Live updates on the 2024 election amid head-to-head polls as Harris and Trump make inroads in battleground states

The US Supreme Court on Friday declined to freeze a decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which required election officials to count provisional ballots from people whose mail-in ballots were invalid because they lacked mandatory secrecy envelopes.

The justices' order means election officials in the battleground state must count provisional ballots submitted on Election Day by voters who returned defective mail-in ballots, either because they were not accompanied by secrecy envelopes or because they did not sign or date the outer envelope.

Donald Trump held his final Wisconsin rally of the 2024 campaign on Friday evening, returning to the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, site of the Republican convention, to deliver his final message to the Badger State. He narrowly won Wisconsin in 2016, but lost the state's 10 electoral votes to Joe Biden in 2020.

The rally was plagued by microphone problems. People in the upper sections at the back of the arena couldn't hear Trump and he expressed frustration with the technical problems.

“I’m seething. “I’m busting my ass with a stupid microphone,” Trump said.

He then made rude gestures toward the microphone stand and complained that it was too low. He held the microphone for the rest of the rally, but complained several times about how heavy it was. He also threatened not to pay the contractor.

“Do you want to see me destroy the people backstage?” Trump asked. “I don't ask for much. The only thing I ask for is a good microphone. And this is the second time today that something like this has happened.”

He blamed campaign manager Susie Wiles for the microphone problem.

By Olivia Rinaldi and Katrina Kaufman

Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris campaigned in the Milwaukee area on Friday evening, kicking off the final weekend of the 2024 campaign. Harris didn't deviate much from her standard speech in West Allis, Michigan, a Milwaukee suburb. She urged those who have not yet cast their vote to vote.

“No judgment, no judgment at all — but get to the point,” Harris said before running through the list of her campaign promises and the litany of complaints against Trump.

Cardi B, who spoke shortly before Harris, told the crowd that she didn't want to vote this year, but “Kamala Harris changed my mind.”

She called Trump a “bully” and said, “I can't stand a bully, but just like Kamala, I'll face one.” Cardi B repeatedly said she was nervous to speak at the rally. Women, she said, have to work ten times harder than men, “and yet people question us.”