Kellyanne Conway shut down reports that Donald Trump has stopped putting large sums of money into his own campaign on Fox News this past hour.
"That is not true, and he will continue to make investments ... including in these last 11 days. He has said publicly many times he's in for 100 million dollars, and is happy to invest in his campaign," Conway said.
Trump has donated $56 million of the $100 million he has pledged so far but his campaign faces $2 million debt, and only has $67.6 million cash in hand, half of Clinton's $153.5 million, as reported on NBC News.
Conway seems to be aware of this difference in financial sums, and reminded voters to not worry about it.
"I want to remind everybody that we'll never have the money that Hillary Clinton has, and we'll never have the personnel she has, but we don't need it frankly," Conway said.
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence on Friday urged Republicans to "come home" again and elect Donald Trump as the next president, in an interview on Fox News.
The Indiana governor said Republicans and conservatives must come together to "repeal Obamacare," "revive the economy through tax relief," abolish President Obama's "unconstitutional executive orders" and "appoint a Supreme Court Justice."
"[It's] going to take electing Donald Trump as president of the United States, but it's also going to take re-electing Republican majorities in the United States House and in the United States Senate," Pence said, urging voters to block Hillary Clinton as much as possible.
Democrats are ahead in eight states, Republicans are ahead in three, and they're essentially tied in Florida. Note: These percentages only tell us the party affiliation of these voters -- they don't tell us who they voted for.
According to our latest figures, 13.7 million Americans have already voted in the 2016 general election (by absentee ballot or by in-person voting), including 7.5 million in 12 battleground states. But there is no comparison when it comes to which campaign and party is truly emphasizing early voting.
As NBC's Alex Jaffe observed while covering a recent Trump event in Springfield, OH, "I didn't see a single RNC or OHGOP volunteer signing folks up to volunteer or offering early vote info on my way in or out of Trump's … rally." Contrast that with the observations from NBC's reporters covering the Clinton campaign and its surrogates.
- NBC's Monica Alba: "Dozens of volunteers at HRC events. And this week, most of her events were strategically positioned within walking distance of early voting sites. [On Thursday], Michelle Obama urged everyone to go vote the moment they left the NC rally."
- NBC's Danny Freeman: "It's almost unimaginable having a Bill [Clinton] event, especially on these bus tours, without early voting efforts. [Wednesday night] in Fayetteville the biggest signage was a huge 'Vote early' sign behind Clinton with student volunteers pestering crowd watchers… Now that doesn't mean they're always successful, but the efforts are 100% there."
The largest public sector union, AFSCME, has spent more money in the 2016 election to elect Democrats to the Senate than in the past two elections combined.The union has spent $24 million on television advertisements and ground game.
In the 2012 and 2014 election, the group spent around $18 million combined.
Shirin Bidel-Niyat, the assistant political action director for AFSCME, said that they are spending so many resources on the Senate because it's where they think they can have the most impact.
"We think it's really important to make sure we are communicating clear messages and it's really hard in a presidential year to shuffle through the noise," Bidel-Niyat said.
The union has focused on the races in Pennsylvania, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, and Indiana - races that will determine if control of the Senate turns to Democrats.
The group has also invested $5 million in the Democratic coalition For Our Future, which is running a massive ground game operation in battleground states.
Here are the states where in-person early voting is currently underway, as of October 27.
After Trump tweeted about apparent reports of "vote flipping" in Texas, NBC News talked to Toni Pippins-Poole, the elections director for Dallas County, where some of the reports of vote flipping have occurred.
Pippins-Poole said that in no case have administrators been able to replicate the error reported by a voter, and every voter who complained has ultimately been able to vote successfully.
In terms of any kind of conspiracy to benefit one candidate and hurt the other, as some on social media are suggesting, Pippins-Poole said: "That is not happening."
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With Donald Trump behind in the polls, a senior campaign official says his team is working on a series of "voter suppression" efforts.
"We have three major voter suppression operations under way," the unnamed official told Bloomberg Businessweek. According to the report, the aim of those efforts is to discourage African-Americans, young women, and "idealistic white liberals" from heading to the polls and voting for Hillary Clinton.
The tactics involve highlighting Clinton's 1996 suggestion that some African-American men are "super predators" to turn off African-Americans, bringing up the women who claim they were sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton to turn off young women, and bringing up WikiLeaks emails and Clinton's praise of the Trans-Pacific Partnership to turn off those who backed Bernie Sanders over Clinton the Democratic primaries.
Political fundraising appeals usually demonize the opposite party. But one pro-Trump super PAC is asking for support to beat "disgruntled establishment Republicans." The Great America PAC, one of half a dozen super PACs created to support Donald Trump, sent an email to supporters Thursday morning, warning that "Donald Trump is in trouble, and we need to take IMMEDIATE action!"
CLEVELAND — There are clear perks to visiting the swing state of Ohio this October.
While in the Cleveland area to attend campaign events, Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine stopped by Progressive Field to take in a portion of Game 2 of the World Series between the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago Cubs.
Kaine watched the game with Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and his wife, columnist Connie Schultz. They sat in Box 309 and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred stopped by to say hello, a campaign aide said.
Kaine said during interviews with Cleveland sports radio stations earlier this month that he would be rooting for the Indians and he hoped to attend one of the games. His running mate Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, has called herself a longtime Cubs fan.
If you were waiting to confirm how James Franco felt about the presidential election, the 38-year-old actor finally made his allegiances crystal clear Wednesday in a new Instagram video.
In a spoof of the "Most Interesting Man in the World" Dos Equis beer ads, Franco endorsed the Democratic candidate with a list of hyperbolic presidential characteristics.
"The smartest guy in the room is always her," he proclaims at the start.
The brief video features a series of photos of the former secretary of state, as well as one of Harry Potter character Hermione Granger.
Near the close, Franco lands on the following proclamation, "She's the Most Interesting Woman in the World."
Whether you agree or disagree with the actor's political predilections or grandiose statements, Franco does provide one solid piece of advice with a wink: "Vote wisely, my friends."
