Election 2024: Trump campaigns on the East Coast; Harris visits Michigan
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Former President Donald Trump rallied in three battleground states on the East Coast today.
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What's happening on the campaign trail today
- Former President Donald Trump rallied in three East Coast battleground states today, speaking in Lititz, Pennsylvania; Kinston, North Carolina; and Macon, Georgia.
- Vice President Kamala Harris has made stops throughout Michigan today in Detroit, Livernois, Pontiac and East Lansing.
- Their surrogates also hit the campaign trail today, with Sen. JD Vance, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump Jr. holding events on behalf of the Trump campaign as former President Barack Obama, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and first lady Jill Biden stump for the Harris campaign.
How small shifts in who turns out to vote could make the difference in the election
It’s clearer than ever after months of close polling and years of intense polarization: Who wins the presidential election could come down to tiny differences in who votes and who stays home.
The final NBC News poll of the election found Harris and Trump tied at 49%, using demographic benchmarks agreed upon by the bipartisan team of pollsters trying to best estimate what the electorate will look like this week.
Got whole milk? Pennsylvania farmer says dairy issues motivate his vote
William Thiele is a sixth-generation dairy farmer in Pennsylvania. His small family farm, Theile Dairy Farm, just outside Pittsburgh, has about 85 cows and produces 400 gallons of milk per day.
A top issue for Thiele this election cycle, he told NBC News: getting whole milk back in schools. Republican Senate nominee Dave McCormick has made that issue a focal point of his campaign.
Thiele, who plans to cast his ballot for McCormick and Trump, attended a McCormick town hall last month and asked him about bringing whole milk back into schools.
McCormick said: “Kids need whole milk in their diets. But when kids don’t consume whole milk in schools, they also don’t have an appetite and a taste for whole milk later, so it was a huge blow to the dairy farmers here in Pennsylvania.”
It was not the first time McCormick has spoken about whole milk on the campaign trail. In fact, he has made the issue a focal point.
Back in August after he visited Penn State’s AG Progress Days, Pennsylvania’s largest outdoor agricultural exposition, McCormick told reporters that getting whole milk back in schools is “one of the most critical priorities for Pennsylvania,” adding the issue is “so obvious” and “the science is indisputable.”
Whole milk has not been served in schools since 2012 as the result of a 2010 law banning whole milk from the National School Lunch Program, which provides low-cost or free lunches in nearly 100,000 schools. Former first lady Michelle Obama advocated for the law as her Let’s Move! campaign aimed to fight childhood obesity.
The 2010 edition of Dietary Guidelines for Americans encouraged people to increase their consumption of milk products but recommended replacing whole milk and full-fat milk products with fat-free or low-fat options to reduce solid fat intake.
But newer research suggests whole milk might be healthier than low-fat milk.
Thiele said bringing whole milk back to school would be good for kids’ nutrition and keep dairy farmers “vibrant and thriving.”
He said he believes the current policy has had a slow-moving impact on dairy farmers who are at risk of losing a generation or more of whole milk drinkers. From an economic standpoint, whole milk is also better for Thiele. Dairy farmers like him are paid on the butter fat content and protein content of their milk.
Sen. Bob Casey, who's running against McCormick, signed on to be a co-sponsor of the Whole Milk for Heathy Kids Act of 2023 in September. Pennsylvania’s junior senator, Democrat John Fetterman, was one of the first co-sponsors, having signed on to the bill in June 2023.
In August, Casey told NBC News that he was wary of “the dietary guidelines for children” and that he wanted to make sure any decision he made about whole milk was “based upon the science that will be in the best interest of children.”
He changed his mind on the bill after he met with farmers across Pennsylvania. According to the Center for Dairy Excellence, there are about 5,000 dairy farmers in Pennsylvania.
Thiele said he is “glad” Casey has “finally” signed on to the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2023, as he says it is important for the bill to have bipartisan support.
Eleven Republican senators, five Democrats and one independent have signed on as co-sponsors.
