Jake Horton
BBC Verify

Kamala Harris has said: “In more than 20 states, there is a Trump abortion ban, many with no exceptions, even for rape and incest... be sure if he were to win, he would sign a national abortion ban".

It is misleading to claim that Trump would sign a national abortion ban. During this campaign, he has said he would not do this and that he believes the issue should be left to individual states.

Twenty-two states voted to either ban or restrict abortions after he left office, but Trump did appoint three justices to the Supreme Court who voted to overturn Roe v Wade, clearing the way for this to happen.

Roe v Wade protected the federal Constitutional right to abortion for nearly 50 years until it was overturned in June 2022.

As a result, 22 states currently ban abortion or restrict the procedure to earlier in pregnancy than was set by Roe v. Wade. In 14 of those states, abortion is banned in almost all circumstances with 10 not even making an exception for rape or incest.

Making her closing pitch in Atlanta, Harris attacks Trump, saying he'd spend his first day in office focused on his "enemies list".

"When I am elected, I will walk in with a to-do list," she says.

She takes aim at Trump's economic plan - which she claims will favour the country's millionaires and billionaires over the middle class - before pivoting to her most popular argument: reproductive rights.

As Harris promises to restore abortion access nationwide she is met with the loudest applause of the rally so far.

Trump "hand-selected" the justices that overturned Roe v Wade, ending a nationwide right to an abortion, Harris says.

"One in three women lives in a state with a Trump abortion ban, including Georgia," she continues.

"But Donald Trump is not done," she says. "He will ban abortion nationwide."

BBC Verify has looked into this claim, which is misleading. More on that to come.

Kamala Harris has just taken the stage in Atlanta, Georgia, a crucial battleground state, to the tune of Beyoncé's Freedom - a constant theme for the Harris campaign.

Still addressing supporters in North Carolina, Donald Trump is now zeroing in on his economic promises as he makes his final pitch to voters.

He mentions a recent US jobs report, which showed that job growth has slowed significantly in October. The US Labour Department put this largely down to back-to-back hurricanes, one of which battered North Carolina, and labour disputes, according to the US Labour Department.

Trump blames the Biden administration for the numbers, and specifically Kamala Harris, saying their policies have led to what he says is economic decline in the country, "worst than the depression."

"But don't worry, I'll fix it," Trump says.

He pledges to cut taxes for workers and small businesses. He also repeats his popular pledge of "no tax on tips," adding that he will also axe taxes on overtime pay and social security benefits.

On energy, Trump vows to ramp up oil drilling and fracking in the US to increase energy independence and in turn lower energy prices.

Helena Humphrey
reporting from Gastonia, North Carolina

This election is highlighting a notable gender divide, with Donald Trump receiving significantly less support among young women.

Is this playing out at the rally here in Gastonia, North Carolina?

There was indeed a somewhat awkward moment when Trump called out to the crowd, “Where are the women I know from North Carolina?”

His question was met with only a lukewarm ripple of shouts.

“They’re coming later,” someone replied.

“Where the hell are they?” Trump pressed, before adding, “Oh, you’re scattered. I’ve never seen that before.”

Have 325,000 migrant children gone missing?published at 17:39 Greenwich Mean Time 2 November

17:39 GMT 2 November

Trump has repeatedly claimed that 325,000 migrant children have gone missing on Kamala Harris’s watch.

He has said: “You know that 325,000 children are dead, slaves, or sex slaves right now, they came through the open border.”

This is misleading.

You can get to this figure by adding together the number of unaccompanied migrant children (UCs) who did not appear for their immigration hearing and those UCs who do not yet have an immigration hearing date.

But there is no evidence that this many are dead or are slaves.

In August 2024, a memo from the Office of the Inspector General , externalstated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had reported that more than 32,000 UCs had failed to appear for immigration hearings between the financial years 2019 to 2023. This includes the final two years of Trump’s presidency.

It added that UCs who do not appear for court “are considered at higher risk for trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor”. It did not say how many of these children had actually been victims of these crimes.

The memo also said that, as of May 2024, ICE had not filed paperwork for more than 291,000 UCs to start their court proceedings.

The Department of Homeland Security DHS - which oversees ICE - has said the data “includes individuals who entered the country over the past 40 years or more, the vast majority of whose custody determination was made long before this administration”.

BBC Verify has looked into the claim in more detail here.

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Trump starts off his speech in a manner similar to his previous rallies over the past few days, with a question: "Are you better off now than you were for years ago?"

He then makes his repeated promises to "end inflation," "stop the invasion," and "bring back the American Dream."

