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Donald Trump is currently campaigning in Novi, Michigan – a Detroit suburb – while his rival, Kamala Harris, visits the Kalamazoo area.

Trump kicked off his remarks by denouncing Harris’ rally in Houston last night. “Beyoncé went up, spoke for a couple of minutes, and then left, and the place went crazy. They booed the hell out of everybody,” Trump said.

Harris’ rally in Houston – where she spoke alongside Beyoncé and various women and families impacted by Texas’ abortion ban – was the campaign’s largest to date, drawing 30,000 people.

Our latest polling shows Harris is leading in Michigan by a narrow one-point margin.

Kamala Harris will continue to highlight abortion access as she campaigns in Michigan on Saturday. Before rallying with Michelle Obama later this afternoon, Harris’s campaign said the vice president will meet with healthcare providers and medical students at a doctor’s office in Portage to make the case that their work could be threatened by a national abortion ban, even in a state where access is protected under the constitution.

On Friday night, Harris held a rally in deeply conservative Texas to elevate the stories of residents who have been harmed by the state’s harsh abortion ban. She made the case there that Trump should not be believed when he says he would not sign a federal ban. In her remarks, Harris name-checked battleground Michigan.

Harris stopped in Portage earlier this year before Joe Biden stepped aside for a moderated conversation on reproductive rights with a Republican voter and a former Trump official who has endorsed her.

In a social media post, Trump claimed abortion was losing salience, though polls show it remains one of voters top concerns. He repeated his preference that the matter be left to the states and that he supports exceptions for rape, incests and instances where the life of the mother is at risk.

But Harris is arguing that this approach has created the current “healthcare crisis” in which women in red states are falling gravely ill and in some cases dying because they have been denied an abortion.

Fueled by anger over the loss of abortion rights, women powered Democratic wins up and down the ballot in Michigan in the 2022 midterm elections. They also voted to enshrine abortion access into the state’s constitution.

Kamala Harris is expected to campaign across Philadelphia tomorrow while Donald Trump gears up for a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Harris is expected to focus her tour of Philadelphia on Sunday on the city’s Black and Latino neighborhoods. She’ll begin by attending service at a Black church in west Philadelphia before traveling to north Philadlphia to visit a local Puerto Rican restaurant.

Meanwhile, Trump will be joined by the who’s who of far-right political figures at his rally in New York. A lineup released by his campaign includes many of the ex-president’s most loyal associates, such as Rudy Giuliani, Elon Musk, Stephen Miller, Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard.

Donald Trump talks tariffs and RFK Jr on Joe Rogan's podcast

Over the course of a three-hour interview last night, Donald Trump told Joe Rogan about his plans to eliminate income taxes and appoint Robert F Kennedy Jr to tackle healthcare issues if he is elected president. He also shared that the biggest mistake he made during his presidency was hiring ‘disloyal people’.

While discussing Trump’s planned tariffs, Rogan asked Trump if he was open to replacing income taxes with tariffs. “Well, OK,” Trump said, adding: “Yeah, sure. Why not? Because, we, ready, our country was the richest in the, relatively, in the 1880s and 1890s. A president who was assassinated named McKinley – he was the tariff king. He spoke beautifully of tariffs. And then around in the early 1900s, they switched over stupidly to frankly an income tax.”

Trump also spoke about his relationship with Kennedy – whom he has not agreed with on every issue. Trump said he has told Kennedy: “Focus on health, you can do whatever you want.” The two have released an agenda titled “Make America Healthy Again” which focuses on processed foods and the pharmaceutical industry.

Here’s Edward Helmore with more on the interview:

Trump used his interview with Rogan on Friday to repeat his claim that his defeat in the 2020 presidential election against Joe Biden was a “rigged” outcome. But Trump changed the subject when Rogan asked him if he was ever going to release evidence proving the election was “stolen”.

Beyoncé shows up for Harris in Texas last night

Beyoncé lent her star power to Kamala Harris at a high-octane rally in Texas on Friday, declaring that the US was on the “brink of history” as the vice-president warned that the state’s near-total abortion ban could become the law of the land if Donald Trump were to be elected, the Guardian’s Lauren Gambino reported from the event.

In an apparent reaction to Kamala Harris’s campaign rally in Houston – which 30,000 people attended, Donald Trump has posted on Truth Social, saying that “Abortion has dropped way down as an issue”.

Here’s a Harris campaign staffer sharing the ex-president’s Truth Social post:

And here’s Lauren with more from Houston:

With the presidential race effectively deadlocked, Harris detoured briefly from the seven battleground states to appear in deep-red Texas. Here in a place she called “ground zero for the fight for reproductive freedom”, Harris sought to lay out the stakes in November for voters who have yet to make up their minds about the candidates – or whether to cast a ballot at all.

Report: Elon Musk worked illegally in the US early in his career

Elon Musk, who has become a vocal critic of “open borders”, worked illegally in the United States early in his career, the Washington Post reports. After arriving in the United States for a graduate program at Stanford, Musk never attended classes and did not have work authorization when he started building the company that became Zip2.

Here’s the Washington Post:

When the venture capital firm Mohr Davidow Ventures poured $3 million into Musk’s company in 1996, the funding agreement – a copy of which was obtained by The Post – stated that the Musk brothers and an associate had 45 days to obtain legal work status. Otherwise, the firm could reclaim its investment.

“Their immigration status was not what it should be for them to be legally employed running a company in the U.S.,” said Derek Proudian, a Zip2 board member at the time who later became chief executive. Investors agreed, Proudian said: “We don’t want our founder being deported.”

Good morning, with just over a week left before election day, the race is nail-bitingly close. We’ll be bringing you the latest headlines and analysis today as the campaigns continue.

This morning, we’re expecting Donald Trump to deliver remarks at a rally in Novi, Michigan, before traveling to State College, Pennsylvania. His running mate, JD Vance, will similarly speak in Atlanta, Georgia, before heading to Erie, Pennsylvania.

In her first event of the campaign, Michelle Obama will hold a get-out-the-vote rally alongside Kamala Harris in Kalamazoo, Michigan. M, Tim Walz will travel to Phoenix and Window Rock, Arizona – the capital of the Navajo Nation.

In Houston yesterday, Kamala Harris was joined on stage by superstar singer Beyoncé, congressman Colin Allred, musician Willie Nelson, actor Jessica Alba, several Texas-based OB-GYNs and families affected by the state’s abortion ban in what her campaign is calling their largest rally to date. Harris focused her remarks on the state’s abortion ban, which sparked a slew of abortion restrictions nationwide.

Donald Trump’s rally in Traverse City, Michigan, was delayed several hours last night after the ex-president’s interview with podcast host Joe Rogan lasted three hours.

Harris and Trump are tied at 48% each for the popular vote for the US presidential election, according to the final New York Times/Siena College national poll published on today.

The Washington Post declined to endorse a presidential candidate for the first time since the 1980s. Some staffers and reporters have said the decision was allegedly made by the Post’s owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos.