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Both U.S. presidential candidates will hold multiple events in Michigan, one of the battlegroud states. Kevin Liptak explains why Trump and Harris are crisscrossing the state.<\/p>

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Both U.S. presidential candidates will hold multiple events in Michigan, one of the battlegroud states. Kevin Liptak explains why Trump and Harris are crisscrossing the state.<\/p>\n

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\n \u2022 Harris and Trump head to Michigan: <\/strong> Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are holding dueling events<\/a> today in battleground Michigan. Harris campaigns in Grand Rapids, Lansing and Oakland County,<\/a> while Trump holds a roundtable in Auburn Hills in Oakland County and a rally in Detroit.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2022 A tight race: <\/strong>With just 18 days until Election Day,<\/a> the latest CNN national average of polls shows the battle for the White House remains tight nationwide<\/a> and there is no clear leader in the key states of Arizona and Pennsylvania<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2022 Early voting turnout: <\/strong>Early voting began in two swing states this week<\/a>. <\/strong>In North Carolina, election officials said the first day of early in-person voting<\/a> Thursday surpassed 2020. <\/strong>Georgia saw record numbers<\/a> when it began early in-person voting<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday. Former President Barack Obama will rally voters for Harris in Arizona, as former President Bill Clinton does so in North Carolina<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2022 Voting resources:\u00a0<\/strong>Read\u00a0CNN\u2019s voter handbook<\/a>\u00a0to see how to vote in your area, and read up on the\u00a02024 candidates and their proposals on key issues<\/a>. Send us your questions about the election here.<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\n While heavily redacted, the evidence that was publicly released Friday<\/a> in special counsel Jacks Smith\u2019s case against Donald Trump provides some glimpses into what prosecutors are relying on.\n <\/p>\n

\n One volume was filled with House January 6 committee interviews, including portions of a 2022 transcribed interview with an unnamed White House employee about the day of the US Capitol attack. Earlier this year, House Republicans had released that transcript but redacted some of the employee\u2019s responses that are now public.\n <\/p>\n

\n According to the transcript, the White House employee told Trump that TV networks had pulled away from his speech because \u201cthey\u2019re rioting down at the Capitol.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAnd he was, like, What do you mean? I said, It\u2019s, like, they\u2019re rioting there at the Capitol. And he was, like, Oh, really? And then he was like, All right, let\u2019s go see.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The employee told the committee he took off Trump\u2019s outer coat, got a TV and handed Trump the remote, after which, he went to retrieve a Diet Coke for the president, who was sitting in the Oval Dining Room.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019m taking off his outer coat that he\u2019s wearing right now, and I get the TV, like, ready for him, and hand him over the remote, and he starts watching it,\u201d the employee said. \u201cAnd I stepped out to get him a Diet Coke, come back in, and that\u2019s pretty much it for me as he\u2019s watching it and, like, seeing it for himself.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Remember: <\/strong>This is one of four criminal cases<\/a> Trump is facing while running again for president.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Vice President Kamala Harris will be joined by singer Lizzo in Detroit Saturday for a get out the vote event and later that day, by singer Usher for an Atlanta rally, according to a campaign official, as the campaign tries to harness celebrity figures to boost early voting.\n <\/p>\n

\n The campaign is leaning on star power in the closing weeks to draw more attention and get people to the polls, as well as increase volunteer sign ups.\n <\/p>\n

\n This week, campaign officials are looking to Lizzo, who\u2019s from Detroit, and Usher, who grew up in Atlanta, to also appeal to Black voters who are key in each state.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Elon Musk\u2019s super PAC crossed the $100 million mark in pro-Donald Trump spending this week, according to its latest disclosures with the Federal Election Commission, including more than $62 million poured into critical canvassing and field operations.\n <\/p>\n

\n A breakdown of the spending:<\/strong> America PAC, Musk\u2019s group, reported spending a total of $106.8 million on independent expenditures for the presidential race in its latest round of filings, as it dropped millions more this week on door-knocking efforts, printing, digital media, texting and phone calls.\n <\/p>\n

\n The group\u2019s top expenditure category by far is in canvassing and field operations, giving a significant lift to the Trump campaign on the ground in key swing states, Pennsylvania in particular, where Musk\u00a0has been stumping<\/a>\u00a0for the former president. With its latest round of reports, America PAC has now disclosed $62 million in spending on canvassing and field operations.\n <\/p>\n

