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Here’s what Donald Trump said at a rally in Michigan: “They stole the FEMA money like they stole it from a bank so they could give it to their illegal immigrants that they want to have vote for them this season.“

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) “wore blackface as part of a Halloween costume when he was a college student almost two decades ago,” the New York Times reports. “The images, taken around October 2006, show a 20-year-old Mr. Lawler at a campus social gathering dressed as Michael Jackson. He is wearing a black shirt and a red jacket and, in one photo, is striking a signature Jackson dance pose.

Bloomberg: “Pressure is building as courts handle the surge of litigation targeting voting processes before the Nov. 5 election, particularly in swing states like North Carolina.” “Officials say that amid the normal flurry of pre-election activity, they’re preparing as best they can for legal developments that could force a sudden pivot.”

A judge sentenced a former Colorado county clerk to nine years behind bars for leading a voting system data-breach scheme inspired by the rampant false claims that fraud altered the 2020 presidential outcome, the Denver Post reports. Tina Peters was found guilty by a jury in August for allowing a Donald Trump supporter to misuse a security card to access to the Mesa County election system in order to promote false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the election from Trump. Peters was immediately taken into custody after the judge rejected her lawyer’s request that she remain free.

Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who is running for Senate in Maryland, attacked Sen. J. D. Vance’s refusal to acknowledge Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat as “crazy”, and warned it puts Republicans running for Congress at risk of losing their races, the Financial Times reports. Said Hogan: “It’s crazy, I mean, Trump obviously lost the election.

A new Mitchell Research poll in Michigan shows Donald Trump and Kamala Harris tied among likely voters in a multi-candidate field, 47% to 47%. In the U. S. Senate race, Elissa Slotkin (D) leads Mike Rogers (R), 49% to 44%.