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Early in-person and mail-in ballots have begun pouring in across the country, and the tally in each state reveals mounting voter enthusiasm. Recent polling suggests a razor-thin margin in the race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, and the results are expected to come down to each candidate’s performance in seven swing states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and North Carolina. States have long allowed at least some Americans to vote early, like members of the military and people with illnesses unable to get to the polls. Many states expanded eligibility in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.WHAT ARE ELECTION BETTING ODDS? EXPERT EXPLAINS WHY TRUMP IS CURRENT FAVORITEIn the last presidential election, mail ballots tended to skew Democratic. In 2020, 60% of Democrats reported voting by mail, compared to 32% of Republicans, according to a 2021 study from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.As of Wednesday evening, more than 25 million ballots have been cast nationwide.Here is a breakdown of where early ballots have been cast, either by mail or in person, in the seven battleground states, according to The Associated Press.Arizona – 916,685Georgia – 1,935,863Michigan – 1,309,097Nevada – 333,246North Carolina – 1,706,099Pennsylvania – 1,123,509Wisconsin – 475,460Over the past two decades, the prevalence of early voting has skyrocketed. While early ballots demonstrate voter enthusiasm, they do not reliably determine which candidate is winning the race, because fewer voters are expected to cast early votes than in the previous presidential election. In 2020, the Fox News Voter Analysis found that 71% of voters cast their ballots before Election Day, with 30% voting early in-person and 41% voting by mail. This time, polls suggest that around four in 10 voters will show up before Nov. 5, according to Gallup polling. DOJ DEPLOYS DISTRICT ELECTIONS OFFICERS TO HANDLE ‘THREATS AND INTIMIDATION’Democrats and Republicans are expected to be less divided on early voting this cycle. Four years ago, Democrats won the total early vote by 11 points. However, two things have changed: first, with the COVID-19 pandemic no longer front-of-mind, many voters will be more willing to show up on Election Day. Second, unlike in 2020, Trump and the GOP are no longer discouraging their voters from casting an early ballot. The upshot should be a smaller partisan gap once the votes are counted.Some states also offer breakdowns of their early ballots – for example, by party affiliation, race, or age. Comparing these results to other elections might give the impression that one candidate or party is now doing better than the other.Additionally, while early vote data shows the party registration of some voters, it does not reveal how they voted. States do not release actual vote counts until election night. The vote data that some states are releasing now shows the party affiliation of voters who have requested or returned a ballot. However, that is not the same as their actual vote. For example, a voter may have registered as a Democrat decades ago, but chose to vote for Trump this year. Many voters are not registered to either party, making their vote even more of a mystery.



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Former President Trump responded to his former White House chief of staff John Kelly — who in recent days said his ex-boss met the definition of a “fascist” and had an affinity for Adolf Hitler and dictators — saying he’s a “total degenerate.””Thank you for your support against a total degenerate named John Kelly, who made up a story out of pure Trump Derangement Syndrome Hatred!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account Wednesday. “John Kelly is a LOWLIFE, and a bad General, whose advice in the White House I no longer sought, and told him to MOVE ON!”Kelly spoke with The New York Times earlier this week, voicing his concerns about Trump potentially returning to the White House.He told the outlet he believed Trump met the definition of a “fascist” and would govern like a dictator if allowed.”Certainly, the former president is in the far-right area, he’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators — he has said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure,” Kelly said. “He certainly prefers the dictator approach to government.”Democratic strategist Leslie Marshall said Kelly is respected in military and political circles, and Trump’s reaction to the retired Marine general’s remarks shouldn’t come as a surprise.”Anybody who says anything negative about him, even if they were within his inner circle, he comes back and insults them,” she said Wednesday on “Special Report.” “That seems to be his M.O., and sadly, his supporters are OK with that.”Talk radio host Chris Ryan said whatever Kelly says has “validity,” “substance” and “gravity.””But I also don’t think that it’s going to change anything in regard to this race other than this — Kamala Harris wants to shift the race back onto Donald Trump. She does not really have a closing argument other than the fact that she is, in her view, not Donald Trump, and provides more stability than Donald Trump, and her close has to be a focus on him,” Ryan added.HARRIS ACCUSES TRUMP OF SEEKING ‘UNCHECKED POWER,’ BEING ‘UNHINGED AND UNSTABLE’Ret. Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata questioned the timing of Kelly’s remarks just weeks before Election Day, arguing it “smacks of personal revenge.”Kelly also told the Times that Trump spoke positively of Hitler. “He commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,’” Kelly said.The Atlantic also released a story earlier this week using two unnamed people who claimed Trump said he needed “the kind of generals that Hitler had.”DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST COMPARES TRUMP TO HITLER, INSISTS HE WOULD ‘ABSOLUTELY TRY TO EXTERMINATE PEOPLE’Trump campaign adviser Alex Pfeiffer pushed back against the claims, telling the outlet, “This is absolutely false.” “President Trump never said this.”Mike Pence’s former chief of staff Nick Ayers wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that Kelly’s commentary is “patently false.””I’ve avoided commenting on intra-staff leaks or rumors or even lies as it relates to my time at the White House but General Kelly’s comments regarding President Trump are too egregious to ignore,” Ayers wrote.



