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US ELECTION 2024
WASHINGTON POST REPORTING
Published October 20, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. EDT
Updated October 20, 2024 at 8:05 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON POST REPORTING
Published October 20, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. EDT
Updated October 20, 2024 at 8:05 p.m. EDT
Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.
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Original article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/10/20/2024-election-campaign-updates-harris-trump/
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Peter Burgess
Published October 20, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. EDT ... Updated October 20, 2024 at 8:05 p.m. EDT|
Former president Donald Trump took questions from his backers at a moderated event in Lancaster, Pa. It comes after he briefly visited a McDonald’s in a stage-managed campaign stop. Harris went to two Black churches in Georgia as part of Souls to the Polls events, urging churchgoers to reject the 'chaos, fear and hate' promoted by her opponent and embrace 'freedom, compassion and justice.' Her running mate, Tim Walz, is fundraising in California, while Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, was in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wis.
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Musk promises a daily $1 million lottery in questionable pro-Trump effort
Mariana Alfaro
Former president Donald Trump speaks to Tesla CEO Elon Musk during a campaign event on Oct. 5 in Butler, Pa. Musk has donated at least $75 million through his America PAC in support of Trump. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Billionaire Elon Musk has further escalated his direct intervention in the 2024 election in support of GOP nominee Donald Trump, announcing Saturday that he will hand out $1 million daily in a lottery for registered swing-state voters who sign a petition put out by his super PAC’s voter recruitment drive.
Legal experts questioned the legality of the move because it ties a monetary reward to voter registration status, which is expressly prohibited under federal law.
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Trump serves McDonald’s fries to supporters in stage-managed campaign stop
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Marianne LeVine and Isaac Arnsdorf
Former president Donald Trump handing out food on Sunday while standing at a drive-through window at a McDonald's in Feasterville, Pa. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) FEASTERVILLE, Pa. — Former president Donald Trump briefly manned the fry station during a stage-managed visit to a McDonald’s franchise here on Sunday, but he dodged a question about increasing the minimum wage.
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Des Bieler
Joe Greene, center, makes remarks in 2014 after receiving a jersey from Steelers President Art Rooney II, left, as Steelers chairman Dan Rooney, stands to Greene's right. (Gene Puskar/AP)
With Donald Trump expected to attend Sunday night’s Steelers-Jets game in Pittsburgh, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign touted support for her from legendary former Steelers Jerome Bettis and 'Mean' Joe Greene.
'It’s time for us to elect a leader who’s going to fight for us,' said Bettis, 52. 'Someone who’s going to roll up their sleeves and get the job done, not just complain about it at a half-empty venue.'
Greene, 78, wished Harris a happy birthday, adding, 'You’ve got my vote.'
The son of former Steeler Franco Harris, who died in 2022, is also backing her.
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Hallie Jackson, senior Washington correspondent for NBC News, will interview Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
NBC News announced Sunday that anchor and senior Washington correspondent Hallie Jackson will interview Vice President Kamala Harris in a one-on-one interview on Tuesday. The network said the interview will first air on 'NBC Nightly News' that evening.
Harris has been on a media blitz in recent weeks, speaking to both media personalities, such as radio host Charlamagne tha God, and well-known TV reporters, like Fox News’s Bret Baier.
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Still tense from Jan. 6 riot, D.C. braces for what this election may bring
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Ellie Silverman
Fencing was erected around the Capitol building after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
To local officials in D.C., civil unrest is a strong possibility — one for which they began to prepare with federal partners nearly a year ago, deploying lessons learned from waves of activism and violence that marked past election cycles. For those who live near and around the U.S. Capitol, a threat to democracy is also a practical one, potentially detouring bus routes, closing schools and roads, and leading to increased police presence in their neighborhood.
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Tony West, Kamala Harris's brother-in-law, is the chief legal officer of Uber. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
Key members of Kamala Harris’s inner circle are deploying across the country for fundraisers, private meetings and meals as part of an aggressive charm offensive to win back the support of the tech industry leaders who say they felt burned by President Joe Biden.
The overtures are intended to shore up support within a sector that was once viewed as a Democratic stronghold and helped propel Barack Obama to the White House in 2008.