\n One of America PAC\u2019s tactics that has drawn scrutiny is its offer to pay organizers $47 for every registered voter that they get to sign a petition, an effort Musk himself has promoted on social media. \u201cEasy money,\u201d Musk\u00a0wrote earlier this month on X<\/a>, the social media platform that he owns, about the effort.\n <\/p>\n

\n In addition, American PAC has reported spending nearly $24 million on printing and postage, and more than $14 million on digital media, flooding voters\u2019 mailboxes and screens with pro-Trump messaging.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n As Bill Clinton hits the campaign trail for Kamala Harris in the final weeks of the 2024 election, the former president has been clear with the vice president\u2019s team where he most wants to be deployed to: Small, rural American towns that are not used to seeing surrogates \u2014 let alone a former president \u2014 pass through.\n <\/p>\n

\n That mandate from Clinton has been on clear display in the first few days of his time on the trail, when his initial stops included towns like Columbus and Albany in Georgia \u2014 a state that the Democratic ex-president won in 1992 (a feat President Joe Biden would repeat in 2020). A part of Clinton\u2019s four-day bus tour will take him through small towns in eastern North Carolina on Friday.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI don\u2019t think any of these other surrogates are jumping up and down and saying \u2018send me to Albany or Columbus,\u2019\u201d the person said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Clinton, famously fond of retail politics, has made clear to the Harris campaign that if he could win over some voters in towns where a political rally might draw 75 to 250 people \u2014 rather than the several thousand that might attend a rally featuring Harris or her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz \u2014 ultimately, \u201cthose small pockets start to add up.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The campaign is also leaning on Clinton\u2019s visits to these less-visited areas to translate to wall-to-wall local coverage in secondary media markets.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are campaigning in Michigan today, where more than 944,000 ballots<\/strong> have been cast so far, according to data from the Michigan Secretary of State.\n <\/p>\n

\n The former president starts the day in Auburn Hills before a rally later in Detroit. The vice president is expected to deliver remarks in Grand Rapids and Lansing before a campaign event in Oakland County.\n <\/p>\n

\n All the votes cast in Michigan at this point are mail-in ballots. In-person early voting will be available throughout the entire state starting October 26, although some places, including Detroit will begin Saturday.\n <\/p>\n

\n Voter data:<\/strong> The racial makeup of the pre-election electorate in Michigan is very similar to what it was at this point four years ago, according to the ballots for which Catalist has data. White voters make up 83% of ballots cast so far in the state, while Black voters have cast 12% of ballots.\n <\/p>\n

\n Latino and Asian voters in the Great Lakes State are trending at about the same number of ballots cast so far compared to the last election at 2%.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ballots cast among older voters have increased since 2020, according to Catalist\u2019s data. Voters 65 and older make up 62% of the vote so far, compared to 51% at this point four years ago. The share of ballots from 50 to 64 year olds ticked down, from 26% in 2020 to 20% so far.\n <\/p>\n

\n A key state: <\/strong>Both campaigns are keenly aware of how a win in Michigan, a traditional \u201cBlue Wall\u201d state, could change the electoral map. Although the state went for Joe Biden by around 154,000 votes in 2020, it also delivered Trump a historic win when he defeated Hillary Clinton by less than 11,000 votes, breaking a streak of Democratic wins there since 1992.\n <\/p>\n

\n Further context:<\/strong> Catalist is a company that provides data, analytics and other services to Democrats, academics and nonprofit advocacy groups, including insights into who is voting before November.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n There are nearly 2,000 pages in a massive trove of documents released Frida<\/a>y from special counsel Jack Smith in the January 6 case against former President Donald Trump<\/a>, but nearly all of the pages appear to be completely redacted.\n <\/p>\n

\n There are some bits of evidence sprinkled into the blank pages, which were released by the special counsel one day after Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected a bid by Trump to pause the release.\n <\/p>\n

\n One volume is filled with sealed pages as well as tweets and other social media posts from\u00a0Trump, his campaign and allies, including some posted during the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.\n <\/p>\n

\n One of the tweets include Trump\u2019s post that day that then-Vice President Mike Pence \u201cdidn\u2019t have the courage to do what should have been done\u201d that day, in supporting his effort to change the election results.\n <\/p>\n

\n Others include a myriad of claims of voter fraud during the 2020 election.\n <\/p>\n

