The Democratic Party is making a big splash tonight at a Kamala Harris-Tim Walz rally in the battleground state of Michigan: According to CNN, native son Eminem will introduce former President Barack Obama at a campaign rally in Detroit.

The multi-platinum rapper is not expected to perform, but he will reportedly welcome Obama and briefly discuss the presidential election.

Eminem, who supported the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket in 2020 with a campaign ad featuring his song “Lose Yourself,” has repeatedly angrily criticized the Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump, in the past, calling him a “racist.” . including during a 2017 freestyle called “The Storm” at the BET Awards.

Obama has said “Lose Yourself” was one of his favorite songs during his own presidential campaign in 2008.

As the presidential race enters its final days, according to the New York Times polling average, Harris and Trump are virtually tied in five key battleground states, including Michigan – with neither candidate leading by a single point. The five states are Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin and North Carolina.

However, the paper emphasizes that the polls’ evidence of state candidates is so small as to be meaningless: “The polls are simply not precise enough for a 0.2-point lead to convey meaningful information.” In for all intents and purposes the race is a draw; “Don’t feel sad or take comfort in whether your candidate is on the right or wrong side of this 0.2-point gap,” it said.

In North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan, none of the candidates “lead” by more than two-tenths of a percentage point. Neither can realistically win the presidency without winning at least one of these states.