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Taylor Swift Announces Opening Acts For Speak Now Tour

When it comes to opening acts for the North American leg of her Speak Now tour, Taylor Swift has compiled a nice list of eye candy, not to mention inspiration for her next album.

Frankie Ballard , Danny Gokey , Hunter Hayes , Josh Kelley , Randy Montana , James Wesley and Charlie Worsham will each play select dates on the tour (list below). As previously announced , Needtobreathe will appear on all North American stops, which kick off May 27 in Omaha, Neb.

"I'm so excited to go back out on tour again in 2011!" Taylor says . "The Fearless Tour was so much fun and even more unforgettable than I ever imagined, and I can't wait to get back out and play my new music from ' Speak Now !' The fans have been so amazing, and I'm thrilled to play in new cities around the world and meet even more of my fans in 2011!"

Joining the pack of relative country newcomers is 25-year-old independent artist Charlie Worsham, who made his Grand Ole Opry debut at the age of 12. Learn more about the multi-instrumentalist with a country-pop rock-bluegrass sound here .

It's an exciting week for Taylor, who topped the Mediabase/Country Aircheck chart for the seventh time with 'Back to December,' her second consecutive No. 1 single from 'Speak Now.' In addition, Taylor's 2006 self-titled debut album was certified five-times platinum by the RIAA for sales exceeding five million units. Her 'Fearless' album is currently six-times platinum, while 'Speak Now' is triple platinum.

Taylor Swift's Speak Now Tour Dates With Openers in Addition to Needtobreathe:

May 27, 28 - Omaha, Neb. - Frankie Ballard

May 29 - Des Moines, Iowa - Frankie Ballard

June 2, 3 - Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. - Frankie Ballard

June 4 - Orlando, Fla. - Frankie Ballard

June 7 - Columbus, Ohio - Frankie Ballard

June 8 - Milwaukee, Wis. - Frankie Ballard

June 11 - Detroit, Mich. - Frankie Ballard & Randy Montana

June 14, 15 - St. Paul, Minn. - Randy Montana

June 18 - Pittsburgh, Pa. - Randy Montana & Danny Gokey

June 21 - Buffalo, N.Y. - Randy Montana

June 22 - Hartford, Conn. - Randy Montana

June 25, 26 - Foxboro, Mass. - James Wesley & Randy Montana

June 30 - Greensboro, N.C. - James Wesley

July 1 - Knoxville, Tenn. - James Wesley

July 2 - Louisville, Ky. - James Wesley

July 8 - Charlotte, N.C. - Danny Gokey

July 9, 10 - Atlanta, Ga. - Danny Gokey

July 14 - Montreal, Quebec - Danny Gokey

July 15, 16 - Toronto, Ontario - Danny Gokey

July 19, 20, 23, 24 - Newark, N.J. - Danny Gokey

July 28 - Grand Rapids, Mich. - Hunter Hayes

July 29 - Indianapolis, Ind. - Hunter Hayes

July 30 - Cleveland, Ohio - Hunter Hayes

August 2, 3 - Washington, DC - Hunter Hayes

August 6 - Philadelphia, Pa. - Hunter Hayes & James Wesley

August 9, 10 - Chicago, Ill. - Hunter Hayes

August 13, 14 - St. Louis, Mo. - Hunter Hayes

August 18, 19 - Edmonton, Alberta - Josh Kelley

August 23, 24, 27, 28 - Los Angeles, Calif. - Josh Kelley

September 1, 2 - San Jose, Calif. - Josh Kelley

September 3 - Sacramento, Calif. - Josh Kelley

September 6 - Portland, Ore. - Josh Kelley

September 7 - Tacoma, Wash. - Josh Kelley

September 10, 11 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Josh Kelley

September 16, 17 - Nashville, Tenn. - Charlie Worsham

September 21 - Tulsa, Okla. - Charlie Worsham

September 24 - Kansas City, Mo. - Charlie Worsham

September 27 - Denver, Colo. - Charlie Worsham

September 28 - Salt Lake City, Utah - Charlie Worsham

October 4 - Little Rock, Ark. - Charlie Worsham

October 5 - New Orleans, La. - Charlie Worsham

October 8 - Dallas, Texas - Charlie Worsham

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Speak Now World Tour

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This is about the tour. For the live album, see Speak Now: World Tour Live .

1 Background
2 Opening acts
3.1.1 Covers
5.1 Box office score data
6 References
7 External links

Background [ ]

"I’m so excited to go back out on tour again in 2011! The 'Fearless Tour' was so much fun and even more unforgettable than I ever imagined, and I can't wait to get back out and play my new music from Speak Now! The fans have been so amazing and I'm thrilled to play in new cities around the world and meet even more of my fans in 2011!" [3]

While promoting her current album, Swift mentioned her excitement for her upcoming tour. She stated the tour was going to be "big" and "extensive". [4] On November 23, 2010, various media outlets—including Billboard Magazine announced the second tour by Swift. [5] It follows her successful Fearless Tour which played for over 100 dates in over five countries. The tour marked the singer's first tour to perform in stadiums. Before the tour commenced, Swift performed "The Allure of Taylor Swift" aboard the MS Allure of the Seas at the Allure of the Seas Aquatheater, as apart Royal Caribbean Cruises in January 2011. [6]

Opening acts [ ]

Setlist [ ].

" Sparks Fly "
" The Story of Us "
" Our Song "
" Back to December " / "Apologize" / " You're Not Sorry "
" Better Than Revenge "
" Speak Now "
" Fearless " / "I'm Yours" / "Hey, Soul Sister"
" Last Kiss "
" You Belong with Me "
" Dear John "
" Enchanted "
" Haunted "
" Long Live "
" Fifteen "
" Love Story "
During the shows in Asia leg and Europe leg, " Our Song ", " Mean ", " Last Kiss ", " Haunted " were not performed, as the result of stage reduction and lacking background dancers. In addition, " Fifteen " was moved to the place where " Last Kiss " originally should be.
" Ours " was added to the setlist after the Denver show on September 27, 2011.
" Safe & Sound " was added to the setlist since the Oceania leg, although it was replaced by " Eyes Open " during the show in Auckland.
During her concert at the Allstate Arena, Swift performed "Sugar, We're Goin Down" [12]
During her concert at the Van Andel Arena, Swift performed "Lose Yourself" and "Smile". [13]
During her concert at the Lincoln Financial Field, Swift performed "Who Knew" and "Unpretty". [12]
During her concerts at the Staples Center, Swift was joined onstage my many guest stars. For the concert on August 23, Swift was joined onstage by Justin Bieber to perform "Baby". [14] For the show on the 24th, Swift was joined by Jason Mraz to perform his hit, "I'm Yours". She also performed, "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys. [15] The following concert on the 27th saw Swift performing, "Tonight Tonight" with Hot Chelle Rae [15] and on the 28th, she performed "Super Bass" with Nicki Minaj . [16]
During her concert in at Rogers Arena, Swift performed "You Learn" and "Baby". She was later joined onstage by Tal Bachman to perform his hit, "She's So High". [17]
During her concert at the Bridgestone Arena on September 16, Swift was joined by Ronnie Dunn and the two performed "Bleed Red". She was also joined by Hayley Williams and the two performed "That's What You Get". [18]
For her concerts in Atlanta, Swift was joined onstage by Usher to perform "Yeah!" on the first and rapper T.I. performing "Live Your Life" on the second. [19]
During her concert at the Cowboys Stadium, Swift was joined onstage by B.o.B to perform " Airplanes ". [20]
For her concerts in Glendale, Swift performed "No Parade", "The Middle" and "All You Wanted". [21]
During her concert at the Valley View Casino Center, Swift performed, "Dare You to Move". [22]
During the concert at the Frank Erwin Center, Swift was joined onstage by Shawn Colvin to perform "Sunny Came Home". [23]
During her concert at Minute Maid Park, Swift was joined onstage by Nelly to perform "Just a Dream" [24]
During her concert at the American Airlines Arena, Swift was joined by Flo Rida to perform "Right Round". [25]
During her concert at the Colonial Life Arena, Swift was joined by Darius Rucker to perform "Alright". [26]
During her concert at the Madison Square Garden, Swift was joined by Selena Gomez to perform "Who Says" and James Taylor to perform "Fire and Rain". [27]

Gallery [ ]

Tour dates [ ].

^ a This concert was a part of the Speak Now, Help Now

Box office score data [ ]

References [ ].

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↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Mapes, Jillian. "Taylor Swift Announces 'Speak Now' World Tour" . Billboard . Prometheus Global Media . http://www.billboard.com/events/taylor-swift-announces-speak-now-world-tour-1004130458.story#/events/taylor-swift-announces-speak-now-world-tour-1004130458.story . Retrieved 2010-11-24 .
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Taylor Swift Taps Josh Kelley, Danny Gokey, Six More as ‘Speak Now’ Tour Openers

Taylor Swift has just announced the opening acts on her 'Speak Now' Tour. Country stars Josh Kelley and Danny Gokey are just two of the eight openers that will play various dates over the summer.

The North American leg of the tour kicks off May 27 in Omaha, Nebraska. South Carolina rockers Needtobreath will be on all of Swift's North American dates, along with one of the eight newly announced acts, whose ranks are rounded out by Randy Montana , Frankie Ballard , Charlie Worsham, Hunter Hayes and James Wesley.

Swift believes in spotlighting new acts like Worsham, a country-rock-bluegrass independent artist who made his Grand Ole Opry debut when he was just 12 years old.

Swift just returned from the Asian leg of her 'Speak Now' Tour, and was recently seen at a hockey game in Los Angeles. She also atteneded last weekend's Oscar Awards with rumored beau "Glee' star Chord Overstreet.

Taylor Swift Speak Now 2011 Tour Dates With Opening Acts:

(Needtobreath will also be on all dates)

5/27 and 28 - Omaha, Neb. - with opener Frankie Ballard

5/29 - Des Moines, Iowa - with opener Frankie Ballard

6/2 and 3 - Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. - with opener Frankie Ballard

6/4 - Orlando, Fla. - with opener Frankie Ballard

6/7 - Columbus, Ohio - with opener Frankie Ballard

6/8 - Milwaukee, Wis. - with opener Frankie Ballard

6/11 - Detroit, Mich. - with openers Frankie Ballard and Randy Montana

6/14 and 15 - St. Paul, Minn. - with opener Randy Montana

6/18 - Pittsburgh, Pa. - with openers Randy Montana and Danny Gokey

6/21 - Buffalo, N.Y. - with opener Randy Montana

6/22 - Hartford, Conn. - with opener Randy Montana

6/25 and 26 - Foxboro, Mass. - with openers James Wesley and Randy Montana

6/30 - Greensboro, N.C. - with opener James Wesley

7/1 - Knoxville, Tenn. - with opener James Wesley

7/2 - Louisville, Ky. - with opener James Wesley

7/8 - Charlotte, N.C. - with opener Danny Gokey

7/9 and 10 - Atlanta, Ga. - with opener Danny Gokey

7/14 - Montreal, Quebec - with opener Danny Gokey

7/15 and 16 - Toronto, Ontario - with opener Danny Gokey

7/19, 20, 23, 24 - Newark, N.J. - with opener Danny Gokey

7/28 - Grand Rapids, Mich. - with opener Hunter Hayes

7/29 - Indianapolis, Ind. - with opener Hunter Hayes

7/30 - Cleveland, Ohio - with opener Hunter Hayes

8/2 and 3 - Washington, DC - with opener Hunter Hayes

8/6 - Philadelphia, Pa. - with openers Hunter Hayes and James Wesley

8/9 and 10 - Chicago, Ill. - with opener Hunter Hayes

8/13 and 14 - St. Louis, Mo. - with opener Hunter Hayes

8/18 and 19 - Edmonton, Alberta - with opener Josh Kelley

8/23, 24, 27, 28 - Los Angeles, Calif. - with opener Josh Kelley

9/1 and 2 - San Jose, Calif. - with opener Josh Kelley

9/3 - Sacramento, Calif. - with opener Josh Kelley

9/6 - Portland, Ore. - with opener Josh Kelley

9-7 - Tacoma, Wash. - with opener Josh Kelley

9/10 and 11 - Vancouver, British Columbia - with opener Josh Kelley

9/16 and 17 - Nashville, Tenn. - with opener Charlie Worsham

9/21 - Tulsa, Okla. - with opener Charlie Worsham

9/24 - Kansas City, Mo. - with opener Charlie Worsham

9/27 - Denver, Colo. - with opener Charlie Worsham

9/28 - Salt Lake City, Utah - with opener Charlie Worsham

10/4 - Little Rock, Ark. - with opener Charlie Worsham

10/5 - New Orleans, La. - with opener Charlie Worsham

10/8 - Dallas, Texas - with opener Charlie Worsham

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Taylor Swift Announces 'Speak Now' World Tour Dates

[artist id="2389485"]Taylor Swift[/artist] is ready to take Speak Now on the road. The singer will kick off her world tour February 19 in Singapore. She'll bring the show Stateside on May 27 in Omaha, Nebraska.

