US presidential election updates: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump swing through Wisconsin | US election 2024

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump held dueling events within miles of each other in swing mode Wisconsin’s largest city, MilwaukeeFriday evening. Milwaukee is home to most Democratic votes in Wisconsin, but its conservative Republican suburbs are a critical area for Trump as he tries to recapture the state he narrowly won in 2016 but lost in 2020.

Formerly Trump continued to attack Liz Cheney at a rally in Warren, Michigan, where he also bemoaned the state of his hair. “It’s not looking so good today… not a good hair day for me, ay ay ay.” Following his campaign rhetoric earlier flipped from hateful to violent — when he suggested that Cheney be shot with “nine rounds” and the guns “trained on her face” — the Arizona attorney general’s office, where Trump made the remark, opened a “investigating death threats”.

In Pennsylvaniaa neck-and-neck race hurtles toward the finish line in the 2024 election with no clear front-runner. Pennsylvania’s victor and its 19 electoral votes, the most of any battleground state, will likely to win the Electoral College and determine the country’s trajectory for the next four years.

Here’s what else happened on Friday:

Kamala Harris election news and updates

• Harris told her audience at the Wisconsin State Fair Park Exposition Center that with four days to go, there was still work to do but “we like hard work”. Minutes before, during a violent heatingreferred to rapper Cardi B as “Donnie Dunk” to Trump, telling the audience: “Trump says he’s going to protect women whether they like it or not. Well, if his definition of protection isn’t freedom of choice, if his definition of protection is to ensure that our daughters have fewer rights than our mothers, so I don’t want it! I don’t want it! I don’t want it!“

• Previously, Harris said Trump’s fiery rhetoric about Cheney “shall be disqualifying” so far as his suitability for the presidency is concerned. “Representative Cheney is a true patriot who has shown extraordinary courage in putting country above party.” Cheney, for his part, warned the public against dictatorship and a presidential candidate who “wants to be a tyrant”.

• Republicans’ latest offensive and misogynistic comments has boosted Democratic hopes of turning out women on Election Day in a contest where they women’s rights has been a central topic for Harris campaign.

Donald Trump election news and updates

• At his Milwaukee rally Friday, Trump called Harris a “low-IQ person” and vowed to save the economy “from total annihilation” in a rambling 1.5-hour speech that touched on the economy and foreign policy but also included threats to curtail press freedom and a lengthy debate about his own rhetorical style. “I will stop the criminal invasion of this country,” Trump said, promising to usher in a new “golden age.” “Can you imagine if Kamala won? You’d descend into a 1929-style depression.”

• Trump’s supporters are laying the groundwork for rejecting the election results if he loses, according to warnings from Democrats as well as anti-Maga Republicans. In addition to baseless and/or failed lawsuits, suspicions of partisanship have been expressed polls run by groups with Republican ties in battleground states that mainly show Trump leading – the idea being that if Trump loses, the polls can appear as “proof” that he was cheated of victory.

• The New York writer and journalist Michael Wolff has released audio tape that seems to detail how Trump had a close social relationship with the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein he has long denied this. Wolff says the footage was made during a 2017 discussion with Epstein about writing his biography. Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges two years later. Trump’s campaign said the allegations, made on Wolff’s podcast Fire and Furyconstituted “curious false smears”.

Another place on the campaign trail

• A federal judge rejected an attempt by Elon Musk’s America Pac to have charges of operating an illegal lottery heard in federal court, instead of the courts in Pennsylvania, where Musk is running the race to help Trump get re-elected. The case has been sent back to Pennsylvania State Court for further hearing on Monday.

• Racism and misogyny; a death threat from the firing squad against a former congresswoman; the Republican presidential candidate dressed as a sanitation worker in the cab of a garbage truck. Donald Trump’s last full week on the campaign trail was as unedifying as it was bizarre – Richard Luscombe sums it up.

• A valuable Republican voting bloc in Arizona sees one shift of its members towards Harris in numbers that Democrats believe can make the difference for them in an election where the latest polls have Trump slightly ahead. That block is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints – Mormons.

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