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--:-- Georgia Howe: Welcome to Morning Wire. I'm Georgia Howe, and I'm joined today by Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: Trump's blockbuster rally in New York is met with extreme reactions from the legacy media. I think we need to all get off our high horses and acknowledge that a bad joke was told. The audience didn't find it funny.
--:-- John Bickley: We break down the inflammatory rhetoric and the response from Team Trump.
--:-- Georgia Howe: It's Tuesday, October 29th, and this is Morning Wire. Seven days until America decides, and the race has never been closer. We look at the latest polling in the states that will determine the presidency.
--:-- John Bickley: She was up to in August, he's up to now. In between those, we tested all the battleground states, all margin of error. But under the hood, there's some troubling signs for Kamala Harris.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And Virginia asked the Supreme Court to step in after the Biden administration blocks the removal of non-citizens from voter rolls. This is the reason why I believe that Americans and Virginians wonder what the Justice Department is up to.
--:-- John Bickley: Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: Donald Trump hosted a sold-out rally at Madison Square Garden over the weekend, garnering extreme media reactions that included comparisons to a 1939 pro-Hitler rally.
--:-- John Bickley: Here to discuss is Daily Wire reporter Amanda Presta-Giacomo.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: Hey, thanks for having me.
--:-- Georgia Howe: So before we get into the media reaction, we reported on this rally yesterday, but give us a sense here of its significance.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: Yeah, this was sort of a full circle moment for Trump, who was an icon in New York City before he entered the political world. Obviously, New York is a deep blue state, but Trump sold out the garden with 20,000 people in the audience and massive overflow. We don't have an exact number, but the Trump team is saying 200,000 people tried to attend the rally.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The legacy media painted a very different picture. Leading up to the rally, before anyone spoke, the media compared the rally to a pro-Hitler event hosted at Madison Square Garden in 1939.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: On CNN, that narrative was pushed by Hillary Clinton. President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazis, fascists in America were lining up to pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Please open your eyes to the danger that this man poses to our country.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: Kamala Harris's VP pick Tim Walz echoed the same narrative. And MSNBC even went as far as to splice clips of that pro rally with their own coverage of the Trump event.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: That jamboree happening right now you see it there on your screen in that place is particularly chilling because in 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, hacked the garden for a so-called pro-America rally.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Legacy media appeared to coordinate in making that comparison again and again. For example, a Washington Post headline read, quote, how Trump's rally echoed one in 1939. The New Republic said Trump fully embraces Nazi status. And the New York Times made the connection, too, with the piece on the political history of the Garden.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter held political events at the Garden, too, by the way. So you could say Nazis are the new deplorables this election cycle.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Aside from just being held at Madison Square Garden, is the media citing any actual evidence to make these kinds of extreme claims?
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: Well, they were saying all of this before the event even began. There was one comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe of the popular show Kill Tony, who performed at the rally. There was one joke in particular that did not land with the audience, by the way, about Puerto Rico being a floating island of garbage.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The Trump team has distanced themselves from that joke, and Hinchcliffe himself has said that he loves Puerto Rico and was obviously joking. Nonetheless, this is what the media has honed in on.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: MSNBC, for example, brought on Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to claim that Trump is trying to incite violence and hatred against Latinos, Black Americans, and Americans who don't have children.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: This was a hate rally. This was not just a presidential rally. This was also not just a campaign rally. I think it's very important for people to understand that these are mini January 6 rallies.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Trump supporters have condemned the media for its extremist rhetoric, saying that it amounts to the incitement of violence against Trump and his supporters. Many have also mocked the outrageous accusations.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: Dominican Nazi, Latina, Latina Nazi. I'm the Black Nazi. The biggest Blackest Nazi you ever seen in your life. I'm the Jewish Nazi. I'm the Jewish Nazi. I listen to the media. Linking the event to a Nazi rally is effectively calling everyone who attended a Nazi and everyone who supports Trump a Nazi.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The campaign said in a statement that the Harris Walls team needs to apologize to Trump supporters for the rhetoric. And they said that this type of language has already inspired assassination attempts.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: We should note that a few media voices were honest on some levels about the rally, including Trump critic Jonathan Karl of ABC, who spent six hours at the event.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Madison Square Garden was packed. Trump has created a movement. There is no doubt I cannot think of another Republican figure of my lifetime who could have come into a Democratic city like New York and put together anything like that.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: It's been frankly stunning to watch some of the coverage from legacy outlets on this. Yeah, many people have been shocked. Yeah.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Amanda, thanks for reporting.
