We’re 5 days out and things are ALL over the place with polling and polls and campaigning….
Here’s the latest from the campaign trail.
With Election Day five days away, candidates are all over the campaign trail and the airwaves, pushing their closing messages to an exhausted electorate. President Biden will be in New Mexico and California. Former President Donald J. Trump will be in Iowa. We’ll be right here all day.
Here’s what to know:
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Election officials in multiple states are warning of efforts to intimidate voters and undermine public confidence in the electoral process, even as voter fraud is rare and as they try to reassure Americans that voting is safe and secure.
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Former President Barack Obama campaigned in Arizona late Wednesday, casting the election in that state as a battle for American democracy. On Thursday, President Biden will promote his student debt relief plan in New Mexico and campaign for Representative Mike Levin in San Diego, while Vice President Kamala Harris will speak at a get-out-the-vote event in New York for Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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Former President Donald J. Trump has a rally in Sioux City, Iowa, scheduled for 7 p.m. local time (8 p.m. Eastern).
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Democratic candidates are either avoiding talking about border security or talking about it on Republicans’ terms, as the party’s grass-roots allies struggle for cash and battle burnout.
NY Times…..
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Either way, the GOP agenda would all but certainly lead to dramatic showdowns with Biden and his veto pen, and Democrats are warning of the potential for government shutdowns and dysfunction, while dreading the raft of oversight investigations Republicans will launch if they gain the gavels. Additional aid for Ukraine as it fends off a Russian invasion may also hang in the balance, as a new crop of Republicans who campaigned on stopping it may be settling into the Capitol come January….
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Former President Barack Obama warned Wednesday that if election deniers running for statewide office in Arizona win next week, “democracy as we know it” may die there.
“If you’ve got election deniers serving as your governor, as your senator, as your secretary of state, as your attorney general, then democracy as we know it may not survive in Arizona,” Obama said at a rally in Phoenix. “That’s not an exaggeration. That is a fact.”…
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Biden Tries to Keep the Nation’s Hopes Up
Associated Press: “The upbeat heart of the president’s message is the same wherever he goes. In Detroit or Los Angeles. Syracuse, New York, or Hagerstown, Maryland. To throngs in an auditorium or a few dozen in a weathered union hall, the Democratic president declares he’s never felt more hopeful.”
“Yet this refrain of Biden’s presidency — this promise that things will get better — is butting up against his own dire political projections: A Congress potentially controlled by what he’s labeled ‘ultra-MAGA’ Republicans as he faces midterm elections that will define, and quite possibly stifle, the next two years of his term.”