Before the tour wraps October 8 in Dallas, Swift will have played 87 shows in 19 countries. Swift also has plans to add additional dates in Australia and New Zealand. Ticket prices will start at $25.

The tour will include multiple costume changes and will show off Swift's musicianship, as she plans to play several instruments during the show.

"I'm so excited to go back out on tour again in 2011!" Swift said in a statement. "The Fearless Tour was so much fun and even more unforgettable than I ever imagined, and I can't wait to get back out and play my new music from Speak Now ! The fans have been so amazing, and I'm thrilled to play in new cities around the world and meet even more of my fans in 2011!"

[article id="1650280"]Swift told MTV News before Speak Now dropped[/article] that she was especially excited to take the new album out on the road. "Lots, lots of touring, very extensive tour planned," Swift revealed. "That's also gonna be a worldwide thing, so I'm just completely stoked out of my mind to play the new songs live."

» 2/9 - Singapore

» 2/11 - Seoul, South Korea

» 2/13 - Osaka, Japan

» 2/16-17 - Tokyo, Japan

» 2/19 - Manila, Philippines

» 2/21 - Hong Kong

» 3/6 - Brussels, Belgium

» 3/7 - Rotterdam, Holland

» 3/9 - Oslo, Norway

» 3/12 - Oberhausen, Germany

» 3/15 - Milan, Italy

» 3/17 - Paris, France

» 3/19 - Madrid, Spain

» 3/22 - Birmingham, U.K.

» 3/25 - Belfast, Northern Ireland

» 3/27 - Dublin, Ireland

» 3/29 - Manchester, U.K.

» 3/30 - London, U.K.

» 5/27-28 - Omaha, Nebraska

» 5/29 - Des Moines, Iowa

» 6/2-3 - Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

» 6/4 - Orlando, Florida

» 6/7 - Columbus, Ohio

» 6/8 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

» 6/11 - Detroit, Michigan

» 6/14 & 15 - St. Paul, Minnesota

» 6/18 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

» 6/21 - Buffalo, New York

» 6/22 - Hartford, Connecticut

» 6/25 - Foxborough, Massachusetts

» 6/30 - Greensboro, North Carolina

» 7/1 - Knoxville, Tennessee

» 7/2 - Louisville, Kentucky

» 7/8 - Charlotte, North Carolina

» 7/9-10 - Atlanta, Georgia

» 7/14 - Montreal, Quebec

» 7/15-16 - Toronto, Ontario

» 7/19-20 - New York, New York

» 7/28 - Grand Rapids, Michigan

» 7/29 - Indianapolis, Indiana

» 7/30 - Cleveland, Ohio

» 8/2-3 - Washington, D.C.

» 8/6 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

» 8/9-10 - Chicago, Illinois

» 8/13 - Lexington, Kentucky

» 8/14 - St. Louis, Missouri

» 8/18-19 - Edmonton, Alberta

» 8/23-24 - Los Angeles, California

» 9/1-2 - San Jose, California

» 9/3 - Sacramento, California

» 9/6 - Portland, Oregon

» 9/7 - Seattle, Washington

» 9/10-11 - Vancouver, British Columbia

» 9/16-17 - Nashville, Tennessee

» 9/21 - Tulsa, Oklahoma

» 9/24 - Kansas City, Missouri

» 9/27 - Denver, Colorado

» 9/28 - Salt Lake City, Utah

» 10/4 - Little Rock, Arkansas

» 10/5 - New Orleans, Louisiana

» 10/8 - Dallas, Texas

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Taylor Swift Announces ‘Speak Now’ World Tour

Taylor Swift will take her record-breaking album "Speak Now" on the road next year, starting in February and continuing through October 2011.

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T aylor Swift will take her record-breaking album “Speak Now” on the road next year, starting in February and continuing through October 2011.

The “Speak Now” World Tour will take Swift to 19 countries, beginning Feb. 9 in Singapore and running through Asia and Europe before hitting the U.S. on May 27 in Omaha, Neb. These dates include six stadium shows in the U.S.

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“I’m so excited to go back out on tour again in 2011!” Swift said in a statement. “The FEARLESS Tour was so much fun and even more unforgettable than I ever imagined, and I can’t wait to get back out and play my new music from Speak Now! The fans have been so amazing, and I’m thrilled to play in new cities around the world and meet even more of my fans in 2011!”

Taylor Swift’s 2009-2010 “Fearless” World Tour, which spanned 15 months, grossed $63,705,590, with 1,138,977 in attendance, according to Billboard Boxscore statistics. For her efforts, Swift received the Top Package Award at Billboard’s 2010 Touring Awards.

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Feb. 9: Singapore (Singapore Indoor Stadium) Feb. 11: Seoul, South Korea (Gymnastic Gymnasium) Feb. 13: Osaka, Japan (Osaka-Jo Hall) Feb. 16 & 17: Tokyo, Japan (Budokan Hall) Feb. 19: Manila, Philippines (Araneta Coliseum) Feb. 21: Hong Kong (Asia World Arena) March 6: Brussels, Belgium (Forest National) March 7: Rotterdam, Holland (Ahoy) March 9: Oslo, Norway (Oslo Spektrum) March 12: Oberhausen, Germany (Oberhausen Arena) March 15: Milan, Italy March 17: Paris, France (Zenith) March 19: Madrid, Spain (Palacio De Deportes) March 22: Birmingham, UK (LG Arena) March 25: Belfast, Northern Ireland (Odyssey Arena) March 27: Dublin, Ireland (O2 Dublin) March 29: Manchester, UK (Manchester Evening News Arena) March 30: London, UK (O2 Arena) May 27 & 28: Omaha, Neb. May 29: Des Moines, Iowa June 2 & 3: Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. June 4: Orlando, Fla. June 7: Columbus, Ohio June 8: Milwaukee, Wis. June 11: Detroit, Mich. (Ford Field) June 14 & 15: St. Paul, Minn. June 18: Pittsburgh, Penn. ( Heinz Field ) June 21: Buffalo, N.Y. June 22: Hartford, Conn. June 25: Foxborough, Mass. (Gillette Stadium) June 30: Greensboro, N.C. July 1: Knoxville, Tenn. July 2: Louisville, Ky July 8: Charlotte, N.C. July 9 & 10: Atlanta, Ga. July 14: Montreal, Quebec July 15 & 16: Toronto, Ontario July 19 & 20: New York, N.Y. July 28: Grand Rapids, Mich. July 29: Indianapolis, Ind. July 30: Cleveland, Ohio Aug. 2 & 3: Washington, D.C. Aug. 6: Philadelphia, Penn. (Lincoln Financial Field) Aug. 9 & 10: Chicago, Ill. Aug. 13: Lexington, Ky Aug. 14: St. Louis, Mo. Aug. 18 & 19: Edmonton, Alberta Aug. 23 & 24: Los Angeles, Calif. Sept. 1 & 2: San Jose, Calif. Sept. 3: Sacramento, Calif. Sept. 6: Portland, Ore. Sept. 7: Seattle, Wash. Sept. 10 & 11: Vancouver, British Columbia Sept. 16 & 17: Nashville, Tenn. Sept. 21: Tulsa, Okla. Sept. 24: Kansas City, Mo. (Arrowhead Stadium) Sept. 27: Denver, Colo. Sept 28: Salt Lake City, Utah Oct. 4: Little Rock, Ark. Oct. 5: New Orleans, La. Oct. 8: Dallas, Texas (Cowboys Stadium)

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Taylor Swift announced Tuesday that she will embark on a world tour next year in support of her newest album Speak Now, which sold more than a million copies in its first week.

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Taylor Swift Announces 'Speak Now' World Tour

Taylor Swift is the gift that keeps on giving (especially if you're her record company) and Speak Now , the latest from the not-a-girl-not-yet-a-woman country-pop phenom, which sold an astounding one million copies its first week, shows no signs of slowing down.

It was announced Tuesday that four-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift will embark on a world tour next year in support of her newest album Speak Now , which sold more than a million copies in its first week.

Swift will perform 87 concerts in 19 countries on the Speak Now World Tour 2011 , which kicks off Feb. 9 in Singapore. She will travel through Asia and Europe in the first quarter of 2011 before beginning her North American trek May 27 in Omaha, Neb. There are plans to bring the tour to Australia and New Zealand later this year.

The tour will also include six stadium shows in Foxborough, MA’s Gillette Stadium, Detroit’s Ford Field, Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field, Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field, Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium and the Dallas Cowboys’ Stadium.

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Taylor Swift Confirms Speak Now World Tour Dates

Taylor Swift has released the dates for a world tour behind her new smash hit album Speak Now . The 87-date tour will find Taylor in Asia and Europe this winter before she hits the road in the U.S. next spring.

The mega-tour kicks off in Singapore on February 9 with stops in South Korea, Japan, The Philippines and Hong Kong coming later that month. She will then start a European leg in Brussels, Belgium on March 6.

After stops throughout mainland Europe and the U.K., Swift will start her U.S. tour with back-to-back shows in Omaha, Nebraska on May 27 and 28.

2011 Taylor Swift Speak Now World Tour dates:

February 9: Singapore

February 11: Seoul, South Korea

February 13: Osaka, Japan

February 16 & 17: Tokyo, Japan

February 19: Manila, Philippines

February 21: Hong Kong

March 6: Brussels, Belgium

March 7: Rotterdam, Holland

March 9: Oslo, Norway

March 12: Oberhausen, Germany

March 15: Milan, Italy

March 17: Paris, France

March 19: Madrid, Spain

March 22: Birmingham, UK

March 25: Belfast, Northern Ireland

March 27: Dublin, Ireland

March 29: Manchester, UK

March 30: London, UK

May 27 & 28: Omaha, Nebraska

May 29: Des Moines, Iowa

June 2 & 3: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

June 4: Orlando, Florida

June 7: Columbus, Ohio

June 8: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

June 11: Detroit, Michigan

June 14 & 15: St. Paul, Minnesota

June 18: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

June 21: Buffalo, New York

June 22: Hartford, Connecticut

June 25: Foxborough, Massachusetts

June 30: Greensboro, North Carolina

July 1: Knoxville, Tennessee

July 2: Louisville, Kentucky

July 8: Charlotte, North Carolina

July 9 & 10: Atlanta, Georgia

July 14: Montreal, Quebec

July 15 & 16: Toronto, Ontario

July 19 & 20: New York, New York

July 28: Grand Rapids, Michigan

July 29: Indianapolis, Indiana

July 30: Cleveland, Ohio

August 2 & 3: Washington, DC

August 6: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

August 9 & 10: Chicago, Illinois

August 13: Lexington, Kentucky

August 14: St. Louis, Missouri

August 18 & 19: Edmonton, Alberta

August 23 & 24: Los Angeles, California

September 1 & 2: San Jose, California

September 3: Sacramento, California

September 6: Portland, Oregon

September 7: Seattle, Washington

September 10 & 11: Vancouver, British Columbia

September 16 & 17: Nashville, Tennessee

September 21: Tulsa, Oklahoma

September 24: Kansas City, Missouri

September 27: Denver, Colorado

September 28: Salt Lake City, Utah

October 4: Little Rock, Arkansas

October 5: New Orleans, Louisiana

October 8: Dallas, Texas

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Taylor Swift ’s Speak Now tour dates have been released. Swift will be playing 87 shows in 19 countries, so find out if she is coming to a venue near you.

