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Former Trump aide Steve Bannon to be released from prison 1 week before Election Day

Former Trump aide Steve Bannon to be released from prison 1 week before Election Day

Steve Bannon, a former White House aide and longtime ally of former President Trump, was released from prison Tuesday after completing a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress. Bannon left the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson Kristie Breshears told the Associated Press. He is expected to hold a news conference later in the day in Manhattan, according to his representatives. He will also resume his “War Room” podcast on Tuesday. Bannon, 70, was jailed in July after the Supreme Court rejected his attempt to delay the prison sentence while he appeals his conviction. JUDGE ORDERS STEVE BANNON TO REPORT TO PRISON A jury found Bannon guilty in 2022 of two counts of contempt of Congress: one for refusing to sit for a deposition with the Jan. 6 House Committee and a second for refusing to provide documents related to his involvement in Trump’s reported efforts to overturn his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race. Bannon told reporters in July he was “proud” to begin his prison sentence and described himself as a “political prisoner.”  STEVE BANNON ‘PROUD’ TO BEGIN PRISON SENTENCE FOR CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS “I am going to prison. I’m proud to go to prison. I am proud of going to prison today,” Bannon said at a press conference held with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., outside the prison. “I am proud to go to prison. If this is what it takes to stand up to tyranny. If this is what it takes to stand up to the Garland corrupt, criminal DOJ. If this is what it takes to stand up to Nancy Pelosi, if this is what it takes to stand up to Joe Biden, I’m proud to do it.” Bannon’s release comes one week before Election Day, when Trump, a Republican, will seek to defeat Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and return to the White House. TRUMP ALLY STEVE BANNON FILES EMERGENCY MOTION SEEKING TO STAY OUT OF PRISON A federal appeals court panel upheld Bannon’s convictions in May. Bannon is now asking the full appeals court to hear his case. His legal team had argued that the congressional subpoena was invalid because Trump had asserted executive privilege. Prosecutors, though, say Bannon had left the White House years before and Trump had never invoked executive privilege in front of the committee. Bannon also faces criminal charges in New York state court, where prosecutors allege he duped donors who gave money to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Banon has pleaded not guilty to money laundering, conspiracy, fraud and other charges. He is set to go to trial in December.  Fox News Digital’s Danielle Wallace and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom backs candidate in Dem vs. Dem House race

California Gov. Gavin Newsom backs candidate in Dem vs. Dem House race

As California state Assemblymember Evan Low and former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo vie to win the U.S. House election in California’s 16th Congressional District, Golden State Gov. Gavin Newsom has thrown his support behind Low in the Democrat versus Democrat showdown. “Evan Low embodies the very best of California’s values,” Newsom said in a statement, according to Politico. “We have worked shoulder-to-shoulder on some of our state’s most pressing issues, from protecting reproductive rights to tackling affordability for California families.” “Evan Low embodies the very best of California values. We have worked shoulder-to-shoulder on some of our state’s most pressing issues,” the governor said in a statement, according to NBC Bay Area. “Evan’s proven track record of delivering for Bay Area families makes him exactly the kind of representative CD-16 voters deserve in Washington.” In a post on X, Low said that he is “thrilled and deeply honored to have the endorsement” from the governor, whose “leadership and vision for CA have been an inspiration.” ‘PANDORA’S BOX’ OF POLYAMORY, CHILD MARRIAGES POSSIBLE UNDER PROPOSED CALIFORNIA AMENDMENT, GROUP WARNS Low wished Vice President Kamala Harris a happy birthday on Oct. 20. “Happy Birthday to our future president, Kamala Harris!” he tweeted. “I’m so proud to stand with you and honored to be running on the same Democratic Party ticket. Your leadership, tenacity, and dedication to fighting for justice and equality inspire us all. Here’s to many more years of breaking barriers and making history together!”  The district is currently represented by Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo, who did not seek re-election in 2024. ‘I WOULD NEVER TURN MY BACK ON PRESIDENT BIDEN’: NEWSOM SHOWS SUPPORT AT PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE Newsom, who has served as governor since early 2019, won re-election in 2022 after surviving a recall election in 2021. Last year, he debated Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who at the time was running for the GOP presidential nomination. Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity moderated the debate.  During the debate, DeSantis called Newsom “a slick, slippery politician, whose state is failing.” DEMOCRAT SAN JOSE MAYOR DISAGREES WITH BIDEN WHITE HOUSE, SAYS COVID NOT TO BLAME FOR CRIME SPIKES DeSantis ultimately dropped his presidential bid in January and endorsed former President Donald Trump after Trump won the Iowa caucus.

