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We have the power to decide the fate of our nation for generations to come. This is all you need to know. Kamala broke it and we will fix it and we're going to fix it fast. I see a nation determined to turn the page on hatred and division. I will bring back the American dream and we'll bring it back stronger than ever before. In this moment, we face a real question.

What kind of country do we want to live in? She's saying all these things she's going to do when she gets to office. First of all, she's got three more months. But more importantly, why the hell didn't she do this stuff before? All right, we begin this hour waiting for dueling rallies in what could be decisive swing states. And any moment now, former President Trump will be speaking from that stage in North Carolina as former President Obama rallies Democrats in Wisconsin with only two days left in the race for

FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. WOW, TWO DAYS. HERE WE GO. WELCOME BACK TO SPECIAL AMERICA REPORTS COVERAGE. I JUST REMINDED MYSELF IT IS SUNDAY. IT IS SUNDAY. AND YOU ARE IN NEW YORK.

It's going to be with you. We've got so many games going on today, all the football games. We've also got the big game going on with politics as well. And whoever thought we would be here? Two days, just down to two days. Hours to go. Of course, it does happen every four years that way, so what am I talking about? I'm John Roberts. The candidates leaving nothing to chance as they crisscross battlegrounds with their closing message. New numbers showing just how close the race is with Trump holding a razor-thin lead on a national level with the election now, as we pointed out, just two days away.

We've got Fox News team coverage with reporters on the ground across these United States. But we begin with Bill Malujan. He's in Macon, Georgia, where former President Trump will be speaking later tonight. Hey, Bill.

Hey, Sandra, good afternoon to you. Well, former President Trump has three campaign stops in three different states today, the last of which is going to be right here in Georgia later tonight. And the former president is now reacting to a new poll out of Iowa that's raising some eyebrows as it is showing him losing the state to VP Kamala Harris. Take a look at this poll. It is the highly respected Des Moines Register poll, which dropped last night. That poll shows Harris up

Three points over Trump in reliably red Iowa amongst likely voters. Now, the Trump campaign is saying this poll is an outlier. They say it is skewed. And in Pennsylvania this morning, Trump himself responded to it. Take a listen. They tell me I'm down in Iowa. I don't think so. And you know what?

A good poll, Emerson, no friend of mine, they said that poll is wrong. Everybody said, why do they announce a poll that's highly skewed toward Democrats and liberals? And the latest series of New York Times Siena polls came out today. They show Trump is behind in several key battleground states, including right here in Georgia, where it has him down one point. That's obviously within the margin of error. But here's what Democrat Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock said about how tight this race is.

While it's going to be a tight race, I believe the country is going to get this right. The race will be decided on Tuesday. We are seeing record turnout, and the Harris campaign, to their credit, is doing the hard work.

Now, earlier today at his Pennsylvania rally, Trump made a controversial remark in which he said that if any assassin wants to get to him, they're going to have to shoot through the press first, adding, quote, I don't mind that so much. Well, the Trump campaign has been getting criticism about that, and they are now responding to that criticism. They just put out a statement which says in part, quote, the president's statement has nothing to do with the media being harmed. There can be no other interpretation about what happened.

was said. Trump's rally here in Macon set to kick off at 6.30 p.m. Eastern time tonight, guys. We'll send it back to you. We'll be watching for that. Bill Mellugin, thank you. Vice President Harris making a final push through the critical battleground state of Michigan. And while unity is the focus of her campaign's closing message, she is increasingly tearing into former President Trump at rallies.

Senior national correspondent Rich Edson is live from Novi, Michigan. And Rich, she's laser focused on Michigan. But what about this message of unity when it sometimes seems to be anything but? Yeah, absolutely. Many of her campaign rallies and stops have focused on the former president, though today thus far it really has been that unity message. She's also laser focused on Michigan today. It's the only state that she's going to visit two days before the election. She started the day...

At a black church in Detroit, she'll visit a restaurant there as well. In Pontiac, she'll stop at a barbershop, then head out to Michigan State University for a rally in East Lansing. The campaign is trying to reverse some of the skepticism and defections from black men and Arab voters. Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has refused to endorse her. The campaign is also arguing it's seeing an advantage among late deciding voters. At a church this morning, Harris said, we have two days to decide the fate of the nation.

