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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have both been racing across swing states with two days left until America picks its next president
Trump tells a rally in North Carolina that 5 November "will be liberation day in America" and says the US is an "occupied country"
Harris ends the day by appearing on Saturday Night Live, taking part in a live comedy sketch alongside comedian and actor Maya Rudolph
More than 75 million people have already cast their ballot but both campaigns are still pushing to win over undecided voters
The race for the White House is on a knife edge - check our poll tracker here
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We've seen all of the big names out and about today, as both campaigns try and win over those last remaining crucial undecided voters. Here's some of what we've been watching.
Image source, EPARepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump held a rally in Virginia, before heading to North Carolina. He has three more planned on Sunday
Image source, ReutersKamala Harris disembarked Air Force Two as she arrived at LaGuardia Airport late on Saturday ahead of her appearance on Saturday Night Live
Image source, ReutersPresident Joe Biden embraced his granddaughter Natalie on stage during a Democratic event in the key state of Pennsylvania
Image source, ReutersRepublican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance and his wife Usha appeared on stage during a rally in Arizona, another key battleground state
Image source, ReutersActor Maya Rudolph reprised her impression of Kamala Harris alongside the vice-president herself during last night's Saturday Night Live
Image source, ReutersThe pair hugged and laughed during the scripted sketch, the latest in recent years to feature a high-profile politician running for election
Image source, ReutersThe pair jointly delivered the long-running show's opening refrain "and live from New York, it's Saturday night"
Image source, Reuters/NBCKamala Harris has just appeared in a sketch on US comedy show Saturday Night Live, alongside actor and comedian Maya Rudolph, who is known for her impressions of the vice-president.
In the skit, Rudolph sits down in a dressing room and looks into a mirror - through which Harris, dressed in identical attire, is looking back.
The live audience erupted with cheers when the Democratic candidate was revealed, and they laughed along as the pair performed a scripted sketch featuring puns on Kamala Harris's first name ("keep calm-ala and carry on-ala" and "kick back in our pyjama-alas and watch a rom com-ala").
Towards the end of the sketch, Rudolph gets up and says she is going to "vote for us", to which Harris asks hopefully: "Any chance you're registered in Pennsylvania?"
"Worth a shot," says Harris.
Image source, NBCDonald Trump was invited onto SNL in 2015
Presidential candidates appearing on Saturday Night Live, one of America's longest running TV shows, is nothing new.
In 2015, eventual Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton made a surprise appearance, playing a bartender alongside actress and comedian Kate McKinnon.
Weeks later, Donald Trump - who was seeking to become president for the first time - took part in the opening monologue.
Other politicians who have appeared on the programme include Barack Obama, who made a cameo in 2007 when he was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, and Sarah Palin in 2008 - who was then the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
Kamala Harris reportedly arrived at SNL's New York set a few hours ago for a rehearsal before the programme airs live.
Trump has just wrapped up his rally in North Carolina after speaking for nearly 90 minutes.
Before ending, he tells the crowd he considered delivering a shorter address than his usual full-length speech tonight, but adds: "I'm giving you the full bore. You wouldn't let me leave in half an hour.
"I could have run up here, done it, started screaming 'make America great again' five or six times and then leave to the cheers of the crowd. I would have been home sleeping right now."
He ends his speech by rattling through key campaign pledges and tells the crowd: "We will not be invaded. We will not be occupied. We will not be overrun. We will not be conquered."
And with that, the Village People's YMCA begins to play and the former president spends a few minutes dancing on stage and greeting his supporters.
Trump is sending a confident message to his supporters in North Carolina but urging them to vote early, saying: "When you're winning by a lot you can still lose by a little."
He goes on: "The United States is now an occupied country, but it will soon be an occupied country no longer."
Trump says the 5 November election "will be liberation day in America, it's going to be liberation".
The former president says he's planning a packed schedule of rallies over the last two days of the campaign, with three planned for Sunday and four on Monday.
"I'm working hard, because we have to win it," he says, after asking the crowd if they wouldn't mind if he condensed his remarks because it's so "late at night".
According to his campaign schedule, Trump will hold rallies tomorrow in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia.
Mike Wendling
Reporting from Chicago
A new poll of voters in Iowa suggests that Kamala Harris will carry the state with 47% to Donald Trump's 44%.
The survey was released by the highly regarded pollster Ann Selzer, who regularly carries out surveys for the Des Moines Register newspaper, external.
The survey questioned 808 likely voters in Iowa and Harris's lead, driven by women and independent voters, is still within the margin of error, 3.4 percentage points.
It's just one poll - so we should be cautious in interpreting the results.
