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Here are six takeaways from Harris’ CNN town hall:Yes, Harris thinks Trump is a fascistHarris was asked Wednesday night if she considers Trump a fascist. “My administration will not be a continuation of the Biden administration,” Harris said. “There was a lot that was done (during the Biden administration), but there’s more to do,” Harris said. The vice president touted her work cracking down on hate crimes and called for new laws to deter future attacks. On Wednesday night, the vice president reprised that appeal – both in what she said and how she said it.

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Navarro and Ji-Zhang are among the more than 3.5 million citizens naturalized since 2020 who have become eligible to vote. They join more than 23 million naturalized citizens who were eligible voters in the last presidential election. Though overall turnout among naturalized voters has been lower than among U.S.-born voters, participation rates of naturalized Latino and Asian American voters have been higher than those who are U.S.-born, according to Pew Research. One in 10 eligible voters in the U.S. are naturalized citizens, most of whom are Hispanic or Asian American, according to the Pew Research Center. The top countries of origin for naturalized citizens in the U.S. are Mexico, India and China.

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California, Colorado and Hawaii will soon allow their residents to vote on ballot measures that would remove language from their state constitutions prohibiting same-sex marriage. The landmark 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, guaranteeing same-sex couples across the country the right to marry, makes these state bans unenforceable. However, these ballot measures seek to proactively protect these marriage rights should Obergefell ever be overturned. Without Obergefell, there is federal legislation that would keep same-sex marriage rights mostly, but not entirely, intact: the Respect for Marriage Act. It’s a personal issue for LGBTQ couples who had to navigate a time when same-sex marriage wasn’t legal or straightforward.

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The “blue wall” states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania have paved the path to the White House for the last two Democratic presidents. Recent discussions have centered on the possibility of an anomaly happening this year with just part of the blue wall breaking its way. “We absolutely are competing to win Michigan,” Harris campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said, noting Harris’ presence there this week. The blue wall states have been pivotal to elect presidents in the last several elections. “Those three, the blue wall states, almost always stay together, but this year it’s an extraordinarily tight race.

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☆ The vulnerable GOP congressman convinced that economic interest voters will save him from the Trump and abortion backlash
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

He sat down with BI to talk about the race, the national debt, abortion, and the state of his party. In an era where college-educated voters have been bleeding out of the GOP, Schweikert is increasingly an outlier, and he knows it. In order to keep looking like his district, Schweikert — a one-time conservative rabble-rouser who rode his way into Congress during the 2010 Tea Party wave — has had to make some changes. But now that Schweikert's sharing the ballot with Trump, he's not sweating that either. But while Democrats are hoping the state-level vote will boost turnout on their side and remind voters of Republicans' opposition to abortion, Schweikert sees it differently.

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☆ Bank of America's guide to the election and stocks that win under Trump or Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Hakyung Kim | In Hakyungkim | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Here are some of the ways Bank of America analysts think the upcoming election results could affect the stock market. Harris presidency, split government A victory for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in the White House, plus a Republican-controlled Congress, could be "the best outcome" for online media companies, according to Bank of America analyst Justin Post. He noted that Harris is likely to enforce a potential ban on TikTok — which could boost Meta Platforms and Snapchat . Trump president, split government A win for Republican candidate Donald Trump and a split government would be the best-case scenario for bank stocks, per analyst Ebrahim Poonawala. On the other hand, a Trump presidency would be viewed positively by gig-economy companies, including Uber and Lyft, according to analyst Post.

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☆ Trump’s growing threats to strip broadcast licenses send chills across industry
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Brian Stelter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But Donald Trump’s threats are not ordinary, either. He has imprecisely but repeatedly invoked the government’s licensing of broadcast TV airwaves and has said on at least 15 occasions that certain licenses should be revoked. Trump’s threats against CBS have been particularly intense in recent weeks. The threat from any politician to revoke a broadcast license simply because they disagree with the station’s content undermines this basic freedom.”Many of Trump’s threats conflate national networks and local stations. As president, Trump also said that TV licenses “must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked,” but nothing came of it.

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☆ How Liz Cheney tried to give GOP women permission to vote for Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Republican women can vote for Kamala Harris — and they don’t need to tell anyone about it. Such voters need to be approached gently since she’s asking dissident Republican voters to shelve some of their most cherished political positions. Cheney’s appearances with Harris came as the vice president seeks to further widen a massive gender gap with the ex-president among women voters. A New York Times/Siena College poll this month showed Harris leading women voters by 56% to 40% over Trump. Trump’s struggles with women votersHarris’ events with Cheney raised the question of just how many Republican voters might be in reach for her.

