Vice President Kamala Harris has no plans to campaign in-person with President Biden in the final weeks before Election Day, according to reports.

Harris has attempted to distance herself from Biden’s presidency in recent weeks, and White House and campaign officials confirmed her lack of plans to appear with Biden, according to NBC News.

The White House and Harris campaign did not respond to requests for comment from Fox News Digital.

Biden plans to support Harris indirectly by stirring up his longtime supporters to back Harris, NBC reported.

Harris has spent weeks styling herself as a change candidate despite being a leader in the current administration.

Harris insists that a Harris presidency would not be ‘a continuation of the Biden presidency.’ Fox News’ Bret Baier pressed her to explain what differences there would be in an exclusive interview last week.

‘My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency, and, like every new president that comes in to office, I will bring my life experiences, my professional experiences, and fresh and new ideas. I represent a new generation of leadership,’ Harris told him.

‘I, for example, am someone who has not spent the majority of my career in Washington, D.C. I invite ideas, whether it be from the Republicans who are supporting me, who were just on stage with me minutes ago, and the business sector, and others who can contribute to the decisions that I make,’ she added.

Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump has argued that Harris will bring only more of the same economic and immigration policies that have made the Biden administration deeply unpopular.

The former president remains ahead in the polls on the economy and immigration.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., says the U.S. should assist Israel with a ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against Iran as tensions continue to rise in the Middle East.

Johnson made the comment during a Sunday morning appearance on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ with host Jake Tapper. The speaker told Tapper that Iran is the ‘head of the snake,’ and fighting proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas will not get the job done.

‘We’re on a precipice, I think, Jake, of a new era of security and freedom for Israel. And I think we’re very close, I hope, I pray, to ending that conflict there. But we cannot equivocate. We can’t appease Iran,’ Johnson said.

‘Now is the time for a maximum pressure campaign against the head of the snake. It’s not Hezbollah and Hamas and the proxies that are ultimately the threat. It is Iran itself, and I think we need to recognize that reality right now,’ he added.

The comments come as Israel is expected to launch a retaliatory strike against Iran in response to the massive wave of missiles Tehran and its allies launched into Israel on Oct. 1.

Tapper asked Johnson whether there was any action Israel could take that would be too drastic a response.

‘It’s not my place to second-guess their strategy or to try to micromanage it,’ Johnson said. ‘I think that we do harm to the overall cause if that’s our position. And I think that’s what the Biden-Harris administration has tried to do at too many points along the way. They have withheld weapons systems, when Congress in a bipartisan manner duly enacted that these things would be supplied.’

Johnson went on to say that the tensions in the Middle East are a ‘good versus evil conflict,’ and that U.S. support must always remain with Israel.

Johnson’s appearance came as the U.S. is investigating the unauthorized release of classified documents relating to Israel’s plans for retaliation.

The documents, attributed to the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, note that Israel was still moving military assets in place to conduct a military strike in response to Iran’s blistering ballistic missile attack on Oct. 1. They were shareable within the ‘Five Eyes,’ which are the U.S., Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

The documents were posted to the Telegram messaging app last week and first reported by CNN and Axios. The AP first reported Sunday about the U.S. investigation into the unauthorized release, citing three U.S. officials. The AP said a fourth U.S. official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, indicated that the documents appeared to be legitimate. 

Fox News’ Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.

An old adage suggests that foreign policy doesn’t decide elections. 

‘It’s the economy, stupid,’ Clinton campaign strategist James Carville famously proclaimed in the lead-up to the 1992 elections. 

But this year’s nail-biter presidential election could come down, in part, to war in the Middle East – and whether Vice President Kamala Harris can recapture support from the historically Democratic Arab-American community. 

And according to activists in swing states, the Trump team is seizing on Arab Americans’ sour feelings about the Biden-Harris administration. 

‘For Democrats, outreach is pretty null towards the grassroots,’ Samraa Luqman, a Dearborn-based Arab-American activist told Fox News Digital. 