Both Harris and Trump are blitzing battleground states today with the clock winding down to lock in final votes before Election Day. NBC News’ Garrett Haake has the latest from the trail.
Trump delivers subdued speech in final scheduled Georgia rally
After a meandering and at times hostile speech this morning in Pennsylvania, Trump delivered a more subdued and on-prompter speech to a Georgia crowd at his third and final rally today.
As he depicted a second-term Trump administration, he said: “We stand on the verge of the four greatest years in American history. … It’ll be nasty a little bit at times, and maybe at the beginning in particular."
He didn’t elaborate on what would be “nasty.”
Trump made a couple of mentions of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this evening, saying the onetime Democratic presidential candidate could “enjoy himself” working on women’s health and pesticides in his administration. Trump earlier told NBC News’ Dasha Burns that Kennedy would have a “big role” if he’s elected.
After he said former Rep. Liz Cheney wouldn’t be such a war hawk if “guns are trained on her face” last week, Trump brought her up again this evening, saying Harris is doing poorly among Arab and Muslim voters because of her proximity to Cheney.
“And then they wonder why Kamala is doing so deadly with the Arab Muslim population in Michigan. You see that? They’re doing bad,” Trump said, adding later: “Who the hell is going to vote for her? Her father unleashed a spree of death in all of their countries.”
Speaking before Trump this evening was Herschel Walker, a failed Georgia GOP Senate candidate plagued by controversy. Trump shouted Walker out during his speech, calling him a “good man” who wasn’t treated fairly. In his usual riff about building a missile defense shield to defend the U.S., one he often calls an American version of Israel’s Iron Dome, Trump mused about putting Walker in charge.
“We will build a missile defense shield, all made in the USA, wrapped around our country to defend ourselves and our country,” Trump continued. “We’ll put Herschel Walker in charge of that little sucker. OK?”
Again tonight, Trump suggested that 100% of net job creation in the U.S. has gone toward undocumented immigrants, playing on fears that domestic workers are losing jobs to migrants.
Both campaigns are locking in their plans for Election Day and election night, with final rallies now set in these critical final hours. NBC News’ Aaron Gilchrist has the latest.
‘The fear is gone’: Democrats think they can make inroads in rural Pennsylvania
Mercer County has been solid Trump country for the past two elections
Trump won this area in rural northwest Pennsylvania by 25 percentage points in 2016 and by 26 points in 2020.
Vance campaigns in New Hampshire — and notes his presence there may be unexpected
Vance acknowledged at his rally in New Hampshire that the decision to make a campaign stop in the presumed blue state so close to Election Day was unorthodox.
"I got to be honest. A couple months ago, I wasn't necessarily sure that the day before the last full day of the campaign, we'd be in the great state of New Hampshire," Vance said.
But Vance said he thinks "it suggests what we're doing is expanding the map."
Biden won the state in 2020 with 52.7% of the vote, compared with Trump's 45.4%. But in 2016, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won the state by just a fraction of a percentage point, 46.83% to Trump's 46.46%.
Georgia’s lieutenant governor blames the media for the assassination attempts on Trump
Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones blamed the national media for the two assassination attempts on Trump.
“This media crowd that we have back here, the national media crowd we have, they’re the absolute worst. They’re the absolute worst. They — they have villainized this man for the last 10 years, and they have been the reason that there’s been two assassination attempts on him,” Jones told audience at a Trump rally in Macon.
Trump has also frequently villainized the media. Behind bulletproof glass yesterday, he told supporters at a Pennsylvania rally that he does not mind the notion that for a bullet to reach him in an attempted assassination, a shooter would have to “shoot through the fake news.”
Harris for the first time doesn't name-check Trump at her rally
For the first time at one of her rallies, Harris did not mention Trump by name.
She instead touched on forward-looking themes in her remarks, telling the East Lansing crowd, "Today, I see the promise of America in everyone who is here."
