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Vice President Kamala Harris appeared with Karen Bass astatine a rally successful Los Angeles connected Monday. (Jae C. Hong/AP)

Vice President Kamala Harris rallied California Democrats to elite mayoral campaigner Karen Bass during a last-minute midterm lawsuit astatine the University of California Los Angeles.

The vice president was interrupted by hecklers aggregate times. The assemblage tried to outcry “Kamala,” implicit them repeatedly. 

“I emotion our democracy,” she responded until Harris stopped and suggested the assemblage chant Karen Bass’ sanction since she is the candidate. Harris has spent the past week boosting astir each pistillate candidates up of the midterm elections. 

The vice president launched into her now-typical stump speech, reciting lines that voters enactment successful their bid to the medication and person received what they asked for. 

On the issues: “Because you voted and said, ‘Hey! Nobody should person to spell to jailhouse for smoking weed,’ we’re present dealing with that due to the fact that you voted,” she said to the California crowd.

On abortion, the vice president again slammed the Supreme Court for overturning Roe v Wade and Republicans who person already oregon privation to walk strict termination laws.

“When we are looking astatine a concern wherever there's a full-on unapologetic onslaught connected idiosyncratic rights we each person thing to miss and lose,” Harris said, calling much draconian termination laws “immoral.”

“This is virtually what we're up against, elections matter. Elections matter,” she added. And again, the vice president spoke of the planetary accusation for citizens astir the globe should America follow laws that restrict rights. 

“So my top fearfulness close present includes that determination are dictators and autocrats astir the world, who are looking astatine their radical who are warring for their rights. And saying to them, ‘Well, you privation to clasp retired America. Look what's happening successful that country,” Harris said.

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President Joe Biden waves aft speaking astatine a run rally successful Philadelphia for Josh Shapiro and John Fetterman connected November 5. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

President Joe Biden struck an optimistic code portion speaking astatine a virtual reception for the Democratic National Committee Monday, telling the DNC, Democrats volition beryllium successful “incredible shape” if they’re capable to clasp connected to their bulk successful Congress, contempt the GOP’s sizeable momentum successful its bid to triumph backmost the House of Representatives portion the destiny of the Democratic-run Senate volition travel down to a fistful of knife-edge races.  

"I privation to punctual you to punctual your teams, with truthful overmuch astatine involvement for our nation, don't permission a happening — enactment it each retired there. Go afloat bore till the past canvass closes. Make that other telephone — not a joke. Knock connected that other door. Most of all, support the faith. Remind the folks that the powerfulness is successful their hands," Biden said.

Biden said that Democrats "have a changeable astatine keeping the Senate, summation successful it." He added that helium is optimistic astir the House arsenic well.

The President said that Democrats are "going up against immoderate of the darkest forces we’ve ever seen successful our history" successful the Republican party.

US stocks popped connected Monday, 1 time earlier the midterm elections.  

Investors are betting Republicans volition summation power of astatine slightest one, if not both, of the chambers of Congress. Wall Street typically favors divided government. The anticipation is that volition pb to gridlock successful Washington, DC, which means Congress can't enact immoderate caller laws that whitethorn wounded firm profits.

The Dow gained astir 425 points, oregon 1.3%. The S&P 500 roseate 1%. The Nasdaq Composite was up 0.9%.

It was besides the 2nd consecutive time of coagulated gains, pursuing Friday's large rally aft a mostly coagulated jobs report.

In firm news, Facebook proprietor Meta Platforms surged 6.5% pursuing reports that the institution is astir to denote a large circular of occupation cuts. Dow constituent Walgreens rallied 4.1% aft an affiliate of the drugstore concatenation disclosed plans to bargain urgent attraction supplier Summit Health for astir $9 billion.

Ryan Anderson. (CNN)

Ryan Anderson, 20, is simply a freshman astatine a section Christian College and works 2 full-time jobs. He's a Republican supporting Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial campaigner Doug Mastriano.

Anderson spoke to CNN astatine a Mastriano "Restore Freedom Tour" halt successful Newton.

When choosing a campaigner to ballot for, Anderson said helium wants idiosyncratic who is "for the people." 

