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An incumbent Republican congressman from New York now holds a surprising lead over his progressive opponent, according to a new poll. The poll, which was conducted by PIX11, The Hill and Emerson College, found that Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., holds a 49%-44% lead over former Democratic U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones. The two are running in New York’s 17th congressional district, and the poll comes a week before the Nov. 5 election.

One of Puerto Rico’s two “shadow senators” endorsed former President Trump only days after comic “Kill Tony” Hinchcliffe delivered a widely-criticized set demeaning the island protectorate at the Republican’s New York City rally.Shadow Sen. Zoraida Buxo, a Republican, said she was proud to be back in Allentown, Pennsylvania’s third-largest city, and the anchor of a key swing congressional district.

FIRST ON FOX: Twenty-six Republican attorneys general joined Virginia on Monday in urging the Supreme Court to halt a lower court decision that restored the voting rights of 1,600 residents.The amicus brief backs Virginia’s contention that the ruling is overly broad and lacks standing under a provision of the National Voter Registration Act (NRVA), which orders states to halt all “systematic” voter roll maintenance 90 days before an election.

Vice President Harris was surprised to find out a microphone was homing in on her conversation with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as she admitted her campaign was struggling with male voters.Harris and Whitmer were sitting at a bar in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Saturday and having what appeared to be a serious conversation – so serious that on a video making the rounds online, the Democratic presidential nominee seemed to forget the two of them were surrounded by cameras and microphones.

Former President Barack Obama headlined a Monday stump speech in support of Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia, spending most of his remarks criticizing former President Trump and at one point appearing to admonish men who, as a voting bloc, are more favorable to him than the Democratic nominee.

Eric Trump gave a glimpse into his father’s priorities if elected on Nov. 5, saying former President Donald Trump wants nothing to do with prosecuting Hunter Biden or Hillary Clinton.The 40-year-old son of the former president spoke with the Daily Mail on Thursday while in Palm Beach, Florida, and provided the publication with what he says are his father’s priorities.”He would want nothing to do with prosecuting Hunter Biden or Hillary Clinton,” Eric Trump said.

Former President Trump accused his 2024 rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, of running on a message of “hate” during a rally just over a week before Election Day.Trump is delivering his closing message to voters this week, spending Monday in the key battleground of Georgia for back-to-back events.”I’m running a campaign of solutions to save our country,” the former president said in Atlanta. “Kamala is running a campaign of demonization and hate.

A federal appeals court on Sunday ruled that a lower court was correct to re-instate some 1,600 Virginia voters who have questionable citizenship status to the rolls.The ruling came after immigrants and women’s rights groups sued the state and its Board of Elections after Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order in August directing state officials to identify noncitizens, who were given two weeks to dispute being disqualified before being removed from voter rolls.

In an effort to secure more support from male voters before Election Day, vice-presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., played Madden NFL together on the live-streaming platform Twitch on Sunday.”Sundays are for football! Game on, AOC,” Walz wrote in a post on X.The pair jumped on the streaming service Sunday afternoon, during NFL Sunday games, to discuss the upcoming election.

Former President Donald Trump took the stage at his historic Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday evening, where thousands of supporters from the deep-blue Northeast state cheered wildly as the 45th president railed against Biden-Harris administration policies and vowed to “Make america great again.” Trump took the stage at Madison Square Garden just after 7 p.m.

Elon Musk unveiled what he called a “dark gothic MAGA” look on Sunday while supporting former President Trump. “I’m dark gothic MAGA,” Musk told the crowd at Trump’s campaign event at Madison Square Garden. “The energy in this room is incredible.”The Tesla and SpaceX CEO was wearing a black MAGA cap with a gothic-looking font and a black shirt and jacket.

Edgar Allan Poe wrote that the scariest monsters are the ones which lurk within our souls.But what about the souls which lurk in the halls of Congress?The U.S. Capitol is more than 200 years old. And any building which has been around for two centuries, is stocked with legends and ghosts. This time of year, people flock to pop-up haunted houses “on the hill.” But when it comes to Washington, DC, there is only one haunted House (and Senate) on “the Hill.

Former President Trump vowed Saturday to slash U.S. energy costs in half if re-elected, seizing on oil and gas policies to draw a sharp contrast with Kamala Harris in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania. Speaking to voters at a rally in State College, Trump vowed to lift the U.S. pause on U.S. liquefied natural gas export terminals, embrace fracking and otherwise undo what he described as the “disastrous” energy policies enacted under the Biden administration.

Former President Trump is campaigning for vulnerable House Republicans in New York Saturday evening alongside House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., a source familiar with the effort told Fox News Digital. Saturday also marked the first day of early in-person voting in the Empire State.

Former President Trump earned endorsements from “highly respected” Muslim leaders and Imams during a campaign rally in the battleground state of Michigan. Trump, speaking to a crowd in Novi, Michigan, on Saturday afternoon, called the group of Muslim leaders “highly respected,” before bringing them onstage.”I’m thrilled to accept the endorsement of these highly respected leaders,” Trump told the thundering crowd.

