Trump and Harris travel to Michigan and Wisconsin for 2024 campaign: NPR

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Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Harris will begin the final weekend of the campaign with stops in blue wall swing states, with both candidates holding rallies in Milwaukee on Friday evening.

According to the Associated Press, Trump will first travel to Dearborn, Michigan. The city's Arab American voters are angry about the way the Biden administration has handled Israel's war in Gaza and Lebanon, and Harris has struggled to maintain support in that community.

In Michigan, home to the second-most votes in the Blue Wall, Democrats are hoping to hold on to a state Biden won four years ago after Trump won Michigan by just over 10,000 votes in 2016.

Harris is scheduled to stop at a union hall in Janesville and an event in Appleton before her rally in Milwaukee. She will almost certainly mention in her remarks the violent language Trump used in a late-night diatribe against former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney. Trump highlighted comments from Biden that sounded like he was calling Trump supporters “trash.”

Harris and Trump are expected to focus some of their messaging on Friday on workers, who make up a significant portion of the electorate in both states. Along with Pennsylvania — the third of the Blue Wall states — Michigan and Wisconsin are home to larger eligible populations of white voters without college degrees than the four other swing states up for grabs.

Biden won Wisconsin in 2020 by just over 20,000 votes. Your goal is to attract new voters Trump until Tuesday evening.

Trump is holding his Milwaukee rally at the Fiserv Forum, the same arena where he formally accepted the Republican nomination days after an assassination attempt. Harris will be at the Wisconsin State Fair Park Exposition Center, along with a number of musicians including the Isley Brothers and rappers GloRilla and Flo Milli.

The final push

The Midwest turnaround followed stops by both campaigns on Thursday in Arizona and Nevada – where Harris and Trump both sought to rally support among Latino voters.

This weekend they will race from swing state to swing state, trying to build supporters and win over the last remaining undecided voters. Harris will make stops in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin before concluding her campaign on Monday with a series of rallies in Pennsylvania – including one in Allentown, where more than half the people are Latino, mostly Puerto Rican.

Trump will travel to Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin. He also stops in Virginia – a state that Harris is widely favored to win. His campaign has not yet announced where he will spend his final day of campaigning.