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    Harris, Trump in Michigan, Georgia; latest polls

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    Only eight days before Election day.

    In the home stretch of the 2024 presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris And former president Donald Trump are focusing on two crucial battlegrounds that could decide the race for the White House: Michigan and Georgia.

    Harris is holding a rally alongside her running mate on Monday, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Meanwhile, Trump is holding his own rally in Atlanta, Georgia, and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, Republican of Ohio, will meet with voters in Wausau, Wisconsin.

    Trump’s campaign shutdown comes after his much-touted rally at Madison Square Garden sparked controversy Sunday with a series of inappropriate jabs at Democrats and a comedian’s warm-up routine that sparked controversy. political fury with a key constituency that Trump hopes to win over in his bid for a second term in the White House.

    At the start of the rally, comedian Tony Hinchliffe, known as Kill Tony, mocked Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage” and also said Latinos had too many children.

    While the Trump campaign subsequently sought to distance itself from this joke, it had already been condemned by fellow republicansbig celebrities and others.

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    New polls show slim Republican leads in Nebraska and Texas Senate races

    New polls from The New York Times/College of Sienaconducted between October 23 and 26, show close Senate races in Nebraska and Texas.

    In Texas, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, a two-term incumbent supported by Trump, leads his Democratic opponent, Rep. Colin Allred, 50% to 46% among 1,180 voters in Texas, according to the poll. Democrats I looked at the seat like one they could possibly overturn to keep control of the Senate, pumping millions of dollars into the race.

    In Nebraska, Republican Sen. Deb Fischer leads her independent opponent Dan Osborn 48% to 46% among 1,194 Nebraska voters. Five percent of potential voters said they were undecided or did not respond.

    – Sudiksha Kochi

    Court rejects Mississippi’s 5-day grace period for mail-in ballots – but policy for 2024 uncertain

    A federal appeals court has revived a Republican lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s grace period for mailed ballots postmarked on Election Day to be counted if they arrive up to five days after Election Day.

    But the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not block the state law allowing the grace period. Instead, the appeals court sent the case back to U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola for further review.

    Guirola in July dismissed the lawsuit filed by the state and the national Republican Party that challenged the grace period approved during the COVID pandemic. “The result: These statutes ‘direct all elections for Congress and the President to be held on the same day throughout the Union,'” Justice Andrew Oldham wrote for the three-judge appeals panel.

    Had the case been appealed to the Supreme Court, it could have had implications, as more than a dozen states have grace periods for mailed, day-postmarked ballots of the ballot, arrive up to 10 days later.

    −Bart Jansen

    Court refuses to revive Virginia policy to remove suspected non-citizens from voter rolls

    A federal appeals court on Sunday rejected a Virginia Republican case that sought to reinstate a voter roll purge of suspected non-citizens.

    U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles on Friday ended the state program that had removed about 1,500 names since Aug. 7 because federal law prohibits removing names from voter rolls within 90 days of an election. She also ordered that the registration of those who had been deregistered be reinstated.

    The state appealed, but the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals upheld Giles’ decision.

    “For the second time in three days, a federal court has ruled that Virginia’s purge of eligible citizens is illegal,” said Ryan Snow, attorney for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “We urge the Supreme Court to put an end to this madness and make clear that preventing eligible citizens from voting is unacceptable.

    −Bart Jansen

    Harris, Trump deadlock in key battleground state, new poll finds

    A new USA TODAY/University of Suffolk Poll found that Trump and Harris are nearly tied in Wisconsin, 48% to 47%, among 500 likely voters. The results were within the poll’s 4.4 percentage point margin of error. The survey was conducted from October 20 to 23.

    In Door County, Wisconsin, which has been a bellwether for the state, Harris has a slight advantage. Harris leads Trump in this area, 50% to 47%, according to the poll of 300 likely Door County voters. The results are still within the margin of error of 5.7 percentage points.

    Wisconsin, which has 10 electoral votes, is among several important swing states that Trump and Harris are considering to help catapult them to the presidency.

    − Rebecca Morin and Sudiksha Kochi

    Is Puerto Rico voting in the 2024 presidential election?

    No, Puerto Rican residents cannot vote for president.

    They can, however, help choose each party’s candidate for president. Political parties have the possibility of including them in the primary selection process.

    Asset won the 2024 Puerto Rico Republican primarywinning 23 of the territory’s Republican delegates.

    − Sudiksha Kochi

    Trump faces backlash from Bad Bunny and Puerto Ricans amid fight for Latino vote

    Puerto Ricans, including Grammy-winning artists Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin, widely condemned Asset according to the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who goes by the name Kill Tony, made fun of the island like a “floating island of garbage” in the former president election rally at Madison Square Garden.

    The backlash comes as Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris are locked in a close race – and are counting on Latino voters to help them get to the White House. Puerto Rican voters living in the United States make up the second-largest Latino group in the country, including in key states like Pennsylvania.

    Facing a growing outcry, Trump senior adviser Danielle Alvarez issued a statement Sunday evening addressing Hinchcliffe’s position. “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” she said.

    − Rebecca Morin and Sudiksha Kochi

    Where do Trump and Harris stand in the polls?

    Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are neck and neck in national polls. Trump leads Harris by 0.1 percentage points in Real Clear Politics’ national polling average, well within the margin of error for each survey included.

    It’s also a close race in battleground states across the country. For example, according to Real Clear Politics’ polling average in Michigan, Trump leads by just 0.2 percentage points.

    –Marina Pitofsky

    Where is Trump campaigning on Monday?

    Trump is holding a rally in Atlanta, Georgia on Monday at 6 p.m. Georgia could easily determine the 2024 election, a crucial southern state that Trump won in 2016 but lost to President Joe Biden in 2020.

    –Marina Pitofsky

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    Where is Harris campaigning on Monday?

    Kamala Harris will hold an event Monday in Ann Arbor, Michigan alongside his vice presidential running mate, Tim Walz, and singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers, his campaign announced Friday.

    Harris has spent a lot of time in Michigan, a key battleground state, lately: earlier this month she organized three events before campaigning in southeast Michigan with rapper Lizzo. Last week, she was in Oakland County with former Republican U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, and she campaigned Saturday with former first lady Michelle Obama.

    –Todd Spangler

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