Trump campaign launches first Snapchat ads
With 10 days until the general election, the Trump campaign just launched its first Snapchat digital ads of the 2024 cycle.
The ads, which are running across swing states, are focused on mobilizing voters to go vote. In one of the ads, an on-screen graphic asks, “Who needs to vote?” and the camera pans to reveal Trump pointing at the screen and giving a thumbs-up.
During the 2020 election, the Trump campaign had spent $268,000 on Snapchat ads and started consistently advertising on the platform at the end of August.
So far this year, the Democratic presidential campaign has spent $7.8 million on Snapchat ads. It’s been running ads on the platform since March.
Biden: Women 'can do anything any man can do,' including being president
During a speech at the Laborers’ International Union of North America Get Out the Vote kickoff event in Pittsburgh, President Joe Biden boosted Harris, telling the crowd that women “can do anything any man can do, including being president of the United States.”
Biden also blasted Trump, calling him a "loser of a man," and urged the crowd to vote, telling attendees, "don't do it for me, do it for your kids."
Trump doubles down on negative comments about Detroit
During a rally in Novi, Michigan, Trump doubled down on his critical comments about Detroit, saying that the city "makes us a developing nation."
His remarks came during a section of his speech about bringing manufacturing back to Michigan from China and Mexico.
"I think Detroit and some of our areas makes us a developing nation. China doesn’t have any place like that," the former president said.
In key swing states, the lines at food banks are growing longer
Across the rural communities and industrial towns of western Michigan, semitrucks hauling thousands of pounds of food are pulling up to church parking lots and community centers where growing lines of people are waiting for a few boxes of free groceries.
One truck can carry enough food for up to 600 households, but some days even that isn’t enough to meet the demand, which has gone up by 18% over the past 12 months, said Ken Estelle, president of Feeding America West Michigan.
“We have never seen this level of need in the 43 years we have been serving this community. It is significantly higher than during Covid and has pressed us beyond our capacity,” said Estelle. “We’ve just seen this drumbeat increase every month of more people and more people.”
From rural Michigan to midsize towns in Pennsylvania and affluent suburbs in Wisconsin, food banks are reporting record levels of need that have been steadily increasing over the past several years. Despite rising wages and low unemployment rates, many households continue to struggle with escalating costs that have depleted their savings and increased credit card debt, leaving little money left over at the end of the month to put food on the table, food bank directors said.
Judge rules that the voter registrations of nearly 2,000 S.C. teens won't proceed before Election Day
A South Carolina judge on Friday ruled that the voter registrations of 1,900 teens wouldn't be addressed before Election Day.
The ACLU sued after the state's Department of Motor Vehicles failed to transmit the teens' voter registrations to the elections board. The teens were 17 when they registered but would have been 18 on Election Day.
In his ruling, the judge said it was simply too close to Election Day to add people to the voter rolls.
In a statement, Allen Chaney, legal director for the ACLU of South Carolina, said, “Our government failed these young voters, and now the same government is making excuses rather than making things right. When ‘It’s too hard to fix’ becomes an acceptable reason to disenfranchise voters, we know that there’s work to do.”
Trump records a 3-hour interview with Joe Rogan about the election, Harris and whales
In a highly anticipated interview, Donald Trump touched on a wide range of cultural and political issues Friday night in a three-hour conversation with Joe Rogan, who hosts one of the biggest podcasts in the world.
The recording went on so long that Trump arrived several hours late to his rally that night in Traverse City, Michigan. Frustrated at having to wait so long, many people left.
The Rogan interview is a continuation of Trump turning to nontraditional media outlets, including podcasts, in the weeks leading up to Election Day. Rogan also invited Vice President Kamala Harris to do an interview, but her campaign has declined. Rogan’s podcast has more than 17 million YouTube subscribers.
Trump supporters who bought his lies about the last election face reality in court
With just days left until the 2024 election, Donald Trump supporters who fell for his lies about fraud in the last election continue to face legal consequences for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, even as Trump managed to stave off his own criminal trial and again become the Republican presidential nominee.
On Friday afternoon, a young Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol faced sentencing inside a federal courthouse in Washington, just a few hundred feet from the crime scene. Caleb Berry, a now-23-year-old who stormed the Capitol along with members of the far-right Oath Keepers group, stood before the judge in a black shirt and apologized to everyone in the courtroom, and to the country.
9 congressional sleeper races to watch on Election Night
The presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is dominating the 2024 debate, but control of both chambers of Congress is also very much up for grabs — and a series of fluid races may produce surprises on election night.
These sleeper races could determine which party wins a majority in the House or Senate, which will have a substantial impact on the next president’s agenda. They will be decided by a mix of factors, including voter turnout and whether the candidates have a unique ability to defy the broader political winds.
Here are nine races for Congress where one side should be clearly favored, but appears to have a battle on their hands.