Trump, Harris head to battleground states of Michigan and Wisconsin

On Friday, former President Trump and Vice President Harris held competing rallies in Milwaukee, home to the crucial battleground state of Wisconsin, with just days left until the election.

"Today I ask you, are you ready to make your voices heard?" Harris asked her crowd in Milwaukee. "Do we believe in freedom? Do we believe in opportunity? Do we believe in the promise of America? And are we ready to fight for it?"

During Harris' rally, rapper Cardi B and comedian Keegan-Michael Key stumped for the vice president and made the case for voting for the Democratic nominee.

"I did not have faith on any candidate until she joined the race and said the things that I wanted to hear, that I want to see next in this country," Cardi B said. "I believe in every word that comes out of her mouth. She's passionate, she's compassionate, she shows empathy."

Earlier in the day, Trump campaigned in Michigan, where he told his supporters "nothing matters except what happens on Tuesday."

Both candidates will continue to target swing states over the weekend as they prepare for Election Day on Tuesday.

Harris campaigns in Georgia and North Carolina on Saturday before making multiple stops in Michigan on Sunday.

Trump campaigns this weekend in Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

The former president will also make a stop on Saturday in Virginia, which has leaned blue in presidential elections for two decades.

Continue to follow Fox News Digital for live updates from the campaign trail.

With the 2024 U.S. election around the corner, celebrities have been stepping forward to publicly endorse either Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Trump for president of the United States.

From Taylor Swift and Jennifer Lopez to Jason Aldean and Kelsey Grammer, these stars have used their platforms to share their thoughts and beliefs on why their preferred candidate should win.

The celebrities who have endorsed Harris include Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Aniston, Anne Hathaway, Oprah, George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Cardi B.

Trump's celebrity endorsements, meanwhile, include Jason Aldean, Kelsey Grammer, Drea de Matteo, Dennis Quaid, Kid Rock, Hulk Hogan, Zachary Levi and Rob Schneider.

Read the full article by Fox News' Caroline Thayer and Christina Dugan Ramirez.

Vice President Kamala Harris is urging her supporters to vote with the clock ticking down toward Election Day.

"We're going to get this done, but nobody can sit by the sidelines," the Democratic presidential nominee emphasized as she campaigned in battleground Wisconsin. "You don't want to look back on these four days and have any regrets about what you could have done."

Harris and the Republican nominee, former President Trump, held dueling rallies Friday night a few miles apart in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's largest city.

Hours earlier, while campaigning in Michigan, another crucial Great Lakes swing state, Trump told his supporters "nothing matters except what happens on Tuesday."

"Just pretend that we're one point down. We're not. We're up. But pretend that we're one point down on Tuesday," the former president stressed. He once again touted that he's leading Harris, even though the latest polls continue to indicate it's a toss-up.

Harris and Trump on Thursday each held their final events in the western battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada, and Friday's competing rallies were their last stops in Wisconsin ahead of Election Day.

The razor-thin margins in those three states, along with Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, decided President Biden's 2020 victory over Trump and will likely determine if Harris or Trump wins the 2024 election.

This weekend, both nominees will keep up the brisk pace.

Harris campaigns Saturday in Georgia and North Carolina and makes multiple stops in Michigan on Sunday. On Election Eve, she crisscrosses Pennsylvania, which, with 19 electoral votes up for grabs, is the biggest prize among the seven battlegrounds.

Trump campaigns this weekend in Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. He also makes a detour on Saturday in Virginia, a one-time swing state that has leaned blue in presidential elections for two decades. The former president will hold a rally in the conservative southwestern section of the commonwealth.

Read the full article by Fox News' Paul Steinhauser.

Georgia Republicans appear confident the state’s record-setting early voting numbers will favor their 2024 presidential nominee.

"It’s been record turnout, something unbelievable — voting from all across the state," Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones told Fox News Digital. "I think the enthusiasm, the momentum, is with President Trump."

The former commander-in-chief lost Georgia by less than 1% in 2020, and Republicans have poured enormous time and resources into winning it back Nov. 5.