A senior Harris campaign official told NBC News it was the first rally since Harris became the Democratic presidential candidate at which she did not mention Trump by name, saying the strategy is “closing fully positive.”
The Harris campaign has attempted to argue she represents the "politics of joy" and draw a contrast with what it argues is Trump's darker vision for the country.
Harris opens campaign speech by talking about Israel-Hamas war
Harris began her rally in East Lansing, Michigan, by giving a shoutout to Arab American community leaders and addressing the Israel-Hamas war and its toll in Gaza, where over 40,000 Palestinians have died since the war began, and Lebanon.
"We are joined today by leaders of the Arab American community, which has deep and proud roots here in Michigan," Harris said. "And I want to say this year has been difficult given the scale of death and destruction in Gaza and given the civilian casualties and displacement in Lebanon. It is devastating."
She said that if she is elected, she would do "everything in my power to end the war in Gaza, to bring home the hostages, end the suffering in Gaza, ensure Israel is secure and ensure the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, freedom, security and self-determination."
Michigan has a large Arab American population.
Vance calls for unity and respect as Trump invokes violence and vulgarities against opponents
Vance, joined by a notable list of Republican leaders, told supporters that the Republican ticket respects and will represent those who disagree with it as Trump continues to invoke violence and vulgarities against people he perceives as opponents.
“But you know, if they vote the wrong way, they vote the wrong way, they’re still our fellow citizens. We’re still going to love them, and we’re still going to serve them as best we can do,” Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, told several hundred supporters in a south Philadelphia warehouse.
Vance then knocked Harris for “attacking her fellow citizens.”
But in the last two days alone, Trump has called the Democratic Party “demonic,” suggested he would not “mind” if someone were to “shoot through the fake news,” said Americans who choose not to vote are “stupid” and called Harris “grossly incompetent.”
Vance’s promise to respect those who may not agree with the Trump campaign has been a fixture of his recent stump speeches as he closes out the final days of the election, often citing President Joe Biden's apparent reference to Trump supporters as "garbage" to argue Democrats have turned up the political temperature.
But even Vance has said the best word to describe those who thought World War II veterans were fighting for values like Harris’ is “dips---,” and he has likened "Kamala Harris and her failed leadership" to “trash.”
Political ad ignites conservative anger over women possibly hiding their votes from their husbands
A political video reminded women that they can vote for Harris without telling their husbands, enraging prominent conservatives and reigniting a fiery discourse that highlights the central role of gender in this year’s election.
The video, which began circulating last week, opens with a woman about to enter the polling booth after her husband, looking nervously back at him before she makes her choice. She locks eyes with another woman as they fill out their ballots for Harris.
“In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose,” actor Julia Roberts narrates, alluding to an ongoing partisan battle over reproductive rights, “you can vote any way you want and no one will ever know.”
The women then leave the polling booth to meet their husbands, who presumably cast their votes for Trump.
3 unsuccessful former Senate candidates speaking at Trump's Georgia rally
Former Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, as well as former Senate candidate Herschel Walker, are all speaking in Macon. All three lost Senate races in Georgia thanks at least in part to Trump.
Supporter at Trump's North Carolina rally yells out to 'pardon January 6ers'
A supporter at Trump’s Kinston, North Carolina, rally appeared to yell out, “Pardon the January 6ers!”
“Yeah. … It’s true,” Trump said in response.
Trump has repeatedly indicated his intention to pardon Jan. 6 rioters if he's elected. More than 1,488 defendants had been charged in connection with the riot as of Aug. 6, according to the Justice Department.
Harris campaign says it launched more than 57,000 volunteer shifts yesterday
The Harris campaign launched more than 57,000 volunteer shifts yesterday, reaching out to voters through door-knocking and phone calls, a senior campaign official told reporters on a call.
Campaigners knocked on more than 1.85 million doors across battleground states, the official said. That included knocking on more than 807,000 doors in Pennsylvania, about 256,000 doors in Michigan and 215,000 doors in Wisconsin. Harris allies have knocked on more than 16 million doors to date, according to the official.