‘The Republicans’ outreach has been like nothing I have ever seen,’ said Luqman, who wrote in Bernie Sanders in 2020 and is now voting for former President Donald Trump. 

‘The people that are surrounding the president have been in communication with grassroots organizers, local leaders, people like myself,’ she went on. ‘I’m really not somebody on the national stage. . . . And yet, here I am with access’ to those like Richard Grenell, Trump’s former acting Director of National Intelligence, and Massad Boulos, father-in-law of Trump’s daughter, Tiffany. 

Grenell, who may well find himself in a Cabinet-level job if Trump is elected, and Boulos, a Lebanese-American businessman, have been leading the outreach to Arab American communities in swing states and ‘they’ve gotten progressives like myself on board to say that this is the right person for the job at this time, considering the alternative.’

For Luqman — who supports Medicare for all and student debt forgiveness – hers is a vote of protest more than an enthusiasm for Trump. ‘It’s really become an issue about genocide and how to hold administrations accountable for it, simply because we cannot reward an administration for genocide.’

To Luqman and Palestinian supporters in the U.S., President Joe Biden’s criticisms of Israel’s offensive campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon ring hollow when the U.S. continues to provide aid without conditions to the war effort. 

Biden is a ‘completely owned dog to Bibi,’ said Luqman, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump, she said, ‘is not.’

‘Trump is a wild card, and we saw him sour on Bibi towards the end of his presidency.’

‘Perhaps he would say his America-first policy means that we are going to keep our billions at home,’ she went on. ‘Perhaps he would say, you know, the whole ‘peace through strength’ . . .  I told you to do something, and you didn’t do it, then possibly withholding the military aid would come next.’

As for what Trump might do better, ‘It really comes down to personality.’

Michigan, which Biden narrowly won in 2020, is a crucial battleground state this election. It has the second-highest population of Arab American residents – north of 300,000. 

Trump won the state by just 11,000 votes in 2016 over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and then lost the state four years later by nearly 154,000 votes to Biden.

And while Arab Americans also historically favor Democrats, new polling suggests that could change. Of likely voters in the community, Arab Americans favor Trump over Harris 46% to 42%, according to new polling by the Arab American Institute.

‘This is a shift that started several years ago, around 2022, when there was sexually explicit material in books in public school libraries, and the community felt, you know, [they wanted] to assert parental rights. They did not want their children exposed to these at whatever age it was,’ said Luqman.

‘I’m not one of those people that was in those buckets. I am very liberal. But once Oct. 7 happened, that solidified support for Republicans among some people within this community.’ 

Last month, Democratic Mayor Amer Ghalib of Hamtramck, Michigan, a town where 60% are believed to be Muslim Americans, announced his endorsement of Trump. 

Biden won 60% of the Arab American vote in 2020, but support from that community has cratered since the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. 

The National Uncommitted and Abandon Biden movement launched a campaign calling on voters to cast uncommitted ballots in swing state primaries to send a message to Democrats, and more than a million did so. 

Trump has said that for a Jewish American not to vote for him ‘shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.’ His campaign frequently suggests that Harris favors the Palestinian cause over the Israelis. 

But in April, Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt ‘Israel is absolutely losing the PR war,’ and criticized the images being shown of Gaza in ruins. 

‘You’ve got to get it over with, and you have to get back to normalcy. And I’m not sure that I’m loving the way they’re doing it, because you’ve got to have victory,’ Trump said, without directly answering whether he was ‘100 percent with Israel.’

Trump recently said that a post-war Gaza could be ‘better than Monaco.’ 

‘It could be better than Monaco. It has the best location in the Middle East, the best water, the best everything,’ he told Hewitt earlier this month.

‘They never took advantage of it. You know, as a developer, it could be the most beautiful place,’ he said.

Trump has blamed the current unrest in the Middle East on Harris and Biden for loosening sanctions on Iran, thus emboldening its proxies to carry out the attack last year. 

