Breaking News: Trump and Harris Move Their Campaigns to Battleground Wisconsin

In the final days of the presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have turned their attention to the battleground state of Wisconsin.

Meanwhile, in Georgia, there were concerns about outside interference in Tuesday’s election. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said his state was being targeted with a video that was “obviously fake” and likely the product of Russian trolls.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it was investigating the video.

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Trump has made his opposition to transgender rights a central theme in the final days of the campaign.

The Republican candidate’s campaign and related political action committees have spent tens of millions of dollars on ads criticizing Harris for previous statements supporting transgender rights.

Trump has vowed to persecute transgender people if elected. He said he would ask Congress to pass a law stating that there are “only two genders” and to ban hormonal or surgical interventions for transgender minors in all 50 states.

Harris emphasizes that she supports the federal policies that were in place when Trump was president. LGBTQ advocates say Trump’s rhetoric encourages hostility toward transgender people and promotes misunderstandings about who they are.

It’s the last day for voters to apply to vote early by mail in Philadelphia’s densely populated suburban county.

Voters in Bucks County, a frontrunner whose residents Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris courted in the final days of the presidential campaign, have until 5 p.m. Friday to apply for, receive and drop off a mail-in ballot on site.

The court-imposed deadline was extended by three days as a result of a lawsuit filed this week by the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and the campaign of GOP Senate candidate David McCormick.

They argued that voters faced disenfranchisement when they were denied a ballot after county government offices processing applications closed.

Harris and Trump will hold dueling rallies in the Milwaukee area on Friday in the latest effort to win votes in the swing state of Wisconsin.

Milwaukee is home to a majority of Wisconsin’s Democratic votes, but its conservative suburbs are home to most Republicans and are a critical area for Trump as he tries to retake a state he narrowly won in 2016 and lost in 2020.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said his state was being targeted with a video that was “obviously fake” and likely the product of Russian trolls “trying to sow discord and chaos ahead of the election.”

The video, which began circulating on social media site X on Thursday afternoon, claims to show a Haitian immigrant with multiple Georgia IDs saying he plans to vote multiple times in two counties.

“This is false and is an example of the kind of targeted disinformation that we have seen in this election,” Raffensperger said.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it was investigating the video.

An Associated Press analysis of the information on the two IDs confirms it does not match any registered voters in the counties.

The original video was no longer on X on Friday morning, but copycat versions were still circulating widely.

Former President Donald Trump launched another attack on former Rep. Liz Cheney late Thursday, calling the former Wyoming Republican congresswoman a “war hawk.”

During an event in Glendale, Arizona, featuring former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the Republican presidential candidate was asked if it was strange to see Cheney campaign against him.

Cheney held the No. 3 GOP leadership position in the House of Representatives, but lost that position after voting to impeach Trump for the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol. She has campaigned for Harris ever since.

Trump called Cheney “a deranged person,” then added: “But the reason she couldn’t stand me is because she always wanted to fight people. If it were up to her, we would have visited 50 different countries.”