In the frenetic final days of the 2024 campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump are criss-crossing the country, completing a whirlwind schedule of rallies, public appearances, and media interviews, as well as key battlegrounds. He is making his final pitch to the state’s voters.

Trump has been actively campaigning in North Carolina, where he held three rallies over the weekend and election officials are scrambling to ensure voter safety. can vote in a county devastated by Hurricane Helen in September.

Harris will spend Sunday in Michigan after holding rallies in Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday. Michigan is a “blue wall” state that Trump won in 2016 but narrowly lost to Joe Biden four years later.

Harris is scheduled to appear in and around Detroit on Sunday before an evening rally at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

Trump’s controversial comments in Wisconsin last week, in which he said he would protect women “whether they like it or not,” reverberated throughout the weekend, and at a Friday night rally in Milwaukee, the former president So were the strange moments I took part in. I went on a rant about the microphone issue.

“Did you hear what Donnie Trump said the other day?” rapper Cardi B said on stage at Harris’ Friday rally, also in Milwaukee.

“He said he’s going to protect women whether they like it or not,” Cardi B said, adding, “When you’re talking about protecting women, especially maternal and mental health care, he’s willing to protect his own body.” It’s not a directive on what to do,” he added. . It’s about supporting them and giving them the care they need to choose what they do with their bodies. ”

During the event, held at the Wisconsin State Fair Expo Center, Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson told attendees, “My community, we are literally, quite literally, at a crossroads in this election.” ”, emphasizing that the campaign is focused on the Badger State and its 10 electoral votes. .

“You know what’s going on around town right now,” he added, referring to Trump’s rally 11 miles away at the Fiserv Forum, home of the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks. .

A few minutes into Trump’s speech, the crowd began chanting, “Fix the microphone!”

Frustrated, Trump pulled the microphone from its stand and held it close to his face. He became even more angry when the crowd again yelled that they couldn’t hear him.

“Do you want to see me backstage knocking people out?” President Trump asked the audience, who cheered in approval.

Trump, who complained about the low height of microphone stands at some events, bent over the stands, rubbed his hands up and down, opened his mouth wide and shook his head as the audience laughed.

“That’s too low,” he said, pushing aside the microphone stand.

This moment was widely ridiculed social media The user said President Trump was pantomiming oral sex.

Harris’ campaign I tweeted the video That’s the moment when there’s one question mark.

During the Milwaukee rally, President Trump also highlighted October’s jobs report.

The Labor Department reported Friday that U.S. employers added 12,000 jobs in October, hampered by two hurricanes, Milton and Helen, and the Boeing strike. The unemployment rate of 4.1% reflects the overall health of the economy.

Trump told supporters he did not believe the storm was a factor.

“This is like a recession,” he said. “And nothing happens, nothing happens. I think they’re trying to blame it on the hurricane. No, it was a little, you know, relatively small area. No, it was a hurricane. No, it’s not a hurricane. they are Hurricane. ”

On Saturday morning, President Trump called into “Fox & Friends” and called the jobs report a “gift” to his campaign.

Politicians typically do not gloat over supposedly poor economic numbers, instead expressing sympathy for Americans who are suffering economically.

But President Trump said, “I finally got the gift.”

“I’m running against two people who just put out the worst jobs numbers. This is a big deal, the biggest economic deal, the biggest thing that’s happened,” he said. .

At a rally in Gastonia, North Carolina, on Saturday, President Trump repeated false claims that the Federal Emergency Management Agency used disaster relief funds for illegal immigrants to starve hurricane victims. .

And he repeated his remarks about protecting women.

“I protect women,” he said. “I got into a lot of trouble, and you saw it.”

“I think the women love me because they know that without me, millions of people will flock to the suburbs.”

He painted dark, damsel-in-distress pictures of women attacked in their homes by criminal immigrants.

“I believe that women should be protected, men should be protected, children should be protected, but women should be protected when they’re at home in the suburbs.” he said.

The former president also promised to give a prominent role to conspiracy theory anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In a recent appearance supporting President Trump, President Kennedy said he wants to remove “toxins” from Americans’ food.

“We will make America healthy again,” President Trump said. “RFK Jr. will be in charge.”

North Carolina’s 16 electors are a coveted prize in a close presidential election. Republicans have led the state in 12 of the past 14 presidential elections, with Democrat Jimmy Carter winning in 1976 and Barack Obama winning in 2008; He later lost to Republican Mitt Romney.

In 2020, Trump defeated Biden there with just over 1% of the vote.

“We’re going to win this state. We’re going to win the whole ballgame,” he told local supporters Saturday.

Harris speak in atlanta On Saturday, she highlighted her economic plans and said her priority in the White House is to lower the cost of living.

He said Trump would take office “with a thorough review of his enemy list” and “a to-do list” that included a federal ban on food price gouging. Ta.

Harris said President Trump is “increasingly volatile, obsessed with revenge, obsessed with grievances, and this is a man who is on the verge of unchecked power.”

“In 90 days, who will be in the Oval Office: him or me?” she said.

The crowd responded, “It’s you!”