Harris-Trump showdown: Vice president picks up the pace on trail, makes pitch to progressives

Harris-Trump showdown: Vice president picks up the pace on trail, makes pitch to progressives

ANN ARBOR, MI – For a second straight day, Vice President Kamala Harris made a trio of stops in a key battleground state as the clock quickly ticks towards Election Day in her race against former President Donald Trump. One day after campaigning in Philadelphia, swing state Pennsylvania’s largest city, the vice president made three stops in Michigan, another crucially contested Rust Belt battleground. With Harris and Trump locked in a margin-of-error race in both the national and swing state polls and eight days to go until Election Day, Harris is kicking off a fast-paced final week of campaigning. WHY TRUMP IS MAKING LAST MINUTE STOPS IN BLUE-LEANING STATES For the first time in two months, the vice president teamed up at a large rally with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, as they spoke in front of what their campaign said was a crowd of roughly 21,000 gathered on a brisk autumn evening. On the eve of what is being touted as her closing argument in an address in the nation’s capital, Harris gave a preview, saying “we have an opportunity to turn the page [from Trump] and chart a new and joyful way forward.” CHECK OUT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS IN THE 2024 ELECTION The vice president, who has spent parts of the past couple of weeks courting Republican voters disaffected with Trump, interjected into her Monday night speech appeals to the progressive base of the Democratic Party. She spotlighted that health care insurance “should be a right, and not just a privilege for those who can afford it.” When interrupted by demonstrators protesting U.S. support for Israel in its war with Hamas in Gaza, she responded “I hear you on the subject of Gaza.” “We all want this war to end as soon as possible and to get the hostages out,” the vice president said. “I will do everything in my power to make it so.” Ann Abor, a Democratic-dominated city that is also home to Michigan’s flagship state university, has also seen plenty of protests over the war in Gaza. WHAT THE MOST RECENT FOX NEWS POLLS SHOW IN THE HARRIS-TRUMP SHOWDOWN Walz, speaking before Harris, made a passionate pitch on gun violence, emphasizing that freedom includes being “free to send your kids to school without them being shot dead in the halls.” “I’ll take no crap on this. I know guns, I’m a veteran. I’m a hunter. Kamala and I are both gun owners. We know that you can uphold the Second Amendment, but also uphold our first responsibility – protecting our children,” the governor added. Harris, after delivering her closing address on Tuesday, returns to the battleground states on Wednesday, with stops in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Those three states, along with Michigan, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, had razor-thin margins that decided President Biden’s 2020 White House victory over Trump. Additionally, the seven states are likely to determine if Trump or Harris wins this year. Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are also the three Rust Belt states that make up the Democrats’ so-called “Blue Wall.” The party reliably won all three states for a quarter-century before Trump narrowly captured them in the 2016 election to win the White House. Four years later, in 2020, Biden carried all three states by razor-thin margins to put them back in the Democrats’ column and defeat Trump. Both the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, as well as their running mates, have made repeated stops in the three states this summer and autumn. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.

Harris-Trump showdown: The Vice President to give closing argument with White House as backdrop

Harris-Trump showdown: The Vice President to give closing argument with White House as backdrop

Vice President Kamala Harris brings her presidential campaign to the nation’s capital on Tuesday, as she delivers what’s being billed as her closing argument address to American voters. With one week until Election Day, the vice president and Democratic presidential nominee will call on Americans to ‘turn the page’ on former President Trump, the Republican nominee. And a senior Harris campaign adviser also said the vice president, in what’s being touted as an optimistic and hopeful speech, will pledge to always put country and common ground above party to achieve results for all Americans. WHY TRUMP IS MAKING LAST MINUTE STOPS IN THESE TWO BLUE-LEANING STATES According to her campaign, Harris plans to argue that Trump – who four years later continues to charge that his 2020 election defeat to President Biden was due to an election rigged with massive voter fraud – is all-consumed by his grievances and desire for retribution that he’s not focused on the needs of Americans. It’s an argument the vice president has been spotlighting in recent days.  WHAT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POWER RANKING IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE SHOW “He is focused and actually fixated on his grievances, on himself and on dividing our country, and it is not in any way something that will strengthen the American family, the American worker,” Harris told reporters on Monday. And at a large rally in suburban Atlanta, Georgia last Thursday, the vice president asked supporters to “just imagine the Oval Office in three months.  Picture it in your mind….It’s either Donald Trump in there, stewing — stewing over his enemies list, or me — working for you, checking off my to-do list.” The vice president is expected to expand on that contrast in her speech. Trump, who has been indicted multiple times and made history as the first current or former president convicted in a criminal case, has regularly threatened during the 2024 campaign that if he returned to the White House, he would prosecute his political foes. And both Biden and Harris – who replaced her boss atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket in July after Biden ended his re-election bid – have repeatedly warned voters that Trump poses a threat to democracy if he’s re-elected. “Our democracy is at stake,” the president said last week. “Think about it. Think about what would happen if Donald Trump wins this election.” Harris will deliver her address from the Ellipse, a large park located just south of the White House and north of the National Mall. The Harris campaign points to two symbolic reasons for the Ellipse as the location of the vice president’s address. First, the backdrop is the White House, where either Harris or Trump will soon succeed Biden in the Oval Office. And second, Trump headlined a large rally of supporters at the Ellipse on Jan 6, 2021. Many of those who attended Trump’s rally then marched to the U.S. Capital and joined other protesters in storming the building in an attempt to upend congressional certification of Biden’s 2020 election victory over Trump. The Harris campaign says the vice president will also use her address to spotlight her plans and priorities for the country going forward. And they say at the top of that list is offering specifics on how she’ll bring down costs and put more money in the pockets of average Americans. Trump gave his closing argument at a large rally Sunday at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, where the former president’s message was partially outshined by controversial comments from speakers during the pre-show that grabbed national headlines. Harris’ address comes as the latest national polls indicate a margin-of-error race between her and Trump. It’s the same story with the most recent surveys in the seven crucial battleground states whose razor-thin margins decided Biden’s 2020 victory over Trump and will likely determine if Harris or Trump wins the 2024 election. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.