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  • Trump declaring election victory early is ‘illegal’ 

    Trump declaring election victory early is ‘illegal’ 

    IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Now Playing Andrew Weissmann: Trump declaring election victory early is ‘illegal’ 09:14 UP NEXT Sen. Warren slams Trump’s tariff proposal, cites drastic price raises 11:16 ‘Democracy is on the line’: Rep. Ayanna Pressley talks Kamala Harris’ campaign push to defeat…

  • Trump trashes Democratic ad about women who hide their votes from their husbands

    Trump trashes Democratic ad about women who hide their votes from their husbands

    Donald Trump expressed incredulity that a woman would hide her choice at the ballot box from her husband, trashing an ad from a Democratic group reminding women that their votes are private. The ad, released by Vote Common Good and narrated by actor Julia Roberts, shows a woman voting for Kamala Harris, the suggestion being…

  • Stefanik, Comer try to turn Biden’s response to comedian’s ‘garbage’ joke into a scandal

    Stefanik, Comer try to turn Biden’s response to comedian’s ‘garbage’ joke into a scandal

    As Donald Trump and his allies continue to try to stem the fallout from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage,” Republican House leaders are seeking to keep President Joe Biden’s verbal gaffe about the incident in the spotlight in the final days of the election. In a letter to White…

  • The Supreme Court keeps facing last-minute election questions

    The Supreme Court keeps facing last-minute election questions

    Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. The Supreme Court on Friday night rejected a Republican bid from Pennsylvania to block certain ballots from counting in the swing state. But on Wednesday, the court backed the GOP in approving a voter purge in Virginia. We’ll have to see which court shows up next week and throughout any election litigation…

  • Overturning the 2024 election won’t be an easy feat

    Overturning the 2024 election won’t be an easy feat

    An underestimated factor in 2024 is that, while former President Donald Trump and his closest allies have learned from their failed 2020 coup attempt, everyone else learned, too.  On the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, I wrote out ways to protect American democracy in anticipation of another attempt in…

  • 10 things Harris supporters should keep in mind if they’re nervous about the election

    10 things Harris supporters should keep in mind if they’re nervous about the election

    This is an adapted essay from “MSNBC Live Democracy 2024: The Insiders,” a virtual event featuring Jen Psaki, Steve Kornacki, Michael Steele and Claire McCaskill. The days before an election are always a time of high anxiety. But as we approach this critical moment for our democracy, it’s important to take a step back, take…

  • Meet the voters who despise Trump but really like JD Vance

    Meet the voters who despise Trump but really like JD Vance

    Since before former President Donald Trump announced Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate, conventional wisdom has held that this wasn’t a great pick. Vance is “historically unpopular,” Democrats have charged, and even some Republicans have been unenthusiastic. Yet there’s a group of voters for whom Vance, not Trump, is the GOP ticket’s…

  • Trump’s hateful rhetoric gets a pass from centrist ‘civility cops’

    Trump’s hateful rhetoric gets a pass from centrist ‘civility cops’

    In the climactic scene of 1989’s “Batman,” Jack Nicholson’s manic, psychopathic Joker, who has poisoned thousands of innocent people and wreaked havoc on Gotham City, puts on a pair of spectacles after he’s cornered by Batman and says, “You wouldn’t hit a guy with glasses?” That’s pretty much the MAGA reaction whenever former President Donald…

  • 10 states with abortion ballot measures up for vote in the 2024 election

    10 states with abortion ballot measures up for vote in the 2024 election

    Voters in 10 states, including the battleground states of Arizona and Nevada, will be weighing proposed abortion amendments on their ballots this year, deciding whether or not to protect the right to an abortion in their state constitutions. The U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling in 2022 overturned Roe v. Wade and exacerbated the country’s hodgepodge…

  • Trump tries to gaslight Arab and Muslim voters over his Israel-Gaza policy

    Trump tries to gaslight Arab and Muslim voters over his Israel-Gaza policy

    This is an adapted excerpt from the Oct. 31 episode of “The ReidOut.” Election Day is almost here and Donald Trump is trying to gaslight the public with his disingenuous outreach to Arab and Muslim voters. But if anyone thinks that a second Trump administration would be good for Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied…