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Your support makes all the difference.American voters are heading to the polls on Election Day after Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump made their final pitches on Monday, the last full day of campaigning.
The Republican former president chose to close out his final rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with personal attacks on Harris, former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and their fellow California Democrat Adam Schiff, as well as his own former White House chief of staff General John Kelly, who recently labeled him a “fascist”.
Trump, who received a last-minute endorsement from influential podcaster Joe Rogan, was late on stage and only finished speaking at 2.09am, looking exhausted.
The Democrat, drawing a sharp contrast, was joined in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, Ricky Martin and The Roots while Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera supported her in Pittsburgh and Las Vegas, respectively.
Harris set a joyous tone and emphatically told her supporters for the final time: “We’re not going back!”
The first in-person votes were cast in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, at midnight – a tradition going back almost 65 years – with the town’s six registered voters split evenly between the two candidates.
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Philadelphia district attorney issues tough message on election interference
Take a bow Larry Krasner, who said this yesterday:
“I want people to be reassured that, when they get up tomorrow to go vote – if they have not voted already – that everybody in this city is working and has been working for months to make sure that there will be nothing tough about that experience and nothing to fear in that experience.
“But I also want to be clear. Anybody who thinks it’s time to play militia: Eff around and find out.
“Anybody who thinks it’s time to insult, to deride, to mistreat, to threaten people: Eff around and find out. We do have the cuffs, we do have the jail cells, we do have the Philly juries and we have the state prisons.”
Oprah Winfrey issues ominous warning about a second Trump presidency at Harris’s final rally
Here’s James Liddell with more on the influential media personality’s address to voters on Harris’s behalf in Philadelphia yesterday.
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Trump spends final rally hurling insults at enemies. Harris spends hers promising US ‘we’re not going back’
Here’s Rhian Lubin on the very different messaging Donald Trump and Kamala Harris offered up in their final addresses of what has been a deeply gruelling election season.
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Taylor Swift shares ‘extremely important’ voting reminder with fans
Listen up Swifties.
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As you might have guessed, the Democrats are posting positivity, encouraging citizens to vote and urging them to take part in last-minute local volunteering while Donald Trump issues an astonishingly bitter campaign video urging his supporters to be part of an anti-woke “Great American Comeback”.
At least JD Vance is more focused on his dog’s birthday...
Harris’s people look confident. The Trump campaign appears panicky: ‘He’s realizing that he could lose’
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Harris’s people look confident. The Trump campaign appears panicky
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Trump reveals last-minute endorsement from podcaster Joe Rogan
The popular podcaster Joe Rogan has endorsed Donald Trump, shoring up the former president’s appeal to young men in the final 24 hours of the election.
In a social media post on Monday night, Rogan – whose podcast The Joe Rogan Experience is widely estimated to be the most listened-to in the world – said his most recent guest Elon Musk had made a “compelling” argument for four more years of Trump.
Io Dodds has the full story.
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