Harris and Trump hold dueling campaign rallies in Wisconsin

Donald Trump concludes his rally in Milwaukee by pumping up the crowd for an Election Day victory.

He danced on stage and interacted with the crowd for several moments before exiting.

Both Kamala Harris and Trump rallied in Milwaukee tonight as they fight over the swing state’s 10 electoral college votes.

Trump won the state in 2016 and praised the state for favoring him, but he also refused to really acknowledge losing Wisconsin to Joe Biden in 2020, saying he just had “one slip up” in the state with some “bad things” happening.

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The crowd in Milwaukee is rising to its feet as Donald Trump lists off the actions he would take against migrants who commit crimes.

Trump has centered his campaign on hardline tactics to stop illegal immigration, including the death penalty for migrants who are in the country illegally and kill an American citizen.

He is also spending significant time insulting Kamala Harris and saying she does not care about the country.

“My closing message is that I love America and I’m inviting you to join us in building an extraordinary future for our nation,” Trump said.

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Harris delivered her basic campaign speech at her third and final rally, in West Allis, telling the boisterous crowd that Trump is bad for the economy, their health care and women’s reproductive rights.

“We know who Donald Trump is,” she said. “This is not someone who is thinking about how to make your life better. This is someone who is increasingly unstable, obsessed with revenge, he is consumed with grievance and the man is out for unchecked power.”

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Harris lauded people at her rally in Wisconsin who voted early in the 2024 presidential election. But then she got to those who haven’t.

“No judgment,” she said while laughing, “but do get to it if you can.”

Harris’ campaign is currently in the middle of a concert and rally series urging people in key swing states to vote early. The Democratic presidential nominee held three rallies in Wisconsin on Friday, the last right outside Milwaukee.

“Can we please hear it for our first-time voters,” Harris said later at her final rally. “And those who will be first-time voters.”

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After holding a microphone for roughly 15 minutes, Trump complained about its weight.

“It’s like I’m weightlifting,” he said, adding that the mic was “heavy.”

Trump had taken the mic from a holder on the podium earlier in his rally speech after the crowd complained they couldn’t hear.

The vice president raised the possibility of Trump winning next week at her final rally of the night in Wisconsin, getting a rise out of an audience eager to elect her.

Harris caught herself, quickly adding, “He will not,” to cheers.

The comment came during a common refrain in Harris’ stump speech, when she asks voters to envision whether they want Trump in the Oval Office, fixated on his “enemies list,” or her, focused on a “to-do list.”

Donald Trump is saying that the U.S. jobs report today, which showed that employers added 12,000 jobs in October, showed that the Biden-Harris administration is failing on the economy. Last month’s hiring gain was down significantly from the 223,000 jobs that were added in September.

“This is like a depression,” Trump said of the numbers as he heaped insults on Harris.

Economists estimate that Hurricanes Helene and Milton, combined with strikes at Boeing and elsewhere, pushed down net job growth by tens of thousands of jobs in October.

The crowd at Trump’s rally is frustrated with the sound levels in the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, even chanting, “Fix the mic!”

Trump eventually got the message and ripped the microphone from the podium to hold it closer to his mouth.

“I think this mic stinks,” Trump said.

Trump has been jumping from topic to topic, mentioning that this is his third campaign rally today, then referencing his rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden nearly a week ago, and then hurling insults at his Democratic rival.

Trump is kicking off his rally by asking the question he starts all his rallies with: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”

“No!” the crowd, which has nearly filled the Fiserv Forum, roared.

Trump seemed pleased with the turnout in Milwaukee tonight, complimenting the size of the crowd several times.

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“Did you hear what Donny Trump said the other day?” the rapper asked the Milwaukee audience.

Cardi B then recollected for the audience Trump’s promise to protect women “whether the women like it or not.”

After an audience reaction, the rapper paused and then said, “Donny, don’t.”

Donald Trump has taken the stage at a rally in Milwaukee, an hour later than scheduled.

As the Republican presidential candidate walked to the stage, Cardi B was on the stage at the Harris rally just seven miles away.

The rapper told the audience at Harris’ Milwaukee rally that she was not planning to vote before the vice president became the Democratic nominee.