We face real challenges. We carry real burdens. We feel real pain. And we must remember that faith combined with our actions gives us power. The power to move past division and fear and chaos.

Given her criticism of Trump, her campaign is called, or Trump's campaign is called Harris's unity pitch faux messaging. Harris landed in Michigan late last night. She was in New York appearing on Saturday Night Live. Harris played herself along the former cast member who plays her now on the show, Maya Rudolph, who was a cast member back when I was an intern there a little bit ago. Now a Republican commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission writes, quote, this is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC's equal time rule.

The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct. A licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election unless the broadcaster offered equal time to other qualifying campaigns. Now, tomorrow, Harris is only in Pennsylvania. Take a look at

some of the things that she's doing there. It's really an entertainment time. She just announced that in Philly, she'll have DJ Cassidy, Fat Joe, Freeway and Just Blaze, Lady Gaga, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Ricky Martin, The Roots, Jasmine Sullivan and Adam Blackstone and Oprah Winfrey in Pittsburgh. Performances by D-Nice, Katy Perry and Andra Day. John? Well, you really buried the lead there, Rich. You used to work at Saturday Night Live.

I wasn't paid, was an intern there back during my college days, junior year, and it was quite an experience. Well, look at that. You learn something new every day. Rich Edson for us. Thank you, Rich.

All right, let's take a look at some of the shifts in the latest battleground polls. Rich Lowry is back, National Review editor-in-chief. Great to have you here, Rich. Let's dig into some of what we're about to see, dueling rallies happening on the ground. Former President Trump on the ground in North Carolina. Former President Obama is going to be in Milwaukee. We'll look at that in just a second. But dig into North Carolina. He spent a lot of time on the ground there, former President Trump.

Obviously, he saw some movement with those that were frustrated with the outcome or the response at the federal level to the hurricane and the storms there. Sort of talk about what you're looking at here as he's choosing to focus his time and attention in some of these key counties. Lenore County, which Donald Trump won in 2020 by three and a half points. But he did lose ground from 2016. Yep.

He won by 6.3 points in 2016. He's obviously trying to go back and run up that vote tally. Absolutely. So this is a state where a week or two, there's some rumors that Harris was giving up on it. Obviously, that's not the case. Trump's going there repeatedly now. It's a sign that they're worried about it. And he needs to run up these counties, get back to that score he did in 2016 or higher.

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All these states, you see massive blocks of red. Those are the geographic majority of these states, but there's not many people that live there. And 16, Trump shocked the world by running up the margins in all those places. He needs to do it again. Yeah, and I know another one we'll be watching on election night is Randolph County, some of these red counties, Davidson County as well. We've been seeing a lot of attention by the Republican Party there to run up the vote.

Now, I want to go to the north now, the Midwest, Wisconsin. We looked at this with former Congressman Sean Duffy yesterday. He says election night, he's going to be focused on those wow counties. Former President Obama is about to be campaigning on the ground there, rallying voters in Milwaukee. We know how deep blue this is. Hillary Clinton, 37 points she won by in 2016. Biden ran that up. He won by 40 percent in Milwaukee. But it is these surrounding counties like Waukesha.

Yep. Where Donald Trump won by wide margins and he's still trying to do so today. What are you looking at here? Again, same story. Who's going to run up their margins? There's no mystery of whose voters are whose, right? It's just who's going to turn out. And a little bit of a margin, as we saw in the difference between Hillary and Biden there in 1620 in Milwaukee, makes a huge difference. So these blue wall states,

Trump is going to have to win one of them to win. And I still think Kamala Harris's most likely scenario is holding to all of them and probably getting a two electoral count, two electoral vote victory. Let's head down to Georgia real quick, where we also will see former President Trump. We just saw Bill Mellujan speaking from the ground there in Bibb County. What are you watching here and what potential surprises could we see when it comes to Georgia? Some of the polling has been showing a shift to Harris in the south.