When a reporter asked the official for a reaction to the Des Moines Register poll that showed a close race in Iowa, the official emphasized that the campaign sees the race as "very close." The official also said the campaign has seen undecided voters break in its favor in the closing weeks of the race.
"What we are seeing across the board is energy and momentum. We are seeing that we're closing strong," the official said. "I would not read into it any more than that, and we're certainly just completely laser-focused on our strategy."
In North Carolina, Trump looks around for Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dave McCormick
At a rally in Kinston, North Carolina, Trump gave a shoutout to Dave McCormick, a Republican running for the Senate in Pennsylvania.
“We have great Republicans running, and you have one of the best ones of all right here, David McCormick, you know that. Where’s David, is he around?” Trump said as he looked for McCormick in the crowd.
McCormick, who is running against Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., rallied with Trump in Pennsylvania earlier today.
Obama slams Trump and Mike Johnson over efforts to repeal Affordable Care Act
Obama slammed Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., for their efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
“If you ask Donald Trump what he’s going do to make health care more affordable, he’s got one answer, and it’s end, repeal the Affordable Care Act,” Obama said. “And he’s not by himself. The other day the speaker of the House, the Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, said, ‘There would be no Obamacare if Trump wins.’”
Obama said they had been unsuccessful in their efforts because the act works.
“Now, neither of them can really explain why they want to end it, except for the fact that I did it,” Obama said.
Johnson denied that he wanted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, telling NBC News today it was a "dishonest characterization" of what he had said.
"The audio and transcript make clear that I offered no such promise to end Obamacare, and in fact acknowledged that the policy is 'deeply ingrained' in our health care system," Johnson said.
"Still, House Republicans will always seek to reduce the costs and improve the quality and availability of health care for all Americans. Anyone who has been a patient or known a loved one who has struggled with health issues understands why this is so important," the speaker added.
Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said in a statement tonight that "repealing Obamacare is not President Trump's policy position."
"As President Trump has said, he will make our healthcare system better by increasing transparency, promoting choice and competition, and expanding access to new affordable healthcare and insurance options. Kamala Harris broke our healthcare system, President Trump will fix it." Leavitt said.
Senior Harris campaign official blasts Trump's recent rally, where he talked about shooting through journalists
A senior Harris campaign official blasted Trump's comments at a rally earlier today, when he talked about shooting through journalists.
"He really is closing his campaign with total darkness and anger," the official said, adding that for Trump, the election is about his own grievances.
The official contrasted Trump's closing message with Harris', saying she is "focused on this optimistic, hopeful future and vision she has for the country."
Emhoff blasts Trump for saying he 'shouldn't have left' the White House in 2021
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, Harris' husband, blasted Trump for his comments at a rally this morning that he "shouldn't have left" the White House in 2021 after Biden won.
"I couldn’t believe it," Emhoff said about Trump's comments.
"Trump and his team are already making unfounded claims of cheating in this election, after the 'big lie,' when they forced all these states under the guise of election integrity to 'strengthen' or make it harder to vote," Emhoff said at a campaign event in Georgia. "Now, they’re still complaining, and we know exactly why they’re pulling these stunts. They’re worried because you’re voting in record numbers."
Miami-Dade County breaks early voting record, election official says
Miami-Dade County, Florida, has broken its all-time early voting record, Deputy Elections Supervisor Roberto A. Rodríguez said.
In 2020, when the coronavirus was a factor in voting trends, early voting in Miami-Dade totaled 513,646 people. As of 4 p.m. today, early voting in the county was at 580,756 with still hours to go, Rodríguez said.
Overall, over 7.8 million early votes have been cast across Florida by mail or in person. So far, registered Democrats lead vote-by-mail, while early voting in person has been dominated by registered Republicans by nearly 50%. The partisan split is 2,455,483 Republicans and 1,397,420 Democrats for early statewide voting.