\n Prosecutors have argued that these tweets from Trump should be allowed to be used in the trial because they were personal in nature or part of his campaigning efforts and not his official duties as president.\n <\/p>\n

\n Another volume contains memos from lawyer John Eastman with a plan for Pence to reject the congressional certification of the 2020 election. The volume also includes a public statement Trump released the night before January 6 claiming he and Pence were on the same page about the congressional certification, as well as other public statements Trump made surrounding January 6.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Special counsel Jack Smith on Friday released a massive trove of heavily redacted documents<\/a> in his 2020 election subversion criminal case against former President Donald Trump.\n <\/p>\n

\n A team of CNN reporters is reviewing the documents and will provide the latest updates here.\n <\/p>\n

\n The hefty, yet redacted, appendices filed on the public docket in the case are related to Smith\u2019s expansive filing from earlier this month that laid out his fullest picture yet of the case against Trump and why his actions around the 2020 election should not be shielded by presidential immunity.\n <\/p>\n

\n The files are expected to include an array of materials, including grand jury transcripts and notes from FBI interviews conducted during the yearslong investigation.\n <\/p>\n

\n The documents were released a day after Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected a bid by Trump to pause the release. Trump argued that posting the documents now could be seen as election inference and had asked them to remain under seal until after Election Day.\n <\/p>\n

\n More about the case: <\/strong>Prosecutors have charged Trump with four crimes stemming from his actions following his 2020 election loss, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction. Trump has pleaded not guilty.\n <\/p>\n

\n In a blockbuster ruling this summer, the Supreme Court said that Trump enjoys partial presidential immunity for alleged crimes he committed while in office. Chutkan must now decide how to apply that ruling to the conduct at issue in the case.\n <\/p>\n

\n Remember: <\/strong>This is one of four criminal cases<\/a> Trump is facing while running again for president.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock continued to cast doubt on former President Donald Trump\u2019s ability to win over Black men, but warned against voter apathy during a campaign stop in Michigan on Friday.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe\u2019re not a monolith, like anybody else. So there\u2019s going to be some, there always been some,\u201d Warnock said, adding, \u201cyou will not see waves of black men voting for Donald Trump. The real threat that we face, the real thing that we gotta address is apathy.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Harris participated in a radio town hall and a local stop in Detroit on Tuesday focused on reaching out to Black male voters. Former President Barack Obama will visit Michigan next week to stump for the Democratic ticket after issuing a stark warning in Pennsylvania to Black men about the potential impact of their inaction.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI mean, Donald Trump, the man who, early in his real estate career, refused to rent apartments to Black people. You think people want to vote for Donald Trump?\u201d Warnock asked.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Georgia Senator brought up the Central Park Five to the room of mostly high school students and other members of the community at Cass Technical High School in Detroit. \u201cYou don\u2019t remember, you weren\u2019t here. Take my word. I\u2019m old. I was here in 1980. Young men your age were accused of a heinous\u00a0and horrible crime against a young woman,\u201d he said, describing how Trump took out ads saying the men should face the death penalty.\n <\/p>\n

\n Campaigning for Rep. Elissa Slotkin, Warnock contrasted the Democratic senate candidate\u2019s record with that of her opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, on a series of issues, including economics, social security and abortion.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n State data shows that slightly more people voted in-person on the first day of early voting in North Carolina<\/a> on Thursday than they did on the first day of early voting in the state in 2020.\n <\/p>\n

\n About 353,000 people <\/strong>voted in-person in North Carolina yesterday, according to\u00a0data<\/a>\u00a0from the state\u2019s election board. About\u00a0<\/strong>349,000<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0voted in-person<\/strong> on the first day of early voting in 2020, and about\u00a0166,000<\/a>\u00a0voted in-person on that day in 2016.\n <\/p>\n

\n On Thursday, the executive director of North Carolina\u2019s election board, Karen Brinson Bell, commended what she described as \u201cterrific turnout statewide,\u201d<\/a> despite hurricane damage in the state\u2019s western region.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Former President Donald Trump sat for a wide-ranging on-set interview on \u201cFox and Friends\u201d on Friday morning, just days after his rival Vice President Kamala Harris sat down for her first interview<\/a> as the Democratic presidential nominee with the conservative network.\n <\/p>\n