"I privation them to really enactment for us, effort to assistance us, you know, get done everything we're going done currently, effort to support our rights, marque definite the elections are fair," helium said. Adding, "I'm a Republican due to the fact that I judge successful our halfway values that we have: Trying to assistance our state and trying to assistance different people."

Anderson, who wore a "Make America Born Again" hat, isn't definite if helium would enactment Donald Trump if helium ran for the 2024 statesmanlike election.

"I don't know. I would person to spot what his policies are going to be. I supported him chiefly due to the fact that of Mike Pence. So, I don't cognize if I would enactment him again with everything that happened with Jan. 6," Anderson said.

Anderson explained, "I conscionable consciousness similar it was a acheronian time successful our country. I personally don't judge that the predetermination whitethorn person been stolen connected a wide standard similar it was portrayed. So, I judge that helium should person astir apt travel retired and condemned what happened, truthful thing worse could person happened."

Anderson said helium likes Pence, due to the fact that helium believes the erstwhile vice president is "a bully Christian and helium has bully Christian values."

"If Mike Pence decided to run, I'd person to truly see it, due to the fact that I similar his Christian values, and that's the main crushed I supported Donald Trump successful 2016 was due to the fact that of Mike Pence," Anderson said.

Cobb County Elections has extended the deadline for 1,036 absentee ballots to beryllium received done Nov. 14, aft an statement to widen the instrumentality deadline was reached during an exigency tribunal proceeding Monday. 

Cobb Election officials failed to nonstop retired 1,036 ballots aft they accidental procedural errors were made connected astatine slightest 2 days successful October, erstwhile absentee ballots were requested but not created and mailed.     

The Nov. 14 deadline for this batch of implicit 1,000 ballots is the aforesaid time that Georgia’s subject and overseas ballots are due, but absentee ballots inactive request to beryllium formed and postmarked by Election Day. Any voters who inactive haven’t received their absentee ballots person the enactment to people retired the national constitute successful absentee ballot utilized for overseas voters, according to Cobb County Election Attorney Daniel White.   

“The ballots appeared to beryllium issued due to the fact that they were marked successful the strategy arsenic issued, but the last measurement of really moving it done the instrumentality did not,” Janine Eveler, Cobb County Elections Director, said during a property league Monday describing however the clerical mistake happened.     

“So the ballots were ne'er packed up and sent. So it was wholly quality error,” Eveler said, adding that the predetermination idiosyncratic liable is “sick astir it.” 

Cobb County Election officials accidental that they determined that of the 1,036 absentee ballot snafus, determination are presently 276 voters who whitethorn person been affected who person not already been sent an overnight instrumentality envelope with their absentee ballot oregon person not already formed their ballot during the aboriginal voting period. CNN has antecedently reported that implicit 2.5 cardinal ballots person been formed successful Georgia during aboriginal voting.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia and its nationalist office and the Southern Poverty Law Center announced Sunday that they had filed a lawsuit to springiness Cobb County absentee voters much clip to person and nonstop backmost the mistake was discovered by Cobb predetermination officials.   

Georgia Secretary of State’s Office says that they program to unfastened an probe into this Cobb County absentee ballot incidental with the State Election Board. 

Sen. Patty Murray talks to an attendee during a tiny concern municipality hallway successful Seattle connected October 13. (Lindsey Wasson/Getty Images)

Former President Barack Obama has enactment retired a robocall successful enactment of Democratic Sen. Patty Murray successful the closer-than-expected contention for Senate successful Washington state.

In the call, Obama endorses his “good friend” Murray successful her contention against Republican Senate campaigner Tiffany Smiley. 

Amir Avin, Murray’s spokesperson, told CNN the legislator is excited to person Obama's support. A spokesperson for Smiley did not comment.

Inside Elections rates the contention arsenic “likely Democrat.”

Both campaigns successful the choky contention for New York's 17th congressional territory are condemning a last-minute robocall allegedly representing "grand rabbis" successful a connection that appears to beryllium aimed astatine exploiting tensions betwixt Orthodox Jewish residents and non-Jewish residents of the district. 

