Harris and Trump campaign on the final weekend before Election Day

Mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania must contain a handwritten date for them to be counted in the 2024 election following the state supreme court's ruling. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court shut down an effort to allow mail-in ballots lacking a handwritten date to be counted in the 2024 election.

The ruling overturns a decision from a Commonwealth Court finding that the state law requiring a handwritten date was unconstitutional. The Pennsylvania GOP appealed that ruling to the state supreme court, and now undated mail-in ballots will not be counted in the upcoming election.

Justice Kevin Dougherty admonished the Commonwealth Court for its ruling in a forcefully-worded opinion relating to Friday's ruling.

"'This Court will neither impose nor countenance substantial alterations to existing laws and procedures during the pendency of an ongoing election.’ We said those carefully chosen words only weeks ago. Yet they apparently were not heard in the Commonwealth Court, the very court where the bulk of election litigation unfolds," Dougherty wrote.

"Today’s order, which I join, rights the ship. And it sends a loud message to all courts in this Commonwealth: in declaring we would not countenance substantial alterations to existing laws and procedures during the pendency of an ongoing election, we said what we meant and meant what we said," he continued.

Pennsylvania Republicans hailed the Friday ruling, saying Democrats have repeatedly tried to subvert the dating requirement.

"The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the law, and the dated ballot requirement will be in effect for this election. Democrats have repeatedly tried to eliminate this important ballot safeguard, and we have stopped them each time," RNC Chairman  Michael Whatley said in a statement. "We are committed to protecting critical ballot safeguards to ensure every ballot is cast and counted properly and will continue to fight across Pennsylvania to Protect the Vote."

State officials in favor of allowing undated ballots to be counted argue the change would make process easier for election workers. The Pennsylvania Department of State filed a brief in favor of the change prior to the court's ruling on Friday.

This is an excerpt from an article by Anders Hagstrom.

New numbers released in a key swing state show that Republicans have virtually erased the Democrat voter-registration lead, on top of historic early-voting numbers for Republicans, which one expert tells Fox News Digital is part of an effective strategy on the ground targeting a key demographic.

Figures released by the Nevada Secretary of State on Friday showed that Democrats hold a 9,200-vote lead in registrations over Republicans after October data was added. Four years ago, Democrats held an advantage of roughly 86,000 votes heading into Election Day.

On top of significantly narrowing the registration gap, Republicans have had a historically high early-vote turnout and lead Democrats by about 5% in the early vote, which ended in person on Friday, while trailing in mail-in votes.

Early voting concluded in Nevada with 393,811 votes cast for Republicans, 344,539 for Democrats, and 287,762 for other affiliations, according to the Secretary of State website.

The roughly 49,000 vote advantage that Republicans had over Democrats at the end of the week is a stark contrast from 2020, when Democrats ended early voting with a 43,000-vote advantage.

Biden won Nevada by roughly 34,000 votes in 2020.

This is an excerpt from an article by Andrew Mark Miller.

Far-left "Squad" member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., declined to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president Friday at a United Auto Workers union rally in Detroit. 

Tlaib, the lone Palestinian-American member of Congress, has been critical of the Biden-Harris administration's support for Israel in the war against Hamas since the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack, in which 1,500 people were slaughtered. Her decision to withhold an endorsement from Harris is significant as Michigan is one of three "blue wall" states Democrats view as must-win to defeat former President Trump. 

Rather than lend her support to Harris, Tlaib made a general plea for voters to get to the ballot box on Tuesday, according to the Detroit News. 

“Don’t underestimate the power you all have,” she said. “More than those ads, those lawn signs, those billboards, you all have more power to turn out people that understand we’ve got to fight back against corporate greed in our country... We’ve got to make sure that the nonpartisan part of the ballot gets filled in.”

Tlaib spoke at the UAW rally alongside fellow "Squad" member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. and UAW president Shawn Fain, both of whom endorsed Harris. 