“I wasn’t going to vote this year, but Kamala Harris joining the race, she changed my mind completely,” the rapper said.

“I do not take lightly the call to show up, the call to speak up, the call to deliver a message that has been on my heart for a while now,” she told the audience.

The election is about choices, actor Keegan-Michael Key told an exuberant crowd, “by definition.”

“But that’s like saying that there’s a choice on how to travel from Canada to the United States,” he said. “You can either drive a car or take a plane to get over the border, or you can take a barrel over Niagara Falls. In this election, the choice is even clearer than that.”

“The only choice is Harris and Walz.”

Nick Chakur, 68, a retired policeman from Center Line, Michigan, voted early on Monday for former President Donald Trump. He was cautiously optimistic about former Trump’s chances, but said it depends on voter turnout.

“Just like sports, you gotta keep going until the whistle stops,” he said.

Stephanie Tanzini, 77, was confident that Trump will win. She attended Trump’s rally in Warren, Michigan along with a few friends and wore a bedazzled denim American Flag baseball hat for the occasion.

Tanzini said she voted early via absentee ballot in September and plans to be up “24/7" waiting for the results on election night. She plans on enjoying chips and dip and Costco pie while the results roll in and will have a bowl of marshmallows on hand to throw in celebration.

“Because Trump’s going to win this by a landslide,” she said.

As Election Day nears and the electoral math to secure a presidential victory comes down to seven states, Trump and Harris are scheduling more stops and their travel itineraries are coinciding in time and place.

Harris’ Air Force Two landed a bit ahead of Trump with members of the media following Trump seeing the motorcade after arriving at the Milwaukee airport.

Walz’s plane was on the tarmac as Trump landed earlier Friday in Detroit.

The office of Arizona Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes is “looking into” whether Donald Trump broke state law when he said late Thursday former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney should face rifles “shooting at her” to see how she feels about sending troops to fight.

“The Arizona Attorney General’s Office is looking into whether Donald Trump’s comments about Liz Cheney violated Arizona law,” Richie Taylor, communications director for the AG’s office, said in a statement on Friday. “The office has no additional comments to make at this time.”

Trump made the comments about Cheney, one of the former president’s biggest Republican critics and the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, to former Fox News Host Tucker Carlson at a campaign event in Glendale on Thursday.

“Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her,” Trump said. “Let’s see how she feels about it.”

In an interview on Friday with 12News, a local television station in Arizona, Mayes said Trump’s comments were “deeply troubling.”

“I have already asked my criminal division chief to start looking at that statement, analyzing it for whether it qualifies as a death threat under Arizona’s laws,” Mayes told 12News.

“I’m not prepared now to say whether it was or it wasn’t, but it is not helpful as we prepare for our election and as we try to make sure that we keep the peace at our polling places and in our state,” she continued.

The Harris rally got underway with Democratic Mayor Cavalier Johnson first on stage to warm up the crowd, followed by MC Lyte and Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley. Johnson called on everyone to vote and get others to do the same.

“I haven’t forgotten that just earlier this year … Donald Trump, he called Milwaukee — the largest community in Wisconsin — he called us horrible,” Johnson said, referencing comments by Trump prior to the Republican National Convention.

The crowd booed as Johnson spoke of Trump’s rally across town.

“Our community, we are quite literally the crossroads of this election. And if Milwaukee turns out, then we win,” he said to cheers.

Akshay Patel, 45, drove an hour down from Sheboygan for the rally. He was one of the first people in the exposition center after waiting outside for an hour for parking to open.

“I already voted, but I want to support Kamala,” he said. “I want to make a bigger crowd, so the other guy gets jealous.”

Originally from India, Patel said he was excited to see an Indian woman running for president. But the main reason for him to support Harris is “her policies and her kindness.”

Patel said he has been working hard to get his friends and family, all of them also Indian immigrants living in central Wisconsin, to vote. He estimates successfully getting some 35 people to the polls, many for the first time in their lives.

That includes his sister-in-law, who wasn’t even registered until Patel helped her. Then he got a text: “I voted for you and Anjali,” her daughter.

