Usher and Lizzo join the campaign trail as Harris and Trump court early votes

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris resumed their campaign trip on Saturday, arguing with people who are already beginning to cast ballots in the U.S. presidential election from Georgia to Pennsylvania.

With only 17 days until the election on November 5, many Americans are casting their early ballots in person or by mail, with Harris and Trump almost even in the most competitive states.

Harris and rapper Lizzo, who was born in Michigan, will co-host a voter education event in Detroit, Michigan, on Saturday, the city’s first day of early voting.

After that, she goes to Atlanta, Georgia, to attend a rally with pop artist Usher, who is on a three-date, sold-out tour in the southern metropolis. In Georgia, the early voting period began this week.

“Donald Trump is attempting to push us backwards and has shown himself to be more unstable and unfit,” Harris told reporters in Detroit.

To duplicate U.S. President Joe Biden’s 2020 victories in Michigan and Georgia, Harris will need to achieve significant outcomes in the predominantly non-white cities of Detroit and Atlanta, as well as the suburbs that surround them.

On Saturday, Trump intended to hold a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, hoping to capitalize on what he perceived to be an improved standing for him in polls that indicate a close race. The largest prize on election day among battleground states, mail-in ballots, are already in the possession of some voters in the state and have the potential to decide the 2024 election.

In Nevada, where Harris was scheduled to campaign with former President Barack Obama in Las Vegas, early voting also begins on Saturday.

Both 2024 contenders traded insults on their suitability for office during their Friday visit to hotly contested Michigan. Harris claimed that Trump, 78, was worn out by the frantic pace of the last days of the campaign, but Trump denied this. Harris’s 60th birthday is this Sunday.

Trump claimed he hadn’t postponed any plans. However, organizers say they had to reschedule an event he was scheduled to attend on October 22 in Savannah, Georgia, hosted by the National Rifle Association of America.

When Trump said, “I’m not even tired,”

Trump remarked that Harris should undergo a cognitive test and rejected his demands that he make his medical information public.