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Michael Flynn prepares MAGA to 'shore up' Trump if he is sentenced to jail after election

While voting was still underway Tuesday, disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was already preparing Donald Trump's supporters for a fight to keep the Republican nominee out of jail if he wins.

During an interview with Alex Jones, Flynn asked the MAGA movement to "shore up" Trump if the former president was re-elected and then sentenced to jail on 34 felony counts in New York.

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Trump pledges to concede ‘fair’ loss before quickly casting doubt on election integrity

Four years after losing the 2020 presidential election that he has never formally conceded, Donald Trump on Election Day claimed he will concede this year's election if it's "fair," before attempting to sow doubt on how secure America's elections are. The Republican presidential nominee also insisted he did not need to tell his supporters there should be no violence, despite the January 6, 2021 insurrection that Trump was impeached for inciting.

Told by a reporter at a polling station that some Americans are "concerned that if you lost this election, you wouldn't concede again," Trump was asked, "what do you say to those people?"

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'All I see is Oprah!' Trump derails polling station presser with wild attack on Fox News

Former President Donald Trump used a visit to a polling station on Tuesday to scold Fox News for showing clips of Oprah Winfrey campaigning on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris.

After casting his vote in Palm Beach, Trump spoke to reporters at the polling place about the election before veering into a rant about Winfrey.

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'Just stop talking about that': Trump snaps at reporter at polling place press conference

During an impromptu press conference at his West Palm Beach polling location, Donald Trump snapped at a reporter for pressing him on how he voted on one of Florida's most controversial ballot initiatives.

At issue is Florida's Amendment 4, which would prohibit any law that would "penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient's health, as determined by the patient's healthcare provider. This amendment does not change the Legislature's constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion."

The former president has lately avoided saying how he would vote on the initiative, after saying in late August that he would vote against it, in an apparent attempt to avoid antagonizing or energizing either side of the highly contentious issue of women's health care rights with his re-election on the line.

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He maintained that posture on election day, as the visibly exhausted and hoarse former president fielded questions about his re-election prospects.

With a multitude of reporters yelling questions at him, ABC's Lalee Abissa reported on X that the former president was, once again, in no mood to show his hand with abortion being a major issue in the 2024 presidential election.

On X, she reported that Trump was "asked for a second time how he voted on Florida's abortion rights amendment, and he snapped at the unidentified reporter: "Just stop talking about that."

You can watch the exchange below or at the link.

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'Real sense of frustration' as Trump advisers fear 'he's trying to lose': reporter

ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl spoke to "The View" on Tuesday as voters continued to cast ballots on the final day of the election and revealed some of his conversations with Donald Trump.

"I have to say that I am hearing from people close to Trump a real sense of frustration," Karl revealed. "They think that it's almost as if he is trying to lose an election that they thought he could have won. Usually, you close an election by trying to reach out to those precious few people out there that are still persuadable."

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'Keep your legs closed': C-SPAN boots pro-Trump caller who says he can 'solve' abortion

C-SPAN cut off a supporter of former President Donald Trump after he told women to "keep your legs closed" to "solve" the need for abortions.

During Tuesday's Washington Journal program, host Mimi Geerges announced an Ohio man named Rick who called in on the "pro-Trump" line.

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'It's been a weird year': Nevada polling guru makes case for Harris win on MSNBC

According to the man who is considered the gold standard on polling analysis in Nevada, the game has changed in his state but he still expects Vice President Kamala Harris to pull out a victory over Donald Trump.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Jon Ralston, editor of the Nevada Independent, told the co-hosts that there has been a late surge for the VP.

With that he admitted, "It's been a weird year in Nevada."

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"You guys know this," he told the hosts. "Usually the Democrats bank a bunch of votes in early voting and they're ahead and republicans can't catch up. A lot of mail ballots in Clark County -- and we've become a state where mail is big -- have not come in yet, and those are heavily Democratic."

"They've been 2 to 1 in the last few polls," he elaborated. "You have to trust what's happened in the last four presidential cycles here, which is the so-called Reid machine, named for the late [Democratic Sen.] Harry Reid, to get out the vote, not just in people mailing their ballots, but dropping them in drop boxes today on election day."

"There are going to be tens of thousands of those, I believe," he predicted. "I think Harris will just eke it out, but it's going to be close."

