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Trump campaign website briefly defaced by hackers making outlandish claims

President Trump’s campaign website was briefly hacked Tuesday, according to reports.

Trump 2020 spokesperson Tim Murtaugh said in a statement the campaign is “working with law enforcement authorities to investigate the source of the attack.”

He added, “There was no exposure to sensitive data because none of it is actually stored on the site. The website has been restored.”

The hackers claimed baselessly and without evidence that they had compromised “devices” from Trump and his family that gave them “full access” to classified information that proved the administration was involved in the “origin of the coronavirus,” according to a screenshot.

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The hack was first flagged by reporter Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler of The Jewish News of Northern California.

The hackers also claimed they could “discredit” the president, adding, “The world has had enough of the fake-news spread daily by president donald j trump.”

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The defacement lasted about half an hour and seemed to be related to cryptocurrency, according to The New York Times.

Website visitors were asked to donate Monero, a hard-to-trace cryptocurrency, after clicking either “Yes, share the data,” or “No, Do not share the data,” the newspaper reported.

In July, hackers also compromised a number of high-profile Twitter accounts, including Trump’s Democratic opponent Joe Biden, in an attack related to bitcoin.

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Three were arrested in that hacking, including a 17-year-old from Florida.

Pollsters who predicted Trump win in 2016 map out his path to reelection in 2020

With one week left until Election Day, two pollsters that accurately forecast President Trump’s surprise win in 2016, joined “Hannity” for insight on the state of the 2020 election.

InsiderAdvantage Chairman Matt Towery told host Sean Hannity that he believes President Trump will do “very well” in Florida, while “the Midwest is going to be problematic for the president, but I think he can overcome it.”

“We have to remember one thing,” Towery added, “Donald Trump is the most dynamic presidential candidate of my lifetime. I’ve never seen anything like it.

“Him personally going to these locations and drawing people out, particularly in the semi-rural and rural areas where they need to pile those votes up, that’s going to come back home in a big way to Donald Trump on Election Night and I don’t think these polls are picking that up.”

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A RealClearPolitics polling average shows Biden with a national lead of 7.1% over Trump.

For his part, Trafalgar Group Chief Pollster Robert Cahaly agreed with Towery that North Carolina will likely be “very tight,” while races in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin “are very close” and “the margin of error is very tight.”

Cahaly added that he is “very concerned about voter fraud, especially in Pennsylvania.”

The Georgia-based Trafalgar Group drew national attention in 2016 as one of the few pollsters showing Trump leading in Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan on the eve of voting day. Trump swept all three states en route to his stunning win over Hillary Clinton.

“I’m seeing some shifting,” said Towery, who explained that he is seeing “older voters” are not as “enthusiastic for the president” before adding that “they’re coming around.”

Towery also said that his polling has shown a shift toward the president since last week’s second and final debate with Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

“In the last week or so, in Pennsylvania, for example, we’re seeing younger voters who are coming around to the president,” Towery said.

“We’ve asked a question about how they feel about a shutdown during COVID,” he added, pointing out that in the last debate, “Joe Biden talked about a dark winter we were headed towards.”

“And then, in the last five or six days since that debate, I’ve begun to see this change among younger voters,” said Towery said, who specified that the voters he was referring to were between the ages of 30 and 44.

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“I’m beginning to see that shift and I really believe that has something to do with the dichotomy between what Trump is saying, which is we’re going to keep this country open and moving and Biden alluding to the fact we may have another shutdown,” he explained. “I think that’s having a real effect and we’re seeing the votes shift based on that.”

He also said that Biden’s comment that he planned to “transition” away from the oil industry were “a huge mistake” in the last debate and could impact the outcome in Pennsylvania.

Fox News’ Angelica Stabile and Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report.

‘Plausible deniability’: Tony Bobulinski claims Biden family shrugged off concerns about risk to 2020 bid

Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, claimed in an interview Tuesday that the Biden family shrugged off concerns that Joe Biden’s alleged ties to his son’s business deals could put a future presidential campaign at risk.

Bobulinski, in an interview with Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” said he raised concerns in 2017 to the former vice president’s brother Jim Biden, about Joe Biden’s alleged ties to a possible joint venture with a Chinese energy firm.

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Bobulinski, a retired lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, was the former CEO of SinoHawk Holdings, which he said was the partnership between the CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming and the two Biden family members.

“I remember saying, ‘How are you guys getting away with this?’ ‘Aren’t you concerned?’” he told Carlson.

He claims that Jim Biden chuckled.