President Biden took aim at former President Trump at a campaign event in Pennsylvania Saturday, using his remarks to cast his predecessor as an anti-labor leader who, if re-elected, would renege on some of the union’s hardest-fought gains.Speaking at an event in Pittsburgh, Biden repeatedly described Trump as a “loser” who doesn’t care about union workers and would gladly do away with benefits like health care and pension plans if he won the presidency a second time.

Former President Trump blasted Vice President Kamala Harris Saturday over an appearance with Beyoncé at which critics say Harris and the media intentionally misled attendees into thinking the superstar would perform. “Beyoncé went up and spoke for a couple of minutes and then left, and the place went crazy,” Trump told a crowd in Michigan. “They booed the hell out of everybody. They thought she was going to perform.

HOUSTON, TX – It was a searing hot – but unsubstantiated – rumor during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago two months ago.Speculation that Beyoncé would appear at the Democrats’ presidential nominating convention – perhaps alongside Taylor Swift – turned into a frenzy.It didn’t happen.

President Biden sparked confusion during a mumbling saga, remarking that there was ‘nothing wrong’ with him as he discussed Sen. Mark Kelly’s wife in the past tense.”I’m Joe Biden, I’m Jill Biden’s husband. And God, thank you for the introduction to the Gila Indian River community here… the Gila… nothing wrong with me. The Gila River Indian community for welcoming me today,” he said while visiting the Indian Reserve on Friday.

Republican lawmakers and leaders voiced support for Israel after the Jewish nation launched a retaliatory strike against Iran after the Islamic Republic unleashed a barrage of missiles earlier this month.”America stands with Israel,” former Vice President Mike Pence wrote in an X post.Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., echoed Pence’s sentiment, saying Israel is “our great ally.

Russia has been aiding the Houthis’ assault on Western shipping lanes in the Red Sea by providing them targeting data. As the Houthis ramped up their strikes on the U.S. and other nations’ postures in the region after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Russians offered satellite data allowing them to expand their strikes, take out multimillion-dollar U.S.

The U.S. government is investigating unauthorized access to commercial telecommunications infrastructure by Chinese hackers, targets of which include the Trump and Harris campaigns. The campaigns have been informed of the potential breach of cellphones used by former President Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, and members of Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Former President Donald Trump traveled to Las Vegas on Thursday evening for a Turning Point Action rally where he declared that Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is “imploding” in a speech that focused on his tax cut plans. “[Harris is] actually imploding, if you take a look. Because, look, I’m not supposed to say it, but we are leading by so much,” Trump said Thursday evening in Las Vegas to cheers from the crowd.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the black sheep of America’s most well-known Catholic family, is urging the faithful to support former President Trump in a new TV ad.Kennedy, who first challenged President Biden for the Democrat nomination and then ran as an independent, discusses his faith in the $250,000 ad spot before giving reasons why he now supports Trump for the presidency.

Iran’s military forces will get a large influx of cash thanks to a booming energy economy, despite Western sanctions. The regime’s upcoming 2025 budget will triple the amount of oil revenue allocated to its armed forces. As tensions with Israel and by proxy the U.S. reach a fever pitch, the government expects next year to take in $26 billion from oil exports, 37.5% of its total revenue.

CLARKSTON, GA. — Vice President Harris teamed up on the campaign trail for the first time Friday evening with arguably the most popular Democratic Party politician: former President Obama.While Obama has been stumping in the key swing states the past couple weeks on behalf of the vice president, he joined her on the stage as they aimed to energize supporters in the crucial southeastern battleground of Georgia to cast their ballots in early voting.

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Earlier this year, there was some media chatter about when the Biden campaign would go “full Hitler.”What that meant was, if they started talking about Donald Trump and the Nazi leader so early, what ammunition would they have left for October?VIDEO SHOWS DEM-ALIGNED INDIVIDUAL FIDGETING WITH MONTANA BALLOT BOXWell, it’s late October, and the Hitler assault has begun.It’s not like no one has heard this before.

Vice President Kamala Harris joined CNN in Pennsylvania for a town hall with undecided voters on Wednesday, where the Democratic presidential nominee doubled down on her rhetoric comparing former President Donald Trump to Nazi Germany dictator Adolf Hitler. “If the president of the United States, the commander in chief, is saying to his generals, in essence, ‘Why can’t you be more like Hitler’s generals?’ Anderson, come on. This is a serious, serious issue.

Vice President Kamala Harris stumbled through the Biden-Harris administration’s border and immigration policies when pressed about the border crisis during a CNN town hall moderated by Anderson Cooper. “Let’s talk about this compromise bill that you want to pass if you are elected. You said that’s going to be a priority. It includes $650 million in funding for the border wall. That’s something Republicans wanted that was part of the compromise.