Trump rides high after MSG rally as he and Harris near one week to Election Day

On Monday, Former President Trump held events in Georgia while Vice President Harris campaigned in Michigan.

Trump spoke at a gathering of more than 1,000 pastors in Atlanta Monday afternoon before hosting a rally in the city later in the day. Trump's running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, spoke in Wisconsin Monday afternoon.

Harris, meanwhile, held a rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. First lady Jill Biden and Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz made a joint campaign stop in Traverse City, Michigan.

Former President Barrack Obama also stumped for Harris at a rally in Philadelphia.

USA Today announced it will not endorse a candidate in next week's presidential race, which comes after The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post each declined to endorse a candidate, enraging those two papers' respective editorial boards.

Notably, USA Today offered its first-ever endorsement to President Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

More than 200 U.S. outlets under USA Today's parent company, Gannett, will also not support candidates in presidential or national races.

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Election swing state Michigan will be decided by which campaigns can get the most voters out to the polls in the final week of the race, according to multiple experts.

"The campaign’s No. 1 priority and the party’s priority right now is getting our people out to vote," Jimmy Keady, the founder and president of Republican consulting firm JLK Political Strategies, told Fox News Digital.

The comments come with just one week to go in a dramatic election season, with just a handful of battleground states in play that will decide the fate of the race.

Perhaps the most important of those states is Michigan, a swing state that narrowly went to Donald Trump in 2016 before flipping back to Joe Biden in another close race in the 2020 election.

Polls indicate yet another tight race brewing in the state, with the RealClearPolitics polling average showing a razor-thin 0.1 point lead for Trump as of Monday. Meanwhile, the latest Fox News Power Rankings lists Michigan as a toss-up, and Trump is only a slight betting favorite in the state, with ElectionBettingOdds.com showing the former president with a 53.2% chance of carrying the state as of Monday.

According to Keady, the part of the race in which candidates attempt to persuade voters is mostly over, with Michigan coming down to who has the ground game to get the numbers out between now and next Tuesday. Republicans will also be focused on turning out low propensity voters, Keady said, a demographic the party has targeted in the hopes the group could potentially push them over the top.

"A lot of these campaigns are going to be focused a lot on low propensity voters … voters that are voting in like one out of four elections, making sure that they’re hit several times, making sure we’re dragging people out to the polls to vote," Keady said.

Jason Roe, a GOP strategist working in Michigan, echoed a similar sentiment, telling Fox News Digital that the time to persuade undecided voters is mostly over.

"There’s not a lot of undecided voters left, but there’s untapped voters who've never heard from a Republican campaign," Roe said. "In addition to getting mail-in ballots returned and people to vote early, finding and mobilizing low propensity voters and getting them to the polls is everyone’s focus."

Read the full article by Fox News' Michael Lee.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday addressed pro-Palestinian demonstrators who interrupted her campaign speech in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Protesters have interrupted several of her recent campaign speeches to criticize the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the war in Gaza.

"On the subject of Gaza — hey guys, I hear you — on the subject of Gaza, we all want this war to end as soon as possible and get the hostages out and I will do everything in my power to make it so," Harris said on Monday.

"We're not about the enemy within, we know we’re all in this together. That's what we are fighting for," she continued, referring to former President Trump's recent claim that the "enemy from within" want "to make this country unsuccessful."

Several prominent media outlets faced backlash last week for inaccurately suggesting that Beyoncé would perform at Vice President Kamala Harris' rally in Houston, Texas.

The Houston-born singer, whose hit song "Freedom" has been adopted by the vice president as her campaign trail anthem, spoke ahead of Harris and introduced her at the event, which leaned heavily into reproductive rights.

Ahead of the event, USA Today published a headline, "Watch live: Beyoncé returns to hometown of Houston to perform at Kamala Harris rally." The article also included a video livestream counting down to the singer's performance — which never materialized.

A similar claim came from NPR, which touted the coalition of Beyoncé fans and Harris supporters.

"BeyHive meets KHive: Beyoncé set to perform at Houston rally for Harris," the headline read.

Vanity Fair also highlighted a source outside the Harris campaign who claimed Beyoncé was expected to perform "Freedom" for those in attendance.

Voices on MSNBC also hyped up a performance from the pop star, often citing an NBC News report that highlighted sources close to the rally.

Read the full article by Fox News' Nikolas Lanum.

USA Today has announced that it, too, is choosing not to endorse any candidate in the 2024 presidential race, following other high-profile newspapers like The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times.

"While USA TODAY will not endorse for president, local editors at publications across the USA TODAY Network have the discretion to endorse at a state or local level," USA Today spokesperson Lark-Marie Antón told Fox News Digital.

"Why are we doing this? Because we believe America's future is decided locally – one race at a time. And with more than 200 publications across the nation, our public service is to provide readers with the facts that matter and the trusted information they need to make informed decisions," the spokesperson added.

Notably, USA Today previously offered its first-ever endorsement to President Biden in the 2020 presidential election and sided with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016, although stopping short of making an official endorsement in opposition to former President Trump.

This comes just days after both The LA Times and The Washington Post announced they would refrain from offering an endorsement ahead of Election Day.

Read the full article by Fox News' Joseph A. Wulfsohn.

