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'Pleaded with him': Insiders describe begging Trump not to hit Biden with shocking slur

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'Desperate people do desperate things': States expect 'chaos' at December electors meeting
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Officials in several swing states are preparing for the worst: Not just on Election Day, but also on December 17, when the Electoral College is scheduled to meet in state capitols to officially cast their states' votes for president.

NBC News reported that election officials are on high alert in battleground states like North Carolina, where both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are polling neck-and-neck for the Tar Heel State's coveted 16 electoral votes. The network reported that "a close outcome could fuel chaos," and North Carolina Democratic Secretary of State Elaine Marshall said she's "not going into [December] naively."

“I don’t think anybody needs to go through this election naively, having watched January 6, having watched what happened, listening, now, to news reports of people who are attempting to disrupt the actual voting,” she told NBC. “I don’t think anybody needs to be real naive about what the possibilities are — because sometimes desperate people do desperate things.”
"We’ve got all of the plans for executing these duties squared away," Arizona Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said. "We will conduct any legal activities that are necessary for the electors to proceed to represent Arizona appropriately, as we see fit at the time, given the circumstances that best fit their needs."

The threat of political violence has been high on officials' minds for the better part of the year. In late October, an election worker in San Antonio, Texas was assaulted after repeatedly asking a voter to remove his "Make America Great Again" hat, as electioneering laws prohibit the display of campaign-related merchandise at polling places. The alleged assailant, 63 year-old Jesse Lutzenberger, was booked at the Bexar County Jail and later released on a $30,000 bond.

Earlier this year, the Brennan Center for Justice conducted a nationwide survey of election administrators and found that roughly 40% of respondents had beefed up security measures at polling places and county election offices in preparation for potential political violence. The 2024 cycle has been rife with violence, after former President Donald Trump avoided two assassination attempts and a Democratic field office in the battleground state of Arizona was closed after being shot at on three different occasions in as many weeks.

Click here to read NBC's report in full.

'You don't mind him being addled': Trump defender called out during CNN clash
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Podcaster and tech journalist Kara Swisher lost patience with a conservative Reihan Salam on CNN on Saturday morning and accused him of not caring that Donald Trump is obviously "addled."

During their weekly face-off on "The Chris Wallace Show," Salam tried to dismiss the firestorm created by a conservative speaker at a Trump rally, calling Puerto Rico "garbage," and tried to make the case that President Joe Biden's response to it was worse.

According to Salam, too much is being made about the Madison Square Garden "joke" and it should not reflect on Trump's re-election campaign as well as comments the ex-president has made recently.

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Judge orders PA elections board to extend hours as thousands of mail ballots go missing
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A judge has ordered the Erie County Board of Elections to extend its operating hours and take other steps to ensure that thousands of voters who requested mail ballots but did not receive them can still get mail ballots and return them by the Election Day deadline.

The judge’s order comes after the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania sued the county in an attempt to get officials to remedy the problems.

“So this week, we headed to court to make sure that those voters have a chance to vote; and we won,” a senior Harris campaign official said on a call with reporters Friday. “Erie is now extending hours through the weekend for local voters, and they are overnighting ballots to voters who may be out of state. We certainly wish that these errors didn’t happen, but in a country with elections administered at the local level, with almost 200,000 precincts, isolated incidents are inevitable.”