Trump jokes about Access Hollywood tape in final campaign push; Harris heads to Pennsylvania

Former President Donald Trump appeared to reference the infamous Access Hollywood tape which was published late in the 2016 campaign in which he said he could grab women by their genitals because of his fame.

Discussing Elon Musk’s and SpaceX’s rocket boosters, Trump said, “And those two big arms, you saw the arms, they grab that thing like you grab your beautiful baby … Years ago, I would have said something else, but I’ve learned.”

He added: “I would have been a little bit more risque.”

The ex-commander-in-chief made similar comments over the weekend.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump are making their final pitches to voters on Monday, the last full day of campaigning before Election Day.

The vice president will be joined by celebrities Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, Ricky Martin, and The Roots in Philadelphia this evening as Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera support her in Pittsburgh and Las Vegas.

Trump, meanwhile, is also concentrating on the pivotal swing state of Pennsylvania, delivering rallies in Reading and Pittsburgh before closing in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Key Points

• Kamala Harris leading in four swing states in respected late poll

• Donald Trump promises ‘landslide’ win but says his second term could get ‘nasty’

• Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera among celebrities campaigning for Harris on final day

• Where are Harris and Trump campaigning on Monday?

• Trump boasts sniper would have to ‘shoot through fake news’ to get him

Trump reflects on end of campaign

17:19 , Gustaf Kilander

Reflecting on the end of the campaign, Trump said, “I won’t be doing this anymore with North Carolina, and I won’t be doing this anymore … after today.”

“I’m just thinking, as I’m going through this, that this will be our final moment, but … the more exciting moment is going to begin,” he added. “These moments of hundreds and hundreds of the most incredible rallies any country, no country has ever seen anything like that. But these moments that we’ve had together, these really were just to create what we hopefully will create tomorrow, which is we’re going to make America great again.”

WATCH: Trump attacks Nancy Pelosi and Michelle Obama

17:16 , Gustaf Kilander

WATCH: Trump calls legal Springfield, Ohio migrants ‘illegal’

16:59 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump hits back at former chief of staff

16:50 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump’s longest-serving Chief of Staff John Kelly has said that the former president fits the description of a “fascist.”

Trump responded on Monday, saying that he should have been fired and calling him a “disaster.”

The former president also said former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley “should have been fired.”

“All those generals – Kelly should have been, Kelly was such a disaster. Some people are good, some people are not good, some people are stupid,” Trump said.

Trump jokes that Biden voted for him

16:41 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump joked on Monday that Biden “probably” voted for him because of what the former president said is his dislike for Kamala Harris.

“He actually hates my guts, but he likes Trump more than he likes Kamala,” he said.

“He just got 14 million votes,” Trump said in reference to the Democratic primary.

Trump responded to a member of the audience who suggested that Biden voted for him.

“That’s one of the ladies from North Carolina. She said he voted for me – probably did,” Trump said.

Trump repeats false FEMA claim

16:30 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump once again made the false claim that FEMA funds were allocated to help undocumented migrants.

“FEMA did a horrible job. The administration – they’re still not there. You know why? Because they’ve spent all their money on bringing in murderers and a lot of people,” Trump said on Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina, speaking about hurricanes striking Florida, North Carolina, and other states. “They spent all their money on bringing in illegal migrants. They’ve also taken a lot of your jobs, especially jobs from the Black population.”

Trump appears to reference Access Hollywood tape

16:21 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump appeared to reference the infamous Access Hollywood tape which was published late in the 2016 campaign in which he said he could grab women by their genitals because of his fame.

Discussing Elon Musk’s and SpaceX’s rocket boosters, Trump said, “And those two big arms, you saw the arms, they grab that thing like you grab your beautiful baby … Years ago, I would have said something else, but I’ve learned.”

He added: “I would have been a little bit more risque.”

Trump made similar comments over the weekend:

“Then you see those arms, like you grab your beautiful baby, your beautiful child … In the old days, I would have said like you grab your — girlfriend,” Trump said over the weekend.

“Now I don’t say that anymore. I say, like you grabbed your child. And those big arms came in and they grabbed that sucker and they held it in place like you grabbed your child. And I said, ‘That’s unbelievable’,” he added.

Trump claims to have had ‘great relationship’ with former president of Mexico as he announces 25% tariff

16:06 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump claimed to have had a “great relationship” with the former president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

“He was a socialist, but you can’t have everything,” Trump told the audience in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Trump said he may impose a 25 percent tariff on Mexico if he returns to office.