Patel said he was confident that the work of Harris’ campaign would pay off.

“I’m still worried,” he said. “But I know 100% she’s going to pull up.”

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee has activated some Washington National Guard members to be on standby in the event they are asked to support local law enforcement and the Washington State Patrol during election week.

Inslee said in a news release on Friday that the activation is a precautionary measure taken in response to incidents in October in which incendiary devices were set off on ballot drop boxes in Vancouver, Washington, and in Portland, Oregon.

He also cited U.S. Department of Homeland Security warnings of threats to election infrastructure during the 2024 election cycle as a reason for the measure. His order activates as many members of the Washington National Guard as determined necessary for up to four days, beginning Monday and ending at 12:01 a.m. on Nov. 8.

John Cassanos, 63, of Milwaukee, said he came to the rally for “one last little boost of energy to get out and knock on doors.”

He has been canvassing door-to-door as a volunteer for Planned Parenthood, knocking on 30 to 120 doors a day on the East Side and north suburbs of Milwaukee.

The former hotel food and beverage manager was planning to retire at the end of the year, but moved it up to get more weeks in to work on getting out the vote.

“This is really such a huge election in terms of the direction of our country, our future, our kids future,” he said.

He cast his ballot for Harris Wednesday. He’s hopeful from the conversations he’s had with voters, but “a surprising number of people are still undecided,” which he said was “unsettling.”

He said he plans to do what he can in the next few days — it’s the best way to relieve his election anxiety — and then spend Election Day at home, reading a book and trying to “ignore the news as much as possible.” He’s not expecting a result the day of anyway, he said.

“I’m so relieved it’s almost over,” he said.

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Harris later went after Trump on health care, telling hundreds who packed into Little Chute High School in Little Chute, Wisconsin, that the former president wants to undo the Affordable Care Act law and take the United States back to the days when insurers could deny to cover people with preexisting conditions.

“Access to health care should be a right and not just a privilege for those who can afford it,” the vice president said. She also pushed her proposal to have Medicare pay for home health care to help the “sandwich generation” of people who are raising kids while caring for elderly parents.

At one point, she polled the audience, asking how many of them had already voted.
“Oh wow,” she exclaimed when a loud cheer went up. She laid out the stakes for her in this important battleground state.

“Wisconsin, truly we need everyone to vote. You will make the difference in this election,” Harris said.

Kamala Harris took a break from the campaign trail this week to congratulate the Los Angeles Dodgers, her hometown team, on winning the World Series.

“I wasn’t able to watch the game live, but of course, your biggest fan Doug Emhoff did,” Harris told Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts in a phone call, referring to her husband and devout Dodgers fan. She posted a video of the call on X.

The Dodgers won the franchise’s 8th World Series title on Wednesday, coming from behind to defeat the New York Yankees in Game 5 of the fall classic.

Harris has publicly cheered the San Francisco Giants in the past and identified as a Giants fan, but Roberts said he was just “hoping your allegiance would stay at least on the West Coast.”

“I was rooting for the Dodgers all the way,” the vice president added.

Count the mother of former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker as an early voter.

Walker told the crowd before Donald Trump’s Friday night rally in Milwaukee that he took his mom to city hall in the suburb of Waukesha to vote early.

She is one of about 1.3 million people who have already voted in Wisconsin. Of those, about 801,000 have cast their ballots in person. The period to do that ends on Sunday.

Walker is one of many current and former Republican officeholders at Trump’s rally. Also, there is former Gov. Tommy Thompson, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and U.S. Reps. Glenn Grothman and Bryan Steil.

Crowds are filing into the state fair exposition center for a concert and rally for Vice President Kamala Harris.

The star-studded event will feature speeches by Rapper Cardi B and actor Keegan-Michael Key and performances by GloRilla, Flo Milli, MC Lyte, The Isley Brothers and DJ GEMINI GILLY.

The rally state fair park in the West Allis suburb is just seven miles from Fiserv Forum in downtown Milwaukee, where Former President Donald Trump is hosting a dueling rally.

