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On Election Eve, Trump Makes His Closing Argument at the Reflecting Pool While Vance Campaigns in New York and Ohio

As both parties made their final pitch to voters, President Donald Trump spoke at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool about its expensive, problem-plagued repair job, the AP reported Monday, while Vice President JD Vance worked traditional campaign stops.

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On Election Eve, Trump Makes His Closing Argument at the Reflecting Pool While Vance Campaigns in New York and Ohio (Newark Brick City News)

As Republicans and Democrats were making their final pitch to voters on Election Day eve, President Donald Trump instead was speaking far away from most of the people his party is trying to persuade, the Associated Press reported Monday.

Trump was making his closing argument at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, drawing attention to an expensive, problem-plagued repair job, according to the AP. Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance was doing more traditional campaign stops in New York and Ohio.

The final day also carried the midterms' sharpest intraparty fight: in Michigan, Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed was trying to brush off concerns about a dramatic intraparty split over Israel that played out this weekend, the AP reported — the same endorsement rift this station covered in Monday's closing-arguments file.

Essex County voters render their own verdict on Tuesday, when polls across New Jersey are open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.; this station's Election Day guide for Essex County was published Monday morning.

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