Podcast host Joe Rogan said Vice President Kamala Harris has not passed on his offer to appear on his podcast, but that her team had proposed an alternative venue and a shorter conversation than his typical three-hour episodes.

This comes after former President Trump sat down with Rogan on Friday for a three-hour conversation on the podcast "The Joe Rogan Experience" in Austin, Texas.

"[For] the record the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast," Rogan wrote Tuesday morning on the social media platform X.

"They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour," he continued. "I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen."

Former President Barrack Obama told a crowd at a rally in Philadelphia while stumping for Vice President Kamala Harris not to give former President Donald Trump credit for sending out stimulus checks during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.

Obama noted that Congress first approved the checks and that President Biden also sent stimulus checks out amid the pandemic after he took office in 2021.

"I often hear folks say, 'Donald Trump sent me a check during the pandemic,'" Obama said.

"I want to make sure you understand this: Congress sent you a check," he continued. "By the way, Joe Biden also sent you a check during the pandemic, just like I gave people relief during the Great Recession. The difference is that we didn't put our names on it – because it wasn't about feeding our egos or advancing our politics, it was about helping people."

Obama added: "So don't be giving him credit for that. And don't give him your vote, either. There's only one candidate in this election who cares about you, and that's Kamala Harris."

Twenty-six Republican attorneys general joined Virginia on Monday in urging the Supreme Court to halt a lower court decision that restored the voting rights of 1,600 residents.

The amicus brief backs Virginia’s contention that the ruling is overly broad and lacks standing under a provision of the National Voter Registration Act (NRVA), which orders states to halt all "systematic" voter roll maintenance 90 days before an election. It now has the support of every Republican-led U.S. state, giving it outsize attention in the final stretch before the election.

In the amicus brief, attorneys general urged the court to grant Virginia’s emergency motion and "restore the status quo," noting that doing so "would comply with the law and enable Virginia to ensure that noncitizens do not vote in the upcoming election."

The states also sided with Virginia in objecting to the Justice Department’s reading of NVRA protections, which they said was overly broad.

Moreover, they said, the law in place in Virginia was not designed to "systematically" remove residents from the voter rolls, as Justice Department officials cited in their lawsuit earlier this month.

The Justice Department had argued the removals were conducted too close to the Nov. 5 elections and violated the "quiet period" provision under NVRA. That contention was backed by a federal judge in Alexandria, which ordered the affected voters back on the rolls, and upheld by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Justice Department had argued the removals were conducted too close to the Nov. 5 elections and violated the "quiet period" provision under NVRA. That contention was backed by a federal judge in Alexandria, which ordered the affected voters back on the rolls, and upheld by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Read the full article by Fox News' Breanne Deppisch.

Former President Barack Obama headlined a Monday stump speech in support of Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia, spending most of his remarks criticizing former President Trump and at one point appearing to admonish men who, as a voting bloc, are more favorable to him than the Democratic nominee.

Speaking at the Liacouras Center, home of the Temple Owls in North Philadelphia, Obama followed a slew of speakers and performers, including Bruce Springsteen, John Legend, Philadelphia Democratic Mayor Cherelle Parker and Sen. Robert P. Casey, Jr., D-Pa.

"Do not dilly or dally… get out there," Obama said, addressing Pennsylvanians yet to cast a ballot on the penultimate day of early voting.

Obama slammed Trump for what he called the "Muslim ban" and claims the Republican denies that he had once referred to fallen American soldiers as "losers and suckers."

"I've noticed this, especially with some men who seem to think Trump's behavior is somehow a sign of strength. You know, sort of the macho; fake-macho thing – I'm here to tell you that's not what real strength is," Obama said near the close of his speech, after criticizing Trump's New York City rally for featuring crude comic Kill Tony, who referred to Puerto Rico as an "island of garbage."

"How can you tell yourself that it's OK [to vote for Trump] as long as our side wins?" he said, later adding, "Real strength is about working hard. Real strength is about taking responsibility and real strength is about telling the truth even when it's inconvenient. Real strength is about being comfortable enough to treat everybody with dignity and respect. Real strength is about helping people who need it, and standing up for those who can't always stand up for themselves."

Springsteen, who also notably performed on Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway for then-Illinois Sen. Obama during the 2008 cycle, ripped into Trump during his breaks.

At one point, the septuagenarian Jersey rocker declared "Donald Trump is running to be an American tyrant."

"This election is about a group of folks who want to fundamentally undermine an American way of life. Donald Trump doesn’t understand this country, its history or what it means to be deeply American," "The Boss" added.

Read the full article by Fox News' Charles Creitz.

A family trying to attend the San Francisco 49ers-Dallas Cowboys game on Sunday is alleging Levi's Stadium security wouldn't allow one of them to enter due to wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat.

In a video posted to TikTok, one of the women in the family explains that her son-in-law was told he cannot wear his red MAGA hat into the stadium, which led to an argument with security.

"We were about to enter, and they stopped us because my son-in-law is wearing this hat," the woman says in the video. "They don’t want to let us in."

The TikTok user’s caption explained the situation further, saying that tickets were scanned in for the game and they passed security checkpoints. However, a separate security duo had issues with the hat.