And Donald Trump in the north, which puts that, you know, blue state running question. You can look at any poll and almost tell any story now, but all within the margin of error. So if you look at the averages, he's a little bit more ahead in Georgia and Arizona than he is in some other places. Like Arizona and the New York Times average, we're looking at the latest New York Times polls. But in their average, he has a two point lead in Arizona, which is huge in the context of

of this race. But you see Michigan, Trump is ahead in the latest New York Times survey. And again, Arizona is plus four. Otherwise, you know, this is a winning map for Kamala Harris if this holds. But the big one is this tie in Pennsylvania, because whoever wins Pennsylvania is likely to win. If Trump wins in Pennsylvania, it opens up the map. He basically needs to hold North Carolina and win Georgia, and he's over the top. And then we'll have a

bunch of other paths. Without Pennsylvania, it gets much harder for both of them. So rename this like headache, potential headache. But this is crazy. It's not like 0.1. It's tied, tied. And you look at the averages very often. It's tied, tied. Rich, great of you to be here. Thanks for doing this. All right. Good to see you.

A lot of people are for Trump and they feel like he's going to do the right thing for the country. I know my mind wants to do one thing, my heart wants to do another thing. I think once he got out and Kamala came in, then I leaned more towards her. We are hearing from voters with just two days left in the race for the White House. And coming up, we will take a look at one of the battlegrounds that will be instrumental in determining a winner. Plus this. There's one more thing Trump and his Republican friends want to do.

They want another giant tax cut for the wealthy. These are the kind of guys you like to smack in the ass. President Biden sending the wrong message as his VP tries to push a unity theme in the closing days of the campaign. Molly Hemingway joining us next on whether remarks like this alienate potential Harris voters.

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President Biden taking another jab at Republicans, this time suggesting he wants to smack Trump supporters with some voters still making up their minds. There are concerns he could be turning off potential Harris voters. Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy is on this. He's live from the White House for us. Hello, Peter.

Sandra, the sitting president is supposed to be the top surrogate, but President Biden isn't even spending this part of his Sunday calling influential thinkers or labor leaders. He is right now at lunch at a golf course in Delaware, close to his home. His last scheduled stop in a swing state, stumping for Harris, sounded a little something different than we've heard. When I was in Scranton, we used to have a little trouble going down the plot once in a while.

But I'm serious. This is the kind of guy you like to smack in the ass. According to various reports, President Biden and his inner circle kept dates on his schedule open to go stump for Harris. And the Harris campaign just never really came calling. He has recently proven to be a distraction to the vice president following garbage gate. And progressives are urging the president to channel his feelings from July when he dropped out.

I mean, if I was Joe Biden and I knew, look, his legacy obviously is at stake in this election and he is the president of the United States, got a lot of work to do as president, I would probably look at the numbers, I would look at the race and say, I'm going to focus on being president for the next couple of days. And that's probably the best, that's the best thing he can do for not just the Harris campaign, but himself and his legacy too.

The vice president's Tuesday night election headquarters is going to be just two and a half miles away from here. We haven't yet been told that President Biden has even been invited, but that tracks with what we saw a couple of days ago. She was on the ellipse giving a speech. He was in the White House, not part of it. Sandra. Peter, do you see a lot from the White House on that for Peter? Thank you. All right. Let's dig a little bit deeper on all of this with Molly Hemingway, the Federalist editor in chief and a Fox News contributor. So

Just because it's so interesting, we've got to run the sound again. Listen here. There's one more thing Trump and his Republican friends want to do. They want another giant tax cut for the wealthy. Now, I know some of you guys are tempted to think it's macho guy. I'll tell you what, man. These are the kind of guys you like to smack in the ass. His final event of the campaign trail in Scranton, and he did not disappoint.

Well, Joe Biden has a pattern of saying things like this. It seemed to go over well with the crowd, although probably less well with much of America. This type of rhetoric. He talks about wanting to lock President Trump up, saying that half the country is garbage, that you want to do this to the people who are passing tax cuts.

