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Nebraska is a reliably red state, and, had the change taken effect, it would have affected only the electoral vote awarded from the congressional district that includes Omaha and its suburbs, which has gone to Democrats twice since the state established its by-district allocation system for the 1992 election. Barack Obama won it in 2008, and President Biden took it in 2020. In this year’s presidential election, both leading campaigns see situations in which a single electoral vote could prove decisive.
Pillen had said he would convene the state’s 49 legislators in a special session to change the state law once he had commitments from enough of them to overcome a promised filibuster from Nebraska Democrats.
McDonnell, who is barred by term limits from seeking reelection to the Nebraska Legislature, is widely seen as eyeing a run for mayor of Omaha against the incumbent, Jean Stothert, a Republican who said Friday that she had “always” preferred a winner-take-all allocation of Nebraska’s electoral votes.
NEW YORK TIMES
Trump will attend charity dinner that Harris is skipping to campaign
Donald Trump confirmed Monday that he would be the sole featured speaker at this year’s Al Smith charity dinner in New York, typically a good-humored and bipartisan political event that Vice President Kamala Harris said she is skipping in favor of battleground state campaigning.
The former president and current Republican presidential nominee confirmed in a Truth Social post on Monday that he would speak at the Oct. 17 dinner, calling it “sad, but not surprising” that Harris had opted not to attend.
The gala benefiting Catholic Charities traditionally has been used to promote collegiality, with presidential candidates from both parties appearing on the same night and trading barbs. But on Saturday, Harris’s campaign said the Democratic nominee would not go to the event, breaking with presidential tradition so she could campaign instead in a battleground state less than three weeks before Election Day.
Harris’s team wants her to spend as much time as possible in the battleground states that will decide the election rather than in heavily Democratic New York, a campaign official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss campaign plans and confirming a decision first reported by CNN. Her team told organizers that she would be willing to attend as president if she’s elected, the official said.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who plays a prominent role in the dinner, has been highly critical of Democrats, writing a 2018 Wall Street Journal op-ed that carried the headline, “The Democrats Abandon Catholics.” In his Truth Social post, Trump said Harris “certainly hasn’t been very nice” to Catholics, saying that Catholic voters who support her “should have their head examined.”
A Harris campaign official said Catholics for Harris-Walz is working to register people to vote and get involved in outreach across the country. Trump’s post stems in part from 2018 questions that then-Senator Harris posed to a federal judicial nominee about his membership in the Knights of Columbus, a lay Catholic fraternal organization. Harris asked the nominee if he agreed with the antiabortion views of the group’s leader, views that broadly align with the church’s stance.
The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner is named for the former New York governor, a Democrat and the first Roman Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party. He was handily defeated by Herbert Hoover in 1928. The dinner raises millions of dollars for Catholic charities and has traditionally shown that those vying to lead the nation can get along, or pretend to, for one night.
It’s become a tradition for presidential candidates ever since Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy appeared together in 1960. In 1996, the Archdiocese of New York decided not to invite then-President Bill Clinton and his Republican challenger, Bob Dole, reportedly because Clinton vetoed a late-term abortion ban.
Trump and Joe Biden, who is Catholic, both spoke at the fund-raiser in 2020 when it was moved online because of COVID-19. Amid the pandemic and economic woes, there was no joking, and both candidates instead used their speeches to appeal to Catholic voters.
Both Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton attended in 2016. Trump was booed after calling Clinton corrupt and claiming she hated Catholics.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Trump says he wouldn’t run for president again if he lost this year
Former president Donald Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he did not think he would run again in 2028 if he lost this year.
“No, I don’t,” Trump told a reporter from Sinclair Broadcast Group, a conservative conglomerate. “I think that that will be, that will be it. I don’t see that at all. I think that hopefully we’re going to be successful.”
Trump would be 82 on Election Day in 2028, older than President Biden is now. This year’s election is already his third consecutive time being the Republican nominee, after he won in 2016 and lost in 2020. In the modern party system, only Franklin D. Roosevelt has ever received a major party’s nomination four times, though a handful have matched Trump with three.
It’s not the first time Trump has made such a comment. In 2020, he said if he lost to Biden, “You’ll never see me again.” At the time, the Biden campaign cut an ad with those remarks — and Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign on Monday posted a video of Trump’s recent interview on social media, adding, “Let’s turn the page.”
The question of whether Trump would try again in four years if he lost is a step ahead of a more immediate matter: whether he would accept a loss this year to begin with.
When Trump lost in 2020, he refused to concede and led a sprawling attempt to overturn the result based on the lie that the election was stolen, culminating with his supporters’ storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He has refused to commit to accepting the results this year, either, and has preemptively sown doubt about them.
NEW YORK TIMES
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