Oprah Winfrey Issues Stark Warning to Those Planning Not to Vote

PHILADELPHIA—At Kamala Harris’ final campaign rally, Oprah Winfrey had a dire warning for Americans thinking of sitting out the 2024 election. “If we don’t show up tomorrow, it is entirely possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast a ballot again,” she said. The famed talk show host had already been talking about how urgent voting was on Sunday, when she told of meeting a woman while hiking who told her she was planning to sit out this election. “I know she was immediately sorry she told me that, ’cause I would not let up,” she said. Oprah, who wore a “Yes She Can” shirt, was finishing off a three-month sprint in which she’s been unusually involved in politics, appearing at the Democratic National Convention and holding a friendly interview with Harris. “We are voting to save ourselves from this precipice of danger where we now stand,” she said on Monday. “All the anxiety and the fear you’re feeling, you’re feeling them because you sense the danger. And you change that with your vote.”

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The six residents of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, have made their votes for president of the United States known. And it turns out they are just as hopelessly divided as the rest of the country. The tally, announced per tradition just after midnight on Election Day, came in at three votes for Kamala Harris and three votes for Donald Trump—a 50-50 tie. The group of six voters, made up of four registered Republicans and two independents, all voted for Nikki Haley in the primary. In 2020, Joe Biden received five voters to Trump’s zero and in 2016, Hillary Clinton beat Trump four to two (with Gary Johnson and Mitt Romney each getting one vote). The last time the tiny township–which was memorably fictionalized as “Hartsfield’s Landing” on an episode of The West Wing–tied was in 2012 when Barack Obama and Romney each got five votes.

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Dick Van Dyke, 98, endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Monday in a message posted across social media. In a video on YouTube, the legendary actor, comedian, and performer did not talk about why he was endorsing the vice president—instead opting to read an excerpt from a speech he delivered at the 1964 Multi-Faith Civil Rights Rally in Los Angeles with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., just months before Congress passed the Civil Rights Act that July. During the rally, Van Dyke read a speech written by Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling. “I got it out the other day, and I think it means as much today if not more,” Van Dyke said. “Hatred is not the norm,” he read from Serling’s speech. “Prejudice is not the norm. Suspicion, dislike, jealousy, scapegoating, none of those are the transcendent facet of the human personality. They are diseases. They are the cancers of the soul. They are the infectious and contagious viruses that have been breeding humanity for years.” Although the nonagenarian actor has stepped out of the spotlight in recent years, he has used his platform to endorse progressive candidates in the past—backing Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primary and even singing at one of his rallies. “1964—a lot’s happened, not so much as Martin Luther [King Jr.] dreamed of, but it’s a start,” Van Dyke said on Monday.

Patrick Mahomes mother loudly endorsed former President Donald Trump while attending her son’s Monday Night Football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Randi Mahomes wore a red “Make America Great Again” hat while watching the game from a luxury suite at Arrowhead Stadium, according to a video posted to right-wing sports site OutKick, which is owned by Fox Corporation. “Make America great again. Let’s do it. Woo!” she says, while throwing her arms up in the air. The Mahomes matriarch’s endorsement of the former president comes after her son’s wife, Brittany Mahomes, sparked widespread criticism after “liking” a post penned by Trump to promote his policy platform. She soon clapped back at her haters, writing on social media: “To be a hater as an adult, you have to have some deep rooted issues you refuse to heal from childhood. There’s no reason your brain is fully developed and you hate to see others doing well.”

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Kamala Harris was seen door-knocking in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on the eve of the 2024 presidential election in a last-minute bid to secure votes. The vice president was in the city of Reading, where she went door to door and surprised one couple. A woman gave Harris a hug outside her home and said she had already voted for her. The woman’s husband, however, had still yet to vote. In another video, Harris is seen surprising a couple and their son. “We sure wasn’t expecting that one, we thought it was Shapiro,” one of the family members said. “Sorry for the intrusion,” Harris tells them, as they appear in complete shock. When Harris asks what the son’s name is, he tells her it’s Cole. “Cole, that’s our son’s name!” Harris said as she shook his hand. Harris later posted some of the footage to social media, writing, “Took some time today to hear from voters in Pennsylvania and ask for their support.”

