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“I think there is going to be some cheating in this election. I think non-citizens are going to vote,” Johnson said.
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If you needed just one fact to show that in the world’s greatest democracy one of the two major parties is perversely devoted to suppressing and even subverting the vote, you couldn’t do better than this: The senior counsel for the Republican National Committee’s “election integrity team” — Orwellian doublespeak come to life — is a *criminal defendant*in Arizona’s case against 18 Republicans who tried to overturn the state’s 2020 vote for Joe Biden. But there are so many more such facts, alas, and they provoke trepidation about post election chaos of the sort that Donald Trump and his party unleashed four years ago.
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Donald Trump and his Republican allies have repeatedly claimed that the Democrats are planning to get illegal immigrants to vote in the US election. “Our elections are bad, and a lot of these illegal immigrants coming in, they're trying to get them to vote,” Trump said during the presidential debate with Kamala Harris. BBC Verify has identified more than 100 paid-for ads on Facebook and Instagram posted by Republicans since the start of September focusing on the issue. It is illegal for a non-US citizen to vote in a national election, but studies suggest cases of this actually happening are very rare.
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CNN — [Donald Trump](https://www.cnn.com/politics/president-donald-trump-45)’s campaign is making a last-minute push to advocate for early and mail-in voting, methods the former president has falsely vilified for years as dangerous and fraudulent. With less than a month to go in a tight race, Trump’s campaign is urging people to vote early and by mail, while also working to expand [voting access in North Carolina](https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/12/politics/helene-milton-early-voting-north-carolina-florida-south-carolina/index.html) after Hurricane Helene.
WASHINGTON (AP) — [President Joe Biden](https://apnews.com/hub/joe-biden) on Sunday will survey the devastation inflicted on Florida’s Gulf Coast by [Hurricane Milton](https://apnews.com/article/milton-florida-hurricane-d40b1e47fd78844bf1ed528bab5099f1) as he urges Congress to approve additional emergency disaster funding. Vice President Kamala Harris will spend a second day in North Carolina, hard-hit by Hurricane Helene, to attend a Black church and hold a campaign rally.
WASHINGTON (AP) — During his first term as president, [Donald Trump](https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump) tested the limits of how he could use the military to achieve policy goals. If given a second term, the Republican and his allies are preparing to go much further, reimagining the military as an [all-powerful tool to deploy on U.S. soil](https://apnews.com/article/trump-military-insurrection-act-2024-election-03858b6291e4721991b5a18c2dfb3c36).
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Donald Trump has appeared on a slew of shows with huge audiences of young men, sitting for interviews with influencers, comedians and podcasters outside the usual political media. What’s his strategy?
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Journalist who published vetting document on Republican running mate was kicked off site formerly known as Twitter
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The Guardian’s 10-day polling average tracker showed vice-president with two-point nationwide lead, down from 4%
Arizona is one of several states where right-leaning groups are backing conservative judges as they prepare to challenge newly passed ballot measures protecting abortion.
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Trump, 78, pledged to CBS in August that he would release his records, as presidential candidates typically do.
www.france24.com
Millions of dollars have poured into bets on who will win the US election after a last-minute court ruling opened up gambling on the vote, upping the stakes on a too-close-to-call race that has already put voters on edge.
“When they say that it’s a war, that it’s this thing, that there are bad people, I know that’s a lie,” says 19-year-old resident Heribert Pacheco.
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After two attempted assassinations and an ongoing threat from Iran, Donald Trump’s campaign has ramped up requests for security including transport by military aircraft and additional security measures on the ground at the former president’s campaign stops, three sources familiar with the discussions told CNN.
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Russia has confirmed that Donald Trump sent the Kremlin sample Covid-19 tests in the early days of the pandemic, after revelations in veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s new book raised further questions about the former US president’s relationship with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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Former president says he will use obscure 18th century law to ‘expedite’ deportation of what he claims are ‘illegal alien gang members’
What "ulterior motive" is this community purporting to be an alternative to?
Democrats are arguing in a new pitch to swing-state voters that a vote for Green Party nominee Jill Stein would only help elect former President Trump. An ad released Thursday says that Stein was “key” to Trump’s victory in the battleground states in 2016 that clinched him the presidency and is “not sorry” for it, citing an interview she gave to Newsweek in September in which she talked about wanting to deny Vice President Harris the White House.
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At least four cities and a county are still waiting to be reimbursed for costs associated with local law enforcement and first responders during Trump's visits.
www.theguardian.com
Harris campaigns in early-voting Arizona and Obama appeals to the youth in Pennsylvania; Trump calls for CBS to be stripped of its licence