Updated 9 months ago
Supreme Court rejects GOP request to block counting of some provisional ballots in battleground Pennsylvania
The United States Supreme Court on Friday refused to freeze a decision from Pennsylvania’s highest court that required election officials to count provisional ballots cast by people whose absentee ballots were invalid because they lacked required secrecy envelopes.
The judges’ order means election officials in this key battleground state must count provisional ballots submitted on Election Day by voters who returned defective ballots, either because they did not include no secrecy envelopes, either because they had not signed or dated the outer envelope.
Updated 9 months ago
Trump holds final campaign rally in Wisconsin
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Donald Trump held his final Wisconsin rally of the 2024 campaign Friday evening, returning to Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, site of the Republican convention, to deliver his closing message to the Badger State. In 2016, he narrowly won Wisconsin, but he lost the state’s 10 electoral votes to Joe Biden in 2020.
The rally was marred by microphone problems. People in the upper sections, at the back of the arena, couldn’t hear Trump, and he expressed frustration with the technical problems.
“I’m seething. I’m messing around with a stupid mic,” Trump said.
He then made rude gestures towards the microphone stand, complaining that it was too low. He held the microphone for the rest of the rally but repeatedly complained about its cumbersomeness. He also threatened not to pay the contractor.
“Do you want to see me knock people out backstage?” » asked Trump. “I’m not asking for much. The only thing I’m asking for is a good microphone. And this is the second time today that this has happened.”
He vaguely blamed campaign manager Susie Wiles for the microphone problem.
By Olivia Rinaldi and Katrina Kaufman
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Harris and Trump both rally in the Milwaukee area Friday evening
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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris campaigned in the Milwaukee area Friday evening, ahead of the final weekend of the 2024 campaign. Harris did not deviate much from her standard speech in West Allis, Michigan, a suburb of Milwaukee. She urged people who have not yet voted to vote.
“No judgment, no judgment at all — but go ahead,” Harris said, before reviewing the list of her campaign promises and the litany of grievances against Trump.
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Cardi B, who spoke shortly before Harris, told the crowd she had no plans to vote this year, but “Kamala Harris changed her mind.”
She called Trump a “bully” and said: “I can’t stand a bully, but just like Kamala, I stand up to him.” Cardi B has repeatedly said she was nervous about speaking at the rally. Women, she says, have to work 10 times harder than men “and yet people question us.”
