Trump boasts of Joe Rogan endorsement while Megyn Kelly insults Harris family at rally: Election live updates

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

Top Kari Lake campaign adviser jokes about sending journalists to ‘the gulag’

02:16 , Oliver O’Connell

…and then doubles down on the remarks when pressed by The Independent.

Justin Rohrlich has the story.

Top Kari Lake campaign adviser jokes about sending journalists to ‘the gulag’

Watch LIVE: Harris campaigns in Pittsburg with Katy Perry

02:04 , Oliver O’Connell

Big cheers as Trump announces Joe Rogan endorsed him

02:04 , Oliver O’Connell

There were big cheers at the Trump rally in Pittsburgh this evening as the former president announced that he has the endorsement of Joe Rogan.

Watch: Megyn Kelly joins Trump on stage and says she will vote for him as the ‘protector of women’

02:03 , Oliver O’Connell

Is the Roe reckoning here for Trump?

02:00 , Oliver O’Connell

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.

John Bowden reports.

Surprise polls show the reckoning may finally be here for Donald Trump

Joe Rogan endorses Donald Trump

01:57 , Oliver O’Connell

Following his interview with Elon Musk today, Joe Rogan has endorsed Donald Trump.

He wrote on X: “The great and powerful Elon Musk. If it wasn’t for him we’d be fucked. He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way.

“For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump.”

Watch: Trump makes bizarre claim Harris campaign pulled out of North Carolina

01:53 , Oliver O’Connell

Donald Trump made the bizarre claim that the Harris campaign had pulled out of North Carolina the day before the Election.

The former president has held four rallies in the state in the past day in an effort to stave off a Democratic win in a state he won twice.

Trump tells supporters only way they lose election ‘is if you blow it’

01:45 , Oliver O’Connell

Donald Trump’s “closing message” to his supporters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: “The only way we can blow it is if you blow it. I’ve given you the ball. I mean you’ve gotta go and vote and if they vote it’s over.”

If Trump wins, Elon Musk wants to gut the federal government — what might that look like?

01:40 , Oliver O’Connell

The wealthiest man on the planet is pumping tens of millions of dollars into Donald Trump’s campaign. He owns an influential social media company where he embraces right-wing influencers and conspiracy theories now dominating the platform. He has business interests with China and Russia’s Vladimir Putin’s regime while his companies receive billions of dollars in US government contracts.

And, if Trump is elected, he might steer how the American government spends its money.

Alex Woodward reports.

How Elon Musk could gut the government under Trump

Watch: Trump brings his family on stage and calls Adam Schiff ‘scum’

01:37 , Oliver O’Connell

US intelligence agencies release new warning about Russian election disinformation

01:33 , Oliver O’Connell

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released a statement warning about foreign interference in the election through the spread of disinformation:

“Since our statement on Friday, the IC has been observing foreign adversaries, particularly Russia, conducting additional influence operations intended to undermine public confidence in the integrity of U.S. elections and stoke divisions among Americans. The IC expects these activities will intensify through election day and in the coming weeks, and that foreign influence narratives will focus on swing states.

Russia is the most active threat. Influence actors linked to Russia in particular are manufacturing videos and creating fake articles to undermine the legitimacy of the election, instill fear in voters regarding the election process, and suggest Americans are using violence against each other due to political preferences, judging from information available to the IC. These efforts risk inciting violence, including against election officials. We anticipate Russian actors will release additional manufactured content with these themes through election day and in the days and weeks after polls close.

• The IC assesses that Russian influence actors recently posted and amplified an article falsely claiming that U.S. officials across swing states plan to orchestrate election fraud using a range of tactics, such as ballot stuffing and cyber attacks.

• Russian influence actors also manufactured and amplified a recent video that falsely depicted an interview with an individual claiming election fraud in Arizona, which involved creating fake overseas ballots and changing voter rolls to favor Vice President Kamala Harris. The Arizona Secretary of State has already refuted the video’s claim as false.

Iran also remains a significant foreign influence threat to U.S. elections. As noted in a prior update, we have assessed that Iran has conducted malicious cyber activities to compromise former President Trump’s campaign. Iranian influence actors may also seek to create fake media content intended to suppress voting or stoke violence, as they have done in past election cycles. We previously reported that Iran also remains determined to seek revenge against select former US officials whom it views as culpable for the death of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) Commander Soleimani in January 2020. It has repeatedly highlighted former President Donald Trump among its priority targets for retribution.