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Trump repeats ‘enemy from within’ comment, targeting Pelosi and Schiff
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Annie Gowen
Former president Donald Trump speaks on Saturday at a rally in Latrobe, Pa. (Jeff Swensen/Jeff Swensen for The Washington Post)
For the third time in a week, former president Donald Trump repeated his charge that Democrats allied against him are 'the enemy from within' in an interview with Fox News during which he called the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol 'a beautiful thing.'
Trump, in an interview with 'Media Buzz' that aired Sunday, referred to Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff, both California Democrats, as 'bad people' who threaten democracy.
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A Pennsylvania road trip finds voters full of doubt, anger and unease
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Dan Balz
Lock Haven, in Pennsylvania’s Clinton County. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
In 2024, the road to the White House runs through Pennsylvania.
Of the seven battleground states, Pennsylvania represents the biggest prize with 19 electoral votes. There is almost no way for Vice President Kamala Harris or former president Donald Trump to win the election without it.
The focus on Pennsylvania this fall has been singular. The two campaigns have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on advertisements targeting voters, more than anyplace else.
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Isaac Arnsdorf
As Donald Trump started talking about immigrants, the moderator, Sage Steele, jumped in to say no one was being 'anti-immigration — it’s about doing it the right way.'
Trump responded by falsely calling Haitian immigrants in an Ohio town 'illegal' even though many have legal protected status. The town of Springfield has been besieged by vicious threats and disruptions ever since Trump made it a target of his rallies.
5:47 p.m. EDT
Harris discounts pundits’ concerns she has lost ground on Black men
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Annie Gowen
Vice President Kamala Harris was in Georgia on Sunday to address attendees at Black churches. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
Vice President Kamala Harris downplayed concerns that she has lost some support among Black men.
'There is this narrative about what kind of support we are receiving from Black men that is just not panning out in reality,' Harris said in an interview on Sunday with the Rev. Al Sharpton that aired on his show on MSNBC. She noted the enthusiastic attendance at her rallies, such as the one in Atlanta recently.
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Isaac Arnsdorf
Former president Donald Trump arrives at a campaign event in Lancaster, Pa., for a Q&A with supporters. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Donald Trump is taking questions from supporters in Lancaster, Pa., moderated by former TV sports anchor Sage Steele.
The first two questions came from supporters in specific groups who would benefit from Trump’s promises to exempt taxes on Social Security and tips. Trump said he got the idea for removing taxes on tips from a waitress working in his Las Vegas property.
5:17 p.m. EDT
Kamala Harris urges Black churchgoers to vote against ‘chaos, fear and hate’
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Maeve Reston
Harris speaks about her faith at Georgia church service
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Vice President Kamala Harris spoke about her faith at Sunday service at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Ga. on Oct. 20. (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: Reuters/The Washington Post
) JONESBORO, Ga. — Kamala Harris spent the Sunday of her 60th birthday working to turn out Black voters in Georgia, where she asked congregants at two churches outside of Atlanta to choose between a country of 'chaos, fear and hate' — represented, she implied, by former president Donald Trump — and the 'country of freedom, compassion and justice' that she envisions.
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Jorge Ribas
Top officials in swing states, including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), spoke to CBS’s 'Face the Nation' and ABC News’s 'This Week' about election certification and security concerns.
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Several governors and secretaries of state from election battlegrounds talked to CBS' 'Face the Nation' and ABC News about threats to election security. (Video: The Washington Post)
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Lenny Bronner
After some recent tightening in the polls, The Washington Post’s polling average shows little change in the last week. Vice President Kamala Harris continues to lead nationally, as well as in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Donald Trump leads in Arizona and Georgia. Nevada and North Carolina remain very tight.
4:16 p.m. EDT
Who won? How AP calls the election, in ‘single largest act of journalism.’
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Elahe Izadi
The Associated Press's Julie Pace, right, looks over a headline with David Scott on Feb. 5, 2020. Pace is now executive editor of the AP; David Scott is now the AP's vice president and head of news strategy and operations. (Jenny Kane/AP)
On election night — or, let’s face it, more likely election week, or weeks — Americans will finally find out whom they’ve chosen to lead their nation.
But the task of reporting the results doesn’t fall to a government body or federal official. Rather, in this country, figuring out the result of the central tenet of democracy is left to the media — especially the Associated Press, which has one of the country’s largest vote-calling operations and has been doing this work for more than 175 years.
