2024 Election: Harris teams up with Beyoncé at Texas rally, Trump to sit with Joe Rogan

Former President Trump said Friday he believes Vice President Kamala Harris is "not a smart person."

Trump said during an appearance on the podcast "The Joe Rogan Experience" that he does not believe "this country is going to make it" if Harris wins next month's election.

"[World leaders] respected me, they respected our country. They don't respect our country. They don't respect Biden. They don't respect her," Trump said.

"They're dreaming about her because she's incompetent," he added. She's not a smart person. These guys are very smart, and they're very streetwise. And they're very tricky and evil and dangerous. And if she becomes the president of the United States, which I can't believe can happen, I don't think this country is going to make it. I don't think we'll ever be. I think just really bad things will happen to our country."

Multiple people who lined up outside Shell Energy Stadium in Houston, Texas, for Vice President Kamala Harris' rally on Friday suffered heat-related medical issues, according to reports.

About two hours before the event, thousands of people were lined up outside the stadium and around the parking lot, KPRC 2 reported.

As the Texas heat started to impact potential attendees, EMTs responded to the area, according to the outlet. At least eight people were transported to nearby hospitals, and dozens more have reported heat-related issues.

Cooling buses were at the location to help the individuals, and Houston police were observed handing out cold bottles of water, the outlet reported.

With 10 days until Election Day, two new major national polls indicate Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump are in a dead heat in the race to succeed President Biden in the White House.

With the clock quickly ticking, the two nominees and their running mates are fanning out across the key battleground states this weekend.

Trump starts Saturday with a rally in Novi, Michigan, in suburban Detroit. Later in the day, he'll campaign in another of the crucial swing states — Pennsylvania — as he holds a rally in State College, home to Penn State University.

Harris on Saturday will team up with former first lady Michelle Obama, arguably the most popular Democrat in the country, at a get-out-the-vote rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The stop comes two days after the vice president shared the stage in suburban Atlanta with former President Obama.

Two major national polls conducted Sunday through Wednesday and released Friday indicate Harris and Trump in a dead heat.

Grabbing headlines first is a New York Times/Siena College survey indicating the Democratic Party and GOP presidential nominees are tied at 48%.

That's a switch from a previous poll, earlier this month, when Harris held a slight three-point edge.

A CNN survey had the candidates deadlocked at 47% among likely voters nationwide. Its previous poll from late September indicated the vice president had a razor-thin one-point margin.

Read the full article by Fox News' Paul Steinhauser.

Former President Trump said Friday he would open up the files on the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. if he wins the election next month.

Trump said during an appearance on "The Joe Rogan Experience" that he was asked "by a lot of reasonable people" not to open the Kennedy files but that he would open them upon returning to the White House.

"I opened them up partially. I met with good people. I mean, you know, look, I've met with good people, people that were well-meaning. Mike Pompeo was one of them. He's a good person. They called me. They said, 'Sir, would rather have you not' and I did open them, but I was asked by some people not to open them," Trump said of the Kennedy files.

"There's a Martin Luther King file, too, by the way, that they'd like to see. I don't know if you know, but there is that," he continued.

Trump added: "But JFK in particular. So they called me, a lot of good people called me, people that I, you know, that you would find reasonable people. And they asked me not to do it. So I said, well, we'll close it for another time, but if I win, I'm going to open them up. I'm just going to open it up."

Rogan asked Trump why he did not open the files during his first term.

"Addresses of people that are still living," Trump replied. "There are people that are affected. And there could be some national security reason that, you know, that I don't have to necessarily know about. But some very good, talented people asked me not to do it. I opened it up, and then they said, would it be possible for us to do that a different day?"

Former President Trump said Friday there is a problem with the "enemy from within" who he believes wants "to make this country unsuccessful."

Trump made the comments to Joe Rogan on the podcast "The Joe Rogan Experience."

"I say it to people: We have a bigger problem, in my opinion, with the enemy from within. And it drives them crazy when I use that term, but we have an enemy from within. We have people that are really bad people, that I really think want to make this country unsuccessful," Trump said.

Beyoncé on Friday night in front of a massive announced crowd of 30,000 at a soccer stadium in downtown Houston returned to her hometown to formally endorse Vice President Kamala Harris.

The singer, whose hit song "Freedom" has been adopted by the vice president as her campaign trail anthem, spoke ahead of Harris and introduced her at the event, which leaned heavily into abortion access.

