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

Megyn Kelly attacks Doug Emhoff at Trump Pittsburgh rally

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.

Key Points

• Trump appears to forget where he is at North Carolina rally
• Trumpworld insiders and supporters ‘exasperated’ over recent rally remarks: ‘It’s like he doesn’t want to win’
• Anti-abortion Texas megachurch pastor endorses Harris and slams ‘race-baiting’ Trump
• Bill Clinton defends George W Bush over his endorsement decision
• The ‘one thing’ Trump needs to win — according to Fox & Friends hosts
• Watch: Trump imagines putting Mike Tyson in ring with Harris

[4 November 2024 23:05 · Oliver O'Connell]

Watch: With North Carolina in the spotlight, Democratic governor rallies voters

[4 November 2024 23:00 · Ariana Baio]

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.

[4 November 2024 22:52 · Oliver O'Connell]

Watch: Harris riffs on Trump’s ‘enemy within’ comments

[4 November 2024 22:45 · Alex Woodward]

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.”

[4 November 2024 22:41 · Oliver O'Connell]

Watch: Trump imagines putting Mike Tyson in ring with Harris

[4 November 2024 22:30 · Eric Garcia]

I followed Harris and Trump round North Carolina. It’s clear who’s going to win

I was waiting outside the PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, North Carolina after Vice President Kamala Harris’s rally when my phone started to blow up. Ann Selzer, the vaunted pollster of Iowa, had just dropped a poll showing that Harris was leading Trump by three points in the Hawkeye State — a state Trump had won twice. Everyone in the political world wanted to talk about it.

The Trump campaign knew how bad this news looked. Tony Fabrizio and Tim Saler, the Trump campaign’s data men, released a memo challenging the findings almost immediately.

[4 November 2024 22:15 · John Bowden]

All of a sudden, Montana — and Senate control — is slipping away from Republicans

One day out from Election Day 2024 and Republican control of the Senate is suddenly looking a lot less certain.

It had been seen as a near-inevitability by some for months. With the loss of West Virginia’s seat thanks to the retirement of Joe Manchin, the defeat of Jon Tester — the incumbent senator from Montana, who has been trailing his opponentTim Sheehy through the summer and fall — was set to throw the majority into GOP hands, unless Democrats unseated a Republican incumbent elsewhere.

[4 November 2024 22:00 · Andrew Feinberg]

‘He’s realizing that he could lose’: Harris’s people are confident. The Trump campaign is panicking

With just under 24 hours until Election Day, the contrast between the two campaigns — and the mood of their employees — couldn’t be more clear.

Harris, who just a few weeks ago appeared to have run out of the momentum she’d quickly gathered after President Joe Biden ceded the Democratic ticket to her this past July, is surging thanks to a series of late-game missteps by Trump and his allies. Those missteps include the disastrous decision to include a comedian who called Puerto Rico an “island of floating garbage” in the lineup at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally late last month.

[4 November 2024 21:42 · Gustaf Kilander]

Trump calls his rallies ‘flawless’

Trump called his hundreds of rallies “flawless” apart from sometimes making an “aggressive statement.”

“We're going to get together again, but it's going to be different. It's not going to be a rally. It's going to be applause for what we're doing,” the former president said.

“These incredible rallies, and there may have been like 900 of them, a tremendous amount over nine years,” he added. “We celebrated 507 – it was a few years ago ... I don't know whatever it was, but it's hundreds and hundreds, and they've been flawless, right? Every once in a while I make a little aggressive statement that people didn't like, but don't forget, I'm rarely on the teleprompter.”

[4 November 2024 21:29 · Gustaf Kilander]

Trump brings family members up on stage during Pennsylvania rally

Trump brought several family members up on stage during his Reading, Pennsylvania rally.

Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump, Lara Trump, Tiffany Trump, and her husband Michael Boulos appeared on stage in support of the former president.

“I shouldn't have done that. I gotta follow that,” Trump said after the first four took to the podium to energize the crowd.

“They love our country, but they really are good people,” he added. “They're kind people, big, big hearts. They're strong, they can be messy, but they have big hearts those great children of mine.”