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    Dead Could Be a Sizable Voting Bloc in This Battleground State

    About 34,000 dead people were on the voter rolls in North Carolina, a key battleground state in most election years, the North Carolina State Board of Elections reported. The board used data from the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database, known as SAVE, made available to states last year by the Department of Homeland…
    Fred Lucas
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    Senate GOP Disapproval Rating Jumps to 60% Among Swing State Voters: Poll

    A new poll of registered voters in the battleground states of Maine, Georgia, and North Carolina found broad dissatisfaction with Senate leadership and strong support for the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections. The survey, conducted by McLaughlin & Associates, sampled registered Democrats and Republicans equally and…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    EXCLUSIVE: Critical Swing State Poll Shows Trump Retains High Support Among Base

    Ahead of the 2026 midterms, polling from a critical swing state found that President Donald Trump is retaining a vast majority of his voting base. A new League of American Workers survey showed that 85% of Wisconsin voters who voted for Trump in 2024 remain favorable of the president after he announced the commencement of…
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    ‘COMMON SENSE’: GOP Lawmakers in Swing State Override Governor’s Veto of Anti-Sanctuary Bill

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Lawmakers in North Carolina overwhelmingly voted for legislation to require law enforcement across the state to cooperate with federal immigration authorities who are trying to catch illegal aliens. The GOP-dominated state Legislature on Wednesday completed its override of Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of HB 10, a bill that effectively will ban “sanctuary city” policies…
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    How a Conservative Group’s Door-to-Door Push Added 80,000+ Voters in Key Swing States 

    Four years ago, President-to-be Joe Biden narrowly won the swing states of Arizona and Georgia by about 11,000 votes each. This time around, Heritage Action for America was determined to ensure residents of both states were registered to vote in the 2024 presidential election.  This year, the conservative grassroots organization kicked its voter registration efforts…
    Christina Lewis
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    How Trump Won Swing State of North Carolina

    Donald Trump secured North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes Tuesday night in what looks like a successful bid to reclaim the presidency he lost in 2020. Trump, the Republican nominee, and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, held multiple rallies in the swing state before Election Day. Trump was leading Harris by 51% to 47.8%,…
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    Trump Slams Harris, Aims to Galvanize Voters in Swing State 6 Days Before Election

    ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.—“We’re running a campaign of solutions to save America, an America which they have virtually destroyed,” former President Donald Trump said of the Biden-Harris administration at a Wednesday afternoon rally here. To elect Vice President Kamala Harris as president “would be to gamble with the lives of millions and millions of people,” Trump…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘I Don’t Trust Kamala Harris to Change Things for the Better,’ Swing State Businessman Says

    GREENVILLE, N.C.—Entrepreneurship is in Fred George’s bloodline. “Every ancestor I know was a businessman,” George told The Daily Signal, as he stood on the floor of one of his five secondhand Trade It! retail stores in North Carolina. “I've got decades of experience, and the things that I learned growing up from my dad, who's a businessman,…
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    Trump and Vance Target Swing States, Seek to Expand Map in Final Push to Election Day

    Time is running out for former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris to court voters before Nov. 5.   With just one week until Election Day, the Trump-Vance campaign is not only looking to shore up its support in the all-important swing states, but also seeking to expand the electoral map.  The former…
    Christina Lewis
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    Meet Voters in This Swing County in a Swing State 

    ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.—The 2024 presidential election is only the second election in which 38-year-old Cody Morris has voted. He says he chose to vote this time because he remembers a “way of life” he'd like to see again.   Despite having “the best job I've ever had and [making] the most money I've ever had,” Morris told The…
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    ‘Winning Issue’?: Michigan Dems Hope Abortion Will Help Harris Thwart Trump in Swing State

    With the Kamala Harris campaign reportedly fearing it will lose Michigan, Democratic strategists in the key Midwestern swing state are placing their hopes on the issue of abortion to give the vice president an edge on Nov. 5. Democrats participated in a Monday webinar, co-hosted by midwestern lobbying firm Kelley Cawthorne and news service Gongwer…
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    Would You Like Those Swing States for Here or to Go?

    Would you like those 19 electoral college votes for here or to go? This latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast” examines former President Donald Trump’s latest bid to win swing states like Pennsylvania by working at a local McDonald’s. While the Harris-Walz campaign and legacy media called Trump’s day serving fries a “fake,” the…
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    Swing State Sued for Withholding Names of Over 200,000 Registered Voters Who Did Not Provide Proof of Citizenship

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—America First Legal on Thursday announced a lawsuit against Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes for refusing to hand over the names of over 200,000 registered voters who have allegedly not provided proof of citizenship. Fontes is breaking the law by refusing to comply with a records request that demands the names…
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    Nevada Election Chief Blocks Inspection of Suspect Voter Names in Swing State

    Nevada’s top election official told local election directors not to investigate the names of thousands of people who left the state but remain on its voter rolls. The watchdog group Citizens Outreach Foundation recently sued four jurisdictions in Nevada to force a review of the voter registration lists.  The plaintiff, responding to an August memo…
    Fred Lucas
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    WATCH: Trump, Harris Promise the Moon to Swing States

    On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we dive into the details on the neck-and-neck race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump as the swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and (almost) North Carolina are hit with a tsunami of promises from the candidates. Harris goes…
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    Why Won’t This Swing State Clear 4 Million Ineligible Names From Voter Rolls?

    One of the most fiercely contested battlegrounds in this fall’s presidential race won’t remove more than 4 million ineligible names from its voter rolls.  “Wisconsin’s population is a little less than 6 million, with 3.5 million active voters,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told The Daily Signal in a written statement. “So why do election officials…
    Fred Lucas
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    How Swing State Supreme Courts Could Swing the Presidential Election

    Several battleground states passed election reforms after the 2020 election, but those laws might be only as good as state supreme courts allow them to be.  The states of Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and North Carolina all enacted election reforms that include enhanced voter ID laws and bans on private money funding administration of elections. …
    Fred Lucas
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    Scott Rasmussen’s 2024 Election Breakdown: Polling Surprises and Swing State Showdowns

    Pollster Scott Rasmussen shares his insights on the latest polling data and discusses the political landscape as the presidential race reaches the critical month of September. Watch or listen to our full interview on the latest episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast.” With only small margins separating Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump in…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Swing State Dems May Be Illegally Recruiting Poll Watchers, GOP Letter Warns

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Pennsylvania Democratic Party may be illegally recruiting out-of-state poll watchers, according to a letter Thursday from the Republican National Committee flagging “misinformation” on the state party’s website. The Pennsylvania Democratic Party’s website says that recruited poll watchers must be physically present in the state to work, but “do not necessarily have to be…
    Rebeka Zeljko
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    RNC Scores Election Law Victories in These Swing States. Here’s What That Could Mean in November.  

    The Republican National Committee this week filed election-related lawsuits in Michigan and North Carolina, coming off a Supreme Court victory last week over election procedures in Arizona.  An RNC initiative called Protect the Vote has filed more than 100 lawsuits across 25 states and recruited more than 150,000 lawyers and volunteer poll watchers across the…
    Fred Lucas
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