U.S. Election developments for 2024: Trump holds a rally in Georgia; Harris makes an appearance alongside Charlemagne the God
Toward the end of the 2024 U.S. Election, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are presenting their cases to voters nationwide. Harris made several stops in the crucial state of Michigan, including Detroit, where he spoke with radio personality Charlemagne tha God.
Trump traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, another crucial swing state that might determine the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, and gave speeches there Tuesday night.
In Georgia, Trump urges fans to “get out and vote.”
On Tuesday evening, Donald Trump traveled to Atlanta to give his typical stump speech and commemorate a historic event: the opening of early voting in Georgia, a crucial state.
Interview between Kamala Harris and Charlamagne tha God
Kamala Harris dismissed charges that she is overly scripted in an interview with Charlamagne tha God on Tuesday. Harris also fielded recorded and live questions from the program’s audience. Among these were inquiries concerning her plan for Black men, which she announced on Monday, and reparations for African Americans, which she reiterated should be researched.
A judge in Georgia seemed dubious about the election board’s hand-count rule.
At a hearing on Tuesday, a Georgia judge expressed doubts about permitting the Georgia State Election Board’s contentious ballot hand-count regulation to be implemented in the November election. Before the state’s county certification deadline on November 12, a poll manager is then expected to verify that those tallies match the numbers generated by machines and fix any discrepancies.
Trump claims to be the “father of IVF” in front of an all-female town hall audience.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump referred to himself as the “father of IVF,” a fertility procedure that has been under attack since the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling to reverse Roe v. Wade.
It’s unclear exactly what the former president meant when he said it at a Fox News town hall in battleground Georgia that was attended exclusively by women and advertised as addressing women’s issues.
The Supreme Court of Alabama ruled earlier this year that frozen embryos are children and that those who destroy them can be held accountable for wrongful death, making in vitro fertilization—an expensive, decades-old procedure used by millions of parents—a focal point in the national debate over abortion and reproductive rights.
Trump referred to himself as “the father of IVF.” Late Tuesday, the vice president shared on social media, “What is he talking about?” “His platform could completely ban IVF, and his abortion bans have already put access to it in jeopardy in states across the nation.”
Trump also attacked several states for enacting abortion restrictions that he described as “too tough” during the town hall, stating without giving specifics that those laws are “going to be redone.”
Election officials deal with damaged polling stations and displaced voters following two disasters.
People from North Fork, North Carolina, a little Appalachian village tucked away in the state’s mountainous northwest, have gathered at a tiny cinderblock house to cast their ballots in almost every election over the previous 80 years.
The North Fork facility, one of the last surviving dedicated polling places in North Carolina, had its door and roof replaced recently in preparation for the upcoming election. Patricia Beaver, a local, had used red, white, and blue fabric from Ashe County’s election director to make curtains to divide the voting booths.
An Extremely Flexible Circumstance
Ashe County’s voting house disaster is not an isolated incident. In the three weeks following Hurricanes Helene and Milton, polling places in the swing states of Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina suffered damage.
Election preparations have also been made more difficult by the ongoing emergency response, as many polling stations are located in facilities that are also being utilized as shelters or by emergency services. Due to damage from the storm and the ongoing hurricane response, local officials in some of the North Carolina counties most affected by Helene have moved most of their voting stations.
Significant Harm to the Infrastructure.
There will be 419 early polling locations available to voters in North Carolina when early voting starts on Thursday; Helene will only have lost four of them.
With ten early voting stations functioning instead of the 14 that were initially scheduled, Buncombe County—which includes the severely affected city of Asheville—was the only county in the state to close part of its early voting locations.
As normal as we can manage
Although most North Carolina voters will be able to cast their ballots as scheduled, officials are currently evaluating dozens of polling stations to see if they will be open on election day. Devon Houck, the director of the Ashe County Board of Elections, said that in addition to the devastation of the North Fork Voting House, Ashe County had to move six of its 17 polling stations after two of them flooded and another was destroyed.