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Two New York Yankees fans were ejected from Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night after interfering with a catch made by Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts.  The incident occurred during the first inning when Betts ran toward the right-field wall to catch a foul hit by Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres. Betts caught the ball in foul territory, but then video footage showed a fan reaching over the wall and grabbing Betts’ glove. Another spectator pulled on Betts’ arm at the same time, causing the ball to pop loose. An umpire ruled that Torres was out due to fan interference. Video footage of the incident immediately began circulating on social media, prompting outraged reactions.  "Well, A for effort." Fan interference was called on this play where a Yankee fan tried to take the ball out of Mookie Betts' glove after an out. pic.twitter.com/iZ6taImncd — FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) October 30, 2024 Former Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz, now a FOX Sports broadcaster, said the fan “won’t be watching the game much longer.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ Video footage showed both fans being escorted out of the stadium. On their way out, the men exchanged high-fives with other Yankees fans, and one of them told The Athletic reporter Rustin Dodd that the fan was a “hero … it’s a championship game.”  The ejected fan was identified by ESPN as a Yankees season-ticket holder who said he had prepared for that situation in advance. “We always joke about the ball in our area,” the fan said after the game, per the outlet. “We’re not going to go out of our way to attack. If it’s in our area, we’re going to ‘D’ up. Someone defends, someone knocks the ball. We talk about it. We’re willing to do this.” Security reportedly told the two men they were not permitted to come back for Game 5 on Wednesday. Betts did not have much to say about what happened, responding to teammate Tommy Edman calling the behavior “unacceptable” by saying, “We lost, that’s what I’m focused on.”  The Yankees won Game 4 on Tuesday with a final score of 11-4. They trail the Dodgers three games to one in the best-of-seven series. The Yankees are seeking their 28th World Series title, which would be their first since 2009. The Dodgers are hoping for their first World Series ring since winning the series in 2020. The team has won seven World Series titles in franchise history.

Retired United States Air Force Brigadier General Buzz Aldrin, a famed NASA astronaut, endorsed former President Donald Trump this week. Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon, said that he was impressed by how Trump prioritized space exploration during his time in office. “Under President Trump’s first term, America saw a revitalized interest in space,” he said. “His Administration reignited national efforts to get back to the Moon, and push on to Mars – programs that continue today.” “The Trump Administration also reinstituted the National Space Council, so leading voices could advocate for the importance of space to America,” he continued. “Finally, under President Trump, the Nation’s defense was enhanced with the creation of the U.S. Space Force– increasingly important as space becomes a contested domain.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ He said he was also excited by individuals pushing for space exploration in the private sector, namely Elon Musk, who he called a “visionary.” He said he was deeply concerned about the global security landscape, domestic economic concerns, and stability in local communities. “The Presidency requires an understanding of human nature, clarity in judgement, decisiveness, knowledge, understanding, and calm under pressures few have a natural ability to manage, or the life experience to successfully undertake,” he said. “It is a job where decisions are made that routinely involve American lives – some urgently but not without thought. The job requires sober analysis of frightening scenarios, and the instinct to lead with resolve.” He said that he understands the importance of having certain leadership qualities based on his combat experience during the Korean War. “Most citizens rightly consider it an honor to cast their vote for a leader they believe will best serve the Nation – our government by, for and of the people,” he said. “For me, for the future of our Nation, to meet enormous challenges, and for the proven policy accomplishments above, I believe the nation is best served by voting for Donald J. Trump.” “I wholeheartedly endorse him for President of the United States,” he concluded. “Godspeed President Trump, and God Bless the United States of America.”

