The candidates held dueling rallies late into Friday night, 11 days before Election Day.
Former President Donald Trump is rallying in swing state Michigan (Traverse City, to be precise), overlapping with Vice President Kamala Harris‘ “Reproductive Freedom” rally in Houston, Texas, where Beyoncé spoke for a few minutes and introduced the veep.
Trump, from his plane en route to Michigan from Texas, appeared in a video played at his event to let the crowd know he’d be about three hours late. Just as he landed in the Great Lakes state, his highly-anticipated episode of Joe Rogan’s podcast, recorded just hours earlier, landed on YouTube.
Trump’s episode of the Joe Rogan Experience has now amassed over 20-million views on YouTube in 20 hours since its release – making it one of the most viral episodes in the popular podcast’s history.
The episode’s massive viewership dwarfs his average audience, which on tops out at around a couple millions views on YouTube. The Trump episode is trending to be one of the show’s most viewed episodes ever.
Trump and Rogan even got more eyes than the historically well-watched World Series Game 1 between the Yankees and the Dodgers, which brought in 15.2 million viewers. Game 1 was the most-watched World Series opener since 2017.
Former President Donald appears on "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast on Oct. 25, 2024. PowerfulJRE/YouTube
In the interview released yesterday, Trump said Harris couldn’t handle speaking extemporaneously for an extended time with Rogan.
“Can you imagine Kamala doing this show? She’d be laying on the floor,” Trump riffed, “If she did this kind of interview with you, I hope she does, because it would be a mess. She’d be laying on the floor Comatose. She’d be saying, ‘Call in the medics.’”
A record number of New Yorkers flooded the polls Saturday as early voting in the state began — with the race for the White House taking center stage.
The city Board of Elections logged 140,145 voters in NYC, with 40,289 in Brooklyn; 38,237 in Manhattan; 31,671 in Queens; 16,462 in the Bronx, and 13,486 in Staten Island.
Voters stand in line with the ballots at a polling site in Harlem. Robert Miller
A long line of voters were seen outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Miller
Marie Ragonese, 72, and her husband Angelo Ragonese, 75, arrive for early voting at a polling site in Whitestone, Queens. Brigitte Stelzer
The agency said the count was the largest ever on the first day of early voting.
By noon, large lines to vote — and hour-long wait times — formed at some polling sites, including St. Luke Roman Catholic Church in Whitestone, Queens, where roughly 800 voters had already cast ballots.
Many were openly supporting Republican Donald Trump’s bid to defeat Democrat Kamala Harris and win back the presidency.
A “frustrated” Michelle Obama attacked Donald Trump during her first campaign trail appearance for Kamala Harris, worrying that the US “will blow this opportunity to finally turn the page on the ugliness” by re-electing the former president.
The former first lady did not shy away from slamming the 45th president and his supporters alike during an impassioned speech at Harris’ rally in Kalamazoo, Mich. — her first time stumping for the vice president since the Democratic National Convention in August.
Former first lady Michelle Obama implied that choosing to opt out of the election would be as good as electing Trump as president. AP
Trump supporters and undecided voters hold Harris to a high and unfair double standard while letting the ex-commander in chief coast with little criticism, Obama claimed.
“I hope you’ll forgive me if I’m a little frustrated that some of us are choosing to ignore Donald Trump’s gross incompetence while asking Kamala to dazzle us at every turn,” Obama, 60, told the crowd.
Republican Vice Presidential Candidate JD Vance joked at a campaign rally in Atlanta that Chinese hackers would find “some pretty weird stuff” if they cracked the Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz's phones.
Vance said “it sucks” Chinese hackers had targeted his phone and that of former President Donald Trump, before claiming Beijing wasn’t attempting to crack the Democratic presidential ticket’s electronics because of Harris’ “weak leadership.”
Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and others on the campaign trail. AFP via Getty Images
“The Chinese aren’t trying to hack Tim Walz and Kamala Harris’ phones,” he said. “I think frankly they’d probably find some pretty weird stuff if they hacked into Kamala Harris’ and Tim Walz’s phones, but that’s just a guess.”
