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‘I Hate Him, but I Hate Democrats More’: Scenes From the U.S. Before the
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By The New York Times
Nov. 5, 2018
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New York Times journalists are reporting from around the country as candidates
make their final pitches to the voters who will help reshape the United States for
the next two years.
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A strong cold front could cause rain and wind anywhere along the Eastern
Seaboard, from the Florida Panhandle all the way up to Maine, said Tim Loftus, a
data scientist and meteorologist at AccuWeather.
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Multiple studies have shown that bad weather on Election Day can decrease
turnout, which in turn tends to help Republicans, because the groups most likely to
be deterred from voting are those who tend to vote Democratic.
Read more about the forecast, and what it could mean, here.
— Maggie Astor
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A federal judge in Gainesville ruled that Duval County, home to Jacksonville,
should have posted sample ballots in Spanish at early polling stations, as mandated
for 32 Florida counties by a court decision in September. Late Sunday, the
advocacy group LatinoJustice PRLDEF sued after learning the samples had not
been provided in Duval.
By then, it was too late to make a difference — no early polls were open on
Monday — but the county elections supervisor, Mike Hogan, plans to post the
ballots in precincts on Election Day, according to court documents.
In Miami-Dade County, some people waited in a long line during the final hours of
early voting on Sunday after ballot-printing machines malfunctioned. At one point,
preprinted ballots ran out and more had to be driven in from elsewhere, according
to the county elections department. Volunteers offered voters pizza.
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Long lines in the 2012 election caused national embarrassment for Miami-Dade,
which has since redrawn voting precincts and equipped sites better to prepare for
crowds. But the 2018 ballot is still some eight pages long.
Broward County is also on notice for Tuesday. State officials will monitor voting
there after a court ruling in May that found the office of the county’s elections
supervisor, Brenda Snipes, illegally destroyed some ballots from a 2016
congressional race.
— Patricia Mazzei
A new ad from Beto O’Rourke
SAN ANTONIO — For all the talk about small government in Texas, it sure has a
lot of them — 254 counties, the most of any state in the nation.
Representative Beto O’Rourke, the El Paso Democrat trying to thwart Senator Ted
Cruz’s re-election, has been to all 254, as everyone in Texas knows by now. It’s a
staple of his speeches and the focus of a new campaign ad, titled “On the Road
Again” and featuring Willie Nelson.
Beto O'Rourke
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@BetoORourke
US Senate candidate, TX
On the road to all 254 counties of Texas. No one written off. No one taken for
granted. Watch our new ad featuring Willie Nelson and RT to share.
— Manny Fernandez
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Although Mr. Trump carried this bellwether state in 2016 by eight points — after
former President Barack Obama won the state twice — Mr. DeWine has focused
much more on local issues like the expansion of Medicaid and the work force than
on the president. On Friday, he campaigned with the departing governor, John
Kasich, a Republican who has been outspoken about his distaste for Mr. Trump.
But on Monday afternoon, Mr. Trump and Mr. DeWine appeared together on stage
at a rally here at the International Exposition Center, near the airport. (“I believe
I’m going to win,” Mr. DeWine said in a brief interview on Sunday, by way of
explanation. “And it would be important for me as governor to have a good
relationship with the president.”)
Whether Mr. Trump’s presence would actually carry Mr. DeWine to victory over
Richard Cordray, a Democrat, is unclear. Political analysts still view the
governor’s race in Ohio as a tossup.
In the hours before the rally, a mostly tranquil crowd of Trump supporters, wearing
red hats and all manner of Trump pins, trickled into the hall.
Sitting on the floor near the front was Jewel Kingsley, 35, sporting a lip ring and
two pins with Mr. Trump’s face on them.
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“I don’t like Mike DeWine,” she said, as a rally volunteer shooed a reporter away
from the aisle. “But I’m going to vote for him.”
She described Mr. DeWine as the lesser of two evils. “I hate him,” she said, “but I
hate Democrats more.”
As Mr. Trump began his remarks, he lamented that thousands of people were
waiting outside the exposition center. “Should we invite them in?” he asked the
large crowd inside, which yelled its approval.
The problem, he said, was that there was no more room inside.
As Mr. Trump spoke, an area at the back of the room, behind the press, was largely
empty.
— Sydney Ember and Michael Shear
“We’re all busy, we’re focusing on classes and I’m not sure what kind of
difference it makes,” said Shannon McCall, who is from northern San Diego but is
unsure which congressional district she lives in.
Just miles away, volunteers at headquarters of both campaigns were working the
phones and preparing to knock on doors. With polls showing that the race remains
a tossup, all that matters is who shows up to vote.
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“I thought we were only calling supporters,” said one volunteer for the Walters
campaign, sounding confused. “I think I just gave a Democrat instructions on how
to find his polling place.”
“That’s O.K.,” the woman sitting next to him said reassuringly, encouraging him to
move quickly to the next call. “That’s called being a good citizen.”
— Jennifer Medina
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Ms. Heitkamp has been crisscrossing the plains and valleys of North Dakota on a
rigorous five-rally-a-day campaign push that began Thursday. She is using what’s
left of her hoarse voice to sell voters on her brand of centrist politics and warn
against the partisanship her challenger, Representative Kevin Cramer, has
embraced.