It's probably part of the reason why Joe Biden is struggling with favorability. His job approval rating right now, according to the RealClearPolitics average, is 40%. That's well below previous presidents at this point in their presidency, including Donald Trump. And so there's a reason why Kamala Harris is probably wanting to sideline him. She wants everybody to forget that she is his vice president. Yeah, I think somebody put in a call and said, you're wanted in the situation room, Mr. President. But, you know...

Joe Biden, from his party and from the media, gets a pass on this stuff. I mean, he wanted to take Trump out behind the barn. He says that he'd like to smack him, you know where. Trump says something about Liz Cheney, that if she were out on the battlefield, is the context in which he was saying this, her view on war might be a lot different.

The Harris campaign, the legacy media goes crazy. I even noticed that you and your colleague Jonah Goldberg had a go around about it when he admitted that he had taken it out of context when he said it was horrible.

Yeah, well, and what's a shame about that is it's a really good discussion to have about how we fight wars, whether we should be fighting wars without a strategy for success, whether the way that we've been fighting wars for the last few decades is really in the American interest. That's one of the reasons why people like

President Trump. And so when he talks about that, that resonates with a lot of veterans of some of those recent interventionist wars who feel that we should be much wiser about how we handle our foreign policy and minding American interests. But you don't get that kind of discussion because people in the media don't want to. Likewise, much worse than this rhetoric about beating people up is that the Biden-Harris administration actually has used lawfare against their political opponents.

whether those are parents at school board meetings or pro-lifers or protesters or Donald Trump himself, who they tried to remove from the ballot, who they've tried to imprison, who they've tried to bankrupt. These are very serious issues, lawfare, foreign policy, that people are voting on, but a lot of our media doesn't cover it as the important issues they are.

Just so folks at home have the full context, Jonah Goldberg, who used to appear frequently on Fox News, said on Friday that Trump had called for Liz Cheney to be put in front of a firing squad and then later walked it back to say, oh, no, that's not the context of what he was saying. New New York Times Siena poll. It's got a lot of interesting findings in it, including this.

that the New York Times finds that late deciders are breaking Harris' way 55 to 44. Typically in a very close election, late deciders will break as a group. What does this potentially say about what we'll see on Tuesday? Well, I think it really explains what we've seen in the last week of the campaign and media coverage. So you have people saying things on both sides, but you have the media really focusing on what one, they're focusing on the issues in a way to sort of advantage Trump.

Vice President Harris. That matches with the media coverage that we've seen for Vice President Harris thus far. They know that Donald Trump is actually in a very good poll position, particularly relative to where he was four or eight years ago. And so one of the tried and true techniques is to drive up someone's unfavorables. And so that's

you're seeing that reflected in the media coverage. Whether those polls are accurate, whether the New York Times is accurate, whether they actually understand what's going on in the country. I mean, one of the things they said in their polling was that they have over-response from Democrats and under-response from Republicans. So, I mean, it's...

Who knows what's going to happen? Yeah, who knows what's going to happen? And have Trump voters been undersampled? And is there a quiet Trump vote out there like there was in 2016, which shocked everyone when the numbers suddenly started turning around about one o'clock in the morning? It's going to be close. There's no question about that. Molly, thank you. Great to see you. Thank you. All right. Yeah. Which way is it going to go? There's no way to tell. You know, 2020 clearly didn't look good for Trump. Yeah. For a number of different reasons.

This election, it's anybody's guess which way it's going to go. And it seems that, like, even in the final hours, things could be changing state to state. In fact, we're about to hear former President Trump in Kinston, Kansas.

He's in Georgia. Sorry. Make make in Georgia tonight. Kinston, North Carolina. Alina Haba, I believe, is up at the microphone right now. Got all the counties and places there. Well, because it's one of those days they're everywhere. And you had this last hour. Here's the interesting thing about North Carolina, that for the very first time, more Republican ballots in early voting were returned than Democrats.

No, the greatest number was among unaffiliated voters. We don't know how they voted. But the fact that Republicans beat Democrats in the early vote in North Carolina, that is stunning and maybe an indication of which way that state's going to go. And the question is, how many turn out on Election Day? Or to Byron York's point, did they just all go early and you won't see that turnout on Election Day? Those are the questions that we're all asking at this hour, and we don't quite have the answers until it all happens.