Taylor Swift will kick off her Speak Now world tour on February 9, 2011 in Singapore.

Swift’ ? s ? ? United States debut will be on May 27 in Omaha, Nebraska. Ticket prices will start at $25.

“Lots, lots of touring, very extensive tour planned. That’s also gonna be a worldwide thing, so I’m just completely stoked out of my mind to play the new songs live,” Swift said.

“I’m so excited to go back out on tour again in 2011! The Fearless Tour was so much fun and even more unforgettable than I ever imagined, and I can’t wait to get back out and play my new music from Speak Now ! The fans have been so amazing, and I’m thrilled to play in new cities around the world and meet even more of my fans in 2011!” she says.

Taylor Swift’s Speak Now World Tour Dates

2/9 – Singapore 2/11 – Seoul, South Korea 2/13 – Osaka, Japan 2/16-17 – Tokyo, Japan 2/19 – Manila, Philippines 2/21 – Hong Kong 3/6 – Brussels, Belgium 3/7 – Rotterdam, Holland 3/9 – Oslo, Norway 3/12 – Oberhausen, Germany 3/15 – Milan, Italy 3/17 – Paris, France 3/19 – Madrid, Spain 3/22 – Birmingham, U.K. 3/25 – Belfast, Northern Ireland 3/27 – Dublin, Ireland 3/29 – Manchester, U.K. 3/30 – London, U.K. 5/27-28 – Omaha, Nebraska 5/29 – Des Moines, Iowa 6/2-3 – Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 6/4 – Orlando, Florida 6/7 – Columbus, Ohio 6/8 – Milwaukee, Wisconsin 6/11 – Detroit, Michigan 6/14 & 15 – St. Paul, Minnesota 6/18 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 6/21 – Buffalo, New York 6/22 – Hartford, Connecticut 6/25 – ? Foxborough, Massachusetts 6/30 – Greensboro, North Carolina 7/1 – Knoxville, Tennessee 7/2 – Louisville, Kentucky 7/8 – Charlotte, North Carolina 7/9-10 – Atlanta, Georgia 7/14 – Montreal, Quebec 7/15-16 – Toronto, Ontario 7/19-20 – New York, New York 7/28 – Grand Rapids, Michigan 7/29 – Indianapolis, Indiana 7/30 – Cleveland, Ohio 8/2-3 – Washington, D.C. 8/6 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 8/9-10 – Chicago, Illinois 8/13 – Lexington, Kentucky 8/14 – St. Louis, Missouri 8/18-19 – Edmonton, Alberta 8/23-24 – Los Angeles, California 9/1-2 – San Jose, California 9/3 – Sacramento, California 9/6 – Portland, Oregon 9/7 – Seattle, Washington 9/10-11 – Vancouver, British Columbia 9/16-17 – Nashville, Tennessee 9/21 – Tulsa, Oklahoma 9/24 – Kansas City, Missouri 9/27 – Denver, Colorado 9/28 – Salt Lake City, Utah 10/4 – Little Rock, Arkansas 10/5 – New Orleans, Louisiana 10/8 – Dallas, Texas

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Taylor Swift has ties to Buffalo area, despite cheering for Kansas City Chiefs

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Hey Swifties: Did you know that Taylor Swift has ties to Western New York?

It’s well known that Swift will be cheering for her boyfriend Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL playoffs game against the Buffalo Bills , but apparently her family actually has roots in Chautauqua County.

According to the blog Discovering Buffalo One Street at a Time and confirmed by The Observer , Swift’s great-grandmother Eleanor Mayer lived in Dunkirk, N.Y. in the early 1900s. Eleanor’s parents, Julius and Delia Mayer — Swift’s great-great-grandparents, originally from Bavaria — owned the Mayer Music Store on Central Avenue in Dunkirk, located about 40 miles southwest of Buffalo.

Delia died in 1934 in Buffalo at the home of her granddaughter Bernice Whitney, according to a newspaper obituary published by the Dunkirk Observer. She and multiple members of the Mayer family are buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in nearby Fredonia, the Discovering Buffalo blog noted.

A genealogy expert told The Observer that Eleanor Mayer married Lance Gardner Finlay, of Cleveland, and had two children, including Swift’s grandfather, Robert Bruce Finlay. Robert and Marjorie Finlay, an opera singer, had a daughter named Andrea, who married Scott Swift.

Andrea and Scott welcomed their daughter, Taylor Alison Swift, on Dec. 13, 1989, in Pennsylvania. Swift grew up in Pennsylvania before moving to the Nashville area, where she signed her first major record label deal with Sony at age 14.

Swift today is one of the biggest music stars on the planet, grossing more than $1 billion on her sold-out “The Eras Tour” last year and breaking box office records with her “Eras” concert film. She was also named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2023 and has been partially credited with boosting NFL viewership by 7% this season thanks to her appearances at Chiefs games, cheering on Kelce.

Swift is rumored to be attending this Sunday’s AFC Divisional Round game in Orchard Park, where the Bills will host the Chiefs for a chance to advance to the AFC championship game. Swift previously attended the Chiefs-Bills game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, wearing red and gold as she watched her boyfriend lose to the Bills, 20-17. (Fun fact: Earlier in the season she wore a Chiefs jacket that was made by a Buffalo company .)

It wouldn’t be Swift’s first time in Buffalo. She performed at the HSBC Arena (now the KeyBank Center) in 2006 as an opening act for Rascal Flatts, plus she headlined at the same venue in 2011 (when it was the First Niagara Center) on her “Speak Now” world tour. (Another fun fact: Swift performed in Syracuse at the New York State Fair on that same tour with Rascal Flatts, which probably explains why she was briefly seen wearing a Syracuse shirt in a 2009 episode of NBC’s “ Dateline .”)

The Kansas City Chiefs-Buffalo Bills game is scheduled to kick off Sunday, Jan. 21, at 6:30 p.m. on CBS.

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Bills Plan Unusual Tribute to Taylor Swift for Chiefs Game

T he Buffalo Bills are set to host the Kansas City Chiefs for their third playoff matchup in the last four years, but it’s another special guest grabbing much of the attention ahead of the game.

The team is preparing for the likely arrival of Taylor Swift, who is famously dating Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and has been in attendance for many of his games this year. With a short break in “The Eras Tour,” Swift is expected to travel to Buffalo to take in the January 21 showdown between AFC contenders and the team is prepared with an unusual tribute.

Team’s Culinary Tribute to Taylor

The Bills announced that they are preparing for Swift’s arrival by introducing two Taylor-themed menu items at the stadium — Bad Blood Waffle Fries and Karma Quesadilla, both named for her hit songs.

Anda Altomare, the general manager of catering service Delaware North at Highmark Stadium, told NBC News that the new additions to the menu also pay tribute to both teams. The fries are topped with both Buffalo chicken and blue cheese along with Kansas City barbeque pork with cole slaw and pickles.

“Our culinary team has again designed a great menu for the Divisional playoff game this weekend, with several new items for fans as they cheer on the Bills,” Altomare said. “We had a lot of fun with this week’s menu — adding a few new options that celebrate this incredible rivalry with the Chiefs and their star-studded fans.”

The Bills have been known to introduce special menu items based on their opponents, the report added. When the Bills hosted the Pittsburgh Steelers in the wild-card round last week, they offered waffle fries loaded with traditional Pittsburgh sandwich toppings — pastrami, cole slaw, and shredded cheese.

Taylor Swift’s Ties to Buffalo

Even before her expected visit to Orchard Park, Swift had some deep ties to the Buffalo area. The Observer reported that her lineage traces back to Western New York, with her great-grandmother living in the city of Dunkirk, about 45 minutes south of the stadium.

“Dunkirk was once the home of Eleanor Mayer, her great-grandmother, in the early 1900s,” the report noted. “She was the daughter of Julius and Delia Mayer — great-great-grandparents of Swift — who ran the Mayer Music Store that was located on the 200 and 100 block of Central Avenue.”

While The Eras Tour is skipping over Buffalo, Swift has performed there in the past. Syracuse.com recalled that she performed at the HSBC Arena (now the KeyBank Center, home of the Buffalo Sabres) in 2006 as the opening act for Rascal Flatts. She later performed there two more times — at the Erie County fair in 2008 and again in 2011 for her “Speak Now” tour.

As the Buffalo News reported at the time, Swift’s show at the Erie County Fair came just a few months after she graduated high school and brought in a sell-out crowd.

“To top it all off, her concert Monday night at the Erie County Fair was sold out and people who couldn’t get tickets were standing outside the gates to catch an earful of her singing,” the report noted.

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The singer, who just performed the song "Back to December" off the album at this past weekend's American Music Awards, will kick off the worldwide tour in Singapore on February 9 and wrap up in Dallas, TX, on October 8. The tour will hit 19 countries over the course of eight months and include stops at six U.S. stadiums.

"I'm so excited to go back out on tour again in 2011!" Taylor says. " The Fearless Tour was so much fun and even more unforgettable than I ever imagined, and I can't wait to get back out and play my new music from Speak Now ! The fans have been so amazing, and I'm thrilled to play in new cities around the world and meet even more of my fans in 2011!"

The North American leg of Taylor's store will begin on May 27 in Omaha, NE. Click "Read More" to see a full list of Taylor's North American tour dates.

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Taylor Swift's Speak Now tour dates – May 27 & 28 — Omaha, NE – May 29 — Des Moines, IA – June 2 & 3 — Ft. Lauderdale, FL – June 4 — Orlando, FL – June 7 — Columbus, OH – June 8 — Milwaukee, WI – June 11 — Detroit, MI – June 14 & 15 — St. Paul, MN – June 18 — Pittsburgh, PA – June 21 — Buffalo, NY – June 22 — Hartford, CT – June 25 — Foxborough, MA – June 30 — Greensboro, NC – July 1 — Knoxville, TN – July 2 — Louisville, KY – July 8 — Charlotte, NC – July 9 & 10 — Atlanta, GA – July 14 — Montreal, QC – July 15 & 16 — Toronto, ON – July 19 & 20 — New York, NY – July 28 — Grand Rapids, MI – July 29 — Indianapolis, IN – July 30 — Cleveland, OH – August 2 & 3 — Washington, DC – August 6 — Philadelphia, PA – August 9 & 10 — Chicago, IL – August 13 — Lexington, KY – August 14 — St. Louis, MO – August 18 & 19 — Edmonton, AB – August 23 & 24 — Los Angeles, CA – September 1 & 2 — San Jose, CA – September 3 — Sacramento, CA – September 6 — Portland, OR – September 7 — Seattle, WA – September 10 & 11 — Vancouver, BC – September 16 & 17 — Nashville, TN – September 21 — Tulsa, OK – September 24 — Kansas City, MO – September 27 — Denver, CO – September 28 — Salt Lake City, UT – October 4 — Little Rock, AS – October 5 — New Orleans, LA – October 8 — Dallas, TX

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Speak Now World Tour

The Speak Now World Tour was the second concert tour by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift , who embarked on it to support her third studio album, Speak Now (2010). It ran from February 9, 2011, to March 18, 2012, and covered 110 shows across Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania.