\n Asked about whether he expects to get more women, like his wife Melania and daughter Ivanka, as well as former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, on the campaign trail to help him appeal to women voters, Trump answered, \u201cI think I do very well with women. And I think it\u2019s all nonsense. I see the polls, and we do well.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n A pre-taped town hall that Trump did with a female audience in Georgia<\/a> aired on Fox on Thursday. Fox News did not disclose that the female audience it selected for the event was packed with local Republican supporters and the network edited its broadcast to remove some of their vocal advocacy of Trump.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWithout abortion, the women love me now. They like me anyway, because what I\u2019ve done is so good, I\u2019ve taken this issue out of the federal government and put it back to the states where they\u2019re voting,\u201d he continued, again touting his appointment of Supreme Court justices who overturned federal abortion protections.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump said \u201ca lot of the people\u201d who attended the Al Smith dinner in New York on Thursday night would be part of his potential future cabinet, saying \u201cI put him in, right?\u201d when asked by a Fox host about Cardinal Timothy Dolan.\n <\/p>\n

\n Pressed again on roles in a potential administration, Trump said, \u201clook, I think it\u2019s a little bit early. I have great people at every position.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Asked about former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who endorsed him this summer, Trump answered, \u201che\u2019s going to be a part of it.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The show also played a clip of a segment that will air on Monday of Trump\u2019s visit to a barbershop in the Bronx on Thursday. He told the people there \u201cyou guys are the same as me,\u201d adding, \u201cwe were born the same way. I grew up in Queens and all of that.\u201d This comes as both Trump and Harris\u2019 campaigns are trying to appeal to Black male voters.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Former President Donald Trump said Friday morning that Fox News staffers helped him write his speech at the Al Smith charity dinner in New York City on Thursday evening.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump made the comment during an interview on \u201cFox and Friends.\u201d Host Steve Doocy said a lot of Democrats historically \u201cturn to the guys from Saturday Night Live or the Tonight Show; they write all their material\u201d\u00a0before asking Trump who helped write his speech.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI had a lot of people, a couple people from Fox actually, I shouldn\u2019t say that. But they wrote some jokes. For the most part I didn\u2019t like any of them,\u201d Trump said to laughter from the co-hosts.\n <\/p>\n

\n A Fox News spokesperson denied in a statement that anyone at the network helped Trump write the monologue.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cFOX News confirmed that no employee or freelancer wrote the jokes,\u201d a spokesperson told CNN.\n <\/p>\n

\n During his speech Thursday night to the friendly Catholic charity crowd, Trump disparaged Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 intelligence, insulted her family, and complained about how badly he was treated during his presidency, drawing occasional cheers and some laughs.\n <\/p>\n

\n While many Fox News personalities are openly pro-Trump, using their television platforms to promote the former president and his narratives, it\u2019s rare to see one of them participate in a formal way with the campaign. But it wouldn\u2019t be the first time. In 2018, host Sean Hannity\u00a0campaigned with Trump<\/a>\u00a0ahead of the midterm elections.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Trump campaign did not respond to CNN\u2019s request for comment.\n <\/p>\n

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\n When Vice President Kamala Harris stepped in front of reporters on Thursday to deliver a statement about the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar<\/a>, the moment was a product of some careful choreography.\n <\/p>\n

\n Harris was the first US official to say anything on camera about the monumental occasion. But President Biden, who was aboard Air Force One jetting toward Germany, had drafted a paper statement with his team hailing Sinwar\u2019s death and calling for renewed ceasefire talks.\n <\/p>\n

\n Biden\u2019s statement hit inboxes at 2:10 p.m. ET. Harris walked out to cameras five minutes later. The moment was carefully coordinated between aides to the president and vice president.\n <\/p>\n

\n The one-two step was a glimpse into the methodical approach to the conflict taken by Harris, who has been under scrutiny for her approach to the war but unwilling to break from Biden\u2019s strategy.\n <\/p>\n

\n For Harris, the complicated politics of the Middle East are unlikely to be made much easier by Sinwar\u2019s demise. Standing outside of the campaign event in Wisconsin where she was speaking Thursday, demonstrators kept up their pro-Palestinian chants.\n <\/p>\n

\n And as she headed to Michigan a day later for a three-stop swing, the fraught politics were likely to continue dogging her. The Israel war has proven a complicating factor as the vice president looks for votes among the state\u2019s large Arab and Muslim-American population in the Detroit metro area.\n <\/p>\n