Alesha Regus, 34, of Milwaukee, stood in the front of the crowd, her twin daughters Nyla and Nala Oden, 6, in tow. She wanted her daughters to witness “history in the making,” the same way her mother had shown her when President Barack Obama was elected in 2008.

“I’m very hopeful,” she said. “The vibe is clear and profound that people are wanting her to win over Trump. Even some Trump supporters have flipped.”

Regus is Black, French-Creole and Puerto Rican. She said the comments made about Puerto Rico by a comedian at Trump’s rally in New York this week struck her as “very disrespectful.”

She said she was inspired to see the celebrities who have thrown their support behind Harris, including “qualified women to talk about struggle” like Cardi B and GloRilla. She already cast her ballot for Harris, and said she has been talking with undecided voters she knows not to sway them toward either candidate, but to make sure they know how to vote and do so according to their values.

“All I can do is pray about it,” she said.

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania.

The justices left in place a state Supreme Court ruling that elections officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected.

As of Thursday, about 9,000 ballots out of more than 1.6 million returned have arrived at elections offices around Pennsylvania lacking a secrecy envelope, a signature or a date, according to state records.

Pennsylvania is the biggest presidential election battleground this year, with 19 electoral votes. Former President Donald Trump won the state in 2016, then lost it in 2020.

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Vice President Kamala Harris rallied supporters in a county that voted for former President Donald Trump twice on Friday evening, projecting confidence as her audience lept into chants of “we will win.”

“Make no mistake, we will win, we will win,” Harris said, before the supporters at Little Chute High School in Little Chute, Wisconsin erupted into chants of “we will win.”

Harris has worked to show confidence in the close of her campaign, and her top aides have argued that while the race is close, they believe they will defeat Trump next week.

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Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva appears to have endorsed Kamala Harris for U.S. president in a Friday afternoon message on X, saying democracy would be safer in her administration.

“I love democracy. I think it is the best system of government society has built in the world,” Lula wrote, adding that democracy enabled him, a former metalworker, to reach the presidency three times.

“It allows for those who are against it, those who are antagonistic, in a civilized debate of ideas, without violence. I think that if Kamala wins the elections, it is much safer to strengthen democracy in the U.S.”

Trump was allied with Lula’s most recent predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro. The far-right politician lost his reelection bid to Lula in late 2022 and, a little over two months later, his supporters stormed the capital in a bid to restore him to power. It was widely seen as an echo of the Capitol insurrection two years earlier.

The Fiserv Forum in downtown Milwaukee has been a popular destination during the presidential campaign.

Former President Donald Trump is there Friday night for what may be his last stop in the swing state of Wisconsin before the election.

It’s a return visit for Trump. He accepted the Republican nomination for president there during the Republican National Convention in July.

In August, Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally there that coincided with the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

The venue is home to the Milwaukee Bucks, who have a game there on Saturday night. But it also hosts other events. Just last week, Stevie Wonder played a concert as part of his “Sing Your Song! As We Fix Our Nation’s Broken Heart” tour.

But even that had a political edge. The 10-stop tour focused on presidential battleground states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia.

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Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected a last-ditch effort to ensure that thousands of mail-in ballots that lack an accurate, handwritten date on the exterior envelope will still count in this year’s presidential election.

The ruling is a victory for the GOP, as Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris vie in the final days of the presidential campaign for victory in the nation’s biggest battleground state.

The Republican Party has contested at least a half-dozen lawsuits in four years seeking to require counties to count such ballots. In this case, voting rights advocates argued that throwing out a ballot because it lacks a meaningless date violates a voter’s constitutional rights.

In its unsigned order, the state’s highest court said the case won’t apply to the presidential election being decided next week, but held out the possibility that it would still rule on the case at a later time.

However, a lawyer who helped bring the case said it’s almost certain that the question will be back before the justices in the days after the presidential election if it’s close.

So far about 64 million people have cast ballots in the 2024 election, which is more than one-third the total number who voted in 2020. Not all states register voters by party, but in those that do the early electorate is slightly more Republican than Democratic, according to AP Elections Data.

Early vote data, of course, does not tell you who will win an election. It doesn’t tell you who the voters support, only basic demographic information and sometimes party affiliation. One demographic may seem unusually energized because it dominates the early vote, only to have no more voters left to turn out on Election Day.