While most polls across the state closed for early voting yesterday, early voting polls remain open until 7 tonight for Broward, Monroe and Miami-Dade counties.
While Trump has won Florida the past two presidential elections, Miami-Dade has stayed blue — albeit with steady Democratic erosion.
Robert De Niro stumps for Harris at Eagles tailgate
Actor Robert De Niro stopped in battleground Pennsylvania today, campaigning on behalf of Harris at a Philadelphia Eagles tailgate.
A spokesperson for the Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether the Harris campaign organized De Niro’s attendance, but several unions that were set to canvass in the area today described the appearance as "a surprise" on X.
Other users on the platform posted photos and videos of De Niro at the tailgate, describing his remarks as "defending women's rights" and speaking out against Trump.
Obama makes direct appeal to Black and Latino Trump voters
Obama made a direct appeal to Black and Latino Trump voters in Milwaukee, telling them Trump is not a candidate who would look out for them.
“If you are Black or Latino and you feel like too often your community is overlooked by politicians except during election time, I get how you feel. But why would you think the answer is to vote for someone who has a long history of demeaning and disregarding your community?” Obama said.
He cited Trump’s derogatory claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s pets and comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico’s being an island of garbage.
“Do you think that’s someone who’s gonna look out for you?” Obama said.
Trump talks shooting at media, ramps up election fraud claims at Pa. rally
Trump leaned heavily into claims of election fraud today and appeared to call for violence against the members of the media at his rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, continuing an almost decadelong streak of attacking the media.
Speaking about the bulletproof glass positioned in front of his lectern, Trump said that for a bullet to hit him in an attempted assassination, a shooter would have to “shoot through the fake news, and I don’t mind that so much.”
“I have a piece of glass over here, and I don’t have a piece of glass there, and I have this piece of glass here,” Trump said, pointing out the glass around his lectern, which has become common since he survived two assassination attempts this year, one of them at a similar outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“All we have really over here is the fake news,” Trump added. “And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. And I don’t mind that so much.”
Herschel Walker at Trump's Georgia rally
Trump will end the day with a rally in Macon, Georgia — he's running late and speaking right now in North Carolina.
Already onsite at the Georgia event is Herschel Walker, who told NBC News he will speak at the rally.
Walker made a failed run for the Senate in 2022, losing to Democrat Raphael Warnock. Walker's campaign was plagued by controversy, and Republicans bemoaned it as part of the reason the party failed to capture the Senate in the midterms despite early predictions it would.
Democratic National Committee blasts Trump over morning rally
In a statement, Democratic National Committee spokesperson Alex Floyd criticized Trump's comments at a rally this morning where the former president spoke about shooting at the press, writing, “Donald Trump is closing out his campaign by telling the American people exactly what he has planned in a second term: threats of violence against the media, attacks on our democracy, and claiming he ‘shouldn’t have left’ the White House after he lost by over seven million votes in 2020."
Floyd characterized Trump's speech as "unhinged ramblings and dangerous rhetoric" and called the former president "unfit to lead."
Obama tells undecided voters in Wisconsin not to be fooled by memories of a good Trump-era economy
Obama told undecided voters in Milwaukee that Trump's economic policies will favor billionaires and big corporations, and that if people remember the economy being good when Trump first came into office, that’s because Obama left him a good economy.
"Now, some people might hear that and then say to themselves, 'Well I remember the economy being pretty good when he first came into office.' It was — because it was my economy," Obama said.
"I had spent eight years cleaning up the mess that Republicans left me," he added.
He added that people shouldn't be fooled by low gas prices during the Trump presidency, highlighting that gas prices hit an all-time low when people were not driving, during the Covid-19 pandemic.
"You know why gas was so cheap? Because there was a global lockdown during Covid and nobody was driving," Obama said. "Yeah, gas was super cheap — because we were stuck inside the house."
