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Supporters of Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump react as he speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption

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Donald Trump's closing argument: leaning into the extreme rhetoric

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SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk awarded Kristine Fishell with a $1 million check on Oct. 20. The legality of these cash prizes has been called into question. Michael Swensen/Getty Images North America hide caption

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Owner Jeff Bezos blocked The Washington Post from endorsing a presidential candidate less than two weeks before Election Day. The editorial board had drafted an endorsement for Kamala Harris. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption

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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption

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Presidential candidates Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump differ in how they'd tackle several health care issues, including drug pricing. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP hide caption

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In this photo taken from video, Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili, left, speaks to the media as speaks to the media as and Nana Malashkhia, who leads the Coalition for Change parliament list, right, stands near, after the parliamentary election in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sunday. Kostya Manenkov/AP hide caption

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Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption

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Adrian Consonery, Jr., and Brian Ramirez were part of a group of grassroots organizers that NPR met with at Manuel's Tavern in Atlanta on Oct. 22, 2024. Asma Khalid/NPR hide caption

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Grassroots organizers in Georgia say voting for Harris is 'harm mitigation'

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Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, arrives on stage during a town hall campaign event at the Lancaster County Convention Center on Oct. 20 in Lancaster, Pa. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption

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Pastor Chad Harvey in a prayer room at Cross Assembly Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. Andrea Ellen Reed/NPR hide caption

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For some conservative Christians supporting Trump, it's about the policies

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Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at in Traverse City, Mich., on Friday. Trump recorded the Joe Rogan Experience podcast earlier Friday and delayed his Michigan appearance by three hours. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption

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Josh Abate and Micah Coomer inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images hide caption

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for Heidi - Embedded - A Good Guy

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Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Ahead of the 2024 election results, civil society groups are working to prevent future violence. Samuel Corum/Getty Images hide caption

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Political violence scenarios

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A person leaves an early voting site after casting a ballot on Oct. 21 in Deland, Fla. Florida is one of three states that recently sued the Biden administration over citizenship checks of voters. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Director of the Board of Elections Tyler Burns holds a test ballot during a mail-in ballot processing demonstration on Sept. 30 in Doylestown, Pa. A fake video purporting to show ballots being destroyed in Bucks County, Pa., showed different envelopes and ballots than the county actually uses. Hannah Beier/Getty Images hide caption

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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 19: Rudy Giuliani stands next to a map during a press conference about various lawsuits related to the 2020 election, inside the Republican National Committee headquarters on November 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption

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Election battles are being waged at the ballot box and in the courtroom.

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