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Thank you for continuing to follow our coverage of the US election as we head into polling day.

As Europe wakes up, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are ending what has been a gruelling months-long campaign in the US. We'll continue to follow their final rallies over at our new page.

The pollsters can't say with any sort of certainty who they think is going to win - but later today, we will start to find out what America has decided.

Stay tuned.

Kamala Harris has just taken to the stage in Philadelphia for one last time during this campaign.

She begins her final speech by thanking her supporters for "showing who America is, that we are all in this together".

"Our campaign has tapped into the ambitions and aspirations and dreams of the American people. We are optimistic and we are excited about what we can do together," she says.

She says voters have a chance to "turn the page on a decade of politics that has been driven by fear and division".

John Bolton, who served in the first Trump administration, has told BBC Newsnight he believes his former boss will refuse to accept the result if he loses the election.

Bolton has become a staunch Trump critic since leaving the Trump White House.

You can watch the full interview here.

Tom Bateman
Reporting from Philadelphia

Image source, Reuters

Some of the biggest cheers so far from the crowd here at the Harris rally in Philadelphia have been for the rapper Fat Joe.

“I heard they needed a Puerto Rican in Philly and I was happy to come out here and represent,” said the artist, who hails from the Bronx and is of Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage.

He laid into last week’s comment by a Trump rally comedian who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage”.

“I did not find that a joke,” said Fat Joe. “This is out of control,” he said of Trump’s rhetoric.

While the Harris team said she won’t mention Trump when she speaks tonight, the campaign attacks are clearly still part of the night.

Tim Walz has been speaking about the Democratic position on reproductive rights - a central issue in this year's campaign - at his final rally in Detroit, the largest city in the swing state of Michigan.

"This is personal for so many of us," he said, adding that his family was able to conceive their daughter, Hope, because of fertility treatments. He was later joined with his wife, Gwen.

"We believe in the promise for America. We just have to fight for it," he said.

We're still waiting to hear from Harris and Trump - both are running late.

The US intelligence community has described Russia as "the most active threat" to election integrity in a joint statement issued on Monday.

It was signed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

In their assessment, they say people "linked to Russia in particular" are producing videos and fake articles "to undermine the legitimacy of the election, instil fear in voters regarding the election process, and suggest Americans are using violence against each other due to political preferences".

Christal Hayes
Reporting from Arizona

Image source, Christal Hayes

Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake has been speaking in Prescott, Arizona, a strongly Republican area of this swing state. Lake is running for a key Senate seat that could decide which party controls the chamber when the votes are counted after tomorrow.

Dozens in the crowd cheered as Lake attacked her Democratic rival Ruben Gallego, claiming he has "ties" to the cartels and is "controlled" by them. Gallego has acknowledged his long estranged father was convicted on drug charges - which he calls a "stain" on his family - and has denounced Lake's attacks.

She honed in on immigration in her remarks to the crowd and election integrity, urging the crowd to deliver a result "too big to rig" - a line which has also been used by Trump.

Many of those in the crowd have told me they don't have faith in the election system.

Image source, Getty Images

We're still waiting for Kamala Harris to deliver her final campaign speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Earlier, we heard from the state's Governor Josh Shapiro - who had been tipped as a potential running mate for Harris - saying a Democratic win would make the US "more free, more tolerant, and where we are united in the cause for liberty and justice for all".

Christina Aguilera, the Roots and Ricky Martin have all provided music in the last hour or so.

Tim Walz is currently speaking at a rally in Detroit, Michigan, which is being broadcast simultaneously with the Pennsylvania rally.

One last dance for the campaigns before we find out if polls were rightpublished at 02:54 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November

02:54 GMT 5 November

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent

I’ve been covering American politics for a good long while at this point. I’ve never seen a presidential election quite as close as this one.

The national polls are largely within the margin of error. Polls in the seven battleground states are almost universally within the margin of error.

Even if pollsters are right with their assumptions about what the electorate looks like, mere statistical variation could tip this race one way or the other.