The former president also slammed Trump for putting his name on Covid-era stimulus checks, deeming it a “marketing tool” and saying he and Joe Biden had “never thought of that” because for them it was not about “feeding our egos.”
“It was about helping people in tough times,” Obama said.
NBC News has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.
Trump predicts a winner will declared on election night, says he could lose in ABC interview
In a phone interview with ABC News on Sunday, Trump declared that he had "a substantial lead" in polling and predicted the winner of the election would be declared on election night. Trump also said there's a possibility he could lose.
Asked if there was a chance he could lose, Trump told ABC's Jonathan Karl, “Yeah, I guess, you know, I guess you could lose, can lose. I mean, that happens, right?”
“But I think I have a pretty substantial lead, but, you could say, yeah, yeah, you could lose. Bad things could happen. You know, things happen, but it’s going to be interesting," he added.
In Michigan, Harris says she is in a fight 'for something'
Harris made some retail campaign stops in Michigan today, including talking with voters at a Black-owned barbershop in Pontiac. It's the second barbershop she's visited in the closing days of the campaign, as she tries to raise her standing with Black men.
She gave brief remarks as she left.
“This is a fight that is not against something as it is for something," Harris said.
Final NBC News poll: Harris-Trump race is neck and neck, with significant gender gap
The final national NBC News poll of the 2024 presidential campaign finds a neck and neck contest defined by clashing forces that have aided both Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump in their pursuit of the White House.
Taken together, the poll shows Harris getting support from 49% of registered voters in a head-to-head matchup, while Trump gets an identical 49%. Just 2% of voters say they’re unsure about the choice.
Boosting Harris: rising Democratic enthusiasm, a 20-point lead over Trump on the issue of abortion, and an advantage for Harris on which candidate better looks out for the middle class.
Helping Trump: two-thirds of voters who believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction, a favorable assessment of Trump’s presidency — especially compared with President Joe Biden’s current performance — and Trump’s double-digit advantage on the economy and the cost of living.
Trump spreads false conspiracies about ballots 'done by the same hand' in Pennsylvania
During a rally in Pennsylvania, Trump spread falsehoods about mail-in ballots in Lancaster filled out with "the exact same penmanship."
"In Lancaster, they found 2,600 ballots, all done and by the same hand. In other words, the same exact penmanship, the same hand, the same everything," Trump told the crowd.
"It was all done by the same pen, the exact same pen. And then they go and they say, 'Well, this is a conspiracy theorist.' It’s a terrible thing that’s happened to our country," he added.
It appears that Trump was referring to a case in Lancaster County where officials discovered 2,500 voter registration forms, not ballots, that appeared to be fraudulent.
A spokesperson for Lancaster County did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Nancy Pelosi blasts Trump rally comments as 'cognitive degeneration'
During an interview on MSNBC's "Inside with Jen Psaki," former Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Trump's comments that he "wouldn't mind" if someone shot through the media at one of his rallies were "further indication of his cognitive degeneration."
"I think that what the ex-president just said is further indication of his cognitive degeneration," Pelosi, 84, told Psaki.
"He can’t last as president for four years with his brain deteriorating at the rate that it is, and it's clearly evident," Pelosi added.
Trump says he shouldn't have left the White House in 2021
At a rally in Pennsylvania today, Trump said he should not have left the White House on Jan. 20, 2021, when Biden was sworn in.
"The day that I left, I shouldn’t have left. I mean, honestly, because we did so, we did so well," the former president told supporters.
Harris says she mailed her ballot but declines to say how she voted on criminal justice ballot measure
Harris, speaking to reporters after attending a church service in Detroit, said she completed her ballot and mailed it back to California, where she is registered to vote.
That means Harris will forgo traveling back to her home state and the classic image of the candidate entering the voting booth.
And it didn't mean that she was willing to say how she voted on a ballot measure in California that has become controversial. Proposition 36 would toughen penalties on some nonviolent crimes, reversing a proposition passed a decade ago that was meant to reform the justice system and help reduce mass incarceration.