A regional field director for former President Donald Trump’s grassroots get-out-the-vote effort in Pennsylvania was fired for secretly promoting white nationalist views, according to multiple reports. Luke Meyer, a 24-year-old regional field director for Trump Force 47 in western Pennsylvania, pseudonymously hosted a podcast with notorious neo-Nazi Richard Spencer while in the role, Politico reported. In episodes of the podcast, Meyer expressed a desire to return America to being “80 percent, 90 percent white” and posted photos of himself wearing a ring bearing the sonnenrad—a symbol used by the Nazis. Trump Force 47 is the campaign’s grassroots organizing effort which is described as a “joint effort” by the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign. Meyer was reportedly fired from the role by the Pennsylvania Republican Party last Friday, and admitted the reporting was accurate to both Politico and The Washington Post. The Pennsylvania GOP did not immediately return a request for comment from the Daily Beast, but told Politico that Meyer was background checked. “If we’d had any inkling about his hidden and despicable activity he would never have been hired, and the instant we learned of it he was fired,” the local party said in a statement to Politico. “We have no place in our Party or nation for people with such shameful, hateful views.”

Ella Emhoff, Kamala Harris' stepdaughter, is showing support for her stepmother in her own creative way–by knitting an “I Voted” sticker. “Have you voted yet?” Emhoff wrote on Instagram Sunday. “Vote for the future you want and the change you want to see,” she continued. “We need to protect our rights, our planet, and our communities. There is only one option for any positive change and that’s Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.” Since Harris became vice president in 2021, Emhoff has cemented herself as the second daughter of fashion. She walked the runway for Coach in September, and was spotted in the front row at several other Fashion Week shows. She has showcased her love for knitting before with the knitwear collective Soft Hands. Emhoff has appeared on the campaign trail a few times to support her stepmother, notably in August at the Democratic National Convention.

Fear surrounding potential political violence following the 2024 presidential election has some lawmakers preparing for the worst. Some Democrats in Congress even fear a second attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 by Donald Trump’s supporters. One lawmaker told NOTUS he assembled an “insurrectionist getaway costume,” including tactical pants, tactical boots, and a secret key accessory. “I’ve really been trying to impress upon my staff that I’m not joking,” the member of Congress said. “This is very serious.” Other Democratic staffers reportedly plan on staying home on Jan. 6, the day Congress certifies the election. “Insurrect me once, shame on you. Twice? No thanks,” a senior staffer told the outlet. Regardless of the election’s outcome, the Department of Homeland Security already designated the certification date as a “national special security event,” which allows the Secret Service to call upon other branches of government and the military to help secure the Capitol. A source familiar with security planning for Jan. 6 added that, among the security and prevention plans, the National Guard will be stationed inside the building.

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All Broadway theaters will dim their lights for Gavin Creel, the much-loved Tony Award-winning actor, who died at 48 on Sept. 30, after being diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of sarcoma in July. The lights-dimming will take place at 6.45pm on Dec. 3, the day after an afternoon public memorial celebration for Creel at the St. James Theatre. The Broadway League had initially planned a partial dimming of lights, though changed course after a public outcry—including a petition of over 20,000 signatures. After his death, fulsome and heartfelt tributes were paid to Creel by the likes of Bette Midler, Alex Edelman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bernadette Peters, Casey Likes, Harvey Fierstein, Michael Urie, and many others within the theater community. The actor won multiple awards—including a Tony—for his portrayal of Cornelius Hackl in the 2017 revival of Hello, Dolly!, starring Midler. Donations in Creel’s memory are suggested to be made to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Of the many celebrity endorsement for Kamala Harris, there is one that Donald Trump admitted hurts him most. “I’m so disappointed at Julia Roberts,” Trump said on Fox & Friends over the weekend, referring to the ad the actress narrated in which she implicitly urges women to vote for Harris even if their husbands are voting for Trump. “In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want and no one will ever know,” Roberts says in the ad. “She‘s going to look back on that and she’s going to cringe,” Trump predicted. “I mean, it doesn’t say much for her relationship... Can you imagine a wife not telling a husband who she’s voting for? Did you ever hear anything like that? Even if you had a horrible—if you had a bad relationship, you’re gonna tell your husband.” The ad that so clearly got under Trump’s skin ends with Roberts telling women, “Remember, what happens in the booth, stays in the booth. Vote Harris-Walz.”