“Now we have a new president in Mexico, I suppose, a very nice woman … I haven’t met her, and I’m going to inform her on day one or sooner, that if they don’t stop this onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country, I’m going to immediately impose a 25 percent tariff on everything they send into the United States of America,” Trump said.

Trump takes stage in Raleigh, North Carolina

15:58 , Gustaf Kilander

Donald Trump has taken the stage at his rally in Raleigh, North Carolina.

He asked the crowd if they were better off than they were four years ago, to which the crowd responded with a thunderous “no.”

“I’ve asked that question so many times, I’ve never had one hand go up for the other,” Trump said.

Cardi B hits back at Kamala Harris speech critics in expletive rant

15:40 , Lucy Leeson

Cardi B has fired back at critics over her Kamala Harris rally speech in an expletive rant.

The 32-year-old has faced backlash for using her cellphone to read her speech at the Vice President’s rally in Milwaukee on Friday (1 November).

The rapper, who previously hit out at Elon Musk for calling her a puppet who “can’t even talk without being fed the words”, posted a video on TikTok to respond to the criticism she received.

She said: “I worked so hard, bro. I worked so hard on my speech and a lot of y’all talkin’ about like “Oh why are you reading it from your phone?’

“B****, I had to write that s*** down.”

Trump crowd underwhelms again

15:11 , Joe Sommerlad

We saw a sea of bored faces behind the former president at his events yesterday and the turnout for his first appearance of the day is not particularly impressive either, not what he would have wanted to see.

Trump is yet to take the stage despite advertising a 10am ET start.

Live: Trump rallies his supporters in Raleigh, North Carolina

14:55 , Joe Sommerlad

Donald Trump is kicking off the first of four rallies today shortly in North Carolina before moving on to Reading and Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania and finally ending up in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

You can watch his address in Raleigh live below.

‘We all need to brace for the coming storm no matter who wins’

14:40 , Joe Sommerlad

The presidential candidates are neck-and-neck but there are dark truths about what the US and the world will face next, argues author and broadcaster Gabriel Gatehouse, who has spent years charting the key events that have brought us to this perilous moment

Trump or Kamala – we all need to brace for the coming storm no matter who wins

Watch: Harris’s cousin says family fears for her safety in election

14:20 , Joe Sommerlad

Kamala Harris’s cousin says family fears for her safety following election

Majority of Latino voters in Pennsylvania considered Puerto Rico joke racist

14:00 , Joe Sommerlad

The fallout from Tony Hinchcliffe’s “floating island of garbage” crack at Madison Square Garden continues as a Univision/YouGov poll finds a majority of Latino voters in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania, which is home to 500,000 or so people of Puerto Rican heritage, consider the gag “racist rather than humorous”.

A further 67 percent say the gag is indicative of racism within the Trump campaign, 45 percent said it makes them “much more likely” to vote Harris and another 48 percent believe it will make “people they know” more likely to vote for Harris.

Trump says RFK Jr’s plan to remove fluoride from water ‘sounds OK’ as he refuses to rule out banning vaccines

13:40 , Joe Sommerlad

Donald Trump has said that Robert F Kennedy Jr’s plans to ban fluoride from drinking water “sounds OK to me” as he also refused to rule out banning some vaccines if he secures a second term in the White House.

The Republican presidential candidate recently announced that he would give RFK Jr free rein to do “anything he wants” and “go wild” over health, food and medicines during his potential second administration.

One such plan floated by RFK Jr is to remove fluoride, a mineral used to prevent tooth decay, from the nation’s drinking water supply – and Trump appears to be on board.

“Well, I haven’t talked to him about it yet, but it sounds OK to me,” the former president told NBC News’s Dasha Burns during a phone call on Sunday.

“You know, it’s possible.”

Some of the names Trump is dropping regarding his prospective next administration are… interesting.

James Liddell has more on RFK Jr.

Trump addresses RFK Jr’s plans to ban vaccines and fluoride from water: ‘Sounds OK’

Conservative megachurch pastor endorses Harris: ‘She can pass a background check’

13:20 , Joe Sommerlad

Pastor Dwight McKissic Sr of the Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, says that he hates abortion and is opposed to gay marriage but will be voting Democrat for the first time in 40 years tomorrow anyway.

Why?

“The GOP I loved would have never chosen as its nominee the adulterous, childish, habitually lying and criminally convicted Donald Trump.”