“‘Plausible Deniability,’ he said it directly to me in a cabana at the Peninsula Hotel,” he said.

In the interview, he outlines how an alleged meeting with Joe Biden took place on May 2, 2017. Fox News first reported text messages that indicated such a meeting. Bobulinski said that it was the Bidens, not him, who had pushed the meeting.

“They were sort of wining and dining me and presenting the strength of the Biden family to get me engaged and to take on the CEO role to develop SinoHawk in the U.S. and around the world in partnership with CEFC,” he said.

He went at length into how Joe Biden arrived for a Milken conference, partly held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and how he was introduced by Jim and Hunter Biden to the former vice president.

“I didn’t request to meet with Joe” Biden, he said. “They requested that I meet with Joe [Biden]. They were putting their entire family legacy on the line. They knew exactly what they were doing.”

He asked why the former vice president would want to meet him.

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“Why on 10:38 on the night of May 2 would Joe Biden take time out of his schedule to take time with me, behind a column so people could not see us, to have a discussion with his family and my family and business at a very high level?” he said.

The meeting on May 2, 2017, would have taken place 11 days before a May 13, 2017, email obtained by Fox News, which included a discussion of “remuneration packages” for six people in a business deal with a Chinese energy firm. The email appeared to identify Hunter Biden as “Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC,” in an apparent reference to now-bankrupt CEFC China Energy Co.

The email includes a note that “Hunter [Biden] has some office expectations he will elaborate.” A proposed equity split references “20” for “H” and “10 held by H for the big guy?” with no further details. Bobulinski has repeatedly said “the big guy” was Joe.

Biden has repeatedly denied being involved with his son’s business dealings.

Bobulinski said he was told by CEFC that it was a $10 million deal that would see a $5 million loan to the Biden family and $5 million was their contribution to capitalize SinoHawk Holdings.

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The allegations have been denied by Joe Biden and his campaign.

“I have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life,” Joe Biden said at a presidential debate last week. “We learned this president … has a secret bank account with China, does business in China, and in fact is talking about me taking money? I have not taken a single penny from any country whatsoever, ever, ever.”

Separately the Biden campaign has said that it released the former vice president’s tax documents and returns, which do not reflect any involvement with Chinese investments.

“Joe Biden has never even considered being involved in business with his family, nor in any overseas business whatsoever,” Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates told Fox News. “He has never held stock in any such business arrangements nor has any family member or any other person ever held stock for him.”

Bobulinski also said that Hunter Biden and Jim Biden were looking to complete deals in places like Oman and Luxembourg, France and Romania — although they had no qualifications with which to do so.

“The only qualification they had was the Biden name,” he said.

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Meanwhile, he praised one of the business partners James Gilliar as “sharp” and “as legitimate as they come.” But GIlliar had previously told the Wall Street Journal that he was “unaware of any involvement at anytime of the former Vice President.”

Bobulinski also said he wouldn’t have gone public about it if comments by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff that his claims were part of a “Russian disinformation” campaign were retracted. He has then decided to go public to the FBI, Department of Justice, Congress and the media to tell his story.

“This isn’t a political decision, people were accusing my family of treason after I defended my country,” he said.

As for what the deals could mean in a potential Biden administration, Bobulinski said that he believes Joe Biden and his family are “compromised.”

“I just don’t see given the history here and the facts how Joe can’t be influenced in some manner based on the history they have here with CEFC,” he said.

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“I think the American people should be demanding that this is investigated,” he said.

He also said he had received death threats and had spoken to the FBI about the danger to him and his family, but hoped he would become irrelevant as the facts came out.

“Hopefully I will go stage left and hopefully our government and appropriate people in the Biden family will go on record and provide facts to the American people,” he said.

Cook Political Report editor: Time to ‘sound the alarm’ on Biden’s likely victory

It’s time to “sound the alarm” that Joe Biden is likely to be the next president of the United States, said Dave Wasserman, US House editor for Cook Political Report, on Tuesday.

Wasserman was one of the few political commentators who correctly forecasted President Trump’s victory in 2016, writing in FiveThirtyEight two months before the last election that there is an “unusually high chance Donald Trump could win the Electoral College while losing the popular vote.”

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But now, Wasserman is making the case that Biden has a better chance of beating Trump in 2020 than Hillary Clinton did in 2016 for multiple reasons.

“First, Biden’s lead is larger and much more stable than Clinton’s was at this point. Second, there are far fewer undecided and third-party voters left to woo — reducing the chances of a late break toward one side,” Wasserman wrote in NBC News Tuesday.