He moves onto migration, claiming: "There's nobody that ever did the border job like I did".

He repeats a claim he's made before - that 325,000 migrant children have gone missing on Kamala Harris’s watch.

BBC Verify has checked out this last claim and found it to be misleading.

Donald Trump has just walked on stage for a rally in Gastonia, North Carolina - a crucial swing state.

He is greeted by cheers of "USA, USA."

"This will happen on Tuesday", he says of election day, but we have to get out and vote.

"I will bring back the American dream."

"We win this state, we're gonna win the whole ball game," he adds.

For context: North Carolina has only been won by a Democratic presidential candidate once in the last 50 years. But in 2020, Trump only beat Joe Biden by a little over 1%.

John Sudworth
Reporting from Atlanta, Georgia

The black vote is the bedrock of Democratic Party support in Georgia. But there’s concern that the huge advantage Kamala Harris enjoys with that demographic might be slipping a bit among young black men. And in such a tight race, every vote counts.

Mike Brady is a school teacher in Atlanta, waiting here with his family to see Harris speak. He tells me he’s already persuaded one of his black friends away from casting a vote for Donald Trump.

“I said, you gonna vote?,” Mike tells me. “He said, ‘I’m voting for Trump because prices are high.’”

“I told him,” Mike continues, “If you vote for Trump, that’s gonna hurt your kids and grandkids. And he kinda woke up. He voted Monday and he voted for Harris. Blew my mind!”

Ana Faguy
US reporter

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A new president will not be the biggest change in Ben Maurer’s life come November.

The 38-year-old truck driver from Pennsylvania is expecting his second child just weeks after the election.

Maurer, a lifelong Republican, is hopeful that next month will mark the starting point of a more prosperous time for his family as Trump potentially returns to the White House.

Last year, his wife quit her job because the cost of childcare was higher than her income. Since then, Maurer has been the sole provider for the family and his wife has stayed home with their eldest child as they await the new arrival.

This would not be the case, Maurer believes, if Trump were president.

“I feel like [Trump] has a handle on making it about the American economy first and the American worker first,” he says.

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As we've just reported, four million people in the battleground state of Georgia cast their ballots before the early voting window closed on Friday, meaning more than half of the state's registered voters have already turned out.

In a statement released announcing this, Brad Raffensperger, the state's top election official said: "This was the most successful early voting period in Georgia history because voters trust the process."

In 2020, the last presidential election, less than three million Georgians cast their ballots by the end of early voting.

Both the Harris and Trump campaigns are targeting Georgia in the final days of the election campaign, with Harris set to speak at a rally in Atlanta in the next couple of hours, and the Trump campaign holding a women's rally in the same city later, featuring the former president's daughter-in-law Lara Trump.

Eva Artesona
reporting from Atlanta, Georgia

Over in Georgia, a rally for the Harris campaign has kicked off.

Kamala Harris is expected to take to the stage in Atlanta at 13:40 local time (17:40 GMT).

Ahead of her appearance, film director Spike Lee has appeared, telling attendees to “do the right thing.”

Georgia, a battleground state, has seen a record turnout with more than four million votes already cast before election day.

Donald Trump's first rally of the day will take place in Gastonia,North Carolina - a key battleground state.

The rally starts at midday local time (16:00 GMT).

Stay with us as we bring you the latest from the rally.

Brandon Drenon
Reporting from North Carolina

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Donald Trump will be making two stops in North Carolina today, in Gastonia and Greensboro.

It's reflective of an atypical amount of campaigning for a Republican presidential candidate in the state, having long been a stronghold for the party.

However, over the years, Democrats have gained ground here. In 2020, Trump only beat Joe Biden in North Carolina by a little over 1%.

Democrats believe this election could be their year. Their optimism is being partly aided by the presence of a scandal-plagued gubernatorial candidate, Republican Mark Robinson.

Robinson, a Trump-backed candidate whom the former president once called "Martin Luther King on steroids", allegedly called himself a "black Nazi" years ago on the chat board of a porn website.

The controversy added to his already polarizing race, having said things on the campaign trail like "some people need killing".

Democrats are hoping that with Robinson on the ballot, more of their party's voters, along with centrist-Republican voters, will turn out to support Robinson's challenger and vote for Harris at the same time.

Nicole Wallace, who used to work in the White House under former Republican president George W Bush, is calling on her old boss to back Kamala Harris.

During her regular programming on MSNBC, she encouraged Bush to have a "change of heart" over his position to remain silent this election.

"Where is George W Bush," Wallace asked.

Her comments were made in the wake of Donald Trump's remarks about Liz Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman who has been both a vocal Trump critic and Harris supporter.

