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Why Trump is making last-minute stops ahead of Election Day in two blue-leaning states
During the final week leading up to Election Day on Nov. 5, former President Trump is making two brief detours from campaigning in the crucial seven battleground states that will likely determine if the Republican nominee or Vice President Kamala Harris wins the 2024 election.
On Thursday, which is Halloween, the former president will make a campaign stop in New Mexico, and Saturday he’ll visit Virginia. Both states were once key general election battlegrounds that have leaned blue the past two decades.
In fact, you’ve got to look back 20 years – to President George W. Bush’s re-election – to find the last GOP presidential nominee to carry both states.
So why, with time such a precious commodity for presidential campaigns and the clock quickly ticking toward Election Day, is Trump spending time in New Mexico and Virginia?
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Former President Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, Oct. 27, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
Unlike his large rallies on Sunday in New York City and two weeks ago in southern California – deep blue states the Trump campaign has no illusions of flipping – the former president and his team see opportunities in Virginia and New Mexico.
“As President Trump has said, he will be a president for all Americans, including those in traditionally blue states that Kamala Harris and the Democrats have left behind. Kamala Harris’ dangerously liberal policies have failed Americans across the country – from the Bronx, to Virginia, and New Mexico – which is why President Trump is bringing his America First message and vision for hardworking families right to their front door,” Republican National Committee spokesperson Anna Kelley argued in a statement to Fox News.
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There hasn’t been an abundance of polling in New Mexico, but most recent surveys indicate Harris with an upper single digit lead over Trump, although one survey suggests a tighter contest for the state’s five electoral votes.
“Trump is wasting his time coming to our state as polling shows New Mexicans are set to reject his MAGA extremism and divisive rhetoric yet again,” Democratic Party of New Mexico spokesperson Daniel Garcia claimed in a statement.
And referring to the Oct. 31 stop in Albuquerque by the former president, Garcia took a verbal shot at Trump, saying “a rotund orange mass will be in Albuquerque on Halloween, and we’re not talking about a pumpkin.”
Trump hasn’t set foot in New Mexico in five years.
Former President Trump speaks during a campaign event at Historic Greenbrier Farms in Chesapeake, Virginia, on June 28, 2024. (Parker Michels-Boyce/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
It’s a different story in Virginia, where the former president held a large rally in the southeastern corner of the state in June.
Trump on Saturday holds a rally in Salem, Virginia, in the conservative southwestern corner of the commonwealth.
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Polls in the state indicate the Democratic presidential nominee holding anywhere from a lower double-digit lead to a slight lower single digit edge over the former president.
“We have a really good chance to win Virginia – hasn’t been won in decades by a [GOP] presidential candidate,” Trump told Virginia Republicans in a September tele-rally.
It’s an argument that Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia is also making.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 15, 2024. (Reuters/Jeenah Moon)
But there may be another contributing factor to Trump’s stop in Virginia.
Trump on Friday pilloried a federal judge’s ruling that Virginia must restore more than 1,500 people to the state’s voter rolls, with the former president falsely claiming Harris was behind the decision and charging that it amounted to “election interference.”
The state of Virginia on Sunday filed an emergency stay application to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the lower court ruling, which halted the state’s efforts to remove suspected non-citizens from the voter rolls.
Veteran Virginia-based political scientist David Richards of the University of Lynchburg told Fox News that “based on all the polling I am seeing, it is not clear that this rally will help Trump win Virginia.”
“But I think he has bigger ambitions by coming to central Virginia. I think he wants to capitalize on the judicial decision to reinstate voters who have not met the citizenship requirements or had not checked the correct box, and were picked up by a general sweep of registered voters in Virginia,” Richards said. “This plays into his general story about illegal immigrants trying to vote in the election. I think he is seeking a national audience, not necessarily just a Virginia audience, by coming and doing a rally here.”
Republicans haven’t carried swing state New Hampshire in 24 years. And Trump lost the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state in the general election by more than seven points four years ago, at the hands of President Biden.
While most recent polls indicated an upper single digit lead for Harris, two new surveys suggested a closer margin-of-error race.
While there are apparently no plans for Trump to visit the state in the closing days, the campaign’s top adviser in New Hampshire is nevertheless confident.
“The polls are tightening and we feel significant momentum on the ground for President Trump,” senior adviser Steve Stepanek told Fox News.
Stepanek emphasized “what those polls are not showing and what we are working on very hard is a large group of Trump supporters that are not registered to vote.”
Pointing to the state’s same day voter registration, he said “we are pushing these people with phone calls, mail, digital, and door knocking to come out on Election Day and register to vote and to vote for President Trump.”
But Democrats in the state, thanks to their vastly larger get-out-the-vote ground game, remain confident that New Hampshire will stay blue in the presidential election.
“The New Hampshire Democratic coordinated campaign is using our enthusiasm and infrastructure advantage to mobilize Granite Staters of all political affiliations around the stakes of this election,” state Democratic Party communications director Ty McEachern told Fox News.
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A teenager was arrested for attempted murder in connection with a stabbing attack in San Bernardino County.