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The set list consisted mostly of songs from Speak Now , with a few numbers from Swift's first two albums, Taylor Swift (2006) and Fearless (2008). Two songs were performed as medleys with music of other artists: " Hey, Soul Sister " by Train , " Apologize " by OneRepublic , and " I'm Yours " by Jason Mraz . On several US shows, Swift invited special guests to perform duets onstage with her. Multiple US shows were recorded for a concert film and live album, both titled Speak Now World Tour – Live , released on November 21, 2011.

Music critics generally praised the production and Swift's showmanship and interactions with her audience. According to Pollstar , the Speak Now World Tour was the fourth-highest-grossing tour and the highest-grossing by a female artist of 2011. Billboard ranked it fifth on their list of the top tours of 2011.

I’m so excited to go back out on tour again in 2011! The 'Fearless Tour' was so much fun and even more unforgettable than I ever imagined, and I can't wait to get back out and play my new music from Speak Now! The fans have been so amazing and I'm thrilled to play in new cities around the world and meet even more of my fans in 2011! [2]

While promoting Speak Now , Swift mentioned her excitement for her upcoming tour. She stated that the tour was going to be "big" and "extensive". [3] On November 23, 2010, various media outlets, including Billboard magazine, announced the second tour by Swift. [4] It followed her successful Fearless Tour , which played over 100 dates in five countries. The Speak Now World Tour marked Swift's first in multiple stadiums . Before it commenced, she performed "The Allure of Taylor Swift" show aboard the MV Allure of the Seas at the Allure of the Seas Aquatheater, as a part of Royal Caribbean Cruises on January 21, 2011 in Cozumel , Mexico . [5] Swift used Tom Petty 's " American Girl " as her entrance song. [6]

It ranked tenth on Pollstar 's "Top 50 Worldwide Tour (Mid-Year)" list, earning over $40 million. [7] At the end of 2011, the tour placed fourth on the magazine's annual "Top 25 Worldwide Tours" list, earning $104.2 million from 100 shows, [8] making it the highest-grossing female and solo tour of 2011.

During the North American [9] and Australasian tour legs, Swift wrote different song lyrics, and occasionally quotes from famous speeches and movies, on her left arm for each show. She stated that the lyrics should be viewed as a nightly "mood ring", [10] and The New Yorker has cited the practice as an example of Swift's "keen understanding of what fuels fan obsession in the first place: a desire for intimacy between singer and listener". [11]

Swift performed many acoustic cover versions during the North American leg. In each city, she paid tribute to a homegrown artist. [12] She stated that the cover versions allowed her to be "spontaneous" in an otherwise well-rehearsed show: "You'll have a lot of people who will come to more than one show, and I want them to get a different experience every time." [13]

The following set list is from the May 27, 2011 show in Omaha, Nebraska. It is not intended to represent all shows throughout the tour. [14]

" Sparks Fly "
" The Story of Us "
" Our Song "
" Back to December " / " Apologize " / " You're Not Sorry "
" Better than Revenge "
" Speak Now "
" Fearless " / " I'm Yours " / " Hey, Soul Sister "
"Last Kiss"
Surprise cover
" You Belong with Me "
" Dear John "
" Enchanted "
" Long Live "
" Fifteen "
" Love Story "
During the Asian and European legs, "Mean", "Our Song", and "Haunted" were not performed due to stage reduction. Additionally, "Fifteen" was performed in place of "Last Kiss". [ citation needed ]
During the show in Kansas City, Swift performed "Superman". [15]
Starting with the show in Denver, " Ours " was added to the set-list. [16]
During the shows in Lexington, [17] Houston, [18] and Raleigh, [19] Swift performed "Never Grow Up".
During the shows in Oceania, " Safe & Sound " was performed during the encore, except the second performance in Auckland, where " Eyes Open " was performed instead. [20]

The following songs were performed each night after "Last Kiss":

July 15, 2011 – Toronto: " You Learn " by Alanis Morissette , " Baby " by Justin Bieber , and " She's So High " by Tal Bachman [21]
July 16, 2011 – Toronto: " Complicated " by Avril Lavigne , "Baby" by Justin Bieber, and " I'm Like a Bird " by Nelly Furtado [22]
July 19–20 and 24, 2011 – Newark: " Livin' on a Prayer " by Bon Jovi [23]
July 20 and 24, 2011 – Newark: " Dancing in the Dark " by Bruce Springsteen [24]
July 23, 2011 – Newark: " Cowboy Take Me Away " by Dixie Chicks [25]
July 28, 2011 – Grand Rapids: " Lose Yourself " by Eminem and " Smile " by Uncle Kracker [26]
July 29, 2011 – Indianapolis: " Jack & Diane " by John Cougar Mellencamp and " I Want You Back " by Jackson 5 [12]
July 30, 2011 – Cleveland: " I Try " by Macy Gray and " My Wish " by Rascal Flatts [27]
August 2, 2011 – Washington: " I Heard It Through The Grapevine " by Marvin Gaye and " Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are) " by Mya [28]
August 3, 2011 – Washington: " Stay (I Missed You) " by Lisa Loeb and " A Sorta Fairytale " by Tori Amos [29]
August 6, 2011 – Philadelphia: " Who Knew " by Pink and " Unpretty " by TLC [30]
August 9, 2011 – Rosemont: " Sugar, We're Goin Down " by Fall Out Boy [31]
August 10, 2011 – Rosemont: " I Want You to Want Me " by Cheap Trick [12]
August 13–14, 2011 – St. Louis: " Just a Dream " by Nelly [32]
August 18–19, 2011 – Edmonton: " Complicated " by Carolyn Dawn Johnson [33]
August 23–24, 2011 – Los Angeles: " God Only Knows " by the Beach Boys [34]
August 23–24 and 28, 2011 – Los Angeles: " The Sweet Escape " by Gwen Stefani [35]
August 27, 2011 – Los Angeles: " Bette Davis Eyes " by Kim Carnes and " This Love " by Maroon 5 [36]
August 28, 2011 – Los Angeles: " Realize " by Colbie Caillat [37]
September 1, 2011 – San Jose: " Drops of Jupiter " by Train [38]
September 2, 2011 – San Jose: " Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) " by Green Day [12]
September 6, 2011 – Portland: " Closer to Love " by Mat Kearney [39]
September 7, 2011 – Tacoma: " You and Me " by Dave Matthews Band [40]
September 10, 2011 – Vancouver: " Summer of '69 " by Bryan Adams [41]
September 11, 2011 – Vancouver: " Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning) " by Alan Jackson [42]
September 16–17, 2011 – Nashville: "Nashville" by David Mead [43]
September 20, 2011 – Bossier City: " Lucky " by Britney Spears [44]
September 21, 2011 – Tulsa: " Swing, Swing " by the All-American Rejects [45]
September 27, 2011 – Denver: " How to Save a Life " by the Fray [46]
September 28, 2011 – Salt Lake City: " Animal " by Neon Trees [12]
October 1–2, 2011 – Atlanta: " Baby Girl " by Sugarland [47]
October 4, 2011 – North Little Rock: " Ain't Nothing 'Bout You " by Brooks & Dunn [48]
October 5, 2011 – New Orleans: "Breathless" by Better Than Ezra [49]
October 8, 2011 – Arlington: " The Boys of Summer " by Don Henley [50]
October 11, 2011 – Louisville: "The Back of Your Hand" by Dwight Yoakam [51]
October 14, 2011 – Lubbock: " Wide Open Spaces " by Dixie Chicks [52]
October 15, 2011 – Oklahoma City: " What Hurts the Most " by Rascal Flatts [53]
October 20, 2011 – San Diego: " Dare You to Move " by Switchfoot [54]
October 21, 2011 – Glendale: "No Parade" by Jordin Sparks [55]
October 22, 2011 – Glendale: " All You Wanted " by Michelle Branch [12]
October 25, 2011 – San Antonio: " Run " by George Strait [56]
October 26, 2011 – Austin: "Hold On" by Jack Ingram [57]
October 30, 2011 – Memphis: " Cry Me a River " by Justin Timberlake [58]
August 23, 2011 – Los Angeles, California: "Baby" with Justin Bieber
August 24, 2011 – Los Angeles, California: "I'm Yours" with Jason Mraz
August 27, 2011 – Los Angeles, California: " Tonight Tonight " with Hot Chelle Rae
August 28, 2011 – Los Angeles, California: " Super Bass " with Nicki Minaj
September 10, 2011 – Vancouver, British Columbia: "She's So High" with Tal Bachman
September 16, 2011 – Nashville, Tennessee: " Bleed Red " with Ronnie Dunn and " That's What You Get " with Hayley Williams of Paramore
September 17, 2011 – Nashville, Tennessee: " Keep Your Head Up " with Andy Grammer , " Big Star " with Kenny Chesney , and " Just to See You Smile " with Tim McGraw
October 1, 2011 – Atlanta, Georgia: " Yeah! " with Usher
October 2, 2011 – Atlanta, Georgia: " Live Your Life " with T.I.
October 8, 2011 – Arlington, Texas: " Airplanes " with B.o.B
October 21, 2011 – Glendale, Arizona: " Meant to Live " with Jon Foreman of Switchfoot
October 22, 2011 – Glendale, Arizona: " The Middle " with Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World
October 26, 2011 – Austin, Texas: " Sunny Came Home " with Shawn Colvin
November 5, 2011 – Houston, Texas: "Just a Dream" with Nelly
November 13, 2011 – Miami, Florida: " Right Round " with Flo Rida
November 18, 2011 – Columbia, South Carolina: " Alright " with Darius Rucker
November 21, 2011 – New York City: " Iris " with John Rzeznik of Goo Goo Dolls
November 22, 2011 – New York City: " Who Says " with Selena Gomez and " Fire and Rain " with James Taylor
1 2 The shows on October 1 and 2, 2011, in Atlanta at the Philips Arena were originally scheduled for July 9 and 10, 2011; however, due to illness, the shows were postponed.
↑ The show on October 11, 2011, in Louisville at the KFC Yum! Center was originally scheduled for July 2, 2011; however, due to illness, the show was postponed.
↑ The show on November 16, 2011, in Charlotte at the Time Warner Cable Arena was originally scheduled for July 8, 2011; however, due to illness, the show was postponed.

Bet on Luka and the Mavericks, not the Timberwolves, to win the West

NBA fans and myself were expecting more of a heavyweight battle between the defending champion Denver Nuggets and the up-and-coming Minnesota Timberwolves . But now that Anthony Edwards & Co. are up 2-0, that series might be a wrap.

If you still like the Nuggets to come back, you can get them now at 16-1 to win the title. That said, I'm turning my attention to another team in the Western Conference who I believe is worth sprinkling a few bucks on.

To me, the betting value coming out of the West lies in the team people are talking about the least: the Dallas Mavericks .

I like Oklahoma City , but we can’t read too much into the Thunder's sweep of the Pelicans, since New Orleans didn’t have its best player in Zion Williamson .

We also shouldn't read too much into how OKC went 3-1 against Dallas during the regular season, since Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving missed the final game between the two teams, and Doncic missed the meeting before that.

Also, the Mavs smoked the Thunder by 30 in February.