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Donald Trump Jr. joined Franklin Graham of Samaritan's Purse Friday to help airlift warm clothing to Hurricane Helene-torn North Carolina as temperatures fell in the region.

Samaritan's Purse, a Christian disaster relief and evangelism organization, has served its home state of North Carolina since Hurricane Helene ripped through the southeast in late September.

Noem joined Trump and Graham, the president of Samaritan's Purse and son of the late Rev. Billy Graham, in the Bat Cave community near Chimney Rock Friday afternoon.

With donations personally delivered from California-based Kirstyn Hairston of KUIU and Dan and Agatha Genter of Genter Capital Management, Samaritan's Purse airlifted over 1,200 articles of winter clothing to the storm-torn survivors of Bat Cave, including winter jackets, fleece sweaters and pants, according to a release.

"Today was an amazing opportunity to be the hands and feet of Jesus and to be a blessing to people alongside Samaritan’s Purse," South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital. "Today, we saw the devastation of entire communities that have lost homes and all their belongings and even lost lives.

"So, we’re not only here today — we’re not going to forget about these folks. They will need our help for weeks and years to come. They will still need us to pray for them and lift them up. And they’ll need an organization like Samaritan’s Purse to walk alongside them."

This is an excerpt from an article by Jasmine Baehr.

MADRID, SPAIN - SEPTEMBER 23: Former U.S. security advisor John Bolton speaks at the inauguration of the 'FAES Campus 2024', at the Hotel Petit Palace Savoy Alfonso XII, on 23 September, 2024 in Madrid, Spain. The talk is entitled, 'The renewal of the European Union' and during the course of the event, a report on child poverty in Spain is also presented. (Photo By Jesus Hellin/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Former national security adviser John Bolton said Friday he thinks his ex-boss former President Trump is unlikely to accept a loss in the 2024 presidential election.

"We should be ready for it," he told CNN's Kaitlan Collins in an interview. 

He also said the pre-election litigation that is ongoing across the U.S. is a "good thing" that may resolve several issues ahead of Nov. 5. 

“I actually think that’s a good thing. I think the more issues that — it’s getting late now, obviously. But the more issues that are litigated before the election, the better,” Bolton said.

High-profile election cases before various state and federal courts include an unsuccessful attempt by Republicans to block the counting of certain provisional ballots in Pennsylvania, a challenge to Virginia's effort to purge voter rolls of non-citizens and challenges to overseas voter eligibility.

“At least now, some of this litigation is filed beforehand, and we’re getting results, some favorable to Trump, some not favorable to Trump,” said Bolton. “It’s taking those issues off the table.”

Still, he said Americans should be prepared for Trump to contest the results of the election.

“But I think everybody ought to be ready. Because Trump never loses,” Bolton said. “And if he loses, it’s because it’s stolen. So, it will be difficult.”

The House Oversight Committee is applying pressure on the White House to release accurate transcripts, after they allegedly altered President Biden's remarks after he called Trump supporters "garbage."

House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Oversight Chair James Comer, R-KY, sent a letter to the White House counsel's office Friday demanding they preserve all documents related to the transcript.

"To date, the White House has not issued a corrected transcript, and the false transcript remains on the White House webpage," they wrote.

The top members condemned the White House's alteration of the official transcript, writing that the stenography office cannot "simply rewrite President Biden’s rhetoric."

"In this case, it appears the White House is doing so to safeguard Vice President Harris’s presidential campaign," they wrote.

Stefanik and Comer referred to an AP report, which cited an internal email from the head of the stenographer's office, that noted that the press office "conferred with the president" to change the transcript.

The shocking comment came during Biden's remarks to Latino activists regarding comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's comments at a Trump rally. Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage."

Biden, according to a transcript prepared by the official White House stenographers, told the Latino group on a Tuesday evening video call, "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American."

The transcript released by the White House press office, however, rendered the quote with an apostrophe, reading "supporter’s" rather than "supporters."

The White House insisted that Biden was criticizing Hinchcliffe's comments – and not the huge swath of Americans supporting a Trump presidency.