Gabe Sterling, chief operating officer for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, said Wednesday that the state already had hit two-thirds of the entire turnout for the 2020 election, when Georgia set a record number of nearly 5 million votes cast.

“There’s a possibility it could be a ghost town on Election Day,” Sterling said. “We had less than a million show up during COVID in 2020 with all the uses of pre-Election Day voting.”

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Trump rattled off a number of talking points 20 minutes after he first indicated he was wrapping up, including ending the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, keeping manufacturing in the U.S., and stopping illegal immigration.

He said for the past 9 years he has been fighting “sinister” forces in America.“This nation does not belong to them, this nation belongs to you,” he told rallygoers.

He remained on stage to dance to the YMCA after his final remarks.

Trump started to wrap his remarks by saying he has the “best” coalition and movement in American history, listing off support from Black, Hispanic, Catholic, Jewish and now, he says, Muslim Americans.

He spoke of his visit to Dearborn shortly before his stop in Warren and turned once again to Liz Cheney. He called Harris and her campaign “warmongers” along with Liz Cheney whose father “virtually destroyed the Middle East.”

He repeated his previous remarks by saying Liz Cheney wouldn’t have the courage to face combat battle.“She doesn’t have the guts to fight,” he said. Trump said Harris is the candidate of “endless wars” while he is the candidate of peace.

Two organizations that have been sending letters to registered voters in Maryland threatening to publicly expose those who do not vote in this year’s election are now saying that they won’t do that and will stop sending the letters, Attorney General Anthony Brown’s office said Friday.

Brown ordered the Center for Voter Information/Voter Participation Center, partner groups that are based in Washington, D.C., to stop sending the mail in a cease-and-desist letter on Thursday. The groups then notified the attorney general they would not publicize information that identifies particular voters and their voting histories, Brown’s office said in a news release.

They also indicated they do not have plans for any further mailings. However, they told the attorney general’s office that there are letters already in the mail stream that may not have been delivered before the cease-and-desist letter was sent and could still arrive in mailboxes over the coming days.

The attorney general’s office said it’s satisfied that they will not improperly contact voters following the election, and that the office has no plans to take any further legal action.

Maryland law permits a requestor to receive a copy of the voter registration list with voters’ election participation history included. However, Maryland law prohibits conduct designed to “influence or attempt to influence a voter’s decision” or to do so “through the use of force, fraud, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery, reward, or offer of reward.”

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Trump let Brian Pannebecker, who founded Auto Workers for Trump, take the mic.

Pannebecker said Michigan auto workers as workers and consumers do not want electric vehicles. He said only Trump can keep auto jobs in Michigan.

Trump retook center stage to promote his tariff plans.

Matt Kumorkiewicz, 55, a retired carpenter from Oak Creek, Wisconsin, wore a yellow reflective safety vest to Trump’s Milwaukee rally. He said he wanted to send the message that “we’re not garbage.”

The vests were hot items among vendors working the crowd outside of the Fiserv Forum, where the Republican National Convention was held three months ago. Peter Schmidt, 66, said he bought one for $15.

He said Trump doesn’t get a fair shake from the media or Democrats.

“They hate us,” Schmidt said. “They hate the First Amendment. They hate the Second Amendment. ... They want to take our rights away.”

Kristi Blessing, 57, drove from suburban Chicago to see Trump’s Milwaukee rally.

“He’s one of us,” she said. “He gets a bad rap. Trump is down to earth. He can relate to people.”

Kumorkiewicz said, “People want a change. Kumorkiewicz said he was optimistic that Trump will win.

“The Democrats can only win if they cheat,” he said. “They’re the party of intimidation and fear.”

Blessing said she wanted to be a part of what she said was Trump’s “electric” energy.

“The polls say one thing, but I feel pretty firmly about Trump.” she said. “I feel he has the momentum.”

Pam Hart, 54, of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, downplayed Trump’s comment about Cheney.

“People can take that out of context as much as they want,” she said while waiting to get into Trump’s Milwaukee rally on Friday night.