From a matchup perspective, the Mavs are likely to hide their center (rookie Dereck Lively or Daniel Gafford ) on Josh Giddey . By the way, Giddey is the weakest shooter OKC has (though he was 9-for-18 from deep against the Pelicans).

Dallas matches up great with OKC across the board, with Derrick Jones and Josh Green drawing Shai Gilgeous-Alexander . The Mavs defense is one of the most underplayed stories of the last two months. Just ask Paul George (41/36 shooting and just 19.5 PPG) and James Harden (44/38 shooting and 21.2 PPG) about it.

George’s numbers cratered from the regular season. And in the final two games when it mattered most, Harden was 7-of-28 shooting and 1-for-13 on 3-pointers.

Working against the Mavs is the fact they'll be without the versatile Maxi Kleber . However, he might return for the conference finals.

As you can see, I like the Mavs to take care of the Thunder, so let's look ahead to the Western Conference finals.

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Dallas is well-equipped to face the Wolves if they get past Denver (which is looking more and more likely). The Mavs have the long and athletic Jones, who is perhaps the best option to slow down the explosive Edwards. Minnesota has nobody to slow Irving, and with Dallas likely playing five-out on offense, the Wolves will have to decide what to do with Rudy Gobert .

I don't know if people remember this, but the last time Gobert faced the Mavs, he was in Utah in 2022, and he was played off the court. Somehow, he went three games without a blocked shot. The Jazz traded him after that series.

The flexibility that Dallas has makes the Mavs the most dangerous team in the West. They can play big or small, and they have the player who tilts the defense more than anyone left in Doncic.

Irving has had stellar play (51% FG, 44% 3FG, and 26.5 PPG). If he — who, at 32, is the oldest player on the court between OKC and Dallas — can keep that up, the Mavs should be able to take down the Wolves or Nuggets after OKC.

Which is why I am grabbing them right now at +380 to win the West.

PICK: Dallas Mavericks (+380) to win the Western Conference

Jason McIntyre is a FOX Sports betting analyst, and he also writes about the NFL and NBA Draft. He joined FS1 in 2016 and has appeared on every show on the network. In 2017, McIntyre began producing gambling content on the NFL, college football and NBA for FOX Sports. He had a gambling podcast for FOX, "Coming Up Winners," in 2018 and 2019. Before arriving at FOX, he created the website The Big Lead, which he sold in 2010. Follow him @ jasonrmcintyre .

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Keon Coleman 's life changed on Day 2 of the 2024 NFL draft, and he's enjoying every moment of it.

The Buffalo Bills selected the former Florida State Seminoles standout wide receiver with the first pick of the second round. Coleman, 20, led Florida State in receiving yards (658), receptions (50) and receiving touchdowns (11).

Coleman was in Buffalo the next day to speak to the media. He has already made a lasting first impression with his personality and sense of humor.

Here are some standout moments from Coleman's first day in Buffalo.

There was a high of 64 degrees on Saturday when Coleman arrived. For the news conference, he wore a yellow bubble coat that he said he bought from a place the reporters would "never guess": Macy's.

Buffalo is known for its frigid winters and snowstorms that postpone games. Coleman came prepared for the winter weather in the spring season. The 20-year-old explained that he and his mother save money by purchasing their winter clothes ahead of time.

This is the start of Keon Coleman's first press conference as a member of the Buffalo Bills. Covering this man is going to be a real treat. #BillsMafia @WKBW pic.twitter.com/Hpy2TQmMvU — Matthew Bové (@Matt_Bove) April 27, 2024

Now, as a member of the Bills, Coleman said he has to add blue and red bubble coats to his collection.

The Cookie Monster

When Coleman entered the media room, the first thing that caught his eye were the refreshments available to reporters.

"Them cookies looking good, though. I ain't lying to you," Coleman said as he entered the news conference.

As Coleman's conference finished, he asked: "Can I grab some of them?"

Cookie monster @keoncoleman6 . 🤣 #NFLDraft | #BillsMafia pic.twitter.com/ABXpKAjWo0 — Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) April 27, 2024

Coleman grabbed the cookie container and half a cookie to share with a reporter before exiting the news conference.

Just his imagination

As a draftee whose dreams of playing on an NFL team came true, Coleman couldn't wait to get on the field at Highmark Stadium where he could envision himself playing in the fall.

Manifesting his first touchdown at Highmark Stadium. @keoncoleman6 's first 24 hours as a Buffalo Bill drops on our YouTube at 7pm: https://t.co/BKSM5nHPSS pic.twitter.com/R0O7IpFVyG — Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) April 29, 2024

The 6-foot-4 receiver took a trot down the field and mimed catching a pass while yelling "touchdown."

The ice chamber

While getting a tour of the Bills' facilities, Coleman came across the cryotherapy chamber. He instantly reacted to the cold as he entered, saying it was enough to freeze his pants.

Cue the @undertaker theme song. Exclusive look at @keoncoleman6 's first 24 hours as a Buffalo Bill: https://t.co/BKSM5nInIq pic.twitter.com/EP27JLiFXz — Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) April 29, 2024

After exiting the chamber, Coleman saw the smoke-like cloud coming from the cold therapy room and wanted a redo to imitate the intro of WWE legend "The Undertaker."

Election Updates: Praising police, Trump calls crackdown at Columbia a ‘beautiful thing to watch.’

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Chris Cameron

Donald Trump again attacked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate who polls suggest is taking some support from Trump voters , in a post on his social media site, pleading that Republicans “don’t waste your precious vote on this phony liberal activist” while also insisting that Kennedy’s candidacy hurts President Biden more than it hurts him.

In an interview with local television in Waukesha, Wis., Donald Trump again said he would not sign a national abortion ban if elected , after a wide-ranging interview with Time magazine in which he suggested he would consider other federal abortion limits. He has struggled to strike a balance between siding with the anti-abortion activists who helped elect him in 2016 and what he sees as a risk to his electability.

Anjali Huynh

Trump has finished speaking in Freeland, Mich., where he blasted his New York criminal trial, laying into the judge who fined him, falsely suggesting the case amounts to political persecution and claiming, without evidence, that the trial is helping his poll numbers. The comments, among the first he’s made on the trail since the trial started, show how he plans to use the trial to rally supporters whenever he can hit the road.

In Michigan, Donald J. Trump again insists abortion should be left “to the states,” rather than supporting a federal ban. He praised the justices who overturned Roe but alluded to the electoral risk to Republicans, saying, “A lot of bad things will happen beyond the abortion issue, if you don’t win elections.” Kamala Harris, in Florida today, tried to make Trump the face of the state’s six-week abortion ban.

Michael Gold

At his second rally of the day, Donald J. Trump has spoken far more extensively about his criminal trial in New York, though he is mostly expounding on his view that the trial is, as he put it, “an unlawful exercise in very stupid and very evil politics” that is keeping him from campaigning.

Former President Donald J. Trump has taken the stage in Freeland, Mich., a state he visited last month for an event focused on illegal immigration and border policy. He opened today by briefly praising Mike Rogers, the Republican he endorsed in Michigan’s Senate race, before pivoting to criticizing the economy under President Biden.

Migrant crossings on the U.S.-Mexico border have dropped significantly in the first three months of the year, according to official figures , from a peak of 301,981 in December to under 200,000 a month from January to March. That could ease political pressure on President Biden, but Republicans are likely to continue attacking him by pointing out that border crossings remain relatively high.

Donald J. Trump, at a rally in Waukesha, Wis., called for tougher action against campus protests and again suggested some of the protesters were paid actors. He called on college presidents to “remove the encampments immediately, vanquish the locals and take back our campuses for all of the normal students.”

At his rally in Wisconsin, former President Donald J. Trump is again trying to walk a fine line on abortion. He is celebrating that the issue was returned to states after Supreme Court justices he appointed overturned Roe, while also criticizing Democrats for being too liberal and anti-abortion activists who are pushing for broader bans.

Former President Donald J. Trump, who has campaigned on a tough law-and-order message while facing criminal charges and criticizing the legal system, commended the New York police for arresting dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University. “That’s one good thing that really happened,” he said, adding later, “It was a beautiful thing to watch.”

Nicholas Nehamas

On the day that a six-week abortion ban went into effect in Florida, Vice President Kamala Harris warned a crowd in Jacksonville that Donald J. Trump would bring “more bans, more suffering, less freedom,” if he won in November. Harris and Democrats have sought to tie abortion bans directly to Trump, seeing abortion as a winning political issue.

Donald J. Trump at a rally in Waukesha, Wis., again contended without evidence that the protests at college campuses over the war in Gaza were an effort by the left to distract attention from the surge of migrants at the border. “Some people are saying they do the colleges so they can get your eyes off the border,” he said, repeating an assertion that he made on social media last night.

Donald J. Trump just took the stage in Waukesha, Wis., for his first rally since his trial in New York began. He noted that Republicans would hold their national convention in Milwaukee in July, telling the crowd of hundreds of his supporters, “That means you’ve got to vote for us because we’re spending our money in your state.”

Alyce McFadden

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. proposed that his campaign and President Biden’s campaign jointly conduct a poll in October to see who would do better against former President Donald J. Trump in a hypothetical two-way race. He teased the idea that the underperformer should drop out. But Biden really has no incentive to do this, and by October, it'd be too late drop off the ballot anyway.

Rebecca Davis O’Brien

The Libertarian Party is one of the more established third parties — it is on 37 state ballots, with plans for more. Angela McArdle, the party’s chair, said: “For 50 years, we’ve been trying to get our candidates on the main stage with major party POTUS candidates and we’ve finally succeeded in bringing one to our stage. We will do everything in our power to use this incredible opportunity to advance the message of liberty.”

Shane Goldmacher

Former President Donald J. Trump called Libertarians “some of the most independent and thoughtful thinkers” ahead of his speech to the party later this month and urged them “to remember that our goal is to defeat” President Biden. He added, “If Libertarians join me and the Republican Party, where we have many Libertarian views, the election won’t even be close.”

Reid J. Epstein

The Biden video, recorded Tuesday when he was in Wilmington, Del., is part of the Biden campaign’s effort to extend the news cycle surrounding former President Donald J. Trump’s interview with Time. Polling has shown abortion rights is Biden’s best issue against Trump; talking points the campaign sent to surrogates Tuesday urged them to focus attention on Trump’s abortion comments.

President Biden called former President Donald J. Trump’s comments on abortion in the Time interview published yesterday “shocking” in a video released by the president’s campaign Wednesday . “This should be a decision between a woman and her doctor,” Biden said. “And the government should get out of people’s lives.”

The Libertarian Party's invitation to Trump, to speak at the party's national convention , is an intriguing one at a moment when third-party candidates and ballot lines are a major focus of the 2024 race. A Trump spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Neil Vigdor

Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House speaker, compared the student protesters who occupied a building at Columbia University to Juan M. Merchan, the judge presiding over Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial in New York. It was not the first time that he tried to make such an equivalency in Trump’s defense. In 2018, he likened the F.B.I. probe into Russia’s election interference to the “Gestapo.”

Michael Gold and Anjali Huynh

Michael Gold reported from Waukesha, Wis., and Anjali Huynh from Freeland, Mich.

Trump praises police crackdowns on campus protests.

Holding his first campaign rallies since his criminal trial in Manhattan began, former President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday urged college presidents to take a tougher approach to protests over the war in Gaza that have swept across campuses and praised police action at the demonstrations.

Calling protesters “raging lunatics” and suggesting without any evidence that they were hired by liberal groups to draw attention away from the surge of migrants at the border, Mr. Trump commended New York City police officers who, in riot gear, arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University and cleared a building that they had occupied.

