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With 10 days until Election Daytwo major new national polls indicate that Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump are deadlocked in the race to succeed President Biden in the White House.

With time running out, both candidates and their running mates are fanning out across key battleground states this weekend.

Trump begins Saturday with a rally in Novi, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Later today, he will campaign in another of the key states – Pennsylvania – as he holds a rally in State College, home of Penn State University.

Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice presidential nominee, begins his day in Atlanta before holding campaign events in Erie and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Trump’s top surrogates, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ended his long run at the White House and endorsed Trump, and former Democratic presidential candidate and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who moved there a few days from independent to Republican, will team up for Trump in the swing state of North Carolina. And Elon Musk, the Tesla and Space X mogul who is the richest person in the world, is a Trump supporter in Pennsylvania.

Harris will team up Saturday with former first lady Michelle Obama, arguably the nation’s most popular Democrat, at a campaign rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The stop comes two days after the vice president shared the stage in suburban Atlanta with former President Obama.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, is making two stops Saturday in battleground Arizona, first in Window Rock and then in Phoenix.

In a sign of the importance of Pennsylvania’s role with 19 electoral votes up for grabs, first lady Jill Biden is campaigning for Harris in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, while progressive champion Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a two-time runner-up . for the Democratic nomination, strains for Harris in Erie.

This is an excerpt from an article by Paul Steinhauser.