In light of continued influence efforts by foreign adversaries and the increasing volume of inauthentic content online, CISA recommends voters seek out information from trusted, official sources, in particular, state and local election officials.

The FBI and CISA encourage campaigns and election infrastructure stakeholders to report information concerning suspicious or criminal activity to their local Election Crime Coordinators via FBI field office (www.fbi.gov/fieldoffices), by calling 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324), or online at ic3.gov. Cyber incidents impacting election infrastructure can also be reported to CISA by calling 1-844-Say-CISA (1-844-729-2472), emailing [email protected], or reporting online at cisa.gov/report. Election infrastructure stakeholders and the public can find additional resources about how to protect against cyber and physical threats at CISA’s #PROTECT2024 (https://www.cisa.gov/protect2024).”

Trump calls Pelosi as ‘crazy as a bed bug’

01:30 , Oliver O’Connell

Donald Trump called former Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi “crazy as a bed bug” during an unhinged rant less than 24 hours ahead of Election Day.

Trump was in Raleigh, North Carolina, Monday morning when he made the remarks about the California representative and Democratic leader. The Raleigh event marked his first of four rallies on the eve of Election Day.

Katie Hawkinson has the story.

Trump calls Nancy Pelosi as ‘crazy as a bed bug’ in unhinged rant

Watch: Trump goes off on tangent about wrestling migrants

01:20 , Oliver O’Connell

Donald Trump went off on a slight diversion about wrestling this evening at his rally in Pittsburgh ahead of Election Day.

“Oh, those Penn State guys — I wanted them to wrestle the migrants,” he says of that collegiate team.

He told UFC President Dana White “to set up your league of champions” against “a migrant league”.

Some migrants might win, he said, adding: “That’s how nasty some of these guys are.”

Pregnant teenager died trying to get help on three trips to Texas ERs

01:15 , Oliver O’Connell

A healthcare policy professor believes that strict abortion laws enacted by Republican states have made pregnant women “untouchables” — and have resulted in their deaths.

Nevaeh Crain was 18 years old when she died on October 29, 2023. She was pregnant at the time, was suffering from a fever, vomiting, weakness, and intense abdominal pain.

Graig Graziosi reports.

Pregnant teenager died trying to get help on three trips to Texas ERs

MAGA dust up: Roger Stone rips ‘amateur’ Lara Loomer for attacking RFK Jr

01:00 , Oliver O’Connell

As Election Day nears, former Trump adviser Roger Stone accused right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer of being an “amateur” and misunderstanding election law, after she claimed that the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign was scamming the former president’s supporters for donations to pay off its debts.

Josh Marcus reports.

Roger Stone rips ‘amateur’ Lara Loomer for attacking RFK Jr. in late night MAGA row

Trump says people claim God saved him to save America

00:56 , Oliver O’Connell

At his rally in Pittsburgh, Donald Trump claimed: “Many people say that God saved me in order to save America. Many many people are saying that.”

The former president then went on to say that Kamala Harris’s rally in the city only has a small crowd — it has yet to start.

Watch: Walz, like Harris, does not mention Trump by name

00:55 , Oliver O’Connell

“Wisconsin, win thing for America,” Tim Walz tells the crowd in Milwaukee.

Huge line for final Harris rally in Philadelphia

00:35 , Oliver O’Connell

Is Senate control slipping away from Republicans?

00:30 , Oliver O’Connell

John Bowden reports on how a poorly managed scandal response could once again prevent the GOP from ousting the ‘most vulnerable’ Democrat of 2024.

It looks like Republicans won’t take the Senate after all. The reason? Montana

Former RNC chair rips Vance for comments about Harris

00:22 , Oliver O’Connell

Michael Steele, former chair of the Republican National Committee has ripped vice presidential nominee JD Vance for calling Kamala Harris “trash” at a rally.

Steele posted on X: “This is your closing message @JDVance? I’m curious, how do you explain your behavior and your words to your children? “family values” much? It’s been amazing to watch your ambition drive you to become the very things you once said about Trump.”

Vance was once an ardent critic of Donald Trump.

Dionne Warwick gives endorsement

00:18 , Oliver O’Connell

Still waiting for Trump in Pittsburgh…

00:15 , Oliver O’Connell

In pictures: Harris visits Puerto Rican restaurant and knocks on doors in Pittsburgh

00:08 , Oliver O’Connell

Watch LIVE: Trump campaigns in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

00:05 , Oliver O’Connell

Study claims Elon Musk appears to have tweaked X’s algorithm to promote Trump

00:00 , Oliver O’Connell

Elon Musk appears to have been artificially boosting his posts on X (formerly Twitter) since mid July in order to promote pro-Trump content, according to new research.