The teen suspect was only identified as a 17-year-old male by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
On Oct. 7, deputies from the Victor Valley Station responded to investigate a stabbing victim who was admitted to the Victor Valley Global Medical Center.
Authorities learned the attack occurred near Seneca Road and Bellflower Street in Adelanto at around 3:15 p.m.
Deputies headed to the crime scene where they spotted the suspect’s vehicle still in the area. They pulled the teen over and inside his car, evidence connecting him to the assault was reportedly found.
The 17-year-old was arrested for attempted murder and booked at the High Desert Juvenile Detention and Assessment Center.
The motive behind the attack remains unclear and investigators did not release more information about the victim or their relationship with the suspect.
The incident remains under investigation. Anyone with additional information is asked to call Deputy S. Alvarez at the Victor Valley Sheriff’s Station at 760-552-6800. Anonymous tips can be provided to We-Tip at 1-800-782-7463 or online at wetip.com.
New York City is buying tickets for thousands of migrants to travel to Texas via bus or plane, from where many of them originally traveled to the sanctuary city in the first place, amid an ongoing battle between officials over how to handle the migrant crisis.
New York City, which has been overwhelmed by more than 200,000 migrant arrivals since 2022, has been providing settlement options to migrants since that time. Last year, it opened a reticketing center to offer one-way plane tickets to migrants.
Fox News confirms that 4,500 migrants have been sent to Texas using bus or plane tickets bought by the city. The figure was first reported by Bloomberg News.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images/File)
According to Mayor Eric Adams’ office, the top five destinations for migrants leaving the Big Apple are Texas, Illinois, Florida, New York State and Colorado.
In total, they have issued more than 47,000 tickets and roughly 4,500, have gone to Texas. It was not clear how many of those migrants had come from buses sent to NYC from Texas.
Between February and July there were 2,297 tickets purchased to Texas, with the top three cities being Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Fox is told that spending through to July 2024 on reticketing has been $13.8 million.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began bussing migrants to New York City and other sanctuary cities in 2022 in what he said was an effort to relieve pressure on the overwhelmed border communities. He chose sanctuary cities – cities that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement – because he said they encouraged the crisis. An NYC spokesperson told Fox that the influx was exacerbated by Abbott and that resources have been exhausted in part due to his efforts.
When asked how the program works, a spokesperson said, “Whenever they have a desire where they want to go back to somewhere else, we buy their tickets. It is mostly planes, but we also buy bus tickets.”
Abbott’s office slammed the handling of the crisis by the Biden administration and accused Adams of hypocrisy.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (Reuters/Callaghan O’hare/File)
“Border Czar Kamala Harris and the federal government continues to refuse to enforce federal immigration laws already on the books and do their jobs to secure the border, allowing record-high levels of illegal immigrants, deadly drugs like fentanyl, and weapons to surge into our state and country,” spokesperson Andrew Mahaleris told Fox News in a statement.
“Hypocritical Mayor Adams said busing migrants is ‘morally bankrupt,’ while Harris called transporting migrants ‘political theater’ and they’re doing the same thing themselves. Until Border Czar Harris steps up and does her job to secure the border, Texas will continue utilizing every tool and strategy to respond to the Biden-Harris border crisis,” he said.
New York City has struggled with the influx of migrants, which has put a strain on social services and led to scenes of migrants lining up outside the Roosevelt Hotel.
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Spending on the migrant crisis is expected to exceed $5 billion, and Adams has previously said costs could balloon to over $10 billion by the end of next fiscal year. Previous estimates had put that number even higher.
At the peak of the crisis, the city was taking in an average of 4,000 migrants per week. But that dropped into the hundreds in recent months as the crisis at the border abated after a presidential proclamation from President Biden that limited asylum claims.
Recently, the city announced it would be closing a massive tent shelter on Randall’s Island. Officials said the number of asylum seekers in shelters has dropped for 14 straight weeks and is now at the lowest point in over a year.
“We’re not out of the woods yet, but make no mistake, thanks in large part to our smart management strategies and successful advocacy, we have turned the corner on this crisis,” Adams said in a statement this month. “We’re not scrambling every day to open new shelters. We’re talking about closing them. We’re not talking about how much we’re spending. We’re talking about how much we’ve saved.”
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A hospital needs help identifying a man who was struck by a hit-and-run driver in Los Angeles County.
The male patient was struck by a vehicle and found unconscious on the ground on Oct. 20.
He was transported to the Los Angeles General Medical Center where he remains hospitalized. Staff are hoping to locate his family members.
He is described as a 77-year-old man who stands 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs around 117 pounds. He has short salt and pepper-colored hair with gray patches, brown eyes and a medium build.
He does not have any personal belongings to help workers identify him or contact loved ones.
Anyone who recognizes this man is asked to call clinical social workers Nicole Crayon at 323-409-3877 or Jessica Barahona at 323-409-3758.
The public can also call the L.A. General Medical Center’s Department of Clinical Social Work at 323-409-7672 or the Department of Emergency Medicine, Social Work Department at 323-409-6883.
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