[In North Dakota, Native Americans have tried to turn a voter I.D. law to their
advantage.]
Here in North Dakota, Ms. Heitkamp’s supporters proudly say, voters have
traditionally eschewed demands for blind partisan adherence in favor of a careful
individual vetting of candidates.
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Are they certain that will remain true come Tuesday?
— Catie Edmonson
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Members of Mi Familia Vota looked for their next house to visit while canvassing
a neighborhood in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday.CreditScott McIntyre for The New
York Times
Latino voters go door to door: ‘We are very anxious’
ORLANDO, Fla. — Nancy Batista is a 32-year-old Guatemalan immigrant with a
file full of voters to contact and a message for President Trump.
“How many more things can we tolerate?” she said, canvassing with a half-dozen
Latinos on a sleepy cul-de-sac. “We all feel like we have been targeted.”
Ms. Batista oversees the Florida operation for Mi Familia Vota, a Latino civic
group that says it has registered some 30,000 new voters in the state this cycle,
about half of them Puerto Ricans.
[Read more: Who are we talking about when we talk about Latino voters?]
While Ms. Batista said the group takes care to avoid partisan advocacy for
individual candidates when engaging with voters, it has not been subtle about its
feelings toward Mr. Trump. Most recently, it released an advertisement featuring a
dramatization of Mr. Trump slapping Latinos across the face. Its title,
“Trumpadas,” is a play on the Spanish word “trompada,” which is a punch.
“We are very anxious,” Yadhira Barrios, 39, a canvass organizer, said in Spanish,
after a mostly unsuccessful door-knocking swing.
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— Matt Flegenheimer
“We vote, we win! We vote, we win,” the members chanted repeatedly throughout
the kickoff event, which featured Ms. Rosen and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto,
a Democrat elected in 2016 with union help.
“I’m running to repeal and replace Dean Heller,” quipped Ms. Rosen, cribbing a
popular political slogan used by Republicans. Her campaign has hammered the
incumbent senator, Dean Heller, a Republican, over his vote to repeal the
Affordable Care Act.
“I’m excited, really excited, and a little nervous,” she told reporters. She avoided
commenting on the national stakes of the Senate race in Nevada. “I’m not a pundit,
and we’ll leave that to the pollsters. But I believe we’re going to win.”
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“The blue wave everyone is talking about will be the tears of the Democrats,” said
Mark Paul John, a painter who describes himself as a “freedom artist.”
“A lot of people want to keep the momentum going,” he said, one foot up on a hay
bale. “I’d like to see more justices like Justices Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh.”
Republican confidence was also high outside Indianapolis, at the final stop on
Sunday night of the state G.O.P.’s bus tour. David Klingerman, 72, a retired
contractor, said he “wasn’t feeling” a blue wave. “I think we’ll hold steady,” he
said.
— Elizabeth Dias
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Stacey Abrams was introduced by Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington State at a rally in
Savannah, Ga., on Monday.CreditRuth Fremson/The New York Times
The art of the handshake
TUCKER, Ga. — “Will you give me a hug like you kind of like me?” Stacey
Abrams asked a child.
“Tell me your name,” the Democratic nominee for Georgia governor said to person
after person.
“Do you think I’m going to share?” she said with a grin after a Nothing Bundt
Cakes employee asked how many forks she wanted for the lemon and white
chocolate confections. “That’s so cute.”
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Clear away the weekend’s high-wattage rallies and blizzard of advertisements, and
you’ll find that most candidates spent the final days of their campaigns practicing
the very personal art of retail politicking, which has always been about more than a
simple handshake.
“Your goal is to make contact with any voter that’s open to making contact with
you,” said Steve Dettelbach, a candidate for Ohio attorney general. “You put your
hand out to somebody and the vast majority of people will shake your hand.”
“I talk to everyone, but you can usually see micro-signals with people who do not
want strangers coming up to them while they’re eating,” Ms. Abrams said with a
chuckle. “I’m an introvert by nature, so I know what to look for.”
Mr. Dettelbach was more blunt about the challenge: “It’s not a normal thing to
engage total strangers.”
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Most candidates will shake more hands at Tuesday’s election watch parties. That
will bring another test: remembering the names of people from campaign stops
long ago.
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“I’ve got to say, the longer I listen to Senator McCaskill, the more she reminds me
of the person she wanted to be president,” he said Monday morning at a rally here
in the state capital. “You know, Senator McCaskill has been in politics for a
lifetime. I am 38. She has been running for office just about as long as I have been
alive, just like Hillary.”
The line was a winner, drawing a soft chorus of boos. But that’s not where the
comparisons stop. Mr. Hawley has pulled himself close to Mr. Trump, and as the
candidate jetted around the state, the two men were all but rhyming.
“They have never accepted that the election was legitimate,” he said of Democrats.
“They have never accepted that Donald Trump was elected president.”
Mr. Hawley talked through the reaction to Mr. Trump’s Supreme Court nominees,
warned of insecurity at the border, and even trotted out one of Mr. Trump’s
signature lines. “I say to Senator McCaskill, tomorrow we are going to say to her,
‘You are fired,’” he said.
— Nicholas Fandos