Analysis of the social media platform – which the tech billionaire acquired in 2022 – showed that Mr Musk’s posts saw a sudden increase in views and engagement shortly after he began endorsing Donald Trump for US president.

Anthony Cuthbertson reports.

Elon Musk appears to have tweaked X’s algorithm to promote Trump, study claims

Biden and Harris share tributes to Quincy Jones

Monday 4 November 2024 23:54 , Oliver O’Connell

President Joe Biden has paid tribute to the late Quincy Jones, who passed away today, saying in a statement that he was “a musical genius who transformed the soul of America – one beat, one rhythm, and one rhyme at a time” who “solidified Black culture as American culture”.

Kamala Harris called him “a trailblazer” and an activist who championed civil and human rights.

Harris to close out campaign on Philadelphia’s famous ‘Rocky steps’ later tonight

Monday 4 November 2024 23:49 , Oliver O’Connell

Will Arab American voters angry about Gaza cost Kamala Harris the election?

Monday 4 November 2024 23:45 , Oliver O’Connell

In the final days of her campaign, Kamala Harris is making a last-ditch appeal to Arab American voters who have abandoned the Democratic Party over the war in Gaza.

“I will do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza, to bring home the hostages, end the suffering in Gaza, ensure Israel is secure and ensure the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, freedom, security and self-determination,” Harris told a rally in East Lansing, Michigan, on Sunday.

Harris’s urgency comes as recent polls of Arab American voters — usually a reliably Democratic voting bloc — show a large number may either stay at home or vote for her rival, Donald Trump.

Richard Hall reports.

Will Arab American voters angry about Gaza cost Kamala Harris the election?

Watch: Steve Kornacki breaks down what we know ahead of Election Day

Monday 4 November 2024 23:35 , Oliver O’Connell

Selzer’s surprise: Why the Roe reckoning may finally be here for Donald Trump

Monday 4 November 2024 23:30 , John Bowden

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.

Surprise polls show the reckoning may finally be here for Donald Trump

Crowd awaits Trump in Pittsburgh

Monday 4 November 2024 23:25 , Oliver O’Connell

Could third-party voters spoil the 2024 election?

Monday 4 November 2024 23:15 , Joe Sommerlad

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.

Could third-party voters spoil the 2024 election?

Watch: John Bolton predicts Trump will announce he’s won by 10pm

Monday 4 November 2024 23:12 , Oliver O’Connell

John Bolton, Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser, 2018-19, was asked on BBC Newsnight whether the former President would accept the result if he loses.

More than half of Florida’s voters have already cast ballots

Monday 4 November 2024 23:09 , Oliver O’Connell

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.

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

Monday 4 November 2024 23:05 , Oliver O’Connell

Failed Senate candidate Herschel Walker encourages supporters to vote for the wrong Trump in rally gaffe

Monday 4 November 2024 23:00 , Ariana Baio

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

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

Monday 4 November 2024 22:52 , Oliver O’Connell

Trump appears to reference vulgar Access Hollywood remarks in closing statements to supporters

Monday 4 November 2024 22:45 , Alex Woodward

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

Watch: Trump imagines putting Mike Tyson in ring with Harris

Monday 4 November 2024 22:41 , Oliver O’Connell

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

Monday 4 November 2024 22:30 , Eric Garcia

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.

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

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

Monday 4 November 2024 22:15 , John Bowden

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.

It looks like Republicans won’t take the Senate after all. The reason? Montana

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

Monday 4 November 2024 22:00 , Andrew Feinberg

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.

‘He’s realizing that he could lose’: the Trump campaign is panicking

Trump calls his rallies ‘flawless’

Monday 4 November 2024 21:42 , Gustaf Kilander

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.”

Trump brings family members up on stage during Pennsylvania rally

Monday 4 November 2024 21:29 , Gustaf Kilander

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.”

Trump lambasts decades of Biden policy

Monday 4 November 2024 21:09 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump slammed decades of policy pushed by President Joe Biden, a longtime former senator.

“30 years ago, Biden wasn’t any good,” Trump said in Reading, Pennsylvania. “He had the worst policy ever – if you would have taken Biden’s policy views over a 40-year period and reversed them, you would have gone down as the single greatest policy expert foreign policy.”