Media scrambled on Tuesday and well into Wednesday to run cover for Vice President Kamala Harris, trying harder than usual to put distance between Harris and President Joe Biden after he referred to nearly half the country as “garbage.” While Harris was outside attempting to deliver her presidential campaign’s closing arguments, Biden — over whom Harris leapfrogged to snag the Democratic Party’s nomination despite never winning a single vote on her own — was busy making an appearance on CNN and sucking all of the oxygen out of the room. What Biden actually said was pretty straightforward. He was responding to a joke made by comedian Kill Tony (Tony Hinchcliffe) — referring to Puerto Rico as an island made of garbage — ahead of former President Donald Trump’s speech at a rally at Madison Square Garden, and Biden said, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.” WATCH: WATCH: President Joe Biden: "The only garbage I see floating out there is [Trump] supporters." pic.twitter.com/9teSUOytqC — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 30, 2024 As critics began to point out just how tone-deaf it was to refer to half the country as “garbage” — on the level of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” remark — legacy media outlets and Democrat pundits began to spin in an effort to keep the fallout from touching Harris and her campaign. The White House released a statement through Biden spokesman Andrew Bates claiming that Biden had not been referring to Trump’s supporters but to their rhetoric. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “WH spox Andrew Bates says: ‘The President referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage,'” Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich shared. “Transcript shared by the WH: BIDEN: ‘And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’  Well, let me tell you something. I don’t — I — I don’t know the Puerto Rican that — that I know — or a Puerto Rico, where I’m fr- — in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.  It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.'” WH spox Andrew Bates says: “The President referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage.’” Transcript shared by the WH: BIDEN: “And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”  Well, let me… https://t.co/1aNg8Hoh46 — Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) October 30, 2024 “The apostrophe here is doing a lot of heavy lifting,” Heinrich added. The New York Times fell in line, stating in a headline that Biden “appears to insult Trump supporters as ‘garbage.'” The New York Times is covering for Biden and Kamala. They claim Biden “appeared” to call Trump supporters garbage. He didn’t “appear” to. He did. It’s literally on video. pic.twitter.com/hQTVDwAoT4 — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 30, 2024 POLITICO ran with Biden’s explanation, relying on the apostrophe to take the sting out of the insult. Just going to leave the extended clip of Biden calling Americans “garbage” here. Since the media and even the White House are already trying to rewrite what Biden said. pic.twitter.com/9NmgLYSj0t — Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) October 30, 2024 CNN cleaned up the quote for a chyron. Look at the chyron. Biden did not say that. It’s an unequivocal lie. This is CNN. pic.twitter.com/SPSuk49BQp — Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 30, 2024 Joan Walsh claimed that everyone who responded to the words that Biden actually said had “willfully misunderstood” his comment. Biden's (willfully misunderstood) "garbage" remark only "upstaged" Harris's night on the Ellipse if the major news outlets say it did. And of course, that's what they're saying. Don't believe it. https://t.co/TYaCQJqh4k — Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) October 30, 2024 “Morning Joe” also tried to clean up the mess, glossing over what Biden said to complain about the Republicans “seizing” on it and attempting to draw comparisons to Clinton and her “deplorables” comment. NEW: MSDNC janitors Scarborough and Lemire try in vain to mop up Biden’s “garbage” mess — blame REPUBLICANS SEIZING: “Some on the right have seized on that comment…. trying to paint this to be the next 'basket of deplorables.'" This is two straight minutes of why the… pic.twitter.com/9vdRiWHgsY — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 30, 2024 When Harris herself was approached to weigh in, she was careful not to deny that Biden had said what he said. “He clarified his comments. Let me be clear: I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for,” she claimed. Vice President Harris responds to President Biden's 'garbage' comments: "He clarified his comments. Let me clear, I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for." pic.twitter.com/kmUfjIrytz — CSPAN (@cspan) October 30, 2024

Wisconsin was perhaps the most consequential swing state in 2016, and was decided in the past two presidential elections by razor-thin margins. This year doesn’t seem like it will be any different. Here’s everything you need to know about Wisconsin. Polling Throughout August, Harris led Trump by as much as an average of five points before Trump started taking ground back in September and retook the lead in October. Trump currently leads Harris 48.8% to 48.2%, according to a DecisionDeskHQ average of 67 polls from Wisconsin.  DecisionDesk HQ now projects Trump has a 55% chance of winning Wisconsin, a major reversal after Harris was given a 59% chance at the end of August.  Trump winning Wisconsin would buck recent trends in the state, which Democrats won every year from 1988 until 2016. Before that, Republicans won Wisconsin in every presidential election but two from 1952 to 1984.  The top issues for Wisconsin voters are the economy, immigration, and abortion. The most recent polling available from Marquette University Law School shows that 40% of voters said the economy was the most important, 15% said immigration and border security, and 12% said abortion.  Trump is trusted by 51% of voters on the issues of immigration and the economy while Harris was trusted by just 36% of voters on those issues. On the issue of abortion, Harris was trusted by 53% of voters compared to the 30% of voters who trust Trump on the issue.  What The Candidates Are Saying Unlike Hillary Clinton’s notorious 2016 decision to skip campaigning in the Badger State, both Trump and Harris have campaigned heavily in the critical battleground.  