Speaking to supporters in Waukesha, Wis., Mr. Trump called for similar actions at universities across the country.

“To every college president, I say remove the encampments immediately,” he said. “Vanquish the radicals and take back our campuses for all of the normal students.”

Both in Wisconsin and at a later rally in Freeland, Mich., Mr. Trump promoted a strong a law-and-order message, even as he contends with a criminal case in New York in which he is accused of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal.

Mr. Trump, who on Tuesday was held in contempt and fined $9,000 for violating a gag order in the trial that bars him from attacking witnesses and jurors, criticized the order. He laid into the judge who fined him, calling him “crooked” and “conflicted” at both rallies.

“I have a judge who gags me,” Mr. Trump said. “I’m not allowed to talk about things. And nobody’s seen anything quite like it.”

And he reiterated his typical complaints about the criminal case: that it is a sham, that it is impossible for him to get a fair trial in deep-blue Manhattan and that the whole ordeal amounts to political persecution by President Biden — a claim made without a shred of evidence but that has helped him bolster support among his base.

“What you’re witnessing in New York is not a legal proceeding — it’s an unlawful exercise in very stupid and very evil politics,” he said.

As Mr. Trump is tied down in court proceedings, he and Republicans have seized on the campus demonstrations as a wedge issue. They hope to foment discontent among Mr. Biden’s Democratic base over his handling of Israel, while also pointing to the protests to support Mr. Trump’s frequent contention that Mr. Biden is a weak leader.

In the past week, Mr. Trump has also used the protests to diminish violent episodes involving right-wing extremists that took place during his presidency. He tried to downplay the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, by calling it “peanuts” compared with the campus protests. One woman was killed and nearly 40 people were injured when a neo-Nazi plowed his car through a crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville.

And building on his bid to portray federal prosecutors as politically motivated, Mr. Trump suggested the government would be lenient with the protesters, comparing them to supporters who he has said were treated harshly after they stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a bid to overturn his 2020 election loss.

Though he has made small campaign stops in New York City, Mr. Trump has in the weeks since his trial started been visible more as a criminal defendant than as a political candidate. A planned rally in North Carolina last month was canceled at the last minute because of weather.

“I’ve got to do two of these things a day,” Mr. Trump told the crowd in Michigan. “You know why? Because I’m in New York all the time with the Biden trial.”

Mr. Trump’s energetic demeanor at Wednesday’s rallies stood in stark contrast to the stern speeches he has given in the hallway outside the courtroom, and to reports from the court that depict him as dour, glowering or, at times, asleep. He bantered lightly with members of the crowd in both states and repeatedly expressed pride at the size of his crowds.

But Mr. Trump’s dark, and sometimes coarse, campaign message has changed little. He again argued that Mr. Biden’s leadership was steering the country toward doomsday and stoked fears about immigration, accusing Democrats of creating “mayhem” at the border. He also repeated unsubstantiated claims that Democrats were encouraging migration in order to register undocumented immigrants to vote.

On a day when abortion was in the spotlight again, with Florida’s six-week ban taking effect and Arizona lawmakers repealing their state’s 1864 ban , Mr. Trump largely kept his focus elsewhere. But he defended his position in an effort to neutralize an issue that Democrats hope to make central in 2024.

Mr. Trump has tried a balancing act on the issue, arguing that all abortion rights should be left to the states even as he has voiced opposition toward strict six-week bans. And he stressed the need to consider the political implications of calling for further abortion restrictions as Republicans try to win in November, saying in Michigan that “a lot of bad things will happen beyond the abortion issue, if you don’t win elections.”

In Wisconsin, he presented his views as a kind of compromise. “Some people will be very happy,” he said. “Some people won’t be as happy. But time will make this.”

Still, in Michigan, he praised the conservative justices who had overturned Roe v. Wade, singling them each out by name. His remarks there came shortly after Vice President Kamala Harris visited Florida , where she called the state’s new restrictions “another Trump abortion ban,” part of a larger effort by Democrats to tie Mr. Trump to strict limits on the procedure.

At both rallies, Mr. Trump also railed against Mr. Biden’s handling of the economy, arguing that the president’s economic policies were hurting the middle class and that Mr. Biden had not done enough to fight inflation.

Both parties are focused intently on winning Michigan and Wisconsin, two battleground states that were critical to Mr. Trump’s 2016 victory but flipped to Mr. Biden in 2020. Mr. Trump visited both states last month, shortly before his New York criminal trial began.

The Republican National Committee is holding its 2024 convention in Milwaukee, which Mr. Trump acknowledged in nearby Waukesha. “That means you’ve got to vote for us, because we’re spending our money in your state to have the big convention,” he said.

The two states were also central in Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. Last week, he was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in an investigation by the Michigan attorney general’s office into efforts he and his allies took to subvert Mr. Biden’s victory in the state. So far, 15 Republicans who acted as fake electors have been charged.

An earlier version of this article misquoted a statement from Donald J. Trump at a

campaign rally. He called on college leaders to “vanquish the radicals and take back our campuses for all of the normal students,” not “vanquish the locals.”

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Michael Gold and Chris Cameron

Michael Gold reported from Waukesha, Wis. Chris Cameron reported from Washington.

Donald Trump, repeating his 2020 election lies, tells a Milwaukee newspaper that he will not commit to accepting the 2024 outcome.

Former President Donald J. Trump told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday that he would not commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election, as he again repeated his lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

“If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that,” Mr. Trump said, according to The Journal Sentinel. “If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country.”

In an interview with Time magazine published on Tuesday, he also dismissed questions about political violence in November by suggesting that his victory was inevitable.

When pressed about what might happen should he lose, he said, “if we don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election.”

Mr. Trump’s insistent and fraudulent claims that the 2020 election was unfair were at the heart of his efforts to overturn his loss to President Biden, and to the violent storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, by a mob of supporters who believed his claims. Mr. Trump now faces dozens of felony charges in connection with those events.

Mr. Trump’s vow to “fight for the right of the country” also echoes his speech on the Ellipse on Jan. 6, where he told his supporters that “if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” before urging his supporters to march to the Capitol.

As he campaigns in battleground states this year, Mr. Trump has repeatedly tried to sow doubt about the integrity of the fall election, while repeating many of the same lies that he used to assail the integrity of the 2020 election. Months before any voting has taken place, Mr. Trump has regularly made the baseless claim that Democrats are likely to cheat to win.

“Democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020, but we’re not going to allow them to rig the presidential election — the most important day of our lives — in 2024,” Mr. Trump said at a rally in Freeland, Mich.

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Mr. Trump has for years promoted the lie that he won Wisconsin in 2020, and he did so again in the Journal Sentinel interview. Even after Jan. 6, 2021, and years after his exit from office, he has repeatedly pressured Assembly Speaker Robin Vos , the top Republican in the State Legislature, to help overturn Mr. Trump’s loss in the state and to impeach the state’s nonpartisan chief of elections.

More than 1,250 people have been charged with crimes in connection to the Jan. 6 attack — and hundreds of people have been convicted . Mr. Trump said in a recent interview that he would “absolutely” consider pardoning every person convicted on charges related to the storming of the Capitol. A bipartisan Senate report found that at least seven people died in connection with that attack.

The former president and his allies have also installed election deniers in influential positions in his campaign and in Republican Party institutions. In March, Trump allies newly installed to the leadership of the Republican National Committee appointed Christina Bobb , a former host at the far-right One America News Network, as senior counsel for election integrity. A self-described conspiracy theorist, she has relentlessly promoted false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

Ms. Bobb was indicted in Arizona last week, along with all of the fake electors who acted on Mr. Trump’s behalf in that state and others, on charges related to what the authorities say were attempts by the defendants to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona.

The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee have made an aggressive approach to “election integrity” — a broad term often used by Republicans to cast doubt on elections that the party lost — central to their efforts heading toward November.

Last month, the committee announced a plan to train and dispatch more than 100,000 volunteers and lawyers to monitor the electoral process in each battleground state and to mount aggressive challenges.

On Wednesday, Mr. Trump said at the rally in Freeland that his campaign and national and state Republican parties would put together “a team of the most highly qualified lawyers and other professionals in the country to ensure that what happened in 2020 will never happen again.”

“I will secure our elections because you know what happened in 2020,” Mr. Trump said at a rally in Waukesha, Wis., on Wednesday.

Mr. Trump lost Wisconsin by more than 20,000 votes .

Reporting from Jacksonville, Fla.

In Florida, Harris looks to make Trump the face of the state’s abortion ban.

Harris blasts trump over florida abortion ban, on the day that florida began to enforce its six-week abortion ban, vice president kamala harris delivered a searing attack on former president donald j. trump in jacksonville, fla., calling the measure “another trump abortion ban.”.

Today, this very day, at the stroke of midnight, another Trump abortion ban went into effect here in Florida. As of this morning, four million women in this state woke up with fewer reproductive freedoms than they had last night. This is the new reality under a Trump abortion ban. The contrast in this election could not be more clear. Basically under Donald Trump, it would be fair game for women to be monitored and punished by the government. Whereas Joe Biden and I have a different view. We believe the government should never come between a woman and her doctor. [crowd cheering]

On the day that Florida began to enforce its six-week abortion ban, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a searing attack on former President Donald J. Trump in Jacksonville, calling the measure “another Trump abortion ban” and saying he was forcing women to live a “horrific reality” without access to essential medical care.

“As much harm as he has already caused, a second Trump term would be even worse,” Ms. Harris said to about 200 supporters at a convention center in a historically African American neighborhood.

If Mr. Trump were to win in November, she argued, Americans would be compelled to endure “more bans, more suffering, less freedom.”

President Biden has made abortion — a rare issue on which he polls strongly against Mr. Trump — a pillar of his re-election campaign. He and Ms. Harris have campaigned aggressively in states that have imposed abortion restrictions, including Florida, where the president spoke last week , and Arizona, where legislators voted on Wednesday to overturn a near-total ban dating to 1864.

The president and vice president have used their appearances to illustrate the consequences of electing Republicans, and have placed the blame for the bans squarely on Mr. Trump, whose appointments to the Supreme Court helped overturn Roe v. Wade. “Donald Trump did this” has become a frequent refrain in Mr. Biden’s ads and speeches — a pointed and direct attack from a campaign that has struggled to sell its message to voters.

Ms. Harris’s appearance in Jacksonville also allowed her to capitalize on an interview Mr. Trump gave to Time magazine that was published on Tuesday. In the interview, Mr. Trump refused to commit to vetoing a federal abortion ban — which seemed to contradict recent statements from him — and said he would permit states to punish women who violated abortion bans.

“Just this week, in an interview, Trump said that states have the right to monitor pregnant women to enforce these bans, and to punish pregnant women for seeking out abortion care,” Ms. Harris warned.

In talking points distributed to surrogates on Tuesday, the Biden campaign urged them to focus attention on Mr. Trump’s abortion comments. And on Wednesday it released a video of Mr. Biden speaking directly to the camera.

“There seems to be no limit to how invasive Trump would let the state be,” the president said. “This should be a decision between a woman and her doctor, and the government should get out of people’s lives.”

On Wednesday, the six-week ban had already started to change lives. About 15 minutes away from Ms. Harris’s campaign event in Jacksonville, a reproductive health clinic called A Woman’s Choice received calls from women seeking abortions.

One woman said she was calling from Georgia, which also has a six-week ban. An official at the clinic informed her that a six-week ban was now in effect in Florida, too.

“Oh, Lord Jesus,” the woman responded, before opting to make an appointment in North Carolina, the nearest state where an abortion for someone at her stage of pregnancy would be available.

Many women do not know that they are pregnant at six weeks. And Florida’s ban means patients in the Southeast will have to travel as far away as North Carolina and Virginia to seek abortions, an unaffordable expense for many.

