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ABC News’ Martha Raddatz questioned three Democratic governors on Sunday about why Democrats have lost ground in states that were once considered “guaranteed” victories for the Democratic candidate.”Look at the polls. I mean, just a couple of elections ago, this blue wall was almost guaranteed for Democrats. I know you’ve seen enthusiasm. I know you’re working hard, but the polls really aren’t showing it. Who did the Democrats lose over these years?” Raddatz asked. The ABC News host sat down with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers to discuss the state of the election in their home states, which are seen as must-win states for Harris. Trump won Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan in 2016 and was the first Republican presidential candidate to do so since 1992. However, President Biden won the three states back in 2020.”I think if you even go back eight years, all three of our states went for Donald Trump, and then all three of us were elected and re-elected, and this is, I think, you don’t win a state like Michigan by 11 points without a lot of people coming over, Independents and Republicans, and that’s part of our missive. As we have been to Wisconsin and Michigan, and now here in Pennsylvania, there’s a seat at the table for everyone. We understand that there are Republicans out there who are lamenting that Donald Trump is their nominee. They’re not sure about our agenda. We’re making a seat at the table for them. We are not writing anyone off,” Whitmer replied. HARRIS AND TRUMP TRADE FIRE IN BATTLE FOR THE BLUE WALL STATES Raddatz pressed again, “It is razor-thin, and some of the averages, they see Trump making it.””I know you’re saying you have faith in these voters and they understand what they saw in Donald Trump years ago, but the polls just aren’t showing it,” Raddatz added.Whitmer said she wasn’t surprised by the close polls and argued, “we’re not scared.””We’re determined to make sure we do everything in our power to win this thing, and while this is going to be close, I would much rather be playing our hand than theirs. We’ve got a better candidate. We’ve got receipts on issues that matter to the American people, on the economy, individual rights, affordable housing, etc., and we’ve got a better ground game. We’re going to do the work,” Whitmer said.CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURERaddatz asked Evers about why voters might still be undecided in this election.”It is hard to believe that people are still undecided at this point. They know who Donald Trump is. They know what he has done. They saw the Biden administration, and many of them are not happy with it and tying Kamala Harris in there. So is this an election where it’s not so much in this ground game going after the undecided but the unenthused?” Raddatz asked.Evers said there’s plenty of enthusiasm, and argued it did come down to undecided voters. “There are people that frankly don’t follow this on a daily basis. There’s people that don’t follow the polls. There’s people that just don’t, you know, they go to work. They got kids at home. They do a good job with their kids, and they get up the next day. The polls look at a small number,” Evers responded.



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A manhunt is underway in Florida after a handcuffed suspect who had complained of chest pains escaped from a hospital and fled in a waiting Maserati on Saturday, authorities said.Theodric Collins, 36, was taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol at the Port of Miami for multiple out-of-state warrants, the Miami-Dade Police Department said.Collins, however, complained of chest pains once in custody and was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital for evaluation. Collins was medically cleared just before 2:30 p.m.As a Miami-Dade officer began to transport Collins to the department’s Warrants Bureau, police said Collins escaped to a waiting silver Maserati waiting outside while still in handcuffs.TEXAS MAN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY STEALING NEIGHBORS’ DOGS, KILLING THEMThe Maserati had an Alabama license plate and was last picked up by a license plate reader in Jupiter, Florida, police said. Investigators described Collins as standing 5 feet, 9 inches tall with a medium build.FLORIDA LIEUTENANT FATALLY SHOT BY ESTRANGED HUSBAND WHO ATTEMPTED TO MAKE CRIME LOOK LIKE A SUICIDE: DEPUTIESCollins was previously arrested in Mississippi for felony shoplifting, reckless driving, fleeing from police and property theft, WSVN reported. In 2023, he was reportedly arrested in Alabama after allegedly leading police on a high-speed chase.Authorities did not immediately provide additional details about the warrants for Collins.



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Voters in the battleground state of Wisconsin will decide at the ballot box in November whether to revise the state constitution to explicitly ban noncitizens from voting in municipal, state and federal elections. The statewide referendum authored by Republican legislators is listed at the bottom of the ballot and will ask voters for permission to amend section 1 of article III of the state constitution, which deals with voting, to specify that “only a United States citizen age 18 or older who resides in an election district may vote in an election for national, state, or local office or at a statewide or local referendum.” Currently, the state constitution says “every United States citizen age 18 or older” can vote.”Addressing this issue now will ensure votes are not diluted in the future,” state Sen. Julian Bradley, a Republican, explained to the nonprofit news organization Votebeat Wisconsin. “It’s best for the government to address this concern before it becomes a problem.”NEBRASKA HIGH COURT RESTORES VOTING RIGHT FOR THOUSANDS OF CONVICTED FELONSIn recent years, North Dakota, Alabama, Florida, Colorado, Ohio and Louisiana have passed amendments to their state constitutions specifying that “only” U.S. citizens can vote. The question is on the ballot in eight other states this year, including Wisconsin, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri, The Associated Press reported. Republicans argue they are trying to protect election integrity as migrants pour across the border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data shows more than 10 million encounters with illegal immigrants at U.S. borders under the Biden-Harris administration and at least another 2 million known got-a-ways. Democrats and other opponents say the state amendment prohibiting non-citizens from voting has no practical effect – no Wisconsin municipalities allow noncitizens to vote – and is instead designed to draw conservatives to the polls and stoke anger against foreigners in the United States.”There is no problem with noncitizens voting,” Jeff Mandell, an attorney with Law Forward, a nonprofit organization, told the AP. “It is the very definition of a solution in search of a problem.”DOJ ONCE OK’D LAW AT CENTER OF YOUNGKIN VOTER ROLL-CULLING ORDER FEDS NOW SUING TO BLOCKA 1996 federal law bans noncitizens in any state from casting their ballots in a federal election. It does not apply to state and local elections. Multiple municipalities in California, Maryland and Vermont as well as the District of Columbia allow noncitizens to vote in some local elections such as school board and city council races. The Department of Justice last week sued Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration for removing people from the voter rolls who had been identified as noncitizens and could not verify their citizenship within a two-week grace period. The state said it removed 6,000 ineligible people from its rolls.Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in August that over 6,500 potential noncitizens had been removed from the state’s voter rolls since 2021. Ohio Secretary of State Frank La Rose also said in August that he referred 138 apparent noncitizens found to have voted in a recent election for prosecution. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPAlabama Secretary of State Wes Allen has said 3,251 people previously identified as noncitizens by the federal government have been deactivated on the state’s voter registration rolls.The Associated Press contributed to this report. 



