BHN Talk Radio (10-29-24): New York City Trump rally comedian and speaker inflames public telling racists jokes; Obama nails speech

BREAKING:  In this episode of BHN Talk Radio Show, Julia Ann Dudley Najieb, Cheryl Smith and Brigitte Jones review the breaking news concerning 10 million residents in Cuba who have been without power for over two weeks since hurricane Oscar.  Cuban authorities say at least six people have been killed after Hurricane Oscar made landfall over the weekend, with the government still working to re-establish power after days of blackouts.

GREEN WATCH: Detroit weather hitting record highs in the mid 70s during Halloween week.  Temperatures are forecasted to top out at 79 degrees in the afternoon. The record temperature currently stands at 77 degrees in 1999. 

Wednesday's forecasted high is also 79 degrees. This record high temperature coincidentally stands from 1999 as well, with a high of 76 degrees. 

Warm temperatures will continue on Halloween with a high of 73 degrees. However, a cold front will pass through, bringing a chance of rain showers to the area. Right now, it looks like we're in for a treat on Halloween, as the rain will exit the area before the start of trick-or-treating.

ELECTION NEWS:  Voting ballots were set on fire in Oregon , Washington and Arizona.  
Law enforcement including the Federal Bureau of Investigation is still investigating in both Washington and Oregon, where election officials are asking voters who dropped their ballots off at these drop boxes over the weekend to get in contact so they can be sure to vote.

In a statement, Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs denounced what he described as "acts of terror" and reminded voters that they could check online to see if their ballot had been marked as returned and would be able to print out replacement ballots or cast one in person.

Oregon and Washington vote exclusively by mail and drop box while in Arizona, almost all voters cast ballots early that are returned the same way. Ballot drop boxes have been a subject of conspiracist narratives and false claims about their security since the 2020 election cycle, according to Max Read, a senior research manager for elections at the nonprofit Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which studies extremism and disinformation.

MORE ELECTION NEWS:  A federal judge threw out a challenge on Tuesday brought by GOP lawmakers in Pennsylvania over overseas voters casting ballots in the battleground state, as courts across the country are issuing a flurry of last-minute rulings on ballots and how elections are run as parties seek to expand or limit voter access.

A record 1.4 million ballots have been cast in Georgia since early voting began last Tuesday. That exceeds the early vote totals in the last presidential election year. What that means for which candidates will prevail in November is still an open question, but those numbers do tell us something about the nature of this race and the strategies the presidential campaigns might take to pull off a win. Zachary Peskowitz, an associate professor of political science at Emory University, spoke with GPB’s Peter Biello.

Meanwhile, a Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden in News York City featured controversial comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe as one of the speakers over the weekend.  His insensitive comments that lacked humor has set fire to the internet, media and ethnic organizations and groups as people are outraged by the barrage of racist comments intertwined as "comedy."  

The comments, while reminiscent of many made by Trump in the campaign’s final weeks, were made by a comedian early in the night’s schedule and were supposed to be jokes. Now, they are dominating the news cycle and putting Trump’s campaign on the backfoot with just under a week until the election.

Longtime Trump adviser Peter Navarro is calling the comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, “the biggest, stupidest asshole that ever came down the comedy pike” after