Harris-Trump showdown: In nation’s biggest battleground, new poll show’s ‘it’s really, really close’
HARRISBURG, PA – As Vice President Kamala Harris returns to Pennsylvania on Wednesday for her second trip in three days, a new poll is the latest to indicate an incredibly close race between her and former President Trump in the crucial swing state. According to a Monmouth University survey, just under half of registered voters in Pennsylvania say they will either definitely or have already voted for the vice president and Democratic presidential nominee (42%) or will probably vote for her (5%). An identical number will either definitely or have already voted for Trump (42%) or will probably vote for the former president and Republican presidential nominee (5%), in a separate question asked by the pollster. The poll was conducted Oct. 24-28 and released on Wednesday. HARRIS LAYS OUT HER CLOSING ARGUMENT AGAINST TRUMP WITH THE WHITE HOUSE AS A BACKDROP With 19 electoral votes at stake, Pennsylvania is the largest of the seven key battleground states whose razor-thin margins decided President Biden’s 2020 election victory over Trump and which will likely determine if Harris or Trump wins the 2024 presidential election. According to the survey, when third-party and independent candidates are factored into the results, Trump stands at 47% among registered voters in Pennsylvania, with Harris at 46% and 4% saying they’re definitely or probably backing another candidate. HARRIS, TRUMP, MAKE FINAL PITCHES TO VOTERS IN HIGH STAKES BATTLEGROUND The release from Monmouth University on their new poll emphasized in the headline that in Pennsylvania “it’s really, really close.” “The bottom line is this was an incredibly close race in September and remains so today,” Monmouth University Polling Institute director Patrick Murray said, as he compared the results of his new survey in the Keystone State with his previous poll in Pennsylvania. The pollster spotlighted that Trump “continues to have a significant advantage among white voters without a college degree – who make up nearly half of Pennsylvania’s voter pool “– topping Harris 60%-35% among this group. But the survey indicates that Harris holds a large 58%-37% lead among white college graduates, and voters who are Black, Hispanic, and of other races (62% to 25%). With six days to go until Election Day, the new survey follows other recent polls that point to an incredibly close contest in the Keystone State. A CBS News poll conducted Oct. 22-28 pointed to both major party candidates deadlocked at 49%. WILL TRUMP ASK FORMER TOP GOP RIVAL NIKKI HALEY TO JOIN HIM ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL? Pennsylvania, along with Michigan and Wisconsin, are the three Rust Belt states that make up the Democrats’ so-called “Blue Wall.” Democrats reliably won all three states for a quarter-century before Trump narrowly captured them in the 2016 election over Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton to win the White House. Four years later, in 2020, Biden carried all three states by razor-thin margins to put them back in the Democrats’ column and defeat Trump. Both the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, as well as their running mates, have made repeated stops in the three states this summer and autumn. Harris made multiple stops Sunday in Philadelphia, the state’s largest city. And Trump held a campaign event Tuesday in Delaware County, in suburban Philadelphia, before holding a rally in in Allentown. “I don’t like to speak too early, but you have to get out and vote because we … we want a big, beautiful number. We’re leading in every single swing state. Because, normally Republicans, they like to vote at the end no matter what you say, they like to vote at the end,” Trump said from the Allentown rally. Trump’s new pitch for early voting stands in contrast to his years of blaming the practice for what he continues to claim – without proof – that his 2020 election loss was due to “massive voter fraud.” CHECK OUT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS IN THE HARRIS-TRUMP SHOWDOWN Since Haris replaced Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket after the president dropped out of the race in July, Fox News found the vice president has visited Pennsylvania at least 15 times, as of Tuesday. Philadelphia was where Harris first teamed up with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after announcing him as her running mate. And Harris hunkered down in Pittsburgh – the state’s second largest city – to prepare for her first and only debate with Trump, which was held in September in Philadelphia. ‘I’M GOING WITH TRUMP’: 3 FORMER DEMS FROM PENNSYLVANIA EXPLAIN HOW FORMER PRESIDENT WON THEM OVER Trump has also visited the state at least 15 times since the end of July, Fox News found. Trump’s history with Pennsylvania was underscored by an assassination attempt on his life July 13 in Butler, when a man named Mathew Crooks opened fire on Trump and his supporters. Trump was injured on the side of his head by the shooting, and two other rallygoers were also injured. Local man Corey Comperatore died protecting his family during the violence. Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, Trump’s running mate, has visited the state at least 13 times since the start of August. Walz has visited Pennsylvania at least nine times since August, data compiled by Fox News found. Both campaigns have spent more than half a billion dollars on ads alone in Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported last week. Democrats spent more than $294.7 million in Pennsylvania, while Republicans spent $243.6 million in the Keystone State. The funds spent far exceed ad buys in other battleground states, including Michigan, which trails Pennsylvania ad expenses by a combined $185 million. AdImpact, a leading national ad-tracking firm, reports that the Trump campaign has reserved $5.8 million in ad time to run spots in the final stretch ahead of Election Day, with the Harris campaign shelling out $4.6 million. When Biden narrowly carried Pennsylvania four years ago, Democrats enjoyed a larger margin of registered voters compared to their Republican counterparts, at 4.2 million to 3.5 million. The data show that Democrats had a registration advantage
