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10 days before Election DayTwo new major national polls show Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump in fierce competition in the race to replace President Biden in the White House.

As the clock ticks down, the two candidates and their running mates are expanding into key battleground states this weekend.

Trump starts Saturday with a rally in the Detroit suburb of Novi, Michigan. Later in the day, he will campaign in Pennsylvania, a key swing state, holding a rally in State College, home of Penn State University.

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance of Ohio is starting his day in Atlanta before holding campaign events in Erie and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Trump’s surrogates include Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ended his long-term run for the White House and supported Trump. and former Democratic presidential candidate and former Representative Tulsi Gabbard, who switched from independent candidacy to Republican candidate a few days ago, will meet. Trump is in the swing state of North Carolina. And Tesla and Space X boss Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is trailing Trump in Pennsylvania.

Harris will meet with former First Lady Michelle Obama, arguably the nation’s most popular Democrat, at a get-out-the-vote rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Saturday. The stance came two days after the vice president shared the stage with former President Obama in suburban Atlanta.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, made two stops in the battleground state of Arizona on Saturday, first in Window Rock and later in Phoenix.

First Lady Jill Biden campaigned for Harris in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, while two-time runner-up progressive champion Sen. Bernie Sanders is a sign of how important a role Pennsylvania plays with its 19 electoral votes. We edged out Harris in Erie for the Democratic nomination.

This is an excerpt from an article by Paul Steinhauser.