This observation might be even more damning: “There’s a scripture in the seventh chapter of Matthew that says a tree that doesn’t bear good fruit should be cut down and tossed into the fire. That’s how I think evangelicals should treat today’s Republican Party.”

His thoughts are well worth your time.

Polling guru Nate Silver calls White House race ‘pure toss-up’

13:00 , Joe Sommerlad

According to Silver’s latest Substack post, Trump has a 51.5 percent chance of winning the Electoral College by his reckoning while Harris’s odds are around 48.1 percent.

Will Michael Jordan endorse Trump?

12:40 , Joe Sommerlad

There is a great deal of search interest in the above question this morning but, so far, there appears to be no indication that the NBA legend will do any such thing.

It may just be wishful thinking on MAGA’s part, envious of Harris winning LeBron James’s influential vote last week.

Harris on Trump prematurely declaring victory: ‘Do not fall for his tactic’

12:20 , Joe Sommerlad

Rather than resort to personal insults, as the Republican himself might well have done in the same circumstances, the VP offered a cool and dispassionate message to voters yesterday about the prospect of Trumpian mendacity coming into play on election night.

Meanwhile, here’s Tim Walz and Michael Stipe of REM having some fun at the Repbulican’s expense on stage in Cobb County, Georgia, last night.

Trump struggles to energise North Carolina crowd with crude attacks

12:00 , Joe Sommerlad

OK here’s one final collection of Trump clips from yesterday, this time in Kinston, North Carolina, his first of the day and at which he appeared just as exhausted as he did at his later events.

The Republican’s attacks on Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have been heard many times before and singularly failed to whip up the crowd.

The night before, he had been in Greensboro in the same state, where, under hellish red lighting, he welcomed a supporter’s offensive heckle about Harris.

Trump welcomes supporter’s shout that Harris ‘worked on a corner’

Trump gets ‘equal time’ from NBC at Nascar rally after Harris SNL appearance

11:40 , Joe Sommerlad

NBC gave Donald Trump’s campaign two free commercial slots on Sunday following a backlash over Kamala Harris’s Saturday Night Live appearance, with Republicans arguing that the network had flouted the Federal Communications Commission’s “equal time” rules by allowing the Vice President to appear but not the former president.

Trump took to the airwaves to deliver a bruising 60-second, pre-recorded message, which was shown towards the end of both Sunday evening’s Nascar playoff race and the big NFL Sunday Night Football game.

Sporting a red MAGA hat, Trump urged viewers to get out and vote just two days from election day, warning that Harris would trigger a “depression” across the US if she won.

Here’s more from James Liddell and Graeme Massie.

Trump gets ‘equal time’ from NBC at Nascar rally after Harris SNL appearance

Trump boasts sniper would have to ‘shoot through fake news’ to get him

11:20 , Joe Sommerlad

Perhaps an even more shocking line from the Republican yesterday was this interlude about the prospect of reporters being shot by an assassin trying to get to him, a comment perhaps suggesting he has still not properly processed what happened to him in Butler on July 13, an experience that would be traumatic for anyone.

John Bowden brings us this one.

Trump jokes assassin would have to shoot journalists as rally goes off the rails

Trump says he should never have left the White House in 2020

11:00 , Joe Sommerlad

Let’s get back to the Republican’s haggard performances on the campaign trail on Sunday.

We’ve already seen Trump in Georgia but, prior to that, Trump addressed a crowd in Lititz, Pennsylvania, and openly lamented leaving the Oval Office four years ago, STILL refusing to accept what was an overwhelmingly clear defeat by Biden that his associates fought to debunk in court and simply could not for want of evidence.

He also had some other disturbing remarks to make about climate change, Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Obamas, asylum seekers and the bizarre fantasy prospect of college wrestlers battling illegal immigrants.

Here’s more from Rhian Lubin.

Trump says he should never have left the White House in 2020

New York Times Editorial Board attacks ‘unfit’ Trump on election eve

10:40 , Joe Sommerlad

Without mentioning Kamala Harris by name, the newspaper’s editorial board comes out strongly against the Republican nominee with the following statement:

“You already know Donald Trump. He is unfit to lead. Watch him. Listen to those who know him best. He tried to subvert an election and remains a threat to democracy. He helped overturn Roe, with terrible consequences. Mr. Trump’s corruption and lawlessness go beyond elections: It’s his whole ethos. He lies without limit. If he’s re-elected, the G.O.P. won’t restrain him. Mr. Trump will use the government to go after opponents. He will pursue a cruel policy of mass deportations. He will wreak havoc on the poor, the middle class and employers. Another Trump term will damage the climate, shatter alliances and strengthen autocrats. Americans should demand better. Vote.”

