff has said it infuriates him when Donald Trump attacks his wife Kamala Harris’ intelligence.

“As a husband, it p*sses me off,” Emhoff said on MSNBC’s Last Word on Thursday evening. “But as a first gentleman, someone who hopes to be the first gentleman, married to the next president of the United States, we cannot be distracted by it.

“So, no matter how I feel about it as her husband, I’ve got to put it to the side so we don’t get distracted, so we focus on this mission of getting her elected. We’re not going to let anything get in our way,” he added.

Vance tells supporters to ‘stop worrying about polls’

JD Vance has told supporters to “stop worrying about polls” after new polls showed Kamala Harris taking a big lead in early voting.

“Stop worrying about polls and go get people to the polls. I am 100 percent sure we have the electorate we need to win,” he wrote on X.

He added that in 2022, the Marist poll had his Ohio Senate race tied.

“I won by more than 6,” he said.

The vice president has an advantage of between 19 and 29 percentage points ahead of Trump, New York Times-Siena College, CNN, ABC News-Ipsos polls show.

OPINION: Short memories are the gravest threat to the American Republic

If you’re still a undecided in the presidential election, you’re not alone: up to 13 percent of voters may be in the same boat, according to Change Research—having doubts, or looking at a third party, or just not being sold yet.

To get unstuck, try this short exercise. It’s three easy steps that can make things a lot clearer.

First, remember what things were like at the end of the 2010s. It’s hard, because it was 6 or 7 years and a pandemic ago, but cast your mind back. Donald Trump was president. He had come from a business that looked glitzy and successful, but turned out was mostly made up by Hollywood and based on a ton of fraud. Many of his top political allies were actually sketchy con men who eventually went to prison. Trump ended up filling his administration with unqualified grifters who didn’t know how to run things, like him.

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1600 Newsletter: More than 62 million voters across the country have voted early with a rough 50-50 early vote split

Election Day is only four days away, but millions of Americans aren’t waiting until Nov. 5.

More than 62 million voters across the country have voted early by mail or in-person, and that number will grow over the weekend as voters head to the polls to avoid long lines on Tuesday.

What do we know from the early vote picture so far? Not much, other than state-by-state totals and a partisan breakdown in states that have party registration.

But the available data shows a roughly 50-50 early vote split between Democrats and Republicans, mirroring most national and swing state polls that have Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump in a virtual tie. The 2024 presidential election is a true toss-up–and perhaps the hardest race to predict one way or the other in the last several election cycles.

Buckle up for a frantic finish, as Trump and Harris crisscross the country making their final pitch to voters in the key battleground states.

Read on for news on a busy week in Washington and on the campaign trail, and a look ahead at what’s in store before polls close on Nov. 5.

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Campaign tracker: Where are the candidates today?

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are in the Rust Belt in a push for the battleground states with just a few days to go before the election.

The Republican presidential candidate is doing a rally Warren, Michigan this afternoon before heading to Wisconsin, in Milwaukee.

JD Vance will also be in Michigan for a Portage rally.

Harris will also be in the Midwest with a rally in Wisconsin, with campaign events in Appleton and Milwaukee.