Fox News Politics: The Final Stretch

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Here's what happens…

– Battleground state voting dates are over 200,000 votes Occupation in red counties hit by the hurricane

-Trump's message shortly before the assassination spurred me to action: Butler Area Mayor

-Trump supporters outside Madison Square Garden Let's say the “exciting” rally shows New York is in play

Last round

In the final week before Election Day on November 5, former President Trump is taking two brief detours from the campaign trail in the crucial seven battleground states that will likely determine whether the Republican nominee or Vice President Kamala Harris wins the 2024 election.

On Thursday, Halloween, the former president will make a campaign stop in New Mexico and visit Virginia on Saturday. Both states were once key battlegrounds in general elections that have turned blue over the past two decades.

In fact, you have to look back 20 years – to the re-election of President George W. Bush – to find the last Republican presidential candidate to carry both states… Read more

The Washington Post has long been hostile to former President Trump. (AP)

White House

Biden's ballot: Biden casts vote in Delaware, calls Trump's Madison Square Garden rally 'just embarrassing'… Read more

TWISTED SISTER: Catholic Vote calls on Harris to be photographed with controversial drag nuns Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence… Read more

Capitol Hill

Election Day plot: Top Republicans investigating Biden admin over alleged terrorist attack on Afghan nationals on Election Day… Read more

The Senate races are close: Republican incumbents Cruz and Fischer narrowly lead in Senate races in Texas and Nebraska: Poll…Read more

SEE RED: Internal House GOP memo shows confidence amid presidential dead heat… Read more

Stories from the trail

“DOES NOT REFLECT”: Trump camp responds to backlash over comedian's Puerto Rico joke at rally… Read more

“LESS EFFECTIVE”: Pro-Harris Super PAC Warns Against Negative News That Focuses Too Much on 'Trump Fascist' Label… Read more

MIDWEST BATTLEFIELD: Campaign losses for presidential candidates in Michigan are already double what they were in 2020 and 2016… Read more

VIRAL MOMENT: Apparent Harris supporter screaming at baby in stroller goes viral… Read more

A woman was seen screaming at a toddler in a stroller outside a Harris rally. (@kennediej_ via Storyful)

BAD BUNNY BACKLASH: Bad Bunny supports Harris after Trump rally. The comedian jokes that Puerto Rico is a “floating island of garbage”… Read more

“TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE”: New York mayor weighs in on Trump's historic MSG rally following friendly greeting from 45… Read more

“horribly offensive”: Walz repeats Clinton's attack that Trump's event at Madison Square Garden mirrored the 1930s Nazi rally… Read more

BADGER STATE BATTLE: Poll results show Trump and Harris nearly tied eight days after Election Day in battleground Wisconsin… Read more

“BAD TASTE”: Pro-Trump comedian who told Puerto Rican joke at Madison Square Garden draws criticism from AOC and others… Read more

NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 27: Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at a rally for former President Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York on October 27. (Photo by Peter W. Stevenson / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Across America

Increase the price: Minnesota lawmakers say rolling gas tax increase will hurt lower-income residents the most… Read more

“TURN IT”: Texas Buys Big Land to Build Additional Border Wall and Combat Migrant Surge: 'Shut It Down'… Read more

“I don’t give a shit—”: Leaked Video Reveals Democrat Staffer Admitting 'Open the Damn Border' in Fiery Tirade 'A Quiet Part Out Loud'… Read more

'SCARED': 'Frightened' and 'traumatized': Walz's support for trans women at Minnesota's only women's prison 'endangers' inmates… Read more

'DEPORTED TOGETHER': Tom Homan says mass deportations are possible without family separation: “Families can be deported together”…Read more

Appeal to the Supreme Court: Virginia appeals to SCOTUS to overturn judge's decision and add potential non-citizens back to voter rolls… Read more

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia is seen in Alexandria, Virginia. (Photo by Bonnie Cash/Getty Images) ((Bonnie Cash/Getty Images))

politics abroad

World War 3?: Former National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien: Ukraine joining NATO poses risk of 'World War III'…Read more

ATOMIC INFLOW: According to US intelligence, China will double its nuclear arsenal to over 1,000 warheads by 2030… Read more

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