A new survey analyzed how much Trump and Harris merchandise was bought on Amazon this election season — and the difference is stark.

Omnisend, a marketing automation platform, recently published its findings in a report called "Multimillion-dollar election merch industry: What will happen to it after elections?" The research was conducted by Cint, a technology research firm, in August 2024.

Researchers organized a survey with 1,000 participants across America with a margin of error of +/-3%, and analyzed merchandise sales trends from April to September 2024 using Jungle Scout software.

The report found that pro-Trump merchandise generated more than five times more cash than pro-Harris merchandise. Amazon sellers made $140 million selling Trump merchandise from April to September, while Harris merchandise sellers made $26 million. 

Former President Trump accused his 2024 rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, of running on a message of "hate" during a rally just over a week before Election Day.

Trump is delivering his closing message to voters this week, spending Monday in the key battleground of Georgia for back-to-back events.

"I'm running a campaign of solutions to save our country," the former president said in Atlanta. "Kamala is running a campaign of demonization and hate. She really does, she's a hater."

It's a shot at the Democratic vice president after she said Trump "fans the fuel of hate and division" over his massive rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

FIRST ON FOX: The Harris-Walz campaign is deploying former House Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., in a final appeal to Republicans in the critical battleground state of Wisconsin.

Cheney and political commentator Charlie Sykes are featured in a pair of new radio ads being launched on Monday, taking aim at former President Trump and promoting Vice President Kamala Harris. Fox News Digital was the first national outlet to preview the clips.

"I am a Ronald Reagan conservative. Never voted for a Democrat. But we've never faced a threat like this before – what Donald Trump is proposing in terms of withdrawing from NATO, welcoming Vladimir Putin to attack our NATO allies, praising President Xi of China. America will find our very freedom and security challenged and threatened. It's a risk we just simply can't take as a nation," Cheney said in the ad.

Tim Walz committed a fumble on Sunday. The Minnesota governor, a former high school defensive coach, was widely mocked for misusing a common football term after livestreaming himself playing video games.

Walz was playing the latest edition of the Madden video game series on Twitch with Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., trying to appeal to young male voters just days before the election. During the game, both Democrats urged voters to support Vice President Kamala Harris' White House bid.

Afterward, Walz, who was wearing a camouflage Minnesota Vikings cap, posted on X that Ocasio-Cortez "could run a mean pick 6," meaning when a defender returns an interception for a touchdown.

"And we both know when you take the time to draw up a playbook, you’re gonna use it," Walz also wrote. The post was later deleted, but critics quickly jumped on the mistake.

I attended the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night, and let me tell you, what I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears was nothing like what you’ve read in the mainstream media. Not even close.

Contrary to reports painting the event as a gathering of racism, rage, and misogyny, I observed a crowd brimming with joy and camaraderie. Ears ringing from all the chants of "USA! USA! USA!," I left the venue reflecting on Trump’s latest slogan: "Make America Dream Again." And, I have to admit, for the first time in a long time, it felt like better days might still be possible. Others there that night, however, walked away with much darker and foreboding interpretations of the very same event.

It’s as if there were two rallies for Trump on Sunday night: one for those who love him and one for those who hate him. Thanks to modern psychology, we now know that’s exactly what happened.

The leading super PAC funding Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign is warning Democratic political operatives that messaging that focuses too narrowly on former President Donald Trump's "fascist" label and character flaws is far less effective than messaging that focuses on policy differences between the two presidential candidates.

Future Forward USA Action, which has contributed more than $56 million to the Harris campaign, reportedly circulated an email Friday insisting that "attacking Trump's fascism is not that persuasive," according to the New York Times . The email was part of weekly "Doppler" messages that the fundraising behemoth sends out with guidance on messaging strategies and other tactics that the group has insight on.

"Purely negative attacks on Trump’s character are less effective than contrast messages that include positive details about Kamala Harris’s plans to address the needs of everyday Americans," the Doppler email read. 

A recent poll shows Latino voters, a historically reliable voting bloc for Democrats, appear more likely to cast their ballot for former President Trump than Vice President Kamala Harris.

A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll taken among Latinos between October 14-18 saw Trump boasting an 11-point lead at 49% compared to Harris' 38% with a +/-9% margin of error.

Despite Latino voters trending toward Democratic candidates in the past, Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue isn't surprised.

"We are the No. 1 exploited community in the world," he told Fox News on Tuesday.

Republican VP candidate JD Vance fired back at VP Kamala Harris' comments during a Wisconsin campaign stop Monday after she likened former President Trump to a "fascist" leader. Meanwhile, other Democrats and liberal outlets on Sunday compared the Madison Square Garden rally to a "Nazi" event.

"She is a disgrace. She is endangering the life of Donald J. Trump, and we are going to send her back to California, where she belongs. And with that, let's have a few questions from the media," Vance told a crowd of supporters Monday as cheers erupted. 

"And how dare Kamala Harris call her fellow citizens Nazis for loving this country enough to call her a bad vice president," Vance railed. "And that's exactly what she is. How dare Kamala Harris call her fellow citizens racists for not wanting their their communities overwhelmed with fentanyl? How dare Kamala Harris call parents bad people for wanting their children to grow up in safe neighborhoods? How dare Kamala Harris call the American people bad for wanting an economy where they could afford to buy groceries and afford to put a nice roof over the heads of their children?"

MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski said former President Trump "forced" the Washington Post editorial board to not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in the race during an interview on ABC's "The View."

"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked Brzezinski about why the Washington Post declined to endorse Harris in an election that is so high-stakes.

The Post announced on Friday that its editorial board wouldn't be endorsing either presidential candidate, and said they wouldn't be giving presidential endorsements in any future elections, either. 

"That everything that Trump is threatening, you need to believe, and it’s already happening. If billionaires bend to his will … He threatens, disparages, demeans people, but he also makes things happen for himself," Brzezinski began.

The Nevada Supreme Court ruled Monday that mail-in ballots without a postmark can be received and counted until four days after the election, the latest in a series of legal setbacks the court has handed to the Republican Party.

The ruling upholds a lower court’s rejection of a lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee seeking to challenge the legality of the post-election deadline for mail-in ballots received without a postmark.

Plaintiffs had challenged the state's decision to allow non-postmarked ballots to be counted four days after the election, the standard it allows for postmarked ballots, which they argued was "unconstitutional."

Their injunction to reject the ballots was struck down by a lower court earlier this year.

Vice Presidential Kamala Harris was caught on a hot mic in conversation with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer admitting that her campaign is struggling with male voters.

“So my thing is we need to move ground among men,” Harris can be heard telling Whitmer.

The Democratic candidate then immediately notices that microphones are picking up the conversation.

“Oh, we have microphones in here just listening to everything,” Harris says, looking flustered. “I didn’t realize that!”

Fox News has reached out to the campaign for clarification on the comment.

Read the full article by Fox News' Greg Wehner.

During the final week leading up to Election Day on Nov. 5, former President Trump is making two brief detours from campaigning in the crucial seven battleground states that will likely determine if the Republican nominee or Vice President Kamala Harris wins the 2024 election.

On Thursday, which is Halloween, the former president will make a campaign stop in New Mexico, and Saturday he'll visit Virginia. Both states were once key general election battlegrounds that have leaned blue the past two decades. 

In fact, you've got to look back 20 years – to President George W. Bush's re-election – to find the last GOP presidential nominee to carry both states. 

So why, with time such a precious commodity for presidential campaigns and the clock quickly ticking toward Election Day, is Trump spending time in New Mexico and Virginia?

Presidential and vice presidential candidates have already doubled their events in Michigan during the 2024 election cycle compared with the 2016 and 2020 elections.

The Harris and Trump campaigns have combined for 46 events in the swing state of Michigan with a week to go before the election, far outpacing the 22 events the state saw in 2016 and 21 it hosted in 2021.

The 2024 data, which is continuously updated by the Associated Press, counts events held in the state by both candidates for president, their running mates, and events where the entire ticket is present for the event. Data for the 2016 and 2020 elections was compiled by Fair Vote and also counts events for both presidential candidates and their running mates.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on Monday weighed in on a comedian’s controversial joke made during opening remarks at a rally for former President Trump at Madison Square Garden Sunday evening.

The comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, joked that Puerto Rico was “a floating island of garbage,” provoking outrage across the political spectrum.

“Puerto Rico isn’t garbage, it’s home to fellow American citizens who have made tremendous contributions to our country,” Rubio wrote on X. “I understand why some people were offended by a comedian’s joke last night. But those weren’t Trump’s words. They were jokes by an insult comic who offends virtually everyone, all the time, because that is what insult comedians do.”

Rubio pivoted to Trump’s Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as media pundits who compared Trump’s campaign event to a Nazi rally.

“What isn’t a joke is how Kamala Harris destroyed our economy and allowed dangerous criminals to illegally enter our country and terrorize, rape and murder Americans. And what isn’t a joke and truly outrageous is how ‘journalists’ are helping Kamala Harris’s with her dangerous campaign of hate by calling Trump the new Hitler and how MSNBC used old footage of Nazi rallies TO SMEAR TRUMP SUPPORTERS AS NAZIS!” Rubio said.

Hinchcliffe, who specializes in roast-style humor and has written and appeared on eight Comedy Central Roasts, punched back at his critics, saying, “These people have no sense of humor.” 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. D-N.Y., weighed in on Kamala Harris' latest campaign strategy, admitting she doesn't love the fact that the vice president has been joined by former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney at events in recent weeks. 

AOC was asked by CNN host Kate Bolduan on Monday about Harris' comments calling Cheney a "true patriot," wondering whether that might actually hurt Democrats with left-wing voters, to which the "Squad" Democrat said, "there's plenty of people that aren't happy about that and I think that is part of the nature of putting together a coalition."

"I don't love it, but that doesn't mean that we aren't on the same team and we aren't on the same page when it comes to who is unequivocally the better candidate in order to win the presidential election," she added. 

The state of Virginia filed an emergency stay application to the U.S. Supreme Court on Sunday in an 11th-hour bid to overturn a lower court ruling that halted its removal of likely noncitizens and restored about 1,600 residents to voter rolls.

The appeal came hours after the Fourth Circuit of Appeals upheld a preliminary injunction granted Friday by U.S. Judge Patricia Giles on Friday, which ordered Virginia to halt its process of removing potential noncitizens from its voter rolls and to reinstate all voters that had been removed in the last 90 days.

The appellate court upheld Giles’s decision in ruling that the removals had in fact been "systematic," not individualized, and thus violated federal law – a blow to Gov. Glenn Youngkin and other Republicans in the state.

At issue is a provision in the National Voter Registration Act (NRVA), which requires all states to halt systematic voter roll maintenance for a 90-day "quiet period" before the election. 

President Biden cast his early-voting ballot in Delaware on Monday and told reporters he was confident that Vice President Kamala Harris would defeat former President Donald Trump, calling Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday an embarrassment.

Biden waited in line  with other voters outside the state of Delaware Department of Elections and helped push an older woman in a wheelchair ahead of him before casting his ballot. After voting, Biden greeted reporters outside, where he was asked whether it was a bittersweet moment.

Biden responded, "No, this is just sweet."

Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz repeated Hillary Clinton's attack that former President Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City mirrored a 1930s Nazi event. 

Walz compared Trump's rally on Sunday night to a 1939 "pro-America" rally held by German dictator Adolf Hitler at Madison Square Garden 85 years ago, before World War II.

"Donald Trump's got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden," Walz said Sunday at a canvas kickoff event in Las Vegas. "There's a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid 1930s at Madison Square Garden. And don't think that he doesn't know for one second exactly what they're doing there. So, look, we said we're all running like everything's on the line because it is." 

Trump 2024 senior adviser Tim Murtaugh told "Fox & Friends First" on Monday that Walz's comment was "offensive," and that "they should be ashamed of themselves." 

Trump 2024 campaign senior adviser Danielle Alvarez tells “The Faulkner Focus” that former President Trump’s Sunday-night rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City was his “closing argument” to the American people before Election Day.

“Madison Square Garden is iconic, everyone dreams of playing Madison Square Garden. And President Trump is iconic. This is also his hometown, this is his city. His fingerprints are all over the New York skyline,” Alvarez said. “You’ve seen that theme all throughout the campaign where he visited the Harlem bodega, the South Bronx rally, the union workers. And so he was really delivering that closing argument at Madison Square Garden.” 

Voting figures from North Carolina  – a pivotal battleground state – indicate that despite the severe impact of Hurricane Helene, more than 200,000 votes have already been cast in counties that traditionally lean Republican.

Early voting in North Carolina set a statewide record of over 350,000 ballots cast on Oct. 17. 

Over 2.8 million ballots have since been cast in North Carolina, which represents 36% of the registered voters population in the state, according to the North Carolina Board of Elections (NCSBE).

A rift is reportedly growing between President Biden and the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich told "Outnumbered" that Biden wants to get on the campaign trail to help Harris but has repeatedly been told: “We’ll get back to you.”

Per reporting from Axios, Biden believes the Harris campaign is underestimating his appeal among working class voters, especially in the rust belt, Heinrich said.

“But one person from the campaign side said he’s a reminder of the last four years, not a new way forward. And yet Harris is here in Michigan touting jobs that came out of investments under Biden, including the CHIPS Act and the Inflation Reduction Act and the largest Super PAC supporting her is warning she’s got to shift her strategy away from attacking Trump’s character,” Heinrich told "Outnumbered."

Former President Donald Trump and running mate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, met with the family of the U.S. Marine veteran who was killed along a Mexican highway by suspects believed to be cartel members earlier this month. 

Nicholas Douglas Quets, a 31-year-old Marine veteran who worked for Pima County, Arizona, on water reclamation projects, was shot and killed along the Caborca-Altar Highway in northern Mexico on Oct. 19. 

His family said Quets was driving with friends down to Rocky Point for a beach trip. The shooting happened approximately 30 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border. 

The Sonora Attorney General's Office said a vehicle pulled up alongside Quets' pick-up truck and opened fire in a "direct attack," according to KVOA. An armed group had tried to stop Quets' truck at an illicit checkpoint and followed after them when they did not pull over, a Sonora official confirmed to Tucson.com. 

Quets' father and brother-in-law described to the Washington Examiner private meetings the family had with Trump and Vance last week while the Republican running mates were campaigning in Arizona. 

"I did not know what to expect because he’s a TV star, billionaire, populist," Quets' father, retired Army Lt. Col. Warren Douglas Quets, told the Examiner. "He looked at me, looked at the picture of Nick. He had a tear in his eye, and said, ‘Tell me what happened.’ And he was actually angry as we told him the story…. He said, ‘Tell me what I can do for you and your family.'" 

Quets' father said the family has not heard from any elected officials in the Biden-Harris administration. 

"A U.S. military veteran transiting Mexico was executed and four days into this and no official, outside of the consulate in Mexico, has made any effort to contact us or provide us with an update of what’s happening," the elder Quets told the Examiner last week. "What we want is an investigation and prosecution within the United States. We want the U.S. to take over the prosecution." 

"If my case for my son is not worthy of the highest level of attention from the U.S. government, then what is?" he added. "How can this be that this Marine gets killed 30 minutes south of the border?" 

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and Harris campaign for comment on Sunday but did not hear back. 