Given that rival outlets like The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and USA Today have controversially declined to offer an endorsement either way, this is strong stuff from the NYT.

Here’s more.

New York Times shares searing 112-word warning against Trump winning election

Harris leading in four swing states in respected late poll

10:20 , Joe Sommerlad

The Harris campaign is cheering the news that its candidate has taken a marginal lead in several key swing states in the final New York Times/Siena College poll, making gains in Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Georgia.

Harris leads Trump by 49 percent to 46 in Nevada, 48 to 46 in North Carolina, 49 to 47 in Wisconsin and 48 to 47 in Georgia, which means it all remains extremely tight down there.

Trump, meanwhile, is thought to be ahead by 49 to 45 in Arizona and, perhaps most agonisingly of all, the two candidates remain deadlocked in Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Here’s the very latest from Rachel Sharp.

New poll spells hope for Harris as she leads Trump in four key swing states

Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera among celebrities campaigning for Harris on final day

10:00 , Joe Sommerlad

Having already enlisted the likes of Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, Eminem, Jennifer Lopez and Cardi B to appear at her events, the Harris campaign is going out with a bang on Monday.

Kamala’s final event of the campaign season in Philadelphia tonight will see her joined on stage by Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, Ricky Martin, The Roots, Fat Joe, DJ Jazzy Jeff, DJ Cassidy, Jazmine Sullivan and Adam Blackstone but there are plenty of other famous faces coming out to support her today.

In Pittsburgh, Katy Perry, D-Nice and Andra Day will all be performing.

Meanwhile in Harrisburg in the same state, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and legendary actors Robert De Niro and Sam Waterston will take part in a New Way Forward Get-Out-The-Vote rally.

Over in Las Vegas, Christina Aguilera, Los Tigres Del Norte and SOFI TUKKER will take to the stage while actress Eva Longoria will deliver remarks.

Actors and advocates Dulé Hill and Rosario Dawson will likewise launch canvasses across Vegas.

In Detroit, Tim and Gwen Walz will be supported with musical performances by the Detroit Youth Choir, Jon Bon Jovi and The War and Treaty.

And in Atlanta, a huge election eve convert is taking place featuring 2 Chainz, F.L.Y., Joy of Jesse & Joy, Keyshia Cole, KP The Great, Morehouse House of Funk Marching Band, Pastor Troy and Tamar Braxton.

Where are Harris and Trump campaigning on Monday?

09:31 , Joe Sommerlad

This is where the candidates are spending their final hours of the campaign today.

• Kamala Harris will concentrate all of her remaining energies on Pennsylvania, appearing today in Allentown, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, joined by a number of mega-celebrities along the way (more on which in a moment).

• Donald Trump will begin his day with an event in Raleigh, North Carolina, before speaking in Reading and then Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania before capping off with a late evening closer in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

• Harris’s running mate Tim Walz will start his day in St Paul, Minnesota, before hitting La Crosse, Stevens Point, and Milwaukee in Wisconsin

• Trump’s running mate JD Vance will meanwhile close out his campaign in Flint, Michigan, Atlanta, Georgia, and Newtown, Pennsylvania.

• Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will also be on the trail, delivering remarks at a canvass launch in Greenville, North Carolina, before joining his wife for final two events in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

Tired Trump promises ‘landslide’ win but says his second term could get ‘nasty’

09:00 , Joe Sommerlad

Good morning!

Donald Trump completed his third rally in three states on Sunday with an evening event in Macon, Georgia.

The Republican nominee, however, appeared absolutely shattered as he promised a “landslide” win tomorrow night while warning that his belated second term would be “nasty a little bit at times, and maybe at the beginning in particular”.

His audience certainly did not appear to be transfixed.

To an extent, Trump’s weary appearance is understandable in light of the gruelling campaign schedule he has committed to in recent months.

The man is 78, after all, the oldest to run for president in American history.

But given that he has so often attacked his political opponents for being “low energy” in the past, his obvious exhaustion is worthy of note – particularly as he is currently asking the electorate to return him to their highest office for another four years.