But his growing support among Arab Americans is a stark shift from the post 9/11 years and comes despite a history of anti-Muslim remarks and a travel ban on people from Muslim-majority nations in his first presidential administration.

And it’s a reflection of how Harris refusing to put any daylight between herself and Biden could be damaging.

After Luqman’s efforts to get the party to abandon Biden, ‘I think I could have considered possibly voting Democrat,’ she said. 

‘But after she came out with her policy stances, declared that there was no change in course, they were 100 percent exactly the same,’ Luqman went on. ‘It became evident to me that she had to lose as well.’

The Israeli Defense Forces is expected to conduct airstrikes against Lebanon late Sunday targeting financial institutions linked to the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.

Fox News’ Trey Yingst in Israel reports the strikes will specifically target al-Qard al-Hassan ‘all over Lebanon.’ Al-Qard al-Hassan is a unit in Hezbollah to fund terrorist activities like paying operatives and buying arms. 

The registered nonprofit is sanctioned by both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, provides financial services and is also used by Lebanese civilians. 

The IDF issued evacuation orders for civilians close to these financial institutions. IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said the strikes will be widespread, targeting not just financial centers in Beirut, but also other Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon. 

Fox News is told the goal is to strike at the heart of Hezbollah’s financial support for the conflict with Israel, which has been ongoing since October 2023, the month Hamas militants stormed into Israel, killing nearly 1,200 and taking hundreds more as hostages. 

A senior intelligence official indicated earlier Sunday that not all of Hezbollah’s money is being held in these financial institutions, but it’s expected to inflict significant damage on the group’s economic abilities. 

The official noted that there are hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians – mostly Shias – who use this banking system, and there are a number of branches in Beirut expected to be targeted. 

A year of escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah over the war in Gaza turned into all-out war last month, and Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon early this month.

Israel’s announcement came a day after U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called civilian casualties in Lebanon ‘far too high’ in the Israel-Hezbollah war, and urged Israel to scale back some strikes, especially in and around Beirut.

Iran supports the Lebanon-based Hezbollah, and the United States is investigating an unauthorized release of classified documents indicating that Israel was moving military assets into place for a military strike in response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Oct. 1, according to three U.S. officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates. 

Elon Musk said Sunday he planned to upgrade his security after a left-wing German magazine labeled him an enemy of the people. 

Musk held a town hall discussion in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Sunday in support of former President Donald Trump’s candidacy. While talking to the crowd, Musk commented on the heightened political atmosphere as the nation approached the November presidential election. 

He noted he was recently on the cover of Der Spiegel, which labeled him ‘Public Enemy No. 2’ – the first being Trump. 

‘I’m like, enemy number 2 of what? Uh, democracy? I mean I’m pro-democracy. I’m literally trying to uphold the Constitution and ensure we have a free and fair election,’ Musk said, eliciting applause from the crowd. 

‘I’m definitely upgrading my security. Guess I better cancel that open-car parade,’ Musk said, a seeming nod to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 

The SpaceX CEO said he was a ‘little shook’ by the ‘level of vitriolic hatred on the left.’ 

‘They claim they’re tolerant. And yet, they’re incredibly intolerant and spewing hate,’ Musk said. ‘Whereas on the right I see people who tend to regard people on the left as, well, misguided. But they don’t hate them… but the amount of hate coming from the left is like, wow, next level.’ 

Fox News Digital has reached out to Der Spiegel for a response. 

Former President Trump has survived two assassination attempts – one during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July, and another around two months later while he was playing a round of golf at his club in West Palm Beach, Florida. 

Musk officially endorsed Trump over the summer, when the 45th president survived the first assassination attempt, and has since joined the campaign trail in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania to rally support and encourage people to vote.

Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.