Trump has at least two major rallies planned in Wisconsin for the final week of the campaign. On Wednesday, Trump will take the stage alongside football legend Brett Favre for a rally in Green Bay. Then on Friday, Trump will head to the Democratic stronghold of Milwaukee — where he received the endorsement of the city’s police association — for another rally.  On Monday, Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, spoke in both Wausau and Racine. Harris has a rally scheduled at the University of Wisconsin in Madison on Wednesday, where she hopes to appeal to young voters through a joint appearance with Mumford & Sons. Earlier this month, Harris campaigned with former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney in Brookfield.  How Wisconsin Has Voted In The Past In 2016, former President Donald Trump became the first Republican to carry Wisconsin since Ronald Reagan, winning the state by just over 20,000 votes.  Four years later, Wisconsin swung for President Joe Biden, again by just 20,000 votes. This year’s race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is again expected to be determined by a razor-thin margin as polls indicate a statistically tied race to claim the state’s 10 electoral votes.  What Early Voting Shows Hundreds of thousands have already voted, with Wisconsin’s election commission reporting Friday that early voting had jumped almost 40% since the same time in 2020. As of Sunday, the commission reported that some 405,744 people had already voted early. Around 108,213 early voters were reported in the Democratic strongholds of Dane and Milwaukee County. In Wisconsin’s traditionally Republican “WOW” counties (Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington), around 86,244 people have voted early, according to election commission data. Republicans need to perform well in the WOW counties in order to offset Democrats’ advantage in urban areas. Republicans will also need high turnout from the state’s rural counties. When Can We Expect A Result? In both 2016 and 2020, the results of Wisconsin’s presidential election were not known on Election Day. In 2016, the results were announced the morning after the election, while in 2020 the state was called for Biden after the election. Milwaukee and other cities have followed policies that require all ballots to be counted in one central area, which has caused delays in getting ballots counted in previous years.  The 2024 results could see a similar timeline as 2020, but will likely not take as long as officials say it will in states like Arizona.  Voting Issues From 2020 To Now Election integrity was a major concern for Republicans in Wisconsin after widespread mail-in voting during the 2020 election. One of the most contentious issues has been that of the use of drop boxes for ballots. In July 2022, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that the use of drop boxes in 2020 violated the state constitution. However, the court reversed its decision in July after the liberal wing of the court took the majority earlier this year.  The decision was celebrated by Democrats and decried by Republicans, who argued that the use of drop boxes would compromise election integrity. Use of the drop boxes is reportedly down this year from 2024 with about just 78 in use compared to the 500 that were employed in 2020. Multiple cities and villages throughout the state have banned the use of drop boxes this time around after security concerns.  “I think that a ballot drop box does create opportunity for those that want to circumvent the law,” Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt said earlier this year.  Wausau Mayor Doug Diny is under investigation by the Justice Department after he moved the city’s drop box into his office because of concerns that it was secured to the ground outside city hall.  Mail-in voting has already come under scrutiny in Madison after 2,215 duplicate ballots were sent out to the heavily Democratic city. City officials said the incident was a “mistake” while Republicans demanded a more in-depth investigation.  The DOJ has also taken action against the cities of Lawrence and Thornapple after they decided to only have paper ballots and cast them by hand. Federal officials accused the cities of discriminating against the disabled. Lawrence has agreed to use one electronic voting machine and a federal judge also placed an injunction this month against Thornapple. Wisconsin’s Election Commission has been sued by the Public Interest Legal Foundation for records on the state’s voter registration process while another suit accuses the Milwaukee Election Commission of having 143,000 invalid voters on its rolls.  In September, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty warned that there are 144,347 people in Wisconsin who do not have to show an ID to vote because they are classified as “indefinitely confined.” This status exploded during COVID when officials in Milwaukee and Madison said all voters could claim it, though the state Supreme Court later struck down this guidance.  The Republican National Committee has already filed multiple lawsuits in the state as well, focusing on ensuring that cities hire an equal number of Republican poll workers and special voting deputies to administer elections at nursing homes.  This time around there will be no private funding for elections, thanks to a Republican-backed measure that passed in April targeting “Zuckerbucks,” referring to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s widespread funding of state elections in 2020.  More than $10 million in Zuckerbucks was spent in Wisconsin during the 2020 election, according to the Foundation for Government Accountability. The FGA estimated that more than 80% of the funding went to areas Biden won by an average of 37 points.  Other Races To Watch Other key elections in Wisconsin include a contentious contest between Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger Eric Hovde. Like Trump, Hovde has jumped in the polls in recent weeks, with polls showing the race within one or two points.  November also marks the first election with new legislative maps ordered by the state’s liberal Supreme Court and signed by Democratic Governor Tony Evers. Democrats are looking to chip away at the Republican’s supermajority in the Senate and majority in the Assembly.  Voters will also have the opportunity to pass an amendment to the state constitution that would ensure only American citizens are allowed to vote in national, state, and local elections.