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Today's Political News Compilation - Monday, Nov. 4, 2024

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FILE - The logo for the Justice Department is seen before a news conference at the Department of Justice, Aug. 23, 2024, in Washington.
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Some Republican-led states refuse to let Justice Department monitors into polling places​

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and JIM SALTER
Updated 1:40 PM CST, November 4, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Republican-led states say they will block the Justice Department’s election monitors from going inside polling places on Election Day, pushing back on federal authorities’ decades-long practice of watching for violations of federal voting laws.

Officials in Florida and Texas have said they won’t allow federal election monitors into polling sites on Tuesday. And on Monday, Missouri filed a federal lawsuit seeking a court order to block federal officials from observing inside polling places.

The Justice Department announced last week that it’s deploying election monitors in 86 jurisdictions across 27 states on Election Day. The Justice Department declined to comment on Monday on the Missouri lawsuit and the moves by other Republican-led states.

The race between Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump is a dead heat, and both sides are bracing for potential legal challenges to vote tallies. The Justice Department’s election monitoring effort, a long practice under both Democratic and Republican administrations, is meant to ensure that federal voting rights are being followed. ...

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3 takeaways from pre-election voting | CNN Politics

Here are three big takeaways from what we know about those who decided to vote ahead of Election Day.
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apnews.com

Trump wants the presidential winner to be declared on election night. Why that's unlikely

Former President Donald Trump is stepping up calls for a winner to be declared shortly after polls close Tuesday night.
apnews.com apnews.com
www.usatoday.com

In Pennsylvania, Harris leans into symbolism as she makes her final campaign pitch

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris' final day of the 2024 campaign started in Michigan and ends with four stops in Pennsylvania.
www.usatoday.com
www.washingtonexaminer.com

Georgia Supreme Court rules late-arriving ballots must be set aside - Washington Examiner

The Georgia Supreme Court handed Republicans a massive legal victory in Cobb County, Georgia.
www.washingtonexaminer.com www.washingtonexaminer.com
abcnews.go.com

2024 election updates: 80 million Americans have voted early as Trump, Harris sprint to finish

With just hours left to Election Day, it's a neck-and-neck race to the finish.
abcnews.go.com abcnews.go.com
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How Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to dispute the election results – again | CNN Politics

Donald Trump is re-using his 2020 playbook to baselessly claim the 2024 election is being stolen from him and is being joined by allies with big megaphones amplifying his falsehoods ahead of Election Day.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
apnews.com

A presidential campaign unlike any other ends on Tuesday. Here's how we got here

Election Day marks the final chapter in one of the most bewildering, unpredictable and consequential sagas in political history.
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Trump's once enthusiastic crowds dwindle in election's closing days

Trump has been drawing smaller crowds than normal in the past week, with many attendees leaving while he's still speaking.
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abcnews.go.com

49 ballot measures to watch in the 2024 election

Ballot measures to watch in the 2024 election related to abortion, voting, drugs, workers' rights, and more.
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Last-minute challenges in battleground Pennsylvania target thousands of mail-in ballots | CNN Politics

Thousands of mail-in ballots in the battleground state of Pennsylvania have been targeted for rejection as part of a last-minute campaign that has set off alarms for voting rights groups and exasperated local election officials.
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apnews.com

Harris and Trump's final push before Election Day brings them to the same patch of Pennsylvania

About 77 million Americans have voted early, but Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are pushing to turn out many more supporters on Tuesday.
apnews.com apnews.com
abcnews.go.com

Liz Cheney says Trump's 'intimidation' won't work, urges Republicans to vote Harris

Former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, during an appearance on ABC's "The View," said Donald Trump's violent rhetoric toward her is a "threat to intimidate" that won't work.
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Inside the final sprint in the biggest battleground state on the map

NBC News traveled across Pennsylvania for the closing two weeks of the presidential race as the candidates and their surrogates held dozens of events to make their cases.
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Elon Musk’s lawyer says $1M giveaway winners not randomly chosen, which could raise legal issues

Musk had said winners of the giveaway were chosen at random.
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www.washingtonexaminer.com

Judge allows Musk to continue awarding $1 million giveaways - Washington Examiner

X owner Elon Musk's lawyers said the daily $1 million prize winners are paid spokespeople and are not chosen randomly.
www.washingtonexaminer.com www.washingtonexaminer.com
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AP says White House banned its reporter over Gulf of America name

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The Associated Press pushed back against the Trump administration on Tuesday after one of its reporters was blocked from an event over the news organization's guidance on its continued use of the "Gulf of Mexico" in its coverage, calling the move a violation of the First Amendment.

The White House demanded early Tuesday that the AP alter its style guidance to use the name Gulf of America versus using the Gulf of Mexico, AP executive editor Julie Pace said in a statement. President Trump renamed the body of water to the Gulf of America through an...
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Georgia congressman moves to help Trump acquire Greenland and rename it 'Red, White and Blueland'

  • News source: FOX News
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Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., has thrown his support behind President Donald Trump's quest to acquire Greenland — and has taken a step in Americanizing the country's name.

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Trump to sign order instructing DOGE to massively cut federal workforce

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday instructing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to coordinate with federal agencies and execute massive cuts in federal government staffing numbers.

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'Serious consequences': Ted Cruz delivers strong warning to illegal immigrants fleeing Border Patrol

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Tulsi Gabbard confirmation vote set for Wednesday after snowstorm thwarts midnight session

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President Donald Trump is on the cusp of seeing his 14th Cabinet member confirmed in former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.

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'Ineffective' generic drugs fuel rare public anger in China

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The American goods that could rise in price from metal tariffs

  • News source: BBC News - World
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DOGE cuts $900 million from agency that tracks American students' academic progress

  • News source: Collin Binkley and Bianca Vázquez Toness | The
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Ronald Rowe, who led Secret Service after Trump assassination attempt, is retiring

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Scientists expect major 'medical breakthroughs' despite Trump's cap on NIH research funding

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White House bars AP reporter because of AP style policy on ‘Gulf of America'

  • News source: Associated Press
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The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from an event in the Oval Office on Tuesday after demanding the news agency alter its style on the Gulf of Mexico, which President Trump has ordered renamed the Gulf of America.

The reporter tried to enter the White House event as usual Tuesday afternoon and was turned away, AP executives said. The highly unusual ban, which Trump officials had threatened earlier Tuesday unless the AP changed the style on the Gulf, could have constitutional free speech implications.

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After Trump meeting, Jordan's king confirms opposition to moving Palestinians out of Gaza

  • News source: Katherine Doyle | NBC News
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Jordan’s King Abdullah II said he reiterated Tuesday during a meeting with President Donald Trump his country's and the region's "steadfast opposition" to the president's plan to resettle millions of Palestinians out of Gaza.

“I stressed that my foremost commitment is to Jordan, to its stability and to the well-being of Jordanians,” he said on X. “I reiterated Jordan’s steadfast position against the displacement of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This is the unified Arab position.”

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Dept. of Education asks NCAA to erase records set by transgender athletes

  • News source: The Associated Press
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The Department of Education took another step Tuesday in advancing the Trump administration's new transgender policy for sports by asking the NCAA and a key high-school sports organization to restore titles, awards and records it says have been “misappropriated by biological males competing in female categories.”

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Trump signs executive order to continue downsizing federal workforce

  • News source: Chris Megerian | The Associated Press
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President Donald Trump made a rare appearance with Elon Musk, his most powerful adviser, in the Oval Office on Tuesday before signing an executive order to continue downsizing the federal workforce.

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