Trump Met With Paul Ryan Today and Will Attend Rally for Louisiana Senate Candidate

The president-elect returns to the campaign trail today.

Donald Trump will join Louisiana Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Kennedy at a midday get-out-the-vote rally in Baton Rouge. Louisiana is holding a runoff election on Saturday, Dec. 10, between Kennedy and Democrat Foster Campbell.

Before Trump heads to Louisiana, he is holding meetings in New York. House Speaker Paul Ryan is convening with the president-elect there this morning, his first meeting with Trump at Trump Tower, sources with the Trump transition team and Ryan's office tell ABC News.

Trump is to close out the day with a "thank you tour" rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that begins at 7 p.m. ET.

Michigan was the last state Trump visited on Election Day before heading back to New York. The Great Lakes State's results were not certified until Nov. 28 -- nearly three weeks after the Nov. 8 election, and the final count was exceptionally close.

Trump won Michigan by a 10,704-vote margin over Democrat Hillary Clinton out of a total of nearly 4.8 million votes cast. A statewide vote recount of the presidential vote that was underway for three days at the request of Green Party candidate Jill Stein was cancelled Wednesday when a federal judge upheld a lower court ruling that Stein didn't meet the state's standard to request a recount.

Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence will continue the "thank you tour" next week with planned visits to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

ABC News' Tom Llamas contributed to this report.

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