First Thing Today with Joe Thomas
Oct 26, 2026 · 54 min · 34 segments
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with the president winning re-election 51.8% of the vote for president, un president, I'm told I'm corrected because Brazil speaks a type of Portuguese, un presidente, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has, quote, been re-elected with 51.8% of the votes after, now get this, calling on the polling places to arbitrarily stay open for two extra hours as they were just getting ready to close and a bunch of votes had already been counted.
Flavio Bolsonaro has not conceded, saying the move to extend voting hours was unprecedented.
Meanwhile, in Venezuela, Nobel laureate Maria Corina Machado, opposition leader to the Maduro and Chavez administrations, has returned from exile.
And then later, in front of a video of supporters enthusiastically cheering, finally Caracas, I am here.
Speaking of elections, here in our banana republic known as California, Todd Blanche was pressed on whether or not the lawsuit after the voting records would stand after the ninth u s circuit court of appeals held a special weekend hearing on whether or not the president's administration could hold the votes of 20,000 people until it could be proven whether or not they are citizens or not.
They questioned the timing, the authority, and especially the constitutionality, which sort of is the prior, but they questioned all this at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Meanwhile, Todd Blanch was also asked about the Alaska suit, seeking to make sure that votes are attributed to the correct Dan Sullivan and also going after the decision to run somebody who has the exact same first and last name as the Republican incumbent.
We're not saying that the federal government is going to decide who the next senator from Alaska is.
Saturday in Georgia, announcing Audi would build a plant for $4.2 billion in Macon.
And then Sunday, Kandit continued to attack Abdul El-Sayed for the Muslim Brotherhood.
with the president winning re-election 51.8% of the vote for president, un president, I'm told I'm corrected because Brazil speaks a type of Portuguese, un presidente, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has, quote, been re-elected with 51.8% of the votes after, now get this, calling on the polling places to arbitrarily stay open for two extra hours as they were just getting ready to close and a bunch of votes had already been counted.
Flavio Bolsonaro has not conceded, saying the move to extend voting hours was unprecedented.
Meanwhile, in Venezuela, Nobel laureate Maria Corina Machado, opposition leader to the Maduro and Chavez administrations, has returned from exile.
And then later, in front of a video of supporters enthusiastically cheering, finally Caracas, I am here.
Speaking of elections, here in our banana republic known as California, Todd Blanche was pressed on whether or not the lawsuit after the voting records would stand after the ninth u s circuit court of appeals held a special weekend hearing on whether or not the president's administration could hold the votes of 20,000 people until it could be proven whether or not they are citizens or not.
They questioned the timing, the authority, and especially the constitutionality, which sort of is the prior, but they questioned all this at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Meanwhile, Todd Blanch was also asked about the Alaska suit, seeking to make sure that votes are attributed to the correct Dan Sullivan and also going after the decision to run somebody who has the exact same first and last name as the Republican incumbent.
We're not saying that the federal government is going to decide who the next senator from Alaska is.
Saturday in Georgia, announcing Audi would build a plant for $4.2 billion in Macon.
And then Sunday, Kandit continued to attack Abdul El-Sayed for the Muslim Brotherhood.
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