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Former President Trump’s campaign is riding high Monday following a massive rally at Madison Square Garden. Trump and Harris now sit with barely one week before Election Day, and polls continue to show a tight race.

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Kamala Harris rally attendees grow silent after she jokingly told them to ‘shout your own name’

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Vice President Kamala Harris was holding a rally in Michigan on Monday when the crowd was stunned in silence after her apparent attempt at a joke in which she told the crowd cheering her name to “shout your own name.”

“We are all here because we are fighting for a democracy and for the right of people to be heard and seen,” Harris told the energetic crowd in Ann Arbor, Michigan. “We’re not about the enemy within. We know we are all in this together. That’s what we are fighting for.”

The crowd then erupted in applause and chants of “Ka-ma-la, Ka-ma-la.”

“Now I want each of you to shout your own name. Do that,” Harris instructed the audience.

The crowd appeared confused and went almost silent as Harris laughed at the awkward moment.

“It’s about all of us,” Harris explained before continuing her speech.

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Experts explain how campaigns turn out vote in Michigan, other battlegrounds in final days

Election swing state Michigan will be decided by which campaigns can get the most voters out to the polls in the final week of the race, according to multiple experts.

“The campaign’s No. 1 priority and the party’s priority right now is getting our people out to vote,” Jimmy Keady, the founder and president of Republican consulting firm JLK Political Strategies, told Fox News Digital.

The comments come with just one week to go in a dramatic election season, with just a handful of battleground states in play that will decide the fate of the race.

Perhaps the most important of those states is Michigan, a swing state that narrowly went to Donald Trump in 2016 before flipping back to Joe Biden in another close race in the 2020 election.

Polls indicate yet another tight race brewing in the state, with the RealClearPolitics polling average showing a razor-thin 0.1 point lead for Trump as of Monday. Meanwhile, the latest Fox News Power Rankings lists Michigan as a toss-up, and Trump is only a slight betting favorite in the state, with ElectionBettingOdds.com showing the former president with a 53.2% chance of carrying the state as of Monday.

According to Keady, the part of the race in which candidates attempt to persuade voters is mostly over, with Michigan coming down to who has the ground game to get the numbers out between now and next Tuesday. Republicans will also be focused on turning out low propensity voters, Keady said, a demographic the party has targeted in the hopes the group could potentially push them over the top.

“A lot of these campaigns are going to be focused a lot on low propensity voters … voters that are voting in like one out of four elections, making sure that they’re hit several times, making sure we’re dragging people out to the polls to vote,” Keady said.

Jason Roe, a GOP strategist working in Michigan, echoed a similar sentiment, telling Fox News Digital that the time to persuade undecided voters is mostly over.

“There’s not a lot of undecided voters left, but there’s untapped voters who’ve never heard from a Republican campaign,” Roe said. “In addition to getting mail-in ballots returned and people to vote early, finding and mobilizing low propensity voters and getting them to the polls is everyone’s focus.”

Read the full article by Fox News’ Michael Lee.

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Harris to pro-Palestinian protesters: ‘I will do everything in my power’ to end the war in Gaza

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Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday addressed pro-Palestinian demonstrators who interrupted her campaign speech in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Protesters have interrupted several of her recent campaign speeches to criticize the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the war in Gaza.

“On the subject of Gaza — hey guys, I hear you — on the subject of Gaza, we all want this war to end as soon as possible and get the hostages out and I will do everything in my power to make it so,” Harris said on Monday.

“We’re not about the enemy within, we know we’re all in this together. That’s what we are fighting for,” she continued, referring to former President Trump’s recent claim that the “enemy from within” want “to make this country unsuccessful.”

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Media outlets ripped over claim that Beyoncé would perform at Kamala Harris rally: ‘Bait and switch’

Several prominent media outlets faced backlash last week for inaccurately suggesting that Beyoncé would perform at Vice President Kamala Harris’ rally in Houston, Texas.

The Houston-born singer, whose hit song “Freedom” has been adopted by the vice president as her campaign trail anthem, spoke ahead of Harris and introduced her at the event, which leaned heavily into reproductive rights.

Ahead of the event, USA Today published a headline, “Watch live: Beyoncé returns to hometown of Houston to perform at Kamala Harris rally.” The article also included a video livestream counting down to the singer’s performance — which never materialized.

A similar claim came from NPR, which touted the coalition of Beyoncé fans and Harris supporters.

“BeyHive meets KHive: Beyoncé set to perform at Houston rally for Harris,” the headline read.

Vanity Fair also highlighted a source outside the Harris campaign who claimed Beyoncé was expected to perform “Freedom” for those in attendance.

Voices on MSNBC also hyped up a performance from the pop star, often citing an NBC News report that highlighted sources close to the rally.

Read the full article by Fox News’ Nikolas Lanum.

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USA Today announces it will not endorse in 2024 race following Washington Post, LA Times

USA Today has announced that it, too, is choosing not to endorse any candidate in the 2024 presidential race, following other high-profile newspapers like The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times.

“While USA TODAY will not endorse for president, local editors at publications across the USA TODAY Network have the discretion to endorse at a state or local level,” USA Today spokesperson Lark-Marie Antón told Fox News Digital.

“Why are we doing this? Because we believe America’s future is decided locally – one race at a time. And with more than 200 publications across the nation, our public service is to provide readers with the facts that matter and the trusted information they need to make informed decisions,” the spokesperson added.

Notably, USA Today previously offered its first-ever endorsement to President Biden in the 2020 presidential election and sided with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016, although stopping short of making an official endorsement in opposition to former President Trump.

This comes just days after both The LA Times and The Washington Post announced they would refrain from offering an endorsement ahead of Election Day.

Read the full article by Fox News’ Joseph A. Wulfsohn.

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Joe Rogan says Kamala Harris has not passed on podcast, but offered alternative location, length

Podcast host Joe Rogan said Vice President Kamala Harris has not passed on his offer to appear on his podcast, but that her team had proposed an alternative venue and a shorter conversation than his typical three-hour episodes.

This comes after former President Trump sat down with Rogan on Friday for a three-hour conversation on the podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience” in Austin, Texas.

“[For] the record the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast,” Rogan wrote Tuesday morning on the social media platform X.

“They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour,” he continued. “I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen.”

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Obama says not to give credit to Trump for COVID checks: ‘Don’t give him your vote’

Former President Barrack Obama told a crowd at a rally in Philadelphia while stumping for Vice President Kamala Harris not to give former President Donald Trump credit for sending out stimulus checks during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.

Obama noted that Congress first approved the checks and that President Biden also sent stimulus checks out amid the pandemic after he took office in 2021.

“I often hear folks say, ‘Donald Trump sent me a check during the pandemic,’” Obama said.

“I want to make sure you understand this: Congress sent you a check,” he continued. “By the way, Joe Biden also sent you a check during the pandemic, just like I gave people relief during the Great Recession. The difference is that we didn’t put our names on it – because it wasn’t about feeding our egos or advancing our politics, it was about helping people.”

Obama added: “So don’t be giving him credit for that. And don’t give him your vote, either. There’s only one candidate in this election who cares about you, and that’s Kamala Harris.”