This is an excerpt from an article by Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Jacqui Heinrich.

Former President Trump on Friday clarified that he meant former Rep. Liz Cheney doesn’t have the "guts" to fight on the front lines of war after he received a backlash from Democrats over comments he made Thursday about having guns trained on her. 

"All I’m saying about Liz Cheney is that she is a War Hawk, and a dumb one at that, but she wouldn’t have ‘the guts’ to fight herself," the Republican presidential nominee wrote on Truth Social. "It’s easy for her to talk, sitting far from where the death scenes take place, but put a gun in her hand, and let her go fight, and she’ll say, ‘No thanks!’ Her father decimated the Middle East, and other places, and got rich by doing so. He’s caused plenty of DEATH, and probably never even gave it a thought. That’s not what we want running our Country!"

Trump caused controversy when he called Cheney a "radical war hawk" at an event in Arizona on Thursday, adding, "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. They're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let's send 10,000 troops into the mouths of the enemies,’ but she’s a stupid person and I used to have meetings with a lot of people and she always wanted to go to war with people." 

Trump also told reporters at a campaign stop in Dearborn, Michigan, on Friday: "Even in my administration, she was pushing that we go to war with everybody, and I said if you ever gave her a rifle and let her do the fighting, if you ever do that, she wouldn't be doing too well, I will tell you right now. But she's a war hawk. She wants to go kill people unnecessarily."

The remarks prompted accusations from liberals of violent rhetoric and that Trump was suggesting Cheney should face a firing squad. 

This is an excerpt from an article by Brie Stimson.

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville blasted the "truth teller caucus" in the media who "have to be fair" instead of condemning former President Trump's political rhetoric.

Trump’s comments this week attacking Republican Liz Cheney for being a "radical war hawk" have set off controversy, with numerous critics framing it as a call for violence, and others pointing to the full context as exoneration.

Carville, who recently declared he was uninterested in being "fair" this election, said, "The wormiest and slimiest people in this is what I call the ‘truth teller’ caucus. The people out there that are just so burdened with the obligation to tell y’all the truth. And you see these a--wipes everywhere. You see them in commentary, you see them in newsrooms, you see columns, you see them on cable TV, and you see it in the newscasts." 

He juxtaposed pundits analyzing polling averages with Trump allegedly calling to arrest his political opponents and blasted the media for acting "like these are two equal godd--- things."

Carville went on to paraphrase the false narrative about Trump wanting to set a firing squad on Cheney.

"You also have the professional centrists, the people who just have to take a centrist approach," and try to converge in the middle. "Let's say Trump wants a 9-person firing squad to execute Liz Cheney," Carville said, before mocking centrist pundits by suggesting they would be asking, "Is the middle position a 4-person firing squad or a 5-person firing squad?"

"These people are so f---ing stupid," Carville said, adding that they are "victims of idiotic tunnel vision of what they are and their own exaggerated sense of fairness. It's hard to make the whole thing up."

Carville said that if the country is "done in," it will be the fault of these "professional ‘truth tellers,’ you know, the kind of people that have to be fair."

WEST ALLIS, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 1 - Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris delivered remarks at a campaign rally four days before Election Day at Wisconsin State Fair Park Exposition Center in West Allis, Wisconsin, United States on November 1, 2024. (Photo by Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 104 days as the presumptive, and now, official Democratic nominee for president without holding an official press conference. 

Trump has held at least six news conferences where he took questions from the media since the beginning of August. Harris has done several brief, informal press gaggles this week with the media while on the campaign trail, including on Monday when she criticized the tone and rhetoric at Trump's rally in New York City over the weekend. 

She gave a speech on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., outlining her path forward for the United States and how she differs from what she calls Trump's radical, dark vision.

Harris also ended her streak of not appearing on Fox News last month, sitting for an interview in Pennsylvania with chief political anchor Bret Baier. She also did a CNN town hall and interviews last week with NBC News, Telemundo and CBS, as well as several podcasts and local news stations this week.

