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Voters in at least 7 states Tuesday are projected to approve constitutional amendments explicitly banning noncitizens from voting in elections.The measure, which was on the ballot in eight states, was approved by voters in Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. Idaho, where voters have also appeared to approve the amendment, did not have enough votes counted on Wednesday morning to announce an official decision.

New Mexico Democratic Rep. Gabriel Vasquez is projected to defeat Republican challenger Yvette Herrell, holding on to his seat for a second term. Vasquez and Herrell previously squared off in the 2022 election cycle, when Vasquez won by less than 1%.Vasquez has represented New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District, which encompasses Las Cruces and a southern portion of Albuquerque, since 2023.

Former President Donald Trump bid farewell to his trademark rallies during an early morning stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, his last event on the 2024 campaign trail.

Shortly before Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage on the “Rocky Steps” of the Philadelphia Art Museum at her final rally before Election Day, billionaire Oprah Winfrey declared her fear a Donald Trump presidency could curtail Americans’ right to vote.

The first results of the 2024 election day are in from Dixville Notch, New Hampshire with former President Donald Trump and Vice-president Kamala Harris splitting the tiny town’s six votes. The final count read out by officials around 12:10 a.m. on Tuesday morning were 3 for Trump and 3 for Harris. The six citizens of Dixville Notch, which is a remote unincorporated township in New Hampshire’s North Country region, cast their ballots at midnight.

Tim Walz spoke about abortion rights to cap off his final campaign rally before Election Day during a barely five minute address to Michigan voters Monday night.At a star-studded campaign rally from Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit on Election Day eve, which included a performance from Jon Bon Jovi and others, Walz told rally goers that he wanted to talk to them about “one issue in particular.

Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, blamed Kamala Harris’ poor leadership over the last four years for the economic woes Americans have faced, such as increased housing costs, lost jobs, inflation and higher than average credit delinquency rates, during a rally in Pennsylvania Monday night.

Actor and comedian Will Ferrell is throwing his star power behind Kamala Harris – it’s just another in a long list of celebrity endorsements for the vice president.In an official Harris campaign ad, Ferrell jokingly threatens voters if they don’t vote for Harris.”This election is going to be one of the closest in history. Your vote will make the difference,” Ferrell begins.He then mocks a voter disagreeing about their vote making a difference.

A federal judge has allowed Iowa officials to continue disputing ballots cast by potential noncitizens, less than two days before Election Day.Judge Stephen Locher, an appointee of President Biden, ruled in favor of the Hawkeye State on Sunday. The state was being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of four recently-documented U.S. citizens and the League of Latin American Citizens of Iowa.

Residents in a Massachusetts community claim they’re being trolled with fake Kamala Harris campaign postcards informing them that a migrant family would be moving in with them because of their support for Vice President Harris.One of the residents of Shrewsbury told NBC10 Boston that she received the postcard after she put a sign in her yard supporting Harris and Tim Walz.”It really creeped me out,” the woman, who did not want to be identified, told NBC10.

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.

Former President Trump’s campaign issued a clarification after he joked about shooting “through the fake news” at a rally on Sunday.Speaking in Lititz,Pennsylvania,, less than two days before Election Day, Trump made the remark while speaking about the July 13 assassination attempt against him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump held competing rallies at the same Friday night, just a few miles apart in battleground Wisconsin’s largest city.With just four days until Election Day, the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees made their final stops in Wisconsin, where nearly all the latest public opinion polls indicate a margin-of-error race between the two candidates.”We got four days to get this thing done. Four days.

Former President Trump on Friday clarified that he meant former Rep. Liz Cheney doesn’t have the “guts” to fight on the front lines of war after he received a backlash from Democrats over comments he made Thursday about having guns trained on her.

Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who has a long history of defending squatters’ rights and decrying foreclosure evictions during the 2008 recession, has filed eviction notices against multiple tenants of properties she owns.One of those eviction petitions, filed in 2021 in Toledo municipal court, was against a tenant for “non-payment of rent,” and that same tenant faced another eviction from Kaptur in 2023 for failing to pay rent.

The House Oversight Committee is applying pressure on the White House to release accurate transcripts, after they allegedly altered President Biden’s remarks after he called Trump supporters “garbage.”House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Oversight Chair James Comer, R-KY, sent a letter to the White House counsel’s office Friday demanding they preserve all documents related to the transcript.

Veterans and military families are falling in by the thousands to staff polling places across the country, according to a veterans’ coalition.Vet the Vote coalition recently announced that after its recruitment efforts, 163,000 veterans and military families will work on Election Day to help facilitate the vote.

Vice President Kamala Harris was mocked by the Trump campaign and other conservatives online for a “word salad” after a heckler interrupted her speech in Nevada on Thursday night.”You know what?” the vice president said in Reno, Nevada after shouting could be heard from the audience as she spoke. “Let me say something about this.””We are here because we are fighting for a democracy. Fighting for a democracy.

Former President Trump was joined onstage at a Nevada rally on Thursday night by the family of a marine veteran who was recently murdered in Mexico. Retired Army Lt. Col. Warren Douglas Quets joined Trump on stage in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson while speaking about his son Nicholas Douglas Quets, a 31-year-old Marine veteran who worked for Pima County, Arizona, on water reclamation projects.

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee on Thursday launched an investigation into the FBI over its alleged “failure to report complete, accurate national crime data.”In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said the bureau “failed to include” in its 2022 data a 4.5% increase in national crime. The FBI had initially reported a 1.

The race for control of the House is tight. The classic political jumpball. It’s hard to judge which way the House will tilt.Republicans are heavily favored to win the Senate. But nearly every competitive Senate contest is razor-thin. Pennsylvania. Ohio. Michigan. Wisconsin. Texas is suddenly in play. Some observers would never rule out Florida. Montana appears to be slipping away from Democrats. Democrats seem in good shape in Arizona.

Billionaire Mark Cuban appeared to try and spin him out of a mess, after making some insulting comments on “the View” about women who support former President Trump.Cuban appeared on ABC’s “The View” on Thursday morning when he made the comments.”Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever,” Cuban said. “It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him.

Vice President Kamala Harris suggested she would sign federal abortion protections into law during a speech in Wisconsin on Thursday evening.”One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree, the government shouldn’t be telling her what to do with her body,” Harris said, referring to women.”When Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom nationwide, as President of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law.

Just six days until Nov. 5 and the day after President Joe Biden called Trump supporters “garbage,” Former President Donald Trump addressed several thousand supporters in Green Bay, Wisconsin, while wearing a garbage worker high visibility vest.Trump explained that his decision to arrive at the rally in a dump truck, dressed in a garbage vest, was made spur of the moment.