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Trump gets last-minute round of big-name endorsements including Joe Rogan, son of Roberto Clemente

Trump gets last-minute round of big-name endorsements including Joe Rogan, son of Roberto Clemente

On the eve of the U.S. election, President Trump received a round of last-minute endorsements from high-profile names, including Joe Rogan and Roberto Clemente Jr., son of the baseball legend.  With less than 24 hours to go before the election, podcaster and comedian, Joe Rogan formally endorsed Trump for president, ending speculation.  Posting on X, Rogan highlighted his nearly three hour interview with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who has already supported Trump.  “The great and powerful @elonmusk. If it wasn’t for him we’d be f—ed,” Rogan said. “He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way.”  REP. DINGELL DOUBLES DOWN ON INTERNMENT CAMP CLAIMS: ‘REALLY WASN’T A JOKE’ And leaving no room for doubt, Rogan wrote: “For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump.”  RNC TAKES VICTORY LAP AFTER HIGH COURT’S ABSENTEE BALLOT RULING IN KEY SWING STATE Earlier Monday, Robert Clemente Jr., son of the Puerto Rican baseball legend, formally endorsed Trump in the city where his father played.  Clemente Jr. joined Trump on stage in Pittsburgh where he praised the former commander-in-chief.  “For the first time, I had to take a step forward. It is very important for me to support this man, because I believe tomorrow is a change of time,” Clemente Jr. said. “My father, the name Clemente, what it means is goodwill and unity. I believe that your team is going to bring it all home. I believe in everything that you stand for right now,” he told Trump. And earlier Monday, Randi Mahomes, the mother of star Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, endorsed Trump during a game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.  In an exclusive video to OutKick, Randi Mahomes, wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat with a Chiefs sweatshirt revealed her endorsement of Trump.  “Make America great again. Let’s do it. Woo!” Randi Mahomes said.  Additionally, Trump was joined on stage in Pittsburgh earlier Monday by podcast host Megyn Kelly, who touted the former president as a “protector of women.” Fox News Digital’s Scott Thompson contributed to this report. 

Harris, Trump conclude campaigning -now its up to the voters as Election Day 2024 gets underway

Harris, Trump conclude campaigning -now its up to the voters as Election Day 2024 gets underway

Nearly two years after launching his campaign to return to the White House, former President Trump’s bid to win back his old job is now in the hands of America’s voters, as Election Day 2024 has arrived. Facing off against the Republican presidential nominee is Vice President Kamala Harris, who just three and a half months ago replaced her boss – President Biden – atop the Democrats’ national ticket. With roughly 75 million ballots already cast across the country in early voting, and in-person day-of voting now getting underway, both major party nominees are optimistic about their chances in this historic showdown. “Momentum is on our side,” Harris told supporters at a rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Monday. “Can you feel it.” HEAD HERE FOR FOX NEWS UPDATES ON THE 2024 ELECTION  And hours later, at a rally in Pittsburgh, the vice president reiterated, “make no mistake, we will win. Trump, also campaigning in battleground Pennsylvania, told supporters “we’ve been waiting for this. I’ve been waiting four years for this.” HARRIS, TRUMP, HOLD ELECTION EVE DUELING RALLIES IN THE BIGGEST OF THE BATTLEGROUNDS And even though the final national polls and key swing state surveys pointed to a margin-of-error race, the former president has touted that “we have a big lead. We have a big lead.” Trump and Harris held dueling rallies on Election Eve in Pennsylvania, which, with 19 electoral votes at stake, is the biggest prize among the seven key battleground states. Harris closed out her campaign schedule with a large late night rally in Philadelphia, by the famed “Rocky Steps” outside the city’s Art Museum. Around the same time Harris was in Philadelphia, Trump held his final rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the same spot where he closed out his 2016 and 2020 campaigns. Pennsylvania and Michigan, along with Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, are the seven swing states whose razor-thin margins decided President Biden’s 2020 victory over Trump and will likely determine whether Trump or Harris wins the 2024 election. CHECK OUT THE FOX NEWS ELECTION HUB Harris, Trump, their running mates and top surrogates, have fanned out across the seven battlegrounds the past couple of months. And the two presidential campaigns and allied super PACs have spent nearly all the $2.3 billion they’ve shelled out to run ads in the White House race in the battleground states. The vice president and the former president closed out their campaigns with very divergent messages. Harris, who for a second straight day avoided mentioning Trump by name, closed with a positive and upbeat message as she painted a unified future for the nation. Trump painted a negative picture of the country the past four years under the Biden administration, as he railed against Democratic policies and spotlighted the dangers of unchecked immigration. For Trump, the 2024 campaign has been a grueling two-year marathon. He announced his candidacy at his south Florida Mar-a-Lago club days after the 2022 midterm elections. After a slow start, the former president easily dispatched a field of GOP primary opponents – which last year briefly expanded to over a dozen contenders – and ran the table earlier this year in the Republican presidential primaries. NOVEMBER SURPRISE: DISMAL JOBS REPORT HANDS TRUMP INSTANT AMMUNITION TO FIRE AT HARRIS Trump – who was indicted in four different criminal cases – saw his support surge and his fundraising soar in the late spring, after he made history as the first former or current president convicted of felonies. A month later, Biden suffered a major setback after a disastrous late June debate performance against Trump reignited longstanding questions over whether the 81-year-old president was physically and mentally up for another four grueling years in the White House – and sparked calls from within his own party for him to step down. Trump’s polling advantage over Biden widened, and the former president was further politically boosted after surviving an assassination attempt on his life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania two days before the start of the Republican National Convention in July. But the race was instantly turned upside down days later, as Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed his vice president. Democrats quickly coalesced around Harris, and her fundraising surged as her poll numbers soared. The Harris honeymoon continued through the late August Democratic National Convention, and into September, when most pundits declared her the winner of the one and only presidential debate between her and Trump.  But as the calendar moved from September into October, Trump appeared to regain his footing, and public opinion surveys indicated the former president gaining momentum. Veteran Republican strategist and Fox News contributor Karl Rove called the Harris-Trump showdown a “coin toss.” But longtime Republican consultant Alex Castellanos, taking issue with the polls, pointed to voter registration gains by Republicans. “I think the pollsters are getting this wrong. We’re all missing something because they’re giving us the same poll over and over again. .. Somebody’s missing something.” And Castellanos, a veteran of numerous presidential campaigns, argued “what I think they’re missing a massive shift in voting registration underneath all of this. Thirty-one states have voter registration by party. Thirty of them in the past four years have seen movement by Republicans.” Longtime Democratic pollster Mark Penn, on Fox News’ “Special Report,” pointed to an apparent surge in early voting by Republicans – after Trump, long a vocal critic of early voting – in recent days embraced the GOP’s longstanding effort to make Republicans more accepting of early voting – and said “the only fact we know is that Republicans have done a lot better in the mail in and early voting that they ever have.” Harris, a California resident, cast her vote by mail ahead of Election Day.  The Trump campaign said that the former president would cast his ballot in-person on Election Day in Palm Beach, Florida, where he resides. Trump, according to his campaign, also planned to spend Election Day with family, friends, and staff, and