“And third, the scores of district and state-level polls conducted by the parties to make spending decisions in down-ballot races generally align with national polls showing Trump running behind his 2016 pace, including in key states.”

There are, of course, still paths to a second-term for the president. GOP strategist Karl Rove argued on “The Story” this week that Trump’s chances for victory hinge on winning one of the three rustbelt states he carried in 2016: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin or Michigan.

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“Think about it this way, if the president wins every state — let’s take the three Great Lakes states, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin [and] put them to the side for a second. If the president wins every one of the rest of the states he won in 2016 and carries Pennsylvania, he’s got 280 electoral votes, 10 more than needed,” Rove said.

“If he carries Wisconsin out of those three states, only Wisconsin, he’s got 270. If he carries Michigan out of those three states, and loses Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, he’s got 276, so the path to victory lies in these states.”

This combination of Sept. 29, file photos shows President Donald Trump, left, and former Vice President Joe Biden during the first presidential debate at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

The numbers don’t look great for the president in these states though. According to the latest Fox News poll, “Biden leads by 12 points in Michigan (52-40 percent), 5 points in Pennsylvania (50-45 percent), and 5 points in Wisconsin (49-44 percent).”

This rustbelt strategy also would require Trump to carry every other state he won in 2016, and the numbers are tight in certain Sun Belt states like North Carolina and Arizona.

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Ultimately according to Cook Political Report’s latest projection, Democrats have 290 electoral votes in the solid, likely, or lean to the left categories.

Republicans, meanwhile, have 163 electoral votes in the solid, likely, or lean to the right categories. There are 85 electoral votes ranked as a toss-up.

Severino blasts claims Barrett should recuse from election cases: ‘Never been the historical standard’

“It has never been the historical standard” for a Supreme Court justice to recuse themselves from election-related cases at the request of a local board of elections, Judicial Crisis Network President Carrie Severino told “The Story” on Tuesday.

Severino was reacting to a motion by the Luzerne County Board of Elections asking newly sworn-in Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett to recuse herself from a controversial case over whether to grant an extension for counting mail-in ballots after Election Day.

“They are trying to invent something new here,” Severino told hot Martha McCallum.

In filing the motion earlier Tuesday, the board wrote specifically that President Trump’s rhetoric surrounding Barrett’s nomination and her swift confirmation to the Supreme Court just a week before the presidential election are worrisome when rulings in cases involving voting issues could affect the outcome of the race.

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“The nomination and confirmation of a Supreme Court justice this close to a presidential election is unprecedented,” the motion said. “As concerning as that is, what is even more troubling is the language President Trump has used in consideration of this nomination, linking it directly to the electoral season at hand, with implications for his own re-election.”

Severino scoffed at the idea Tuesday night.

“You had, for example, Justices [Sonia] Sotomayor and [Elena] Kagan [who] sat on numerous cases that President Obama was involved in during [an] election year, same thing for [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg and [Justice Stephen] Breyer,” she said.

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“It has never been the standard that you have to recuse yourself in cases that involve the president who appointed you, including election-year cases,” Severino continued.

Barrett was confirmed Monday by the Senate in a 52-48 virtual party-line vote. She is expected to begin work as a justice on Tuesday after taking the second of two oaths required of judges by federal law. No justice has assumed office so close to a presidential election or immediately confronted issues so directly tied to the incumbent president’s political and personal fortunes.

Fox News’ Vandana Rambaran and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Rand Paul suggests restaurants start hiring COVID survivors to aid safe reopening

Sen. Rand Paul made a suggestion related to coronavirus during a voting rally in Virginia Sunday – staffing service-industry jobs with people who already have survived COVID-19 in order to help reopen the economy.

“If I had a restaurant I’d have a whole wing for senior citizens or for anybody who is worried about getting sick, and I would say all my servers have already had it,” Paul (R-Ky.) told the audience. “If I had a cruise ship, I’d hire everybody, no exceptions, everybody would’ve had the infection that works on the boat.”

Paul argued that people who have contracted and survived the coronavirus, as he has, develop an immunity to reinfection – although scientists and doctors are unsure about that claim.

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“We do not know yet if having antibodies to the virus that causes COVID-19 can protect someone from getting infected again or, if they do, how long this protection might last,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says in a coronavirus FAQ on its website.

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“Is it perfect? Do I know I’m immune forever? No,” Paul admitted. But if immunity does work, he argued, it could be used “to our advantage” in “all kinds of ways.”

