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Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on voter sentiment and last-minute poll surprises
NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including how close the election will be, the favorable result for Kamala Harris in the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll, the surprise poll result from Iowa and the big issues that will win over voters.
How election officials are preparing to fight voter intimidation and potential violence
The threat of political violence still hangs over the country nearly four years after a violent mob tried to overturn the will of the voters. With just one day left of voting, what lessons have we learned and how does the threat compare to the last cycle? Amna Nawaz discussed more with Mary McCord of Georgetown Law School.
Breaking down the paths to Electoral College victory for both Harris and Trump
On election eve, both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are using the final hours of campaigning to make their message clear in key battlegrounds. Lisa Desjardins breaks down the various paths to victory for both candidates.
Heavy rain batters Spain days after catastrophic floods killed at least 200
In our news wrap Monday, heavy rain battered eastern Spain just days after catastrophic floods pummeled the Valencia region, Israel says it has terminated a decades-old agreement that officially recognizes UNRWA, the UN agency providing aid to Gaza and at least 36 people were killed when an overcrowded bus plunged into a gorge in India.
Harris and Trump make last push to reach voters in final hours of voting
With only hours left for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump to reach voters, the candidates are crossing crucial states that could decide the election. More than 80 million Americans have already cast ballots and there are new signs of momentum for the vice president. But neither side is taking anything for granted in the waning hours of this unprecedented election cycle. Laura Barrón-López reports.
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If an election official or board refuses to certify an election, that refusal does not last long. After some refusals in recent years, election officials learned of the legal consequences for failing to perform their obligations, including being removed from office and facing criminal prosecution. Most officials quickly relented and ended up certifying. And none of the delays in certification ever lasted long enough to miss deadlines set by state law for certification.
If election officials still refuse to do their job, they can be sued in court. The secretary of state might sue to ensure officials complete the tasks required for election administration. Or a winning candidate might sue to ensure that he or she receives a certification of election.
What Trump really thinks about the war in Gaza
Trump hasn’t laid out a clear vision for Gaza — and that’s probably deliberate.
Trump’s immigration policies are his old ones — but worse
They include harsh new proposals, and augmented versions of past ideas, too.
Exactly how Trump could ban abortion
Whether the US bans it everywhere could be up to the next president.
Kamala Harris’s big housing plan has a big problem
Affordable housing comes at a cost.
The guessing game over Kamala Harris’s foreign policy
Would Harris differ from Biden? Nobody knows.
Kamala Harris, explained in 7 moments
The rise of Kamala Harris, from San Francisco prosecutor to presidential nominee.
But the arc of the evidence, based on interviews with state, local, and federal election officials, intelligence analysts, and expert observers, bends toward confidence. Since 2020, the nation’s electoral apparatus has upgraded its equipment, tightened its procedures, improved its audits, and hardened its defenses against subversion by bad actors, foreign or domestic. Ballot tabulators are air-gapped from the Internet and voter-verified paper records are the norm. Bipartisan reforms enacted in 2022 make it much harder to interfere with the appointment of electors who represent a state’s popular vote, and harder to block certification in Congress of the genuine electoral count. Courts continue to deny evidence-free claims of meddling. The final word on vote-certification in key swing states rests with governors from both parties who have defied election denialism at every turn.
The system, according to everyone I asked, will hold up against Trump’s efforts to break it.
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The 2024 United States presidential election will be the 60th quadrennial presidential election, set to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024.
Voters in each state and the District of Columbia will choose a slate of electors to the U.S. Electoral College, who will then elect a president and vice president for a term of four years.
The Democratic Party candidate for president is current vice president Kamala Harris and her Vice President is current Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. The Republican Party candidate for president is former president Donald Trump and his vice president is current Ohio Senator JD Vance.
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If you’ve made it this far and you’re still undecided, Sam Harris and Ben Shapiro make the case for their candidates.
Here’s Sam Harris:
There is a positive case to be made for the candidacy of Kamala Harris, but it is not as compelling as the negative one that has been building these last nine years against her opponent, Donald Trump. When I think of Harris winning the presidency this week, it’s like watching a film of a car crash run in reverse: the windshield unshatters; stray objects and bits of metal converge; and defenseless human bodies are hurled into states of perfect repose. Normalcy descends out of chaos. In the same way, many of the reasons to hope for a future Harris administration bear the signs of a peculiar, counterfactual origin: the appalling prospect of Trump winning a second term as president of the United States.
And here’s Ben Shapiro:
So, it’s down to the wire. According to the latest RealClearPolitics polling average, Donald Trump is up in national polling—by 0.1 percent. In Georgia, he’s leading by 2.3 percent; in North Carolina, by 1.5 percent; in Pennsylvania, by 0.3 percent; in Arizona, by 2.6 percent; in Nevada, by 1 percent. Meanwhile, according to that same average, Harris is leading in Michigan by 0.6 percent and in Wisconsin by 0.3 percent. Suffice it to say, every single one of these battleground states is well within the margin of error—meaning that a significant polling error in Trump’s favor turns the election into a blowout for him, and a significant polling error in Harris’s direction turns it into a blowout for her.
Today’s Poll
Is the Des Moines Register poll showing Kamala Harris leading in Iowa an incorrect aberration or a predictor of how the race will end?
Incorrect aberration
Accurate predictor
November 2, 2024 Poll Results
What will be Wednesday’s Headline? (Percentage of 74,591 votes)
38.56% – Harris Wins Decisively
33.33% – Race Too Close To Call
19.02% – Harris Ekes Out Victory
5.71% – Trump Wins Decisively
3.38% – Trump Ekes Out Victory
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Veterans make up about 6 percent of the U.S. adult population and often the veteran headlines focus on negative issues like homelessness, mental health challenges, and problems finding a job.
This Veteran’s Day, The Hill amplifies veterans’ voices from across the country, highlighting their transitions from military life to the workplace environment, their accomplishments and struggles and their real-life stories as a tribute to their service.
As the veteran population has been declining steadily over the years, The Hill‘s Veterans’ Voices show salutes the veterans across the country and will dive into these questions:
How can we better value our veterans at home and at work? What are the top challenges affecting the country’s veterans? What more can policymakers in Washington do to improve the lives of those who are or have served their country? How can the private sector and communities across the country create pathways to opportunity for veterans and their families?
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When: November 12, 2024 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Where: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
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