The US Supreme Court said this on Friday refused to freeze a decision of Pennsylvania’s highest court, which required election officials to count provisional ballots cast by people whose mail-in ballots were invalid because they lacked required secrecy envelopes.

The justices’ order means election officials in the key battleground state must count provisional ballots submitted on Election Day by voters who returned defective ballots in the mail because they did not come with secrecy envelopes or because the outer envelope was not signed or dated.

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

The rally was plagued by microphone problems. People in the upper sections at the back of the arena could not hear Trump, and he expressed frustration with the technical difficulties.

“I’m boiling with anger. I’m working my butt off with a stupid microphone,” Trump said.

He then made rude gestures at 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 hard it was. He also threatened not to pay the contractor.

“Do you want to see me beat the shit out of people backstage?” Trump asked. “I don’t ask for much. All I ask is a good microphone. And this is the second time today that this has happened.”

He loosely blamed campaign manager Susie Wiles for the microphone problem.

By Olivia Rinaldi and Katrina Kaufman

Both Donald Trump Trump and Kamala Harris campaigned in the Milwaukee area on Friday evening, kicking off the final weekend of the 2024 campaign. Harris did not deviate much from her standard stump speech in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis, Michigan. She called on people to vote who have not yet voted.

“No judgment, no judgment at all — but come with it,” Harris said, before running through the list of her campaign promises and litany of grievances against Trump.

Cardi B, who spoke briefly before Harris, told the crowd that she had no intention of voting this year, but “Kamala Harris has changed her mind.”

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