Trump and Harris campaign out West in final sprint to Election Day: Live updates

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are neck-and-neck in national polling, as they’ve been for months. In more than a half-dozen swing states, the margins separating the candidates are very close — and either candidate could clearly pull ahead by Monday.

There are signs, however, of which way this thing may be going. Harris is closing, by any honest account, with a show of strength. Her thousands-strong crowd on the Ellipse on Wednesday, not to mention the thousands more turned away for lack of space, was a shot directly across the bow of Trump, whose own crowd began abandoning him once again last week in Michigan. The former president kept his supporters waiting for hours while he talked to Joe Rogan.

In an exclusive interview, Yamiche Alcindor of NBC News asked Kamala Harris about Donald Trump riding around on a garbage truck in an attempt to draw attention to Joe Biden’s comments on Tuesday night and whether the president’s comments may have undermined her own messaging about being a president for all Americans.

Vice President Harris responded: “Well, I’ve addressed how I feel about those comments. One, that the President explained what he meant, but two, I do not believe, and I will speak for myself, that we should ever criticize people based on who they vote for.

“But let’s understand again, where we are in this election. On the one hand, you have Donald Trump, who refers to people by the most demeaning words, who attempts to really take from them the dignity that they so rightly deserve. He is someone who talks full-time about the enemy within. He speaks ill of America. He refers to us as a garbage can, and he does not understand that most people are exhausted with his rhetoric, exhausted with that approach, exhausted with an approach that Donald Trump has is trying to divide our country and have Americans point fingers at each other.

“They’re done with it, and they’re ready to turn the page and accept and receive a new generation of leadership, which I offer.”

The polls are neck-and-neck and analysts are reluctant to make a solid prediction for which candidate will win.

The result is called by the media in the days or week(s) after November 5 but this is only ever a projection, with the election officially certified on January 6 by Congress.

Experts said that the timeline for calling the race largely depends on two things: how close the election is in individual states and the specific laws of those states regarding counting votes and potential recounts, which all vary.

LeBron James has endorsed Kamala Harris posting a video excoriating Donald Trump and his campaign — notably including racist remarks about Black people made by a comedian at his Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.

The basketball legend writes: “What are we even talking about here?? When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!”

Donald Trump is suing CBS News for $10 billion, alleging that the network deceptively edited an interview with his rival Kamala Harris to unlawfully influence the 2024 presidential election.

The lawsuit, filed in Texas, accuses CBS of “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference through malicious, deceptive, and substantial news distortion calculated to … confuse, deceive, and mislead the public” and “attempt to tip the scales” in favor of the Democratic nominee.

Yesterday, actor Zachary Levi appeared on SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show to weigh in with the political wisdom he’s gained as the star of Shazam and Harold and the Purple Crayon. The 44-year-old told the former Fox News presenter that his vote for Trump will actually be a vote for: “Donald Trump and Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard and Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk and JD Vance.” Levi went on to describe this line-up as: “this team – this Avengers, this Voltron, whatever you want to call it.”

Here’s how the likes of Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth and Samuel L Jackson will really be casting their vote:

The former US president was addressing the crowd at his rally on Thursday (31 October), when he noticed someone appeared to have been taken ill.

“Are they OK?”, he asked.

A doctor then appeared to tend to the person.

Trump said: “Thank you, doctor, take your time. We always have good doctors.”

Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America.

“Put it on and my people can move on.”

On Wednesday, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner — who is trying to block the world’s wealthiest man and his America PAC from an “illegal lottery scheme” to influence voters — warned a judge that Musk’s X posts against the lawsuit have inspired an “avalanche” of attacks, including antisemitic abuse and calls for masked intruders to invade the DA’s home.

Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas Judge Angelo Foglietta moved an upcoming hearing on the lawsuit to Thursday morning. The judge ordered that all parties must be present.

Thursday was the perfect weather to do some last-minute voter canvassing. Larry Hogan said he might just do that.

Maryland’s former two-term governor is in the home stretch of a Senate campaign which began only in February — a run, he says, that was born out of frustration over the inaction just a short drive away in Washington, particularly as the Senate this year failed to reach a compromise (once again) on border security and immigration reform.

He was outside of the Odenton library on Thursday with less than a week to go in the election, revving up a small crowd of volunteers who were greeting early voters. Hogan spoke to a handful of supporters and journalists on scene and projected confidence, remarking that in every race he’d run, “everyone has always counted us out, and we’ve always come out on top”.