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The United States is investigating the unauthorized release of classified documents detailing Israel’s planned attack against Iran, The Associated Press reported.The documents, attributed to the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, note that Israel was still moving military assets in place to conduct a military strike in response to Iran’s blistering ballistic missile attack on Oct. 1. They were sharable within the “Five Eyes,” which are the U.S., Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.The documents, which are marked top secret, were posted to the Telegram messaging app last week and first reported by CNN and Axios. The AP first reported Sunday about the U.S. investigation into the unauthorized release, citing three U.S. officials. The AP said a fourth U.S. official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, indicated that the documents appeared to be legitimate. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., also confirmed the investigation in an appearance on CNN. “The leak is very concerning. There’s some serious allegations being made, there’s an investigation underway, and I’ll get a briefing on that in a couple of hours,” Johnson said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “There’s a classified level briefing and then another. But we’re following it closely.” IDF SAYS ‘MISSION IS NOT OVER’ UNTIL HOSTAGES ARE RETURNED: ‘WE WILL NOT REST’The investigation is also examining how the documents were obtained – including whether it was an intentional leak by a member of the U.S. intelligence community or by another method, like a hack – and whether any other intelligence information was compromised, one of the officials told the AP, adding that officials are working to determine who had access to the documents before they were posted. The documents first appeared online Friday via a channel on Telegram, claiming they had been leaked by someone in the U.S. intelligence community, then later the U.S. Defense Department. The information appeared entirely gathered through the use of satellite image analysis.ISRAEL’S UN AMBASSADOR: RESPONSE TO IRAN WILL BE ‘VERY PAINFUL’The AP reported that one of the two documents resembled the style of other material from the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency leaked by Jack Teixeira, an Air National Guardsman who pleaded guilty in March to leaking highly classified military documents about Russia’s war on Ukraine and other national security secrets.The Telegram channel involved in the leak identifies itself as being based in Tehran, Iran’s capital. It previously published memes featuring Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and material in support of Tehran’s self-described “Axis of Resistance,” which includes Middle East terrorist groups armed by the Islamic republic.In a statement to the AP, the Pentagon said it was aware of the reports of the documents but did not elaborate further. The AP said the Israeli military did not immediately return their request for comment.Fox News Digital reached out to the U.S. Department of Defense but did not immediately hear back. The Associated Press contributed to this report.



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The FBI has joined a search for a missing Montana teen who vanished from her home two weeks ago, vowing not to rest until answers are found about the teen’s disappearance.Sa’Wade Birdinground, a 13-year-old member of the Crow Tribe, has not had any known contact with family or friends since she disappeared on Oct. 6, the FBI said Saturday in a news release.”The FBI is working closely with local law enforcement to find Sa’Wade Birdinground,” said Rhys Williams, acting special agent in charge of the FBI’s Salt Lake City Division. “We are asking for the public’s assistance in locating her, and we won’t stop until we have answers.”Sa’Wade was last seen at her home in Garryowen on the night of Oct. 6, the Big Horn County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release on Oct. 7. She was last seen wearing a black hoodie with mushrooms on it, an anime t-shirt, basketball trunks and purple slip-on shoes. She is known to wear an elk tooth necklace and is believed to be carrying a black and purple Adidas backpack.MISSING VIRGINIA ANTIQUE SHOP OWNER’S FAMILY BELIEVES HE WAS MURDERED AFTER MONTHS WITHOUT ANSWERSThe teen is described as “a quiet, kind and artistic child who likes to laugh,” and is well liked among her teachers and peers, the FBI said.”She has never run away from home or been in any serious trouble,” the FBI news release said. “Her disappearance from home is totally out of character for her, and her family is very concerned about her.”The Montana Department of Justice issued a Missing Endangered Persons Advisory due to concerns about Sa’Wade’s safety.MISSING TEXAS REAL ESTATE AGENT’S HUSBAND KEPT IN JAIL WITH HIGH BOND AS FAMILY RIPS HIS LACK OF COOPERATIONThe FBI said that based on the investigation thus far and the amount of time the teen has been missing, they are taking the case “very seriously and chasing down every lead.”Big Horn County Sheriff Jeramie Middlestead said authorities are doing everything they can to bring Sa’Wade home safely and called on the public for help.”The community’s help is crucial at this time, and we urge anyone with information to come forward immediately,” said Middlestead. “Sa’Wade’s family is deeply worried, and any information, no matter how small, can make a difference.”The FBI asked anyone with information about Sa’Wade to contact 406-665-9798, adding that “any details, no matter how small, could assist in bringing her home safely.”



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