Hart works as an administrative assistant for a waste removal company and borrowed a yellow safety vest from a worker there to send the message that she is not “garbage.”

Kristi Blessing, 57, who came to Trump’s rally from suburban Chicago, said she had no opinion on Trump’s comment about Cheney.

“Right now we are 100% focused on the presidential election,” she said. “The polls say one thing but I feel pretty firmly about Trump. I feel he has the momentum.”

Trump said Elon Musk is campaigning in Pennsylvania for him, which was answered by cheers from the crowd.

He repeatedly complimented Musk on his black “MAGA” hat that the billionaire wore to a Trump rally recently.

“We had a run on the hats,” Trump said about sales of the merchandise.

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He repeated his campaign promises to end tax on tips and social security. He joked that people would say he wants to end those taxes because he is a senior citizen himself.

“I don’t feel like a senior citizen,” he joked.

Trump is making his pitch to African-American voters in Michigan, claiming their jobs are going to migrants.

He claims that numbers will come out after the election that is going to show “all those people that illegally come across the border with their open border policy are taking the African-American jobs away.”

“It’s not right, Hispanic jobs also, to a lesser extent,” Trump said.

The latest jobs report shows African-American joblessness remains near historically low levels at 5.7%.

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President Joe Biden spent part of his Friday afternoon at a Philadelphia union hall discussing how his administration has backed organized labor.

It’s a big election year pitch in Pennsylvania, a swing state in which unions could be decisive in the outcome of Tuesday’s voting.

Biden noted that no Republican lawmaker voted for his 2021 pandemic relief package, which included money under the Butch Lewis Act to shore up the pensions of more than 1 million union workers and retirees.

Biden posthumously gave the Presidential Citizens Medal on Friday to the namesake of that law, Butch Lewis, who died in 2015. Biden personally awarded the medal to Lewis’ widow, Rita.

The president also announced $684 million from the law to restore pensions for an additional 29,000 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.

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Trump is highlighting the latest jobs report that says America’s employers added just 12,000 jobs in October.

But he’s leaving out critical context, not mentioning that economists say the total jobs added was held down by the effects of strikes and hurricanes that left many workers temporarily off payrolls.
“I’ve never heard of 12,000 jobs. That’s not even believable,” Trump said. “This is not good news for them.”

Last month’s hiring gain was down significantly from the 223,000 jobs that were added in September. But economists have estimated that Hurricanes Helene and Milton, combined with strikes at Boeing and elsewhere, had the effect of pushing down net job growth by tens of thousands of jobs in October.

“How good was Bobby Kennedy?” Trump asked the crowd. He was answered with cheers and claps. Trump said Kennedy would take “care” of women, and men and children.

Kennedy opened for Trump and urged supporters to not vote for him as his name is still on the Michigan ballot.

Trump said Harris “came in last” when she ran for president in 2020. He said when Joe Biden stepped down after the first presidential debate, it was not “fair” to Biden.

Someone in the crowd shouted, “who cares?” Trump laughed at the comment and thanked the rallygoer.

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Donald Trump walked onto the stage in front of a crowd gathered in a gymnasium at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan, where many wore reflective vests like Trump wore earlier this week in reference to Biden’s “garbage” comment.

A few wore actual plastic garbage bags over their clothes. One man wore a shirt that just said “garbage.”Before Trump took the stage, digital video boards flanking the stage encouraged voters to cast their ballots early or by mail.

Trump and his allies have encouraged supporters to embrace voting before Election Day this year, a reverse from previous cycles.

Trump says the campaign season is winding down, telling rallygoers, “hopefully we’ll be going to the next phase, which is turning our country around.”

“We’re going to miss these rallies, aren’t we ?” Trump told the cheering crowd. “But there will be even better rallies in a different form.”

Kennedy said he’s prayed every morning for him to be in the position to end chronic disease in America.

“God sent me Donald J. Trump,” he said.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is campaigning for Trump, is asking voters at a campaign rally in Michigan not to vote for him in Tuesday’s election.

Kennedy recently lost an appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court to take his name off the Michigan ballot. He said the courts are forcing Michigan and Wisconsin to keep him on the ballot.