But we're watching this live. We're about to see former President Trump. He has spent a lot of time there on the ground in North Carolina rallying voters. And we are about to see him shortly. All right. Now this.

We want a free, fair, and transparent election. We want all legal votes counted and only legal votes counted. And so we have put together a very aggressive election integrity operation at the RNC. The ballot battles continue. A Georgia judge is ruling clearing the way for Democrat-led counties to extend ballot drop-offs. How the RNC is fighting back. Analysis from Kerry Urban coming up next. What makes America great?

Live look at Kinston, North Carolina, where former President Trump is expected to speak any minute now. Both campaigns focusing on getting voters to turn up on Tuesday. After that, states set a new early voting record and Republicans pulled out a win over the Democrats. Senior correspondent Jonathan Serri is in Charlotte, where Democratic vice presidential nominee Governor Tim Walz will be later on tonight. So the state has seen several firsts when it comes to early voting. Jonathan.

Yeah, in terms of the numbers and also the partisan breakdown, North Carolina's record-setting early voting period ended with roughly 57% of the state's registered voters already casting early ballots. In 2020, registered Democrats outpaced Republicans by more than 1 million early ballots, but

This year, both parties had a strong showing with Republicans slightly outpacing Democrats. But don't forget, nearly one third of North Carolina voters are unaffiliated, something that is not lost on the campaigns. There are people who don't like both candidates who are deciding whether to vote and if they do, who they're going to vote for. These are people we believe that we can capture in North Carolina right now.

Election Day voting will look very different in parts of western North Carolina. Hurricane Helene destroyed several polling sites, so the state and federal government have assembled large tents with generator power and voting machines. The 25 storm-damaged counties have defied predictions of low turnout. Instead, nearly 59% of registered voters there have cast early ballots. So, John, in a place that's still picking up

the pieces, cleaning up after all that destruction. There is actually more voter activity there than in the rest of the state. John? It's absolutely remarkable, and it really speaks to the tenacity of folks there in the Tar Heel State. Jonathan Sary for us. John, thank you. Sandra?

All right. Georgia at the center of its own ballot battle after a judge rejected the RNC's lawsuit arguing against large counties from accepting hand-returned mail-in ballots on the weekend. Joining us now is Fox News legal editor Kerry Urban. What does all this mean for the election, Kerry?

Well, the RNC is disappointed in the decision from the court yesterday saying that they are playing fast and loose with the law right up until the election. And my understanding of what happened is simply this. There is a—the last day for voting in Georgia, early voting, was Friday.

Several counties there decided to open up offices this weekend, yesterday and today, for people to drop off in person their mail-in ballots. So the RNC said, wait a second, voting is ending. How can they drop these things off now? The state responded saying, well, we've always allowed people to drop off their mail-in ballots in person, over the counter, as they put it. And counties under state law have the discretion to open up offices.

THE STATE OF THE COURT IS NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO TAKE OFFICES AFTER HOURS OR EXTENDING THOSE HOURS SHOULD THEY CHOOSE TO DO SO. SO THE COURT SIDED HERE WITH THE STATE. THE RNC IS APPEALING THAT DECISION BUT SEPARATELY THE RNC DID GET A WIN IN THIS ENTIRE SITUATION IN THAT THEY

to be allowed to go into these offices to watch what's going on. And the counties later clarified that, in fact, they were allowed to go in there and watch there yesterday and today. And a Fulton County spokesperson said yesterday that they were only talking about 105 ballots. That was just in Fulton County yesterday.

Carrie, as far as how they can prepare for this, because obviously we don't think the RNC is going to stop here. I believe they issued a statement, the Trump campaign, basically saying that they sent letters to six counties. We have the map of those counties that we can put up on the screen, including Cobb, DeKalb, Aspen.

Are they doing that?