Trump previously said about Cheney: "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her."

Elected leaders on both sides of the aisle have condemned his comments. Harris said it should disqualify him from office. Trump said he wasn't suggesting violence at Cheney but was criticising her record of being a "war hawk".

The gender gap may be the biggest divide heading into next week's election, a whopping 17 points, according to the Pew Research Institute.

While Donald Trump is favoured by young men, Kamala Harris is up nine points among women, a lead that jumps even higher among college-educated women.

With polls neck-and-neck both nationally and in battleground states like Michigan, Harris is counting on these women to show up, in big numbers, to win her the election.

That responsibility is not lost on University of Michigan student Hannah Brocks, 20, who waited in a long line last week to attend a packed Harris and Walz rally in Ann Arbor in a local park. She’s been involved in the school’s young Democrats club, knocking on doors, sending flyers and making phone calls to try to convince people to vote for Harris.

“I just like the way she talks about people in general,” Ms Brocks said. “It’s just so much love and empathy in the way she talks about other people."

Read more about the women who could take Harris to the White House

A new pro-Harris campaign advertisement encouraging women to secretly vote for Kamala Harris, while their husbands vote for Donald Trump, has caused a stir among conservatives.

In the advertisement, external, narrated by actress Julia Roberts, a man who seems to support Donald Trump tells his wife, "your turn honey", after he casts his ballot.

Roberts then begins by saying: "In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose", before the man's wife then marks her vote for Harris.

The husband then asks "did you make the right choice", to which the woman replies, "sure did honey".

Discussing the ad, Fox News host Jesse Watters said: "If I found out Emma was going to the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair."

Trump himself has also commented on the ad, saying: "Can you imagine a wife not telling a husband who she’s voting for? Did you ever hear anything like that... That’s a ridiculous ad. So stupid."

• For context: Polls suggest a widening gender gap, with women voting exponentially in favour of Democrats while men are increasingly voting for Trump and Republicans.

Brandon Drenon
Reporting from North Carolina

Image source, Michael Tucker

Michael Tucker is the North Carolina director of Haley Voters for Harris, a group of anti-Trump Republicans who voted for his challenger Nikki Haley in the primaries and are now voting for Kamala Harris.

Tucker says he plans to spend the final weekend before election day going all in for Democrats, attending Harris's rally in Charlotte on Saturday and door-knocking to encourage votes for Harris on Sunday.

During the presidential primaries, 250,000 North Carolina voters cast their ballots for Haley. That's more than triple Trump's margin of victory over Joe Biden in the state in 2020.

Democratic strategists believe this chunk of voters, the former Haley-backers, could be a persuadable group willing to flip their ticket this year. Tucker is one of them.

"We have a big enough problem from some of the rhetoric that Trump's using here, that we can't gamble on hoping that a third party is going to pull some sort of an upset," Tucker says.

"We have to work with the Democratic party, because they are the best tool for us to be able to stop Trump right now.

"There's no other choice but to pull behind Democrats and make sure they win this."

Helena Humphrey
reporting from North Carolina

We’ve been here since before dawn in Gastonia, North Carolina - and so has this line of Trump supporters.

This is likely to be the former president’s penultimate rally of this election cycle, and people here tell us they’re hoping for a fun day ahead.

In the line, we meet Becky, who explains her outfit. “I’m wearing a 2020 cap,” she tells me, pointing to her pink hat “because thanks to Bidenomics, I can’t afford a new one.”

“And you want to see my outfit for later?” she exclaims, gesturing to the trash bag she plans to wear in the crowd. “Because that's what Biden thinks we are,” she says, referring to the president's remark appearing to call Trump backers "garbage" earlier this week - though Biden's office has denied that was his meaning.

Vice President Kamala Harris has sought to distance herself from her boss' comment, saying she strongly disagrees with criticising people based on who they vote for.

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Donald Trump's rally in Wisconsin on Friday night had a slight hiccup about 10 minutes into the event as the former president encountered issues with his microphone.

The crowd at the Milwaukee event began chanting "fix the mic" because they couldn't hear him.

"I think the mic stinks," the former president said before removing it from the stand.

He later asked his audience: “Do you want to see me knock the hell out of people backstage?”

“I get so angry. I’m up here seething. I’m seething," he added, while holding the mic in his hand.

"I’m blowing out my left arm, now I’m going to blow out my right arm, and I’m blowing out my damn throat too, because of these stupid people."

He then jokingly said: "I'll make you a deal. Pretend you’re listening to it perfectly and I’ll come back and do another one, OK?” before hitting the mic against the stand.