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Hello and
welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage as the US is set to vote in the 2024
presidential election.
With just
hours to go before polls open, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have been making
their final pitch to voters, honing in on the crucial battleground states of
Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Polls
continue to show the contest could not be closer, with both candidates tied in
a number of key swing states.
The two
candidates laid out starkly contrasting visions for America’s future on the eve
of election day. Trump rambled through dark and dystopian speeches painting
migrants as dangerous criminals while also launching personal attacks on a
number of high-profile Democratic women. Harris delivered a more positive
closing argument, shifting focus away from the threat posed by the
ex-president, who is not mentioned in her final ad, and insisting “we all have
so much more in common than what separates us”.
The polls
are set to start opening on the US east coast in less than six hours time, with
the rest of the country following in the hours after. Millions of Americans are
set to vote across the day, but the outcome remains far from certain.
Here’s
what else has been happening over the last 24 hours:
Kamala
Harris put all her chips on the key battleground state of Pennsylvania on
Monday, as polls indicate an extremely close contest. She held several rallies
and events including a stop at a Puerto Rican restaurant with Congresswoman
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and directly joined canvassing in a residential area
in Reading, telling voters at one home: “I wanted to go door-knocking!”’
Harris
sought to strike a positive tone, saying she wanted to be a “president for all
Americans”. A sign of a “strong” leader is someone willing to listen to the
experts, the stakeholders and those who disagree, she said at a rally in
Pittsburgh.
Donald
Trump meanwhile held rallies in Raleigh, North Carolina, two in Pennsylvania,
but his tone was much darker, focusing on painting migrants as dangerous
criminals while also launching personal attacks on a number of high-profile
Democratic women. “They’re killing people. They’re killing people at will,” he
said at one rally, giving gruesome details of specific murders allegedly
committed by undocumented migrants. In North Caroliana he called Democratic
congresswoman Nancy Pelosi a “crazyass bedbug” and attacked former first lady
Michelle Obama, saying: “She hit me the other day. I was going to say to my
people, am I allowed to hit her now? They said, take it easy, sir.”
The
influential podcast host Joe Rogan endorsed Donald Trump for president, writing
on social media that his choice had been influenced by “the great and powerful
Elon Musk”. Musk “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 on X.
“For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump.”
The
$1m-a-day voter sweepstakes that Elon Musk’s political action committee is
hosting in swing states can continue through Tuesday’s presidential election, a
Pennsylvania judge ruled on Monday. The common pleas court judge Angelo
Foglietta – ruling after Musk’s lawyers said the winners are not chosen by
chance – did not immediately give a reason for the ruling.
A
political action committee (Pac) linked to Elon Musk is accused of targeting
Jewish and Arab American voters in swing states with dramatically different
messages about Kamala Harris’s position on Gaza, a strategy by Trump allies
aimed at peeling off Democratic support for the vice-president. Texts, mailers,
social media ads and billboards targeting heavily Arab American areas in metro
Detroit paint Harris as a staunch ally of Israel who will continue supplying
arms to the country. Meanwhile, residents in metro Detroit or areas of
Pennsylvania with higher Jewish populations have been receiving messaging that
underscores her alleged support for the Palestinian cause.
The
Republican mega-donors Dick and Liz Uihlein, who are the third largest donors
in this year’s US presidential election, have sought information about who
employees at their company Uline will be voting for in Tuesday’s ballot. A
screenshot seen by the Guardian shows how employees at the private Wisconsin
paper and office products distributor were asked to take part in what was
called an anonymous survey to track who the employees were voting for on 5
November.
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