Former President Donald Trump held a rally in Michigan on Friday night where he slammed Vice President Kamala Harris for ‘partying’ while tension in the Middle East boiled over.

Trump spoke in Traverse City, as Israeli fighter jets were bombarding Iranian military targets and Harris was at a rally in Houston with Beyonce.

‘You know where she is tonight?’ Trump asked the crowd. ‘She’s out partying. So Israel is attacking. We’ve got a war going on, and she’s out partying. At least we’re working to make America great again. That’s what we’re doing. Kamala, Kamala, she’s the worst president in the history of our country.’

Israel launched its largest ever attack on Iran Friday in a wave of retaliatory airstrikes after the Islamic Republic fired a barrage of missiles toward Israelis earlier this month. 

Additionally, the Trump campaign put out a press release with a photo of Trump in Austin earlier in the day when he highlighted ‘the tragic human cost of Kamala’s border invasion’ and was joined by the mother of Jocelyn Nungary, whose daughter was murdered allegedly by illegal immigrants.

‘Kamala, meanwhile, will be partying with celebrities in Houston as she makes another desperate attempt to salvage her flailing campaign,’ the campaign said. ‘Don’t expect her to apologize to the families of Jocelyn Nungaray or any of the other American citizens victimized by illegals she imported into our communities — she couldn’t care less. In Kamala’s America, illegal immigrants are the priority as Americans are relegated to the second tier in their own country. The split screen tells you all you need to know.’

Harris was campaigning in Houston, Texas on Friday night at a rally where an estimated 30,000 people showed up to hear from the presidential candidate as well as music superstar Beyonce. 

Beyoncé, whose hit song ‘Freedom’ has been adopted by the vice president as her campaign trail anthem, spoke ahead of Harris and introduced her at the event, which leaned heavily into reproductive rights.

‘It’s time for America to sing a new song,’ Beyoncé said as she formally endorsed the vice president in her White House race against former President Trump. ‘Ladies and gentlemen, please give a big, loud, Texas welcome to the next President of the United States, Vice President Kamala Harris.’

And she emphasized that ‘I’m not here as a celebrity, I’m not here as a politician, I’m here as a mother. A mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in. A world where we have the freedom to control our bodies.’

Trump added during his rally that ‘Kamala is also in total freefall with the Arab and Muslim population in Michigan. She’s in a freefall. She sent their jobs overseas, brought crime to their cities and tonight in the Middle East, it’s like a tinderbox. It’s ready to explode. People are being killed at levels that we’ve never seen before and that’s taking place right now. In Michigan she is in literally a freefall. They’ve had it with her. Nobody’s in charge. Joe Biden is asleep. Kamala is at a dance party with Beyonce.’

Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

‘During his low-energy speech in Michigan tonight, @realDonaldTrump, Arrived 3 hours late and spoke to a dwindling crowd, Insulted Detroit, Attacked Beyoncé, said his handlers tell him women don’t like him,’ Harris spokesperson Sarafina Chitika posted on X on Friday night.

Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report

As someone who used to write regularly for the newspaper, it has been a long time since I have had an occasion to say this but . . . Bravo, Washington Post.

This week, the Post announced that not only would it not endorse a candidate this year, but it would not do so in the future. Over two decades ago, I wrote a column calling for newspapers to end the practice of all election endorsements. (Yes, before all things seemed to turn on how you feel about Donald Trump). I have continued to push the press to abandon this pernicious practice.

When I first came out against political endorsements, the media had not taken the plunge into advocacy journalism, which is now strangling the life out of this industry.

As former New York Times writer (and now Howard University journalism professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones has declared, ‘all journalism is activism.’

After a series of interviews with over 75 media leaders,  Leonard Downie Jr., former Washington Post executive editor, and Andrew Heyward, former CBS News president, reaffirmed this shift. As Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle, stated: ‘Objectivity has got to go.’

The result has been trust in the media plummeting to an all-time low. Revenues and readership are falling as outlets struggle to survive. Yet, reporters are still refusing to reconsider the abandonment of neutrality and objectivity.

Recently, Post owner Jeff Bezos brought in Washington Post publisher and CEO William Lewis, who promptly delivered a truth bomb in the middle of the newsroom. He told the staff, ‘Let’s not sugarcoat it…We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. Right? I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.’

The response was calls for Lewis and other editors to be canned. These reporters would rather give up their very jobs than their bias.

Now Lewis is under fire again after announcing, ‘We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.’

The Washington Post Guild immediately went ballistic at the thought of not openly supporting Kamala Harris, though many would point out that the Post has hardly been subtle in its coverage on that point.

The Guild expressed alarm at the thought of leaving readers to reach their own conclusions ‘a mere 11 days ahead of an immensely consequential election.’ According to the staff, the Post needs ‘to help guide readers,’ and ‘according to our own reporters and Guild members, an endorsement for Harris was already drafted, and the decision not to publish was made by The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos.’

Perish the thought that the Post would start to raise free-range readers left to reach their own conclusions.

The Post and other papers are writing for each other and core Democratic readers. The rest of America is moving on to new sources of information on social media and elsewhere.

Former executive editor Martin ‘Marty’ Baron and others went into absolute vapors. Baron declared, ‘This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty.’