A significant part of that strategy has been convincing people to cast ballots early, traditionally a voting method more favored by Democrats.

And both parties’ emphasis on early voting has had a seismic effect. During the early voting period between Oct. 15 and Nov. 1, nearly 4 million Georgians cast in-person or absentee ballots, more than half the state’s active voters.

Over 700,000 people who voted already in 2024 did not vote at all in 2020, according to Georgia Votes. The top three counties for voter turnout rates are rural areas won by Trump in 2020.

Both of those factors, Jones argued, were favorable indicators for the ex-president.

"We've got a lot of voters that voted in 2016 but didn't vote in 2020. … What makes me believe that they are Trump voters is that most of them are ... from parts of the state that are pretty strong Republican strongholds," he said.

"You start breaking down where they live, where they were historically as far as the Republican cards they pulled in the past, and, like I said, the on-the-ground enthusiasm for [Trump] right now is pretty off the charts."

Read the full article by Fox News' Elizabeth Elkind.

A judge in Cobb County, Georgia, has extended the deadline for absentee ballots after delays blamed on equipment failure and an uptick in last-minute applications.

Cobb County Superior Court Senior Judge Robert Flournoy approved the order, which was supported by four members of the Board of Elections and Registration and proposed by attorneys representing three voters affected by the issue, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.

Under the court’s order, absentee ballots mailed after Oct. 30 will be counted if they are postmarked by 7 p.m. on Election Day and received by 5 p.m. on Nov. 8.

The Cobb County Elections Department announced that a surge in ballot applications before last week's deadline and technical problems led to roughly 3,200 applications being processed late. The department sent these ballots through next-day mail or delivery, including prepaid express return envelopes.

"We appreciate that the court, the plaintiffs, and both political parties recognized the extraordinary efforts made by the Board of Elections and Registration to ensure that these ballots can be delivered quickly, returned, and counted," Board of Elections and Registration Chairwoman Tori Silas said in a statement.

"The agreement gives us a solution that helps ensure the voting rights of those affected and gives the public the assurance that all those who want to cast a ballot legally can do so," Silas added.

The Board of Elections was required to mail absentee ballots with prepaid express return envelopes by the end of the day on Nov. 1.

A Florida fire department responded Friday to a report of an odor at a library, which is also an early voting location.

The Seminole County Fire Department rushed to Seminole County Public Library at 215 North Oxford Road after receiving a hazmat call over an odor around the ballot box, WESH reported.

Officials investigated the library but said they found no evidence of chemical substances or hazards. Still, 14 workers at the library were evaluated out of caution.

One poll worker was transported to the hospital for hypertension, fire officials said.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump held competing rallies at the same time Friday night, and just a few miles apart in battleground Wisconsin's largest city.

With just four days until Election Day, the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees made their final stops in Wisconsin, where nearly all the latest public opinion polls indicate a margin-of-error race between the two candidates.

"We got four days to get this thing done. Four days. No one can sit on the sidelines," the vice president emphasized to her supporters. "For you who have not yet voted, no judgment, but please get to it when you can."

In order to carry Wisconsin, Harris needs to run up the score in Milwaukee and its surrounding suburbs in order to make up for the expected red-wave in the state's rural counties.

The Harris campaign said that over 12,000 packed into the Wisconsin State Fair Park Exposition Center, in West Allis, just yards outside the Milwaukee city limits.

Trump, holding court at Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum - the same arena where he accepted his party's presidential nomination during the Republican National Convention in July - told his supporters "I want your damn vote."

The rallies were Harris and Trump's final appearances in Wisconsin ahead of Election Day - and it was the second time this week that the major party nominees held rallies on the same day in Wisconsin.

The Democratic and Republican Parties' vice presidential nominees — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, respectively — have also both crisscrossed Wisconsin, and major surrogates — including former Presidents Obama and Clinton for Harris — have parachuted into the Badger State. Obama returns on Sunday.

Read the full article by Fox News' Paul Steinhauser.

Vice President Harris said Friday that she is "not looking to score political points" and vowed to "listen to people who disagree with me."

