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Alaska, Iowa, Montana, 7 other states end early in-person voting on Monday

Alaska, Iowa, Montana, 7 other states end early in-person voting on Monday

Ten more states are wrapping up their early in-person voting periods on Monday as the country sits on the eve of Election Day. Here is everything you need to know to cast an early ballot in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Rhode Island and Wyoming.  Montana is a Republican stronghold at the presidential level, but it also hosts one of the most competitive Senate races in the country this cycle. Incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester faces Republican Tim Sheehy in a race where Trump’s popularity and Sheehy’s discipline gives the GOP an edge. It’s Lean R on the Power Rankings. SLOTKIN SLAMS FELLOW DEM BIDEN FOR ‘GARBAGE’ GAFFE AMID HEATED SENATE BATTLE TRUMP CALLS FOR SUPPORTS TO ‘FORGIVE’ BIDEN IN SHOW OF UNITY AFTER PRESIDENT CALLS SUPPORTERS ‘GARBAGE’ Voters who have received their mail-in ballot have until Nov. 5 to deliver it to state officials. Monday is the final day for early in-person voting.

NRCC chair reveals the two most crucial states in the race for the House majority

NRCC chair reveals the two most crucial states in the race for the House majority

Republicans are feeling good about their chances of retaining a majority in the House of Representatives this cycle, with a focus on two key states that could determine which party will hold the gavel in the next Congress. Republicans currently hold the majority in the House with 220 GOP seats, compared to the Democrats’ 212. There have also been three vacancies in the chamber this year. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) chair, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that he’s “confident we’re [Republicans] going to hold the House majority” for the 119th Congress. “Our candidates are running strong. If you look at early voting, the numbers look really good for Republicans. The enthusiasm’s out there. I think the momentum is definitely with President Trump and the Republicans,” Hudson said. “We have a lot of close races, so we’re not taking anything for granted.” REPUBLICANS ARE RUNNING A ‘SUCCESSFUL’ EARLY VOTING CAMPAIGN IN BATTLEGROUND NORTH CAROLINA: NRCC CHAIR Republicans have focused on building infrastructure in the two key states where the party is defending the most seats: California and New York. In California, Republican Reps. John Duarte, David Valadao, Mike Garcia, Ken Calvert and Michele Steel are all considered to be running in “toss-up” races, according to the Cook Political Report, a top nonpartisan political handicapper. Several Republican representatives are also vulnerable in New York. New York Rep. Marc Molinaro’s re-election race is considered a “toss-up,” while the Empire State seats held by Reps. Anthony D’Esposito and Brandon Williams are considered “Lean Democrat” by the Cook Political Report. “Our incumbents are running very strong there,” the chair said. “Those states take a long time to count their votes. So they may be the races we’re waiting on after midnight on election night and beyond. But it really may come down to those states to determine how big our majorities are going to be.” Hudson noted several other pickup opportunities across the country that are key to creating a path to the majority in the House. “There are a lot of close races right now across the country. But I think some of the key races are Alaska, where our candidate, Nick Begich, is doing extremely well. I think we’re going to flip that seat and go all the way to Maine on the other side of the United States.” The chair also noted that he anticipates picking up four seats in North Carolina, as well as flipping the blue seat in Maine’s 2nd congressional district. A ‘VERY DIFFERENT SCENARIO’ FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ELECTIONS IN 2024 Hudson recalled observing a significant change within the GOP in the push for early voting, which he says has given the party a boost this cycle. “I believe Donald Trump is going to win the White House. But if we keep Jefferies as Speaker of the House, the House is a majority-take-all with a one-seat majority. We were successful in passing legislation because Republicans stuck together,” he added. “If you want to see Donald Trump in the White House because you want to see his policies, you need a Republican House to enact those policies.”

On Election Eve, Harris and Trump hold dueling rallies in the biggest of the battlegrounds

On Election Eve, Harris and Trump hold dueling rallies in the biggest of the battlegrounds