Slotkin slams fellow Dem Biden for ‘garbage’ gaffe amid heated Senate battle
Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Rep. Elissa Slotkin took issue with President Biden’s remarks calling supporters of former President Trump “garbage,” arguing the gaffe was “inappropriate.” “He shouldn’t have said it, it’s inappropriate,” Slotkin said during an appearance on local radio Wednesday morning. “For me, I just think that kind of talk is the last thing we need in our politics.” The comment comes after Biden joined a virtual campaign call for Vice President Kamala Harris where he was asked about comedian Tony Hinchiffe, who made jokes at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally that many argued were offensive, including one joke in which the comedian referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.” BIDEN CALLS TRUMP SUPPORTERS ‘GARBAGE’ DURING HARRIS CAMPAIGN EVENT AS VP PROMISES UNITY AT ELLIPSE RALLY “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said in response. “[Trump’s] demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it is un-American.” The remarks were quickly compared to a legendary gaffe by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her 2016 run against Trump for president, when Clinton labeled half of Trump’s supporters as belonging in “a basket of deplorables.” The White House also immediately attempted to walk the comments back, with spokesperson Andrew Bates telling Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich that Biden “referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage.’” LIVE UPDATES: BIDEN ATTEMPTS TO DENY CALLING TRUMP SUPPORTERS ‘GARBAGE’ DESPITE VIDEO “The president was referencing a joke by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe in which he likened Puerto Rico to an island of floating ‘garbage’ in the middle of the ocean,” Bates said. But Slotkin, who is currently battling in a tight Senate race with former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, argued that Republicans and Democrats should be able to debate their differences without the “unnecessary” rhetoric used by Biden. “Most Michiganders, I think 80% of us, just want our government to function – Democrats and Republicans to debate their issues in a civil, and reasonable way” instead of getting “into name-calling,” Slotkin said. “I didn’t like that, I thought it was unnecessary, but this is why I think we’re all ready for this election to be over.” The White House did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Lawmakers slam SBA ‘stonewalling’ over Michigan voter memo as campaigning claims surface
EXCLUSIVE: Small business leaders in Congress lambasted the Small Business Administration (SBA) one week before Election Day, accusing the agency of continuing to “stonewall” oversight into its widely-criticized work with Michigan’s elections department. Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, chair of the House Small Business Committee, previously noted the SBA used a 2021 President Biden executive order on “promoting access to voting” to forge a “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) with the Michigan Department of State. In March, the SBA announced its “first-ever” voter registration agreement with the Michigan agency. On May 7, Williams’ committee issued a rare subpoena for SBA aides after what the panel claimed was in part a failure to forward documents relating to a program “diverting [agency] resources away from assisting Main Street” toward partisan ends. On Tuesday, Williams told Fox News Digital that with seven days to go, “the Biden-Harris SBA is still stonewalling our investigation into their partisan voter registration scheme.” WATCHDOG GROUP SUES FEDS FOR RECORDS AS LAWMAKER CALLS VOTER REGISTRATION EFFORTS A ‘SLAP IN THE FACE’ “The lack of accountability has been astounding, and it’s clear that they are doing nothing more than stalling until the election is over.” That should be concerning to the public, Williams suggested, adding the committee will continue to use “every resource available” to conduct oversight of SBA. The way the MOU has been acted upon is controversial and potentially unconstitutional, Williams said, as he and others in Congress previously accused the SBA of using it to funnel resources to a swing state in a partisan way. He previously said the SBA is “diverting its resources away from assisting Main Street so it can register Democratic voters” in Michigan. Meanwhile, the top Republican on the Senate’s panel said that even though early voting is underway in Michigan and elsewhere, “we still have no clue how much the administration is trying to put its thumb on the scale in key battleground states.” Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said it is fitting that the administration has “prioritized” enacting its liberal agenda over responding in full to oversight efforts. The SBA, under Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, previously argued through a spokesperson to Fox News Digital that the agency has rightly provided “extensive testimony, briefings, transcribed interviews, documents and other information in response to congressional inquires, including the committee’s most recent subpoena.” LAWMAKERS DEMAND ANSWERS FROM TOP MICHIGAN OFFICIAL OVER ALLEGED ‘WEAPONIZATION’ OF TAXPAYER FUNDS FOR ELECTIONEERING The top Democrat on Williams’ panel, Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., previously criticized her committee’s subpoenas in the SBA-Michigan case, saying they showed that Republicans “have rejected these principles to pursue a partisan inquiry.” The committee was also approached with unconfirmed concerns about one of Guzman’s deputies, Fox News Digital has learned. Those who approached the committee claimed Associate Administrator for Field Operations Jennifer Kim, who is reportedly on a formal leave of absence. WATCHDOG GROUP SUES FEDS FOR RECORDS AS LAWMAKER CALLS VOTER REGISTRATION EFFORTS A ‘SLAP IN THE FACE’ The committee was presented with allegations that Kim, a former organizer for the campaigns of Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and President Biden, according to her LinkedIn page, is either conducting or volunteering for Democratic campaign efforts in a swing state and using government-issued technology when doing so. The committee previously requested the SBA’s mixed travel policy and travel calendars of top staff, but communicated that they were never received. A spokesperson for the SBA told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that any allegations of “stonewalling” are “demonstrably false.” “For nearly two years, the SBA has cooperated with the committee’s inquiry, testifying at multiple hearings, providing the committee staff with briefings, making agency officials available for transcribed interviews, and producing thousands of pages of documents responsive to their inquiry,” the spokesperson said. “Time and again, the SBA has shown that the committee’s claims are baseless.” When asked about the allegations regarding Kim, the spokesperson said the agency does not comment on personnel matters.
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Virginia AG cheers Supreme Court ruling as ‘huge win’ for election integrity
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares on Wednesday called the Supreme Court’s order halting a lower court’s decision to reinstate hundreds of potential noncitizens to the state’s voter rolls “a huge win for the rule of law.” “This is just a huge win for the rule of law,” Miyares told Fox News Digital shortly after the Supreme Court issued its order. “It ensures that Virginia will be allowed to follow our laws that make sure that noncitizens are not on our voter rolls for next week’s elections, that we’re not going to be forced to be putting 1,500 plus noncitizens back on our rolls.” “I’m very grateful that the Supreme Court recognized the importance of the issue and they made this decision in such a short timeframe,” Miyares said. “It’s really just a reaffirmation of our commitment to both election integrity and making sure that our electoral process remains secure for all Virginians.” SUPREME COURT TEMPORARILY HALTS LOWER COURT RULING ORDERING 1,600 VOTERS BACK ON VIRGINIA VOTER ROLLS Miyares went on to applaud the team at the Virginia Attorney General’s Office for the “amount of hard work these past two weeks upholding and defending Virginia law.” “And I’m very, very proud of my team because their commitment to the rule of law has been exemplary during this process,” Miyares said. A divided court granted the state’s stay application pending appeal in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. The decision proves a victory for Gov. Glenn Youngkin just days after the state had filed an emergency appeal to the high court to halt a lower court decision ordering it to restore the names of approximately 1,600 individuals to its voter rolls. 26 REPUBLICAN ATTORNEYS GENERAL JOIN VIRGINIA IN PETITIONING SUPREME COURT TO RULE ON VOTER ROLL “We are pleased by the Supreme Court’s order today. This is a victory for commonsense and election fairness. I am grateful for the work of Attorney General Jason Miyares on this critical fight to protect the fundamental rights of U.S. citizens,” Youngkin said in a statement shortly after the order was issued. The core question of the case was whether Virginia had violated a so-called quiet period under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), or a federal law requiring states to halt all “systematic” voter roll maintenance for a 90-day period before a federal election. The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the state – including Miyares in his official capacity as Virginia attorney general – over its removal program earlier this month. Youngkin has insisted that the state’s process is “individualized” and conducted in accordance with state and federal law. Virginia’s voter roll maintenance program was implemented in August of this year and compares the state Department of Motor Vehicles’ list of self-identified noncitizens to its list of registered voters. Individuals without citizenship were flagged and informed that their voter registration would be canceled unless they could prove their citizenship in 14 days. The DOJ argued such removals were conducted too close to Nov. 5 and thus violated the NVRA’s quiet period provision. This was backed by a U.S. judge in Alexandria, who ordered the state to halt its removals last week and to reinstate the registrations of all 1,600 removed individuals. Fox News Digital’s Breanne Deppisch contributed to this report.