--:-- Amanda Presta-Giacomo: You're welcome.
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--:-- Georgia Howe: We just one week away from the presidential election and things could not be any closer. Here with a breakdown of the latest polling is Daily Wire deputy managing editor Tim Rice.
--:-- Tim Rice: So Tim we really in the home stretch now. How are things looking for Trump and Harris?
--:-- Georgia Howe: Yeah, good morning, Georgia. So a familiar refrain here. To say things are close would be an understatement. The latest Real Clear Politics polling average has Trump leading Harris by just 0.2 percent.
--:-- Tim Rice: The New York Times has Harris up by under a percentage point, but notes that this is the smallest lead she's had since August. Some major polls have the race ranked as a tie.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The New York Times recently found Trump was polling at over 20% with Black voters, a far higher percentage than he hit in both 2016 and 2020.
--:-- Tim Rice: Then, a new Politico morning consult poll found that voters are souring on Democrats, with just 3 in 10 voters saying the Biden-Harris administration's domestic policy achievements have meaningfully improved their lives.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And the pollster Nate Silver recently outlined 24 reasons why Trump could win, including persistent inflation, rampant illegal immigration, and the fact that Trump is expected to edge Harris out in the electoral college.
--:-- Tim Rice: NBC News national political correspondent Steve Kornacki said on Meet the Press Sunday that polls were making a potentially meaningful shift towards Trump.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Now, all of this is going to come down, though, to actually just a few swing states. What's going on in those battlegrounds?
--:-- Tim Rice: The race is pretty close in those states, too. But if you dig a little bit further, things aren't looking good for Harris. According to the New York Times, she's currently leading in four of seven swing states, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada.
--:-- Georgia Howe: But in all four of those states, she's leading by less than one percentage point. Trump, meanwhile, is leading by two points in Arizona and one point in Georgia, in addition to leading by less than a point in North Carolina.
--:-- Tim Rice: RCP's averages show Trump with a slight edge in all seven battlegrounds by about a one point average.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Expect to hear a lot of stories out of these seven states between now and the election.
--:-- Tim Rice: Just this week, we learned that the Harris campaign is reportedly spending the waning days of the cycle trying to recruit Republicans in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And in North Carolina, around 200,000 early votes have already been cast in counties that traditionally lean Republican.
--:-- Tim Rice: One other note, we did just get a shock poll this week showing Trump up by a razor-thin margin in New Hampshire, less than half a point.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Just one poll, but again, super tight race here. So still anyone's game.
--:-- Tim Rice: Do we have any indication of how the campaigns themselves are feeling right now?
--:-- Georgia Howe: It's business as usual with the Trump campaign, which is projecting confidence coming out of the weekend's massive rally at Madison Square Garden in New York.
--:-- Tim Rice: In fact, here's Trump at the rally. We're going to defeat Kamala Harris, and we're going to win back the beautiful White House, and we're going to make America great again, and it's going to happen fast.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The Harris campaign, meanwhile, seems to be going into panic mode. As Amanda is highlighting, Harris, Tim Walz, and their surrogates have really ramped up their criticisms of Trump, calling him a fascist and comparing his rally at the Garden to a Nazi rally.
--:-- Tim Rice: The campaign's decision to double down on this message has worried the pro-Harris super PAC future forward, which recently warned Democrats that the fascist attacks are not effective.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And the New York Times reported just yesterday that the Harris campaign is fighting to distance itself from Biden in the final days of the campaign, reportedly viewing the president as a liability.