FCC commissioner claims Harris’s SNL appearances violates ‘equal time’ rule

07:30 , Michelle Del Rey

A FCC commissioner has hit out at Harris’s appearance on Saturday Night Live, claiming it violates the “equal time” rule.

The rule says rival candidates should be treated equally by broadcasters when it comes to equal air time.

Commissioner Brendan Carr shared his reaction on X.

Trump accuses his ‘enemies’ of putting out ‘fake’ Iowa poll

06:30 , Michelle Del Rey

Trump has reacted to the Iowa poll which put Kamala Harris three points ahead of him.

He accused his “enemies” of putting out the “fake” poll.

“One of my enemies just puts out a poll… three down,” he said. “I’m not down in Iowa,” he said. “They tell me I’m down in Iowa. I don’t think so.

“And you know, what’s a good poll? Emerson, no friend of mine, they said the poll is wrong.”

Trump is referring to the Des Moines Register newspaper, which released a poll on Saturday that put Harris three points ahead.

The Emerson College poll, meanwhile, gave Trump a ten-point lead in Iowa.

Read our report below for the facts.

Bombshell Iowa poll puts Harris ahead of Trump in state he won twice

Trump segues from Harris debate to crowd sizes

05:30 , Michelle Del Rey

Trump has segued from complaining about the September 10 debate with Kamala Harris, to criticizing the gaps in the bulletproof glass in front of him, before moving on to discussing crowd sizes at his rallies.

“My debates never have an empty seat,” Trump said. “And nobody ever leaves early. Nobody has ever left early.”

In pictures: Harris speaks to diners at chicken & waffles restaurant

05:00 , Michelle Del Rey

Harris has been speaking to diners at Kuzzo’s Chicken & Waffles restaurant in Detroit, Michigan.

ICYMI: Round up of Trump’s first rally speech

04:30 , Michelle Del Rey

While we’re waiting for Trump’s second rally of the day to begin in Kinston, North Carolina, here’s a reminder of what he said if you didn’t catch the first one in Pennsylvania.

During a two-hour address on his first stop of the day in the borough of Lititz, Trump gave a profane and conspiracy-laden speech in which he mused about reporters being shot and labeled Democrats as “demonic.”

Noting the ballistic glass placed in front of him at events after a gunman nearly assassinated him at a July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Trump talked about places where he saw openings.

Trump also referred to John Bolton, his former national security adviser and now a strident critic, as a “dumb son of a b****.” And he repeated familiar and debunked theories about voter fraud, alleging that Democrats could only win by cheating.

“It’s a crooked country,” Trump said. “And we’re going to make it straight. We’re going to make it straight.”

Read the full report.

Trump rails against ‘crooked’ country and ‘demonic’ Democrats on final Sunday of race

Harris surpasses Trump in Iowa – poll

04:00 , Michelle Del Rey

Kamala Harris has surpassed Donald Trump in a new poll in Iowa, a state Trump easily won in 2016 and 2020.

Women and older voters are responsible for the remarkable turnaround in the Selzer poll carried out for the Des Moines Register newspaper and released on Saturday.

The poll of 808 likely voters, who were surveyed between October 28 and 31, has Harris leading Trump 47%-44% in a state that has been trending deeply Republican in recent years. It is within the 3.4 percentage point margin of error, but it marked a turnaround from a September Iowa Poll that had Trump with a 4-point lead, the newspaper reported.

However, the Emerson College Polling/RealClearDefense survey of a similar number of likely voters on November 1 and 2 had a starkly different result, with Trump leading Harris by 10 points.

This poll also has a 3.4 percentage point margin of error. The Emerson College survey had Trump with strong leads over Harris among men and independents, while Harris was performing well with those under the age of 30.

Read the full report.

Bombshell Iowa poll puts Harris ahead of Trump in state he won twice

Trump lashes out at Mitch McConnell

03:30 , Michelle Del Rey

Trump lashed out at Republican Mitch McConnell, calling him “a disgrace.”

“Hopefully we get rid of Mitch McConnell pretty soon,” he told the rally. “That guy, can you believe he endorsed me? That must have been a painful day in his life.”

McConnell reportedly referred to Trump as a “despicable human being” and “narcissist” who is “stupid as well as being ill-tempered,” according to a biography.

Read more from Ariana Baio here.

Mitch McConnell called Trump ‘stupid’ and ‘despicable’ after 2020 election

SNL’s Kamala Harris cameo might have violated fairness rules

03:00 , Michelle Del Rey

Harris’s appearance on Saturday Night Live just days before America votes may have been a violation of election rules.