\n Many in that community have said they cannot vote for Harris, angry over the Biden administration\u2019s largely unequivocal support for Israel and refusal to limit most weapons to the country.\n <\/p>\n

\n Despite the swell of political pressure, Harris has resisted describing how she might approach the conflict differently. She has instead pointed instead to the nascent ceasefire and hostage negotiations, which have been stalled for weeks.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n A Republican Jewish group went up with a presidential campaign ad Friday, first airing in New York City, condemning rising antisemitism amid fallout from Israel\u2019s ongoing military operations in the Middle East<\/a> after the October 7th attacks, and promoting former President Donald Trump\u2019s reelection.\n <\/p>\n

\n The ad\u00a0<\/a>features four women in a diner sharing their misgivings about developments overseas and politics at home, referencing the October 7th attack on Israel, campus protests, and the 2024 presidential election.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cDid you watch the news lately? Israel is under attack, antisemitism like I never thought I would see,\u201d says one of the women featured in the ad.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cDid you hear about Samantha\u2019s boy, Max?\u201d asks another woman. \u201cHe got spit on, just walking at Penn.\u201d Another responds, \u201cI mean, that\u2019s scary.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The conversation turns to the 2024 election, and one of the women asks, \u201cWhat about Kamala?\u201d Her friend responds, \u201cBusy defending the squad,\u201d referencing\u00a0the group<\/a>\u00a0of progressive House members who have been outspoken critics of Israel\u2019s military conduct. \u201cOy vey,\u201d another one of the women says.\n <\/p>\n

\n More context:<\/strong> RJC Victory Fund\u2019s ad bookings in New York are minimal, just $19,000 for the opening weeks of October, but the group has bought a total of $6.5 million worth of ad time since it began advertising for the presidential race in late September.\n <\/p>\n

\n RJC Victory Fund currently has about $3 million in bookings remaining through Election Day, with reservations between $400,000 and $600,000 in several key swing states including Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and Michigan.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Former President Donald Trump on Friday said he would consider calling his former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, who ran against him in the Republican presidential primary.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump then pivoted to pointing out his dominance over the GOP primary field, saying, \u201cbut let me just tell you Nikki Haley and I fought, and I beat her by 50, 60, 90 points. I beat her in her own state by numbers that nobody\u2019s ever been beaten by.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n He said while \u201ceverybody keeps saying\u201d Haley should campaign for him, \u201cthey don\u2019t say get Ron, and Ron did very well,\u201d referring to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI like Nikki\u2026Nikki, I don\u2019t think should have done what she did, and that\u2019s fine that she did it,\u201d he said, before again highlighting his defeat of Haley in the primary and adding \u201cthey say oh when is Nikki coming back in. Nikki is in. Nikki is helping us already.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n More about the Trump-Haley relationship:<\/strong> Haley said in late May that she is voting for Trump, and got a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention<\/a> in July. CNN reported this week that Haley is lending her voice to support Trump in the closing weeks of the campaign in a robocall that acknowledges her past disagreements with the former president but emphasizes the stakes of the upcoming election.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Vice President Kamala Harris will join the Obamas<\/a> for get-out-the-vote events in the battleground states of Georgia and Michigan next week, marking the first time she\u2019s hitting the trail with either former President Barack Obama or Michelle Obama, according to a senior campaign official.\n <\/p>\n

\n As Election Day nears, campaign advisers are turning their focus to voter turnout, bringing in surrogates to mobilize voters in critical states.\n <\/p>\n

\n Next Thursday, Harris will appear with former President Obama in Georgia, where early voting has begun. And later in the week, she\u2019ll head to Michigan to appear with Michelle Obama to mark the first day of voting in the state. Next Saturday\u2019s event will also mark Michelle Obama\u2019s first time on the trail for the Harris-Walz campaign.\n <\/p>\n

\n Obama and Harris have been acquainted for 20 years. The energy fueling her candidacy and thunderous crowds chanting her name have drawn comparisons to Obama\u2019s history-making 2008 run.\n <\/p>\n

