EAST LANSING, Mich.—A capacity crowd of some 6,000 supporters filled Jenison Field House on the campus of Michigan State University for Vice President Kamala Harris’s last appearance in the state before the Nov. 5 election.
“We have momentum,” Harris told the crowd. “It’s on our side, can you feel it?”
Pennsylvania’s top election official confirmed his office is investigating potentially fraudulent voter registration applications after authorities in multiple counties reported the issue.
Lancaster County officials set the problematic registrations aside and they were sent to local law enforcement, Schmidt said.
Despite accounting for over 17 percent of the United States’ GDP, health care access and affordability seem to be receiving limited attention during the 2024 presidential campaigns.
“For perhaps the first election season since 2004, health coverage policies have had a relatively low profile,” Sharon Glied, dean of New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, wrote in an opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine.
“The two biggest problems in health care: Millions of people can’t afford the care they need, and millions of people don’t have access to the care they need. And neither candidate is addressing these two problems in any serious way,” John C. Goodman, health economist and health policy expert, told The Epoch Times.
While campaigning in battleground Michigan on Nov. 3, Vice President Kamala Harris said her mail-in ballot was “on its way to California” and declined to say how she voted on her home state’s Proposition 36, which would enhance criminal penalties for shoplifting and drug dealing.
Harris passed on the question while speaking with reporters on Sunday.
The 2024 presidential election is the first in which the majority of Generation Z—those born between 1997 and 2012 and currently aged between 12 and 27—will be eligible to vote.
Often called Gen Z or Zoomers, the newest generation of voters, aged 18 to 27, tend to have an outlook different from that of older generations.
Gen Zers make up roughly 20 percent of the U.S. population. But they’re greatly outnumbered in voter registration by older generations: An April study found that fewer than 40 percent were registered to vote.
KINSTON, N.C.—Early voting in North Carolina ended on Nov. 2. A day later, hours before former President Donald Trump took the stage at a rally in Kinston, the State Board of Elections reported that more than 4.2 million residents cast early voting ballots—a record number.
Turnout in the 25 western North Carolina counties impacted by Hurricane Helene was 58.9 percent—around 2 percent higher than the statewide total, the state board said.
In Kinston, Trump praised the people who voted early in areas where homes and businesses were swept away by mudslides and flooding from Helene.
Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump, on Nov. 3, addressed supporters in Lititz, Pennsylvania—a region known for its Amish population—to urge them to turn out on Election Day.
On average, Trump is polling slightly ahead of the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, in Pennsylvania, but that lead has slipped in recent days to just 0.3 percent. The state’s 19 Electoral College votes make it the most influential battleground state in the election, and the rally was the first Trump event of the day—at the unusual time of 10 a.m. on Sunday—as part of his tour through the state.
“Do you like it better now, or four years ago?” Trump asked the crowd as he began the rally. The central argument of Trump’s presidential campaign has been the contrast between himself and President Joe Biden’s administration on questions of inflation and border security.
Despite recent market gains, many Americans are worried about how the upcoming election will affect their savings and investments. However, financial analysts say that, regardless of who wins, the person in the Oval Office will likely have less of an impact on market performance than people think.
“Investors should stay the course and avoid market timing,” Tim Schwarzenberger, portfolio manager with Inspire Investing, told The Epoch Times. “The party in charge doesn’t make too much of a difference.”
Earlier Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris stopped at a predominantly black church in Detroit, ahead of a campaign rally in Lansing, the state capital, later this evening.
“We have the power to decide the fate of our nation for generations to come,” Harris said to the congregation, before quoting a passage from the Bible.
“God has a plan for us. He has good plans for us, plans that will heal us and bring us together as one nation—plans for freedom, plans for opportunity, plans for justice,” she told the crowd.
WATERFORD, Mich.—Midday voter turnout was steady at the Waterford Event Center in Oakland County on the state’s last day of early voting. About a dozen people waited for check-in as about 50 others waited or cast ballots at approximately two dozen voter stations inside.
Candidate representative Connie Bristow of Macomb told The Epoch Times that turnout appeared heavier than previous days.
With just two days to go before the Nov. 5 general election, multiple final polls show that the 2024 presidential race still appears to be close.
What Final Polls Are Saying
Multiple final polls released by The New York Times-Siena College, Morning Consult, Rasmussen, ABC News, Atlas Intel, and NBC News show that Harris and Trump are neck-and-neck, although the picture becomes murkier when broken down by swing states.
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Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are leading the race in different key swing states two days before the election, according to the final poll released by The New York Times/Siena College on Nov. 3.
Almost all polling results fall within the margins of error, making the race for the White House a statistical tie.
Vice President Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in the final days before the Nov. 5 election, playing herself as the mirror-image double of Maya Rudolph’s version of her in the show’s cold open.
A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner on Sunday said that the Democratic presidential candidate’s “SNL” appearance may have violated the agency’s rule about equal time being given to candidates.
“This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule,” FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote on the social platform X late on Saturday night.
Former President Donald Trump will spend his final Sunday before Election Day racing across battleground states, while Vice President Kamala Harris will focus all her energy on Michigan. All times below are Eastern.
Harris will speak at a black church in Detroit at about noon. She will visit a restaurant in the Livernois district of Detroit and a local barbershop in suburban Pontiac, Michigan. At 6 p.m., she will appear at a campaign event in East Lansing, Michigan, home to Michigan State University.
Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will speak at a rally in Atlanta at 11 a.m. before attending a political event in Gwinnett County, Georgia. At 2:45 p.m., Walz and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will appear at a second rally in Atlanta.
People who identify as transgender make up about 1.6 percent of the U.S. population, the Pew Research Center found in 2022.
Yet issues surrounding transgenderism have evoked robust responses among the wider population.
DETROIT—Early voter turnout in Michigan reached 2.9 million on Nov. 2, about 41 percent of the state’s active registered voters, according to Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. About 2.4 million mail-in ballots have been requested and about 1.9 million have been returned, Benson added.
Saturday marked the highest in-person voting day yet with 146,000 votes cast. More than 1 million people in total have voted in person.
The state has just under 7.3 million active registered voters, about 1.9 million of whom are on the permanent mail-in voter list.
NEW YORK—Vice President Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in the final days before the election, playing herself as the mirror-image double of Maya Rudolph’s version of her in the show’s cold open.
The first lines the Democratic nominee spoke as she sat across from Rudolph, their outfits identical, were drowned out by cheers from the audience.
“It is nice to see you Kamala,” Harris told Rudolph with a broad grin she kept throughout the sketch. “And I’m just here to remind you, you got this.”
A Georgia judge has dismissed a Republican lawsuit attempting to prevent counties from operating election offices over the weekend to accept hand-delivered absentee ballots.
Plaintiffs said the lack of poll watchers to observe the absentee (or mail-in) ballot intake by local election officials compromised election integrity.
The Georgia secretary of state’s office recorded more than 4 million votes cast during the state’s early voting period, which concluded on Nov. 1.
In all, the office logged 4,004,588 ballots cast, including 3,761,968 in-person votes and 242,620 mail-in absentee ballots.
The FBI has disavowed a pair of videos purporting to be made by the bureau that raise election integrity concerns.
The FBI statement said one of the videos claims the bureau has apprehended three linked groups committing ballot fraud.
TAMPA—Floridians will be joining voters from nine other states to decide if deregulated abortion access should be enshrined in their state constitution this election. Voters in seven other states have already said yes.
Amendment 4, known as the “Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion,” the ballot initiative has been touted as either an act of liberation or a measure based on disinformation, depending on which side is describing it.
Kelsey Pritchard, director of state public affairs for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said “It’s all deception.”
