We just heard former US president Bill Clinton address a crowd in Georgia which, as we've said already, is one of the so-called swing states in this election. Here's a reminder of what that means.

About 240 million people are eligible to vote in this presidential election, but only a relatively small number of them are likely to settle the question of who becomes the next president.

Experts believe there are a handful of states that could plausibly be won by either the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, or Republican Donald Trump: North Carolina, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

So both parties are campaigning intensively to win over undecided voters in what are referred to as swing or battleground states.

The graph below shows their latest polling data - plus you can catch up on the issues voters care about in them.

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Clinton wraps up with a return to the joke he opened with, telling those gathered to find someone wearing a Maga cap and take a photo with them.

"Have fun" during the election campaign, he tells the crowd, but remember what's at stake - that if the Democrats win, everyone, including Maga supporters, will be "better off" whereas if the Republicans win, only they will be better off, he claims.

As a final note, he urges the crowd to turn out for voting, and ends his speech to the soundtrack that has become central to Harris's campaign - Freedom by Beyonce.

We're continuing to listen in to Clinton's speech at a Harris campaign event.

Next on the agenda is the economy, on which he says voters have a choice that "is clear" - that Harris is trying to deliver a plan that benefits the many, rather than Trump's policies of benefiting the few.

He says Harris and Walz want everyone to be able to live a life that makes them feel fulfilled.

He adds that he doesn't want the tax cuts for the wealthy that would come under Trump's administration - that he would rather, for example, education be funded.

• For context: Trump has proposed new tax cuts which would eliminate taxes on overtime, social security and tips income, and grant domestic manufacturers an ultra low corporate rate of 15%. Harris, by contrast, has pledged to roll back tax cuts for the wealthy and raise the 21% rate for corporations to 28%.

After some jokes and banter, Bill Clinton's first serious topic of the speech is Hurricane Helene.

The storm landed in Florida last month and tracked north, devastating communities inland as far north as North Carolina, killing more than 200 people.

As we mentioned earlier, there has been some misinformation spread by Donald Trump and his allies. And some viral rumours online suggest the storm was engineered.

Clinton jokes that if he had the power to change the weather, he'd be in a different line of work.

The former president next turns to immigration, one of the key issues in this election. He says the birth rate in the US is below replacement level, so immigrants need to come to the country to grow the economy.

"Americans are not anti-immigration, they are anti-chaos," he says, to cheers of agreement from the partisan crowd.

• For context: Since January 2021, when Joe Biden came to office, there have been more than 10 million encounters - about 8 million came over the south-west land border with Mexico. Under the Trump administration, there were 2.4 million encounters on this border. BBC Verify has looked into the figures - including how government policies have affected crossings.

After being introduced by a local politician, Bill Clinton is onstage now speaking at a Kamala Harris campaign event in the city of Columbus in Georgia - one of the key swing states.

He starts by recounting his weekend, which he says was spent at a local state fair. While there, he tells the crowd, a man wearing a Make America Great Again (Maga) asked him for a picture.

Maga is the slogan of Donald Trump's campaign, and the tale gets a laugh from the crowd.

We'll bring you key lines from the rest of his speech - and you can watch along at the top of this page as well.

Trump's 'enemies within' and the electionpublished at 16:03 British Summer Time 14 October 2024

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Gordon Corera
Security correspondent, reporting from Washington DC

Where does the biggest threat to US security and the election come from?

Donald Trump’s talk that "enemies within" pose a bigger risk than Russia and China are a sign of just how differently he talks about the world compared to the national security community.

US intelligence has spent the last few months warning about election interference by China, Russia and also Iran.

Their concern is that cyber-attacks or social media campaigns could try and sway the result of the election or undermine its legitimacy.

But in an interview, Donald Trump singled out domestic protesters – "radical left lunatics" – as the main risk to the election itself. In a speech, he talked of Congressman Adam Schiff, who led the impeachment case against him, as one of the "enemies within".

Trump's comments that the National Guard or even the military could be used to deal with protests will spark memories of 2020 when he talked of their deployment to deal with protests over the death of George Floyd.

That put some military leaders in what they felt were uncomfortable positions.

His comments are a stark reminder that domestic divisions, wherever they come from, rather than foreign interference, may end up being the biggest issue come November and its aftermath.

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Bill Clinton is campaigning for Vice-President Kamala Harris in Georgia shortly, one of the key battleground states, after speaking at a church service in Albany yesterday.

Clinton is also scheduled to take a bus tour next week in North Carolina, another key swing state.

He isn't the first former president to lend his political weight to the Democratic campaign - last week Barack Obama spoke at a Harris rally in Pennsylvania, and regularly speaks in her favour.

We're expecting Clinton to speak at 11:15 EDT (16:15 BST). Stick with us, we will bring you the key moments from his speech. We'll have a live feed at the top of this page for then, so you will be able to watch along too.

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During his rally in Arizona on Sunday, Trump proposed hiring 10,000 more border patrol agents and giving them a $10,000 retention and signing bonus.

The rally was held in Prescott Valley, a town roughly 260 miles (418 kilometres) north of the border with Mexico. Immigration and border security are a key campaigning issue for the former president.

Leaders of the Border Patrol Union were in attendance, and have also endorsed Trump.

Earlier this year, the Biden-Harris administration blamed Trump for derailing a bipartisan bill that included funding for more border personnel.

