With three days to go until Election Day — and the candidates engaging in their final push — Donald Trump is lashing out at Liz Cheney, who’s supporting Kamala Harris. Thursday night in Arizona, he called her a “war hawk” and said she should face “nine barrels,” appearing to suggest a firing squad.
Both Trump and Harris are heading into the last weekend of the campaign by spending time in the crucial Midwest on Friday, both ending up in battleground Wisconsin with dueling rallies in Milwaukee.
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Nov 2, 11:52 AM
Trump again calls for Cheney to be sent to war, doesn’t disavow MSG vulgar comments
Former President Donald Trump called into “Fox and Friends” Saturday morning, where the conservative outlet gave him the avenue to air out his personal grievances over laying out his closing message.
Trump again brought up former House member Liz Cheney and blamed media outlets for taking his words out of context as he doubled down on his attacks on her.
“‘I said, put a gun in her hand and let her go out and let her face the enemy with a gun in her hand, and they’ll have nine people or 12 people or 100 people.’ I said, ‘Let’s see how she stands up. Because I say she wouldn’t have the guts to do it,'” the former president claimed.
Trump also defended himself against criticism of the comedian at his MSG rally who made discriminatory remarks about Puerto Rico. However, he did not condemn the statements but downplayed the opening act of his rally.
“They made this one comedian telling one little joke early in the show when nobody had even started going into the arena practice. They made this comedian, and they made the whole weekend,” he said.
The former president did not mention or disavow similar racist comments made by other speakers at the MSG rally.
-ABC News’ Lalee Ibssa, Soo Rin Kim and Kelsey Walsh
Nov 2, 11:52 AM
Harris slams Johnson over statement on repealing CHIPS act
Vice President Kamala Harris seized on Speaker Mike Johnson’s comment that a Republican majority in the next Congress “probably will” repeal the CHIPS and Science Act.
“It is just further evidence of everything that I’ve actually been talking about for months now, about Trump’s intention to implement Project 2025,” Harris said during a news conference in Milwaukee Saturday. “We have talked repeatedly—and the American people know what’s in it—we have talked repeatedly about their intention to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, now to get rid of the CHIPS Act.”
Johnson later backtracked on his comment claiming he misheard the question posed by a student journalist at an event in upstate New York.
“Well, let’s be clear why he walked it back because it’s not popular and their agenda is not popular,” the vice president said. “And that’s why people are showing up by the thousands, tens of thousands, to talk about an agenda that actually is focused on lifting them up.”
-ABC News’ Frtiz Farrow, Gabriella Abdul-Hakim and Will McDuffie
Nov 2, 2:48 AM
Trump attempts to clean up Cheney comments, bashes new jobs report
In a new social media post overnight, former President Donald Trump attempted to clean up his comments regarding Rep. Liz Cheney, saying she doesn’t have “the guts” to fight in war herself.
Trump also posted about the Friday jobs report calling it a “great embarrassment” to the nation and repeated that American jobs have been taken by “foreign-born workers.”
“America is a Nation in Decline because Sleepy Joe, and Lyin’ Kamala, didn’t do their job,” Trump said.
Nov 2, 12:16 AM
Cardi B joins Harris on stage at Wisconsin rally
Vice President Kamala Harris brought out Cardi B on Friday night for her final Wisconsin rally before Election Day, as she worked to turnout remaining voters in the race’s final days.
The Grammy-winning rapper told the crowd she was going to sit out the election until Harris replaced President Joe Biden.
“I’mma be real with y’all,” Cardi B said. “I wasn’t gonna vote this year. I wasn’t. But Kamala Harris joining the race, she changed my mind completely,” she said. “I did not have faith on any candidates until she joined the race and said the things that I wanted to hear, that I want to see next in this country, all right?”
The musician hit Trump over his recent comments on protecting women.
“Trump says he’s going to protect women whether they want it or not,” Cardi B said. “Well, if his definition of protection is not the freedom of choice … I don’t want it!”
Cardi B was one of many celebrities to take the stage, including Keegan Michael Key, GloRilla, Flo Milli, MC Lyte, to take the stage.
-ABC News’ Fritz Farrow, Gabrielle Abdul-Hakim and Will McDuffie
Nov 1, 11:00 PM
Judge extends early voting in Pennsylvania after thousands of mail-in ballots delayed, missing
A Pennsylvania judge on Friday ordered election officials in Erie County to extend early voting hours and offer expedited absentee ballots to up to 17,000 voters whose mail-in ballots either never arrived or arrived late, delivering a victory to state Democrats who sued county election officials over a series of “vendor issues.”
Those vendor-related issues “threaten to disenfranchise thousands of registered voters,” according to the suit from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, which claimed thousands of individuals had not yet received or belatedly received mail-in ballots.