"I pledge to seek common ground and common sense solutions to the challenges you face. I am not looking to score political points. I am looking to make progress," Harris said at a rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

"And I pledge to listen to those who will be impacted by the decisions I make," she continued. "I pledge to listen to experts, to listen to people who disagree with me. Because you see, unlike Donald Trump, I don't believe that people who disagree with me are the enemy. He wants to put them in jail, I'll give them a seat at the table."

"That's what real leadership is about," the vice president added. "That's what strong leadership is about. And I pledge to always put country above party and self, and to be a president for all Americans."

Vice President Harris said Friday that former President Trump is "increasingly unstable" and "obsessed with revenge" during a rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

"We know who Donald Trump is," Harris 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. And look, in less than 90 days and see you going to be him on me in the Oval Office."

"But let's get the word out, let's get the word out to the folks who are not here. Imagine, you know, we've all seen the Oval Office on TV. Imagine on January 20th, that day, it's either going to be Donald Trump if he is elected, which he will not be, which he will not be. But to help people imagine what the stakes are, it's either going to be him there on day one, walking into that office, stewing over his enemies list, or when I am elected, walking in on your behalf with my to-do list. And I'm a hard worker," she continued.

Rapper Cardi B said Friday that she initially was not planning to vote in next week's presidential election until Vice President Kamala Harris launched her campaign for the White House.

"I’m going to be real with y'all. I wasn't going to vote this year. I wasn't, but Kamala Harris joining the race, she changed my mind, completely," the singer said while stumping for Harris at a rally in West Allis, Wisconsin.

"I did not have faith on any candidate until she joined the race and said the things that I wanted to hear, that I want to see next in this country," she continued. "I believe in every word that comes out of her mouth. She's passionate, she's compassionate, she shows empathy."

Cardi B also said: "I can't stand a bully but just like Kamala I always stand up to one."

More than four million Georgia voters have cast ballots during the early voting period as both presidential candidates compete to secure the swing state.

Voters cast 289,327 votes cast early Friday, Gabriel Sterling, the chief operations officer for the Georgia secretary of state's office said on X.

“Incredible numbers and on track for overall record for pre-election voting,” he wrote.

Around 40% of voters in the state have cast ballots as of as of Oct. 28, Fox Atlanta reported. Sterling also urged voters to accept the election results, regardless of who wins.

“You're candidate may lose. This is a close race. You need to emotionally & mentally prepare for that possible outcome,” he wrote. “I've been voting in Presidential Elections since 1992. I've voted for the winner 3 times. Only once did my Primary choice make it to the White House. That is how it goes. You have to be prepared VP Harris supporters, Pres. Trump could win. I know it freaks you out.”

He told Trump supporters that Vice President Kamala Harris could win.

“It comes down to 7 states. And even then a handful of 1000s of votes in those states...just as it was in '16 & '20,” he said.

The Republican Party has a good chance of taking back control of the Senate while losing control of the House, said Sterling. However, voters can come back in four years and chose their preferred candidates, he noted.

“And you get a chance to fight for your values for President in 4 years (well really 2.5 including the Primaries)," he said. "The American Republic has endured for over 200 years. We will get through this election, regardless of outcome. I'm not saying it'll be easy. But its reality.”

Former President Trump on Friday clarified that he meant former Rep. Liz Cheney doesn’t have the "guts" to fight on the front lines of war after he received a backlash from Democrats over comments he made Thursday about having guns trained on her. 

"All I’m saying about Liz Cheney is that she is a War Hawk, and a dumb one at that, but she wouldn’t have ‘the guts’ to fight herself," the Republican presidential nominee wrote on Truth Social. "It’s easy for her to talk, sitting far from where the death scenes take place, but put a gun in her hand, and let her go fight, and she’ll say, ‘No thanks!’ Her father decimated the Middle East, and other places, and got rich by doing so. He’s caused plenty of DEATH, and probably never even gave it a thought. That’s not what we want running our Country!"

Trump caused controversy when he called Cheney a "radical war hawk" at an event in Arizona on Thursday, adding, "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. They're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let's send 10,000 troops into the mouths of the enemies,’ but she’s a stupid person and I used to have meetings with a lot of people and she always wanted to go to war with people." 