Harris has stepped up her interviews in recent weeks, including doing radio hits, friendly appearances with "The View," Stephen Colbert and Howard Stern and other media appearances.

But as for when she'll actually do a formal press conference as a candidate, that day appears like it won't come, at least while she's still a candidate.

This is an excerpt from an article by Brian Flood and David Rutz.

Georgia Republicans appear confident the state’s record-setting early voting numbers will favor their 2024 presidential nominee.

"It’s been record turnout, something unbelievable — voting from all across the state," Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones told Fox News Digital. "I think the enthusiasm, the momentum, is with President Trump."

The former commander in chief lost Georgia by less than 1% in 2020, and Republicans have poured enormous time and resources into winning it back Nov. 5.

A significant part of that strategy has been convincing people to cast ballots early, traditionally a voting method more favored by Democrats.

And both parties’ emphasis on early voting has had a seismic effect. During the early voting period between Oct. 15 and Nov. 1, nearly 4 million Georgians cast in-person or absentee ballots, more than half the state’s active voters.

Over 700,000 people who voted already in 2024 did not vote at all in 2020, according to Georgia Votes.

Meanwhile, the top three counties for voter turnout rates are rural areas won by Trump in 2020.

Both of those factors, Jones argued, were favorable indicators for the ex-president.

"We've got a lot of voters that voted in 2016 but didn't vote in 2020. … What makes me believe that they are Trump voters is that most of them are ... from parts of the state that are pretty strong Republican strongholds," he said. 

"You start breaking down where they live, where they were historically as far as the Republican cards they pulled in the past, and, like I said, the on-the-ground enthusiasm for [Trump] right now is pretty off the charts."

This is an excerpt from an article by Elizabeth Elkind.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., is calling on former President George W. Bush to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris.

Cheney made the comment during a Friday episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour.

"I can't explain why George W. Bush hasn't spoken out but I think it’s time, and I wish that he would," Cheney said.

This comes after Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who served under Bush, endorsed Harris for President. The former Republican congresswoman has been campaigning with Harris in recent weeks.

Bush's daughter, Barbara, has also endorsed Harris and is campaigning for the vice president.

"It was inspiring to join friends and meet voters with the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania this weekend," the former first daughter told People Magazine on Tuesday. 'I'm hopeful they'll move our country forward and protect women's rights."

But the former president and his wife, Laura, have said they have no plans to endorse a presidential candidate.

Vice President Kamala Harris is urging her supporters to vote with the clock ticking down toward Election Day.

"We're going to get this done, but nobody can sit by the sidelines," the Democratic presidential nominee emphasized as she campaigned in battleground Wisconsin. "You don't want to look back on these four days and have any regrets about what you could have done."

Harris and the Republican nominee, former President Trump, held dueling rallies Friday night a few miles apart in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's largest city.

Hours earlier, while campaigning in Michigan, another crucial Great Lakes swing state, Trump told his supporters "nothing matters except what happens on Tuesday."

"Just pretend that we're one point down. We're not. We're up. But pretend that we're one point down on Tuesday," the former president stressed. He once again touted that he's leading Harris, even though the latest polls continue to indicate it's a toss-up.

With time running out, the campaign strategy now shifts.

"The closing arguments have been made. It’s not really about persuasion now. It’s about turnout. And that’s where all the energy of the campaigns are going to be directed," longtime Republican strategist David Kochel told Fox News.

Kochel, a veteran of numerous GOP presidential campaigns, said, "At this point, people's minds are made up. There are very few people out there to convince at this point. And if they’re deciding, they’re deciding between voting or sitting on the couch."

Harris and Trump on Thursday each held their final events in the western battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada, and Friday's competing rallies were their last stops in Wisconsin ahead of Election Day.

The razor-thin margins in those three states, along with Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, decided President Biden's 2020 victory over Trump and will likely determine if Harris or Trump wins the 2024 election.

This is an excerpt from an article by Paul Steinhauser.