Trump boasts of Joe Rogan endorsement while Megyn Kelly insults Harris family at rally: Election live updates
Later, Kamala Harris to be joined by celebrities Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, Ricky Martin, and The Roots in Philadelphia for her final rally in swing state Pennsylvania
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Your support makes all the difference.Vice President Kamala Harris and Former President Donald 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 is also concentrating on the Keystone State, delivering his “closing message” at a rally in Pittsburgh before one final rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan — where he closed out both his 2016 and 2020 campaigns.
During a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina earlier on Monday, 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.
Giving what was billed as his “closing message” in Pittsburgh, the former president brought his family on stage; repeated his idea for a wrestling league for migrants; and called Rep Adam Schiff “scum”.
Trump also announced he had been endorsed by podcaster Joe Rogan and was joined on stage by Megyn Kelly.
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Election Day is finally on our doorstep, and Kamala Harris is suddenly looking stronger than ever.
A weekend of campaigning across swing states such as Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia was overshadowed on Saturday by the political equivalent of a bomb going off. J. Ann Selzer, Iowa polling guru, dropped a late-game shocker: The Des Moines Register’s survey shows Kamala Harris up three points over Donald Trump in the state.
Is there suddenly a new state in play? Quite possibly — for all the bluster from the Trump camp Saturday evening and into Sunday about this being an “outlier”, it is only in the respect that other polls have been extremely careful to generously sample Republican-leaning constituencies throughout the campaign season. Selzer is sticking to her guns.
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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s race for the White House is down to its final hours of campaigning, with most pollsters agreeing that the outcome remains much too close to call.
Top elections analyst Nate Silver has predicted that this year’s vote is “a toss-up” and could go either way, giving the Republican a 51.5 percent chance of winning to Harris’s 48.1 percent.
Meanwhile, the final pre-election New York Times/Siena College poll finds that the vice president is narrowly leading in the key swing states of Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Georgia, with her rival leading in Arizona while Pennsylvania and Michigan remain deadlocked.
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More than half of Florida’s voters have already cast ballots
Per The Miami Herald:
With Election Day just one day away, about 50% of Florida’s registered voters have already cast their ballots, according to Florida Division of Elections data and registered voters data analyzed by the Miami Herald. The Herald’s calculations include both active and inactive voters who are eligible to vote.
Only seven of Florida’s 67 counties had Democrats leading in voter turnout for early voting and vote by mail. However, those seven counties’ registered voters represent about 26% of all registered voters in the state.
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Failed Senate candidate Herschel Walker encourages supporters to vote for the wrong Trump in rally gaffe
Herschel Walker, the former professional football player and failed Senate candidate from Georgia, attempted to introduce his longtime “friend” Donald Trump at a rally over the weekend but accidentally presented “Donald Trump Jr.” and “Jonald J. Trump.”
On Sunday, two days before Election Day, Walker appeared alongside Trump at a rally in Macon, Georgia, in a last-ditch attempt to appeal to undecided voters in the battleground state.
Walker gave a five-minute stump speech in which he boasted about his 40-year-long friendship with the former president and encouraged voters to support Trump.
Herschel Walker encourages supporters to vote for the wrong Trump in rally gaffe
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Trump appears to reference vulgar Access Hollywood remarks in closing statements to supporters
Donald Trump’s closing remarks to his supporters in the crucial final days before Election Day have repeatedly appeared to reference the time he was caught on tape bragging about grabbing women’s genitals.
In at least two campaign rallies in recent days, crowds have laughed with him as he jokes about a recording that captured him saying “grab ‘em by the p****” — published just weeks before he won the 2016 presidential election.
In North Carolina on Monday, he said mechanical arms that latch to a SpaceX rocket “grab that thing like you grab your beautiful baby.”
Trump jokes about ‘grab them’ remarks at his final rallies
The Republican presidential nominee jokes about the so-called Access Hollywood tape hours before polls close
Watch: Trump imagines putting Mike Tyson in ring with Harris
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