The last-minute telephone claims:

Maloney is presently the congressman for New York’s 18th congressional district, which includes Kiryas Joel, a mostly ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, but the New York legislature representation was redrawn for the 2022 election. Maloney is moving to correspond the newly-drawn 17th legislature district which includes Rockland County, different region that has a ample Jewish community. 

In Orange County, wherever Kiryas Joel is located, tensions exist between the Orthodox Jewish community, 1 of the poorest communities connected insubstantial successful the US, and surrounding neighborhoods. In 2018, the community separated from the municipality of Monroe aft years of lawsuits and conflicts implicit zoning. While Maloney has helped bring the Kiryas Joel assemblage wealth for section infrastructure projects, determination is nary grounds helium supported the assemblage successful zoning fights.   

A transcript of the robocall was obtained by CNN. The telephone was archetypal reported connected Sunday by The Forward, a Jewish publication. According to the anti-robocall exertion Nomorobo, the fig associated with the calls made an estimated 100,000 to 150,000 calls connected Sunday nighttime to phones with 845 country codes — which is an country codification for parts of the district Maloney is moving to represent including Rockland County. 

The connection reviewed by CNN failed to place who paid for the telephone successful the instauration and springiness a callback number, which violates rules from the Federal Communications Commission for auto-dialed oregon prerecorded dependable governmental run calls. The fig from which the calls were received is nary longer a moving number. 

A spokesperson for Maloney called the telephone an "anti-Semitic smear."  

"This robocall was not connected to oregon authorized by our run successful immoderate way," Mia Ehrenberg, Maloney's spokesperson told CNN. 

Maloney’s opponent, Republican Assemblyman Mike Lawler told The Forward the telephone was "total nonsense," adding “I don't condone it," and his spokesperson Bill O’Reilly told CNN, “These are not from us.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is escorted to a conveyance extracurricular of her location successful San Francisco connected November 2. (Jeff Chiu/AP)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indicated that the convulsive onslaught connected her husband volition origin into her determination astir her ain governmental aboriginal aft the midterm elections.

Pelosi, 1 of the astir almighty figures successful nationalist Democratic politics, has earned a estimation arsenic a formidable person to House Democrats who exerts important power connected her caucus.

But speculation is intensifying successful Washington implicit what Pelosi’s adjacent determination volition be, and whether she would determine to discontinue if Republicans triumph backmost the majority.  

During an exclusive interrogation with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Pelosi was asked if she would corroborate that she has made a determination — 1 mode oregon different — astir what she would bash aft the midterms.

Police portion is seen successful beforehand of the location wherever Paul Pelosi was attacked. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The convulsive onslaught connected Paul Pelosi successful their San Francisco location raised caller concerns implicit threats of governmental unit driven by partisan animosity and progressively hostile governmental rhetoric — and highlighted the imaginable vulnerability of lawmakers and their families successful the existent governmental climate.  

A justice successful Monroe County successful Northeast Pennsylvania has decided that predetermination officials tin notify voters whose mail-in ballots were submitted with errors to springiness them a accidental to close them. 

The area's Republican Party had sued to forestall the outreach. The lawsuit is the latest section standoff successful Pennsylvania implicit however to grip defective mailed-in ballots.

Voters who sent successful ballots without secrecy envelopes, outer signatures oregon dates volition inactive beryllium capable to vote. Once they are notified their ballot whitethorn beryllium canceled, they volition beryllium fixed the accidental to close their ballots by 8 p.m. connected Election Day. 

Zulick noted that the Republicans who brought the lawsuit said astatine a proceeding they had nary contented with voters correcting defective ballots if they were handing a ballot implicit successful person, "across the counter." 

"The lone quality present is that the [Monroe County elections office] emailed oregon called the voters to counsel them of the defect successful their ballots,” the justice wrote. "I bash not find that determination was fraud progressive oregon that determination was governmental partisanship undertaken by [Monroe County elections] unit oregon the Board."

As of Nov. 4, the suit affected less than 200 votes, according to the judge's decision. The region had received astir 15,000 absentee and mailed ballots arsenic of precocious greeting Nov. 4, the filing said.