Trump addresses Eric Adams indictment

Monday 4 November 2024 21:01 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump addressed the indictment of New York Mayor Eric Adams, saying that he was charged after making “nasty statements” about migrants entering the city.

“Mayor Adams, he made statements about ‘this is not sustainable … You have to help us with this. Hundreds of thousands of people are piling into New York,’” Trump said on Monday afternoon. “‘You have to help us.’ And I said to my people, ‘he’ll be indicted shortly. They indicted him.”

“One of the indictments, he was upgraded in an airliner. Everyone gets upgraded. Anybody who’s got an upgrade, please raise your hand. You will be indicted,” the former president added. “I’ve been upgraded. I used to fly that way. They used to upgrade me all the time.”

Adams will stand trial in April 2025 on federal corruption charges after pleading not guilty to a five-count indictment accusing him of taking years of luxury travel gifts from Turkey.

Trump claims more than 200 million migrants to enter the US under Harris

Monday 4 November 2024 20:41 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump claimed that more than 200 million people would enter the US illegally during a Harris presidential term.

“She’s incompetent. If she ever won, she would have open borders the following day after the election, and you wouldn’t have 21 million people, which is a record in history, you would have 221 million people coming over the next four years,” the former president said. “You can forget about your country. You would have no chance.”

Live: Arizona’s Maricopa County officials discuss vote counting for US election

Monday 4 November 2024 20:36 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump boasts of ‘massive lead’ in historically tight race

Monday 4 November 2024 20:33 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump took the stage in Reading, Pennsylvania shortly before 3.30pm ET on Monday, boasting of a “massive lead” in a race considered to be historically close.

“You gotta show up. I don’t want any money. I don’t want anything. Just show up and bring your vote,” Trump told supporters. “And if you have somebody else that got a little lazy, bring that person to say … ‘you gotta get off the damn couch.’”

“We’re just one day away from what will be the most important political event in the history of our country. But you have to get out. We have to vote, show up and vote,” he added.

Results from several key states expected on Election night

Monday 4 November 2024 20:30 , Gustaf Kilander

A Harris campaign official has said that results may come in from North Carolina, Michigan, and Georgia as soon as by the end of election night, according to Reuters.

They expect results from Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada to come in on Wednesday and further ahead.

“We may not know the results of this election for several days, but we are very focused on staying calm and confident throughout this period as the process goes through,” campaign Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said during a briefing on Monday that they’re expecting 70 percent of votes reported by 8pm on election night, because of a state law allowing counties to start counting mail-in ballots earlier.

Elon Musk’s ‘random’ $1 million winners are pre-selected ‘spokespeople’ for his pro-Trump PAC, lawyer admits

Monday 4 November 2024 20:20 , Alex Woodward

The “winners” of a daily $1 million sweepstakes from Elon Musk and his Donald Trump-supporting political action committee were not “randomly” selected at all, according to an attorney for the group.

Swing-state voters who signed the PAC’s petition for a chance to be presented with a novelty-sized check were instead deliberately chosen to be paid “spokespeople” for the group, lawyer Chris Gober told a judge in Philadelphia on Monday.

Gober said that there is “no prize to be won” at all, and that recipients instead “must fulfill contractual obligations” on behalf of the PAC, he told Judge Angelo Foglietta in a Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas courtroom.

Elon Musk’s $1 million winners are pre-selected by pro-Trump PAC, lawyer admits

Trump appears to forget where he is at North Carolina rally

Monday 4 November 2024 20:00 , Katie Hawkinson

Donald Trump appeared to forget where he was during a rally in North Carolina over the weekend.

Trump was speaking to supporters in Kinston on Sunday when he started praising David McCormick as “one of the best [Republicans] of all right here.”

The only problem? McCormick is running for Senate — in Pennsylvania.

“We have great Republicans running and you have one of the best of all right here, David McCormick, you know that?” Trump said. “Where’s David, is he around some place? You know he just left, he’s a great guy.”

Trump appears to forget where he is at North Carolina rally

Elon Musk to hold ‘digital town hall’ tonight

Monday 4 November 2024 19:50 , Gustaf Kilander

X owner Elon Musk announced on Monday that he will hold a “digital town hall” tonight at 8.30pm ET.

Trumpworld insiders and supporters ‘exasperated’ over recent rally remarks: ‘It’s like he doesn’t want to win’

Monday 4 November 2024 19:40 , James Liddell

Donald Trump’s allies and supporters are said to be “exasperated” by his recent rally remarks, leaving some questioning whether the former president is attempting to sabotage his own campaign at the 11th hour.