PHILADELPHIA, PA – Vice President Kamala Harris – making a last minute pitch to her supporters in the biggest of the battlegrounds. “We need you to vote, Pennsylvania.  We need you to vote,” Harris emphasized as she spoke to a large crowd in the Keystone State’s capital city – Harrisburg – last week. “No one can sit on the sidelines.” The vice president and Democratic presidential nominee returns to Pennsylvania on Monday – holding rallies in Allentown, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia on Election Eve. CLICK HERE FOR FOX NEWS UPDATES ON THE 2024 ELECTION Her rival for the White House – Republican nominee former President Trump – held a rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday.  “A very, very special hello to Pennsylvania….What a great place. And I’m thrilled to be back in this beautiful Commonwealth with thousands of proud, hardworking American patriots,” the former president told the crowd at his rally in Lititz.  And Trump’s message to his supporters: “Pennsylvania, go vote.” NOVEMBER SURPRISE: DISMAL JOBS REPORT HANDS TRUMP INSTANT AMMUNITION TO FIRE AT HARRIS On Monday, the final full day of campaigning ahead of Election Day, Trump returns to the state to hold rallies in Reading and Pittsburgh. It’s no surprise that both major party nominees are heavily concentrating their final campaign schedules in Pennsylvania. With 19 electoral votes up for grabs, it’s the biggest prize among the seven key battlegrounds whose razor-thin margins decided President Biden’s 2020 election victory over Trump and are likely to determine if Trump or Harris succeeds Biden in the White House. “Pennsylvania is the one state that it’s hard to see someone losing and then still winning the presidential race,” Mark Harris, a Pittsburgh-based longtime Republican national strategist and ad maker, told Fox News. “It’s clearly ground zero.” Harris, a veteran of multiple GOP presidential campaigns, called Pennsylvania “a big tipping point state.”  VICE PRESIDENT KEEPS HER DISTANCE FROM BIDEN IN FINAL STRETCH TO ELECTION DAY And pointing to the state’s major cities – Philadelphia and Pittsburgh – its electorally crucial suburban areas, and its vast swath of rural counties, Harris highlighted, “I think it’s a good microcosm of America.” Harris, Trump, and their running mates – GOP vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance and his Democratic counterpart – Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz – as well as top surrogates, have repeatedly stopped in the state this summer and autumn. And while the campaigns and their allied super PACs have poured resources into all seven battlegrounds, more money has been spent to running spots in Pennsylvania than any of the other swing states, according to figures from AdImpact, a top national ad tracking firm. Pennsylvania, along with Michigan and Wisconsin, are the three Rust Belt states that make up the Democrats’ so-called “Blue Wall.” CHECK OUT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS IN THE 2024 ELECTION 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 defeated Trump. A New York Times/Siena College poll in Pennsylvania last Tuesday through Saturday and released on Sunday indicated Harris and Trump deadlocked at 48% among likely voters in the state. It was the latest survey to indicate a tied or margin-of-error race.  Senior Harris campaign officials, taking questions from reporters on Sunday evening, noted that roughly three-quarters of Keystone State voters will cast ballots on Tuesday “because unlike other states, the guidelines, and availability of early voting is just more limited in Pennsylvania.” But they added that when it comes to the early vote in the state, “we really like what we’re seeing.” And they predicted that “we expect in Pennsylvania, we’ll have a very strong Election Day.” But Pennsylvania is also the state where Trump survived an assassination attempt in July – two days before the start of the Republican National Convention. And the former president returned to the site in Butler – in the western part of the state – for a massive rally last month. Ahead of his two rallies in Pennsylvania, Trump kicks off his Monday campaign schedule in North Carolina – where he’ll hold his fourth rally since Saturday, which has raised eyebrows among political operatives. “We’ve had a lot of luck in North Carolina. We won it twice,” Trump said Sunday in Kinston. “We are going to win North Carolina.” But a day earlier, at another North Carolina rally, he warned his supporters that “when you’re winning by a lot, you can still lose by a little.” Polls indicate a margin-of-error race in North Carolina, the only one of the seven key battlegrounds that Trump narrowly carried over Biden four years ago. And a source in the former president’s political orbit confided to Fox News that there were concerns of a possible setback in the Tar Heel state. While Harris closes out her campaign with a late night rally in Philadelphia, Trump will be in Grand Rapids, in battleground Michigan, for his final rally. For Trump, it’s tradition. He closed out his 2016 and 2020 campaigns in the southwestern Michigan city. Trump, as he has in recent days, on Sunday once again argued without providing proof that the Democrats were trying to cheat. “They are fighting so hard to steal this damn thing,” the former president charged at his Pennsylvania rally. And later, at his rally in North Carolina, he also reiterated his claim that “we have a big lead. We have a big lead. The fake news, they don’t tell you this. We have a big, beautiful lead.” Responding, Harris told reporters on Sunday that “I would ask in particular people who have not yet voted to not fall for his tactic, which I think includes suggesting to people that if they vote, their vote won’t matter. Suggesting to people that somehow the integrity of our voting system is not intact so that they don’t