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An Arizona Democrat descends into the Grand Canyon in search of votes
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Patrick Svitek
Rep. Ruben Gallego, who is running for U.S. Senate, pauses during a trek with his campaign team through the Grand Canyon in a visit to the Havasupai tribe on Oct. 14, Indigenous Peoples’ Day. (Rodrigo Abd/AP)
SUPAI, Ariz. — Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized tribes, and Rep. Ruben Gallego, who is acutely aware that Native voters helped deliver this closely divided state to Joe Biden in 2020, is trying to visit all of them in the final stretch of a race that could determine control of the Senate.
The Havasupai were 20th on Gallego’s list. When he reached Supai village, he was embraced by Felicia Siyuja, who made clear she was happy to see that he had opted to skip the chopper ride.
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Harris makes plea to Black congregants to vote
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Stevie Wonder sings 'Happy Birthday' to Vice President Kamala Harris during a get-out-the-vote event Sunday at Divine Faith Ministries International Church in Jonesboro, Ga. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters)
Stevie Wonder sang 'Happy Birthday' to Vice President Kamala Harris, 60, before she spoke Sunday at Divine Faith Ministries International in Jonesboro, Ga.
She reiterated her talking points about supporting those who need help.
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Maeve Reston
Reporting from Jonesboro, Ga.
Outside Divine Faith Ministries International, the church where Vice President Kamala Harris and singer Stevie Wonder just spoke during a Souls to the Polls event, a White man in a pickup truck rolled down his windows to shout obscenities at the group of Black congregants waiting to wave goodbye to Harris’s motorcade.
'Y’all are stupid as f---,' he yelled, also hurling insults about the vice president’s intelligence. 'You all are a bunch of slaves. A bunch of slaves.'
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Marianne LeVine
Former president Donald Trump works the drive-through counter at a McDonald's in Feasterville, Pa., on Sunday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Donald Trump ended his visit at the McDonald’s by wishing his rival Kamala Harris, who turned 60 on Sunday, a happy birthday.
He also used the visit to again assert the claim he has made without evidence that Harris never worked at McDonald’s, which is part of the biography she has used in her campaign to emphasize her middle-class upbringing. Harris worked at a location in Alameda, Calif., in the summer of 1983, while she was a student at Howard University, according to her campaign.
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Isaac Arnsdorf
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Former president Donald Trump briefly worked the fry station at a McDonald's franchise in Feasterville, Pa., on Oct. 20. (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Donald Trump briefly worked the fry station at a McDonald’s franchise in Feasterville, Pa., on Sunday. He lifted fries in and out of the oil, shook them, salted them and placed them into cartons for service. He praised the staff and the company.
'I’m going through the french fry stuff,' he said.
'I’ll never forget this experience,' he said later.
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Marianne LeVine
Reporting from Feasterville, Pa.
A crowd gathered across the street as Donald Trump visited the McDonald’s here in Feasterville, Pa.
Trump wore an apron and waved to the crowd through the drive-through window. He handed out what appeared to be orders to the cars in the line.
One man in the drive-through line said 'Trump 2024' as he drove away.
'I’m having a lot of fun here, everybody!' Trump told reporters. 'It requires great expertise.'
2:21 p.m. EDT
Warnock makes case to Black men ahead of Harris’s second church visit
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Maeve Reston
Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.) at an event Friday in Detroit. He spoke Sunday ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris at a church in Jonesboro, Ga. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) JONESBORO, Ga. — Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.) on Sunday urged Black men not to vote for 'the other guy' and said he didn’t believe that large numbers of Black men would end up casting ballots for Donald Trump.
The bigger risk for Democrats, Warnock said at Divine Faith Ministries International, is that they will stay home.
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Isaac Arnsdorf
Former president Donald Trump serves food on Sunday at a McDonald's restaurant in Feasterville, Pa. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
Former president Donald Trump is at an independently owned McDonald’s in Feasterville, Pa., located between Philadelphia and Trenton, and is making french fries at the restaurant.
1:07 p.m. EDT
Billions in election bets raise the stakes of the presidential race
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Lisa Bonos
In the puzzle that is the 2024 election, many people are turning to prediction markets such as Kalshi, Polymarket or PredictIt. They lure some to put down money and others as an alternative readout on the state of the presidential race to those offered by conventional pollsters, pundits and the media.