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Chaos erupted in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s New York City district on Tuesday when a Democrat politician was chased out of a public square because he backs a recent police crackdown on illegal sex work plaguing the area.Hiram Monserrate, a former New York state Senator who is running for state Assembly, was giving interviews to the media praising the police when he was set upon by raging protesters who had been holding a rally calling for the NYPD and state troopers to stop shutting down brothels – as well as illegal street vendors who sell hot food and flog other merchandise without permits.The Queens neighborhood is well known as a “Red Light” district, with some residents comparing the unsanitary and seedy conditions to a “Third World” country.The demonstrators say residents need to accept prostitution and vendors as a way of life in the neighborhood.GROUPS RALLYING AGAINST POLICE CRACKDOWN ON PROSTITUTION IN AOC’S ‘RED LIGHT’ DISTRICT”More resources, no more raids,” the group chanted while surrounding Monserrate, who was speaking to press about 50 feet away from where the rally was simultaneously taking place at Corona Plaza. As the chants grew louder, Monserrate stopped speaking, hoping the crowd would temper down, but Mateo Guerrero – who had been directing the rally for a local migrant nonprofit and later called for sex workers and residents to coexist – began getting in Monserrate’s face.The ex-lawmaker then attempted to walk away but Guerrero and other members of the group chased after and heckled Monserrate, who at first walked to the front of a store and then turned around and made his way through the outskirts of the square. Guerrero continued roaring while demonstrator Biney Garcia got in front of Monserrate holding a sign reading, “Do not decide for sex workers” while wearing a nonprofit’s T-shirt with “Here to stay” emblazoned on the back. Garcia and Guerrero say they are members of the trans community. “You are against me, against my community and you have been doing that for many years,” said Garcia, who previously worked as a sex worker on Roosevelt Avenue, which has garnered the nickname “Avenue of the Sweethearts” due to the number of sex workers who line the streets there. “You are never going to get our vote, never… You can leave now,” Garcia fumed, directing Monserrate away from the square. “You are not welcome here. Get out of here.”Monserrate, accompanied by local activist Ramon Ramirez at that point, eventually fled the square.As they crossed the road, the crowd shouted “sex work is work” while another fuming protester yelled, “God does not exist” in Spanish and English.AOC’S ‘RED LIGHT’ DISTRICT OVERRUN WITH PROSTITUTES AS LOCALS CALL OUT MIA ‘SQUAD’ MEMBERFox News Digital later caught up with Monserrate and Ramirez, who took cover on the next block out of sight from the angry crowd.”There was actually more cameras than activists and the majority of the people there weren’t even from this community,” Monserrate said, playing down the heated exchange. “What’s important here is that there’s obviously a lot of energy, there’s anger, but the fact of the matter is Roosevelt Avenue has been under a crime wave, it’s an urban crime zone. And these police officers that we got from the city and the state troopers are incredibly necessary to just get a handle on the crime in this community, which has been unprecedented.”Last week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams launched “Operation Restore Roosevelt,” which aims to crack down on miscreant behavior over the next 90 days by deploying more than 200 extra police officers to the area, including state troopers.Last month, Fox News Digital cameras recorded a line of at least 19 alleged sex workers scantily-clad on a sidewalk on one block along Roosevelt Avenue. Around the corner, there were at least seven more, and a woman on the next block was witnessed offering sex for $60.Fox News