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☆ Trump’s McDonald’s visit highlights a significant problem for workers
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Former President Donald Trump’s visit on Sunday to a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania highlights the longest period without a national increase in the federal minimum wage since it was established in 1938. It’s not economics,” Reich said of the record-long period of time without a federal minimum wage increase. Reich, who has testified before Congress on the minimum wage, said there’s no question the federal minimum wage is not a livable wage. Members of the Service Employee International Union organized the rally in support of striking McDonald's workers who are demanding a wage increase. States hike minimum wagesAlthough the federal minimum wage hasn’t budged, many state minimum wages have.

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☆ The electorate is changing. Here’s what that means for Trump and Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

He also found that women will comprise nearly 52% of all eligible voters, which should help Harris. (North Carolina is the sole swing state where he found that they had increased as a portion of eligible voters since 2020.) The groups that Harris needs to give her winning margins are the non-White and college-educated White voters (especially women in each case). “I think Gen Z women, including White women, are very committed to an inclusive democracy,” she said. But this history clearly shows it is likely that the changes in the composition of the eligible electorate Frey has documented will closely track the shifts in the configuration of the actual electorate.

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☆ Inside the efforts to reach young Black men who might stay home instead of voting
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Arit John | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Philadelphia CNN —Dozens of Black motorcyclists drove through north and west Philadelphia over the weekend with a simple message for Black men: Go vote. Younger Black men have received increased attention from the Harris campaign in recent days. Since January, Black Men Vote has been reaching out to its target audience in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where the group says it has registered more than 100,000 Black men to vote. Black Men Vote has also partnered with barbers, who they’ve trained as voting ambassadors to talk to clients about civic engagement. Ninety-two percent of Black voters in the state backed the president, including 89% of Black men and 94% of Black women, according to CNN exit polls.

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☆ US intel assesses Russian operatives behind fake video trying to smear Tim Walz
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Russian operatives created and amplified false online content attempting to smear Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, US intelligence agencies said on Tuesday. The statement was based on newly available intelligence and analysts worked over the weekend to analyze the media content, the official said. Some posts circulating the fake content on X garnered hundreds of thousands of views and were amplified by right-wing personalities. The Harris-Walz campaign has expressed concern that media coverage could amplify the false Russian claims. US intelligence officials will also be closely watching Iranian operatives after Election Day.

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☆ The election is still incredibly close with 2 weeks to go, with warning signs for both Trump and Harris in the Sun Belt
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Harris and Trump are aiming to win in the Sun Belt, but there are challenges for both candidates. AdvertisementWarning signs in the Sun BeltTrump is looking to flip Arizona and Georgia, states that he won in 2016 but lost to now-President Joe Biden in 2020. In the poll, Harris is earning the support from roughly 74% of Black voters, a robust figure. But it's well below the 88% support that Biden received from Black voters in Georgia four years ago. And the poll also showed that nearly 18% of Black voters remained undecided, in a state where Black voters could make up roughly 30% of the electorate or more.

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☆ Kamala Harris: A jittery campaign makes big plans to clinch a narrow win
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

To get there, the campaign is finalizing marquee, attention-grabbing events showcasing Harris, with symbolic backdrops aimed at driving home the message. JB Pritzker, a Harris campaign co-chair. Harris supporters wear custom “Kamala is brat” shirts at a rally in Milwaukee on August 20, 2024. The Harris aides CNN spoke to expressed a jittery self-confidence, but they also kept using phrases such as“jump ball” and “down to the wire” and the occasional emoji with nauseous green cheeks. But some Harris voters and even some on-the-ground operatives and volunteers are.

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☆ Behind CNN’s investigation on deceptive political fundraising that costs elderly donors their retirement savings
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

CNN —A new CNN investigation documents how political campaigns have deceived the elderly and people with dementia with badgering, personalized text messages and prechecking boxes for recurring donations. Read the report, which illustrates the aggressive text messaging and charts how recurring donations can add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars drained from retirement savings. The team spent a significant chunk of that time gathering and reviewing the stories of elderly donors from a variety of sources: public records, complaints filed with government agencies, lawsuits and cold-calling donors. RAPPARD: Experts we spoke to told us that elderly donors are the backbone of grassroots fundraising efforts. It became clear to us throughout our reporting process the kind of effect these tactics were having on elderly donors.

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☆ 7 key forces shaping the final days of the election: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

No matter the poll, voters consistently say that the cost of living is their top concern, usually followed by threats to democracy, immigration and the economy in general. Female voters are backing Harris by 14 points, while Trump is winning men by 16 points, according to the latest NBC News poll. The October NBC News poll showed Harris leading Trump by 5 points, 45% to 40%, on who better represents change. Yet he isn’t all that impressed with Obama, the nation’s first Black president, nor Harris, who would be the second. “He’s only gaining support with Black men.”Democrats have been unnerved by recent polls that show Harris’ numbers sagging among Black voters, particularly young Black men.

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☆ Black women face a maternal health crisis, and advocates want that to be an election issue
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

“Black maternal health and reproductive health has to be a conversation that I hear from any candidate for me to be on board to vote for them,” she said. Black women in the U.S. also face greater risks bearing children. “The landscape for reproductive health for Black women has gotten far more dangerous in the last two and a half years,” she said. When asked, the Harris campaign did not point to specific policies on Black maternal health. Desta-Bell said she’s found growing interest from voters about the state of Black maternal health and reproductive justice.