And then there’s the possibility that the polls aren’t right. Maybe they aren’t picking up some late-breaking movement toward one candidate or another. These kind of shifts aren’t likely to show up in final surveys - but, as in 2016, they could be decisive.

The candidates are delivering their final speeches tonight - Trump in Michigan and Harris in Pennsylvania.

Tomorrow, the polls become irrelevant. The American voters will have their say - and don’t be shocked if there are some surprises in store.

The campaign is nearly over but both candidates each have one last item in their diaries tonight.

Trump is on his way to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Republican supporters have been gathering for hours ahead of his final speech of this campaign.

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris's final rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is already underway, with Katy Perry and Lady Gaga warming up the crowd before the vice-president arrives.

Both are ending this campaign in swing states which could decide who becomes the next president.

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Trump has just wrapped up his remarks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, marking his second to last campaign stop before election day. He now travels to Michigan to close out his campaign.

The former president began by comparing the size of his rally to his opponent's, who was also campaigning in Pittsburgh, and pledging to "launch the most extraordinary economic boom the world has ever seen" if he wins.

"If you vote for Kamala, you will have four more years of misery, failure and disaster. Our country may never recover," he warned.

"My message to Americans tonight is simple: we do not have to live this way. We don't, and we won't," he continued, calling Harris "a disaster".

"We do not have to settle for weakness, incompetence, decline and decay," he continued.

"With your vote tomorrow we can fix every single problem our country faces and lead America, and indeed the whole world, to new heights of glory."

He also praised a recent court decision affecting ballots in Georgia, insinuating without evidence that the federal government had attempted to meddle in voting.

Earlier on Monday, Georgia's Supreme Court voted to block a deadline extension for around 3,000 voters who received their postal ballots late due to a county clerical error.

Georgia is one of seven battleground swing states. Biden won the Deep South state in 2020 with a margin of less than 12,000 votes.

Mike Wendling
Reporting from West Allis, Wisconsin

Here's a selection of things that were mentioned from the stage at the last major Democratic rally in the swing state of Wisconsin tonight: abortion, Elon Musk, health care, middle-class jobs, the importance of getting out to vote.

And here's something that wasn’t: Donald Trump.

Tim Walz avoided the insults and scorn that he has previously lobbed at the former president and instead emphasised Kamala Harris’s closing message of “unity".

“She said she wants to be the president for all Americans, those who vote for us, and those who don’t,” he told a crowd at Wisconsin’s state fairgrounds.

We're getting a clear sense of the competing messages in the final hours of the campaign: from Harris and Walz, optimism and chants of “we’re not going back”; and from Trump and his running mate JD Vance, a dark picture of a nation in crisis, which only they can fix.

Over the next few days we’ll see which vision has better captured the national mood.

Podcaster Joe Rogan has endorsed Donald Trump, days after the former president appeared on his show.

Rogan has long been seen as being close to Trump politically, but this formal endorsement is new.

He posted a message of support on social media shortly after releasing a show featuring another high-profile Trump supporter, Elon Musk.

Rogan's podcast is one of the most popular in the world, especially with young men - a demographic Trump has been targeting during this campaign.

Both campaigns have used podcasts to try and reach voters in recent weeks. Harris was also reportedly in talks to appear on Rogan's show, but did not.

Tom Bateman
Reporting from Philadelphia

Much of the audience for Harris’s final rally here in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, are campaign volunteers.

Some people in VIP seating were given spots for completing a phone-fundraising or door-knocking shift in the last week. It’s a sign of how the campaign has been throwing everything at mobilising voters.

Harris critically needs voters in the suburbs, especially women, to come out in big numbers on Tuesday. Her campaign is all too aware how the opinion polls have barely budged for them, remaining deadlocked in Pennsylvania right up to the end.

Jessica Infante, a Harris campaign volunteer, is here with her nine-year-old daughter Juliana LeVine. I ask how she’s feeling about the outcome.

“I’m hoping either way, it's a landslide. I don't want there to be doubt, whichever way it goes,” says Jessica.