--:-- Tim Rice: Well, what we've learned from 2016 and 2020 is really it's anyone's race.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Tim, thanks for reporting.
--:-- Tim Rice: Thanks for having me.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The governor of Virginia has asked the Supreme Court to intervene after the Biden administration secured an order blocking the Commonwealth from removing non-citizens from the voter rolls. Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak joins us from Virginia.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Hey, thanks for having me.
--:-- Georgia Howe: So this sequence of events has really shocked some people who can believe it debatable that non-citizens should be on voter rolls.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: What the latest here?
--:-- Georgia Howe: Hey John, First let me recap the background here because as you said it almost hard to believe The Biden administration sued to stop Virginia from removing self-identified non-citizens from the voting rolls.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Now, when people apply for driver's licenses at the DMV, they're asked whether they're citizens or not. But some people who said they were not citizens later registered to vote.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In August, Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, said the state would begin daily checks to find those people and send them letters, giving them 14 days to fix the problem if they were actually citizens.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Otherwise, they'd be removed from the rolls, although they could still cast a provisional ballot.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The Biden administration's Department of Justice sued, saying federal law mandates a 90-day quiet period barring systematic changes to the voter rolls.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: This is based on a law that was signed into effect in 2006 by then-Democrat Governor Tim Kaine. And it starts with a basic premise that when someone walks into one of our DMVs and self-identifies as a non-citizen, and then they end up on the voter rolls, either purposely or by accident, that we go through a process, individualized, not systematic, an individualized process based on that person's self-identification as a non-citizen to give them 14 days to affirm they are a citizen.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And if they don't, they come off the voter rolls.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: All right. So the Biden administration wants these people to vote despite saying they weren't citizens. And now judges have backed the administration, correct?
--:-- Georgia Howe: Right. On Friday, a federal judge appointed by Biden sided with the DOJ and ordered the voters put back on the rolls.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: And on Sunday, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that decision.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A spokesman for Virginia Attorney General Jason Miara said he plans to immediately appeal to the Supreme Court.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: How many actual votes are at issue here?
--:-- Georgia Howe: Well, Youngkin and Miara aren't alleging that these people actually illegally voted, just that they're on the voter rolls when they shouldn't be.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Every vote could make a difference in Virginia, which Youngkin won narrowly in 2021.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In August, Youngkin said 6,300 people had been removed from the rolls after they self-declared that they were non-citizens, plus another 80,000 or so deceased voters.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Those won't be affected by these court decisions because that was before the 90-day cutoff that the DOJ says applies.
--:-- Georgia Howe: What is affected is the more than 1,500 people who have been removed since, plus anyone else caught by the checks from now until Election Day.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Got it.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And what is the Biden administration's justification for opposing this?
--:-- Luke Rosiak: They say that some of the people might have just forgotten to check the box saying they're a citizen or mistakenly checked the wrong box.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And then it's an unfair burden for them to have to respond to a letter fixing their mistake.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Remember that back in September, Democrats threatened to shut down the federal government rather than pass a spending bill that included the SAVE Act, which would have required voters to prove their citizenship.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The Biden-Harris administration explained then that it strongly opposed the bill because states, quote, already have effective safeguards in place to verify voters' eligibility and to maintain the accuracy of the voting rolls.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: But now the administration is blocking states from doing just that.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Correct. It also sued the state of Alabama for a similar effort, and a court also blocked Alabama there.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: So it's not just Virginia. We have a pattern here, the DOJ pushing this idea that states can't remove apparent non-citizens from their own rolls.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Despite polls suggesting that a super majority of Americans believe you should have to prove you're a citizen to vote.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Meanwhile, not a lot of time for the Supreme Court to sort this all out. Days out now.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Luke, thanks so much for reporting.
--:-- Luke Rosiak: Anytime. Thanks for listening to Morning Wire.
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