Donald Trump and Kamala Harris urge Michigan to vote early. Agreement ends there

Harris responded that she was in favor of ending the war and bringing hostages home, “but now I’m talking about 2024.”

Before Harris took the stage, Obama said the race is too close for her liking, while Harris is the only candidate in the race who has outlined clear policies and is not a convicted felon. She reiterated her earlier call from the party’s national convention for Democrats to “do something.”

“I lay awake at night wondering what the hell was going on,” Obama said. “The real question is: are we as a country ready for this moment? Are we willing to do what it takes to get ourselves across the finish line, or will we allow ourselves to be distracted and fall into the trap?”

Trump’s voting claims

While urging his supporters to vote early, Trump advocated allowing only one day of voting with mandatory voter identification and paper ballots.

Michigan already uses paper ballots. Voters are asked to show identification, but if they don’t have one, they can sign an affidavit under penalty of perjury. Non-citizens cannot vote, and “one-day voting” has not existed since before World War IIwhen the use of absentee ballots was allowed nationwide.

Michigan voters were additionally initiated “without cause” absentee voting in 2018, which was first tested during the 2020 presidential election.

In his speech on Saturday, Trump continued to criticize the US election, claiming without evidence that “bad things are happening.”

Multiple statewide audits and investigations have refuted that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election, which Trump sought to overturn. He’s fighting now related criminal charges.

Democrats emphasize abortion rights

Harris and Obama made repeated calls on Saturday to make reproductive rights a fundamental issue when they go to the polls.

It’s not a new argument for Democrats, who have been warning voters for months that a second Trump presidency and a Republican-majority Congress could easily undo many state-level protections like those put in place in Michigan after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal had struck down abortion protections as outlined in Roe v. Wade. .

Highlighting recent cases across the country in which the deaths of pregnant women have been linked to state-level abortion restrictions, Harris said Trump has refused to acknowledge the pain and suffering he has caused by appointing anti-abortion judges to the Supreme Court of the country.