There are 21 days left until the final vote for the 2024 presidential season. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are struggling to win and turn out Black voters, women and other key constituencies in what appears to be a very close election.
The Republican coalition backing Harris will campaign with the Democratic presidential candidate in pivotal Pennsylvania before she sits down with Fox News for an interview that will air Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Meanwhile, GOP candidate Donald Trump is scheduled to appear on TV at two town halls Wednesday. One with a women-only audience recorded Tuesday by Fox News Channel, and the other with Hispanics hosted by Univision, the largest Spanish-language TV network in the United States. .
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Former first lady Michelle Obama is set to headline a high-turnout celebrity “Post at the Polls” rally in Atlanta aimed at engaging young and first-time voters as well as voters of color.
The Oct. 29 event will be hosted by When We All Vote, a nonpartisan civic engagement organization founded by President Obama in 2018 to “change the culture around voting” and reach people who are less likely to participate in politics and elections.
The group’s co-chairs include professional basketball players Stephen Curry and Chris Paul. musicians Becky G, H.E.R., Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez and Janelle Monáe; beauty influencer Bretman Rock; Actors Tom Hanks, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Kerry Washington.
The group has hosted more than 500 “Polls at the Polls” events, ranging from pop-up block parties in Las Vegas, Phoenix and Philadelphia to voter registration partnerships with professional sports leagues and music festivals. Executive Director Beth Lynk said the group chose Atlanta as the location for Obama’s appearance because of the state’s diversity and the impact that only a small number of voters in Georgia can make.
“Many people don’t believe their vote has power. But they are plain and simple,” Lynk said. “We know that democracy must work for all of us and that is what we will emphasize at this rally.”
The Republican coalition supporting Kamala Harris will campaign with the Democratic presidential candidate in pivotal Pennsylvania before she goes to Fox News for an interview to air Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Meanwhile, GOP candidate Donald Trump is scheduled to appear on TV at two town halls Wednesday. One with a women-only audience recorded Tuesday by Fox News Channel, and the other with Hispanics hosted by Univision, the largest Spanish-language TV network in the United States. .
As the election enters its final three weeks, Harris is expected to talk about how to protect the Constitution and uphold patriotism in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Bucks County, Pennsylvania is a suburb of Philadelphia where Democrats held a narrow lead in recent presidential elections. She will be flanked by former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and other Republican officials who say Trump is a threat to American democracy.
Trump’s Univision event in Miami on Wednesday afternoon is scheduled to air at 10 p.m. Trump is hoping to grow Latino support even as he focuses his campaign on his dark views on immigration, which suggest immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the nation.
American men, Donald Trump and his allies want you to believe that your vote means a lot about your masculinity. The Republican candidate is strengthening his ultra-masculine tone and support for traditional gender roles, reflecting his intra-campaign surgical campaign for the male vote in his race against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
But while Harris uses profanity and occasionally deploys scolding “friends” to bolster her support, especially among black and Hispanic men, the Trump camp uses alpha-male terminology, often crude and degrading language. I’m meeting them.
“If you’re a man in this country and you don’t vote for Donald Trump, you’re not a man,” Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk said on his podcast.
Both camps are reaching beyond their ideological bases, with the razor-sharp race elevating the importance of the small cachet of voters who are either aloof or on the fence.
“Would you ever sit back and support someone who has a history of belittling you? Because you think that’s a sign of strength, and that’s what being a man is?” Former President Barack Obama scolded black men in Pennsylvania, the biggest battleground, last week. “That is unacceptable.”
An Associated Press investigation found that more than 63,000 Georgia voters have challenged their eligibility since July 1. That’s a significant jump from 2023 and the first half of 2024, when AP identified about 18,000 voters with objections. But in recent months, only about 1% of those who have objected have been removed from the voting rolls or placed in challenge status, most of them in one county.
The challenge is part of a broader national effort coordinated by Donald Trump’s allies to recruit Republican activists to remove people they deem suspect from voting rolls.
Georgia’s push is part of a national effort coordinated by Donald Trump’s allies to remove people they deem suspects from voting rolls. Efforts to purge voters have prompted an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department, which issued a seven-page guidance memo in September aimed at limiting the problem and blocking parts of the new Georgia law, citing the 1993 National Voter Registration Act. I did it.
“The most beautiful word in the dictionary is ‘tariff,’” Donald Trump said at the Economic Club of Chicago.
He defended his plan to impose high tariffs on imports as an economic panacea, despite warnings from economists that companies would pass the costs on to American consumers, raising prices and deepening inflation.
President Trump claimed that if he could return to the White House, “inflation would completely disappear.”
Most mainstream economists say Trump’s policy proposals will make inflation worse. Deporting millions of immigrant workers and demanding they have a say in the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy would also send prices skyrocketing, they say.
Sixteen Nobel Prize-winning economists signed a letter in June expressing concerns that Trump’s proposal would ‘reignite’ inflation, which has plummeted since peaking at 9.1% in 2022 and is almost back at the Fed’s 2% target. .
Last month, the Peterson Institute for International Economics predicted that President Trump’s policies – deportations, import taxes and efforts to weaken the independence of the Federal Reserve – would cause consumer prices to rise sharply as he enters his second year in office. Peterson’s analysis concluded that if Trump’s economic proposals were adopted, inflation, which would hit 1.9% in 2026, would instead jump to between 6% and 9.3%.
A judge has blocked a new rule in Georgia that would have required Election Day ballots to be counted by hand after polls closed. The same judge ruled a day earlier that county election officials cannot refuse to certify election results by the deadline set by law.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney did the hand-counting late Tuesday while considering the merits of challenges from Democrats and liberal voting rights groups who have raised concerns that Donald Trump’s allies could refuse to certify the results if the former president loses. It prevented enforcement of the rules. Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
They also argued that new rules enacted by a majority of state election boards that Trump supported could be used to stop or delay certification and undermine public confidence in the results.