“This was a completely government-inflicted nightmare and depression, and it won’t be over until we open the economy,” he said.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., arrives for votes during a rare weekend session to advance the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 25. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

He also noted that N95 masks are more protective than cloth masks against the spread of the coronavirus and encouraged people to be smart about taking care of themselves.

“I have a good friend, who was a doctor, two years older, and she died in our community,” he said. “So it can be deadly.”

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Paul was speaking at an early voting rally in Chesterfield, where he voiced support on behalf of Nick Freitas, a Green Beret and Iraq war veteran who is vying to represent the state’s 7th Congressional District, currently held by Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger.

“He’s seen combat, but knows that war is the last resort not the first resort,” Paul said of the candidate.

Pennsylvania energy workers feature heavily in Trump, Biden bid for votes

In the final days before the 2020 presidential election, President Trump and 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden have ramped up pleas for voters in the key swing state of Pennsylvania, where fracking and energy jobs have been in focus.

Trump has repeatedly gone after the former vice president for an inconsistent message on fracking, claiming Biden would end the practice and eliminate many U.S. jobs along with it. This line of attack was amplified after the last presidential debate.

Biden, however, has clarified he would not prohibit fracking – though his climate plan does call for a gradual transition away from a reliance on the oil and gas industries over the next few decades.

Biden has separated himself from the more progressive set of the Democratic Party, which has called for a fracking ban as part of a shift toward greener options.

Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., came out in favor of a fracking ban during her campaign for the presidency.

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Harris is now focused on helping get the message out about Biden’s promise not to ban fracking, with several key swing states on the line.

Pennsylvania is the nation’s second-largest natural gas producer – and its energy sector is growing. The Keystone State is home to one of the largest shale formations in the U.S., the Marcellus Shale formation, which is found beneath about 60% of the state’s total landmass.

Pennsylvania had just over 269,000 energy jobs as of 2019, accounting for 4.5% of the statewide labor force, according to data from the Pennsylvania Energy Department.

But job growth in the energy sector has outpaced the state’s overall labor market.

Between 2018 and 2019 alone, traditional energy employment grew by 5.2 percent, but total jobs grew by less than 1 percent.

Fuels accounted for nearly 20% of Pennsylvania’s energy labor force as of last year.

But natural gas jobs fell by 7.4% from 2017 to 2019, to about 23,738 positions.

It’s not just employment opportunities that help the state’s economy, though, Republican Rep. Scott Perry, who represents a district where hydraulic fracturing does not occur, told Fox News.

“We benefit enormously from the oil and gas industry in Pennsylvania,” Perry said.

Producers pay royalties based on the proceeds from the sale of their oil and gas products, which state law requires is equal to at least 12.5%.

Furthermore, local production has helped keep utility costs low for residents, according to Perry.

“Doing the things that the Biden-Harris team want to do regarding the oil and gas industry not only affects the jobs associated with that, which are in the hundreds of thousands in Pennsylvania, but completely affects every single person that pays a utility bill in Pennsylvania and I think they’re very acutely aware of that,” he said.

Still, the state’s energy department expects overall production to slow as supply has outpaced consumption.

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Blue-collar white workers in Pennsylvania helped narrowly lift Trump to victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, though it is unknown whether the president has upheld the same level of support within this cohort – or whether Biden may siphon away supporters with a working class appeal of his own.

The president has asked government agencies to perform an evaluation of how fracking impacts the U.S. economy and what would happen if it were banned, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

Trump denounces White supremacy ’38 times’ in new campaign video, amid Biden-Harris criticisms

The Trump campaign on Tuesday released a video compiling more than three dozen times President Trump has denounced White supremacy, as his Democratic rival Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris of California continue to claim this week on the campaign trail that he has failed to do so.

The Trump campaign rolled out a nearly 5-minute-long video of the president, featuring video clips from as recently as this month, to his 2016 presidential campaign, and dating all the way back to an interview Trump gave to Matt Lauer in the early 2000s, where he denounced White supremacy and “disavowed” White supremacist groups.

The video comes after Biden and Harris have criticized Trump, casting him as a racist and claiming he has not denounced White supremacy, and also comes as part of the Trump campaign’s final pitch to win over Black voters ahead of Election Day.

“President Trump wants to prosecute the KKK as a terrorist organization and has condemned White supremacy at least 38 times. 38 times!” a senior Trump campaign official told Fox News.