These ‘bellwether’ counties could determine next president

These ‘bellwether’ counties could determine next president

Now that Election Day is finally here, there are a few counties that experts are closely watching as their results could indicate who the next president will be. Known as “bellwether counties,” these swing counties have, with some exceptions, consistently sided with the winning candidate for decades. Matthew Bergbower, a political science professor at Indiana State University, described a bellwether county as a “microcosm of the nation” in terms of political preferences. Though his county, Vigo County in Indiana, deviated by voting for Donald Trump in 2020, it has chosen the winning candidate in every election since 1952. ‘PAINSTAKING PROCESS’: PA COUNTY GIVES UPDATE ON PROBE OF SUSPICIOUS BATCH OF VOTER FORMS Clallam County in Washington state stands out as the only county to have voted for the winning presidential candidate in every election since 1980. The people of Clallam County are proud of their history as the “last bellwether county” in America. This year, the county looks just as divided as ever. Pam Blakeman, chair of the Clallam County Republicans, told Fox News Digital that she thinks the election “will be close in our County, but I see it swinging towards Trump.” She bases this on good Republican turnout and a ground game that she said “is the most active I have ever seen.” PENNSYLVANIA JUDGE ALLOWS ELON MUSK’S PAC TO CONTINUE $1M A DAY GIVEAWAY However, Ben Anderstone, a progressive Washington-based political consultant, told Fox News Digital that “a Trump win in Clallam County would be a bit of a surprise at this point.” “This year, it looks likely that Clallam County will be to the nation’s left,” he said. “In our August primary, Clallam County was very Democratic, about 57% to 43%. Lower-turnout voters in Clallam County are much more Republican, so we expect the presidential election will be a lot tighter. Still, our model suggests Clallam will only tighten to 53%-47% Democratic or so.” Like Clallam County, the presidential election could easily go either direction. Yet with GOP nominee former President Trump and Democrat nominee Vice President Harris facing razor-thin margins, three counties – Bucks, Erie and Northampton in Pennsylvania – stand out as particularly important. Pennsylvania, which has 19 electoral votes, is the largest swing state and thus the biggest target for both Trump and Harris. During this election cycle, Trump and Harris have had a significant presence in the state and in these three counties. On the final day before election day, Trump campaigned in both eastern and western Pennsylvania and Harris devoted the entire day to stops across the state. Vice presidential candidates Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have similarly been making stops in Pennsylvania throughout the campaign. “Both campaigns see the path to the White House running through Pennsylvania,” said Berwood Yost, the director of the national survey group the Center for Opinion Research. Similarly, he said the path to victory in Pennsylvania runs through Bucks, Erie and Northampton counties. Bucks is a primarily suburban county just north of Philadelphia. Erie, which is situated in far northwestern Pennsylvania on Lake Erie, is primarily rural and significantly smaller in terms of population. Finally, Northampton in eastern Pennsylvania is suburban and home to Lehigh University, a private research college. According to Yost, all three mirror many of the key demographics, such as racial composition, educational attainment and population density, that make Pennsylvania so competitive. President Biden won Pennsylvania by a narrow 1.17 percent margin in 2020. The margins in Bucks (4.37), Erie (1.03) and Northampton (0.72) were similarly close. Yost said that like the rest of the country, people in these counties are “generally dissatisfied” with the economy and want to see some kind of change, something that is a positive indicator for Trump. However, he said “the closest to the closeness of the race makes it seem that they haven’t been able to take advantage of that.” “I think part of the reason the race is so close is that that message has not been consistently articulated by the top of the ticket,” he said. “Those distractions have raised some concerns among some voters.” Yost said the race will come down to what independents and traditional Republicans who are not enthusiastic about Trump decide at the ballot box. “That to me is really going to be the inflection point of this election,” he said. “If they’re wobbly, and they think it’s the economy, that’s a plus for Trump. If they go into the voting booth, and they think about something else, that’s a negative for the Trump campaign.”   Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.

