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US Presidential Election 2024 LIVE: Harris and Trump in last campaign blitz ahead of final showdown
4 November 2024, 12:41 | Updated: 5 November 2024, 00:50
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are on the campaign trail making their last pitch to voters before the presidential election.
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Ms Harris spent the entire day in Pennsylvania, the swing state with the most electoral votes up for grabs, to boost turnout in urban centres, which is key if she wants to take the Keystone State.
She is finishing off the night with a star-studded rally in Pennsylvania featuring Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey in support of the Vice President.
Mr Trump embarked on a whistlestop tour of swing states he needs to win over if he hopes to return to the White House.
His day began with a rally in North Carolina before heading to Pennsylvania to address supporters in Reading and Pittsburgh. He is capping off the night with a final event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at 10.30pm EST.
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Poll worker accused of making bomb threat against himself and other election staff from made-up voter
In a bizarre development, a poll worker in Georgia is accused of writing a letter threatening a bomb attack on himself and poll workers from a made-up voter.
Nicholas Wimbish, 25, of Milledgeville, Georgia, is said to have had an argument with a voter.
He is then accused of writing a letter threatening violence against poll workers, drafted in such a way as to make it appear as if it came from the voter.
The letter, which contained many unpleasant threats, concluded with a handwritten note, “PS boom toy in early vote place, cigar burning, be safe.”
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Who would be better for the UK?
A Harris campaign win would be the favourable outcome for the UK, according to an expert on US affairs, while under a second Trump presidency the UK would be faced with a "tougher ask".
The Republican candidate is likely to chart a new US course on major conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, areas where Keir Starmer has largely followed the lead of US President Joe Biden.
"Donald Trump will have a much tougher ask," Dr Leslie Vinjamuri of Chatham House said, claiming the Harris campaign would be a preferable partner to Sir Keir's government.
Dr Vinjamuri, the director at the influential think tank's US and Americas programme, added: "I don't think that he (Mr Trump) puts the same emphasis on the history of co-operation and partnership and alliance as we've seen from the current Biden administration, or as we would likely see from a Harris administration. He's much more transactional."
A Nevada county has put panic buttons at all voting places after threats
Threats against election workers have gotten so bad that all polling places in Washoe County, Nevada, have a “panic button” that workers can hit to call 911, reports the Associated Press.
But Andrew McDonald, the deputy registrar of voters in the swing county of half a million people, says there’s only been one incident in nearly two weeks of in-person early voting that required someone to hit the panic button.
That incident, McDonald said at a press conference, involved a voter at one of the county’s 24 early voting sites who would not remove his hat when asked by a worker, who was following state law prohibiting campaign signs or paraphernalia within 100 feet (30 meters) of a polling station.
“A few other voters in line sort of ganged up on the site manager,” McDonald said. But when police arrived, he added, “they calmed down and were able to vote.”
Washoe has become a hotbed for election conspiracy theorists who believe Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Still, McDonald noted that the panic button incident is the only significant one that’s happened during the early vote period, when 90,000 people cast their ballots.
“I get an incident report daily,” McDonald said, “and there haven’t been that many incidents.”
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Farage say Harris should pardon Trump if she wins election
Nigel Farage has said Kamala Harris should pardon Donald Trump to "dampen down" the threat of unrest if she wins the US election.
The Reform UK leader also suggested the Republican candidate should concede defeat and "go and play golf" in Scotland rather than claim the vote was stolen if he suffers a "clear and decisive loss" on Tuesday.
Mr Trump faces sentencing later in November after he was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records over the payment of hush money to adult film actress Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 election.
Mr Farage, who last month accused Labour of "direct interference" in the American vote after it emerged that party activists had volunteered for Ms Harris's campaign, said: "If she gets in on Tuesday I hope she pardons him.
"She could look magnanimous and it would dampen down potential tensions."
Musk can continue his $1 million daily giveaways, a Pennsylvania judge has ruled
Prosecutors had argued the scheme was a scam that violates election laws, but a Pennsylvania judge has ruled that they are allowed to continue through Tuesday's election.
Elon Musk, a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, has been giving away $1 million every day to voters in swing states who support his pro-Trump political action committee.
The winners of the sweepstakes were not chosen randomly, but instead were paid spokespeople for Musk's group, his lawyer Chris Gober said in court today.
"The $1 million recipients are not chosen by chance," Mr Gober said.
"We know exactly who will be announced as the $1m recipient today and tomorrow."
