2024 election updates: Trump and Harris bring their campaigns to the battleground state of Wisconsin

Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday cast former President Donald Trump as an angry man who has exhausted Americans with his focus on division in a speech at an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers labor union hall in Janesville, Wisconsin.

After arguing, as she often does, that it is time to "turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump," Harris put a finer point on the way she believes people feel about Trump's time in the national spotlight: "Folks are exhausted with this stuff."

"The man," Harris said, referring to Trump, "is angry."

She also said Trump was "one of the biggest losers of manufacturing jobs in America's history," hanging on the word "loser."

Harris, who was flanked by IBEW workers, said Trump is "all talk, no walk" on unions, calling him "no friend to labor" and "a union buster his entire career."

"He's got a lot of talk, but if you pay attention to what he's actually done... you'll see who he really is," she said, calling Trump "an existential threat to America's labor movement."

Union workers are important in a series of key swing states. While Democrats have long enjoyed the support of union leadership, Trump has improved Republican's standing with rank-and-file union workers in both 2016 and 2020.

Harris has closed her campaign by arguing that the former President is more focused on the people he believes have wronged him than the American people.

Several Arab American leaders in Dearborn say they declined invitations to meet with Donald Trump, who is visiting the nation's largest majority-Arab city in metro Detroit today.

Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud declined an invitation to meet with Trump this week, confirmed Katie Doyal, a spokesperson for Hammoud, to The Associated Press. Hammoud, a Democrat, has not endorsed any presidential candidate this year.

Arab American News publisher Osama Siblani said he was invited to a "handshake" meeting with Trump but responded with conditions, requesting a substantive discussion on community issues.

Siblani also informed Trump allies that the Arab American PAC, which he co-founded, and The Arab American News would not alter their nonendorsements in the presidential race, even if he met with Trump. Siblani said the meeting never materialized after the requests.

Early voting in North Carolina has reached record levels in 2024.

The in-person early voting turnout broke the record set four years ago, the North Carolina State Board of Elections said Friday. As of 2 p.m. Friday, more than 3,798,000 voters had cast ballots in person during the early voting period that began Oct. 17 and ends at 3 p.m. Saturday.

NC Ballot Tracker | Early voting in North Carolina

In 2020, more than 3,629,000 ballots were cast during early voting.

Total turnout for the 2024 general election now exceeds 4 million voters. The ballots cast through 2 p.m. - 4,009,149 - represent a turnout of more than half (51.2%) of North Carolina's registered voters.

"With early voting sites expected to be very busy today and tomorrow, this is really good news for North Carolina," said Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the NC State Board of Elections. "For the eligible North Carolinians who haven't voted yet, you still have time to make your voice heard."

In 2020, 65% of NC voters used the early voting period to cast their ballots.

Republicans have historically turned out in smaller numbers than Democrats in early voting -- generally voting in larger numbers on Election Day -- but this year's turnout has been substantially higher.

Trump is offering a similar spin as his campaign on his criticism of Liz Cheneys' position on U.S. military entrance into foreign countries.

"All I'm saying about Liz Cheney is that she is a War Hawk, and a dumb one at that, but she wouldn't have 'the guts' to fight herself," Trump wrote on his social media platform.

"It's easy for her to talk, sitting far from where the death scenes take place, but put a gun in her hand, and let her go fight, and she'll say, 'No thanks!'" Trump wrote.