Donald Trump Jr. urged Republicans to vote on Tuesday by invoking the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in a stark last-minute campaign message.

In a graphic posted to social media, Trump Jr. shared an image of Kirk with the text: “Vote Like the Other Side Will Kill You for Talking.”

Captioning the post, he wrote, “Vote like your lives, and the lives of your children depend, on it. BECAUSE THEY DO!!!”

Voting machines across Westchester County, New York, experienced widespread disruptions on Tuesday morning due to issues with ballot paper thickness.

The Westchester County Board of Elections confirmed that the overly thick paper caused scanners to reject ballots at polling sites across multiple municipalities, including North Salem, as reported by ABC News.

Election officials assured voters that voting remains operational and that every ballot cast will be counted, urging residents not to leave polling locations while technicians work to resolve the scanning issue.

Donald Trump lashed out at the Daily Mail on Tuesday afternoon, accusing the outlet of taking a joke about renaming the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool out of context.

On Truth Social, Trump pushed back on a report describing a recent press conference at the newly renovated site as a poorly attended final midterm campaign speech. Trump clarified that the event was a closed-door news conference for reporters rather than a public rally.

“I said, very clearly, ‘I’m joking,’” Trump wrote, rejecting the headline’s claim that he threatened a “major rename” and condemning media coverage of his crowd sizes as dishonest.

“The Fake News is so corrupt!” he wrote.

President Donald Trump and his Republicans are about to get “trounced” in Tuesday’s midterm elections, former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has predicted.

Guesting on CNBC’s Squawk Box Europe, Scaramucci, 62, who served for just 11 days in Trump’s first White House administration before being fired, said the U.S. is currently at a crossroads with the two main parties offering “two different visions of where the country should go.”

“I think the president’s going to get trounced, by the way, and I think he knows he’s going to get trounced,” the former financier turned podcaster and pundit said.

Joe Sommerlad has the story.

Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters told Fox Business on Tuesday, “People think we’ve lost touch.”

“But no matter how bad you think the economy may be, I think people will reject communism,” he said.

People across the United States are betting on this year’s midterm races at record levels for US election betting.

More than $1.4 billion has been wagered on the midterms, according to the platforms and industry research. Prediction market platforms allow traders to buy and sell “yes” or “no” contracts on a range of race outcomes and variables. The markets rose to prominence in 2024 when they bucked traditional opinion polls in signaling that Donald Trump would win the presidency.

Among those watching the results roll in on Tuesday evening will be Noah Poser, who will be glued to his phone tracking dozens of large wagers he placed on prediction markets when polls close in the US midterm elections on Tuesday night. Poser, 28, works in financial technology and has written about betting strategies in such markets.

Paul Farrell has the story.

Maine Sen. Susan Collins’ office was vandalized overnight, with a message written in red paint on the front door reading “BLOOD on her HANDS”

A photo shared online by Fox News showed a pool of red paint also on the sidewalk in front of the Biddeford office.

Collins is seeking a sixth term. She is being challenged by Democratic former state Senate president Troy Jackson.

About half of voters want “substantial change” to how the country is run, according to a recent AP-NORC poll.

Additionally, about three in 10 want “complete and total upheaval.”

Only about two in 10 said they want “small change” or “no change.”

Democrats and independents polled were more likely than Republicans to indicate they wanted a full overhaul, but even Republican voters indicated they were hoping for a change.

About 45 percent said they want substantial change, while 13 percent want upheaval.