Others retreated into anonymity to denounce their management, with some making precisely the case for not making such an endorsement: ‘It very disingenuously draws false equivalencies. This is not, for example, Kamala Harris vs. Mitt Romney. This is Kamala Harris against someone who tried to disenfranchise the electorate last time.’

It is ironic since, at the time, Romney was portrayed as a fascist, as were prior Republican nominees.

One of the most curious responses came from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders: ‘This is what Oligarchy is about. Jeff Bezos, the 2nd wealthiest person in the world and the owner of the Washington Post, overrides his editorial board and refuses to endorse Kamala.’

An oligarchy is defined as ‘government by the few.’ That is precisely what the public sees in an effective state media and why ‘Let’s Go Brandon!’ became a type of ‘Yankee Doodling’ of the political and media establishment.

Sanders’ objection is that the owner decided not to exercise the power of the few but instead left the choice to voters. According to Sanders, that is the definition of oligarchy in declining to act as an oligarch.

As discussed years ago, the decision of newspapers to engage in political endorsements has had a corrosive influence for years. It destroys the separation between newspapers and those who are supposed to be the subjects of their investigatory and journalistic work.

My prior column called for the termination of not just presidential endorsements, though it is a good start. There should be a commitment to total neutrality in all elections, from judges to senators to presidents.

The Washington Post is not alone. The Los Angeles Times has declined to make an endorsement, which also led to a staff revolt.

The decision not to endorse in this election could prove a critical moment for mainstream media in turning the corner on the era of advocacy journalism. While skeptical, I genuinely hope that Bezos has decided to reconsider the course of the Post. We need the Post and the rest of the mainstream media. The media plays a critical role in our democracy as a neutral source of information on government abuse and corruption.

However, that role also needs the trust of the public. Otherwise, as Lewis told the Post staff, ‘no one is reading your stuff.’

That is evident from the very closeness of this election. After years of unrelenting anti-Trump coverage and a billion-dollar war chest to sell Harris to the public, the country is still divided right down the middle.

The Post and other papers are writing for each other and core Democratic readers. The rest of America is moving on to new sources of information on social media and elsewhere.

For those of us who loved the old Post and want our ‘Fourth Estate’ to be strong, this is a meaningful start.

So Bravo, Washington Post.

SCRANTON, Pa. – Joel was down from Boston with a few of his heavily accented friends and fellow members of the National Association of Government Employees sent by the Kamala Harris campaign to shore up support in Pennsylvania.

Even they know, things are not going well for her.

‘I don’t know why she can’t answer questions,’ Joel told me, in what was about the most blunt assessment against one’s own interest I’d heard in months.

I think a lot of people on all sides are confused by this.

As a guy born and raised in Philly who lived for two decades in New York, I felt it my duty to explain, in a good-natured way, to the fellas why I hate Boston. After all, it’s a treasured ritual of the Northeast. With that out of the way, Stanley, who appeared to be the group’s leader, had another explanation for Kamala’s woes.

‘She’s only been in the race three months, she’s barely out of the gate. That’s a lot to ask.’

Billionaire mogul Mark Cuban echoed that in an X post, ‘Think of it this way,’ he mused, ‘a candidate that started only 13 weeks ago, is now, worst case scenario, in a dead heat with a former president.’

Aside from being bad at imagining the worst-case scenario, what we see from Mr. Cuban is the beginning of the excuses for a Harris loss. But as the playwright David Mamet once wrote, ‘your excuses are your own.’

I was thinking about all of this Friday as I wandered around Scranton under beautiful skies and amid old stone monuments to America’s greatness. At one point, and my hand to God, I’m not making this up, I found myself literally on Biden Street. 

Biden street. That Biden. 

I bring this up because there were sirens blaring and flashing lights as cops shut down traffic. ‘The drivers are annoyed,’ I heard one cop say, ‘maybe they’ll remember it was a Democrat who did this on Election day.’

A guy comes up to me and says, ‘why’d they shut down traffic?’ 

‘Tim Walz is in town,’ I explained.

‘Time Walsh?’ he asked.

‘No, Tim Walz.’

‘Who?’

With a gentle sigh, I said, ‘It doesn’t matter.’

And it struck me, the Democrats passed on a guy who literally has a street named after him in Scranton for Kamala Harris and a goofy sitcom dad nobody knows.

Joel and Stanley are good dudes, stand-up guys who love the country and just disagree with me about who is best to serve it. Even if they are Patriots fans. There is nothing wrong with them organizing as employees to fight for the future they want. That’s America.

But I didn’t leave convinced Harris is who they really want.

‘I didn’t like how it went down,’ Joel told me, regarding the ousting of Joe Biden from the race. And he meant it. I often say that polls don’t have faces, people do, and I could see it in his eyes.

When I asked Stanley why he supports Harris, not why he doesn’t support Trump, but why Harris, he said, ‘Why can’t I say why I don’t want Trump?’

And he can, and he did, but I think even he knew it was an evasion.

The biggest misconception about American politics is that it’s all an algebra equation, even when the polls are wrong over and over. It’s not math, it’s a story, and Kamala Harris isn’t telling one beyond her middle-class upbringing. 

‘I don’t know why she can’t answer questions,’ Joel said, and yeah, he had a point.

Harris still has a chance to become the president of the United States, but before that can happen she has to answer one simple question: ‘Why you?’