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- Election Day is 13 days away on Nov. 5, and early voting has started in more than 30 states. Nearly all states have either started early voting or have mailed ballots.
- Vice President Kamala Harris gave an interview to NBC’s Hallie Jackson on Tuesday night, and taped an interview with Telemundo, which aired on Wednesday night. She also participated in a CNN town hall Wednesday night from Pennsylvania.
- Trump, meanwhile, campaigned in Georgia, the crucial battleground state, where he held two events, including a town hall.
- Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz voted in St. Paul on Wednesday, along with his wife, Gwen, and 18-year-old son Gus, who was voting for the first time.
- Ohio Sen. JD Vance headed to battleground state Nevada, speaking to voters in Reno a day after Trump held a rally in Las Vegas.
Trump says he “will launch the largest deportation program in American history”
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday night once again reiterated his plan to deport millions of immigrants if he wins the November election.
“Immediately upon taking the oath of office, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history,” Trump declared at a rally in Duluth, Georgia. “I will rescue every town across America, and every town is worried about it.”
It’s a claim Trump has made several times on the campaign trail.
According to CBS News analysis of immigration data has found that apprehending and deporting just one million people would cost taxpayers about $20 billion. Deporting the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants would be nearly impossible for the U.S. government to fund, the analysis found.
Harris says she believes Trump is a fascist
In her CNN town hall Thursday evening, Vice President Kamala Harris said that she believes former President Donald Trump is a fascist.
Moderator Anderson Cooper posed the question to Harris, who responded, “Yes I do. Yes I do.”
“And I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted,” Harris added. “Again, look at their careers, these are not people, I think with the exception of only Mike Pence, these are not politicians. These are career people who have served at the highest roles of national security. Who have served as generals in our military. Who are highly respected, talking about the person who will be commander in chief.”
Harris’ statement comes after former Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, the longest-serving chief of staff in the Trump administration, told the New York Times in an interview that Trump is “certainly an authoritarian” and “admires people who are dictators.”
Kelly also told the Times that while in office, Trump would also “occasionally” say that Adolf Hitler “did some good things, too.”
“He commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,'” Kelly said Trump told him. “And of course, if you know history, again I think he’s lacking in that. If you know what history was all about, it would be pretty hard to make an argument that he did anything good.”
Of Kelly, Harris said that “he’s just putting out a 911 call to the American people to understand what could happen if Donald Trump were back in the White House.”
Georgia Secretary of State’s Office thwarted unsuccessful cyberattack, official says
The Georgia Secretary of State’s Office was the target of an unsuccessful cyberattack earlier this month, the agency confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday.
The attack attempted to crash the absentee voting website, an official with the secretary of state’s office said.
The official said the attempted attack was discovered when the agency noticed a spike in attempts to access its website.
More than 420,000 attempts from around the world were made around Oct. 14, according to the official, who described it as a coordinated attempt to make the website crash.
Security experts were ultimately able to thwart it, the official said. The Secretary of State’s Office said it still does not know who was behind the attack.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is aware of the cyberattack and worked with the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office in the aftermath of the incident, sources confirmed to CBS News.
Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer for the agency, wrote Thursday evening in a social media post that “this was a big win for our cyber security team and our partners. We work everyday to protect Georgia voters
RFK Jr. asks Supreme Court to remove him from Wisconsin ballot
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has asked the Supreme Court to order his name covered with stickers on Wisconsin’s ballot after the Wisconsin Elections Commission rejected his request to remove his name after he suspended his campaign for president. He withdrew from the race in August and endorsed former President Donald Trump.
“In Wisconsin, he wants everyone who will listen to vote for Trump,” his emergency appeal says. “To aid that message, he sought to have his name removed from the ballot well before the Wisconsin Elections Commission voted to put him on the ballot and before the major parties even had to submit a candidate.”
According to Wisconsin law, “any person who files nomination papers and qualifies to appear on the ballot may not decline nomination. The name of that person shall appear upon the ballot except in case of death of the person.”
Wisconsin is one of two battleground states where the independent candidate is on the ballot. Kennedy said he was concerned that having his name on the ballot in competitive states could be detrimental to Trump’s chances of winning.
In September, the Supreme Court denied his bid to be reinstated on New York’s ballot.
Trump hits back at John Kelly
Former President Donald Trump slammed his former White House chief of staff as a “total degenerate,” claiming he made up the anecdotes that were reported by the New York Times and the Atlantic on Tuesday.
“The story about the Soldiers was A LIE, as are numerous other stories he told. Even though I shouldn’t be wasting my time with him, I always feel it’s necessary to hit back in pursuit of THE TRUTH,” Trump wrote on social media.
Trump surrogate and former candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also addressed the former Marine Corps general’s comments during Trump’s rally Wednesday in Duluth, Georgia, calling Kelly “a liar.”
Chinese disinformation network targets Republican politicians ahead of Election Day
A Chinese disinformation network is targeting several Republican candidates, including Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn, ahead of Election Day, according to a new report from Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center.
The report, which detailed several foreign influence campaigns, said Chinese operations have recently focused on spreading false claims about House and Senate Republicans who have been critical of the Chinese government.
Microsoft said the network, dubbed “Spamouflage,” may attempt to cast doubt about election integrity and results. Experts tell News reporters that while social media users should be wary, they should not be too concerned about its impact.
“One of the worst things that can happen is we oversell the threat of this kind of online influence and thus end up doing China’s work for them in undermining faith in democratic institutions, undermining faith in the electoral process,” Kenton Thibaut, resident China fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, told News reporters.
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