“And then we just all have to come together and pick up our bootstraps and move forward. That's my hope for tomorrow."

The mood coming from the Democratic campaign is a positive one on the eve of the election, with Kamala Harris said to be in good spirits.

Sources familiar with the vice-president's thinking have told CBS, the BBC's US news partner, she is calm and optimistic ahead of polling day.

The same sources also say she understands how this close the race is and, despite being "genuinely excited and energetic", Harris is said to believe that strong turnout is critical to her chances of winning.

Ione Wells
Reporting from Grand Rapids, Michigan

Donald Trump isn’t expected here in Grand Rapids, Michigan, until as late as 22:30 local time (03:30 GMT Tuesday). In fact, he's still on stage in Pennsylvania right now.

But even six hours before he was due for his final rally of the campaign, there was a sizeable crowd gathering outside - a sea of red MAGA hats.

Grand Rapids was the place Trump closed his 2016 and 2020 campaigns, which he’s likely to reference.

He won this usually solidly Republican area in 2016 but it swung to Joe Biden in 2020 - gains the Democrats are hoping to build on this time around.

This was largely attributed to the increasingly urban and diverse population here, and some more moderate Republicans moving away from Trump.

We'll be following Trump's final stump speech of the campaign when he does arrive.

Donald Trump is currently speaking at a rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has another rally after this in Michigan, as he blitzes swing states on the final day of the campaign.

Kamala Harris has her own rally in Pittsburgh tonight as well, she's expected to speak in the next hour. And Trump has immediately noted Harris's "competing rally", which he repeatedly calls "little".

He goes on to mock Beyonce for appearing alongside Harris last week at a rally.

"There were no songs," he said, imitating Beyonce. "It's just like 'gimme my cheque, I wanna get outta here'."

Earlier in his remarks, Trump pledged to deliver a "colossal surge" in jobs and wealth to American citizens.

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We have an update on America's early voting numbers - they have ticked over the 81m-mark, according to the University of Florida Election Lab.

It puts the total number of early votes at 81,379,684, and of these:

• 44,402,375 are in-person votes
• 36,977,311 are mail ballots returned

This year's early voting totals are well shy of the 101.5m early ballots cast in 2020, when the Covid virus kept many away from crowded polling places, but it’s more than the total early votes cast in 2016 (47.2m) or 2012 (46.2m).

Read our piece in full here

Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from Allentown, Pennsylvania

One thing that I've found here in Allentown - and which quite frankly surprised me - is that the area's undocumented population is extremely politically active, even if they can't vote.

Several people have told me that despite their status here, they are encouraging eligible voters in their community to vote. The election, they say, will ultimately have a huge impact on them and their future in this country.

Earlier I spoke to Armando Jimenez, a native of Mexico who has been in the US for 32 of his 38 years. He's part of a coalition of groups that has claimed to have gotten 11,000 people registered to vote.

It's personal for him. He's a "Dreamer" - a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme, which protects immigrants from deportation if they came to the country as children.

"We need people voting for issues like a pathway to citizenship. We want our local officials to represent everybody," he told me, switching back and forth from Spanish to English effortlessly.

"There's people like me who have been here for over 30 years. We're not leaving, this is my home."

"I'm just out here getting more people involved, regardless of party affiliation," he added. "We're telling them - your vote not only matters to you, but it matters to me as your neighbour."

A Georgia poll worker was arrested for mailing a threatening letter - allegedly targeting his own colleagues - to the Jones County Elections Superintendent.

Nicholas Wimbish, 25, of Milledgeville, Georgia, mailed the official after getting into a "verbal altercation" with a voter on 16 October, according to a statement from federal prosecutors.

Posing as the voter with whom he had quarrelled, Wimbish claimed in his letter that poll workers were “conspiring votes” and “distracting voters from concentrating”.

The letter said that Wimbish and others "should look over their shoulder". He also allegedly threatened to rape female poll workers.

He is charged with mailing a bomb threat, conveying false information about a bomb threat, mailing a threatening letter, and making false statements to the FBI.

He faces up to 25 years in prison.