Digital even recorded an alleged sex worker and her client emerging from a well-known brothel that has been raided at least twice in recent weeks.”We have more brothels than bodegas. We have brothels in front of schools, next to churches, 24-hour sex workers walking the streets freely at all hours of the day while parents are taking their kids to school. It’s unacceptable,” Monserrate told Fox News Digital.”And so the community stood up… We called on the government and we called on the mayor and they responded. We are here to say we support our police. We want them here on Roosevelt Avenue.”He called on residents to attend a rally on Sunday at 3 p.m. in support of the police who have been busy raiding brothels since the operation went into effect. STATE TROOPERS, NYPD DESCEND ON AOC’S ‘RED LIGHT’ NEIGHBORHOOD TO CLAMP DOWN ON RAMPANT PROSTITUTION, CRIMEThe Roosevelt Avenue strip is represented by “Squad” member Ocasio-Cortez and fellow Democrat Rep. Grace Meng. Ocasio-Cortez has not responded to requests for comment on the situation in her district. Monserrate said neither Meng nor Ocasio-Cortez have responded to his requests to attend rallies to clean up the streets of Roosevelt Avenue. The battle between sex workers and illegal vendors on one hand, and law and order proponents on the other, has been brewing in the neighborhood for years.Many sex workers and illegal vendors who operate in the area are migrants. With limited English and difficulty accessing legitimate work, they say they are forced onto the streets to survive and maintain that what they do does not hurt anybody.They are often drawn to the area since various migrant nonprofit groups, such as Make The Road New York, which organized the rally, provide resources and help them with immigration advice and obtaining work permits. Law and order proponents like Monserrate say the illegal activity has transformed the two-mile strip of Roosevelt Avenue into a crime-ridden and dirt-infested neighborhood.Meanwhile, Guerrero, who is originally from Colombia and is Make The Road New York’s trans justice and leadership program manager, according to the group’s website, returned to the rally and condemned the police crackdown, saying “State troopers in our streets are terrifying.”Speaking to Fox News Digital afterward, Guerrero was unapologetic for confronting Monserrate and called for the raids to end. He’s not listening to our communities. What our communities are saying is we need housing, we need health care, we need employment, we need education, we don’t need more police.””I’ve lived in Roosevelt Avenue my entire life. This is the area where I grew up and this is a community space. This is where grandmothers and kids and street vendors and sex workers learn to live together.””Sex workers have always been in Roosevelt Avenue. This community has been here since the 70s. Sex workers are a part of the community,” Guerrero said.After the rally had ended, Garcia and other Make The Road activists were seen a couple of blocks away handing out leaflets in support of Proposition 1. The measure would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. Critics say it will pave the way for illegal migrants voting in elections. WATCH: Curtis Sliwa, local activist blast rampant prostitution on NYC streets, AOC’s district:”No work is illegal,” Garcia told Fox News Digital, adding that trans people find it harder to secure regular work because of who they are, which forces them into the sex industry. “If you are choosing your body to sell your body to do sex work, that is a way to survive, nobody is pushing you to do it because New York City is too expensive.”That sentiment was echoed Cathy Lopez, a trans woman and current sex worker who’s been working the streets of Roosevelt Avenue for 10 years.Lopez, who moved to New York from Colombia 25 years ago, worked previously in a beauty salon but went into prostitution to earn more money.”Sex work is good because you are not doing nothing bad for nobody,” Lopez said.