"America's Newsroom" co-anchor Bill Hemmer broke down the latest polling in the 2024 elections on Monday.

Fox News contributor Mark Penn also gave his take on the state of the race as former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris remain neck-and-neck ahead of Election Day. 

A USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll released Monday found Trump and Harris neck and neck in Wisconsin, 48% to 47%, respectively, from a statewide poll of 500 likely voters. The razor-thin results fell within the margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.

Wisconsin is one of three Rust Belt states that voted for Trump in 2016, then flipped back to the Democrats in 2020. President Biden won the state by just 20,682 votes, or 0.7 points.

Fox News' Stephen Sorace contributed to this report

Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris on Sunday, shortly after a comedian at former President Trump's sold-out Madison Square Garden rally joked that Puerto Rico equated to a "floating island of garbage," and made other unsavory jokes about Latinos. 

Bad Bunny, whose official name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, shared a video backing Harris with his 45 million Instagram followers on Sunday shortly after Tony Hinchcliffe made the crude jokes about Puerto Rico and Latinos. A representative of the artist confirmed to the Associated Press that he is supporting Harris.

Harris, who visited a Puerto Rican restaurant in North Philadelphia to court Hispanic and Latino voters in the pivotal battleground state of Pennsylvania earlier Sunday, said in the video shared by Bad Bunny that "there’s so much at stake in this election for Puerto Rican voters and for Puerto Rico."

In showing support, Bad Bunny shared several times another part of the clip Harris made on Puerto Rico, saying, "I will never forget what Donald Trump did and what he did not do when Puerto Rico needed a caring and a competent leader."

Bad Bunny also shared a part of the clip showing Harris saying Trump "abandoned the island, tried to block aid after back-to-back devastating hurricanes and offered nothing more than paper towels and insults."

The remarks at the Trump rally by Hinchcliffe were promptly disavowed by the Trump campaign, with campaign spokeswoman Danielle Alvarez issuing a statement afterward that "the joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign." 

Vice President Kamala Harris condemned as "nonsense" a controversial joke made at former President Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden and reacted to claims that the event echoed a Nazi event in the same venue on Monday.

Harris made the statements in response to questions from a reporter before boarding Air Force Two. The reporter asked Harris about comparisons made to a Nazi rally held at Madison Square Garden in 1939, as well as a joke made about Puerto Rico by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe during the event.

"This is not new about him by the way. What he did last night is not a discovery. It is just more of the same, and it may be more vivid than usual," Harris said. "Donald Trump spends full-time trying to make Americans point their finger at each other."

"He fans the fuel of hatred and division, and that's why people are exhausted with him. That's why people who formerly have supported Donald Trump and have voted for him are supporting me, voting for me. People are literally ready to turn the page," she added.

The Washington Post reported that a "cancellation movement" of once-loyal readers cutting ties with the paper is a "political statement primarily coming from the American left" as readers are outraged over its decision not to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris. 

A trio of Post reporters wrote that positive internal momentum at their place of employment "came to a halt" on Friday when publisher William Lewis declared the "Democracy Dies in Darkness" paper would not endorse a presidential candidate. In the days since, an onslaught of readers posted on social media about canceling subscriptions in protest, prompting Washington Post reporters to fret over how many subscribers would ultimately walk away. 

"A cancellation movement swept through social networks. Instead of using an internal analytics tool to check traffic to their own stories, some Post journalists used it to chart the soaring number of subscribers visiting the customer account page that allows them to cancel their subscriptions," Post reporters Manuel Roig-Franzia, Herb Scribner and Laura Wagner wrote in a piece headlined "For The Post, more outrage from readers who say they’ve canceled." 

"On social media, sharing screenshots of Post subscription cancellation confirmations became more than just a thing," the Post reporters continued. "It was a political statement primarily coming from the American left, enraged by reports in The Post and elsewhere that the newspaper’s editorial writers had drafted an endorsement of the Democratic nominee." 

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Brian Flood

Fox News Senior Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram broke down key congressional races in New York and their potential impact on the House majority on Monday.

Former President Trump is making a major push for New York as Vice President Kamala Harris is polling worse than any recent Democratic presidential candidate in the state.

"New York is Trump country," House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said in a statement this weekend. "Hardworking New Yorkers support President Trump in record numbers. Far left New York Democrats like Kamala Harris and Kathy Hochul have failed our state, and their polling numbers are in free fall. I am incredibly grateful that President Trump continues to invest in our key battleground districts in New York."

Stefanik and her team dialed out to nearly 1 million Trump supporters on Saturday in a bid to raise enthusiasm ahead of Nov. 5, a source familiar with planning said.

The GOP won the House majority in 2022 in part because of a suburban rebellion in New York and California against the states' progressive crime policies.

Former President Donald Trump announced during a New York City campaign rally on Sunday that, if elected, he would support granting a tax credit for family caregivers.

"I'm announcing a new policy today, that I will support a tax credit for family caregivers who take care of a parent or loved one," Trump said during the event at Madison Square Garden. "It's about time that they were recognized, right?"

This is not the first time elder care has come up as a priority. During July's Republican National Convention, policy documents referenced Trump's promises to strengthen Medicare and focus on at-home care for the elderly, USA Today reported. Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told the newspaper that, if elected, Trump "will take care of our seniors by shifting resources back to at-home senior care, overturning disincentives that lead to care worker shortages, and supporting unpaid family caregivers through tax credits and reduced red tape."