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“The Biden campaign continues to sow division and inflame racial tension by spreading this false narrative,” the Trump campaign official added. “Enough is enough.”

The official called it a “dead issue” and said that “anyone who continues to ask about it is using a question to disguise their accusations and smear the president.”

The president has been questioned on his stance toward White supuremacy since 2017, when he said that there were good people on “both sides” after violence broke out between White nationalists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va.

The issue came up again during the first presidential debate.

When asked, Trump responded: “Sure, I’m willing to do that, but I would say almost everything I see is from the left-wing, not the right-wing. I am willing to do anything. I want to see peace.”

The president’s response sparked an intense moment with the former vice president.

“Who do you want me to condemn?” Trump said. “What do you want to call them? Give me a name.”

Biden interrupted and said: “Proud Boys.”

“Proud Boys, stand back and stand by,” Trump said. “But I’ll tell you what, I’ll tell you what, somebody has got to do something about Antifa and the left. Because this is not a right-wing problem. This is a left-wing problem.”

The Proud Boys have been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and have held multiple events across the nation, alongside other right-wing groups. The gatherings have sparked some violent clashes with left-wing counter-demonstrators.

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Biden interrupted, calling Antifa “an idea, not an organization.”

Trump fired back saying, “Oh, you’ve got to be kidding.”

“When a bat hits you over the head, that’s not an idea,” Trump said. “Antifa is bad.”

The president, during a town hall earlier this month hosted by NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie, was asked to clarify his remarks during the first presidential debate.

“I denounce White supremacy, okay,” Trump said. “I denounce White supremacy, I have, for years.”

Trump quipped: “You didn’t ask Joe Biden if he denounces Antifa.”

The president added: “I denounce White supremacy, and you want to know something, I denounce Antifa.”

However, they are not equivalent. Antifa, short for anti-fascist, is a small and loosely organized left-wing movement. According to the Anti-Defamation League, White supremacy is a full-fledged “ideology” that encompasses more than simple racism and bigotry.

The Trump campaign also pointed to the president’s plan for Black America, which designates the KKK and Antifa as terrorist organizations, and calls for making lynching a national hate crime.

“The person who needs to condemn White supremacy is Joe Biden, who praised a former KKK Exalter Cyclops as his ‘mentor’ and ‘friend,’” the Trump campaign said, referring to the former vice president’s relationship with late Sen. Robert Byrd, R-W.V..

Byrd was a former member of the Klu Klux Klan who later regretted that affiliation, renounced his past views supporting segregation and described it as a mistake. Byrd, who died at the age of 92 in 2010, was the longest-serving senator in American history. By the time of his death, he had allies even in the civil rights movement, with the NAACP at the time praising his legacy and his transformation from a former KKK member to a “stalwart supporter” of civil rights.

The Trump campaign also pointed to the former vice president’s running mate’s comments during the presidential primary, claiming Harris said Biden “coddled segregationists.”

But Biden campaign National Press Secretary Jamal Brown fired back, telling Fox News that “through his nearly four years in office, Donald Trump has only ever sought to divide us.”

“He had fanned the flames of hate and given comfort to those who spread it,” Brown told Fox News. “Vice President Biden today laid out a different vision for our future.”

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Brown was pointing to Biden’s remarks during a campaign event in Warm Springs, Ga. on Tuesday, where he sought to deliver a unifying message.

“God and history have called us to this moment and to this mission: with our voices and our votes, we must free ourselves from the forces of darkness, from the forces of division, and from the forces of yesterday — from the forces that pull us apart, hold us down, and hold us back,” Biden said Tuesday. “And if we do so, we will once more become one nation, under God, indivisible. A nation united. A nation strengthened. A nation healed.”

Biden, however, also repeated during his speech his claim that Trump had failed to denounce White supremacy.

“Donald Trump fails to condemn White supremacy, doesn’t believe that systemic racism is a problem, and won’t say that Black lives matter,” Biden said.

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has released a series of ads in an effort to win over Black voters, while attempting to cast Biden as having a “history of racist comments.” One ad, titled “Joe’s Own Words,” compiles several comments Biden has made, dating back to the 1970s.

Other ads the Trump campaign is sharing include ones focused on criminal justice reform and featuring Alice Johnson; one featuring Herschel Walker, who discusses what the president has done for the Black community; one claiming Biden is “all talk, no action,” one about a homeless veteran who received a second chance, and credits the president; and another featuring Duke Tanner, who received clemency from the president.