Well, the court did side with the state here, and so they're repealing the decision in its entirety. That was the remedy that the RNC asked for. Now, you know, you have to remember when you litigate, you can ask for any remedy that you'd like. It doesn't mean that the court gives it to you. And in a number of these cases that the RNC have filed, they've been asking for remedies just like this. It's like, well, even if you don't agree with us, can you at least put these aside as we decide, as you know, as this case is on appeal? But look,

There's a lot of litigation for a reason. When mail and widespread mail-in voting was introduced in COVID, of course it was going to introduce a whole new host of challenges. Just, you know, common sense tells us that. You know, that plus the fact that we have now election season in this country versus election day, you can see why we are where we are. And if I were to characterize the difference in the lawsuits that the DNC is filing versus the RNC, the DNC lawsuits tend to focus on access to mail-in ballots.

You know, the lawsuits they're filing are saying certain amounts of people aren't getting these mail-in ballots. We need to get them to them. The Republicans are saying are challenging the validity of the ballots, signatures, dates, envelopes and the like. And so you can see when these two things converge how it could potentially clash. Real quick, quickly, finally, on Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state. He was asked a very important question by our own Neil Cabuto. Listen to his answer.

They're both coming to fight and represent to make sure that everyone's following the law. And that's what we are asking. Follow the law. Follow the Constitution. We don't believe in last minute changes and go out there and get your people out to vote. It's going to be record turnout. All right. So that was his response to a question from Neil. You have both sides that have a lot of lawyers parked in hotels in and around Atlanta as they have been for some time. Does that intimidate you? What did you make of his response?

Well, I actually was focused on a statement that he put out yesterday in response to the whole situation regarding those poll observers being allowed into those offices to watch people submit their mail-in ballot applications. He said this,

because the local director there in Fulton County had said they weren't allowed in. She said, well, these aren't polling places. These are offices. And it's like, well, wait a second. If you're going to turn those offices into polling places, then you have to allow polling observers in. So I thought that statement was somewhat telling from him. All right. A lot more to come on all of that. Carrie Urban, thank you very much, Carrie. Thank you. Both candidates spending their last days on the campaign trail, crisscrossing the battlegrounds.

And meanwhile, the DNC rolling out a last minute ad campaign targeting rural voters. Will the campaign's closing arguments be enough to sway those undecided voters? David Avella and Fred Hicks will join us next.

Battleground Pennsylvania in focus as Democrats ramp up efforts to lock in Philadelphia with data revealing Vice President Harris has lost the most ground in the poorest Philly neighborhoods before President Trump remaining confident he can achieve his best performance there yet. National correspondent Brian Yannis is live in Philly. He's got the latest from there. Brian.

What is the Trump campaign hoping for there on Tuesday as it sounds like you have some friends honking as they pass by there, Brian? Yeah. Welcome to Philly, right, Sandra? That's right. Look, the Trump campaign knows that they're not going to win Philadelphia.

But the purpose of this year is that they think that if they can scratch off a few more thousand votes here in Philly, Trump could win Pennsylvania and then the entire election. Take a look at the numbers. In 2020, Trump had his best performance yet in Philadelphia, gaining 24,000 votes from 2016, in large part thanks to more support that he got in Philly's poorest working class neighborhoods.

If we can get 20, maybe 30,000 more votes, we're going to win the state of Pennsylvania. People in Philadelphia, we're not rich here. Okay, the Bidenomics are killing us. It's a grocery store, and that's what I think it's all about.

Yeah, Republicans say they've been knocking on doors strategically for low propensity voters. But it's the Democrats that are flooding the zone, knocking on 800,000 doors in Pennsylvania on Saturday alone. That includes many out-of-staters, including Deborah from Maryland, who knocked on 1,000 doors in Philadelphia.

This is the most doors I've done. The enthusiasm level is much higher right now. We had a lot more negative reaction at the door in 16 and 20 and a lot more undecided. Here, people seem to know this round who they're voting for.

Now, in the Puerto Rican neighborhood here in Philadelphia, Democrats are playing up those that insulting joke made by the comedian at that MSG Trump rally when the comedian called Puerto Rico an island of garbage. But there is still concern here that the Harris get out the vote effort for Latinos started a little too late.

