With 10 days until Election Day, the race for the White House between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remains tight in the nation’s battleground states.

Candidates Harris, Trump and their surrogates participated in the campaign with all their might.

Singer Beyonce Knowles, her former Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland and country singer Willie Nelson have tried to use their star power to win over voters for Harris in Texas.

Meanwhile, Trump sat down with podcaster Joe Rogan for a three-hour interview. He then traveled to Michigan, where he belatedly addressed a crowd reduced by the delay.

What are the latest developments in the polls?

The latest national poll conducted by the New York Times and Siena College between October 20-23, 2024, showed Harris and Trump tied at 48 percent nationally. The remaining 4 percent are undecided.

Among likely female voters, Harris holds a 54 percent to 42 percent advantage over Trump. But the former president makes up for it with 55 percent of male voters supporting Harris, compared to 41 percent.

While Harris receives the highest support from voters aged 18-29 with 55 percent, Trump’s rate of 43 percent varies between 51 and 44 percent.

Worryingly for Harris, 61 percent of those polled said the country was heading in the wrong direction, while 27 percent said it was on the right track.

Meanwhile, the FiveThirtyEight poll tracker, which calculates the average of several national polls, shows Harris with a razor-thin lead of 48 percent to Trump’s 46.6 percent. However, the 1.4 percentage point difference is lower than the 1.8 percentage point earlier this week.

While national polls provide valuable insight into voter sentiment, the ultimate winner will be determined by the Electoral College, which reflects results in the states.

The seven key states that could affect the election are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. These states make up 93 (or one-third) of the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the election.

According to FiveThirtyEight’s latest polling average, Trump has a 1 percent advantage in North Carolina and a 2 percent advantage in Arizona and Georgia. There is less than a half-point margin between Harris and Trump in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin; Trump has a narrow lead in Pennsylvania and Nevada, and Harris has a razor-thin lead in Michigan and Wisconsin.

All results are within the margin of error and the outcome of the vote may swing in either direction.

What was Kamala Harris doing on Friday?

Harris campaigned in Houston, Texas, with musicians Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Willie Nelson.

During the stop, Harris underscored her support for abortion rights as she sought to contrast Trump and gain from female voters.

Texas hasn’t supported a Democratic president since 1976, and Republican Trump is almost certain to win the state’s 40 Electoral College votes.

But Democrats believe it will give Harris a strong platform to speak out about abortion rights in the final days before the Nov. 5 election. Under Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, the state has passed some of the nation’s strictest anti-abortion regulations.

What was Donald Trump doing on Friday?

Trump was also campaigning in Texas on Friday and stopped by Austin to tape an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Rogan is arguably the most popular podcaster in the United States, with tens of millions of social media followers, most of whom are men. Rogan’s podcast has 17.5 million subscribers on YouTube alone and 14 million on Spotify. The average age of its audience is 24, according to Media Monitors.

In his interview with Rogan, Trump once again suggested that he was in favor of eliminating the income tax and replacing the lost revenue with tariffs.

Trump then headed to a rally in Traverse City, Michigan, where he touched on Harris’ struggles with the state’s large Arab American population, which could determine the outcome of a very close race.

Trump leads Harris 45 percent to 43 percent among Arab Americans two weeks before voters choose the next U.S. president, according to an Arab News/YouGov poll released on Monday, while a large segment of society shows Harris is angry with the Biden administration . For his fearless support of Israel’s war in Gaza and Lebanon.

“Kamala, along with Michigan’s Arab and Muslim populations, are in complete freefall. “It’s in free fall,” Trump said. “He’s sent his jobs abroad, brought crime into his cities, and tonight the Middle East is a firebox ready to explode. People are being killed at a level we’ve never seen before.”

He also touched on Harris’ unlikely alliance with former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who is campaigning for vice president. Cheney, who has had a long-running feud with Trump, is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, a central figure in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. “So why would Muslims support Kamala, who embraces Muslim-hating Liz Cheney?” Trump asked, speaking to the crowd.

What’s next for the Harris and Trump campaigns?

Harris will campaign with former First Lady Michelle Obama in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Saturday.

The voting rally will be Michelle Obama’s first event on the campaign trail for Harris.

Saturday is the first day of statewide early voting in Michigan.

Meanwhile, Trump is scheduled to hold various events in Pennsylvania on Saturday, but will start the day with a rally in Michigan.

Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, will make a campaign stop in Atlanta, Georgia, before heading to Erie and Harrisburg in Pennsylvania.