“The extremists who wrote this ban either don’t know how a woman’s body works, or they simply don’t care,” Ms. Harris said.

Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, signed the six-week ban last year ahead of a failed bid for the Republican presidential nomination in which he tried to court social conservatives. Floridians will have the chance to overturn the law with a ballot referendum in November. That has revived faint hopes among Democrats that Florida could be in play in the presidential election, although the Biden campaign has yet to invest significant resources in the state and Republicans hold a major advantage in voter registration.

“This is going to be a game changer here in Florida. It’s going to be a motivator,” said Christina Diamond, the chief executive of Ruth’s List Florida, a group that works to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights.

“The reason we have a six-week ban,” Ms. Diamond added, “is because the State Legislature and our statewide offices are held by Republicans.”

To emphasize that point, the Democratic National Committee put up billboards around Florida with Mr. Trump’s face that told women how far they would have to drive to reach a state where they could receive an abortion. And it also hired a plane to fly over Mar-a-Lago, the former president’s home in Palm Beach, Fla., trailing a banner that read: “Trump’s Plan: Ban Abortion, Punish Women.”

(Mr. Trump is campaigning in Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday as the criminal trial against him in Manhattan is on break for the day.)

Republicans in Florida responded to Ms. Harris’s visit by talking about everything except abortion.

“In Florida, especially in Jacksonville, families are suffering under the train-wreck Biden-Harris Bidenomics,” Evan Power, the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, said in a statement. “Groceries cost more. Gas prices are surging. And the cost of housing continues to push Americans’ wallets to the breaking point. Meanwhile, the open border lawlessness of the Biden Bloodbath has made all states — including Florida — a border state.”

Jacksonville has one of the largest Black populations in the United States, and the six-week ban will most likely have a disproportionate impact on African American women, who receive the procedure at higher rates than other groups.

The Biden campaign has been working to shore up its support among African Americans. Polling shows that Black voters are more likely to say abortion is their top issue. At the Jacksonville event, a marching band from Edward Waters University, a historically Black university, warmed up the crowd. Ms. Harris’s introductory speakers included Fentrice Driskell and Tracie Davis, two of the state’s most prominent Black politicians.

“We want the little girls of Florida to have the same freedom that their mothers and their grandmothers did,” said Ms. Driskell, a Tampa Democrat and the state House minority leader. “So let’s say it loud enough that they hear it from Jacksonville all the way to shake the walls of Mar-a-Lago: Get out of our health care. Get out of our exam rooms. We are taking our rights back.”

Abigail Geiger contributed from Jacksonville, Fla., Reid J. Epstein from Washington and Patricia Mazzei from Miami.

Chris Cameron and Michael Gold

Chris Cameron reported from Washington, and Michael Gold reported from Waukesha, Wis.

Trump says at rally that he wanted to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Former President Donald J. Trump said on Wednesday that he asked his Secret Service detail to take him to the Capitol after his speech at the Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021, acknowledging a key detail of his actions that were central to the findings of the House committee established to investigate the attack.

During a campaign rally in Waukesha, Wis., Mr. Trump brought up a sensational but disputed element of testimony given to the House Jan. 6 committee by a Trump White House aide: that Mr. Trump had lunged for the wheel and physically struggled with Secret Service agents when they refused to take him to join the large crowd of supporters who were marching toward the Capitol.

“I sat in the back,” Mr. Trump said, giving his version of events. “And you know what I did say? I said, ‘I’d like to go down there because I see a lot of people walking down.’ They said, ‘Sir, it’s better if you don’t.’ I said, ‘Well, I’d like to.’”

“It’s better if you don’t,” Mr. Trump recounted an agent saying. The former president said he replied, “All right, whatever you guys think is fine,” and added, “That was the whole tone of the conversation.”

President Biden’s campaign immediately highlighted Mr. Trump’s comments, amplifying that the former president had intended to participate in what would become an attack by his supporters on the Capitol in an effort to overturn Mr. Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.

It is not the first time that Mr. Trump has spoken of his effort to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6. He has said in several interviews that he regretted not marching on the Capitol with his supporters that day, and that his Secret Service detail prevented him from doing so.

“Secret Service said I couldn’t go,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with The Washington Post in April 2022 . “I would have gone there in a minute.”

Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide, later testified to Mr. Trump’s conversation with Secret Service agents during televised hearings held by the House Jan. 6 committee. Ms. Hutchinson was not in the car with Mr. Trump, and said that her testimony to those events came secondhand or thirdhand from what other people had told her that day.

In an interview with the same committee, Mr. Trump’s driver, whose name was not disclosed, said: “The president was insistent on going to the Capitol. It was clear to me he wanted to go to the Capitol.”

Mr. Trump at the rally on Wednesday portrayed his requests to his Secret Service detail as casual ones.

In the interview with investigators for the House panel, the driver said that while he did not see Mr. Trump accost agents or reach for the steering wheel, “what stood out was the irritation in his voice, more than his physical presence.”

After Mr. Trump was driven back to the White House by his Secret Service detail, the former president sat and watched the ensuing violence play out on television, according to testimony by an array of former administration officials . After Mr. Trump’s speech at the Ellipse where he repeated his false claims that the election was stolen from him and urged attendees to march on the Capitol , a mob of his supporters overran police barricades to storm the building, temporarily disrupting the certification of Mr. Biden’s victory.

In a lengthy interview with Time magazine published on Tuesday, Mr. Trump said he would “absolutely” consider pardoning every person who had been convicted on, or pleaded guilty to, charges related to the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6. He also would not rule out the possibility of political violence after this year’s election.

“I think we’re going to win,” he said. “And if we don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election.”

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Trump to address Libertarian Party, hundreds of Black women endorse Alsobrooks in Maryland and more.

The Libertarian Party announced that Donald J. Trump will address the party’s national convention in late May in Washington, D.C., calling it the first time a former president will speak to a gathering of the party. — Shane Goldmacher

Over 650 Black women — ranging from House members to local activists — endorsed Angela Alsobrooks against Representative David Trone in Maryland’s Democratic Senate primary and criticized a recent ad from Trone. The ad featured Black officials questioning the qualifications of Alsobrooks, the executive of Prince George’s County, and suggesting she might need “training wheels”; the statement said that the ad “echoes tones of misogyny and racism.” Race has been a major undertone in the contest; Alsobrooks is Black and Trone is white. Some of Trone’s supporters hit back: State Senator Jill P. Carter, who is also Black, said she thought the ad was not an attack but simply “a campaign ad where some individuals are speaking about their specific experience.” — Maggie Astor

Almost four in 10 local election officials who were surveyed by the Brennan Center of Justice for a new report said they had experienced threats, harassment or abuse, another sign of the duress that the group has been under since the 2020 election. Sixty-two percent said they were worried about political leaders trying to interfere with how they or other election officials did their jobs. — Neil Vigdor

Florida’s six-week abortion ban takes effect today, giving Democrats another opportunity to press their case against former President Donald J. Trump. In a statement, President Biden called the ban “extreme” and a “nightmare,” and said voters would teach Trump “a valuable lesson” in November. — Nicholas Nehamas

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From Florida to Arizona, abortion politics are dominating the 2024 race.

In Florida, a ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy took effect.

In Arizona, state lawmakers repealed a stringent abortion ban that dates to the Civil War era.

And across the country, the presidential campaign trail on Wednesday was brimming with reminders of just how central Democrats hope the abortion rights debate will be to voters’ decisions this fall.

Nearly two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade , Democrats are betting that the tangible effects of abortion restrictions that many Americans are already experiencing — and the threats of more to come — will help their party power through an ominous and volatile political environment, as Republicans struggle to address an issue that has become a significant, sustained liability for them.

“Donald Trump is to blame for the harm state abortion bans are doing to women every day in our country,” Vice President Kamala Harris wrote on social media on Wednesday morning, ahead of delivering remarks n Jacksonville, Fla., about the state’s “extreme” new ban.

Mr. Trump, she said there, would bring “more bans, more suffering, less freedom,” if he won re-election.

As they did in the midterm elections in 2022, Democrats are borrowing from language long favored by Republicans — about freedom and limiting the reach of government — to make their case.

They believe that Mr. Trump, whose Supreme Court nominees helped overturn Roe, recently bolstered their argument further.

In a Time magazine interview released on Tuesday, Mr. Trump refused to commit to vetoing a national abortion ban and said he would allow states to monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violated abortion restrictions.

“There seems to be no limit to how invasive Trump would let the state be,” President Biden said in a video released on Wednesday morning. “This should be a decision between a woman and her doctor, and the government should get out of people’s lives.”

The focus on abortion rights propelled Democrats in the midterm elections, when candidates harnessed voter anger over abortion restrictions to overcome challenging national headwinds in key contests.

And it has remained a potent force in subsequent elections.

State Representative Mike Caruso of Florida, a Republican who opposed the six-week ban, noted that a number of states including Florida are expected to have abortion rights-related measures on the ballot this fall.

“It’s going to hurt Republicans,” he said. For Democrats who were unenthusiastic about Mr. Biden, he said, “now they’ve got reason they can show up. I think it’s going to have a major impact on the elections in November.”

But it is not yet clear how galvanizing the issue will be across the country in a presidential election shaped by economic concerns at home and crises abroad, with two well-known and unpopular men — one of whom, Mr. Trump, faces multiple criminal cases — at the top of their party’s tickets.

“President Trump has long been consistent in supporting the rights of states to make decisions on abortion,” Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump, said in a statement. “Women want a president who will secure our nation’s borders, remove violent criminals from our neighborhoods and build an economy that helps hardworking families thrive.”

And even as Democrats sought to keep the issue at the forefront of voters’ minds on Wednesday, they were competing with unrest at college campuses across the country, including in critical battleground states, as students protested the war in Gaza, with many objecting to Mr. Biden’s support for Israel.

Such scenes of turmoil, some party strategists have warned, can be damaging for the party that controls the White House.

Nicholas Nehamas contributed reporting.

A new progressive PAC is targeting 8 key House races in California.

Democrats nearly pulled off the impossible in the 2022 midterms.

In the final weeks of the campaign, with an unpopular president in his first term, polls forecast a red wave that would sweep the country and flip control of the House and the Senate — prompting alarm from Democrats and predictions from Republicans of a decisive victory.

But that wave never materialized, a mirage of bad polling and inflated expectations . Democrats came close to maintaining a national trifecta, but Republicans eked out a thin majority in the House — prevailing in a handful of seats in New York and California, each by just a few thousand votes .

Now, a new coalition of progressive groups in California has formed a super PAC aiming to bolster Democratic candidates in a state that the party sees as crucial to winning control of the House this fall.

The super PAC, Battleground California, says it aims to spend $15 million this year on eight competitive House races, seven with Republican incumbents — in Northern California, Orange County, the Inland Empire east of Los Angeles, the Central Valley and Los Angeles — as well as the seat left open by Representative Katie Porter, a Democrat who is not running for re-election after a failed Senate campaign.

It is an ambitious effort, one that seeks to establish a durable progressive machine in California — advised and supported by local activists and community organizations — to lift swing district Democratic candidates through an extensive field operation, including marathon door-knocking campaigns aimed at driving turnout among minority groups.

“Trusted messengers from the community are a very critical element,” said Steve Phillips, a co-founder of the California Donor Table, the group leading the Battleground California PAC, adding that those residents are not only more trusted by voters but are better able to provide feedback on what messages work and what messages don’t.

Pablo Rodriguez, the executive director of Communities for a New California, a group focused on civil rights, is among the activists working with the PAC. He said that focusing on local issues, and less on the “national noise” generated by President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump, would be the key to victory.

