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Walz calls Trump a ‘dictator’ who wants to ‘overturn the Constitution’

Walz calls Trump a ‘dictator’ who wants to ‘overturn the Constitution’

Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz called former President Trump a “dictator” who wants to “overturn the Constitution” during his final pitch to voters in the battleground state of Arizona.  Speaking in Tucson, Walz said, “Momentum is on our side, but we take nothing for granted” and “We know in Arizona a vote or two per precinct could be what it takes to win the whole damn race for the country.”  “Someday you’re going to be sitting on that porch. You’re going to be in that rocking chair, and a little one is going to come up to you after being in school where they’ve been studying the 2024 election, and they’re going to ask when everything was on the line and the American experiment was on the line, and there was somebody running who asked to be a dictator and to overturn the Constitution and talk about using the military against our own people. What did you do to stop that from happening?” Walz told the crowd on Saturday.  “And you’re going to be able to say every damn thing we could, every damn thing we could,” he said.  SEN. TOMMY TUBERVILLE TAKES AIM AT ‘COACH’ TIM WALZ OVER SPORTS TERMINOLOGY  Walz closed his speech by saying: “Make a plan to vote. Make a plan to get out and canvass. Make a plan to take a neighbor to the polls.”  Arizona is a state that leans Republican in the presidential race, according to the final Fox News Power Rankings forecast before the election.  KAMALA HARRIS APPEARS ON ‘SNL’ IN FINAL EPISODE BEFORE ELECTION  In eight high-quality polls conducted in Arizona since August, Trump has been ahead in seven. His edge has been between 1-6 points.  Immigration continues to be a highly important issue in Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico.   In the latest Wall Street Journal survey, 25% of voters said immigration was the most important issue to their vote, higher than any other battleground. It was a “deal-breaker” issue for 24% of voters. And Arizona voters preferred Trump on the issue by 10 points.  Fox News’ Remy Numa contributed to this report. 

Five states and Washington, DC, will end early voting on Sunday

Five states and Washington, DC, will end early voting on Sunday

Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Washington, D.C., have their final day of early in-person voting on Sunday as the nation sits just two days away from Election Day. Here is how you can still cast your ballot early, and a breakdown of the states’ key races. Ohio is home to one of the most competitive Senate races on the map. Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown has won the Midwestern state three times, but with Trump pushing White working-class voters toward the GOP and record spending from both parties, this is set to be a tight race. Brown faces Republican businessman Bernie Moreno. Republicans have made inroads in the northeastern and heavily industrial areas bordering Pennsylvania. Trumbull County flipped to the GOP in 2016, and Trump increased his margin to 10 points in 2020; Mahoning County flipped in 2020 by almost two points. These counties played a key role in Trump’s statewide wins. Democrats are performing better than ever in the “three C’s”: Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. These areas have the highest percentages of college-educated voters. President Biden won the counties home to these cities by double-digit margins in 2020, with roughly 30-point wins in Franklin (Columbus) and Cuyahoga (Cleveland). Unlike in other competitive states, Republicans still hold up in Ohio’s suburban and exurban areas, particularly those surrounding Cincinnati. Ohio’s Senate race is a toss-up and the presidential race is ranked Likely R on the Fox News Power Rankings. ‘GARBAGE’ TRUMP SUPPORTERS? AMERICANS REACT TO PRESIDENT BIDEN’S ‘OUT OF TOUCH’ COMMENTS HERITAGE FOUNDATION SUES DHS FOR DOCUMENTS THAT SAY ‘HARRIS’ AND ‘BORDER CZAR’ Voters who have received their mail-in ballot have until Nov. 5 to deliver it to local election officials. Sunday is the final day for early in-person voting. Voters who have received their mail-in ballot have until Nov. 5 to deliver it to local election officials. Sunday is the final day for early in-person voting. Voters who have received their mail-in ballot have until Nov. 5 to deliver it to local election officials. Sunday is the final day for early in-person voting. TRUMP TRASHES BIDEN’S INSULT IN A GARBAGE TRUCK Voters who have received their mail-in ballot have until Nov. 5 to deliver it to local election officials. Sunday is the final day for early in-person voting. Voters who have received their mail-in ballot have until Nov. 5 to deliver it to local election officials. Sunday is the final day for early in-person voting. Voters who have received their mail-in ballot have until Nov. 5 to deliver it to election officials. Sunday is the final day for early in-person voting.