The vice president poked fun at Donald Trump as she made the surprise cameo on the comedy show this weekend as the rivals enter the final stage of their White House campaigns.

Harris, who has been played on the 50th season of the comedy show by Maya Rudolph, appeared in a sketch with the actress after flying to New York City on her way to campaign in Michigan.

Now a commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission, a government agency that regulates radio and television in the US, says the appearance may have violated its “equal time” rule.

Graeme Massie reports.

SNL’s Kamala Harris cameo might have violated fairness rules

Trump predicts ‘nasty’ second term in office if he beats Harris.

02:47 , Graeme Massie

Donald Trump predicted a “nasty” second term in office if he beats Kamala Harris on Election Day.

Trump made the prediction at his third rally of Sunday in Macon, Georgia.

“It’s gonna be so much fun. It’ll be nasty… at the beginning in particular… You’re gonna see things that you’re not gonna believe,” he said.

Trump arrives at Pennsylvania rally

02:30 , Michelle Del Rey

Trump has arrived at the Pennsylvania rally.

He is currently talking about voter fraud and he claims the election should be over by 9pm on Election Day.

“You ought to have the election over by nine o’clock,” Trump said. “I’m hearing now they’re going to take weeks, and you imagine they spend all this money, all this money on machines, and they’re going to say we may take an extra 12 days…”

It is not unusual for the count to take days, even weeks if the results are close.

Read our guide on when we can expect the results below.

When will we know who won the 2024 presidential election? Experts weigh in

Trump claims Biden doesn’t know how ‘goes up to bed’

02:27 , Michelle Del Rey

“He can’t can’t figure out how the hell he goes up to bed,” Trump says as he concludes his remarks.

IN PHOTOS: Trump’s Macon, Georgia rally on Sunday night

02:03 , Michelle Del Rey

Trump greets supporters during a campaign rally at the Atrium Health Amphitheater in Macon, Georgia on Sunday

Trump embraces Carmen Ramirez, whose daughter Minelys Zoe Rodriguez Ramirez went missing and was found dead near a Georgia Walmart in October

Trump addressing the crowd in Georgia

Where are the candidates campaigning today?

02:00 , Michelle Del Rey

It’s the final Sunday of the election campaign and Trump and Harris are making their final pitches to voters in the swing states.

Harris is focusing on Michigan today and will make stops in Detroit and Lansing.

Trump, meanwhile, is zig-zagging through Pennsylvania, North Carolina and finishing up in Georgia this evening.

He will visit Lititz PA, Kinston NC, and Macon GA.

Donald Trump appears to say he’ll put RFK Jr in charge of women’s health care

01:47 , Michelle Del Rey

“I told a great guy, RFK Jr., Bobby, I say Bobby you work on women’s health,” Trump said

The election’s biggest climate battles

01:30 , Michelle Del Rey

While this year’s presidential election may not have as much of a focus on climate change as many wish it would, voters can still make a difference when they head to the polls.

Across the US, there are 159 statewide ballot measures in 41 states, according to Ballotpedia. Only a handful of those deal with environmental issues and just a couple are specifically related to climate change.

Unsurprisingly, these measures are on the ballot in states threatened this year by extreme climate events. Earth had its hottest summer on record, bringing historic temperatures across multiple regions.

Julia Musto reports.

Safe drinking water and wildfire prevention: The election’s biggest climate battles

Trump repeats lines about migrants stealing refrigerators

01:29 , Michelle Del Rey

“They watch these stores being robbed, guys walking out with refrigerators, 500 thugs going into a department store, cleaning it out, some of them with refrigerators on their back,” the former president said during the rally.

US Senator Marco Rubio mocks Harris’s laugh while she appeared on SNL

01:03 , Michelle Del Rey

“I hope she laughed on SNL in front of millions of people because that’s probably worth two to three million votes right there,” the US Senator from Florida said.

Full story: Harris pokes fun at Trump as she makes surprise ‘Saturday Night Live’ appearance

01:00 , Michelle Del Rey

Kamala Harris poked fun at Donald Trump as she made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live with just days left before America goes to the polls.

The vice president, who has been played on the 50th season of the comedy show by Maya Rudolph, flew to New York City after a campaign event in Charlotte, North Carolina.

It was the final episode of the show before Tuesday’s pivotal Election Day.

Graeme Massie reports.