I think, you know, it's been a little bit anemic until recently. I think people are going to come out. I think young people are coming out. You know, and again, I do think that there needs to be sustained organizing efforts year round, not just during an election year.

And Sandra, Philadelphia's former mayor, Michael Nutter, says he thinks Harris needs a historic turnout here in Philadelphia, gaining, winning by at least 600,000 votes. That would surpass, blow away even former President Obama's numbers. It's why they're having the last campaign event here in Philadelphia, a concert tomorrow night. Sandra. Speaking of which, we are about to see former President Obama. He's going to be speaking shortly in Wisconsin. Thank you very much, Brian.

The Democratic National Committee is out with a new campaign ad. It's aimed at boosting turnout among rural black voters. Vice President Harris is also spending the final days of the campaign in cities where the important demographic could be a deciding factor. This is early voting reports show a drop in numbers among African-American voters.

David Avella is the chairman of GOPAC. Fred Hicks is a 2019 top political strategist in Georgia. So, gentlemen, these new ads through billboard and radio targeting rural voters in the South, 15 counties known as the Black Belt throughout North Carolina and Georgia. This is what Axios said about the campaign. Quote, grassroots organizers tell Axios...

Voter apathy and disinformation might dampen support, particularly among young black men. But if black turnout comes in higher than expected, former President Trump's path to victory will get a lot narrower. Fred, Trump campaign claims that black turnout is lower in 2024 than it was in 2020, and they are getting a bigger share of a shrinking pie. How might that affect the outcome in places like Georgia and North Carolina?

Well, I think if that were true, then that could certainly impact the election. But I don't think that's true. Polling shows that Donald Trump is getting about the same amount of support amongst African-Americans as he did in the past. But what we're seeing this week here, especially here in Georgia, was that this week, the third week of early voting, voting amongst African-Americans spiked.

Going into the week, African-American turnout was about 25% of the overall pie. And we had about a million votes cast this week. And the overall turnout of voters is now comprised of about 26.5% African-Americans, which means that we had a flood of African-American votes in the last few days here going into Tuesday. So I think that we're going to see the numbers hit where they need to go. I think it's going to be a good day for Kamala Harris. You know, there's no sense of irony, David, in the amount of voting going on in Georgia among all groups, considering what

what the debate was two years ago and the MLB taking the All-Star game out of Atlanta. But let's go north to North Carolina, where the early voting has closed and we find that Republicans return more early ballots than Democrats did. The greatest slice of the pie was among independents. But what does that tell you about what we might see on Tuesday in North Carolina?

What we're seeing here is the Harris campaign acknowledging that they're not turning out enough of their core constituencies, that now they need to go look at rural America, which has been a very safe place for turning out Republican votes. John, let's keep in mind, turning out voters isn't all the same. Geography matters. And she doesn't get nearly the boost out of turnout in rural America or certainly Republican

SHE'S A BIGGER BOOST IN COLLEGE TOWNS THAN SHE WOULD IN A BLUE-COLLAR COMMUNITY. WHAT THEY'RE IN ESSENCE SAYING IS WE'RE NOT GETTING ENOUGH VOTES WITH OUR TRADITIONAL COALITION. WE HAVE TO START TRYING TO EXPAND IF WE'RE GOING TO WIN THIS. KEEP IN MIND, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS A NUMBER OF TIMES.

2016 and 2020 were decided by one percentage point. That's 25,000 votes. And it's whoever can go rent the most cars come Tuesday and make sure the election becomes too big to rig and turn out their voters. Transport trucks. That might be a good idea.

So, you know, a lot has been made, Fred, as to whether or not Republicans are cannibalizing their typical Election Day vote by getting folks out to vote early. There are four states in which we know partisan registration. That's Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Arizona. The Trump campaign says in the states where they know partisan registration that low propensity voters have made up a larger share of the Republican vote than the Democratic vote.

So does that suggest that they're not cannibalizing the typical Tuesday vote? Listen, there isn't anything that's typical about this election cycle here in 2024. So I've heard many people, including on my side of the aisle, say that they think that Republicans have cannibalized their votes. I don't think that's the case. I'm expecting a huge turnout across the swing states on Tuesday from both sides.

