Tag: voters
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Trump announces Latter-day Saints coalition in push for battleground voters
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a “Latter-Day Saints for Trump” coalition less than a month before Election Day, as the campaign looks to shore up support among a key voting bloc in which defections could be particularly damaging in key western battlegrounds. Among the leaders heading the coalition are four prominent Utah Republicans:…
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Harris-supporting group launches $4M effort to mobilize Black male voters
A new $4 million effort primarily aimed at engaging and mobilizing Black male voters ahead of Election Day in key battleground states is launching Tuesday, according to plans shared first with NBC News. The push — dubbed Vote To Live — is affiliated with the Collective PAC, one of the country’s largest political action committees…
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Musk’s PAC offers $47 payouts to refer swing state voters to sign petition
Elon Musk’s pro-Trump America PAC is offering people $47 if they successfully get one registered swing-state voter to sign a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments of the Constitution. “Easy money,” Musk said in a post about the initiative. The payout offer appears to be a way to financially encourage voter registration of individuals…
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Tim Walz makes direct appeal to conflicted Muslim voters
Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz addressed a Democratic Muslim voter group Thursday night as the Harris campaign works to engage a group of voters who threaten to defect in large numbers over the Biden administration’s handling of the deteriorating situation in the Middle East. The virtual event, organized by Emgage Action, which endorsed Harris last…
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Voters blame ‘extreme’ rhetoric for contributing to attempt on Trump’s life
A majority of voters blame “extreme political rhetoric” from some politicians and media figures for contributing to the assassination attempt targeting former President Donald Trump in Florida earlier this month, according to the latest NBC News poll, part of a rising trend across a decade-plus of violent attacks on political figures. Slightly more than half…
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Democrats’ advantage with Latino voters continues to shrink
Vice President Kamala Harris is leading former President Donald Trump among Latino voters. But that advantage has declined to Democrats’ lowest level in the past four presidential cycles, according to a new national NBC News/Telemundo/CNBC poll. Overall, the poll shows that Democratic presidential candidate Harris has lost some ground with Latinos at a time when…
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Trump and Harris battle over male voters — and what masculinity looks like in 2024
One of the biggest fights playing out in this election is the battle for young, persuadable men of all races who appear to be less firmly in the Democratic column than they were just four years ago. For former President Donald Trump, that has meant appearing on podcasts and alternative media platforms popular with young…
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There are no gun-related ballot measures initiated by voters in 2024
No ballot will have a gun-related initiative led by voters this fall. While seven states had tried to get 11 citizen-led firearm referendums on the ballot this year, all of them failed, according to Victoria Rose, who tracks the measures for the elections database Ballotpedia. Seven of the proposals supported expanding gun rights, including one…
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Two-thirds of voters say the country is on the wrong track ahead of the 2024 election
Two in three voters say the country is on the “wrong track,” as voters weigh whether Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump would be better able to change that less than two months from Election Day. The latest NBC News national poll finds 65% of registered voters surveyed earlier this month say…
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Harris to meet with Zelenskyy; Trump campaign does outreach to Black voters
Share Biden announces new security assistance to Ukraine Ahead of his meeting with Zelenskyy, Biden is unrolling what he calls “a surge in security assistance for Ukraine and a series of additional actions to help Ukraine win this war.” The new steps include providing Ukraine with the Joint Standoff Weapon long-range munition, directing the Defense…