Harris mocks Trump as she makes surprise Saturday Night Live appearance

Herschel Walker is telling Georgia residents to vote for Trump

00:29 , Michelle Del Rey

Hershel Walker made an appearance at a Trump rally in Macon, Georgia on Sunday night.

“It stops on Tuesday when we vote for my friend and your friend Donald Trump Jr,” Walker, a former NFL player and US Senate candidate for Georgia, told the crowd.

Trump moans he ‘doesn’t look good’ behind glass designed to protect him from assassination

00:01 , Michelle Del Rey

Donald Trump complained to his supporters that he “doesn’t look good” behind ballistic glass designed to keep him safe from another assassination attempt.

The former president grumbled about the protective glass as he rallied in Pennsylvania with just days left before America goes to the polls.

Since an assassin tried to kill him in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, the Secret Service has made Trump conduct outdoor campaign rallies behind the protective glass.

Read more by Graeme Massie

Trump moans he ‘doesn’t look good’ behind glass designed to protect him

Can Democrats finally pull off a win in North Carolina?

00:00 , Michelle Del Rey

Eric Garcia reports for The Independent from Charlotte, North Carolina:

As Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage at the PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, North Carolina, women in line lamented that they had missed her speech starting. Just hours ago, just a few miles away, supporters began leaving the Gastonia Municipal Airport minutes after former president Donald Trump began to speak.

Continue reading…

Kamala Harris makes a play in a North Carolina. Can Democrats finally pull off a win?

Trump says he should never have left the White House in 2020

Sunday 3 November 2024 23:40 , Michelle Del Rey

Donald Trump said he “shouldn’t have left” the White House after losing the election in 2020 as he appeared to veer off-script at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Trump targeted the swing states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia on Sunday and made the remarks at his first rally of three in the borough of Lititz.

Much of the speech was spent repeating unfounded claims of voter fraud and election interference, as he did in 2020. “I shouldn’t have left, I mean, honestly,” he told the rally.

Read more by Rhian Lubin

Trump says he should never have left the White House in 2020

Trump said RFK Jr’s plan to remove fluoride from drinking water ‘sounds OK to me’

Sunday 3 November 2024 22:45 , Rhian Lubin

Trump said Robert F Kennedy Jr’s proposal to remove fluoride from drinking water “sounds OK to me.”

RFK Jr posted on X yesterday: “On January 20, the Trump White House will advise all U.S​. water systems to remove fluoride from public water. Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease.”

When asked about the plans by NBC, Trump said: “Well, I haven’t talked to him about it yet, but it sounds okay to me.”

“You know, it’s possible,” he added.

Trump hits out at FOX News

Sunday 3 November 2024 22:30 , Rhian Lubin

Trump wraps up in North Carolina as Harris touches down in Lansing, Michigan

Sunday 3 November 2024 22:16 , Rhian Lubin

Trump has just finished his second rally of the day while Harris has just touched down in Lansing, Michigan.

He spoke for just over an hour in Kinston, North Carolina.

The former president has one more rally to go in Georgia this evening.

Trump supporters seen leaving early

Sunday 3 November 2024 21:53 , Rhian Lubin

Supporters have been seen leaving Trump’s Kinston rally five minutes into his speech, ABC’s Lalee Ibssa reports.

Some Trump fans said they had been there “for hours” and had “other commitments” to get to after Trump turned up two hours late to his second rally of the day.

The former president has claimed multiple times “nobody leaves his rallies early.”

Harris campaign says Trump sounds ‘exhausted, hoarse, and depressed’

Sunday 3 November 2024 21:15 , Rhian Lubin

The Harris campaign says Trump sounds “exhausted, hoarse, and depressed” at his rally in Kinston, North Carolina.

Trump arrives at Kinston, North Carolina rally

Sunday 3 November 2024 21:08 , Rhian Lubin

Trump has arrived at the rally in Kinston, North Carolina, nearly two hours behind schedule.

He told the crowd he currently has “a big beautiful lead” in the polls and “they’re projecting us to win.”

The national polls are still showing the two candidates in a deadlock.

E Jean Carroll takes a swipe at Trump

Sunday 3 November 2024 20:52 , Rhian Lubin

E Jean Carroll has taken a swipe at Trump in a post on X.

She posted a photo saying: “I voted for the candidate who does not assault women!”

In September, Trump’s attorneys argued to reverse a $5 million defamation verdict against the former president, who a jury found liable for sexually abusing Carroll, a writer, in a department store in the 1990s.

