Vice President Kamala Harris turned to star power on the campaign trail Saturday, holding events with musicians Lizzo and Usher in Michigan and Georgia, while former President Donald Trump rallied in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania.

At a rally in Atlanta, Harris said Trump was “cruel” for speaking about the grieving family of a Georgia mother who died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat her complications from an abortion pill, while she imposed combat restrictions Reproductive care is at the heart of her election campaign.

Harris blamed him Amber Thurman's death on Georgia's abortion restrictions, which came into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 with three justices appointed by Trump. It comes as Harris is trying to use the issue to win support for Democrats, who have promised to restore national abortion rights if they win the White House and enough seats in Congress.

“Donald Trump still refuses to take responsibility for the pain and suffering he has caused,” Harris said.

Thurman's story is the focus of one of Harris' final campaign ads, and her family attended her rally in Atlanta, with her mother holding a photo of her daughter from the audience. Harris showed a clip of Trump saying during a recent Fox News Channel town hall event, when asked if the Thurman family would attend a separate media call, “We'll get better ratings, I promise.”

Early voting is also underway in Georgia. More than 1.2 million ballots were cast in person or by mail. Democrats hope a comprehensive organizing effort will bolster Harris in the final weeks of the campaign against Trump. Harris recently referenced former President Jimmy Carter agreed by letter Days after his 100th birthday.

“If Jimmy Carter can vote early, so can you,” Harris said.

Harris was joined at the rally by his hometown music icon usherShe's once again tapping into star power to get voters to the polls. She appeared earlier on Saturday Lizzo in the singer's hometown of Detroit, marked the start of in-person voting and showered the city with praise after Trump's recent disparagement of it.

“The best things were made in Detroit. Coney Dogs, Faygo and Lizzo,” the singer joked to a rally crowd, pointing to herself after listing the hot dogs and soda the city is famous for.

Post-Trump, there was plenty of praise for the Motor City insulted it during a recent campaign stop. And Harris continued the theme, saying of her campaign: “Like the people of Detroit, we have courage, we have excellence, we have history.”

More than a million Michigan residents have already voted by mail in the Nov. 5 election, and Harris predicted early voting turnout in Detroit would be high.

She called Trump unstable: “Someone just needs to watch his rallies if you're not really sure how to vote.”

“We will not get those 17 days back. We don’t want to have any regrets on election day,” the vice president said.

Lizzo also told the crowd, “Mrs. Commander-in-Chief has a nice ring to it.”

“This is the swing state of all swing states, so every last vote counts here,” the singer said. Then, in reference to her song of the same name, Lizzo added, “If you ask me if America is ready for its first female president, all I can say is, 'It's about damn time!'

Meanwhile, Trump's campaign team had indicated that he would begin previewing his closing arguments on Saturday evening, almost two weeks before Election Day. But the former president opened his rally with a detailed story about Arnold Palmer, even praising the late, legendary golfer's genitals at one point.

Trump campaigned in Latrobe, Pennsylvaniawhere Palmer was born in 1929 and learned to golf from his father, who suffered from polio and was head pro and greenskeeper at the local country club.

Politicians greeting Palmer in his hometown is nothing new. But Trump spent a full 12 minutes at the start of his speech, even suggesting how much more fun the evening would be if Palmer, who died in 2016, could join him on stage.

“Arnold Palmer was a pure man, and I say that with all due respect to women,” Trump said. “This is a guy who was completely a man.”

Then he went even further.

“When he was showering with other professionals, they came out of there. They said, 'Oh my God. That's unbelievable,'” Trump said with a laugh. “I have to say: We have women here who are very cultured, but they used to see Arnold as a man.”

Trump senior adviser Jason Miller told reporters before the speech that Trump planned to watch his closing argument against Harris and “start engaging with it.”

Trump ended up revisiting many of his favorite campaign themes, but didn't offer much in the way of reframing the race or why he should win it. Instead, he boasted about creating strong tax policies and a strong military during his first term.

He called Harris “crazy” and added an obscenity.

“You need to tell Kamala Harris that you've had enough, that you just can't take it anymore, we can't stand you anymore, you're as – vice president,” Trump said to cheers from the crowd. “The worst. You are the worst vice president. Kamala, you're fired. Get out of here.”

He also criticized Harris for suggesting during her unsuccessful presidential run in 2020 that she would support a ban on hydraulic fracturing, which is important to Pennsylvania's economy and a position Harris' campaign said she no longer supports.

Trump invited members of a local steel workers union to the stage who supported him. He put on a construction hat with his name on it.

He also said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called him amid Israel's ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza.

“He said, 'It's unbelievable what happened,'” Trump said of Netanyahu's call, before moving on to criticize President Joe Biden, saying the Israeli prime minister “wouldn't listen to Biden.”

A spokesman for Netanyahu said in a statement to CBS News that during the call the Israeli prime minister repeated to Trump what he had said publicly: “Israel takes into account the questions raised by the US government, but will ultimately base its decisions on them “These decisions are based on its national interests.”

Meanwhile, Harris stepped up her attacks on Trump in recent days, saying the former president was becoming “increasingly unstable and unhinged.” Surrogates campaigning for Harris, like they used to President Barack Obamarepeated the message.

“You would be worried if your grandpa behaved like that,” Obama said at a campaign rally in Arizona.