\n Last week, Obama admonished Black men<\/a> who are hesitating to back Harris, telling them it\u2019s \u201cnot acceptable\u201d to sit out this election and suggesting they might be reluctant to vote for the vice president because she\u2019s a woman.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n As former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris campaign in Michigan on Friday, here\u2019s a look into the full schedule of the 2024 candidates:\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump<\/strong> did an interview on Fox News\u2019 \u201cFox and Friends\u201d\u00a0this morning. He will participate in a community roundtable hosted by \u201cBuilding America\u2019s Future\u201d at 5 p.m. ET. Later, he will speak at a 7 p.m. ET rally in\u00a0Detroit, Michigan.\n <\/p>\n

\n Harris<\/strong> will speak at Michigan campaign events in Grand Rapids and in Lansing this afternoon.\u00a0In Lansing, Harris is expected to meet union workers. Harris will end the day with a rally in Oakland County.\n <\/p>\n

\n Senator JD Vance <\/strong>does not have any public events scheduled for Friday. Vance told a crowd in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Thursday that he plans to be off the trail on Friday to attend his cousin\u2019s wedding.\n <\/p>\n

\n Governor Tim Walz <\/strong>also does not have any public events scheduled for Friday. He is expected to remain in St. Paul, Minnesota, for internal meetings.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n The Harris campaign on Friday released a new ad targeting Latino voters featuring singer and songwriter\u00a0Marc Anthony as it seeks to court the key demographic ahead of Election Day<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n In the ad,\u00a0titled \u201cRecuerdo<\/a>,\u201d Anthony details why he supports Vice President Harris as he criticizes Donald Trump for his record for handling Hurricane Maria and his rhetoric toward the Latino community.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI was not surprised because I also remember he launched his campaign by calling Latinos \u201ccriminals\u201d and \u201crapists. He told us what he\u2019ll do. He\u2019ll separate children from their families, and threaten to use the Army to do it,\u201d he continued.\n <\/p>\n

\n In the 60-second slot, Anthony emphasized that the election \u201cgoes way beyond political parties.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cLet\u2019s remember what the United States represents and stands for: UNITED. Regardless of where we\u2019re from\u2026That\u2019s why I support Kamala Harris for President,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n The leading pro-Trump super PAC launched a pair of new TV ads Friday, one slamming Kamala Harris for her comments on \u201cThe View\u201d<\/a> last week that have also been picked up by the campaign, the other echoing sustained GOP attacks on Harris\u2019 record in law enforcement.\n <\/p>\n

\n The ad seized on Harris\u2019 answer when she was asked by host Sunny Hostin what she would have done differently than President Joe Biden. Harris answered, \u201cThere is not a thing that comes to mind.\u201d It\u2019s the second ad this week that has gone up, with the Trump campaign launching\u00a0its own version<\/a> featuring the clip days ago, and quickly putting millions behind it.\n <\/p>\n

\n The new ad<\/a>\u00a0from MAGA Inc., the super PAC, follows the clip with a narrator saying that \u201cKamala wouldn\u2019t change a thing even though her radical agenda costs American lives,\u201d and ticking through a list of attacks focused on immigration and crime.\n <\/p>\n

\n Harris\u2019 answer on \u201cThe View\u201d was immediately picked up by GOP critics, eager to cement the link between the vice president and the outgoing incumbent, with Biden\u2019s approval rating stuck underwater.\n <\/p>\n

\n The second new TV ad<\/a>\u00a0that MAGA Inc. launched on Friday also reflects pro-Trump advertisers\u2019 sustained focus on immigration and crime, which have been top issues in GOP campaign ads throughout the year. The ad hammers Harris\u2019 record as California Attorney General, which has been repeatedly criticized by Trump allies, with stark warnings about sex offenders and criminals. \u201cDon\u2019t make America Kamala\u2019s next victim,\u201d the ad closes.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Former President Donald Trump is lying about\u00a0a<\/a>\u00a0whole<\/a>\u00a0bunch<\/a>\u00a0of topics in the final month of the presidential election. But he is lying most frequently, by far, about immigration.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump\u2019s October rally speeches and interviews have featured a dizzying barrage of false claims on the subject \u2013 about immigrants and crime, about Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 record on immigration policy, about Trump\u2019s own record on immigration policy and about how foreign countries are supposedly \u201cdumping\u201d their most unwanted citizens into the US.\n <\/p>\n

\n Here is a fact check of some of the distinct false claims he has made about immigration in the last two weeks alone, some of which he has repeated over and over:\n <\/p>\n

\n Harris\u2019 border role<\/strong>:\n <\/p>\n

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