"I am not going to talk about the vote on that," Harris said when asked how she voted on Proposition 36. "Because, honestly, it's the Sunday before the election, and I don't intend to create an endorsement one way or another around it."
Trump calls Harris a 'corrupt person' and Biden a 'poor, stupid guy'
While railing against the election system and calling for voting to occur on just one day, Trump called Harris and Democrats "corrupt."
"It’s all corrupt. She’s corrupt. She’s a corrupt person. I’m running against a totally corrupt person," he told attendees at a Pennsylvania rally this morning. "And I’m really not running against her. I’m running against a corrupt machine called the Democrat Party."
Later, Trump said it was unfair that Harris was chosen as the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, saying it was "ripped away" from President Joe Biden, calling him a "poor, stupid guy."
"I’m being nasty to her, because, you know what? She’s really bad. She shouldn’t have been chosen. She got no votes. It’s, this is supposed to be a democracy," Trump said.
He added, "It’s supposed to be fair. And they ripped the election away from this poor, stupid guy. They ripped it away like, like candy from a baby."
Representatives for the Harris campaign and the Democratic Party did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump rails against early voting at Pennsylvania rally
At one of his final rallies of the campaign, Trump in Lancaster is railing against early voting, saying voting should be “one day” and calling for the use of “paper ballots” only.
You “oughta go to paper ballots and voter ID, you oughta have the election over at 9 o’clock, 10 o’clock, 11 o’clock on Tuesday night,” Trump told attendees.
Earlier in the program, a lot of hands in the crowd shot up when Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders asked the crowd if they'd already voted by mail.
"It’s a damn shame, and I’m the only one that talks about it," Trump added about his call for Election Day voting only. "Everyone’s afraid to damn talk about it, and then they accuse you of being a conspiracy theorist."
Sen. Warnock dismisses fears that Black male voters will turn out for Trump
During an interview Sunday with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., dialed down fears that Black male voters may turn out in higher numbers for Trump than ever before.
"I was in Michigan a couple weeks ago, in a Black fraternity house, my own fraternity. I’ve spent time in barbershops. I’ve been encountering folks, obviously in my church, and other churches. And there is momentum for Kamala Harris, and the more voters hear about her, including Black men, the more they they like her," Warnock said.
"Let me tell you something. Black men are not going to show up in droves and waves voting for Donald Trump," he added. "They’re not, and it’s because they know who he is." The Georgia senator pointed to Trump's actions in the late 1980s against a group of Black and Latino men nicknamed the "Central Park Five" who were accused of raping a jogger and were later exonerated.
His remarks come as fears have mounted among Democrats in recent months that a larger-than-usual share of Black men, particularly young Black men, will vote for Trump.
In response to these fears, the Harris campaign has deployed former President Barack Obama to appear on podcasts and other media with large audiences of young men of color, hoping to convince them to vote for Harris.
Four big things the winners of Congress will have to tackle in 2025
As voters head to the polls for Tuesday’s elections, they will also be electing a new Congress. And whichever party wins control of the House and Senate will get to decide how to handle a slew of consequential policy matters.
Whether it’s expiring tax cuts and health care subsidies, another round of government funding or must-pass measures like a debt limit extension and a new farm bill, Congress will have its hands full.
Days before the election, DOJ continues to prosecute new Jan. 6 cases
Standing inside a sparsely filled federal courtroom in Washington yesterday afternoon, another Trump supporter who committed crimes on Jan. 6, 2021, because he believed the then-president’s election lies was sentenced to prison for participating in what his sentencing judge described as “a direct attack on the nation’s democracy.”
Wearing a blue suit as he shook, sniffled and fought back tears, 38-year-old Troy Weeks talked extensively about his rough childhood, bragged that he refused to take part in a walkout when he was in high school, quoted scripture and apologized to one of the few people in the courtroom gallery: former Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, a military veteran who was repeatedly assaulted while protecting the Capitol nearly four years ago.