The former president has made a slew of controversial remarks during his final campaign blitz.

During a rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, at the weekend, he claimed he “shouldn’t have left” the White House following his 2020 election loss, escalated rumors of election fraud, and joked that he wouldn’t “mind” if journalists were shot at his rallies.

Trump insiders and supporters ‘exasperated’ over recent rally remarks

Rightwing broadcaster shows empty seats at Trump North Carolina rally

Monday 4 November 2024 19:20 , Gustaf Kilander

Anti-abortion Texas megachurch pastor endorses Harris and slams ‘race-baiting’ Trump

Monday 4 November 2024 19:00 , Madeline Sherratt

An anti-abortion Texas megachurch pastor has endorsed Kamala Harris for president, as he slammed Donald Trump as a “race-baiting” adulterer.

William Dwight McKissic Sr, the founder of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, penned an op-ed for MSNBC on Sunday where he revealed that, despite being an evangelical who “hates abortion” and opposes same-sex marriage, he cannot support the “adulterous, childish, habitually lying and criminally convicted” former president.

Instead, he announced that he is backing “trustworthy” Harris in the 2024 race: “Republican Donald Trump doesn’t have Harris’ character, her competence or her capacity.”

Anti-abortion Texas megachurch pastor endorses Harris and slams ‘race-baiting’ Trump

Live: Donald Trump campaigns in Reading, Pennsylvania on eve of election

Monday 4 November 2024 18:59 , Gustaf Kilander

Live: Harris arrives in Pennsylvania one day before election

Monday 4 November 2024 18:58 , Gustaf Kilander

Bill Clinton defends George W Bush over his endorsement decision

Monday 4 November 2024 18:40 , James Liddell

Former president Bill Clinton has defended his Republican successor George W Bush over his endorsement decision shortly before Election Day.

In September, Bush’s office announced that he would not endorse GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump for a third consecutive election cycle, nor his Democratic rival Kamala Harris.

During a CNN interview on Sunday, Clinton – who has endorsed Harris and campaigned on her behalf since she stepped on the ticket in July – praised the 43rd president’s decision to remain silent in the 2024 race.

Bill Clinton defends George W Bush over his endorsement decision

Former Homeland Security general counsel says it’s time to ‘close the book on Trump’

Monday 4 November 2024 18:20 , Alex Woodward

John Mitnick — former Homeland Security general counsel who was appointed and fired by Trump, and a former official at Raytheon and the Heritage Foundation — warned fellow conservatives that the former president is “reckless, angry, vengeful, and narcissistic, and he has no respect for the Constitution or the rule of law.”

“He is not a conservative; rather, he is a would-be autocrat and fascist motivated exclusively by his personal self-interest,” he wrote in a thread on X on Sunday. “If you think he cares about you or your family, I assure you that he does not. He cares only about himself.”

He urged support for Kamala Harris and said, “It’s time to close the book on Trump” and “rebuild” the Republican Party.

The ‘one thing’ Trump needs to win — according to Fox & Friends hosts

Monday 4 November 2024 18:00 , Gustaf Kilander

The “one thing” that former president Donald Trump needs to win the 2024 election is his former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, according to the hosts of Fox & Friends.

The former South Carolina governor ran against Trump in the Republican primary arguing that it was time for fresh leadership in the party, but has since endorsed him and spoke in support of him at the Republican National Convention.

On Monday morning, Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade noted the importance of winning over the voters who backed Haley in the primary, so that they don’t instead throw their support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.

The ‘one thing’ Trump needs to win — according to Fox & Friends hosts

Gen Z is ‘cancelling out’ their MAGA parents votes in new TikTok trend

Monday 4 November 2024 17:40 , Joe Sommerlad

Young people are using the social video app to champion the practise of “cancelling out” the votes of conservative parents by proudly using their own ballots to back Harris.

Amber Raiken has more.

Gen Z commit to ‘canceling out’ their MAGA parents votes in new TikTok trend

Trump reflects on end of campaign

Monday 4 November 2024 17:19 , Gustaf Kilander

Reflecting on the end of the campaign, Trump said, “I won’t be doing this anymore with North Carolina, and I won’t be doing this anymore … after today.”

“I’m just thinking, as I’m going through this, that this will be our final moment, but … the more exciting moment is going to begin,” he added. “These moments of hundreds and hundreds of the most incredible rallies any country, no country has ever seen anything like that. But these moments that we’ve had together, these really were just to create what we hopefully will create tomorrow, which is we’re going to make America great again.”

