Midwest
Harris, Trump hold dueling final rallies in this crucial 'blue wall' battleground
MILWAUKEE — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump will hold competing rallies around the same time Friday night just a few miles apart in battleground Wisconsin’s largest city.
With just four days until Election Day, the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees make their final stops in Wisconsin, where nearly all the latest public opinion polls indicate a margin-of-error race between the two candidates.
“As of this weekend, the way to predict the winner is to flip a coin. It’s that close,” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor emeritus Mordecai Lee told Fox News.
Two days after Harris and Trump held competing rallies in Wisconsin — the vice president stopped in Madison, the state capital, while the former president was in Green Bay — they will hold dueling rallies again, this time in the same city.
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Former President Trump gestures after speaking at a campaign rally at Resch Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Trump’s event will take place in Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum, where he accepted his party’s presidential nomination during the Republican National Convention in July. Harris will be a few miles away for a get-out-the-vote rally at the Wisconsin State Fair Park Exposition Center.
The former president will be arriving in Wisconsin from Michigan, another key battleground, where he held campaign events earlier on Friday.
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Harris’ Milwaukee rally — where popular rapper and songwriter Cardi B will also make remarks — will be her third Wisconsin event of the day. She stopped by a union hall in Janesville during the afternoon.
As a group of union members started shouting “Madam President,” Harris responded, saying, “Not yet! Four days.”
The vice president also argued that “Donald Trump has been no friend to labor.”
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event in Janesville, Wisconsin, on Friday. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
The vice president then headed to Appleton to headline a rally at a school.
The Democratic and Republican Parties’ vice presidential nominees — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, respectively — have both crisscrossed Wisconsin, and major surrogates — including former Presidents Obama and Clinton for Harris — have parachuted into the Badger State.
Both campaigns and their aligned committees and super PACs have also flooded Wisconsin airwaves with TV ads in the closing stretch leading up to Election Day next week.
Wisconsin, along with Michigan and Pennsylvania, are the three Rust Belt states that make up the Democrats’ so-called “blue wall.”
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Democrats reliably won all three states for a quarter-century before Trump narrowly captured them in the 2016 election over Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton to win the White House.
Four years later, in 2020, President Biden swept all three states by razor-thin margins to put them back in the Democrats’ column and defeat Trump. In Wisconsin, Biden carried the state by just over 20,000 votes out of more than 3.2 million cast.
With a race within the margins, it may likely come down to turnout in Wisconsin.
Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. (Getty Images)
The Harris campaign highlights that they have over 50 offices across 43 counties in the state, and 250 full-time coordinated staff on the ground.
They spotlight that they have knocked on more than 1.5 million doors in the battle for Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes.
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Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre speaks during a campaign rally for former President Trump at the Resch Center in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, on Wednesday. (Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
The Trump campaign, pointing to the pro-football rivalry between Wisconsin’s Green Bay Packers and neighboring Minnesota’s Vikings, took aim at the vice president.
“Kamala Harris doesn’t know the first thing about Wisconsin — she chose a Vikings fan as her running mate. Wisconsin voters are already running up the score for President Trump as evidenced by his lead in the polls, encouraging early vote turnout, and big endorsements from hometown favorites including Hall of Famer Brett Favre and Wisconsin’s Former Governor Tommy Thompson,” Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt argued in a statement to Fox News.
Lee, who’s been involved in Wisconsin politics for nearly five decades, pointed to all the attention his home state is receiving.
“We feel like we’re the ones who are going to select the next president,” he said.
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Detroit, MI
RECAP: Detroit’s lack of execution results in 5-2 loss at Carolina | Detroit Red Wings
RALEIGH, N.C. – Wrapping up the February portion of their 2025-26 regular-season schedule, the Detroit Red Wings unfortunately spent most of their Saturday night playing catch-up in an eventual 5-2 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes at Lenovo Center.
“They’re a heck of a team,” Detroit captain Dylan Larkin said. “This is a hard building to play in…They’re the class of the East, and you got to come in here at some point and get points. I just didn’t think we executed. We allowed them to be on top of us and come back in waves on Talbs.”
Goalie Cam Talbot made 30 saves in his first start since Jan. 22 for the Red Wings (34-20-6; 74 points), who moved to 11-5-2 on the road since Dec. 6. Meanwhile, turning aside 27 shots netminder Frederik Andersen helped the Hurricanes (38-15-6; 82 points) win their fifth straight game and extend their point streak to 12.
“We’re leaving without points, so that’s real disappointing,” Detroit head coach Todd McLellan said. “I thought that the game was real fast to begin with. There was a lot of pace going both ways. It was a good game for us to play in. A lot of their offensive opportunities came off of basically our tape…[Carolina] really took advantage of our mistakes.”
Detroit held steady against Carolina’s characteristically heavy, initial 10-minute push in the opening frame, but the leaders of the Metropolitan Division went up 1-0 when Taylor Hall blocked Simon Edvinsson’s shot attempt in their defensive zone and proceeded to score on a breakaway at 14:05. Then with eight seconds left in the period, while the hosts were on the man advantage, Sebastian Aho’s shot from the left face-off circle deflected off Edvinsson’s stick down low and into the back of the net to extend their lead to 2-0.
“They come out flying and shoot a lot of pucks,” Larkin said. “You can’t really pay attention to the shot clock because they fire it from everywhere, but I liked our start. It’s just that we had some times where we didn’t execute, and they score with eight seconds left. That’s a tough one, but we responded well. We won the second period.”
The Hurricanes struck again just 2:52 into that second period, as Eric Robinson jammed a wrist shot from the top of the crease to push ahead 3-0. But in a span of just 47 seconds late in the stanza, the Red Wings beat Andersen twice to put the hosts on their heels and make it a one-goal game going into the second intermission.
Milwaukee, WI
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Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota’s Iranian community: Mixed emotions on US-Israel strike
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – The local Iranian community in Minnesota is expressing mixed emotions following the recent joint U.S.-Israel strike on Iran.
Local reactions to the strike
What we know:
The strike resulted in the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to President Donald Trump and Iranian state media. Many Iranians in Minnesota feel this could lead to freedom for their country.
Nazanin Naferipoor shared that her sister in Iran was initially happy about the strike, believing it might bring about freedom. However, communication has been cut off since the strike began, leaving many worried about their loved ones.
The other side:
Hamid Kashani from the Minnesota Committee in Support of a Democratic Iran expressed mixed feelings about the strike. While he hopes for change, he is concerned about the potential loss of innocent lives.
Fazy Kowsari emphasized that the attack targeted the government, not the religion, and criticized the political motivations behind the strike.
Upcoming rally at Nicollet Mall
Why you should care:
A rally is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at Nicollet Mall and 11th Street. Organizers view the U.S. strike as a rescue operation for Iranians held hostage by the regime, rather than an act of war.
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