Election eve has arrived with the race for the White House still very tight — with the latest ABC News/Ipsos poll out Sunday showing Kamala Harris slightly ahead nationally but Donald Trump ahead in some key swing states — and the two candidates deadlocked in Pennsylvania.
Harris is spending her last full day campaigning in battleground Pennsylvania while Trump is hitting the trail in North Carolina and Pennsylvania before ending the day in Michigan.
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Nov 4, 10:54 PM
Harris continues to rally support ahead of her last stop in Philadelphia
For her second rally of the day, Vice President Kamala Harris addressed a crowd of about 15,000 against the backdrop of an old steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Accompanied by Katy Perry’s power vocals, Harris encouraged supporters to utilize their hard-earned momentum to cross the finish line.
“Pittsburgh, this is it. Tomorrow is Election Day. Tomorrow is Election Day, and the momentum is on our side,” she said. “Our campaign has tapped into the ambitions, the aspirations and the dreams of the American people, and we know it is time for a new generation of leadership in America, and I am ready to offer that leadership as the next president of the United States.”
She urged the crowd to “turn the page” to chants of “We’re not going back.”
“And we have an opportunity in this election to finally turn the page on a decade of politics driven by fear and division. We are done with that,” she said. “We’re done. We’re done. We’re exhausted with it, and Pittsburgh, we are not going back. We’re not going back.”
She continued: “Ours is not a fight against something. It is a fight for something. It is a fight for the future, and it is a fight for freedom, like the fundamental freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own life and not let the government tell her what to do.”
Harris’ fairly brief speech was nearly line-for-line the same as her one in Allentown, Pennsylvania, earlier in the day. Her campaign has said that the speeches are being timed ahead of her next and final stop in Philadelphia.
Harris continued to avoid directly using former President Trump’s name, barely referring to him at all except to acknowledge that voters are ready for a president who doesn’t stew over an “enemies list.”
“We are ready for a president who knows the true measure of a leader is not based on who you beat down, it is based on who you lift up,” she said. “And instead of stewing over an enemies list, I will spend every day working on my to-do list. All full of priorities to improve your life.”
-ABC News’ Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, Fritz Farrow and Will McDuffie
Nov 4, 10:30 PM
Trump says he’s going to let RFK Jr. ‘pretty much do what he wants’
In his “closing message” in Pennsylvania, just a day before the 2024 election, former President Donald Trump touted his relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Trump called the former independent presidential candidate “a credible guy” and said he’s going to be very involved in his administration.
“Bobby Kennedy, you know, he’s a credible guy… He’s going to be very much involved. You know, he’s got a tremendous view on health and pesticides and all this stuff. And we’re not really a healthy country,” Trump said.
Then Trump said he would allow RFK Jr. “to pretty much do what he wants.”
“Bobby’s going to pretty much do what he wants. I want him to do something really important for our country, make people healthier,” Trump said.
RFK Jr. previously said he would oversee public health agencies in Trump’s administration including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture.
Nov 4, 10:24 PM
Harris expresses support for Puerto Rico on Spanish-language radio show
In a Spanish-language radio interview released Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris again vocalized her support for Puerto Rico.
“My commitment to Puerto Rico is longstanding. Even when I was in the United States Senate as representative of California, I took on a responsibility for myself of also prioritizing the needs of Puerto Rico, because I was aware that Puerto Rico did not have a U.S. senator, and so I was responsible for getting more resources to Puerto Rico,” she said in an interview on Univision Radio.
She vowed to continue honoring that commitment “when I am elected president of the United States, God willing, and with the votes of the people listening right now.”
She positioned her inclusive approach as a stark contrast to former President Donald Trump’s language in recent weeks, which she called “hateful.”
“Trump’s comments are hateful [and] are, you know, just furtherance of these tropes that are really unfair and meant to divide and demean people,” she said, citing what Jennifer Lopez said onstage while campaigning for Harris last week.
Harris also called immigration reform “one of [her] highest priorities.”
“The immigration system is just broken,” she said, listing a few of her approaches to fixing it, including securing the border, hiring more asylum judges, creating more humane asylum processes and creating a pathway for “hard-working people” to earn citizenship.
-ABC News’ Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, Fritz Farrow and Will McDuffie
Nov 4, 10:27 PM
JD Vance says Pennsylvania will ‘take out the trash in Washington, DC’
Sen. JD Vance delivered his closing message to the voters of Newtown, Pennsylvania, on Monday, advocating for former President Donald Trump to be elected back to the White House.
Vance told the crowd that the only way the country would get a person who is fit to be president is by voting for Trump.
“So tomorrow, we’re going to say to Kamala Harris, you are fired. We don’t want you in the White House. We don’t want you in the Oval Office, we don’t want you anywhere near the halls of power,” the vice presidential candidate said.
Vance again brought up the recent “garbage” comment controversy, falsely claiming Harris called Trump supporters “garbage.”
“So, to Kamala Harris, you shouldn’t be calling your citizens garbage. You shouldn’t be criticizing people for daring to criticize you for doing a bad job. And our message to the leadership, to the elites of the Democratic Party — the people of Pennsylvania are not garbage for struggling under your leadership. But tomorrow, the people of Pennsylvania are going to take out the trash in Washington, D.C., and we’re going to do it together,” Vance said.
