The CBS News show “60 Minutes” responded on Sunday to former President Trump’s claims that the network selectively edited an interview with his Democratic opponent, Vice President Harris, to make her look good. "Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris," the...
Former Ohio Gov. Bob Taft, a Republican, threw his support behind Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown (Ohio) in his closely watched reelection bid for the U.S. Senate. In a letter to the editor published Sunday in the Dayton Daily News, Taft said he is still a Republican but will be putting party aside to vote for...
Nearly 1.01 million North Carolinians have already voted in the November general election, state officials reported Sunday. The North Carolina State Election Board said 1,008,123 ballots have already been cast in the 2024 election, including 916,433 ballots cast via in-person early voting, 77,831 ballots via civilian absentee voting, and nearly 14,000 cast via military or overseas absentee...
Former President Trump on Sunday overtook Vice President Harris for the first time in the Decision Desk HQ/The Hill election forecast this cycle. The model predicts Trump has a 52 percent chance of winning the presidency while Harris has a 42 percent chance, as of Sunday. Since late August, the election forecast put Harris’s chances...
Former President Trump and Vice President Harris have focused on religion in recent days as they make their final appeals to Christian voters just weeks before the election. Thursday night’s Al Smith dinner, a major fundraising event hosted by Catholic Charities of New York, served as a kickoff point for a weekend with events targeted...
Fox News’s Howard Kurtz pushed back on former President Trump’s claims about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio during an interview that aired Sunday. “Your famous line about Springfield, Ohio, and I take your point that 15 to 20,000 legal [Haitian immigrants] settling in that area causes a lot of friction,” Kurtz said on his show “MediaBuzz.”...
Overseas voting has become the latest battlefront in Republicans’ legal challenges leading up to the election. Judges in two crucial battleground states, Michigan and Pennsylvania, this week heard Republicans’ claims that officials are improperly accepting thousands of overseas ballots and could be opening the door to fraud. And in North Carolina, a judge is scheduled...
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) said the rhetoric about former President Trump and fascism hurts other Republicans and “needs to stop.” Lawler joined CBS News's “Face the Nation” on Sunday morning to discuss the upcoming election, and host Margaret Brennan asked if Trump was deepening divisions in American politics that adversaries may exploit. “There’s no question...
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) said she expects her state’s election results to be certified the day after the Nov. 5 general election. “In 2020 we had the results of our highest turnout election in Michigan history within 24 hours of the polls closing. The unofficial results were completed by 8 p.m. Wednesday,...
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) criticized a Department of Justice (DOJ) suit against his state over the purging of voter rolls Sunday. “To be clear, this is not a purge,” Youngkin said on “Fox News Sunday” to anchor Shannon Bream about voter roll removals. “This is based on a law that was signed into effect in 2006 by...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday questioned Republicans who take issue with former President Trump’s “rhetoric” and have decided to back Vice President Harris’s presidential bid instead. “To every Republican supporting her, what the hell are you doing? You're supporting the most radical nominee in the history of American politics,” Graham said in an interview...
Former President Trump on Sunday stepped behind the counter at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania, working the drive-thru for a short time after he spent weeks mocking Vice President Harris's past experience at the fast-food chain. Trump traded his suit jacket for an apron at a McDonald's location in Bucks County. He worked the fry cooker...
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) denied there is voting fraud happening in the state as it sees historic early-voting turnout this month. Raffensperger weighed in on claims made by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) about voter fraud in the state after a county experienced an issue with its machines. He said the issue...