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'No no no no': Marco Rubio tap dances when confronted on CNN about Trump's 'tangents'

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tap-danced away from questions about Donald Trump's "tangents" and misogynist insults during a skirmish with CNN's Anderson Cooper.

The former president attacked Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as an "evil, sick, crazy b–," although he stopped himself from calling her a b---h but mouthed the word, during his last campaign rally before Election Day, and Cooper confronted Rubio over his closing message.

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'Suck on this': Steve Bannon mocks Merrick Garland while recreating election-denial HQ

Freshly out of prison, right-wing strategist Steve Bannon announced he would assemble a "war room" at the Willard Hotel on election night just as he did on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2020.

The previous "war room" served as a command center for his plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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'Oh, come on': Morning Joe snaps at major Wisconsin city for stalling on counting votes

During a breakdown on when election watchers can expect to get a feel for who will win Tuesday's presidential election, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough expressed surprise and dismay that the battleground state of Wisconsin will be dragging its feet.

In particular, the municipality of Milwaukee has a local policy of waiting until the wee hours of the next morning to tabulate ballots that were collected prior to election day.

Standing at his big board, MSNBC's Steve Kornacki explained, "There is one twist in Wisconsin we might as well flag right now. The city of Milwaukee –– there aren't many in Wisconsin that do this –– it takes all of its early votes, and we are talking 100,000 ballots –– maybe more, takes all of it to a separate location, counts it at the very end of the night. This is usually 1:00, 2:00, 3:00 in the morning."

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"Oh come on! Come on. What?" Scarborough exclaimed. "Who would think of this. Steve, who would think of this? You look at what Florida does. I mean, Florida counts the early votes early and we know by 8:30, 9:00 usually who is going to win that state, except for 2000."

"Why in the world would –– I understand the Republican legislatures pushed back in Wisconsin, they pushed back in Michigan, they pushed back in Pennsylvania, but the other two states they sort of took care of that by some things they did," he continued. "Why in the world would Wisconsin wait to take the early votes from Milwaukee to another place and count them when all that does is feed into Donald Trump's lies?"

"Well, to be clear, that's not a decision by the state of Wisconsin," the polling analyst explained. "That's a municipal decision in Milwaukee."

"So why would they do that?" the Morning Joe host pressed.

"There has been pressure not to and they have resisted," Kornacki replied. "I couldn't give you the best argument for why that is. What I think they are trying to do is make clear the separation between we're reporting this is all of the early vote versus the same day vote to make the separation clear for whatever reason."

"I could tell you in Wisconsin, and this is not just coming from Republicans, there have been folks saying change that," he elaborated. "It doesn't look good to have it overnight you want to make these more efficient. The rules in Wisconsin –– it's a very decentralized state –– hundreds and hundreds of municipalities, and they have the right if they want to do, any one of those could do that, there is about three dozen in the state that do it. The biggest is Milwaukee and it has been a moment."

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Behind-the-scenes video shows Trump's own people lying to his face to make him feel better

A behind-the-scenes video that appears to be part of the documentary "The Art of the Surge: The Donald Trump Comeback," reveals a nervous Trump constantly requiring reassurance from his staff and members of his inner circle. The videos follow Trump as he races toward Election Day 2024.

Among the clips revealed by Courier Newsroom is a nervous Trump walking the debate site and trying to figure out how the time clock works.

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'I've heard of other private polling': Insider says bombshell Iowa survey is no outlier

A poll showing Kamala Harris three points ahead in Iowa shocked many observers and reportedly "rattled" Donald Trump, but a veteran political reporter said that survey was no outlier.

Respected pollster J. Ann Selzer found that support for Trump, who won Iowa in each of his previous elections, had shifted seven points since September, when he led by four points, and and dropped a whopping 21 points since June, when he led president Joe Biden by 18 points.

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Trump is 'losing it' with nonstop 'WTF moments' in closing days: Morning Joe guest

The last ten days, including the Madison Square Garden rally, have been pivotal in the downfall of Donald Trump's 2024 presidential bid, according to The New Republic's Michael Tomasky.

Speaking to "Morning Joe," Tomasky wrote in a recent piece that Trump was "losing it," and he pinpointed the Madison Square Garden rally that featured multiple racist and sexist remarks from speakers as the beginning of the end.

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