With the Nov. 5 election fast approaching, Democrat and Republican are setting their sites on the key battleground state of Michigan on Friday.
The vice president is scheduled to begin her day in Grand Rapids before holding events in Lansing and Oakland County, northwest of Detroit.
The former president has his own event in Oakland County in the afternoon before an evening rally in Detroit.
Trump laced into Harris and other Democrats in a pointed and at times bitter speech as he headlined the annual Al Smith charity dinner Thursday in New York. Harris appeared virtually for the event.
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Trump compares convicted Jan. 6 rioters to interned Japanese Americans in World War II
Former President Donald Trump said on Friday that rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are being treated like Japanese Americans who were incarcerated on U.S. soil during World War II.
鈥淲hy are they still being held? Nobody鈥檚 ever been treated like this,鈥� he said in an interview with conservative commentator Dan Bongino. 鈥淢aybe the Japanese during Second World War, frankly. They were held, too.鈥�
Trump made the comments after claiming the defendants 鈥渨on in the Supreme Court.鈥� His reference concerns that limited a federal obstruction law that had been used to charge hundreds of Capitol riot defendants as well as the former president himself.
The justices, in a 6-3 opinion authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, held that the charge of obstructing an official proceeding must include proof that defendants tried to tamper with or destroy documents.
The overwhelming majority of to Capitol riot-related federal crimes were not charged with obstruction and will not be affected by the outcome.
Martin Luther King III backs Kamala Harris
Martin Luther King III, the son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., said on Friday said: 鈥淲e must never forget our vote is our voice鈥� while endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for the nation's top executive.
Martin Luther King III, his wife Arndrea Waters King and other community leaders are working to rally Black voters ahead of the 2024 election, warning about civil rights should Trump win.
King said Republican Donald Trump is who he has 鈥渁lways been 鈥� a man willing to hurt others for his own profit and notoriety.鈥�
Trump will visit a Muslim-majority city's campaign office
Donald Trump is expected to visit a new campaign office in one of the nation鈥檚 only Muslim-majority cities.
That鈥檚 according to a person familiar with Trump鈥檚 schedule who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the event hasn鈥檛 been publicly announced.
The visit to Hamtramck, located in metro Detroit, comes after the city鈥檚 mayor endorsed him last month.
Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has tried to cut into Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris鈥� support with Arab Americans in Michigan. Many Muslim and Arab voters are frustrated with Harris over the U.S. backing of Israel鈥檚 offensive in Gaza and its invasion of Lebanon, both following Hamas鈥� attack on Israel last October.
Trump鈥檚 allies have held meetings for months with community leaders in Michigan, which is a critical swing state in the November election and has a sizable population of Arab Americans particularly in and around Detroit.
鈥擣rom Joey Cappelletti in Lansing, Michigan
A lot of people didn't like Trump's jokes at charity dinner 鈥� including Trump
Former President Donald Trump says he wasn鈥檛 a fan of many of the jokes he told at last night鈥檚 Al Smith charity dinner.
鈥淔or the most part, I didn鈥檛 like any of them,鈥� he said in a live appearance on 鈥淔ox & Friends鈥� Friday morning.
Trump said a number of people had helped him with material, including some from Fox 鈥� though he didn鈥檛 say whom.
Trump made a similar aside midspeech after a particularly pointed joke targeting Doug Emhoff, the husband of Kamala Harris.
He seemed to acknowledge he鈥檇 gone too far, calling the joke 鈥渘asty鈥� and saying he鈥檇 told the 鈥渋diots鈥� who鈥檇 written it that it was 鈥渢oo tough.鈥�
He also said during the speech that he鈥檇 gone 鈥渙verboard鈥� in his 2016 appearance at the event when he laced into his then-rival Hillary Clinton.
Trump says Haley 鈥榟elping us already鈥� on campaign
Trump says he鈥檒l 鈥渄o what I have to do鈥� to drum up support from one of his former GOP primary rivals, Nikki Haley.
Trump gave that response Friday during a live appearance on 鈥淔ox & Friends鈥� when asked if he would seek the former South Carolina governor鈥檚 support on the campaigning trail in the election鈥檚 closing days.
Trump said Haley 鈥渋s helping us already鈥� and 鈥渋s out campaigning鈥� but questioned why political watchers seemed so concerned that she and not other former rivals, like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, stump for him.
Harris has been courting some of Haley鈥檚 former supporters in the closing days of the general election campaign.
Haley, who also served as Trump鈥檚 United Nations ambassador, was the last foe remaining against Trump in the Republican primary earlier this year, shuttering her campaign after the former president鈥檚 romp through the Super Tuesday contests. She didn鈥檛 immediately endorse him in the race but said in May she鈥檇 vote for him, leaving to work toward winning over support from her backers.
Haley called for GOP unity around Trump in a speech at this summer鈥檚 Republican National Convention.
Singer Marc Anthony slams Tr
ump in a new ad
Grammy Award winning singer Marc Anthony in a new TV ad for Harris is lambasting Trump for blocking disaster relief for Puerto Rico after a 2017 hurricane devastated the U.S. territory.
The ad released Friday and aimed at Latino voters includes footage of the ravaged island following Hurricane Maria and Trump tossing rolls of paper towels into a crowd during a visit to an island church following a hurricane, behavior from the then-president that was derided by some as disrespectful.
鈥淓ven though some have forgotten, I remember what it was like when Trump was president,鈥� said Anthony, who is of Puerto Rican descent. 鈥淚 remember what he did and he said about Puerto Rico, our people.鈥�
Trump publicly feuded with the mayor of San Juan over her criticism of his administration鈥檚 response to the storm that killed 3,000 and withheld billions in congressionally approved aid to Puerto Rico. He eventually relented and announced less than 50 days before his losing 2020 reelection bid that he was releasing $13 billion in aid. At the time, he declared himself the 鈥渂est thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico.鈥�
The Harris campaign said that the ad will air on the popular Spanish-language Telemundo and WAPA America TV, during this Sunday鈥檚 coverage of the 2024 Billboard Latin Music Awards and in Pennsylvania on Telemundo and Univision.
Latino voters have historically favored Democrats, but Republicans have made inroads with the group in recent years.
Residents of Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory of more than 3 million people, cannot vote in the general election. But there are more people of Puerto Rican descent on the mainland than on the island, and they could play a key role in the Nov. 5 vote.
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