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Former President Donald Trump delivered remarks to the press on Tuesday morning about the upcoming presidential election and what’s to be expected.
While speaking at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., Trump spoke about the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and the many failures of Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Today, we are going to talk about the REAL character of Kamala Harris—a person who has no remorse for the anguish she has inflicted on families across America. Here today is another American mom, Tammy Nobles… Tammy’s 20-year-old daughter, Kayla Hamilton—who had an autism diagnosis—was found raped, tied up, and strangled to death. Kayla’s murderer was released into the United States to k*** under Border Czar Harris,” Trump said.
“Her borders are the worst in the history of the world,” he said.
Trump then showed a campaign ad in which Jocelyn Nungaray’s mother, Alexis Nungaray, talked about how her 12-year-old daughter had been killed. Two people from Venezuela who came to the United States illegally have been charged with capital murder in that case.
“What Kamala did to Jocelyn and her family is the most heartless and cold blooded betrayal imaginable. Thousands of cases just like that, thousands in throwing open the border,” Trump said. “Think of it, open borders. They come in from parts unknown. People have no idea who they are, where they’re from, anything about them. They know nothing.”
“Kamala violated her oath,” Trump added. “She desecrated our laws and she got innocent girls like Jocelyn tortured and killed. Anyone who knowingly sets loose these monsters into our country has absolutely no right to be running for office, let alone the office of president.”
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Trump also declared “we’re leading, I believe, in all seven swing states” as Election Day is just a week away.
“There are some bad spots in Pennsylvania where, some serious things have been caught or in the process of being caught,” Trump said, without elaborating, before adding, “but, the election itself is going very well.”
“In less than four years, Kamala Harris has obliterated our borders, obliterated. We’ve never had a situation like this. Decimated the middle class and runaway inflation has caused problems the likes of which we never thought possible,” Trump added during an event at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
“I’m running on a plan to save America. We’re going to save America,” he also said.
Not long before Trump’s press conference, the Nevada Supreme Court rejected a challenge by Republicans and ruled that mail-in ballots received up to three days after election day could still be counted.
The Hill reported that a majority on the state high court ruled that the state law requiring mail-in ballots to be counted, even if the postmark “cannot be determined,” applies to ballots that have no postmark as well as those with illegible postmarks.
The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that said ballots received three days after the Nov. 5 election day could still be counted.
The decision dealt a setback to Republicans, who argued that the law should only apply to ballots with illegible postmarks.
“If a voter properly and timely casts their vote by mailing their ballot before or on the day of the election, and through a post office omission the ballot is not postmarked, it would go against public policy to discount that properly cast vote,” Nevada’s majority opinion read, according to The Hill.
“Indeed, there is no principled distinction between mail ballots where the postmark is ‘illegible’ or ‘smudged’ and those with no postmark — in each instance, the date the mail ballot was received by the post office cannot be determined,” the court filing continued.
The high court upheld the district court’s decision that the GOP lacked standing, stating that the plaintiffs did not present sufficient evidence to demonstrate that mail ballots would be subject to voter fraud or that the existing security measures were inadequate to address those concerns.
Additionally, the high court dismissed the argument that mail ballots have a partisan bias favoring Democrats.
Five justices joined the majority order, while two justices concurred with the outcome. One of those justices wrote separately, stating that the appellants did not provide sufficient evidence. Another justice wrote that “it is not in the public interest to change the rules governing this election this close to election day.”
In a statement to The Hill, the Republican National Committee contended that the ruling could impact election integrity.
“Requiring ballots to be postmarked on or before election day is a critical election integrity safeguard that ensures ballots mailed after election day are not counted,” said RNC Spokesperson Claire Zunk. “It is also a requirement of Nevada law. By allowing Nevada officials to ignore the law’s postmark requirement, the state’s highest court has undermined the integrity of Nevada’s elections.”
Nevada is one of the seven critical battleground states that could significantly influence the outcome of the election next week, so Republicans are right to be concerned.
The most recent polling data indicate that former President Donald Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris in the state, meaning he could become the first GOP candidate in decades to win there.