Trump also told reporters at a campaign stop in Dearborn, Michigan, on Friday: "Even in my administration, she was pushing that we go to war with everybody, and I said if you ever gave her a rifle and let her do the fighting, if you ever do that, she wouldn't be doing too well, I will tell you right now. But she's a war hawk. She wants to go kill people unnecessarily. 

The remarks prompted accusations from liberals of violent rhetoric and that Trump was suggesting Cheney should face a firing squad. "

"He has increased his violent rhetoric about political opponents – Donald Trump has – and in great detail suggested rifles should be trained on former Rep. Liz Cheney," Vice President Harris told reporters in a presser Friday. "This must be disqualifying. Anyone who wants to be President of the United States who uses that kind of violent rhetoric is clearly disqualified and unqualified to be president."

Cheney, a Republican, endorsed Harris for president in September and has been campaigning with the Democratic nominee. 

Fox News Digital's Brie Stimson contributed to this report.

The Justice Department will monitor polls in 27 states to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws.

The agency said it will monitor compliance in 86 jurisdictions across the 27 states for the Nov. 5 election.

“The department regularly deploys its staff to monitor for compliance with federal civil rights laws in elections in communities all across the country,” the agency said Friday in a news release.

Monitors will include personnel from the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, among others, U.S. Attorney’s Offices and federal observers from the Office of Personnel Management.

Division personnel will maintain contact with state and local election officials throughout the election, the DOJ said.

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee is activating the state's National Guard, directing personnel to make preparations in case they need to respond to “civil unrest” related to the election.

In a letter to Maj. Gen. Gent Welsh, the adjutant general of the Washington Military Department, Inslee said that warnings by the Department of Homeland Security that threats to election infrastructure “remain high.”

The Guard will be activated for four days beginning Monday.

“Our state depends on these skilled individuals for critical support to protect the public health, safety and welfare, to include support necessary to protect vital infrastructure related to carrying free and fair elections and to respond to any unrest related to the 2024 general election,” Inslee wrote.

The governor also cited an incident in Vancouver where an incendiary device was set off at a drop box, damaging or destroying hundreds of ballots. A similar divide also targeted a drop box in Portland as well, he said.

Pennsylvania’s election is likely to go down to the wire Tuesday, meaning support from the commonwealth’s sizable, yet traditionally private Amish community might just make a difference.

The Amish-Mennonite community has long been a reliably conservative group, given its devout faith, humility and reluctance to engage with aspects of contemporary societal norms such as driving cars and using cellphones.

Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Pa., the first Amish-born member of Congress, said he's seeing a real change lately.

"You have a minority of the Amish who are now farming and agricultural. They ran out of land in Lancaster County a long time ago. So, there's a new generation of Amish who are business owners," he said.

"So, they're becoming much more engaged politically than their parents were."

A report from Elizabethtown College estimated 90,000 Amish live in Pennsylvania and 84,000 live in Ohio, in addition to sizeable populations in Indiana, Wisconsin, New York and Missouri.

Smucker said there were 1,500-2,000 new voter registrants in his district who are Amish, adding he expects thousands more to cast ballots this cycle.

Two former presidents — George W. Bush and Donald Trump — actively canvassed the community, which by and large doesn’t vote due to customs surrounding privacy.

Bush visited Smoketown during the 2004 campaign, meeting with Amish leaders without photographers out of respect of religious customs.

Fox News Digital's Charles Creitz contributed to this report.

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a state court ruling that allowed for the counting of certain provisional ballots, in a major setback for the state GOP and Republican National Committee just four days before the election.

The Republican National Committee and the state GOP filed an emergency appeal to the nation's top court last week seeking to temporarily halt a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that ordered the state to count voters whose provisional ballots had been incorrectly filled out or were missing an inner "secrecy" envelope. 

Attorneys for the Republican Party urged the Supreme Court to grant a full stay of the state’s decision, writing in a final reply brief submitted Thursday evening that such an order would "prevent multiple forms" of "irreparable harm" to the state. 

