Election Day

Grand Rapids, Michigan Former president Donald Trump appeared for what will be his last ever presidential campaign rally Monday night — or very early Tuesday morning, to be exact — for a crowd of about 12,000 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This was Trump’s third time appearing in Grand Rapids on election eve; he spoke to voters from the DeVos Place Convention Center in 2016 when he won the state, at Gerald R. Ford International Airport in 2020, and tonight at the Van Andel Arena. In 2020, Trump said cheekily about his return to the city, “We can be a little superstitious, right?”  Trump took the stage just after midnight to roars from the crowd as “God Bless the USA” played on the speakers.

Nobody ever talks about this anymore, but there was a time when Democrats were floating Kamala Harris as a potential Supreme Court pick. Shortly after the death of Antonin Scalia, the Los Angeles Times published an article about how she may be on Barack Obama’s shortlist. Speculation reached a “fever pitch,” they reported. Harris said she was flattered by the consideration, even as she declined the opportunity. That’s a footnote in American history that’s worth revisiting, now that Election Day is almost here. Imagine the kind of people who would tell us, with a straight face, that Kamala Harris should replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. On the one hand, you have one of the leading legal minds in all of American history.