Trump insists that he has never met Carroll and has labelled her a liar, claims that landed him a second defamation lawsuit, which he lost earlier this year. A separate jury awarded Carroll more than $83 million.

Harris campaign responds to Trump’s Pennsylvania speech

Sunday 3 November 2024 20:30 , Rhian Lubin

The Harris campaign has responded to Trump’s speech earlier in Pennsylvania, calling it “angry, alarming, expletive-laden.”

Ammar Moussa, the campaign’s director of rapid response, shared the following statement:

“As Vice President Harris spent today at church in Detroit, talking to voters about her vision to lift up all Americans, Donald Trump was busy violating the Ninth Commandment.

“Trump is spending the closing days of his campaign angry and unhinged, lying about the election being stolen because he’s worried he will lose.

“The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth and will walk into the Oval Office focused on them – that’s Vice President Harris.”

Trump running late for Kinston, North Carolina rally

Sunday 3 November 2024 20:21 , Rhian Lubin

Trump is running more than an hour late for his rally in Kinston, North Carolina.

The former president was due to speak at 2pm ET.

One of his supporters was pictured dressed in garbage, in a reference to last week’s furor.

Lady Gaga and Oprah to support Harris on Election Eve

Sunday 3 November 2024 19:45 , Rhian Lubin

Harris will see out the final day of election campaigning with a host of stars, including Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey.

Joining them in Philadelphia on Election Eve will be DJ Cassidy, Fat Joe, Freeway and Just Blaze, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Ricky Martin, The Roots, Jazmine Sullivan and Adam Blackstone, her campaign said.

Harris warns voters ‘not to fall for Trump’s tactics’

Sunday 3 November 2024 19:30 , Rhian Lubin

Harris has warned voters “not to fall for Trump’s tactics” if he prematurely declares victory.

She responded to a question while on the campaign trail today in Detroit.

Trump campaign issues statement over Republican’s comments about the press

Sunday 3 November 2024 19:16 , Rhian Lubin

Trump’s campaign has issued a statement in the last hour attempting to clear up comments he made earlier, where he said he “wouldn’t mind” if someone had to “shoot through the fake news ” to get to him.

In a statement, Steven Cheung, communications director, said Trump was “brilliantly talking about the two assassination attempts on his own life” and was actually “looking out for the welfare” of the press.

“The President’s statement about protective glass placement has nothing to do with the Media being harmed, or anything else. It was about threats against him that were spurred on by dangerous rhetoric from Democrats.

“In fact, President Trump was stating that the Media was in danger, in that they were protecting him and, therefore, were in great danger themselves, and should have had a glass protective shield, also.

“There can be no other interpretation of what was said. He was actually looking out for their welfare, far more than his own!”

Trump said at the rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania earlier today: “I have this glass here. But all we have really over here is the fake news. And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news, and I don’t mind that so much.”

Watch: Harris speaks about ‘God’s plan’ at Detroit church

Sunday 3 November 2024 18:32 , Rhian Lubin

Harris spoke to a congregation about “God’s plan” at the Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ in Detroit, Michigan.

Watch her remarks below.

Trump wraps up 90-minute speech while Harris campaigns at Detroit church

Sunday 3 November 2024 18:01 , Rhian Lubin

Trump has wrapped up his first of three rallies today, where he spoke for almost 90 minutes.

Meanwhile, Harris is at a church in Detroit, Michigan, where she addressed the congregation at Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ.

“Not enough to only pray, not enough to just talk, we must act on the plans he has in store for us,” she said. “And we must make them real through our works, in our daily choices, in service to our communities and yes, in our democracy.”

Harris is focusing on Michigan today and has several campaign events.

The billionaires funding both campaigns — and giving Trump more cash

Sunday 3 November 2024 17:45 , Rhian Lubin

Billionaires have turned the money hose on full blast in the weeks leading up to the 2024 US presidential election, dropping hundreds of millions into their preferred candidates’ campaigns.

Kamala Harris has got more of the country’s billionaires backing, with 83 of them supporting Harris compared to 52 billionaires donating to Donald Trump, according to a breakdown by Forbes.

However, while Harris has a wider range of rich donors, Trump’s cash-flush pals have overall given more, with 18 of the top 25 individual donors giving exclusively or mostly to Republicans, according to an Open Secrets analysis.

Graig Graziosi reports.

How a small number of America’s richest people are funding both campaigns