At a minimum, the court was urged to grant a "segregation order" to allow the ballots to be set aside and counted separately. 

"The actual provisional ballots contain no identifying information, only a vote," the GOP's lawyers wrote. "Once ballots are separated from their outer envelopes, there is no way to retroactively figure out which ballots were illegally cast. In other words, once the egg is scrambled, it cannot be unscrambled."

Fox News Digital's Breanne Deppisch contributed to this report.

House Republicans are demanding the White House release an accurate transcript of President Biden's remarks about supporters of former President Trump that some believe were altered.

In a letter to Edward Siskel, the assistant to the president and White House counsel, U.S. Reps. James Comer of Kentucky, the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, and Elise Stefanik of New York said Biden referred to an “enormous swath of the country as ‘floating . . . garbage.’”

“To date, the White House has not issued a corrected transcript, and the false transcript remains on the White House webpage,” the letter states. “The White House cannot simply rewrite President Biden’s rhetoric. In this case, it appears the White House is doing so to safeguard Vice President Harris’s presidential campaign.”

On the call with Voto Latino, Biden was asked about Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, where comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico being a "floating island of garbage."

“And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.' Well, let me tell you something…in my home state of Delaware, they're good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters – his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American. It's totally contrary to everything we've done, everything we've been.”

Biden later clarified that he was referring to Hinchcliffe, not Trump's supporters.

Critics said the transcript of the call appeared to alter the comment, which has caused a firestorm in the finals days of a hotly contested presidential race.

“Most notably, the report reveals the change in protocol came after the White House Press Office ‘conferred with the President.’ That President Biden himself may have interfered to break protocol to hide his outrageous remarks is unprecedented,” the letter said.

“We question whether the White House’s decision to create a false transcript and manipulate or alter the accurate transcript that was produced to NARA may be in violation of federal law, including the Presidential Records Act of 1978,” the letter said, referring to the National Archives and Records Administration, the independent agency charged with preserving and documenting historical records. 

Former President Donald Trump called on Muslims-Americans in Michigan to get out and vote.

“I am the candidate of peace,” Trump said during a rally in Warren, Michigan on Friday. “I need every Muslim-American in Michigan to get the hell out and vote please.”

The comments come after Trump made a surprise stop in Dearborn, Michigan earlier Friday, where he made an appeal to Muslim voters who have grown increasingly upset with the Biden administration’s handling of the conflict in Gaza. Those struggles have carried over to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign despite appeals to Michigan’s Muslim community.

Trump made a stop at the popular The Great Commoner, where he was honored with a plaque "on behalf of all peace-loving Michiganders."

Trump has been courting the Muslim vote in Dearborn, a suburb of Detroit that has the largest per capita Muslim population in the United States.

“I know many people from Lebanon. We have to get this whole thing over with," Trump told supporters. "We want to have peace. We want to have peace on Earth. All over.”

Multiple campaign calls that were scheduled with President Biden for Thursday were canceled, Fox News has learned, as the White House is still facing fallout of his remarks about supporters of former President Trump earlier this week.

Organizations that expected Biden's attendance did not immediately respond to inquiries about whether the Zoom calls still happened as scheduled, without the president.

None of the calls were officially affiliated with the Harris-Walz campaign. Biden has no official campaign events scheduled ahead of the election, as he still faces the backlash from his "garbage" remark on a virtual call with Voto Latino, which was also not directly tied to the campaign.

Fox News has reached out to the White House.

On the call, Biden was asked about Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, where comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico being a "floating island of garbage."

“Donald Trump has no character. He doesn't give a damn about the Latino community,” Biden said on the call. "He's a failed businessman. He only cares about the billionaire friends that he has and accumulating wealth for those at the top."

“And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.' Well, let me tell you something…in my home state of Delaware, they're good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters – his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American. It's totally contrary to everything we've done, everything we've been.”

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday that Biden was referring to Hinchcliffe’s joke.

"He does not view Trump supporters or anybody who supports Trump as garbage. That is not what he views," she said.