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Trump conducted an impromptu “poll” during his New Mexico rally about whether Hispanic people prefer the term Latino.

The crowd at the rally strongly showed their preference for the term Hispanic.

Trump appeared to attempt to improve his relationship with Hispanic voters, showering them with praise, after several speakers at his Sunday event at Madison Square Garden made denigrating comments about the group, including one calling Puerto Rico an “island of floating garbage.”

As Trump lambasted Kamala Harris during his rally in New Mexico on Thursday, he said, “She's worse than crooked Hillary. At least, Hillary was intelligent. She was a very intelligent one. This one is a total stiff. You can't have her as your president.”

“She's talking about, ‘we're going to have unity.’ And then she calls me a fascist, just in the next sentence,” Trump added.

“Hillary was a liar and a scoundrel and a horrible human being, but she didn't lie as much as Kamala,” he claimed, before adding that he would expand fracking operations.

Trump opened his New Mexico rally by claiming that he could win the state which has not voted for a Republican for president since 2004.

“They all said, ‘Don't come. I said, why? You can't win New Mexico. I said, Look, your votes are rigged.’ We can win New Mexico,” Trump told the Halloween audience.

“Why they don't want to stop the people pouring across the border that are murderers. They're killers, they're drug addicts, they're drug dealers, they're gang members. Why do Mexico want to keep it going like it is? So you know, we almost won it twice,” he added.

Trump suggested that he could win heavily Democratic states like California as long as the votes are “honest.”

Kenneth Chesebro’s law license in New York has been suspended over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

The attorney, who helped put together the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot, pleaded guilty in October last year to being part of a conspiracy in the Georgia election subversion case.

In June of this year, Chesebro was charged with forgery in Wisconsin by the state’s attorney general.

Fox News host Jesse Watters said during a segment of The Five that if his wife secretly voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, it would be “like having an affair.”

The panel was discussing a recent Harris campaign ad voiced by actress Jessica Roberts, suggesting to women that they can vote for the VP without telling their Trump-backing husbands.

Watters admitted in 2018 that his relationship with his now-wife Emma DiGiovine began as an affair during his first marriage. DiGiovine was a producer on his show at the time, according to Mediaite. The affair led to Watters’s first wife filing for divorce.

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Tim Walz said on Thursday that women voters will “send a loud and clear message to Donald Trump ... whether he likes it or not.”

The Harris campaign has seized on comments from Trump on Wednesday night saying that he would protect women whether they “like it or not.”

Former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who has endorsed Harris, called rightwing activist Charlie Kirk a “twit as he lambasted the Democrat’s campaign for urging women to vote for the vice president without telling their husbands.

Most Americans are anxious and frustrated right now but also gripped by the campaign for the White House as it enters its final days, according to a new poll.

While Democrats and Republicans largely have similar emotions about the upcoming showdown, the former are more likely to be anxious compared to their conservative counterparts, according to the AP-NORC poll.

Gustaf Kilander has more.