An attendee at Sen. JD Vance’s Wisconsin rally shouted ‘Jesus is King!’ during his speech on Sunday afternoon, with Vance echoing the attendee and repeating the same phrase – a different approach than Vice President Kamala Harris seemed to take last week. 

Vance shared that, while he doesn’t talk about his faith often, he returned to his faith as a young man and is a devout Christian. He said he was baptized in 2019.

‘I say this as a Christian, as a person who was baptized for the first time just a few years ago. There is something really bizarre with Kamala Harris’ anti-Christian rhetoric and anti-Christian approach to public policy,’ Vance explained.

This comes after Vice President Kamala Harris seemingly told two Christian students at her Wisconsin rally last week that they were ‘at the wrong rally’ when they shouted ‘Jesus is Lord’ and ‘Christ is King.’

As he continued speaking about faith and politics, he was interrupted by an attendee who shouted ‘Jesus is King.’ 

‘That’s right. Jesus is King,’ Vance responds.

Vance then addressed a viral video of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer wearing a Harris-Walz campaign hat while feeding Doritos to a kneeling podcast host in what some critics said made a mockery of a sacred Christian rite. 

‘I don’t think that we’ve seen anything like this in modern American politics,’ Vance said. ‘Gretchen Whitmer does this really bizarre thing where she acts like she’s given somebody communion, but it’s a Dorito. And of course, Gretchen Whitmer isn’t like a minister of anything except for, you know, a church I don’t necessarily want to talk about, but think about how sacrilegious that is and think about how offensive that is to every person.’

‘Frankly, whether you’re a person of Christian faith or not, Donald Trump and I are going to fight for your right to live your values, because that’s what the First Amendment protects. And I think whether you’re a Christian, a Catholic or any other faith or no faith at all, when you see an American leader, when you see a surrogate of Kamala Harris insulting people of the Christian faith, I think that we should say to every single one of those people, you’re fired. We’re not giving you any more power,’ Vance continued.

Whitmer has since apologized for the video and emphasized that the video was not meant to mock people of faith.

Vance continued speaking about the support the Trump administration has for religious people, unlike the Harris campaign, he said.

‘There are a lot of Catholics. So I think rightfully feel abandoned by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s leadership. And they’re just looking for somebody to protect their rights and make this country an affordable and decent place to raise a family,’ Vance said during his rally in Waukesha. 

‘And that’s all I think that’s true of a lot of Catholics. It’s true of non-Catholics, too. But we cannot have an American government that is persecuting Christians for living their faith. We should be rewarding people and encouraging people to live their faith.’ 

Vance’s comments come after two pro-life Wisconsin college students insisted that they were doing ‘God’s work’ by attending Harris’ rally on their university’s campus and shouting pro-life, Christian messages last week. 

In video footage of the rally, the student’s voices are heard shouting the phrases.

Harris, pausing her speech, turned her attention to them, and said, ‘You guys are at the wrong rally.’

She continued as the crowd roared, ‘I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street’ – referring to Trump’s rally.

Luke Polaske, a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse junior, shared a vivid account of the incident from his perspective, stating that he and fellow UW-La Crosse junior Grant Beth were approximately 20 to 30 yards away from Harris in the small venue. In detailing the encounter, he described his perceived interaction with the vice president.

‘There’s a lot of controversy that says she wasn’t talking to us or [that] we left. We didn’t get kicked out. Well, I can speak on Grant and I’s behalf,’ Polaske said.

‘On video, Grant’s getting pushed and shoved, and there’s about five seconds before she tells us to go to a small rally down the street. You can see on the video, she waves. She was actually waving to me. I took this cross off my neck that I wear and, as we were getting asked to leave, I held it up in the air and waved at her and pointed at her, and she looked directly in the eye, kind of gave me an evil smirk.’

‘I just want to clear that up and confirm that she 100% was talking to us.’

Fox News Digital reached out to Kamala Harris’ campaign for comment and did not immediately receive a response. 

Fox News Digital’s Taylor Penley contributed to this report.