"You'll note that neither of the major candidates gets to 50%, so there's still a little squishiness in what could actually happen come Tuesday," Selzer told BBC News in an interview earlier this evening.
For context, Trump won Iowa by nearly 10 points in each of the last two elections. It’s not one of the seven key battleground states – almost nobody thought it would be very close.
Iowa is not itself a big prize – just six electoral votes – but demographically, it resembles other states here in the US Midwest, such as Wisconsin and Michigan.
The Iowa poll will likely be celebrated in the Harris camp, but is already being dismissed by the Trump campaign.
When asked about the Selzer poll, Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller said that, in every election cycle, there is one "idiotic survey". He referred journalists to an Emerson poll, external that has Trump up 10 percentage points in Iowa.
Image source, ReutersDonald Trump begins his remarks by telling the crowd he is bringing them "a message of hope" and claims to have held "the biggest rallies in the history of any country".
He runs through some familiar themes, including attacking media organisations at the event as "fake news".
Trump repeatedly accuses Harris of being a "liar", including on her claims that a Trump presidency would lead to restrictions on in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatments.
Trump tells the crowd "I consider myself to be the father of fertilisation," repeating his claim to be the "father of IVF".
He turns to Project 2025, a document detailing how Trump could overhaul the US government along conservative lines. The Harris campaign has repeatedly pointed to the document during the campaign.
Several former Trump administration employees contributed to the plan, but Trump has not publicly endorsed it.
"I've never read it, I don't want to read it," he says.
Image source, Getty ImagesMaya Rudolph, who plays Harris, is seen with Jim Gaffigan playing her running mate Tim Walz
The vice-president will appear tonight on NBC's long-running sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, according to US media.
The New York Times, NBC News and the New York Post all cite an unnamed source, who says the vice-president will appear on the last episode before the election.
The Harris campaign has not confirmed the appearance on SNL, in which Harris is normally played by comedian Maya Rudolph.
Journalists traveling with Harris took off from North Carolina today, and were not told until mid-flight that the jet was headed to New York City instead of Detroit.
The episode, which is being hosted by comedian John Mulaney with Chappelle Roan as the musical act, airs at 23:30 EDT (03:30GMT).
Donald Trump has just taken to the stage in Greensboro, North Carolina, after walking out to the theme music used by WWE wrestler The Undertaker.
He begins by promising to bring back "the American dream" and calling Kamala Harris "the worst".
We'll be listening to his speech, one of the former president's last before polling day, and bring you updates. Stay tuned.
"Swifties for Kamala", a group unaffiliated with the singer but who are looking to mobilise Taylor Swift fans ahead of the election, has launched a targeted fandom mail programme across Pennsylvania, external.
According to a release from the group, more than 250,000 notices were sent to "low propensity female voters" in the swing state.
Within the envelopes of 50,000 of those notices were "Voting Era" friendship bracelets - a nod to the tradition of exchanging the homemade accessories at Swift's concerts.
In the notices, the group asks recipients to take a pledge to vote, make a voting plan and to share with friends - leaning of course on several references to Swift's lyrics.
Taylor Swift endorsed Harris for president back in September, moments after the vice-president ended a presidential debate against Donald Trump.
Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent
Image source, ReutersWhen Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020, it seemed to be the death knell of his political career.
His first term in office ended in chaos and condemnation - even from members of his own party.
If he wins the election on Tuesday, it will be only the second time anyone has ever returned to the White House after previously losing a presidential re-election bid.
“He gets knocked down and gets up twice as focused,” said Bryan Lanza, who has been a political adviser for the former president since Trump launched his 2016 campaign. “I don't think anybody should be surprised about this comeback.”
Such an extraordinary reversal of fortune for the former president would also vault him back into the White House as a man who seems politically bulletproof, with a detailed plan of action and ranks of loyalists behind him.
Image source, ReutersPeople cast their ballots at a polling station in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where early voting will end on Sunday 3 November
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Ana Faguy
BBC News, Washington
Image source, PHILLIPE STUDIOEarlier in her career as an artist, June Carey had to supplement her income with welfare because of how difficult it was to be self-employed.
The 70-year-old from Chico, California, was able to get off welfare after less than five years and she thinks Donald Trump’s policies will provide that pathway for others.
“Being on welfare, I saw how it does not work,” she says. “It creates generations of people who never move on.”
She says it’s essential that Americans are self-sufficient and not dependent on government programmes.
Today, she lives on $1,900 (£1,456) per month from social security. But with the price of food and gas rising under Joe Biden, she says she cannot cover minimum expenses and might need help again.
She wants to see politicians create an economy that means Americans like herself can afford the necessities, instead of spending money on “liberal policies”.
And that is where Carey believes Trump will help.
“The former president runs this country like a business and the more he talks the more I am impressed,” she says.
