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The latest: Trump and Harris take their campaigns to the battleground state of Wisconsin
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The latest: Trump and Harris take their campaigns to the battleground state of Wisconsin

In the final days of the presidential campaign, the vice president Kamala Harris and former president donald trump Focus on the battleground state of Wisconsin.

Meanwhile, concerns were raised in the state of Georgia about attempts at outside interference in Tuesday’s election. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State He said his state has been attacked with a video that is “obviously fake” and probably the product of Russian trolls.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it is investigating the video.

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Here’s the latest:

Trump has made his opposition to transgender rights a central issue in the final days of the campaign.

The Republican candidate’s campaign and aligned political action committees have spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising attacking Harris for past statements supporting transgender rights.

Trump has promised to aim transgender people if elected. He has said he would ask Congress to pass a bill stating that there are “only two genders” and banning hormonal or surgical procedures for transgender minors in all 50 states.

Harris has been stressing that she has supported federal policies that were in place when Trump was president. LGBTQ advocates argue that Trump’s rhetoric fuels hostility toward transgender people and fosters misunderstandings about who they are.

He last day for voters to submit their applications Early voting by mail is underway in a populous suburban Philadelphia county.

Voters in Bucks County, a landmark whose residents Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris have courted in the final days of the presidential campaign, have until 5 p.m. Friday to request, receive and cast a ballot on the spot. mail.

The court-ordered deadline is a three-day extension, stemming from a lawsuit filed this week by the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and the campaign of Republican Senate candidate David McCormick.

They allege voters faced disenfranchisement when they were turned away when county government offices that process applications closed.

Harris and Trump will host dueling rallies Friday in the Milwaukee area as part of a final push for votes in the swing state of Wisconsin.

Milwaukee is home to the most Democratic. votes in wisconsinBut its conservative suburbs are where most Republicans live and are a critical area for Trump as he tries to win back the state he narrowly won in 2016 and lost in 2020.

Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State He said his state has been attacked with a video that is “obviously fake” and probably the product of Russian trolls “trying to sow discord and chaos on the eve of the elections.”

The video, which began circulating on social media platform

“This is false and is an example of targeted disinformation that we have seen in this election,” Raffensperger said.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it is investigating the video.

An Associated Press analysis of information on two of the IDs confirms that they do not match any registered voters in the counties.

The original video was no longer on X as of Friday morning, but copycat versions were still widely shared.

Former President Donald Trump launched another attack against former representative Liz Cheney Thursday night, calling the former Republican congresswoman from Wyoming a “war hawk.”

During an event in Glendale, Arizona, with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the Republican presidential candidate was asked if it’s strange to see Cheney campaign against him.

Cheney held the GOP’s No. 3 leadership position in the House, but lost the position after she voted to impeach Trump over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. He has since campaigned for Harris.

Trump called Cheney “a deranged person” and then added: “But the reason she couldn’t stand me is because she always wanted to go to war with people. If it were up to her we would be in 50 different countries.”