Chinese hackers may have gained access to the cell phones of former President Donald Trump and Senator J.D. Vance, although it was unclear how much material was recovered from what was described as a sophisticated attempt to infiltrate the communications of the Republican presidential ticket.
China's intelligence services are believed to be behind the breach.
PITTSBURGH — Mark Cuban admitted Saturday that the Biden-Harris administration should have acted “sooner” to fix the border crisis — while he was stumping for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in Pittsburgh.
“I would have handled immigration differently,” the business mogul said on the campaign trail on behalf of the Democratic presidential nominee.
Mark Cuban said he supports the Biden-Harris administration's actions to tackle the migration crisis, but said he would have acted "sooner." Getty Images
“And honestly, I think if they could do it all over again — and they won’t say it necessarily — they would handle it differently as well.”
While speaking with small Pennsylvanian business owners during a town hall, Cuban said he ultimately supports how the Biden-Harris administration has handled the migrant crisis — including how nearly 1 million migrants were given “quiet amnesty” over the last three years.
After rumors swirled that Beyoncé would perform at Vice President Kamala Harris’ rally in Houston on Friday, fans were let down that the superstar did not put on a show for the crowd of 30,000.
Critics online slammed Harris for a not having Beyoncé perform at her Houston rally on Friday. REUTERS
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke with medical staff at a medical clinic in Portage, Michigan on Saturday, ahead of her Kalamazoo rally.
The Vice President heard from a family medicine doctor and abortion provider who said that potential Supreme Court decisions could endanger "access to gender affirming services" and "access to contraception."
Harris told the healthcare workers that the United States has faced a healthcare crisis since the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, lamenting closing clinics.
Governor Josh Shapiro dropped his ballot off in Abington Township, PA on Saturday. The first-term governor isn't up for reelection, but has been joining Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz at campaign events.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro carries his mail-in ballot to a dropbox. AP
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro talks to media after he deposited his mail-in ballot at a dropbox. AP
Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) dropped her ballot off in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday morning as she faces a difficult re-election bid against Republican businessman Eric Hovde.
Baldwin briefly stopped to pose with supporters in the polling station before casting her ballot.
An Emerson College poll conducted between Oct. 21 and Oct. 22 found that the Baldwin and Hovde were locked in a neck and neck race, with the incumbent senator and her challenger each attracting 48% of the vote.
Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin goes to drop off her absentee ballot Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, in Madison, Wis. AP Photo/Morry Gash
Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin takes a picture with supporter Rene Robinson, right, before dropping off her absentee ballot. AP Photo/Morry Gash
Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin hands her absentee ballot to Lucy Mathiak. AP Photo/Morry Gash
CHESTERFIELD, Va. — Former President Donald Trump spoke to a crowd of several hundred rally goers via a phone call broadcast through the venue's speakers at a farm in Chesterfield, 20 miles south of Richmond.
"We win Virginia, we win the whole ball of wax," the former President remarked to the crowd.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, Lt. Governor Winsome Sears, Congressman Rob Wittman, and U.S. Senate nominee Hung Cao addressed the crowd ahead of the call, and Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump rallied the crowd after her father-in-law's remarks.
CHESTERFIELD, Va. — Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin warmed up a crowd of several hundred red-shirted supporters ahead of a phone call into the Saturday morning rally from former President Donald Trump.
"Virginia today is the top state in America for business. More people working than ever in the history of the state, more people who have heard those magic words you are hired and experienced the dignity of work," the Republican Governor remarked.
Republicans won statewide in Virginia in the off-cycle statewide election in 2021, when Youngkin was elected with 50.58% of the vote.
Former President Donald Trump didn’t mince words when it came to Kamala Harris Saturday.
“You destroy everything you touch,” the GOP nominee said during a rally at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Mich., his second event in the Wolverine State in as many days.
He then pulled out his infamous catchphrase from his hit reality show, “The Apprentice," much to the delight of the crowd.
“Kamala Harris, you’re fired. Get out of here," he said to roaring cheers.