Trump's campaign has frequently criticised Harris over issues relating to the Mexico-US border.

Recently, Trump has used Immigration and Customs Forces figures to claim that "13,000 convicted murderers entered our country during her (Harris's) three and a half year period as Border Czar" and said they were allowed to "openly roam our country".

But both claims are misleading.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, said the figures cover a period of many years, and include migrants who entered the US under the Trump presidency and previous administrations.

Read more: Migrants with criminal records - what new US data shows

Natalie Sherman
New York business reporter

Market sentiment seems to have swung back in favour of Donald Trump.

That’s judging by the price of Trump Media shares, which have more than doubled since dropping to about $12 last month, the lowest level of the year.

On Monday, they opened for trade at about $26 apiece.

Analysts have long argued the roller coaster ride of the company’s shares has been fuelled primarily by vibes related to Trump’s chances of winning the White House.

So it’s fitting that the upswing coincides with the rise in his odds of victory on betting markets - such as PredictIt, which have also turned upward in recent weeks.

There could be other factors at play too. Notably, the lockup period that barred Donald Trump and other insiders from selling their shares expired last month without everyone dumping their investments, removing a significant cloud on the stock.

Shares are still sharply lower than in March, when the company formally debuted on the stock market, fetching more than $60 apiece.

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff says the stakes of this election are too high for any of Donald Trump's attacks on Kamala Harris to stick.

"All that stuff is a distraction," he tells MSNBC. "Don't get sucked in by this Trump fog of misinformation."

Asked further about the election stakes, Emhoff says the result of this election will be felt for generations.

He referenced the Supreme Court judges appointed by Trump during his last term - who voted to overturn nationwide abortion protections.

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Over the weekend, aid to several communities hit by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina was temporarily paused after threats were made against first responders.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) said reports of threats aligned with the spread of conspiracy theories about aid being withheld or diverted for political gain, CNN reported.

Donald Trump and X CEO Elon Musk were among those spreading such misinformation, it reported.

Aid is expected to resume today, and with one county sheriff urging those in affected communities to stay calm and not "stir the pot".

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Vice-President Kamala Harris is expected to hold a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania later on Monday as she continues her push for swing state votes.

It comes as the Harris campaign today unveils new election policies aimed at black men. It includes forgivable small business loans.

These proposals are part of an effort by Harris to pitch directly to black men during the final stretch of the campaign.

It's a demographic that, according to the polls, is slipping in its support for the Democrats. Recent polls suggest her support from them is lower than in it was for Joe Biden in 2020.

Polls also suggest Harris is losing Latino voters' support. She currently holds a 19-point lead over Republicans, the smallest margin since 2016, per a recent New York Times poll.

Last week, former US President Barack Obama made an impassioned plea to black men to get behind the Democratic nominee.

In an interview aired on Sunday by Fox News, Donald Trump labelled Americans who oppose him as "radical-left lunatics" and "the enemy from within".

"I always say, we have two enemies," Trump said.

"We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia and all these countries."

In the pre-recorded interview, Trump said he didn't expect anyone who voted for him to cause unrest on election day, and suggested using the National Guard or even military force to "handle" any situation that might occur in his opposition.

On 6 January, 2021, Trump's supporters attacked the US Capitol building in an effort to stop Joe Biden becoming president.

In the recent vice-presidential debate, Trump's running mate JD Vance insisted that Trump had only said that "protesters ought to protest peacefully" in his speech before the Capitol riot.

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At the weekend, a man was arrested near Donald Trump's rally in California for illegally possessing two guns.

On Saturday, 49-year-old Vem Miller was driving a black SUV when he was stopped at a security checkpoint in Coachella. Officers found a shotgun, a handgun and a "high-capacity magazine".

Miller was then taken into custody "without incident", police said.

After he was released, Miller told US media he was a Trump supporter who had never fired a gun and was not planning to harm Trump.

The US Secret Service said Trump “was not in any danger”.

READ MORE: Man with guns arrested near Trump rally, then released

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Kamala Harris has released medical records which say she is in "excellent health" and fit for the presidency.

Her campaign then called on her Republican opponent to release his medical records, posting to social media: "your turn, Donald Trump".

In response, Trump's team quoted his doctor as saying that he was in "perfect and excellent health", but did not release his formal records.

Trump is four years younger than Joe Biden, which, if Trump is elected, would tie the pair for oldest serving president in US history at 82 years old in the year they each would leave office.

READ MORE: Harris puts pressure on Trump over medical records

Brandon Livesay
Live editor

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the US presidential election.

Today Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will be in Pennsylvania. It's a crucial swing state where polls suggest Harris is leading by only a point. And with the margin of error, it's possible that number is higher or lower.

Monday's campaign events come after a busy weekend for the political rivals.

In California on Saturday, a man was arrested near a Trump rally after a search of his vehicle found guns. He has since been released on bail and told US media he was a Trump supporter who was not planning to harm the Republican presidential candidate.

Also on Sunday, Harris released her medical records and suggested Trump has not done the same because he "doesn't want the American people to see whether or not he's fit to become president".

Without revealing Trump's medical records, the former president's team responded by quoting his doctor as saying that he was in "perfect and excellent health".

Stick with us, there's plenty happening today and we will bring you the latest analysis updates.