Around $2 billion in cryptocurrency had been wagered on predicting the next president on Polymarket as of Friday. The New York-based company says it receives tens of millions of visits per month.
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Former Trump advisers become central part of Harris campaign attacks
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Michael Scherer and Josh Dawsey
Gen. Mark A. Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has not endorsed Kamala Harris but has warned that former president Donald Trump is 'fascist to the core.' (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Vice President Kamala Harris bet big last week that former advisers to Donald Trump can help make her president.
Former defense secretary Mark T. Esper, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley and former national security adviser John Bolton have not endorsed her candidacy, but they have each made clear they oppose his. And they have played a starring role in her television advertising.
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Harris invokes her faith as she asks voters to choose kindness over chaos
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Maeve Reston
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Vice President Kamala Harris spoke about her faith at Sunday service at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Ga. on Oct. 20. (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: Reuters/The Washington Post)
During a stop at Sunday service at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Ga., Kamala Harris spoke about how her faith growing up in the Black church has shaped her and her style of leadership.
As a child attending the 23rd Avenue Church of God in Oakland, Calif., Harris said, she was guided by the teachings of the Bible that God 'asks us to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves' and to 'defend the rights of the poor and the needy.'
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Amid concerns, Georgia and Michigan top officials say they expect elections to run smoothly
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Mariana Alfaro
Detroit residents cast ballots on Saturday. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
The secretaries of state in Michigan and Georgia — who are tasked with conducting their states’ elections — said in separate interviews on CBS on Sunday that they expect the process to largely flow seamlessly and that they will respect the results of the election regardless of who wins.
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Maeve Reston
Reporting from Stonecrest, Ga.
The congregation at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church here in Stonecrest, Ga., sang 'Happy Birthday' to Kamala Harris as the vice president celebrates turning 60 today.
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Reporting from Stonecrest, Ga.
Kamala Harris said she is closely monitoring the dock collapse on Sapelo Island, Ga., that killed seven people on Saturday.
'While we are still gathering information, we know that lives were lost and many were injured. And so my heart, as I know for all of us, goes out to those who were impacted,' she said, noting that the Biden administration is offering support to local authorities.
'I know on behalf of all of us here that we pray for all of those who are affected,' Harris added.
11:20 a.m. EDT
Return to menu Annie Gowen
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) dismissed Donald Trump’s digression on Saturday night on the late golfer Arnold Palmer’s manhood and his profanity-laced rant against Kamala Harris as 'nothing new.'
'Look, I don’t like it. I don’t like personal attacks.' Sununu said Sunday on ABC’s 'This Week.' 'But it’s nothing new and nothing that’s going to move the dial. When it comes to this election right now, it’s an outrageous statement by Donald Trump.'
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said Sunday that while many Black voters have a 'natural skepticism' over the election, that is 'not necessarily about the vice president, nor about the Democratic Party.'
'It’s about the pace of progress in America,' Moore said on 'Fox News Sunday.' That pace, he said, 'has not been fair.'
Last week, Vice President Kamala Harris released proposals aimed at helping Black men build wealth, expanding their access to lending, and providing additional tools to support those trying to start or expand businesses.
10:55 a.m. EDT
Sanders urges voters divided on Middle East policy to support Harris
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Mariana Alfaro
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at a campaign stop in Brattleboro, Vt., on Saturday. (Kristopher Radder/Brattleboro Reformer/AP)
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is encouraging people to participate in the election, even if they’ve considered not voting because of Vice President Kamala Harris’s policy on the Middle East and the war in Gaza. Donald Trump’s views on the issue, Sanders said, are 'worse.'
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Maeve Reston
As Donald Trump heads to Pennsylvania, where he plans to staff a fry-cooker at a McDonald’s as he continues to baselessly claim that Kamala Harris never worked at the fast-food chain, his aides are posting an old ad that he did with the fast-food chain.
10:38 a.m. EDT
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Cindy Boren
The Pittsburgh Steelers announced that Donald Trump will be the 'guest of an individual suite holder' during his expected attendance at Sunday night’s game against the New York Jets.
Although the Rooney family, which owns the Steelers, has long backed Republicans, Dan Rooney supported Barack Obama and was his U.S. ambassador to Ireland. Jets owner Woody Johnson served as ambassador to Britain during the Trump administration.
Former Steelers players Antonio Brown and Le’Veon Bell, who appeared at Trump’s rally Saturday, are also expected to attend.