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Grand Teton National Park’s famous grizzly bear, known by wildlife photographers around the world, died after being struck by a vehicle Tuesday in Wyoming.The 28-year-old bear named Grizzly Bear 399, because of the identity tag attached to her ear, was identified by her ear tags and microchip, according to a press release from the park.”People from around the world have followed grizzly bear 399 for several decades. At 28 years old, she was the oldest known reproducing female grizzly bear in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem,” said Hilary Cooley, Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. According to the park, the bear, who has had 18 cubs over the years, was not traveling alone and “had a yearling cub with her, whose whereabouts are currently unknown. At this time, there is no evidence to suggest the yearling was also involved in the incident, but the US Fish and Wildlife Service is monitoring the area,” according to the release.A Facebook group ‘Team 399’ dedicated to the bear has thousands of comments and outpourings of love and personal stories about their connection to the beloved bear.WASHINGTON CATTLE PRODUCER NEIL KAYSER: GRIZZLY BEAR RELOCATION IS A DANGER TO OUR FAMILIES AND LIVESTOCK | FOX NEWS VIDEO”So saddened by this loss.  Iconic & will be missed.  Hopefully you sill(all) will find cub.  This is so personal for many.  For me, she was my comic relief during Covid & her march through Jackson w her quads & police escort.  While we were locked down & fearful … she was doing her thing w her quads w freedom.  I purchased a graphic from Thomas Mangelson & have it hung in my sunroom & smile every day I pass it.  Will miss her!!!,” said one commenter.”This wasn’t supposed to happen. She was supposed to go to her den and sleep into eternity. I am gutted,” said another fan.”I thought this was a hoax until I read the article. Not at all what I was expecting to see today. I always prayed she would die of natural causes and not this. She was the Queen of the Tetons and always will. I never got to see her on my 3 trips. She was a beauty and will be missed. Tears are a falling. She was an ambassador for grizzlies everywhere. RIP Queen. I pray Rowdy survives on his own,” said yet another.IDAHO GRIZZLY BEAR ATTACKS HUNTER IN ‘SURPRISE ENCOUNTER’The park said that these types of accidents are not uncommon. “Wildlife vehicle collisions and conflict are unfortunate. We are thankful the driver is okay and understand the community is saddened to hear that grizzly bear 399 has died,” said Angi Bruce, Wyoming Game and Fish Department Director.  The release went on to provide background information on grizzly bear/vehicle collisions from the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team:  “The grizzly bear is an iconic species that helps make the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem so extraordinary. Grizzly bear 399 has been perhaps the most prominent ambassador for the species. She has inspired countless visitors into conservation stewardship around the world and will be missed,” said Grand Teton National Park Superintendent Chip Jenkins.  The circumstances of the crash were unclear, and no additional information is available at this time.  



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Elizabeth Francis, the oldest person in the U.S., died peacefully at the age of 115 on Tuesday.Francis was the third-oldest person in the world at the time of her death, according to LongeviQuest, a database on the world’s oldest people.”Ms. Elizabeth was a Houstonian icon and a cherished member of the community,” a news release from the database said.Francis was born on July 25, 1909, and lived through 20 US Presidents, with her first being former President William Howard Taft.TEXAS WOMAN TURNS 115, MAKING HER THE OLDEST LIVING PERSON IN THE USWhile born in Louisiana, Francis was a long-time Houston, Texas resident. She lived with her 95-year-old daughter, Dorothy Williams, and her granddaughter, Ethel Harrison.TEXAS WOMAN CELEBRATES HER 114TH BIRTHDAY, ATTRIBUTING HER LONG LIFE TO GOD: ‘JUST THE LORD KEEPING ME HERE’Francis first moved to Houston after her mother died when she was 11, and she and her five siblings were sent to different homes. She was raised by her aunt and has lived there since.She never drove a car, but she worked outside the home, running the coffee shop at a TV station in Houston during the 1970s and 80s.Ben Meyers, the CEO of LongeviQuest, previously told Fox News Digital that Francis was sustained by her family and her community.”One thing that she really is an example of more than almost anybody else I’ve met is just family and community,” he said.For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle.Francis attended the same church for years and was an active member.”She lives at home, and she’s the oldest person in the world to live at home. It’s really pretty extraordinary. Also, the community that she has through her church. So there [are] really active families and communities. It’s very difficult for people to reach that age in isolation,” Meyers added.Francis has three grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. Fox News Digital’s Gretchen Eichenberg contributed to this report.



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