Image source, EPAWe have some more details of a story we reported on earlier, on the FBI warning about two videos circulating online aimed at casting a cloud of doubt over the election.
The videos used the FBI’s logo and spread rumours about ballot fraud and about Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice-President Kamala Harris.
Authorities wouldn’t elaborate on a statement they posted online this morning. But BBC Verify has found evidence linking the two videos to Russia.
The videos appear to come from an operation that has posted hundreds of clips in recent months on social network X, formerly Twitter, and on Russian-language channels on the messaging app Telegram.
The FBI warning is the third in recent days from top US officials over false content spreading online.
Yesterday, US intelligence agencies said a video showing Haitians voting illegally in Georgia was a fake produced by Russian “influence actors”.
Sally Nabil
Reporting from Washington DC
We're just three days out from the US presidential election, and some of the women who gathered for the Women’s March in Washington DC earlier today have told me they're worried that if Donald Trump doesn’t make it to the White House, he won’t admit defeat.
“He didn’t accept the results of 2020, he won’t accept this one either,” said Margaret, a teacher.
All around us we could see women wearing T-shirts with Kamala Harris’s pictures on them.
The marchers were holding signs that advocate for various domestic and international causes, ranging from abortion rights to calls to end the war in Gaza.
Alexia, a photography student, finds the scenes in Gaza “heartbreaking”.
She told me she doesn’t believe Trump can end the war in the Middle East if he wins 5 November poll.
“He’s good friends with (the Israeli Prime Minister) Benjamin Netanyahu, how can he bring about a ceasefire?”
Margaret (left) worries Trump won't accept the result if he loses
Christal Hayes
Reporting from Arizona
Coming back to Arizona, Vance has touched on many key policies in his speech to voters in the swing state - but he’s made a point to hone in on the “garbage” comment made by President Joe Biden.
“Our message to Kamala Harris is very simple,” he tells the standing-room only crowd.
“While it is disgraceful to call half the country garbage, in three days this country is going to take out the trash in Washington DC.”
The White House has denied Biden was speaking about Trump supporters broadly with his remark.
Vance also criticised Harris over her running mate, Tim Walz, for comparing Trump’s recent rally in New York to a pro-Nazi rally.
Speaking in Nevada on 27 October, Walz appeared to be compare Trump's rally that day to the German American Bund Rally in February 1939 when Nazi leader Fritz Julius Kuhn spoke in the same arena.
"There's a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden," Walz said then. "And don't think that he doesn't know for one second exactly what they're doing there."
Vance tells the cheering crowd today: “What he’s really saying is the American people are bad people for disagreeing with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz."
After Vance left the stage, voters flocked to the street and to buy pro-Trump merchandise from a row of tables, including pins of the former president with fake hair hot glued to them and yard signs saying “Gang members for Harris”.
Image source, ReutersAt his rally in Salem, Virginia, Donald Trump is hammering home his campaign's main focus points: The economy and immigration.
Like he did earlier today in North Carolina, Trump begins his remarks by asking the audience: "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?"
He promises to "end inflation" and "stop the invasion of criminals" into the US.
The Republican nominee also doubles down on his insults of rival Kamala Harris, calling her a "low IQ person".
Trump deviates slightly from his messaging at this particular Virginia rally, honing in more on his views on transgender issues.
He vows to "protect parents' rights" and to "stop the indoctrination of your children".
"We will not let them try to change your kids' gender," Trump says.
At one point, he brings out members of the women's swim team from Roanoke College - a Virginia school - who are all wearing pink T-shirts calling for men to stay out of women's sports.
Trump also says he would "win California" - a traditionally blue, heavily Democratic state - "if we had an honest election".
Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have held events in North Carolina as the election winds down to its final days.
Meanwhile, people have been lining up at polling booths in the state, where the early voting deadline is today.
Here's a photo recap of the day so far:
Image source, Getty ImagesKamala Harris arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday. Here she is pictured getting off her plane, parked on the tarmac next to Donald Trump's plane. North Carolina is a consequential battleground state that was narrowly won by Joe Biden in 2020
Image source, ReutersSupporters of Harris sold T-shirts with her face on it outside her rally in Charlotte, where she is expected to appear alongside actress Kerry Washington
Image source, Getty ImagesMeanwhile, supporters of Trump lined the path of his motorcade as he made his way to a rally he held in Gastonia, North Carolina
Image source, ReutersAt his rally, Trump repeated his promises to end inflation and "stop the invasion", touching mainly on the economy and immigration
Image source, ReutersAt the same time, voters in North Carolina have been busy at the polling booths, where long lines have formed for people looking to cast their ballot before the state's early voting deadline of Saturday.