WATCH: Trump attacks Nancy Pelosi and Michelle Obama

Monday 4 November 2024 17:16 , Gustaf Kilander

WATCH: Trump calls legal Springfield, Ohio migrants ‘illegal’

Monday 4 November 2024 16:59 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump hits back at former chief of staff

Monday 4 November 2024 16:50 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump’s longest-serving Chief of Staff John Kelly has said that the former president fits the description of a “fascist.”

Trump responded on Monday, saying that he should have been fired and calling him a “disaster.”

The former president also said former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley “should have been fired.”

“All those generals – Kelly should have been, Kelly was such a disaster. Some people are good, some people are not good, some people are stupid,” Trump said.

Trump jokes that Biden voted for him

Monday 4 November 2024 16:41 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump joked on Monday that Biden “probably” voted for him because of what the former president said is his dislike for Kamala Harris.

“He actually hates my guts, but he likes Trump more than he likes Kamala,” he said.

“He just got 14 million votes,” Trump said in reference to the Democratic primary.

Trump responded to a member of the audience who suggested that Biden voted for him.

“That’s one of the ladies from North Carolina. She said he voted for me – probably did,” Trump said.

Trump repeats false FEMA claim

Monday 4 November 2024 16:30 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump once again made the false claim that FEMA funds were allocated to help undocumented migrants.

“FEMA did a horrible job. The administration – they’re still not there. You know why? Because they’ve spent all their money on bringing in murderers and a lot of people,” Trump said on Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina, speaking about hurricanes striking Florida, North Carolina, and other states. “They spent all their money on bringing in illegal migrants. They’ve also taken a lot of your jobs, especially jobs from the Black population.”

Trump appears to reference Access Hollywood tape

Monday 4 November 2024 16:21 , Gustaf Kilander

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.

Discussing Elon Musk’s and SpaceX’s rocket boosters, Trump said, “And those two big arms, you saw the arms, they grab that thing like you grab your beautiful baby … Years ago, I would have said something else, but I’ve learned.”

He added: “I would have been a little bit more risque.”

Trump made similar comments over the weekend:

“Then you see those arms, like you grab your beautiful baby, your beautiful child … In the old days, I would have said like you grab your — girlfriend,” Trump said over the weekend.

“Now I don’t say that anymore. I say, like you grabbed your child. And those big arms came in and they grabbed that sucker and they held it in place like you grabbed your child. And I said, ‘That’s unbelievable’,” he added.

Trump claims to have had ‘great relationship’ with former president of Mexico as he announces 25% tariff

Monday 4 November 2024 16:06 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump claimed to have had a “great relationship” with the former president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

“He was a socialist, but you can’t have everything,” Trump told the audience in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Trump said he may impose a 25 percent tariff on Mexico if he returns to office.

“Now we have a new president in Mexico, I suppose, a very nice woman … I haven’t met her, and I’m going to inform her on day one or sooner, that if they don’t stop this onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country, I’m going to immediately impose a 25 percent tariff on everything they send into the United States of America,” Trump said.

Trump takes stage in Raleigh, North Carolina

Monday 4 November 2024 15:58 , Gustaf Kilander

Donald Trump has taken the stage at his rally in Raleigh, North Carolina.

He asked the crowd if they were better off than they were four years ago, to which the crowd responded with a thunderous “no.”

“I’ve asked that question so many times, I’ve never had one hand go up for the other,” Trump said.

Cardi B hits back at Kamala Harris speech critics in expletive rant

Monday 4 November 2024 15:40 , Lucy Leeson

Cardi B has fired back at critics over her Kamala Harris rally speech in an expletive rant.

The 32-year-old has faced backlash for using her cellphone to read her speech at the Vice President’s rally in Milwaukee on Friday (1 November).

The rapper, who previously hit out at Elon Musk for calling her a puppet who “can’t even talk without being fed the words”, posted a video on TikTok to respond to the criticism she received.

She said: “I worked so hard, bro. I worked so hard on my speech and a lot of y’all talkin’ about like “Oh why are you reading it from your phone?’

“B****, I had to write that s*** down.”

Trump crowd underwhelms again

Monday 4 November 2024 15:11 , Joe Sommerlad

We saw a sea of bored faces behind the former president at his events yesterday and the turnout for his first appearance of the day is not particularly impressive either, not what he would have wanted to see.