GOP’s in-person voting surge up against Dem dominance with mail-in ballots in deep blue state
Early in-person Republican voters in deep blue New Jersey are slightly outpacing their Democratic neighbors, data shows. Early in-person voting kicked off in the Garden State on Saturday, with 247,003 residents casting their votes over the weekend alone, NJ.com reported. Republican early in-person voters have taken the lead in the state, with 144,105 GOP votes cast compared to Democrats’ 139,524 votes, state data analyzed by an Associated Press elections researcher found as of Tuesday. “What we’re seeing is phenomenal. Republicans are finally embracing the opportunity to vote early. The return rate on vote by mail ballots has been fantastic. Local Republican organizations are doing a great job in getting the word out,” New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli said Wednesday on “Fox & Friends First” in reaction to the data. Democrats in the deep blue state still have the edge over Republicans for vote-by-mail ballots at 383,062 compared to 130,362, the New Jersey Globe reported. All in, New Jersey has 6,562,735 registered voters this cycle, state data shows. Of those registered, 2,497,951 are registered Democrats, 1,564,964 are Republicans, and 2,420,522 are unaffiliated, state data show. TRUMP HOLDS MASSIVE BEACHFRONT CAMPAIGN RALLY FOR RAUCOUS NEW JERSEY CROWD: ‘WE’RE GOING TO WIN’ The blue state last voted for a Republican presidential candidate in 1988, when Republican Vice President George H. W. Bush defeated Democrat Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis. The state had voted for Republican candidates from 1968 until 1992, when the state kicked-off its ongoing blue voting trends. Former President Donald Trump has made early voting a hallmark of his campaign, bucking the Republican tradition of voting in-person on Election Day. He spoke to voters in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, when he again urged voters to head to the polls early. TRUMP’S WILDWOOD, NJ RALLY WAS ‘TRULY STUNNING’: JOE CONCHA ”I don’t like to speak too early, but you have to get out and vote because we … we want a big, beautiful number. We’re leading in every single swing state. Because, normally Republicans, they like to vote at the end no matter what you say, they like to vote at the end,” Trump said from the Allentown rally. Elections experts have pointed to Trump’s remarks encouraging early voting as a likely catalyst for the state’s record number of votes a week ahead of Election Day. “First, former President Trump has told his supporters to vote early. So, I think, when all the numbers are considered, we will see a shift among Republicans from voting on Election Day to voting early in person,” Ben Dworkin, director of the Rowan University Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship, told NJ.com about the flood of early votes this cycle. TRUMP SUPPORTERS FLOCK TO MASSIVE NEW JERSEY CAMPAIGN RALLY TO HEAR FORMER PRESIDENT SPEAK AMID ONGOING TRIALS TRUMP SUPPORTERS OUTSIDE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN SAY ‘EXHILARATING’ RALLY SHOWS NY IS IN PLAY “This is not a race in which a lot of people can’t decide between Harris and Trump. They’ve decided and once the doors were opened to early voting, they are going to drive on in,” he added. Trump has campaigned in the Garden State, including holding a massive rally on South Jersey’s Wildwood beach in May. “We’re going to win New Jersey,” Trump told the crowd, which Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew described as “the biggest political rally in the history of New Jersey.” Ciattarelli continued in his comments to “Fox & Friends First” on Wednesday that the Republican Party “can win” the presidential race and down the ballot. “New Jersey is not a deep blue state. We can win here and and I do think Donald Trump’s going to do that as well as our US Senate candidate, our congressional candidates, and many of our local candidates,” he said. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
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JD Vance calls out Harris donor who doubled down on Biden’s ‘garbage’ comment
Former President Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, called out how one of Kamala Harris’ “biggest donors is doubling down on calling half the country ‘garbage.’” Vinod Khosla, co-founder of the giant tech company Sun Microsystems, wrote on X “Garbage is an understatement for MAGA extremists.” He responded to a story by the Associated Press titled, “Biden suggests Trump supporters are ‘garbage’ after comic’s insult of Puerto Rico.” “Will Kamala and her campaign return his contributions?” Vance wrote Wednesday. “Or will they continue to insult half of the country for the sin of thinking Kamala Harris isn’t good at her job?” Khosla is a billionaire and Democratic megadonor. In June, he gave $413,000 to the Harris Action Fund, a political action committee that supports the vice president. He previously donated $100,000 to the PAC in June 2023 and made two separate $3,300 donations to the Biden for President campaign, which Harris took over after President Biden withdrew from the election. KAMALA HARRIS SILENT AFTER BIDEN’S ‘GARBAGE’ COMMENT ABOUT TRUMP SUPPORTERS The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Harris addressed Biden’s controversial remark Wednesday, telling reporters that the president “clarified his comments.” “I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for,” she said, adding that Biden called her the night before but his remarks didn’t come up. Biden sparked controversy during a Zoom call on Tuesday with Voto