"It's time for America to sing a new song," Beyoncé said as she formally endorsed the vice president in her White House race against former President Trump. "Ladies and gentlemen, please give a big, loud, Texas welcome to the next President of the United States, Vice President Kamala Harris."

And she emphasized that "I’m not here as a celebrity, I’m not here as a politician, I’m here as a mother. A mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in. A world where we have the freedom to control our bodies."

Read the full article by Fox News' Paul Steinhauser.

Former President Trump on Friday reaffirmed his commitment to bringing former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into his administration if he wins the election next month.

Podcast host Joe Rogan asked Trump on his show "The Joe Rogan Experience" if he is "completely committed" to tapping Kennedy Jr. to be part of his administration.

"Oh yeah, but the only thing I want to be a little careful about is the environmental ... Gotta be a little bit careful with the liquid gold," Trump said.

The former president said he has received pressure to not work with Kennedy.

"It doesn't affect me," Trump said.

Former President Trump doubled down on a proposal to eliminate income taxes if he returns to the White House.

Trump was asked by podcast host Joe Rogan on his show "The Joe Rogan Experience" if was "serious" about eliminating the income tax and replacing it with tariffs.

"Yeah sure, why not?" the former president responded.

This comes after Trump floated the idea of eliminating the income tax while taking questions at a barbershop in the Bronx on Monday.

The sister of Vanessa Guillén, an Army private killed by a fellow soldier in 2020, thanked former President Trump on Friday for meeting with her and her mother privately.

"Thank you @realDonaldTrump for meeting with my mother and I today & taking the time to speak with us privately," Mayra Guillén wrote on the social media platform X.

"See you at the White House!" she added.

Vanessa Guillén, 20, was killed in 2020 at Fort Cavazos, formerly Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas, by fellow soldier Aaron Robinson, who killed himself after a confrontation with police following the discovery of Guillen's body in the woods.

Trump railed against VP Kamala Harris Friday night in Michigan for "partying" in Houston at a campaign stop with popstar Beyonce Knowles as Israel launched airstrikes against Iran.

"So Israel is attacking, we got a war going on, and she's out partying," Trump said. "At least we're working to make America great again. That's what we're doing."

"And tonight in the Middle East, it's like a tinderbox," Trump said later Friday night. "It's ready to explode. People are being killed at levels that we've never seen before."

As Trump has repeatedly said during his campaign stops, he vowed to "end the war in Ukraine quickly," though he has not released an official plan for the Russia-Ukraine war.

"I will stop the chaos in the middle East and I will prevent World War Three," Trump said. "I know them all. I know exactly what to do."

While a doctor attended to a crowd member during Trump's Michigan rally late Friday night, Trump suggested: "Should we listen to a nice song while we wait?"

"Okay. Ave, Ave Maria by Pavarotti. You want to do it? We'll, listen to a song. I want the doctors to take their time," Trump said.

After the three-minute song concluded, Trump resumed his campaign speech.

Former President Trump said Friday on Joe Rogan's podcast that he believes the word "tariff" is "more beautiful than anything."

“To me, the most beautiful word — and I've said this for the last couple of weeks — in the dictionary today is the word 'tariff,'" Trump said during an appearance on the "Joe Rogan Experience."

"It's more beautiful than love, it's more beautiful than anything," Trump continued.

Former President Trump said Friday on Joe Rogan's podcast that the biggest mistake he made during his first term was that he "picked some people that I shouldn't have picked."

During the episode of the "Joe Rogan Experience," Rogan asked the former president if he was referring to neoconservatives.

"Yeah, neocons, or bad people, or disloyal people," Trump responded.

After arriving more than two hours late to his Michigan rally after spending the day campaigning in Texas and appearing on Joe Rogan's podcast, former President Donald Trump said "it was the longest interview I've ever done in my life."

"I got interviewed by, actually, a great guy," Trump told his supporters in Traverse City. "I didn't know him too well, but I got to know him because it was the longest interview I've ever done in my life. Joe Rogan, a good guy, and it's, you know, it's quite something."

Trump's full three-hour interview on The Joe Rogan Experience, filmed Friday afternoon, is already available on X and Spotify.

Former President Trump's appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast reached nearly 600,000 views in the first 45 minutes after it was published on YouTube Friday night.

Friday's episode of the "Joe Rogan Experience" also reached more than 300,000 views in the first 30 minutes it was online, as the number continues to climb.