“The path towards victory,” Mr. Rodriguez said, “is not making big TV or radio buys or even digital ad buys, right? We need to actually have face-to-face conversations with voters.”

Battleground California has set a challenging goal. Only two of the seven Republicans that the PAC will spend against — Representatives David Valadao and John Duarte, who represent predominantly Latino districts in the Central Valley region — won their 2022 races by what would be considered close margins. They will both face rematches with their 2022 opponents: Rudy Salas and Adam Gray, two Democratic former state assemblymen.

The PAC’s target spending figure of $15 million, while substantial, will not go far in a state where House races can get expensive. In the Central Valley, the race for Mr. Valadao’s seat in 2022 fielded more than $25 million in outside spending . Ms. Porter also spent more than $28 million on her re-election campaign . Michael Gomez Daly, political strategist at California Donor Table, said the coalition had raised about $1.3 million to date, aiming for $5 million by July.

Mr. Phillips and Mr. Daly said their targets were within reach for Democrats with enough investment of resources.

“All the districts should be flippable,” Mr. Daly said. He declined to say how many victories would be considered a success, adding that “failure is not really an option this cycle.”

Both Mr. Gray and Mr. Salas attributed their losses in 2022 to depressed turnout, and in interviews they both highlighted their efforts to start get-out-the-vote efforts early. They also had high expectations for a boost in presidential-year turnout.

Mr. Valadao and Mr. Duarte declined interview requests, but Republican pollsters, strategists and consultants in California have said that demographic changes and new efforts to reach voters of color have shifted the balance of power in their favor. They point to Mr. Valadao’s close victory in 2020, as well as wins by minority candidates like Representatives Young Kim and Michelle Steel in that same year. Others say that the presidential race is just as likely to inflate turnout among Republicans.

“It’ll be close, but Valadao will win,” said Cathy Abernathy, a Republican campaign consultant in Kern County. “And he’ll win most likely because Trump’s on the ballot.”

The Republican voter base is also growing in the Central Valley districts represented by Mr. Valadao and Mr. Duarte, according to registration records by the California secretary of state’s office, a net gain of several thousand voters in both districts from September 2022 to February this year — exceeding the narrow margin of victory in those seats in the 2022 races.

“It’s a little bit of contrast to, I think, the typical narrative that people of color are more progressive-minded,” said Rachel Hernandez, a member of the City Council in Riverbank who is running for mayor. Instead, she added, “what we’re seeing in the Central Valley is that the Latino community is electing more conservative candidates.”

Ms. Hernandez added that, for now, that is not an irreversible trend, but a warning sign for Democrats to pay attention to the nuances of the Latino electorate. She encouraged many of the same tactics that Battleground California says it plans to use: molding a message for the needs of a specific community, and working with staff members and volunteers who represent the community.

“My volunteers, for example, up until just this weekend actually, were all young women,” Ms. Hernandez said. “Young Latina women, college-aged, who approached me because they were saying ‘Wow, this is like our campaign.’”

Trump is heading to two Midwest battlegrounds, his first major campaign events since his criminal trial began.

Former President Donald J. Trump will return to the campaign trail today, with stops in Wisconsin and Michigan, his first major events in battleground states since the beginning of his felony criminal trial three weeks ago.

Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver remarks “about the fight for reproductive freedoms” in Jacksonville, Fla., as a six-week abortion ban begins in that state. Her visit is part of a national tour aimed at energizing Black voters in battleground states. In Washington, President Biden will attend a campaign reception at the Mayflower Hotel.

Mr. Trump will first deliver remarks in Waukesha, Wis., before holding a rally later in the evening in Freeland, Mich. Thousands of voters in the county, Saginaw, backed Nikki Haley in the Republican primary, though Mr. Trump has so far not directly appealed to her voters for support.

With friendly audiences, Mr. Trump is likely to use his bully pulpit during his Midwest trek to attack the justice system. He has repeatedly asserted without evidence that his legal troubles are a conspiracy to interfere in the election, and he has argued that he should be immune from criminal charges for actions he took as president — while simultaneously promising to wield the Justice Department to go after President Biden and his family .

But Mr. Trump became familiar with the limits of those attacks on Tuesday, when the judge in his criminal trial held him in contempt for violating a gag order for attacking witnesses and jurors. He was fined $9,000 and ordered to take down offending posts on his social media site, Truth Social. Mr. Trump complied and took the posts down before a midafternoon deadline.

The former president is also expected to speak about escalating clashes between the police and pro-Palestinian demonstrators on college campuses. Mr. Trump has painted the mostly peaceful protests as “riots,” filled with “tremendous hate.” He has also repeatedly distorted the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 in comparing the two events, describing it on Tuesday morning as “a big hoax” when compared with the campus protests.

Reporting from Atlanta

Federal judges block Louisiana’s newly drawn congressional map.

A newly drawn congressional map in Louisiana was struck down on Tuesday by a panel of federal judges who found that the new boundaries, which form a second majority Black district in the state, amounted to an “impermissible racial gerrymander” that violated the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

The 2-to-1 ruling now leaves uncertain which boundaries will be used in the November elections, which are just six months away and could play a critical role in determining the balance of power in the House of Representatives.

Critics warned that the decision could have broader implications on voting rights. Eric H. Holder Jr., the former U.S. attorney general and current chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, said the “ideological nature of the decision could not be more clear.”

Louisiana’s attorney general, Liz Murrill, a Republican, indicated on Tuesday that the case could advance to the U.S. Supreme Court. “I’ve said all along the Supreme Court needs to clear this up,” she wrote on social media .

The judges have scheduled a hearing on May 6 to discuss next steps. The Louisiana secretary of state has ordered that the congressional map be finalized by May 15.

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A newly drawn congressional map in Louisiana was struck down by a panel of federal judges who found that the new boundaries, which form a second majority Black district in the state, amounted to an “impermissible racial gerrymander” that violated the U.S. Constitution.

The new districts had been outlined in January during a special session of the State Legislature. Lawmakers had been ordered to sketch out the new boundaries after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found that the previous map had very likely violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting power of Black residents.

But the new maps went before another panel of federal judges after a group of residents scattered across the new congressional district who describe themselves as “non-African American” voters challenged the maps. They argued that lawmakers had moved to “segregate voters based entirely on their races,” and to achieve that they stitched together “communities in far-flung regions of Louisiana.”

The new majority Black district cuts across a long, narrow swath that reaches from Baton Rouge, the capital city in the toe of Louisiana’s boot, to Shreveport, in the northwest corner of the state. About 54 percent of the district’s population is Black.

In the ruling on Tuesday, Judges David C. Joseph and Robert R. Summerhays, both of the Western District of Louisiana, acknowledged that factors other than race, like protecting certain incumbents, had figured into the process. Even so, they said, it was evident that creating a second district with a majority of Black voters was lawmakers’ overarching objective.

“The predominate role of race in the state’s decisions,” the judges wrote, “is reflected in the statements of legislative decision makers, the division of cities and parishes along racial lines, the unusual shape of the district and the evidence that the contours of the district were drawn to absorb sufficient numbers of Black-majority neighborhoods to achieve the goal of a functioning majority Black district.”

The judges noted that the ruling did not decide “whether it is feasible to create a second majority Black district in Louisiana that would comply” with the Equal Protection Clause. But they added that the Voting Rights Act “never requires race to predominate in drawing congressional districts at the sacrifice of traditional districting principles.”

In a dissenting opinion, Judge Carl E. Stewart of the Fifth Circuit argued that the challengers had failed to prove that their constitutional rights were violated.

“The totality of the record,” he wrote, “demonstrates that the Louisiana Legislature weighed various political concerns — including protecting of particular incumbents — alongside race, with no factor predominating over the other.”

The ruling is the latest wrinkle in the lengthy legal battle over the shape of Louisiana’s congressional districts and comes as other Southern states have also been forced by courts to redraw district lines amid accusations of racial discrimination.

Louisiana was obligated to redraw congressional districts after the 2020 census to take into account population changes. The census had found that the Black population in the state had increased by 3.8 percent over the past decade, meaning that roughly a third of the overall population was Black. But in the map drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature, only one of the six congressional districts had a majority Black population.

In June 2022, a federal judge found that the map had been racially gerrymandered and illegally weakened the electoral power of Black voters. The judge ordered lawmakers to create another district that would give Black voters the chance to elect a candidate of their choice. But the disputed map was still used in the 2022 election.

Other Southern states had also been ordered to redraw maps after a surprise U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year in which the justices threw out Alabama’s congressional boundaries, finding that they did not adequately account for the state’s Black population. The ruling reaffirmed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which had been diminished over the years by the court’s conservative majority.

Critics of Tuesday’s ruling argued that the repercussions in Louisiana could extend beyond a single election, or even partisan divisions. Ashley Shelton, who leads the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, which was part of the challenge to the original 2020 map, said she and others remained undeterred.

“We will continue to fight for a map that reflects our communities, that honors the promise of the Voting Rights Act,” Ms. Shelton said, “and that respects the voices of thousands of Louisianians who have engaged throughout the redistricting process. We have been clear since day one in our call for a fair and representative map.”

Nicholas Fandos

Democrats win a special House election in New York, narrowing the Republican majority.

Timothy M. Kennedy, a Democratic New York State senator, easily won a special House election on Tuesday to replace a retiring congressman in western New York, according to The Associated Press .

The victory was hardly a surprise. Democrats have controlled the Buffalo-area district for decades. And Mr. Kennedy outspent his Republican opponent, Gary Dickson, by an eye-popping 47 to 1 .

But his victory will have an immediate impact on the House at a time when Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana is laboring to hold onto a narrow Republican majority and fend off a rebellion on his right flank.

Once Mr. Kennedy is seated, Mr. Johnson’s margin will effectively shrink to just a single, tenuous vote on partisan issues. A handful of special elections in Wisconsin, Ohio, Colorado and California are expected to offer Republicans reinforcements, but not until this summer.

In the meantime, Mr. Kennedy, 47, is expected to provide a reliably liberal vote. He campaigned on a familiar Democratic platform, promising to fight for federal infrastructure dollars for a region that has struggled economically, for federal abortion rights and against former President Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee to face President Biden this fall.

Mr. Dickson, a former F.B.I. agent and local town supervisor, ran a relatively moderate campaign for a Republican in the Trump era. He had endorsed the former president, but called the Jan. 6 Capitol riot “a travesty.” He supported Ukraine’s war against Russia and federal investment in transportation projects, spending priorities that more conservative Republicans forcefully oppose.

But it was not enough to win over a district that counts more than twice as many Democrats as Republicans. With 62 percent of the votes counted, Mr. Kennedy was beating Mr. Dickson by 34 percentage points, 67 to 33.

The seat was vacated in February by the retirement of Brian Higgins , a moderate Democrat who had represented the Buffalo area for 19 years.

Mr. Higgins, who left the job early to lead Shea’s Performing Arts Center in Buffalo, was part of a wave of seasoned lawmakers from both parties heading toward the exits this year. Like many others, Mr. Higgins, 64, cited an increasingly toxic and unproductive environment on Capitol Hill.

Mr. Kennedy is a former occupational therapist who has served in the New York State Senate since 2011. In Albany, he led an important legislative committee on transportation and supported a tough package of gun safety measures after a racist shooter killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket in 2022. He also earned a reputation as a prolific fund-raiser.

He was selected directly by party leaders as the Democratic nominee to serve the remainder of Mr. Higgins’s term. Mr. Kennedy will likely remain in campaign mode this year, with a Democratic primary in June and November’s general election still ahead.

The district sweeps north from Buffalo, including the city, many of its suburbs and Niagara Falls.

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