Afghans for Trump group looking to make foreign policy — and 2021 withdrawal — front and center in election

Afghans for Trump group looking to make foreign policy — and 2021 withdrawal — front and center in election

Three years have passed since the Taliban’s swift takeover upended Afghanistan. Women have largely taken up home confinement, and men live in fear of being suspected of aiding the resistance, a charge that could result in death. In the chaos, as the U.S. hastily withdrew, countless Afghan allies were abandoned to an uncertain fate. While the wall-to-wall press coverage of what’s been called President Biden’s “Saigon moment” has largely quieted down, the Afghan diaspora living in the U.S. has not forgotten relatives in the homeland.  TALIBAN BANS WOMEN ‘HEARING OTHER WOMEN’S VOICES’ IN LATEST DECREE Zoubair Sangi helped found a movement for the Afghan diaspora to unite and bring a sense of betrayal by the Biden administration to the ballot box with the new advocacy group Afghans for Trump. “If you were to ask [Afghans in Afghanistan], would you want a continuation of the last three years, which has been the failed policy of the Biden-Harris administration? They would say no because their lives are miserable right now,” Sangi told Fox News Digital. “It’s been three years where women can’t go to school. Terrorism has been on the rise. We have the attacking of ethnic and religious minorities.” Sangi’s parents came to the U.S. in the 1980s as the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.  Much of his family still lives in the nation.  “What they say is that it feels like they’re living in a prison,” Sangi said.  “Anyone who’s suspected of resistance, just being kidnapped, jailed, tortured, killed. For the last three years, this has been going on. But zero coverage. So, you know, those who are living here, they feel like they’ve lost everything.” Sangi says Afghans for Trump is reaching out to the diaspora, those who are Afghan by background but U.S. citizens, and has been in touch with recent refugees who left after the withdrawal, most of whom are not citizens and can’t vote in the election.  NEW GOP-BACKED BILL WOULD BAN AID TO AFGHANISTAN TO AVOID GIVING US DOLLARS TO THE TALIBAN “It’s a U.S. national security concern as well,” Sangi said. The Taliban “have been in connection with al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. So, this resurgence is a threat to the West as they are coordinating and planning [attacks].”  Biden often blames former President Trump for the withdrawal, arguing he was constrained to a deadline agreed to under Trump’s deal with the Taliban. Trump now says that deal was meaningless because the Taliban had not been holding up their end of the deal, and he wouldn’t have abided by it, though he has not voiced support for a continued presence in the region.  If Trump wins the presidency, Sangi said he hopes Trump will stop the funneling of money to Afghanistan, dollars that are earmarked for humanitarian aid but often end up in Taliban hands. “There is also a resistance in Afghanistan whose values align with the American people who have been allies of the Americans for over 20 years,” he said.  “The National Resistance Front in Afghanistan is a perfect alternative where we don’t have to get boots on the ground. … We just need to support this moderate resistance.” HOUSE GOP RELEASES SCATHING REPORT ON AFGHANISTAN  Sangi called to mind the acts of past administrations, such as former President Reagan providing aid to Afghanistan’s Mujahideen to fight the Soviets and former President George W. Bush’s War on Terror. “They supported the people of Afghanistan. And, you know, we fought our own battle. And it proved successful. So, fighting the Taliban should be much less of a challenge than that time,” he said.  “We believe it’s in our best interest to have support from a president who cares about the implications of what’s going on in Afghanistan … such as cutting off the funding to the Taliban at $40 million a week.”  According to an August 2023 World Bank report, in only a year’s time, the U.N. flew in by helicopter bags of cash worth some $2.9 billion to Afghanistan since the Taliban seized control. The bulk of that was from funds allocated by the U.S., and at least some of which ended up in the Taliban-controlled central bank, according to a SIGAR report. The Taliban then “taxes” this cash at multiple points of distribution.  “The Taliban are pocketing this money, and we see them using it for things such as military parades of suicide bombers,” said Sangi.  “None of it is going to the people who are living there. You know, I have family there, and they’re not receiving any of this aid. The population is facing starvation, mass unemployment.” With a sense of optimism, Sangi predicted Middle East policy may decide next week’s election despite the long-running assumption that elections are decided by domestic issues.  “This is the one time where I think every single person across almost every spectrum of society feels the repercussions of what’s going on, the turmoil in the Middle East,” he said. “This cannot continue because, if it does, we can go further into World War III, and nobody wants that.”