Both the Trump and Harris campaigns have been courting the support of the "sandwich generation" of voters who are simultaneously caring for their parents and raising their children,

Earlier this month, during an appearance on ABC's "The View," Vice President Kamala Harris pledged to cover in-home care after detailing how she took care of her mother after she was diagnosed with cancer. 

"That means trying to cook what they want to eat, what they can eat," Harris said. "It means picking out clothes for them soft enough that it doesn't irritate their skin. It means trying to think of something funny to make them laugh or smile. And it's about dignity for that individual. It's about independence for that individual." 

She went on to talk about how expensive it is for families to send their loved ones to residential care facilities or to hire someone for in-home care.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox Business' Pilar Arias

UFC President Dana White spoke out against Vice President Kamala Harris in New York City on Sunday as he stumped for former President Trump at his Madison Square Garden rally.

White warned those in attendance and those at home watching that a vote for Harris was for the "status quo" and that "vague" promises weren’t going to help Americans.

"She can get your party’s nomination without even facing voters," White said. "What else? What else can she offer the American people other than vague promises and no plan?

"She talks a lot about the need for change and her hope for the future. Hope and change. Does that sound familiar? She can use the old Obama playbook, but she’s not Obama, and she is no agent of change. She is the sitting vice president of the United States right now. What she hopes is voters will focus on the future because she doesn’t want us looking at the last four years to see what we really need to change."

White said Americans need change from "sky-high inflation" and "wide-open borders." He also criticized the Biden-Harris administration for "weakness" abroad.

White followed Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, about Harris’ answer on "The View" when she said there was "nothing" that came to mind after getting asked what she would change over the last four years.

"So, don’t take my word for it, take hers. She will not change a thing," White said. "Hope is nice. But hope is not a plan. Change is needed. But change won’t come from the status quo, and she is the status quo.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Ryan Gaydos

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said former President Donald Trump will move quickly to tighten laws against illegal immigration if he wins the White House.

The No. 2 House Republican leader told Fox News Digital that he met with Trump earlier this year at Mar-a-Lago, where the two discussed priorities for the first 100 days of a new administration – provided the GOP sweeps Congress and the White House. 

Among the priorities, in addition to economic and energy initiatives, is the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border.

"President Trump can do a number of things on his own that he has talked about," Scalise said Friday.

He said Trump would likely reinstate his Migrant Protection Protocols, better known as the "Remain in Mexico" policy, which forced asylum-seekers to wait on the Mexican side of the U.S. southwestern border while their cases were being adjudicated. Multiple human rights groups have criticized the policy as inhumane, and the Biden administration dropped it in 2021.

Scalise also expects Trump to cease all "catch-and-release" policies at the border.

"We know that it's causing crime problems in every community, drug problems, the fentanyl that the drug cartels are bringing in," Scalise said.

A Republican-majority Congress would support Trump’s crackdown, he said, noting Capitol Hill’s role in funding federal projects and programs.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Elizabeth Elkind

One Black Michigan voter does not believe recent claims that former President Trump is a "fascist." 

Trump voter Allen Tomkowiak spoke to an NBC News crew Sunday about the "final decisions" leading up to the Nov. 5 presidential election. As several Democratic politicians, including Vice President Kamala Harris, have accused Trump of being a fascist over the last few days, Tomkowiak denied the claim.

"I've heard so much about Trump being angry, and he's a fascist and dictator — but problem is, when I listen to him, I don't hear any of that," Tomkowiak said in a clip on MSNBC’s "Alex Witt Reports."

Tomkowiak’s comments came days after Harris gave remarks Wednesday comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler while accusing him of wanting unchecked power.

"It is clear from John Kelly's words that Donald Trump is someone who, I quote, ‘certainly falls into the general definition of fascists,’ who in fact vowed to be a dictator on day one and vowed to use the military as his personal militia to carry out his personal and political vendettas," Harris said. "Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable, and in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions." 

CNN host Kasie Hunt said Monday that many of her sources are in agreement that former President Trump is favored to win the election.

"If my sources are to be believed, and this again, this is my challenge that I have, because in 2016 all my sources thought the same thing, and in the last midterm election most of my sources were on the same page, and everyone was wrong all at the same time," Hunt said.

"I will just say that all of these people are saying that Trump may be on track to win this," she added. "I am hearing from all sides of the aisle that Donald Trump is in this better position than he's been. Is everyone wrong again? I don't know."

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe sparked bipartisan backlash by cracking a joke about Puerto Rico while speaking at the Trump rally held on Sunday at Madison Square Garden.

"I don't know if you guys know this, but there's literally a floating island of garbage in the … ocean right now." Hinchcliffe said. "I think it's called Puerto Rico."

The Trump campaign swiftly distanced itself from the joke. "This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign," Trump campaign senior adviser Danielle Alvarez noted in a statement, according to reports.

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York addressed Hinchcliffe's joke during a Twitch stream with Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

"Who is that jackwad?" Walz asked in response to the clip.