What we know about Georgia’s 4 million votes already cast ahead of Election Day

What we know about Georgia’s 4 million votes already cast ahead of Election Day

Millions of Americans are heading to the polls Tuesday to cast their Election Day ballots, and in battleground Georgia, more than half the state’s active voters have already done so. The Peach State’s early voting period between Oct. 15 and Nov. 1 saw more than 4 million people vote either early in-person or absentee. That’s 55.5% of their active voting populace, according to Georgia’s Election Data Hub. Both the Trump and Harris campaigns are pouring enormous resources into the state won by President Biden in 2020 by less than 1%. ‘ILLEGAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND VOID’: GEORGIA JUDGE STRIKES DOWN NEW ELECTION RULES AFTER LEGAL FIGHTS Here is what we know about who has voted in Georgia already: Female early voters in Georgia have outpaced male voters by double digits – something Vice President Kamala Harris’ allies see as a positive sign for Democrats, given their emphasis on abortion rights in the elections since Roe v. Wade was overturned during the Trump administration. Former President Trump has also made recent appeals to women voters, promising in several events over the last few days to “protect women” and warning they are “under attack” by illegal immigrants under the current Democratic administration. In Georgia, 56% of early voters were women, while 43.8% were men. The gap between female and male voters in Georgia widened considerably when focused on Black voters. Women made up 62.1% of Black voters who voted early in-person or absentee, while Black men trailed behind with 37.8%. Black voters, women in particular, are still expected to favor Harris and the Democratic Party in broad numbers. The Trump campaign, however, has worked to make inroads with Black men in key swing states like Georgia and North Carolina, with promises of economic prosperity under Republicans. GEORGIA DEMS CHAIR REVEALS MESSAGE TO UNDECIDED GOP VOTERS AS HARRIS WORKS TO BUILD BROAD BASE A 58% majority of Georgia’s early voters were White, according to Georgia Votes, a data aggregation site partnered with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. That was followed by Black voters with 26.4% of the early vote. Hispanic and Asian voters combined made up roughly 6% of early voters. Black or African American Georgians make up roughly a third of the state’s population, according to the most recent census data. Of the state’s active White voters, 63% have already voted, compared to 49.7% of active Black voters, the Georgia elections site says. Counties considered more rural in Georgia have seen more of their active voters cast pre-Election Day ballots than more Democratic-leaning areas around Atlanta. The 20 counties ranked highest in terms of percentage of total active voter turnout so far were all won by Trump in 2020, despite Biden winning the state overall. The bluer counties in the Atlanta metropolitan area are still significantly larger than those rural counties where turnout is high – but in a race that came down to less than 12,000 votes in 2020, every ballot cast is critical. GEORGIA GOP CHAIR SHARES 2-PRONGED ELECTION STRATEGY AS TRUMP WORKS TO WIN BACK PEACH STATE In terms of sheer numbers, the most early and absentee voters have been in Atlanta and its densely packed surrounding suburbs. The top three counties in terms of turnout are Towns, Oconee and Dawson – all were won by Trump in 2020, but together the number of active voters who have cast ballots there already is just over 47,000. By contrast, the counties of Henry, Cobb and Fulton – the third being home to the city of Atlanta itself – have seen less of their total active voting populations turn out before Election Day, but more than 861,000 ballots cast so far. One of the biggest questions of the Election Day post-mortem will be how more than 830,000 early voters who did not vote at all in 2020 cast their ballots this time around. That group makes up roughly 21% of Georgia’s early voters, per Georgia Votes. Roughly half of those voters are White and about a quarter are Black. Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones told Fox News Digital last week that he believes those voters are largely Trump supporters who voted in 2016 but did not do so in 2020. It’s worth noting, however, that the majority of early voters in Georgia also voted early in 2020. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.