Trump is yet to take the stage despite advertising a 10am ET start.

Live: Trump rallies his supporters in Raleigh, North Carolina

Monday 4 November 2024 14:55 , Joe Sommerlad

Donald Trump is kicking off the first of four rallies today shortly in North Carolina before moving on to Reading and Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania and finally ending up in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

You can watch his address in Raleigh live below.

‘We all need to brace for the coming storm no matter who wins’

Monday 4 November 2024 14:40 , Joe Sommerlad

The presidential candidates are neck-and-neck but there are dark truths about what the US and the world will face next, argues author and broadcaster Gabriel Gatehouse, who has spent years charting the key events that have brought us to this perilous moment

Trump or Kamala – we all need to brace for the coming storm no matter who wins

Watch: Harris’s cousin says family fears for her safety in election

Monday 4 November 2024 14:20 , Joe Sommerlad

Kamala Harris’s cousin says family fears for her safety following election

Majority of Latino voters in Pennsylvania considered Puerto Rico joke racist

Monday 4 November 2024 14:00 , Joe Sommerlad

The fallout from Tony Hinchcliffe’s “floating island of garbage” crack at Madison Square Garden continues as a Univision/YouGov poll finds a majority of Latino voters in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania, which is home to 500,000 or so people of Puerto Rican heritage, consider the gag “racist rather than humorous”.

A further 67 percent say the gag is indicative of racism within the Trump campaign, 45 percent said it makes them “much more likely” to vote Harris and another 48 percent believe it will make “people they know” more likely to vote for Harris.

Trump says RFK Jr’s plan to remove fluoride from water ‘sounds OK’ as he refuses to rule out banning vaccines

Monday 4 November 2024 13:40 , Joe Sommerlad

Donald Trump has said that Robert F Kennedy Jr’s plans to ban fluoride from drinking water “sounds OK to me” as he also refused to rule out banning some vaccines if he secures a second term in the White House.

The Republican presidential candidate recently announced that he would give RFK Jr free rein to do “anything he wants” and “go wild” over health, food and medicines during his potential second administration.

One such plan floated by RFK Jr is to remove fluoride, a mineral used to prevent tooth decay, from the nation’s drinking water supply – and Trump appears to be on board.

“Well, I haven’t talked to him about it yet, but it sounds OK to me,” the former president told NBC News’s Dasha Burns during a phone call on Sunday.

“You know, it’s possible.”

Some of the names Trump is dropping regarding his prospective next administration are… interesting.

James Liddell has more on RFK Jr.

Trump addresses RFK Jr’s plans to ban vaccines and fluoride from water: ‘Sounds OK’

Conservative megachurch pastor endorses Harris: ‘She can pass a background check’

Monday 4 November 2024 13:20 , Joe Sommerlad

Pastor Dwight McKissic Sr of the Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, says that he hates abortion and is opposed to gay marriage but will be voting Democrat for the first time in 40 years tomorrow anyway.

Why?

“The GOP I loved would have never chosen as its nominee the adulterous, childish, habitually lying and criminally convicted Donald Trump.”

This observation might be even more damning: “There’s a scripture in the seventh chapter of Matthew that says a tree that doesn’t bear good fruit should be cut down and tossed into the fire. That’s how I think evangelicals should treat today’s Republican Party.”

His thoughts are well worth your time.

Polling guru Nate Silver calls White House race ‘pure toss-up’

Monday 4 November 2024 13:00 , Joe Sommerlad

According to Silver’s latest Substack post, Trump has a 51.5 percent chance of winning the Electoral College by his reckoning while Harris’s odds are around 48.1 percent.

Will Michael Jordan endorse Trump?

Monday 4 November 2024 12:40 , Joe Sommerlad

There is a great deal of search interest in the above question this morning but, so far, there appears to be no indication that the NBA legend will do any such thing.

It may just be wishful thinking on MAGA’s part, envious of Harris winning LeBron James’s influential vote last week.

Harris on Trump prematurely declaring victory: ‘Do not fall for his tactic’

Monday 4 November 2024 12:20 , Joe Sommerlad

Rather than resort to personal insults, as the Republican himself might well have done in the same circumstances, the VP offered a cool and dispassionate message to voters yesterday about the prospect of Trumpian mendacity coming into play on election night.

Meanwhile, here’s Tim Walz and Michael Stipe of REM having some fun at the Repbulican’s expense on stage in Cobb County, Georgia, last night.