Ocasio-Cortez, who noted that her family is from Puerto Rico and that she's Puerto Rican, took issue with the comedian's joke.

"That's just what they think about you. It's what they think about anyone who makes less money than them. It's what they think about the people who serve them food in a restaurant. It's what they think about the people who, who fold their clothes in a store," the Democrat from New York asserted.

The lawmaker's "mother was born and raised in Puerto Rico," according to her congressional website.

Hinchcliffe responded to the clip of Ocasio-Cortez and Walz, declaring in a post on X that he loves and vacations in Puerto Rico.

"These people have no sense of humor. Wild that a vice presidential candidate would take time out of his ‘busy schedule’ to analyze a joke taken out of context to make it seem racist," he wrote. "I love Puerto Rico and vacation there. I made fun of everyone… watch the whole set. I'm a comedian Tim… might be time to change your tampon."

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Alex Nitzberg

Early in-person and mail-in ballots have begun pouring in across the country, and the tally in each state reveals mounting voter enthusiasm.

Recent polling suggests a razor-thin margin in the race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, and the results are expected to come down to each candidate's performance in seven swing states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and North Carolina.

States have long allowed at least some Americans to vote early, like members of the military and people with illnesses unable to get to the polls. Many states expanded eligibility in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the last presidential election, mail ballots tended to skew Democratic. In 2020, 60% of Democrats reported voting by mail, compared to 32% of Republicans, according to a 2021 study from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.

As of Monday morning, more than 42 million ballots have been cast nationwide.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Morgan Phillips

Former President Trump and Vice President Harris are nearly tied in Wisconsin, a key battleground state, with just eight days until Election Day, according to a new poll.

A USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll released Monday found Trump and Harris neck and neck in Wisconsin, 48% to 47%, respectively, from a statewide poll of 500 likely voters. The razor-thin results fell within the margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.

Harris, however, leads Trump in Door County, Wisconsin, which has been a predictor of which candidate takes the White House. The poll of 300 likely voters in Door County found Harris leading Trump in that area 50% to 47%, which is within the margin of error of 5.7 percentage points. 

Wisconsin is one of three Rust Belt states that voted for Trump in 2016, then flipped back to the Democrats in 2020. President Biden won the state by just 20,682 votes, or 0.7 points.

In Wisconsin, which is defined by its White working-class population like other competitive Midwestern states, 58% of the state’s voters are White without a college degree, according to the Fox News Voter Analysis. That is 15 points higher than the national electorate.

The USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll also found that in Wisconsin, Harris has a 14-point lead over Trump among women, 55% to 41%, respectively. The result flips to Trump’s favor among men, showing Trump ahead 18 percentage points over Harris, 56% to 38%, respectively.

Wisconsin is one of the three so-called "Blue Wall" states – the others being Michigan and Pennsylvania – that make up seven swing states that will ultimately decide the election. Harris and Trump are aggressively competing in these states, which also include Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Stephen Sorace

Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday in an Instagram video after a speaker at former President Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden mocked the U.S. territory.

Bad Bunny, a massively popular musician whose birth name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, appeared to be reacting to the comments from the Trump rally Sunday night.

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe performed an opening act at Trump's New York City rally and referred to Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage."

Following the performance, Ocasio shared several clips to his Instagram relating to Trump, Harris and the response to Hurricane Maria in 2017.

One video showed Harris saying "there’s so much at stake in this election for Puerto Rican voters and for Puerto Rico."

Another showed Harris again saying, "I will never forget what Donald Trump did and what he did not do when Puerto Rico needed a caring and a competent leader."

Ocasio was the number one artist streamed on Spotify in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, on Sunday, said Vice President Harris does one thing well, and it did not have anything to do with the border.

“You weren’t expecting me to be so bipartisan, but I will say this for Kamala, that every time she does an interview, I think Donald Trump picks up about 100,000 votes,” Vance said while speaking at the Trump rally inside Madison Square Garden in New York City.

“Now, we're, of course, in one of the proud baseball cities in the United States of America. So, you know, the problem with a softball interview is that you've got to be able to hit a softball still,” Vance continued. “And that's the problem with Kamala Harris, is, I don't think that she can hit a tee ball. Based on what we've seen over the last couple of weeks, when she was asked what she would do differently compared to Joe Biden, she said nothing comes to mind.”

Fox News' Greg Wehner contributed to this report

National Review staff writer Caroline Downey and former Hillary Clinton adviser Philippe Reines joined "MediaBuzz" to discuss CNN pundits' reaction to Kamala Harris' town hall and why Democrats' 'finger-pointing' about the race has already begun. 

Critics panned Harris' performance at Thursday's town hall, hosted by CNN's Anderson Cooper, with some calling it a "word salad city." Harris' campaign hasn't held a major event since the town hall, while former President Trump's campaign is now riding the high from a massive Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

"When she doesn't want to answer a question her habit is to kind of go to word salad city," Democratic strategist David Axelrod said.

The 19,500-seat venue saw Trump supporters cheering for celebrities like Tony Hinchcliffe and top Trump allies like Elon Musk.

The rally came as part of Trump's wider strategy aimed at taking New York, a state no Republican presidential candidate has won in decades. Polls show Harris performing worse in that state than any recent Democratic presidential candidate.