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In case you missed Donald Trump’s event earlier:

Trump has promised to make Michigan the “car capital of the world again” as he told a rally in the bellwether county of Saginaw that he will bring back thousands of jobs lost when General Motors moved more than a dozen factories to Mexico.

However, the former president made similar promises to Rust belt states before he was elected in 2016, with little result.

Trump, speaking at Saginaw Valley State University campus with groups of students and union workers in Teamsters for Trump T-shirts behind him, directly addressed the huge loss of industrial jobs in Michigan, a key swing state, over the past three decades.

The speech was Trump’s 11th in the key swing state of Michigan during this election. Kamala Harris is targeting Michigan, alongside the other Rust belt states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, as her clearest path to victory.

The state remains up for grabs, with opinion polls giving Harris a slight edge. Saginaw county is widely regarded as a bellwether of which way the election is going in Michigan.

Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the county by just 1.1% of the vote in 2016. Four years later, he lost Saginaw to Joe Biden by 303 votes.

Trump dismissed recent polls that have shown Harris leading by small margins in most of the swing states saying she got a boost after she became the candidate in July, but that is now waning.

“We’re up in every state. They had a honeymoon period,” he said.

'Our hearts are broken': Walz addresses Muslim voters during virtual event

Here is our report from the Walz event with Muslim voters.

“As-salaam alaikum (peace be unto you) everyone and good evening,” vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz greeted Muslim voters in Arabic during a virtual event Thursday evening. In a final push to engage Muslim voters ahead of the election, Walz joined Muslim advocacy group Emgage Action’s “Million Muslim Votes: A Way Forward” summit the day after the vice-presidential debate.

“Here in Minnesota, I’ve got the privilege to represent an incredible and vibrant Muslim community,” Walz said as light streamed through a large window behind him. He shared that he and his wife, Gwen, held the first iftar, the fast-breaking evening meal during Ramadan, at the Minnesota governor’s residence in 2019. And last year, Walz also passed interest-free down payment assistance for first-generation homebuyers to increase home ownership among Muslim Americans.

During his speech, Walz also acknowledged a collective pain among Muslim and Arab American communities due to Israel’s war on Gaza, where more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October. “Our hearts are broken,” Walz said. “The scale of death and destruction in Gaza is staggering and devastating. Tens of thousands of innocent civilians killed, families fleeing for safety over and over again.”

“We all know on here, this war must end and it must end now. The vice-president’s working every day to ensure that, to make sure Israel is secure, the hostages are home, the suffering in Gaza ends now. And the Palestinian people realize the right to dignity, freedom, and self determination.”

The virtual event came shortly after Emgage Action endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz as President and Vice-President.

Harris and Cheney blast Trump over election lies as they make pitch to Republican voters in Wisconsin

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris held a campaign event with former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, and Republican royalty, in the swing state – and birth of the Republican party – Wisconsin.

• Cheney focused her speech on Trump’s actions on 6 January and his refusal to accept the 2020 election results.

• “The most conservative of conservative values is fidelity to our constitution,” she said. “I have never voted for a Democrat, but this year I am proudly casting my vote for President Kamala Harris.”

• “Vice-President Harris is standing in the breach at a critical moment in our history,” Cheney said.

• Any person who would do these things can never be trusted with power again,” Cheney said. “We must defeat Trump on November 5.”

• Harris, too, focused her speech on Trump, rather than her policies as the Democratic candidate. The speech was pitched as encouraging voters to cast their ballots for Harris to prevent Trump from taking power, regardless of whether they identified as Republicans.

• Harris said she has never wavered from upholding her oath to the American people and democracy unlike Trump. “Donald Trump lost the 2020 election,” Harris said. “And as you have heard and know, he refused to accept the will of the people and the results of an election that was free and fair.”

• The candidates spoke with large protective glass barriers on either side of them.

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Walz added, “The Vice President’s working every day to ensure [an end to the war]. To make sure Israel secure, the hostages are home, the suffering in Gaza ends now, and the Palestinian people realize the right to dignity, freedom and self determination.”

Walz told voters at the virtual event, according to the Washington Post, “I know the pain of this community is deep” and “The scale of death and destruction in Gaza is staggering & devastating”.

He called for the war to end – as he, Harris and Biden have done previously. The US, however, continues to approve arms packages for Israel.

Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, was speaking at a virtual event for Muslim voters.

The invitation for the event said, according to Politico, “both presidential candidates have left our community with difficult choices: one threatening the fabric of democracy, the other enabling atrocities in Gaza.”

Harris walks off stage and shakes hands and takes selfies with people in the crowd.

Harris ends by saying together, “we can chart a new path forward”.

On the crowd from the press pool report:

The crowd of several hundred people consists of students, townspeople, and others who drove here from around the state. Many are standing on a hillside outside the fenced-in quad area.

Liz Cheney “stands in the finest tradition” of Republican leaders, Harris says.

Harris’s speech continues to be focused on the danger posed by Trump. She is framing the election for these voters not as one based on policies, or voting for Harris because of what she represents – but on voting for her to make sure Trump does not win.

“People of every party must stand together. And let me be clear. Democracy and freedom are not only at stake here. They are also at stake around the world,” says Harris.

And a reminder to non-Americans: we’re just over a month out from voting day in the world’s biggest economy.

“Our nation is not some spoils to be won,” Harris says, in the service of one individual’s ambition.

“In this election I take seriously my pledge to be a president for all Americans,” Harris says.

This is very much a speech pitched at swing and Republican voters.