First Thing Today with Joe Thomas
Oct 26, 2026 · 54 min · 34 segments
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But that being said, we are here to take you on a journey through the news and travails of the remains of the weekend heading into this Monday morning.
Most everybody has got some semblance of early voting going on because we have to protect the poll workers from your long COVID or whatever it is that you've got hanging out there.
So Virginians, we're just here in our flagship state, just getting ready to culminate our 45 days of voting.
We finish on Saturday, take Monday off of next week, and then try to get everything finished We won't have an extension, at least not that I'm aware of, like they did in Brazil, where after extending voting by two hours... on election day.
You think we're a banana republic here? Brazil held a master's class in what a banana republic does on its runoff election day.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won quote-unquote re-election after keeping the polling places open two extra hours to get 51.8% of the total vote.
His opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro, has refused to concede, calling the vote extension unprecedented.
Meanwhile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate Maria Correa Machado is back in Caracas.
Finally, Caracas, I'm here, she posted later on on Sunday evening with a video of supporters greeting her return to the country.
Here in the States, a panel of federal appellate judges in California, the Ninth Circuit, have questioned the constitutionality, authority, and timing of the Department of Justice's demand that California election officials set aside thousands of mail-in ballots from people the federal government suspects may not be citizens.
United States and Canada are close to reaching a trade agreement, according to Kevin Hassett.
on sunday according to bloomberg i think it's very close to finally having a deal on that he said on fox news meanwhile todd blanche was on cnn's state of the union program defunded defending the not defunding but defending the justice department's lawsuit over alaska's senate election saying the challenge of voter confusion of two candidates named Dan Sullivan.
We're not saying the federal government is going to decide who the next senator from Alaska is, he assured.
But that being said, we are here to take you on a journey through the news and travails of the remains of the weekend heading into this Monday morning.
Most everybody has got some semblance of early voting going on because we have to protect the poll workers from your long COVID or whatever it is that you've got hanging out there.
So Virginians, we're just here in our flagship state, just getting ready to culminate our 45 days of voting.
We finish on Saturday, take Monday off of next week, and then try to get everything finished We won't have an extension, at least not that I'm aware of, like they did in Brazil, where after extending voting by two hours... on election day.
You think we're a banana republic here? Brazil held a master's class in what a banana republic does on its runoff election day.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won quote-unquote re-election after keeping the polling places open two extra hours to get 51.8% of the total vote.
His opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro, has refused to concede, calling the vote extension unprecedented.
Meanwhile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate Maria Correa Machado is back in Caracas.
Finally, Caracas, I'm here, she posted later on on Sunday evening with a video of supporters greeting her return to the country.
Here in the States, a panel of federal appellate judges in California, the Ninth Circuit, have questioned the constitutionality, authority, and timing of the Department of Justice's demand that California election officials set aside thousands of mail-in ballots from people the federal government suspects may not be citizens.
United States and Canada are close to reaching a trade agreement, according to Kevin Hassett.
on sunday according to bloomberg i think it's very close to finally having a deal on that he said on fox news meanwhile todd blanche was on cnn's state of the union program defunded defending the not defunding but defending the justice department's lawsuit over alaska's senate election saying the challenge of voter confusion of two candidates named Dan Sullivan.
We're not saying the federal government is going to decide who the next senator from Alaska is, he assured.
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