Trump struggles to energise North Carolina crowd with crude attacks

Monday 4 November 2024 12:00 , Joe Sommerlad

OK here’s one final collection of Trump clips from yesterday, this time in Kinston, North Carolina, his first of the day and at which he appeared just as exhausted as he did at his later events.

The Republican’s attacks on Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have been heard many times before and singularly failed to whip up the crowd.

The night before, he had been in Greensboro in the same state, where, under hellish red lighting, he welcomed a supporter’s offensive heckle about Harris.

Trump welcomes supporter’s shout that Harris ‘worked on a corner’

Trump gets ‘equal time’ from NBC at Nascar rally after Harris SNL appearance

Monday 4 November 2024 11:40 , Joe Sommerlad

NBC gave Donald Trump’s campaign two free commercial slots on Sunday following a backlash over Kamala Harris’s Saturday Night Live appearance, with Republicans arguing that the network had flouted the Federal Communications Commission’s “equal time” rules by allowing the Vice President to appear but not the former president.

Trump took to the airwaves to deliver a bruising 60-second, pre-recorded message, which was shown towards the end of both Sunday evening’s Nascar playoff race and the big NFL Sunday Night Football game.

Sporting a red MAGA hat, Trump urged viewers to get out and vote just two days from election day, warning that Harris would trigger a “depression” across the US if she won.

Here’s more from James Liddell and Graeme Massie.

Trump gets ‘equal time’ from NBC at Nascar rally after Harris SNL appearance

Trump boasts sniper would have to ‘shoot through fake news’ to get him

Monday 4 November 2024 11:20 , Joe Sommerlad

Perhaps an even more shocking line from the Republican yesterday was this interlude about the prospect of reporters being shot by an assassin trying to get to him, a comment perhaps suggesting he has still not properly processed what happened to him in Butler on July 13, an experience that would be traumatic for anyone.

John Bowden brings us this one.

Trump jokes assassin would have to shoot journalists as rally goes off the rails

Trump says he should never have left the White House in 2020

Monday 4 November 2024 11:00 , Joe Sommerlad

Let’s get back to the Republican’s haggard performances on the campaign trail on Sunday.

We’ve already seen Trump in Georgia but, prior to that, Trump addressed a crowd in Lititz, Pennsylvania, and openly lamented leaving the Oval Office four years ago, STILL refusing to accept what was an overwhelmingly clear defeat by Biden that his associates fought to debunk in court and simply could not for want of evidence.

He also had some other disturbing remarks to make about climate change, Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Obamas, asylum seekers and the bizarre fantasy prospect of college wrestlers battling illegal immigrants.

Here’s more from Rhian Lubin.

Trump says he should never have left the White House in 2020

New York Times Editorial Board attacks ‘unfit’ Trump on election eve

Monday 4 November 2024 10:40 , Joe Sommerlad

Without mentioning Kamala Harris by name, the newspaper’s editorial board comes out strongly against the Republican nominee with the following statement:

“You already know Donald Trump. He is unfit to lead. Watch him. Listen to those who know him best. He tried to subvert an election and remains a threat to democracy. He helped overturn Roe, with terrible consequences. Mr. Trump’s corruption and lawlessness go beyond elections: It’s his whole ethos. He lies without limit. If he’s re-elected, the G.O.P. won’t restrain him. Mr. Trump will use the government to go after opponents. He will pursue a cruel policy of mass deportations. He will wreak havoc on the poor, the middle class and employers. Another Trump term will damage the climate, shatter alliances and strengthen autocrats. Americans should demand better. Vote.”

Given that rival outlets like The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and USA Today have controversially declined to offer an endorsement either way, this is strong stuff from the NYT.

Here’s more.

New York Times shares searing 112-word warning against Trump winning election

Harris leading in four swing states in respected late poll

Monday 4 November 2024 10:20 , Joe Sommerlad

The Harris campaign is cheering the news that its candidate has taken a marginal lead in several key swing states in the final New York Times/Siena College poll, making gains in Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Georgia.

Harris leads Trump by 49 percent to 46 in Nevada, 48 to 46 in North Carolina, 49 to 47 in Wisconsin and 48 to 47 in Georgia, which means it all remains extremely tight down there.

Trump, meanwhile, is thought to be ahead by 49 to 45 in Arizona and, perhaps most agonisingly of all, the two candidates remain deadlocked in Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Here’s the very latest from Rachel Sharp.

New poll spells hope for Harris as she leads Trump in four key swing states