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Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and his former primary rival Rep. Haley Stevens will no longer campaign together on Sunday, Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell said.

El-Sayed and Stevens were due to appear together at a Detroit church with Rep. Jim Clyburn.

In an interview on CNN on Saturday, Dingell said the ongoing drama between the onetime primary rivals "has become a total distraction" and that she asked Stevens not to attend the event on Sunday, denying reports that El-Sayed's campaign had told Stevens not to attend.

Dingell said Stevens is a "strong and passionate Democrat" who she said will vote for the Democratic ticket.

On Wednesday, Stevens' fiancée Jason Turkish told a reporter at the Detroit Times he planned to vote for Republican candidate Mike Rogers, citing what he alleged was antisemitic rhetoric from El-Sayed.

Shortly after Stevens appeared on CNN to address the matter. She reiterated that she still planned to vote for El-Sayed but called on him to condemn two ads that she says hurt the Black and Jewish communities.

One of the ads, which blamed high grocery prices on ongoing U.S. support for Israel, was made by a super PAC.

When asked by a reporter Saturday if he condemned the ad at the center of the controversy, El-Sayed replied “I am for getting money out of politics, putting money in your pocket, passing Medicare For All. You guys love to play the condemn game. I've already been clear that that ad was not made by me, and I do not agree with the contents of that ad."

Asked if he wanted Stevens to appear with him at the event on Sunday, El-Sayed replied "I've been very clear that I would rather not distract from the key issues of this campaign.”

He added, "I just really don't think any of this matters. It's not really of relevance to Michigan voters."

-ABC News' Diana Paulsen

At the end of Texas early voting on Friday, over 7 million voters have cast their ballots, according to state election data.

That represents approximately 37% of the 19 million registered voters in Texas.

Several counties have also seen their early voting turnout nearly meet or exceed 2024 presidential levels, according to election data.

In Harris County, unofficial results show over 1.08 million people voted early, between mail-in and in-person early voting this year. In 2024, that number was 1.17 million, according to election data.

In Dallas County, an unofficial count through Friday showed over 627,000 early votes. Total early voting in 2024 was roughly 584,000, according to election data.

-ABC News' Diana Paulsen and Emily Chang

Capping off a multi-day swing campaigning for Democrats running in key races this cycle, former Vice President Kamala Harris said that voters are “done” with President Donald Trump while speaking at a Democratic fundraising dinner in downtown Atlanta on Friday, the last day of early voting in Georgia.

“I've been traveling the country a lot in the last year and a half, and in the last several months, and in the last two weeks … went from Nevada to New Hampshire, Mississippi to Macon, and I will tell you in my travels, I've heard the same thing from Democrats, Independents, and even some Republicans. When it comes to this president and his party, people are done. They are done,” Harris said in her keynote address at the Fulton County Democratic Party Committee’s annual fundraising dinner.

Harris poked fun at President Trump’s White House renovation projects and accused his administration of corruption.

“He'd rather play decorator-in-chief and hand out tax cuts to his biggest donors, while he, by the way, racks up the national debt, which has grown 30% under his watch. All while he leads an administration that is stone-cold corrupt,” Harris said.

The former vice president called out Trump’s midterm campaign trail promises, specifically the $5,000 dividends contingent on a GOP victory in the midterms on Tuesday.

“They know they can't win on the truth, so they have resorted to tricks disguised as treats,” Harris said, before adding, “Happy Halloween,” drawing laughs from the crowd of Georgia Democrats.

“Tricks disguised as treats, like Trump's promise to give everyone $5,000, but only if Republicans win. And let's call that what it is: the offer of a bribe,” said Harris.

“Remember when he said he would give everyone $5,000 from the DOGE cuts? Never happened. Or he said everyone gets $2,000 from the tariff revenue? Never happened,” she added.

-ABC News' Halle Troadec

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Justice Department from threatening state and local election officials, dealing yet another legal setback to the Trump administration as it endeavors to prevent vote-counters in California and elsewhere from setting aside thousands of ballots it claims belong to noncitizens.

U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson issued the ruling as part of a lawsuit filed late Thursday by a coalition of civil rights groups and labor unions, including one that represents election workers in California.

The coalition’s attorneys requested a temporary restraining order halting the Trump administration’s threats to jail election officials who count ballots belonging to voters whom the Justice Department claims might be noncitizens.

On Friday, the judge granted the coalition’s request, issuing a temporary restraining order through Nov. 16.

The Justice Department "shall not threaten, intimidate or coerce state or local elections officials or workers to demand that they halt processing the ballots of any registered voter solely on the basis that the ballot belongs to an individual alleged by [DOJ] to be ineligible to vote,” she wrote in her eight-page order.

Thompson also ordered the Justice Department to inform the court of any pending grand jury subpoenas or search warrant applications.

This week, the Department of Justice issued grand jury subpoenas to local election officials in California as part of its criminal investigation into the state's voter rolls, multiple sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

ABC News has reached out to the DOJ for comment on the judge's order.

-ABC News' Lucien Bruggeman