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By the Associated Press

Western North Carolina will recover, Governor Cooper said during a storm recovery briefing in Asheville, but they “don’t need the election process to hurt recovery efforts.”

Cooper said a bipartisan bill he signed expands voting opportunities, giving county governments and voters more flexibility, but “must stop” misinformation and disinformation that hurts the people they are trying to help.

Many storm survivors have lost everything and want help and truth, he said.

“We have to work together to give them both,” Cooper said. “Storm recovery cannot be partisan. To really help people, we need to check party politics at the door and get this job done.”

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By the Associated Press

One of the daughters of late golf legend Arnold Palmer is calling Donald Trump’s references to her father’s genitals “a poor choice of approaches” to honor his memory, adding that she was not upset by the comments.

‘There’s not much to say. I’m not really upset,” Peg Palmer Wears, 68, told The Associated Press in an interview Sunday. “I think it was a bad choice to remember my father, but what are you going to do?”

On Saturday in Latrobe, Pennsylvania – the town where Palmer was born in 1929 and learned to play golf from his father – Trump kicked off his rally in the final weeks of the campaign with a detailed 12-minute story about Palmer, including an anecdote about what Palmer did . looked like in the showers.

“When he was showering with other pros, they came from there. They said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable,” Trump said, laughing. “I had to say. We have women here who are very educated, but they used to think of Arnold as a man.”

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By the Associated Press

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who sought to hold Trump liable for his prison sentence, which he said was retaliation for writing a tell-all memoir.

The justices did not explain their reasoning in the brief, routine order.

Cohen had asked the Supreme Court to revive a lawsuit filed after his early release from prison was quickly reversed during the coronavirus pandemic. Authorities said he would not accept some of the conditions of his release, but Cohen said he only asked to speak to the media about his memoir. He sued Trump, then-Attorney General William Barr and prison officials.

Cohen was incarcerated after pleading guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance charges in 2018. He said Trump instructed him to arrange the payment of hush money to a porn actor to avoid damage to his 2016 presidential bid. Trump has denied wrongdoing.

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By the Associated Press

She made the comments during an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America” ​​about revamped White House tours. The interview aired Monday morning.

When asked by Deborah Roberts whether it would be difficult to leave the White House, Biden said: “We are starting a new chapter of our lives, a new journey.”

Roberts asked if her husband had made the right decision to halt his bid for another four years.

“It was the right decision, yes,” the first lady said.

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By the Associated Press

Harris’ campaign and affiliated Democratic groups raised about $633 million for the quarter that ended last month, bringing their total to more than $1 billion and maintaining a big financial advantage over Trump in the election’s final sprint.

The vice presidential campaign, the Democratic National Committee and state parties raised more than $359 million in September alone.

But Harris’ campaign also makes a lot of money. In September, it raised about $222 million on its own, then paid out about $270 million in the same period, triggering a big advertising push.

The Harris campaign and its affiliated committees entered October with $346 million, according to federal filings.

Trump’s campaign, the Republican National Committee and affiliated groups previously reported raising $160 million in September. As of October, they had $283 million in the bank.

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By the Associated Press

Reproductive rights measures are on the agenda in ten states after heated debates over how to describe their impact on abortion – and that’s only in English.

In 388 places in the U.S. where English is not the primary language among voter communities, the federal Voting Rights Act requires that all election information be made available in each community’s native language.

Such translations are intended to help non-native speakers of English understand what they are voting for. But vague or technical terms can be a challenge, especially when it comes to indigenous languages ​​that have limited written dictionaries.

For example, there is not a single word for abortion in the native language of the Ute Mountain Ute tribe in Montezuma County, Colorado. The New York referendum doesn’t even use the word “abortion,” making it all the more difficult to convey intent, advocates complain. And how exactly is the science of “viability” in the Florida and Nevada measures to be explained in the oral traditions of the Seminole and Shoshone tribes?

The Navajo and Hopi tribes get more material translated than most other tribes, and they have more than enough voters to influence outcomes.

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By the Associated Press

Voters remain largely divided over whether they prefer Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Kamala Harris to tackle key economic issues, although Harris gets slightly better marks on elements such as middle-class taxes, according to a new poll.

A majority of registered voters in the survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research describe the economy as poor. About seven in ten say the country is going in the wrong direction.

But the findings reaffirm that Trump has lost an advantage for the economy, which many voters say is the most important issue this election season, above abortion, immigration, crime and foreign affairs.

“Do I trust Trump on the economy? No. I trust he will give tax cuts to his friends like Elon Musk,” said Janice Tosto, a 59-year-old woman from Philadelphia and self-employed.

An AP-NORC poll conducted in September found that neither Harris nor Trump had a clear advantage in dealing with “the economy and jobs.” But this poll asked more specific questions about whether voters trusted Trump or Harris to better handle the costs of housing, jobs and unemployment, taxes on the middle class, the cost of groceries and gas, and tariffs.

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By the Associated Press

Trump went to a barbershop in the Bronx section of New York for a segment with commentator Lawrence Jones that aired on “Fox & Friends.”

He answered questions from company customers about immigration, energy and taxes. The barbers wore a black shirt with the text ‘Make Barbers Great Again’.

One of the clients asked Trump if it would be possible to eliminate federal taxes once he generated enough revenue from some of his proposals.

“There is a way. There is a way,” Trump said, adding that people in the 1890s did not have to pay income taxes.

The business owner, who rents the building, told him his biggest challenge was paying his utility bill, which had increased from $2,100 to $15,000 in the past seven months.

“What?” Trump said. “How many heads can you take care of? That’s a lot.”

Trump asked how much average haircuts cost and how much they had increased. He was told they had risen from a range between $12 and $15 to between $30 and $40.

Near the end of the visit, Trump told the men: “You are the same as me. It’s the same stuff. We were born the same way.”

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Monday October 21

By the Associated Press

For Rona Kaufman, there are signs everywhere that more Jews feel abandoned by the Democratic Party and may vote for Trump.

It’s in her Facebook feed. It’s in the discomfort she perceived during a Q&A at a recent Democratic Party campaign event in Pittsburgh. It runs in her own family.

“The family of my generation and older generations, I don’t think anyone is voting for Harris, and we’ve never voted Republican,” Kaufman, 49, said, referring to Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. “My sister has a Trump sign outside her house, and that’s a huge change.”

How big of a shift? Surveys continue to show that most Jewish voters still support the Democratic ticket, and Kaufman acknowledges that she is an exception.

Still, any shift could have enormous consequences in Pennsylvania, where tens of thousands of votes decided the past two presidential elections. Many Jewish voters say the 2024 presidential election will be remembered like no other, amid the growing fallout from Hamas’ brutal attack on Israelis last year.