“When you go into that voting booth, you’re going to see my name on the ballot. I do not want you to vote for me. If you want to see me go to Washington, you better vote for Donald Trump.”

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Vice President Kamala Harris called her Republican opponent “one of the biggest losers of manufacturing jobs in America’s history,” hanging on the word “loser” as she made her argument against former President Donald on Friday.

The comment came in a speech at an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers labor union hall in Janesville, Wisconsin that honed in on Trump’s manufacturing record. Harris was flanked during the remarks by IBEW workers in highlighter yellow shirts. Harris said Trump is “all talk, no walk” on unions, calling him “no friend to labor” and “a union buster his entire career.”

“He’s got a lot of talk, but if you pay attention to what he’s actually done... you’ll see who he really is,” she said, calling Trump “an existential threat to America’s labor movement.”

Union workers are important in a series of key swing states. While Democrats have long enjoyed the support of union leadership, Trump has improved Republican’s standing with rank-and-file union workers in both 2016 and 2020.

Trump met with Arab Americans in Dearborn — the nation’s largest Arab-majority city — on Friday in a stunning turnaround for a president whose first act in office in 2017 was to sign an executive order effectively banning travelers from predominantly Muslim countries.

Trump was met with cheers and applause from a modest crowd at The Great Commoner restaurant.

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The growing support for Trump from Muslim and Arab Americans highlights the untenable frustration the community has for the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, which has left more than 43,000 Palestinians dead since Oct. 7, 2023.

Activists say Harris has done little to differentiate herself from President Joe Biden’s unconditional support for Israel. “It is time to prioritize our nation’s best interests and foster lasting peace for all,” Albert Abbas, an Arab-American and family member of the owner of the restaurant, said while standing next to Trump.

“This current administration has failed miserably in all aspects of humanity."He added, “We look to a Trump presidency with hope and envisioning time, where peace flourishes, particularly in Lebanon and Palestine.”

The number of people who’ve cast early in-person ballots in North Carolina has exceeded the total from four years ago. Such voting ends Saturday.

State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell said that 3.71 million people had cast early in-person ballots as of early Friday.

The previous record was 3.63 million people voting in fall 2020. Early in-person voting has become increasing popular in the presidential battleground state over several election cycles.

State and national Republicans this year have encouraged supporters to vote early. Brinson Bell said voter turnout in counties affected by Hurricane Helene continues to outpace turnout statewide.

Several Arab American leaders in Dearborn, Michigan say they declined invitations to meet with Donald Trump, who is visiting the nation’s largest majority-Arab city in metro Detroit today.

Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud declined an invitation to meet with Trump this week, confirmed Katie Doyal, a spokesperson for Hammoud, to the Associated Press. Hammoud, a Democrat, has not endorsed any presidential candidate this year.

Arab American News publisher Osama Siblani said he was invited to a “handshake” meeting with Trump but responded with conditions, requesting a substantive discussion on community issues.

Siblani also informed Trump allies that the Arab American PAC, which he co-founded, and The Arab American News would not alter their non-endorsements in the presidential race, even if he met with Trump. The meeting never materialized after the requests, said Siblani.

Vice President Kamala Harris called Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the “exact last person in America who should be setting healthcare policy for America’s families and children,” responding to former President Donald Trump saying the vaccine skeptic and former Democrat would “take care of health” if he wins four more years in the White House.

“He has indicated that the person who would be in charge of health care for the American people is someone who has routinely promoted junk science and crazy conspiracy theories,” Harris said. She did not mention Kennedy in her remarks, but her campaign later tweeted a clip of the comments and inserted Kennedy’s name in the text.

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Trump has indicated multiple times during the close of his campaign that Kennedy would have a top health policy role in his administration. Kennedy, a former Democrat and a member of the party’s best-known family, is also the nation’s most prominent vaccine skeptic, regularly using debunked anti-vaccine talking points like falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism.

“I say, Bobby — I love you looking at health,” Trump said on Thursday night. “I want you to take care of the women of this country, the men of this country, and the children of this country.”

Kennedy was traveling with Trump on Friday and was seen coming out of the GOP presidential nominee’s plane in Detroit.

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