Fans were urged to arrive well ahead of the 8:20 p.m. kickoff because of heightened security.
10:25 a.m. EDT
Harris launches a month-long ‘Souls to the Polls’ push in Georgia
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Maeve Reston
Vice President Kamala Harris stands between Bishop Rosie S. O'neal, right, and former congresswoman Eva Clayton (D-N.C.) during a church service at Koinonia Christian Center in Greenville, N.C., on Oct. 13. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters)
STONECREST, Ga. — Vice President Kamala Harris is making a major early voting push across Georgia on Sunday, speaking at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest east of Atlanta before joining a 'Souls to the Polls' event at another church, where Stevie Wonder will perform.
Relying on faith leaders and organizers, the campaign is encouraging Black voters in Georgia to bank early votes to allow the campaign to focus on lower-propensity voters in the final days before the election.
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9:59 a.m. EDT
Housing costs are rising everywhere — but especially in swing states
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Abha Bhattarai and Federica Cocco
WILMINGTON, N.C. — A multiyear surge in home prices has hit hardest in the swing states that are likely to determine the outcome of the 2024 presidential campaign, suggesting that America’s housing affordability crisis is weighing heavily as the nation’s most sought-after voters head to the polls.
Americans in swing states are far more likely to live in areas where housing has become disproportionately more costly since 2019, according to a Washington Post analysis of home-price data.
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9:25 a.m. EDT
Barack Obama targets need for early Democratic voting in Las Vegas
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Reis Thebault
Former president Barack Obama, who remains one of the nation’s most popular Democrats, greets people at Cheyenne High School in North Las Vegas, Nev., on Saturday. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Standing in a high school gymnasium 10 miles from America’s gambling capital, former president Barack Obama implored any undecided or hesitant voters to place a figurative bet on Kamala Harris.
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Harris goes after Trump on abortion rights during Georgia rally
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Brianna Tucker, Maegan Vazquez and Dylan Wells
Vice President Kamala Harris meets Georgia voters during a rally at Lakewood Amphitheater in Atlanta on Saturday. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
ATLANTA — Vice President Kamala Harris criticized former president Donald Trump over the issue of abortion access at a rally in Atlanta on Saturday, pointing out that the family of Amber Thurman — a Georgia woman who died in 2022 after she did not receive proper medical care because of abortion restrictions — was in the audience.
Harris used her time in Atlanta to emphasize the Republican nominee’s role in appointing Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade.
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Exclusive: The CIA analyst who triggered Trump’s first impeachment asks, was it worth it?
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Greg Jaffe
The CIA analyst who became known as the 'whistleblower' needed round-the-clock protection after filing his complaint, he said. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
The CIA analyst who submitted a meticulously sourced nine-page memo to the U.S. intelligence community inspector general that would spark Donald Trump’s first impeachment would be known as 'the whistleblower,' a moniker he didn’t choose and has come to see as a burden.
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9:01 a.m. EDT
Trump fixates on Arnold Palmer as ‘all man’ in showers during profane rally
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Marianne LeVine and Isaac Arnsdorf
Former president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport on Saturday in Latrobe, Pa. (Jeff Swensen/for The Washington Post)
LATROBE, Pa. — Seventeen days from the election, here in arguably the most decisive swing state, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spent the first 10 minutes of his speech without mentioning politics.
Instead, he delivered a long tribute to Arnold Palmer, the late famous golfer who was born here and is the namesake of the airport where Trump was speaking. Trump’s soliloquy about Palmer included an account of how other athletes reacted to seeing him in the showers.
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9:00 a.m. EDT
Mike Davis trolls the left online. He could also help Trump pick MAGA judges.
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Beth Reinhard and Marianne LeVine
Mike Davis, left, then-chief counsel for nominations, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in 2018. Davis helped move hundreds of former president Donald Trump’s appointments to the federal branch, including Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP)
In the disheveled basement of a Capitol Hill rowhouse, amid piles of old newspapers and conservative tomes and computer equipment, Mike Davis leaned into a live microphone.
In front of the eagle-emblazoned backdrop familiar to fans of the far-right 'War Room' podcast, the lawyer-turned-right-wing provocateur delivered his trademark tirade against Donald Trump’s legal and political opponents, whom he mocks as wild-eyed gluttons brandishing multiple indictments against the former president.
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