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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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Where’s Ivanka Trump?
While Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump, and Tiffany Trump joined their father on stage at rallies today, their two siblings were missing.
Barron, Trump explained, was watching on TV from home in New York — presumably with his mother, Melania Trump.
However, Ivanka Trump today posted a Twitter thread reflecting on life having just turned 43 which made no mention of her father or the election.
The elder Trump daughter said she was stepping away from politics back when her father first launched his re-election campaign back in November 2022.
You can read Ivanka’s musings on life below:
Watch LIVE: Trump holds final rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Harris campaign spends final hours reminding Pennsylvania of a Trump ally's joke about Puerto Rico
The day before Election Day, 17-year-old girl Carmen Hernandez held a cardboard sign with the Puerto Rican flag outside Trump’s rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, a city that is two-thirds Hispanic.
“What you call trash is our treasure,” the sign read.
While Trump‘s campaign had quickly distanced itself from a comic’s slam on Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage,” Kamala Harris’ campaign and other Democrats spent the last hours of the 2024 campaign in the nation’s largest battleground state linking him to the joke.
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Harris campaign spends final hours reminding Pennsylvania of a Trump ally's joke about Puerto Rico
Kamala Harris devoted much of her final full day on the campaign trail to reaching Latino voters in Pennsylvania, a swing state that Democrats consider part of their “blue wall” in the Electoral College
Monument about Trump’s ‘crowd size’ featuring Stormy Daniels quote is removed from NY state park
It appeared on Monday morning without warning or fanfare: an ironic monument to Donald Trump’s genitalia in a New York state park, topped with a tiny golden mushroom.
Less than 24 hours later, it was gone – removed by New York’s state park police, which now says it is “investigating” the incident.
Io Dodds has the story.
Monument about Trump’s size with Stormy Daniels quote is removed from NY state park
‘As you can see this is a very large monument. Definitely the biggest’, the prank plinth said
Viral baby hippo Moo Deng predicts election winner
With just one day until Election Day, beloved pygmy hippo Moo Deng has shared her prediction for the winner of the 2024 US presidential election.
The hippo, who shot to internet stardom this year, predicted which candidate will win tomorrow’s election when she was given the choice between two fruit cakes at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi, Thailand.
Meredith Clark has the story.
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Watch LIVE: Harris holds final rally in Philadelphia
While Kamala Harris is not expected to speak for almost another hour, things have kicked off in Philadelphia, with Ricky Martin warming up the crowd...
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Azealia Banks switches presidential endorsement day before the election
Controversial singer-songwriter and rapper Azealia Banks made the last-minute decision to vote for Kamala Harris one day before the 2024 Presidential Election.
The “212” artist, 33, who last year announced she would be voting for Donald Trump, took to X on Monday (November 4) to share the reasoning behind her decision.
Inga Parkel has the story.
Azealia Banks switches endorsement day before the election due to Elon Musk
In a previous interview, the rapper shared that she would be voting for Trump because he’s ‘funny’
What happened to Elon Musk’s town hall?
Teddy Schleifer of The New York Times explains what happened to Elon Musk’s digital town hall tonight.
1. The town hall opened with Elon saying he would take questions.
2. Four questions in a row, they were unable to connect the questioner with Elon. Dead air.
3. Elon says he would do a X Spaces instead of the town hall because of the technical issues.
4. Elon scratches that plan and tells everyone who wanted to talk to him to … just listen to his Rogan podcast instead.
Former leader of Britain’s Conservative Party denounces Trump
William Hague, the former leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, foreign secretary and protégé of Margaret Thatcher has denounced Donald Trump, saying “we should all be Democrats”.
He wrote in The Times:
It matters what we think about the election in America — to our own political ideas and to the security of our allies. We knew Reagan wasn’t following the details, but we also knew he was generous to opponents and steadfast for freedom. In words also applied to Franklin D Roosevelt, he was a “second-class intellect with a first-class temperament”. That would never be a description of Trump. He is a serious danger. If Reagan stood for “morning in America”, Trump is the approach of midnight. Whatever our past affiliations, we should all be Democrats.
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