And that means that Democrats have a lot of votes left in the tank. And I think Republicans have quite a bit of votes as well. But listen, here's the thing about this. Democrats have recognized the need to get for gains in the rural community. That's why Tim Walz is the nominee or the vice presidential nominee and not someone like Josh Shapiro, because we're trying to expand the tent. We're trying to grow the margins here in Georgia. Again, the 2020 was decided by fewer than six voters per precinct. That's how close that election was. And so you have to go someplace to get a little comfort. Yeah.

You know, they said in 2000 every vote counts. But I think this election and the election previous really drives that point home. David, final question to you, because we saw Kamala Harris in a skit on Saturday Night Live last night. We learned that Donald Trump was not invited to come. This is what Lorne Michaels, the creator of Saturday Night Live, said just about a month and a half ago. He said you can't bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and the equal time provisions. You can't have the main candidates without having all of the candidates.

One of the FCC commissioners is now saying that NBC may have violated the equal time provision. What do you say? Certainly, it would have been best had they had both candidates on. But there's no question the Harris campaign has relied on celebrities and concerts. And let's just hope that

Democrats wake up and say, well, Harris lost, but, man, we got to see Beyonce or, gosh, we got to see Jimmy James Taylor play. Maybe that'll be the best of having these celebrities turn out for Harris. But, gentlemen, let's acknowledge the great news of all of this. In two days, the TV ads stop. We can go back to regular programming. Well, you know, the local TV channels won't be so happy about that because that's a lot of revenue for them.

David, Fred, thanks for joining us. All right. Thank you for having us. See you later, David. All right, good stuff. It is a showdown in Arizona as the vice presidential candidates make their final pitches to voters. Alicia Cunha is live in Phoenix for us. Hey, Alicia. Hi, Sandra. Yeah, the campaigns are in the final hours of trying to convince their supporters to turn out on Election Day. And they're using some creative and visual ways to get the attentions of undecideds. And I'm going to show you that next. Do your dry eyes...

For President Trump and Vice President Harris sending their VP candidates to Battleground, Arizona this weekend in hopes to make one final push as elections officials there prepare for potential record in-person voting on Tuesday. Senior correspondent Alicia Acuna is live in Phoenix. She's got the latest from there for us. Hello, Alicia.

Hi, Sandra. Well, Senator Vance and Governor Walz both spent time in their respective party strongholds this weekend with early in-person voting over. It's now all about Tuesday. While in conservative-leaning Scottsdale, Vance told the crowd there that there are still about 400,000 outstanding Republican ballots that need to be returned in Maricopa County.

Walls went to solid blue Tucson and Flagstaff really pushing turnout. Democrats hosted a rodeo to try to tap into Latino voters who polls show have increasingly been supporting Trump. I just started paying attention, watching television more. You know, after work, I'd sit there and focus on it. And that's when I said, you know what? No, I cannot vote for Trump.

Meantime, Trump supporters drove a 56-mile caravan through parts of Maricopa County to urge fellow Republicans to show up and nudge any of those undecideds. You got to know by now. I mean, you can't just be standing at the polls going, I just don't know. It's just, no. You should have your mind made up by now anyway. I mean, it's not like this thing snuck up on you.

Out of Arizona's 4.3 million eligible voters, close to 2.3 million returned their ballot as of Saturday. The final New York Times-Siena poll found of people who said they already voted, Trump leads Harris 50 percent to 46 in this state. Sandra. All right, Alicia Acuna, thank you.

Well, what a Sunday afternoon it's been. And now the real competition begins. Football, right? I mean... All right, Fox News Alert here as we have this set up for dueling rallies for President Trump running behind for his rally in Kinston, North Carolina.

You're seeing the podium for that there. We're also anticipating shortly that we'll see former President Obama in Milwaukee. Boy, after all of this time, it's coming down to the short strokes now. Just about a day and a half left and then it's election day. I know. So excited. Hours to go. It's great to be up here to share it with you. It's awesome to have you in New York and we'll be back here tomorrow. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. Set your DVR. Never miss America Reports. Thanks for joining us in this special edition.

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