Nov 4, 9:53 PM
Megyn Kelly says she supports Trump because he will be a ‘protector of women’
Megyn Kelly took the stage at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
The conservative media personality explained why she’s backing Trump in the 2024 presidential election, saying, “He will be a protector of women, and it’s why I’m voting for him.”
Kelly then suggested that she supports Trump because he takes care of the common man.
“He will look out for our boys to our forgotten boys and our forgotten men. Guys like you, who maybe have a beer after work and don’t want to be judged by people like Oprah and Beyonce, who will never have to face the consequences of her disastrous economic policies,” Kelly said, seemingly referencing Vice President Kamala Harris.
-ABC News’ Kelsey Walsh, Lalee Ibssa and Soo Rin Kim
Nov 4, 9:50 PM
Harris’ senior adviser says she could win all 7 swing states
David Plouffe, a senior adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris, told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday night that the campaign believes it could win all seven swing states.
“It’s very important that we have multiple pathways to 270, and you know, just a couple hours ago, reviewing all the early vote data, what we’re projecting for Election Day, how we think undecideds are breaking, we have a credible pathway to all seven states tomorrow night to go into Kamala Harris’ column,” Plouffe said.
“But we believe they’re all going to be close,” he added.
Asked if he believes Harris could win all seven states, he said, “Yes.”
Plouffe said that the campaign believes it is winning more late-breaking voters than former President Donald Trump is, and he credits the campaigns’ different approaches to their field operations.
“I think outsourcing your field effort — meaning the folks knocking on doors, making calls – largely to exclusively paid canvassers, historically just doesn’t work,” he said. “You want people showing up who are committed to your candidate.”
He called that a “secret weapon for us” and said that volunteers were “knocking on 2,000 doors a minute in Pennsylvania over the weekend.”
But, he acknowledged, both campaigns “have a lot riding on tomorrow, on actual Election Day.”
-ABC News’ Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, Fritz Farrow and Will McDuffie
Nov 4, 9:51 PM
Harris visits Puerto Rican restaurant in Pennsylvania
Vice President Kamala Harris visited a Puerto Rican restaurant in Reading, Pennsylvania, Monday night, accompanied by the state’s governor, Josh Shapiro, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
A woman, who appeared to be the owner of the restaurant, Old San Juan Cafe, showed Harris a spread of food.
The vice president joked, “I’m very hungry. I don’t get a chance to eat as often as I’d like.”
Later, Harris and Ocasio-Cortez huddled with the restaurant owner to discuss the rapid growth of Latino-owned small businesses.
-ABC News’ Will McDuffie, Gabriella Abdul-Hakim and Fritz Farrow
Nov 4, 9:20 PM
Joe Rogan endorses Donald Trump for president
Joe Rogan has endorsed former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
The podcast host’s endorsement accompanied the release of a three-hour-long interview with Elon Musk, making the case for his support for Trump.
“The great and powerful @elonmusk. If it wasn’t for him we’d be f—–. He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way,” Rogan wrote.
“For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump. Enjoy the podcast,” he continued.
Nov 4, 9:26 PM
Michelle Obama to young voters: ‘You have to vote for Kamala Harris’
Michelle Obama went on social media to share a “message to all the young people out there,” encouraging them to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris as the next president of the United States.
“Look, I know it’s easy to feel what we do doesn’t matter. Like the world’s problems are too big and complicated to tackle. Like nothing’s ever going to change at all,” she said in a video, pointing to contentious issues like reproductive health rights and climate change.
“That’s exactly why you have to vote: because we need a better leader than Donald Trump. We simply cannot afford another four years of his incompetence, weakness, and division,” she added.
The former first lady goes on to say that Harris is the opposite — suggesting that the Democratic presidential candidate will “expand your freedoms” and “protect the planet.”
“While he denigrates anyone who is different than him, while he looks out only for himself, Kamala will be a president for all Americans. I know she will listen to you. And that’s why you have to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz on November the 5th,” she said, before urging young people to make a plan to vote on Election Day.
Watch the full video on X.
-ABC News’ Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, Fritz Farrow and Will McDuffie
Nov 4, 9:06 PM
In closing message, Trump sets the stage to challenge election results
In what campaign aides are classifying as his “closing message” speech, former President Donald Trump is already setting expectations for his supporters to challenge the results of the election, saying Vice President Kamala Harris only has a 4% chance of winning the race.
“So based on what I’m hearing — she’s at 4%. And so we never want to take anything for granted. But we’re really doing well,” Trump said during his rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Trump again falsely accused Democrats of cheating in the 2024 election, but added that it’s “too big to rig.”
“I do believe it is too big to rig. They’ll try. And they are trying, you know, though. It’s too big to rig. This is a big movement,” Trump said.
Doubting the fact that President Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 Election, Trump said that he has since learned.
“This is that big, powerful, vicious party — that’s a vicious machine. They can take all these bad ideas and win elections.” he said.
The comments come as the Trump campaign has 230,000 poll observers along with 500 attorneys in every battleground state.
-ABC News’ Soo Rin Kim, Lalee Ibssa and Kelsey Walsh
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