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A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Vice President Harris with a slight national lead over former President Donald Trump.Trump is campaigning Tuesday in swing state North Carolina.Harris was scheduled to tape interviews with NBC News and Telemundo.

Two weeks until Election Day.

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll on Tuesday shows Vice President Kamala Harris with a slim national lead over former President Donald Trump in an incredibly close election race.

Harris and Trump are spending the last stretch of the 2024 election courting voters across the country. Harris on Monday campaigned with former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who has become one of Trump’s most vocal critics.

The former president held multiple events in North Carolina, a pivotal swing state that could decide the race for the White House. Trump is holding another rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, Tuesday evening.

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Vice President Harris will travel on Friday to Texas, home to some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, to talk about the “consequences of these bans on women’s lives,” according to her campaign.

One of Harris’ top surrogates on reproductive freedom has been Texas resident Amanda Zurawski, who almost died of sepsis after being denied an abortion and who led a lawsuit against Texas’ abortion bans.

Zurawski has travelled the country to tell her story and “to hold Trump accountable for his extreme abortion bans and drive home the stakes of this election for reproductive freedom,” according to the campaign.

−Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy

More: Harris leads Trump 2-1 among the earliest voters, many driven by abortion access

Former Republican lawmakers, Justice Department officials and advisors have asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate whether it’s illegal for billionaire Elon Musk to be handing out $1 million cash prizes to swing state voters if they sign his political organization’s petition.

The letter, sent Monday to Garland, argues that the prizes established by Musk as part of his effort to help elect former President Donald Trump, violate laws make it illegal to pay people for registering to vote.

“We are aware of nothing like this in modern political history,” says the letter, which was signed by 11 former Republican officials.

− Josh Meyer

More: Former GOP officials ask DOJ to probe Elon Musk $1 million giveaways to pro-Trump voters

What are Kamala Harris’ religious views?

Harris identifies as a Baptist − a major Protestant Christian denomination. She told the Associated Press in 2020 that she attends services at the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco.

But her religious background is quite mixed. Her father is a Christian while her mother was a Hindu. Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, is Jewish.

− Sudiksha Kochi

More: Voters Guide 2024: Where Harris and Trump stand on key issues

Harris targets Latino men with small biz boot camps and a pledge to hire more police

Vice President Kamala Harris released a new slate of proposals on Tuesday aimed at helping Latino men get ahead economically.

Harris said she’d push for legislation allowing construction workers and apprentices to write off tools and other equipment on their taxes, which her campaign estimates would affect 2 million people.

The vice president said he would fund “high-quality bilingual education and English language acquisition programs” and increase the number of college and career counselors in lower income schools, while funding small business boot camps for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Buried in the plan are promises to “end the shortage of police officers” by hiring 100,000 more nationwide.

– Francesca Chambers

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Presidential elections are stressful, but Vice President Kamala Harris says she’s not using one potential wellness technique to temper anxiety during her presidential campaign: marijuana edibles.

The topic arose at a town hall-style exchange between Harris and journalist Maria Shriver on Monday in Royal Oak, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

“Everybody I talk to says you know, ‘I have to turn off the news − I can’t read anything, I’m meditating, I’m doing yoga. I’m so anxious… I’m eating gummies.’ All kinds of things. What are you doing?” Shriver asked, appearing to refer to cannabis gummies.

Laughing, Harris replied: “Not eating gummies.”

− Karissa Waddick and Darren Samuelsohn

More: Kamala Harris talks election stress: I’m ‘not eating gummies’

Donald Trump, who is leading in the polls with male voters, over the weekend referenced a golfing legend’s manhood, peppered his speeches with curse words and attended an NFL game to ensure he holds onto that key constituency.

It’s a strategy that involves doubling down on exciting the Republican presidential nominee’s most ardent supporters and emphasizing turnout among low propensity male voters with a hyper-masculine style, one his critics call a corrosive version of masculinity.

Meanwhile, he is barely nodding at − and may be alienating − the suburban women swing voters once considered key campaign targets.

− Zac Anderson

More: Crude talk and the NFL: Trump doubles down on his lead with male voters

How many days until Election Day?

There are 14 more days until Election Day, which is Nov. 5.

Many states have already started in-person early voting or in-person absentee early voting. Numerous national and state polls show that the 2024 race is very tight with both candidates essentially neck and neck. 

The Harris and Trump campaign have been pushing out more events and interviews in the final two-week stretch. 

− Sudiksha Kochi

If he returns to the White House, Donald Trump has vowed to launch a “mass deportation” of at least 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. without authorization.

He made a similar promise during his first administration. It didn’t pan out after he hit logistical and legal obstacles. Next time, experts say, things may be different.

A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll found 45% of respondents support Trump’s mass deportation proposal and 49% oppose it, with 4% undecided. The poll of 1,000 likely voters, taken by landline and cellphone Oct. 14 to 18, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

A second, more experienced Trump administration will know “how to effectively use an enormous bureaucracy to their advantage,” said César García Hernández, an Ohio State University law professor and author of “Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants.”

− Lauren Villagran, Bart Jansen and Aysha Bagchi

More: Donald Trump has promised a ‘mass deportation.’ It would cost billions.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are neck-and-neck in presidential race polling. In Real Clear Politics’ average of 2024 surveys, Harris leads Trump by just 0.9 percentage points.

It’s even closer in some of the crucial swing states, such as Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania. For example, Trump leads Harris by 0.2 percentage points in the polling average of Wisconsin surveys.

– Marina Pitofsky

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There are several ways you can vote in the general election. Depending on where you live, you can vote early either by mail or in person. You can also wait to go to a polling location on Nov. 5, which is Election Day, to cast your ballot. 

USA TODAY has a breakdown of when early voting has started or will begin in the states. The first state in the country to begin voting was Alabama, which sent around absentee ballots on Sept. 11. Alabama does not have an option for in-person early voting.

Seven states are expected to open up options for in-person early voting or in-person absentee early voting on Monday, including Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, South Carolina and Texas.

– Sudiksha Kochi and Fernando Cervantes Jr.