The ads will be cycled in and out of the YouTube masthead, which the Trump campaign has secured already 20 times throughout the 2020 cycle. The masthead, according to the campaign, reaches more than 74 million voters a day.

A senior Trump campaign official told Fox News that the masthead is a seven-figure buy, and described it as “the most valuable piece of real estate on the internet.”

The campaign has also secured the YouTube masthead for the final 72 hours before Election Day.

Trump gains in Florida polls despite Democrats lead in early voting

President Trump is leading for the first time in Florida polling, according to Real Clear Politics on Tuesday, even as Democrats lead in early voting.

According to the website’s average of polls, the president holds a slim 0.4 percent lead over Democratic nominee Joe Biden heading into next week’s election.

Nearly 2.7 million Democrats have already voted in the Sunshine State, just narrowly beating the nearly 2.4 million early voting Republicans.

Almost 1.3 million Floridians have submitted their vote without an affiliated party.

Florida has historically been a highly contested swing state with 29 Electoral College votes up for grabs. Only twice has a Democratic candidate won the presidency without winning Florida since 1860: John Kennedy in 1960 and Bill Clinton in 1992

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Trump narrowly beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 by 1.2 percent points according to the New York Times.

With just one week until the general election, Florida is still expected to have a significant increase in the number of votes submitted as less than 46 percent of the population have cast their vote, according to poll tracking by the U.S. Election Project.

Although Hillary Clinton lost Florida to Trump in the end, she maintained a lead in the polls by 2.3 percent one week out from the election in 2016.

Clinton and Trump went back and forth in the polls during the previous six months, but Biden has held a consistent lead of at least one point until Tuesday.

Democrats have led in early voting across the country during the 2020 presidential race. But Florida’s largest voter base are the elderly, who tend to vote early and “red” in major elections, meaning the younger vote, who tend to vote “blue,” could have an effect on Election Day.

Both the Biden and Trump campaigns have hit the Sunshine State hard in recent weeks.

Former President Barack Obama was in Miami on Saturday and Orlando on Tuesday, just days after Trump made his third Florida appearance within a two-week time frame.

“Don’t wait. Put it in the mail or drop it off at a dropbox location today,” Obama said Tuesday, “Don’t take any chances. Just get it done.”

Ivanka Trump also made an appearance in Florida on Tuesday and visited Sarasota and Miami, where she made her own pleas for voters to get their ballots in.

“Florida, get out and vote, tell them they’ve got to vote, and tell them I love them,” she said.

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Trump family members are expected to be campaigning up and down the battleground state in the last days remaining before Nov. 3.

Biden will also visit Florida on Thursday.

Trump says Biden would ‘tie the hands of every police officer’ at Wisconsin rally

President Trump ramped up his attacks on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s proposed law enforcement policies during a campaign stop in the key battleground state of Wisconsin on Tuesday night.

Trump told supporters in West Salem, Wis., that Biden and leading Democrats “incite violence and hatred against our police officers.” The president referenced attacks on officers in Philadelphia after protests turned violent after a fatal police-involved shooting of a Black man.

“Last night, Philadelphia was torn up by Biden-supporting radicals,” Trump said at the event. “Thirty police officers, Philadelphia police officers, great people, they were injured, some badly. Biden stands with the rioters and I stand with the heroes of law enforcement. They can do their job very easily, just let them do their job.”

The Pennsylvania National Guard was deployed to Philadelphia on Tuesday night in anticipation of a second night of tense protests. Philadelphia police officers responded to a call in the Cobbs Creek neighborhoods. A police spokesperson said the man, Walter Wallace, was shot after he “advanced towards” officers with a knife and ignored warnings to drop the weapon.

Trump has routinely accused Biden of failing to back law enforcement officers and of supporting calls to defund the police after nationwide protests against racial injustice. Biden has called for a crackdown on police misconduct but has said on multiple occasions that he does not support efforts to defund law enforcement.

The president said Biden and running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., would “slash police budgets all over the country” if elected to office.

The Biden plan “would tie the hands of every police officer in the country and they would appoint anti-police prosecutors in every community in America. I don’t think that’s for Wisconsin,” Trump said.

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Trump argued that he “saved” the city of Kenosha, Wis., the site of weeks of protests following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, by sending in the National Guard to support local law enforcement.

“If Biden wins, the flag burning radicals on the streets will be running your government,” Trump added. “This Election Day, you must stop the anti-American radicals by delivering Joe Biden and those far-left Democrats a thundering defeat. This has to be a big defeat so we can end it, just end it.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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