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Kamala Harris made a not-so-surprise appearance on "Saturday Night Live" three days before Election Day, appearing on the other side of a false mirror from her on-air alter ego Maya Rudolph.

The vice president had been rumored to appear on the show, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary on air, and showed up toward the end of the episode's cold open when Rudolph briefly paused to take in the enormity of the moment.

Businessman Tim Sheehy, who is vying for Montana Democrat Sen. Jon Tester's U.S. Senate seat, did not do his campaign any favors by appearing on conservative Megyn Kelly's podcast.

Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL, has been under fire for claiming during his campaign he was shot in combat which has been disputed by a park ranger who recalled dealing with him and his wound after he accidentally shot himself during a family trip in Glacier National Park in 2015.

With the cloud of where, when and how he was shot hanging over his head, host Kelly gave him a chance to clear the air on Friday and he seemed unprepared with a straightforward answer.

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"But were you wounded? In the park? Did you have a wound, Tim, in the park?" Kelly pressed her guest.

'No, no. Yes," he replied. "I fell and injured my arm when we were hiking. So that’s why I went, because, you know, I could feel the bullet get dislodged when I fell and fell on the arm, you could feel the bullet get dislodged, and then went to the ER to say, 'Hey, you know, look, you know, I’ve got internal bleeding going on here, I’ve injured my arm, can you take a look at this, make sure there’s nothing serious going on here.'"

Pressed further by a puzzled-looking Kelly who asked, "Are there medical records where the ER could say, “We did not treat a gunshot wound”? he replied, "Well, there, there isn’t, I mean that’s the point. You go in, you check on it, and you leave."

Podcaster and tech journalist Kara Swisher lost patience with a conservative Reihan Salam on CNN on Saturday morning and accused him of not caring that Donald Trump is obviously "addled."

During their weekly face-off on "The Chris Wallace Show," Salam tried to dismiss the firestorm created by a conservative speaker at a Trump rally, calling Puerto Rico "garbage," and tried to make the case that President Joe Biden's response to it was worse.

According to Salam, too much is being made about the Madison Square Garden "joke" and it should not reflect on Trump's re-election campaign as well as comments the ex-president has made recently.

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That drew a swift rebuke and accusation from Swisher who repeatedly said "Stop it" as Salam spoke.

Making his case he told the panel, "I think basically you have a lot of voters who believe that there is a certain censoriousness coming from the left and the idea that we are elevating a warm-up act who tells rancid jokes and have been doing it for years."

"I think that might have been a bad call," he continued as Swisher protested. "The president of the United States [Biden] was actually, for four years, been denouncing his political opponents and talking about ultra MAGA and fascism when referring to people who oppose his agenda. This is absolutely routine background noise and this garbage remark is something that actually does remind people of it."

"Trump makes, literally, every hour Trump makes an offensive remark," Swisher pushed back. "Every hour Trump makes another offensive remark, one more offensive than the other."

"Because, one, he's addled. You don't mind him being addled," she accused.

With the 2024 presidential election just three days away, former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele told Democrats that they "should feel good about Tuesday" –– and then took a jab at Donald Trump's rabid followers.

From his perch as a co-host on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Steele claimed Donald Trump's campaign botched his re-election chances by outsourcing get-out-the-votes efforts which is key to winning elections.

During an appearance on CNN on Saturday morning, Democratic campaign strategist James Carville fired back at Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) after he accused President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of siccing the Justice Department on their enemies.

With CNN host Michael Smerconish acting as moderator, Carville could be seen in split-screen ready to fire back as the MAGA lawmaker as he attempted to dismiss Trump's threat of "retribution" if he is re-elected.

During an appearance on CNN early Saturday morning, election expert Larry Sabato, founder of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, claimed Donald Trump may have finally doomed his chances with moderate and independent voters in the waning days before voters head to the polls on Tuesday.

Speaking with CNN host Amara Walker, Sabato was asked if Trump's comments about former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), stating she should "face guns," was likely the last straw for the few voters who were still on the fence.

"Is he worried about losing undecided or moderate voters? Should he be?" the CNN host asked.

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"Oh, absolutely he should be," Sabato shot back. "He went way too far on Liz Cheney."

"I think it's having an impact. The Harris campaign is saying it is having an impact on the remaining undecided voters," he continued, before elaborating, "I dont know how they can track them, there are so few of them relatively speaking, but apparently they say that it's caused these undecideds to break towards Kamala Harris."

"Now we'll see when we analyze the data from a nonpartisan perspective but it couldn't help him," he added. "This is extreme rhetoric from anybody, much less a presidential candidate and surely Trump's staff encouraged him to walk some of that back, but he didn't. He doubled down, that's Donald Trump, which reminds people what the next four years are going to look like. What they are going to look like if Donald Trump is back in the White House."

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A Republican was on the receiving end of a fact-check Friday night from a Democrat on CNN in a tense exchange over Michigan Arab-Americans.

Nayyera Haq, a former senior director in the Obama White House, told panelists a key piece of former President Donald Trump's plans include bombing Iran.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sounded off in a feisty Fox News interview Friday night where he attacked former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and delivered a testy message to viewers: “Don’t listen to her.”

The segment Friday night began with Fox News host Sean Hannity and Graham agreeing that Donald Trump’s opponents spent the day after the former president made violent remarks about Cheney “spewing their lies."

Conservative pollster and focus grouper Frank Luntz revealed to CNN the two voting blocs he will be watching most critically when the votes start rolling in on Tuesday evening.

Luntz, an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump, said he is "uniquely afraid" that the election conspiracy theories Trump has promoted could ultimately lead to widespread civil unrest.

After far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) narrowly avoided losing — by just 546 votes — in 2022 and was deluged with bad press after being ejected from the "Beetlejuice" musical for lewd behavior, she jumped congressional districts, moving from the slightly conservative 3rd Congressional District to the deep-red 4th Congressional District vacated by retiring Trump critic Rep. Ken Buck.

But her election in the new district may not be as much of a cakewalk as previously assumed, according to The New Republic.

GOP insider Scott Jennings told a CNN panel on Friday that he's going to end up voting for former President Donald Trump — in part because he's so outraged at how Democrats have aggressively attacked Trump's comments on Liz Cheney.

Trump said at a recent campaign event that Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman who has been one of the most outspoken supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris from the right, should be staring down "nine barrels shooting at her ... when the guns are trained on her face." He has since tried to clean up his comments in the face of outrage from pundits and political opponents, denying that he was literally talking about a firing squad.

Vice President Kamala Harris is expressing cautious optimism in the final days of the 2024 presidential race, saying voters are “showing up,” and she is “seeing an incredible amount of enthusiasm from people of every walk of life.”

“What I’m enjoying the most about this moment is that in spite of how my opponent spends full time trying to divide the American people, what I’m seeing is people coming together under one roof who seemingly have nothing in common, and know they have everything in common,” the Democratic presidential nominee told reporters Friday afternoon (video below). “And I think that is in the best interest of the strength of our nation.”