At a hearing earlier this week, Democrats shared evidence establishing that around 1,200 Erie voters who live out-of-state never received mail-in ballots “through no fault of their own,” Judge David Ridge ruled on Friday.
Ridge wrote that the measures he imposed, which include a mandate to add additional printers to election offices to reduce wait times, were necessary to “ensure all registered voters … are given full opportunity to complete their right to vote.”
-ABC News’ Olivia Rubin
Nov 1, 10:00 PM
Texas says DOJ election monitors not allowed in state’s polling places
Texas says election monitors from the U.S. Department of Justice will not be permitted in the state’s polling places.
A letter from Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson sent Friday to the department’s Civil Rights Division, says federal monitors are not permitted under Texas law.
Earlier Friday, the Justice Department issued a press release stating it planned to send election monitors to more than 80 counties in 27 states to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws. The list included eight counties in Texas, including Dallas and Harris counties.
“Texas law is clear: Justice Department monitors are not permitted inside a polling place where ballots are being cast or a central counting station where ballots are being counted,” Nelson’s letter stated.
The letter ended with: “Rest assured that Texas has robust processes and procedures in place to ensure that eligible voters may participate in a free and fair election.”
The Justice Department has sent Election Day monitors to polling places around the U.S. for decades.
Nov 2, 10:14 AM
Johnson claims he ‘probably will’ repeal CHIPS Act if Trump wins before backtracking
At a campaign stop in upstate New York on Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters, “I expect that we probably will” repeal the CHIPS and Science Act.
Johnson was asked about his position on the legislation by Syracuse University student journalist Luke Radel if former President Donald Trump wins the election and Republicans keep control of the House.
“We haven’t developed that part of the agenda yet. We gotta get over the election first. That’s why we are so happy to be in NY-22,” Johnson said.
The speaker added, “When you take the Green New Deal out of the equation you will save trillions of dollars in the long run for the U.S. economy.”
New York Republican Rep. Brandon Williams – who is running in a tight race that could determine control of the House – said he supports the CHIPS and Science Act.
“I will remind him [Johnson] night and day how important the CHIPS Act is,” Williams said.
The comments already drew ire from Democrats including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
“I’m amazed that any national leader would even consider repealing the CHIPS & Science Act — and Speaker Johnson threatening to do so during his visit to Central New York just shows how out-of-touch he and his allies are,” she said in a statement.
In a statement released later in the evening, Johnson clarified his remarks and reversed his previous comments.
“The CHIPS Act is not on the agenda for repeal. To the contrary, there could be legislation to further streamline and improve the primary purpose of the bill—to eliminate its costly regulations and Green New Deal requirements,” he said in his statement.
Williams said in a statement that the speaker “apologized profusely, saying he misheard the question.”
-ABC News’ Lauren Peller
Nov 1, 8:00 PM
Supreme Court denies GOP request on Pa. ‘naked ballots’
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Republican National Committee NC emergency request Friday evening to block the counting of provisional ballots in Pennsylvania cast by voters whose mail-in ballots arrived without a required security sleeve and therefore invalid.
There were no dissents.
The decision, however, applies only to the case at hand — which involves the “naked” ballots submitted during the 2024 Democratic primary.
That means the court has taken no precedent position on any future dispute over Pennsylvania provisional ballots stemming from “naked” mail-in ballots in the general election.
The court signaled it agreed with the Democratic voters’ argument that the RNC lacks injury to intervene, and that granting a stay now would impose no obligation on state election officials overseeing the general election.
Justices Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas — three conservatives who in 2020 expressed desire to intervene in disputes over Pennsylvania mail ballot rules — issued a joint statement respecting the decision to deny the RNC request.
-ABC News’ Devin Dwyer
Nov 1, 6:12 PM
Harris campaign to hold livestream GOTV show on Election Day eve: Sources
The Kamala Harris campaign team is planning a large-scale Get Out The Vote effort in all seven battleground states – with eight “interconnected” and “simultaneous” rallies for Monday night, two campaign sources told ABC News.
The vice president, Doug Emhoff, Gov. Tim Walz and Gwen Walz will focus on the blue wall/Rust Belt states while top surrogates will be in other states, the sources said.
The sources claim it will be the “largest interconnected GOTV event” in political history with all rallies connected through a livestream.
-ABC News’ MaryAlice Parks
Nov 1, 6:10 PM
Judge sets Monday hearing in Philly DA case against Musk
The Philadelphia district attorney’s case against Elon Musk over his controversial $1 million voter giveaway continued in state court Friday, with the judge scheduling a hearing for Monday morning.
The move comes after the federal court rejected Musk’s bid to move the case earlier Friday — greenlighting it to move forward in state court.
Philadelphia Judge Angelo Foglietta set the hearing for 10 a.m. on Monday.
Musk’s attorney also filed a motion asking the judge to excuse him from attending.
-ABC News’ Olivia Rubin
