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Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell asked Vice President Kamala Harris in a rare joint statement to tone down her rhetoric in the lead-up to Election Day, days after Harris said she considered Donald Trump a fascist. The two top Republicans accused Harris of fanning “the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of political animus” and said her words in recent days “seem to dare it to boil over.” “She must abandon the base and irresponsible rhetoric that endangers both American lives and institutions,” Johnson and McConnell said in their statement. “We call on the Vice President to take these threats seriously, stop escalating the threat environment, and help ensure President Trump has the necessary resources to be protected from those threats.” Their statement does not mention Trump’s recent rhetoric, in which he’s referred to Harris as a “fascist,” “marxist,” “communist” and “comrade.” The former president has also railed against “enemies within” and called for using government resources to prosecute domestic political opponents — such as California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Johnson downplayed Trump’s comments on Sunday shows, insisting he was not talking about specific politicians and adding he “did not hear President Trump say he's going to sic the military on Adam Schiff.” Meanwhile, recently published excerpts of a biography of McConnell says that he bashed Trump as “stupid as well as being ill-tempered,” and a “despicable human being” in private following the events of Jan. 6. McConnell has since embraced Trump as the GOP nominee after the two had an icy relationship for years. The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment. At a CNN town hall this week, Harris was asked if she considered Trump a fascist and responded: “Yes, I do.” That comment came after Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, told The New York Times that the former president met the definition of a fascist. Harris also slammed Trump in remarks this week for, according to Kelly, reportedly saying in private that Adolf “Hitler did some good things.” “It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews, and hundreds of thousands of Americans,” she said. The vice president has made Trump’s authoritarian tendencies and his role in stoking the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol a key focus of her campaign message in the final weeks. She’s due to deliver her “closing argument” for the election during Tuesday remarks at the Ellipse, the location where Trump called on his supporters to march on Congress ahead of the violent attempted insurrection.

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Another user replied that they just updated it 10 minutes ago and they might need to clear their cache lmao

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday that it will monitor voting in a county in Northeast Ohio, citing intimidation concerns stemming from a social media post from a local sheriff about migrants.

The DOJ will deploy its staff to observe and ensure that Portage County, Ohio, is complying with federal voting rights laws during the early period and on Election Day, the department announced Tuesday.

“Voters in Portage County have raised concerns about intimidation resulting from the surveillance and the collection of personal information regarding voters, as well as threats concerning the electoral process,” the release states.

The department added that it “regularly” has its staff monitor election law compliance all over the country, noting that it deploys “federal observers from the Office of Personnel Management, where authorized by federal court order.”

The news comes as Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski, a Republican, was scrutinized over a post on social media in September, where he asserted that if Vice President Harris wins in November, they should jot down her supporter’s addresses and have migrants sent there, The Associated Press reported.

Zuchowski’s post, shared on his campaign account and personal Facebook profile, was seen as a threat to Democrats, while his backers argued he was utilizing his right to free speech and making a political statement.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio demanded in a letter that Zuchowski take down his post. The organization also threatened to sue the Republican sheriff.

He took down the Facebook post in late September, according to the AP.

Portage County Sheriff’s Office told the news wire that “monitoring of voting locations/polls by the DOJ is conducted nationwide and is not unique to Portage County. This is a normal practice by the DOJ.”