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Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are making multiple campaign stops scheduled Friday in the battleground state of Michigan. Trump’s itinerary includes a rally in Detroit, a city he has insulted in recent days, comparing it to a “developing nation.” The Washington Post polling average shows Harris with an advantage in Michigan, among the “blue wall” states that her campaign is eyeing to carry en route to an electoral college victory.

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2:26 p.m. EDT

Analysis: Trump’s age finally catches up with him

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When Bloomberg News editor in chief John Micklethwait raised the question of Donald Trump’s age during their conversation at the Economic Club of Chicago earlier this week, the former president suddenly got defensive.

It was not the case, he said, that he had attacked President Joe Biden’s age, as Micklethwait suggested. Instead, he insisted, he had attacked Biden’s competence.

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1:55 p.m. EDT

Analysis: Maybe if Trump spent less time selling shoes, he could afford more staff

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On the lengthy menu of unusual aspects to Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, one item stands out: his consistent and diverse efforts to sell things to his supporters.

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12:35 p.m. EDT

Harris, Democrats seize on Trump insulting Detroit as he returns to city

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As Donald Trump returns to Detroit for a rally on Friday, Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign are seizing on recent comments in which he compared the largest city in the battleground state of Michigan to a “developing nation” and downplayed the skills required for autoworkers to do their jobs.

The Fight Like Hell PAC, led by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), is launching a six-figure radio advertising campaign Friday that highlights Trump’s recent dissing of Detroit.

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11:20 a.m. EDT

Trump hotel overcharged Secret Service, report by House Democrats finds

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During Donald Trump’s presidency, his D.C. hotel charged the U.S. Secret Service 300 percent or more above standard government rates on multiple occasions, and at times charged the government agency more than it did other patrons — including a Chinese business and members of a foreign royal family, according to a new report released Friday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

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10:46 a.m. EDT

In deep-blue Md., Democrats pour record cash into defending Senate

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Democrats have poured record amounts of cash into defending Maryland’s once reliably blue Senate seat, investing to fend off an unprecedented GOP offensive behind former governor Larry Hogan’s bid to flip the seat.

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10:30 a.m. EDT

Trump has vowed to gut climate rules. Oil lobbyists have a plan ready.

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An influential oil and gas industry group whose members were aggressively pursued for campaign cash by Donald Trump has drafted detailed plans for dismantling landmark Biden administration climate rules after the presidential election, according to internal documents obtained by The Washington Post.

The plans were drawn up by the American Exploration and Production Council, or AXPC, a group of 30 mostly independent oil and gas producers, including several major oil companies.

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10:15 a.m. EDT

Analysis: How more young voters could reshape Congress

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Lawrence Lessig, a professor at Harvard Law School, and Maia Cook, a research assistant and student at Yale University, conducted a study examining the results of the 2022 midterm elections if people under 40 voted at the same rate as people over 65. They found that Congress would look very different.

An interview with them has been edited for length and clarity.

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9:17 a.m. EDT

Trump takes a scattershot approach to income-tax reform

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Conservative tax policy experts had hoped that a second Trump administration would propose an overhaul of the income tax structure that would potentially go so far as to get rid of most U.S. tax brackets.

But the former president keeps pitching a string of specific but seemingly unrelated populist ideas.

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8:52 a.m. EDT

Can Trump and Harris turn out the voters they need? A key county has clues.

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BETHLEHEM, Pa. — The challenges that both Democrats and Republicans are confronting in the presidential race were on vivid display here at a strip mall in Northampton County — which has voted for the winner of almost every election in the past 100 years.

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8:36 a.m. EDT

Trump, RFK Jr. vow to ‘Make America Healthy Again,’ raising hopes and doubts

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Staring into a camera last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he has deepened his partnership with GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. He gestured to his green “Make America Healthy Again” hat, a new and visible melding of his environmental politics and Trump’s conservative brand.

“We’re going to become, once again, the healthiest nation on Earth,” Kennedy vowed in the video. “That’s what we mean by MAHA.”

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8:15 a.m. EDT

Crypto cash is flooding the 2024 election. Here’s who is benefiting.

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A new political network funded by the cryptocurrency industry has spent more than $134 million trying to elect dozens of allies to Congress, mounting an unprecedented political effort to influence voters and secure favorable regulation.

The spending comes from an organization called Fairshake, along with two other affiliated crypto-funded groups, known as super PACs, which by law can spend unlimited sums in politics.

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7:00 a.m. EDT

Obama’s fears about Trump drive his stepped-up campaigning

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In the early spring, former president Barack Obama joked to some allies that his blood pressure was finally going down — because he had stopped watching cable news.

After spending much of the previous two years deeply concerned about the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House, Obama told people that his lifestyle change had helped calm his nerves, according to multiple people familiar with his comments, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

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6:30 a.m. EDT

Trump delivers profanity, below-the-belt digs at Catholic charity banquet

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NEW YORK — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used his remarks at a Catholic charity banquet here on Thursday to skewer prominent Democrats, often in off-color terms.

He mispronounced Vice President Kamala Harris’s name and said she had “no intelligence whatsoever.” He made fun of her husband, Doug Emhoff, for an affair he acknowledged during a previous marriage.

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6:15 a.m. EDT

After low profile, Bill Clinton steps back on stage as surrogate for Harris

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DURHAM, N.C. — Former president Bill Clinton campaigned for the first time alongside the Democratic ticket Thursday, appearing with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and reprising his role as “explainer in chief” to make the case to North Carolinians to elect Kamala Harris on the first day of early voting here.

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6:00 a.m. EDT

Harris calls out Trump for ‘gaslighting’ Americans about Jan. 6 attack

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GREEN BAY, Wis. — Vice President Kamala Harris chided Donald Trump on Thursday for his revisionist history on the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — accusing him of “gaslighting” the American people with his recent assertion that it was a “day of love.”

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Election 2024

Follow live updates on the 2024 election and Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump from our reporters on the campaign trail and in Washington.

Policy positions: We’ve collected Harris’s and Trump’s stances on the most important issues — abortion, economic policy, immigration and more.

Presidential polls: Check out how Harris and Trump stack up, according to The Washington Post’s presidential polling averages of seven battleground states. We’ve identified eight possible paths to victory based on the candidates’ current standing in the polls.

Senate control: Senate Democrats are at risk of losing their slim 51-49 majority this fall. The Post breaks down the nine races and three long shots that could determine Senate control.