Latino, one of the largest Latino voter and civic outreach organizations in the U.S. On the call, Biden was asked about a comment made Sunday during a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden in which comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” BIDEN CALLS TRUMP SUPPORTERS ‘GARBAGE’ DURING HARRIS CAMPAIGN EVENT AS VP PROMISES UNITY AT ELLIPSE RALLY “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said. Amid backlash, Biden claimed he was referring to only Hinchcliffe, and the White House released a transcript of the call that said “supporter’s,” in the possessive. TRUMP HAS ANOTHER RESPONSE TO BIDEN’S ‘GARBAGE’ COMMENT ABOUT GOP SUPPORTERS “Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage—which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation,” Biden posted on X. Though Harris has not commented on Biden’s remark, her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, discussed it on “Good Morning America” on Wednesday. “The president’s clarified his remarks, but let’s be very clear. The vice president and I have made it absolutely clear that we want everyone as a part of this. Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric is what needs to end. He called this a garbage country and continues on from ‘the enemy within.’ What you heard Vice President Harris say and what I say is, there’s a place for all of us here, and I think that’s the one. She’s running for president. She’s making the message and she delivered that speech on the Ellipse that showed what we can be as a country,” said Walz. “So, I think America knows the direction we’re going. She’s laid out a new way forward, and that’s what we’re going to do for the next six days and then the next eight years after that.” Fox News Digital’s Scott McDonald contributed to this report.
Supreme Court temporarily halts lower court ruling ordering 1,600 voters back on Virginia voter rolls
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to take up an emergency challenge from Virginia, temporarily halting a federal judge’s decision that ordered it to reinstate hundreds of potential noncitizens to the state’s voter rolls. The decision is a victory for Gov. Glenn Youngkin and comes just days after the state of Virginia filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court to halt a lower court decision ordering it to restore the names of some 1,600 individuals to its voter rolls. At the heart of the case is whether Virginia’s voter removal process violates a so-called quiet period under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), or a federal law requiring states to halt all “systematic” voter roll maintenance for a 90-day period before a federal election. That argument pitted the Department of Justice — which sued the state over its removal program earlier this month — against Youngkin, who insisted the state’s process is “individualized” and conducted in accordance with state and federal law. With just days until the election, the court’s decision is expected to be under the microscope. 26 REPUBLICAN ATTORNEYS GENERAL JOIN VIRGINIA IN PETITIONING SUPREME COURT TO RULE ON VOTER ROLL Virginia’s voter roll maintenance program was implemented in August and compares the state Department of Motor Vehicles’ list of self-identified noncitizens to its list of registered voters. Individuals without citizenship were flagged and informed that their voter registration would be canceled unless they could prove their citizenship in 14 days. The Justice Department argued that the removals were conducted too close to the Nov. 5 elections and violated the NVRA’s quiet period provision, a decision backed by a U.S. judge in Alexandria, who ordered Virginia last week to halt its removals and to reinstate the registrations of all 1,600 removed individuals. Justice Department officials also cited concerns in their lawsuit that eligible votes may have incorrectly been removed from the rolls without adequate notice or with enough time to correct the mistake. YOUNGKIN VOWS TO APPEAL ‘TO SCOTUS’ AFTER US JUDGE ORDERS 1,600 VOTERS BACK ON BALLOT In the state’s petition to the Supreme Court, Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares objected to the lawsuit and subsequent court ruling on several grounds. First, he argued the NVRA does not extend to “self-identified noncitizens” in the state – adopting a more narrow reading of the law than the Justice Department and one that he said could render the primary basis for the lawsuit obsolete. Second, he argued that if the NVRA does apply, the state still has an “individualized process” of removing voters that is conducted by the Department of Motor Vehicles and directly by local registration offices. Late Monday, attorneys general from all 26 Republican-led states joined Virginia in filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, backing its assertion that the removal program was conducted on an “individualized” basis, and further, that the Justice Department’s reading of the protections granted under NVRA are overly broad and do not apply to noncitizens. Attorneys urged the court to grant Virginia’s emergency motion and “restore the status quo,” noting that doing so “would comply with the law and enable Virginia to ensure that noncitizens do not vote in the upcoming election.” “This Court should reject Respondents’ effort to change the rules in the middle of the game and restore the status quo ante,” they wrote. “The Constitution leaves decisions about voter qualifications to the people of Virginia. And the people of Virginia have decided that noncitizens are not permitted to vote.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.