US elections reside: Donald Trump claims he’s the ‘opposite of a Nazi’ as anger continues over Puerto Rico feedback

Pennsylvania is investigating potential voter fraud after an “overabundance” of voter registration kinds and requests for mail ballots had been despatched to the York County elections workplace.

The York County elections workplace obtained a “large delivery containing thousands of election-related materials from a third-party organization,” together with voter registration kinds and mail-ballot purposes, York County President Commissioner Julie Wheeler stated in a press release to the York Every day Document.

“As with all submissions, our staff follows a process for ensuring all voter registrations and mail-in ballot requests are legal. That process is currently underway. If suspected fraud is identified, we will alert the District Attorney’s Office, which will then conduct an investigation.”

Wheeler instructed Fox 43 on Monday: “It’s not unusual to get large stacks of voter registrations or large stacks of requests for mail-in ballots; it’s just this was an overabundance of registrations from one particular organization.”

She added: “We need to do our homework before we go and make accusations when we don’t have the data to back it up.”

The Democrats are keeping off a Republican offensive geared toward overturning their tiny majority within the Senate.

Retaking management of the US Congress’s higher chamber could symbolize the GOP’s finest alternative of success in November’s election, in keeping with analysts, surpassing their probabilities of retaking the White Home and even retaining management of the Home of Representatives.

However with a burst of enthusiasm from Kamala Harris’s marketing campaign, Democrats are nonetheless aggressive…

Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon has been launched from jail after serving a four-month sentence.

Bannon, 70, was jailed for defying a subpoena within the congressional investigation into the assault on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. When he started serving his sentence in July, Bannon known as himself a “political prisoner”.

“I am proud of going to prison,” he stated on the time, including that he was standing as much as the lawyer basic, Merrick Garland, and a “corrupt” justice division.

Bannon should reply additional prices at trial in New York. He’s accused of tricking donors who gave cash to assist construct Trump’s infamous wall alongside the US-Mexico border. Bannon has pleaded not responsible to cash laundering, conspiracy, fraud and different prices. The trial begins in December.

Campaigning is ramping up within the race to the White Home as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump proceed to trade barbs on the marketing campaign path. Solely seven days stay till Individuals head to the polls on Tuesday, 5 November. On Monday, Harris and Tim Waltz courted younger voters in Michigan, whereas Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen spoke in Philadelphia.

In the meantime, in Atlanta, Georgia, Donald Trump railed towards being in comparison with Hitler, telling voters that he was the “opposite of a Nazi” in response to Democratic opponents, who likened him to the Nazi dictator after a slew of racist remarks had been made at his rally in Madison Sq. Backyard on Sunday.

On Tuesday, Trump will maintain a information convention at Mar-a-Lago at 10am ET – the place he’s prone to face questions on racist remarks about Puerto Rico on the New York occasion.

He’s then heading to Allentown, Pennsylvania – dwelling to tens of hundreds of Puerto Ricans.

• Campaigning for Harris in Wisconsin, Bernie Sanders stated: “You have Mike Pence saying I can’t support the guy I worked with for four years” and “We cannot allow someone to be president of the United States who is a pathological liar and who is working night and day to undermine American democracy.”

• Sanders additionally launched a video addressing voter issues over the Biden-Harris administration’s file on Gaza, saying: “After Kamala wins, we will together do everything that we can to change US policy towards Netanyahu.”

• Earlier than acting at a rally with Obama in Pennsylvania, Bruce Springsteen stated: “I’m Bruce Springsteen and I’m here today to support Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and to oppose Donald Trump and JD Vance … I want a president who reveres the constitution, who does not threaten but wants to protect and guide our great democracy, who believes in the rule of law and the peaceful transfer of power, who will fight for women’s rights … [and] create a middle-class economy that works for all our citizens.”

• Anita Hill, a former clerk to the US supreme court docket justice Clarence Thomas, has stated “racist, misogynist and sexistinsults” geared toward Kamala Harris “must sting”. In a New York Instances opinion piece revealed on Monday, the Brandeis College professor – who was famously introduced earlier than Thomas’s affirmation hearings solely to have her sexual harassment allegations towards him picked aside by sitting senators – wrote that she sympathises with the US vice-president.