Trump's rally in Michigan Friday night was delayed after recording the three-hour podcast. The podcast was recorded in Austin, Texas, where Rogan is based.

"President Trump just wrapped a 3 HOUR episode of the Joe Rogan Podcast! We're coming now, Michigan!" Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Former President Trump's rally in Michigan was delayed Friday after he recorded a three-hour podcast with Joe Rogan.

Some of the crowd left early from the Cherry Capital Airport in Traverse City, according to local reports.

Trump recorded the podcast in Austin, Texas, where Rogan is based.

"President Trump just wrapped a 3 HOUR episode of the Joe Rogan Podcast! We’re coming now, Michigan!" Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung posted on X.

After the podcast, Trump posted a video on TikTok with him and Rogan.

"We had a good time. I think you'll find it very interesting and enjoy it," Trump said.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin slammed a federal judge's ruling ordering Virginia to reinstate potentially 1,600 noncitizens to its state voter rolls on Friday, with just 10 full days until the election.

"This is a stunning ruling by a federal judge who is ordering Virginia to reinstate individuals who have self-identified as noncitizens back on the voter rolls," Youngkin told "The Faulkner Focus" by phone shortly after the judge's decision was announced.

"What's even more astounding is that the vast majority of these folks had presented immigration documents confirming that they were noncitizens, and we recently had that verified by federal authorities," he told Fox News host Harris Faulkner. 

On Friday, U.S. Judge Patricia Giles issued a preliminary injunction to reinstate all voters who had been removed from state voter rolls in the past 90 days, after Youngkin issued an executive order in August directing state officials to identify noncitizens, who were given two weeks to dispute being disqualified before being removed from voter rolls. 

The judge found that the removals had been "systematic," not individualized, and were thus a violation of federal law.

In issuing the injunction, Giles said there is reason to believe voters were being mistakenly removed from the rolls. 

"This process has resulted in eligible voters having their voting registration flagged," she said.

Her ruling came after the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the State of Virginia, Virginia State Board of Elections and Virginia Commissioner of Elections on Oct. 11, saying that by removing voters from rolls too close to the Nov. 5 general election, the state had violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).

Youngkin told Faulkner the ruling, which is expected to restore the voting rights to about 1,600 residents ahead of Election Day, violated common sense and the Constitution. 

This is an excerpt from an article by Kristine Parks

"Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary criticized the Democratic Party for how it selected Vice President Kamala Harris to become the nominee without a primary and favored Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries.

“This is the second time the Democratic Party has circumvented democracy,” he on CNN. “Hillary Clinton was chosen.”

The Democratic party was criticized in 2016 over how Clinton was chosen, with many saying her nomination was always pre-determined.

O'Leary noted that Harris never won a primary before she was chosen as the party nominee in August.

Other panelists asked whether voters really cared about the primary process.

“The Democrats sure as hell cared today,” he replied.

Washington Post staffers are revolting after the "Democracy Dies in Darkness" paper announced it wouldn’t endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.

On Friday, Post publisher and CEO William Lewis announced the paper would not be making a presidential endorsement this year, nor in any future presidential election. "We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates," Lewis declared.

Shortly after, the Washington Post Guild released a scathing statement condemning the decision.

"We are deeply concerned that The Washington Post – an American news institution in the nation’s capital – would make the decision to no longer endorse presidential candidates, especially a mere 11 days ahead of an immensely consequential election. The role of an Editorial Board is to do just this: to share opinions on the news impacting our society and culture and endorse candidates to help guide readers," the Guild said.

"The message from our chief executive, Will Lewis – not from the Editorial Board itself – makes us concerned that management interfered with the work out of members in Editorial," the Guild continued. "According to our own reporters and Guild members, an endorsement for Harris was already drafted, and the decision not to publish was made by The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos."

The Guild added: "We are already seeing cancelations from once loyal readers. This decision undercuts the works of our members at a time when we should be building our readers’ trust, not losing it."

The Guild put up a post with a link encouraging action, saying, "Are you a Washington Post reader concerned with today’s decision for the Editorial Board to not endorse a candidate this election cycle? Send a letter to CEO and Publisher Will Lewis and Editorial Page Editor David Shipley."

Post editor at large Robert Kagan resigned because of the decision, and former executive editor Martin "Marty" Baron denounced it as "cowardice."

"This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty. @realdonaldtrump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner @jeffbezos (and others). Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage," Baron wrote on X.

This is an excerpt from an article by Joseph A. Wulfsohn and Brian Flood.