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A viral video that made the rounds online appearing to show an individual tearing up mail-in ballots in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was debunked as a hoax by local officials. But the plot thickened even further on Friday — it turns out that the video was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.

This was confirmed in a joint statement issued by the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA.

Donald Trump again lashed out at his former White House chief of staff, who said the former president meets the "definition of a fascist."

Kelly blasted his old boss in a series of recorded interviews with the New York Times, which he told the publication were spurred by Trump’s recent threats to use the military on the “enemy from within.”

A Republican strategist got forceful pushback on CNN on Friday night as he tried to downplay former President Donald Trump's remarks that he would deport special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the election subversion case against the MAGA leader.

Anchor Anderson Cooper told Republican Brad Todd it's "not normal for someone who wants to be president of the United States to talk about deporting a special counsel, a guy who is just assigned to this and doing his job."

An embattled first-term Republican in a battleground district has been hit with yet a new scandal, as CNN reports his campaign spent six figures on steakhouses, liquor and Uber fares.

According to the report, Rep. Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY) could face an ethics probe over the matter.

Former President Donald Trump has been making a concerted effort to win over the "bro" vote, reaching out to gamers and others in the so-called "Manosphere."

MSNBC examined this outreach during a Friday, October 25 segment, interviewing a 19-year-old male voter in Georgia who he said he likes Trump because the former president talks like his friends — not like a slick politician.

A Donald Trump supporter in Texas is facing an assault charge after he was accused of punching an election clerk who was escorting him out of a polling site for refusing to take his red “Make America Great Again” cap off.

The violent incident occurred Thursday evening in San Antonio during the state’s first week of early voting when 63-year-old Jesse Lutzenberger was asked to remove his hat to comply with Texas election rules, according to media reports. State law prohibits a person from wearing “a badge, insignia, emblem, or other similar communicative device relating to a candidate, measure, or political party appearing on the ballot.”

Despite many ultra-wealthy donors backing former President Donald Trump over taxes, regulations, or their own political beliefs, much of the rest of the business world is horrified by what a Trump presidency could look like, tech and entertainment billionaire Mark Cuban told MSNBC's Ari Melber on Friday.

Cuban, who despite a handful of disagreements with the progressive left has been an enthusiastic surrogate for Vice President Kamala Harris on the campaign trail, said that it comes down to one key issue: Trump's plans to uproot and deport immigrant workers en masse.

A far-right congressman’s suggestion that electors in North Carolina could be assigned to Donald Trump even before votes are counted is part of a nationwide “MAGA blueprint,” according to one political analyst, who called the lawmaker out on CNN Friday as “hypocritical.”

The moment came on CNN’s "The Situation Room” after host Wolf Blitzer played a clip of Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) who floated the idea that the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature could take the unheard-of step of assigning electors in light of challenges revolving around Hurricane Helene.

It's longstanding conventional wisdom that voters decide elections based on the economy. But is that still true? According to Peter Coy in The New York Times, a recent study suggests it doesn't matter nearly as much as it used to.

Robert Gordon, an 84-year-old economist at Northwestern University, "has studied presidential elections going back to 1956, when he was 16 years old and Dwight Eisenhower, the incumbent Republican president, and his running mate, Richard Nixon, were squaring off against the Democrats Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver," wrote Coy. "The economy is a big factor in elections, but it’s not as influential as it once was, according to a working paper released by Gordon just in time for this year’s election."

A political expert warned on CNN on Friday that America could become an "oligarchy" with "crony capitalism" — and said what's at stake in the election is, "Do we want an American [Vladimir] Putin?"

Jonathan Alter, author of "American Reckoning," joined Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room" on Friday to discuss a new poll showing nearly half of Americans think former President Donald Trump is a "fascist" — with the race essentially tied in the polls.

A contract postal worker in Orange County, Florida, has been criminally charged after tossing election-related mail in the woods, Florida Politics reported on Friday.

According to the report, Ottis Nicole McCoy, Jr. first triggered red flags "raised after another employee helped McCoy load the day’s route that morning and McCoy left 'with a very large quantity of U.S. Mail' to deliver Tuesday but instead finished the route earlier than expected, the complaint said. McCoy’s boss at Cummings Contract Delivery Service Corp checked the GPS under McCoy’s car and could see the postal worker veered off his route."

Billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos’ decision to scrap the Washington Post's 36-year tradition of endorsing a presidential candidate is a lesson for business leaders around the world seeing him “getting in line” with the former president, a columnist wrote Friday.

The editorial referred to it as “signaling his submission” to Donald Trump,

A conservative appeals court ruled Friday that mail-in-ballots in Mississippi must be at the election offices by Election Day and not post-marked on Election Day, as previously held.

"Congress statutorily designated a singular 'day for the election' of members of Congress and the appointment of presidential electors. Text, precedent, and historical practice confirms this 'day for the election' is the day by which ballots must be both cast and voters received by state officials. Because Mississippi's statute allows ballot receipt up to five days after the federal election day, it is preempted by federal law. We reverse the district Court's contrary judgment and remand for further proceedings," the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.