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Vice President Kamala Harris and top Democrats are seizing on the Republican nominee’s bizarre antics to inject new urgency and a sharper focus into her campaign. Democrats are suggesting that he is “unstable” and showing cognitive decline, using the same critique he once used against President Joe Biden. The Harris campaign, for example, immediately highlighted the 78-year-old Trump saying on Sunday that he’s “not that close to 80” when calling for cognitive tests. His alarming behavior may look to some like a candidacy melting down when the pressure is at its most extreme. With polls deadlocked, Trump’s behavior hasn’t yet disqualified him.

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Obama focuses his campaign outreach on young Black men. Jeff Swensen / Getty ImagesWill Obama’s outreach to young Black men help Harris?Former President Barack Obama has been on the campaign trail for Kamala Harris, aiming to shore up her support among young Black men. Democrats have been unnerved by recent polls that show Harris’ numbers sagging among Black voters, particularly young men. One of Obama’s tasks leading up to Election Day is to persuade Black men that voting for Donald Trump would be a grievous mistake. 🙌 Russell Wilson made his Steelers debut on “Sunday Night Football” and led Pittsburgh to a 35-17 win against the New York Jets.

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Yet he isn’t all that impressed with Obama, the nation’s first Black president, nor Harris, who would be the second. “He’s only gaining support with Black men.”Democrats have been unnerved by recent polls that show Harris’ numbers sagging among Black voters, particularly young Black men. At a pair of rallies in Tucson and Las Vegas in recent days, Obama drew thousands of cheering supporters, though the turnout among young Black men appeared sparse. He came to hear Obama speak and as he stood in line for the event on campus, he said he didn’t see Obama as a figure who would be especially influential with young Black men. Trump is a white 78-year-old, but he possesses a “charisma” that some younger Black men find appealing, he added.

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☆ The election could be less of a market catalyst than people think, some investors say
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Sarah Min | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The U.S. presidential election is fast approaching, but it may not have as much an impact on markets as people may think, some investors say. History suggests the strong performance bodes well for a post-election pop into year's end. When Trump was elected in the 2016 presidential election, investors expected energy would perform well — but the subsequent two years proved unfavorable for the sector. During the 2000 election, volatility lasted for more than 30 days, through December. "We encourage investors to keep their long-term objectives in mind during periods of uncertainty and position for election related volatility," Guerra wrote.

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☆ Harris taps Cheney for ‘blue wall’ tour as she courts undecided independents, moderate Republicans
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Eric Bradner | Ebony Davis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Harris looks to ‘paint a picture’ for undecided votersSuburban moderates are far from the only group Harris’ campaign is targeting in the race’s closing days. As the Harris campaign tries to make inroads with men, podcasts like Joe Rogan’s are still under consideration, a source familiar with the matter said. “No matter your party, no matter who you voted for last time, there is a place for you in this campaign,” Harris said last week. She appealed to moderate voters and women in their 2024 primary — including many of the same voters Harris’ campaign is targeting in the race’s late stages. Trump’s campaign has been touting Haley’s endorsement in battleground states.

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AdvertisementElon Musk's latest gambit to help elect former President Donald Trump may be illegal, some election law experts say. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 20, 2024In this instance, the problem may be that giveaway participants are required to be registered voters. According to the America PAC website, the giveaway program is "exclusively open to registered voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina. Other election law experts also said that Musk is either barely toeing the line or has outright broken the law. Rick Hasen, an election law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote on his blog that the giveaway constitutes "clearly illegal vote buying."

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☆ Elon Musk's $1 million giveaway may not be legal
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Bryan Metzger | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk is giving away $1 million each day to a voter who signs a petition. AdvertisementElon Musk's latest gambit to help elect former President Donald Trump may be illegal, according to election law experts. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 20, 2024In this instance, the problem may be that giveaway participants are required to be registered voters. Other election law experts also said that Musk is either barely toeing the line or has outright broken the law. Rick Hasen, an election law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote on his blog that the giveaway constitutes "clearly illegal vote buying."

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☆ Elections have little impact on stock prices. Here's what investors should focus on instead.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"Profits accelerating are far more important than who is sitting in the Oval Office," Subramanian said. Instead, the energy sector was the worst-performing sector when Trump was in office, losing 29% even as the S&P 500 surged 83%. Meanwhile, the clean energy sector rose 306% during Trump's presidency, according to data from YCharts. AdvertisementToday, the opposite is true: traditional energy stocks have been the best-performing sector during Biden's presidency, rising 139%, while the clean energy sector is the worst-performing sector, down about 55%. AdvertisementUltimately, Subramanian and her team expect the stock market to rise in 2025 regardless of who wins the election in November.

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