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Harris and Trump are neck-in-neck in Wisconsin and Michigan
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Former president Donald Trump and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz will attend college football games in Alabama and Michigan, respectively, on Saturday which a large number of voters are expected to tune in.
Trump is headed to Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he will watch the Alabama Crimson Tide take on the Georgia Bulldogs. Though Alabama is a predominately red state, Georgia fans who hail from the swing state are likely the targeted demographic.
Meanwhile, Walz will attend the Michigan Wolverines v. Minnesota Golden Gophers game in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the hopes of wooing swing state voters in Michigan.
Michigan and Wisconsin are among the closest battleground state races for Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
The two candidates are nearly tied in Michigan with Harris holding 48 percent of the vote and Trump holding 47 percent, according to new polling from the New York Times and Siena College. In Wisconsin, Harris is at 49 percent while Trump is at 47 percent.
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Michigan is the heart of U.S. auto manufacturing, and as expected, Trump is starting off by pitching his audience on his economic plans, including in response to a question from a recently laid off deisel engine builder.
“If they want to do business in the United States, they have to make their products, whether it’s cars or anything else, we want them to make their product, have their plant in the United States,” Trump said of the goals of his proposed tariff regime.
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The tumult of Eric Adams’s indictment on federal charges as part of a long-running corruption case has much of New York’s media and political classes already consumed by speculation around who will take over the mayoralty.
But they’re also talking about another New Yorker who is far from likely to be seeking that job: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the rising progressive star of the New York congressional delegation. Ocasio-Cortez, an outspoken backbencher in the Democratic House caucus, was one of the very first state electeds to call for Adams to resign as the feds closed in around him.
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Donald Trump is finally onstage in Warren, Michigan, after about an hour and a half of the crowd waiting for him to arrive.
We’ll track the latest from his town hall event.
Harris visits US-Mexico border as she looks to challenge Trump on immigration
Vice President Kamala Harris is making her first visit to the US-Mexico border as a candidate for the presidency to challenge Donald Trump on what has been his signature issue since he first ran for president in 2015.
Harris arrived Friday afternoon at a site along the US border wall in Douglas, Arizona, where she was greeted by a pair of uniformed officers from the US Border Patrol.
The two officers and the vice president chatted as they walked along a path next to the section of the wall, which was constructed during the Obama administration and is not part of the wall built during Trump’s presidency.
Asked what she’d learned from the Border Patrol officials, Harris replied: “They’ve got a tough job and they need, rightly, support to do their job. They are very dedicated. And so I’m here to talk with them about what we can continue to do to support them. And also thank them for the hard work they do.”
Andrew Feinberg reports.
Harris visits US-Mexico border as she looks to challenge Trump on immigration
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Trump hasn’t shown up yet, but the campaign is playing a pre-recorded video of the former president encouraging supporters to “swamp” the vote, including through early ballots.
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Iranians indicted over alleged Trump campaign hack
A federal grand jury indicted a trio of Iranian nationals for what prosecutors say was a long-running government hacking campaign that targeted U.S. officials, including a hack against the Trump campaign this summer.
“These authoritarian regimes, which violate the human rights of their own citizens, do not get a say in our country’s democratic process,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a press conference on Friday. “The American people, and the American people alone, will decide the outcome of our country’s elections.”
The charges, unsealed on Friday, allege that since 2020, three men, Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri and Yasar Balaghi, were part of ascheme on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutoinary Guard Corps to go after U.S. interests and “stoke discord and erode confidence in the U.S. electoral process.”
All three men are described as having their last known residence in Tehran.
The Iranian government denies responsibility for the hack.
More details in our full story.
Iranians indicted over alleged Trump campaign hack
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What will Trump say at today’s town hall?
Trump’s event tonight offers a comparatively rare chance to hear him speak with actual voters, instead of his usual campaign speech riffs onstage.
The former president will participate in a town hall at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan, that’s expected to start any minute.
We’ll cover the latest news from the town hall live. Stay tuned.
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Eric Adams’ arraignment was more of a circus than Trump’s sexual abuse trial
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