Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent, reporting from Michigan

Last week in her speech in Washington, DC, which was billed as her closing argument of her presidential campaign, Kamala Harris began with a dark warning of who she says Donald Trump is, and what his victory would portend.

She then pivoted to a forward looking message about her agenda and vision of a more co-operative, bipartisan future.

Sunday night, speaking to a fieldhouse packed with students at Michigan State University, she skipped past the dark and straight to the upbeat.

“Our future is bright,” she said. “I’m so optimistic about it.” Political campaign tend to like ending on a positive note – leaving a hopeful message as voters head to the polls. Donald Trump has rewritten this standard playbook, but it appears that Harris is following the more traditional path.

Ione Wells
Reporting from Michigan

Kamala Harris is currently speaking at rally at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

“I will do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza.” Harris says.

This is a very deliberate opening message in Michigan, home to the US’s largest Arab-American population.

Donald Trump campaigned on Friday in the largest Arab-majority city - Dearborn. He’s capitalised on some of the anger here - at the Democrats’ handling of the conflict in the Middle East, and financial support for Israel.

Trump has said that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would have a “big role in the administration” should he be successful at the election, according to reporting this evening by NBC News, external.

The former president told NBC he "is open to some of [RFK Jr.'s] more controversial ideas".

When Trump was asked whether banning certain vaccines might come into play if he got a second term, he said he "didn't rule it out".

“Well, I’m going to talk to [Kennedy] and talk to other people, and I’ll make a decision, but he’s a very talented guy and has strong views," Trump said.

Kennedy, a member of the famous political dynasty and nephew of former president John F Kennedy, is a vaccine sceptic who has a history of spreading health information scientists say is false.

Brandon Drenon
Reporting from North Carolina

On the final Sunday before the election, Carol Holmes is canvassing for Democrats in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County.

She’s with Michael Tucker, a member of the Republicans for Harris campaign.

Together, they’re walking through the grounds of an apartment complex outside Charlotte, knocking on the doors of “persuadable Republicans” - those that, based of certain data points, Democrats think are winnable.

Of the three homes I saw them approach, only one answered.

“I’ve already voted. I wish people wouldn’t do this,” the woman behind the barely-opened door says before immediately closing it.

Holmes continued on. The 76-year-old badly wants to see Harris become the first female president and won’t be discouraged, not by slammed doors, nor by the flights of stairs she has to trek to reach the houses here.

“I marched in the 70s, marched for women’s lives. We thought we had fought that battle,” Holmes says. “The grandma’s my age are angry that they’re having to do it again.”

“If Kamala wins it’s going to be so exciting. If she loses, it’s going to be very crushing.”

Shayan Sardarizadeh and Olga Robinson
Disinformation specialists at BBC Monitoring

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned of two fake videos circulating online that aim to cast doubt around the US presidential election - the latest in a series of alerts by top officials.

BBC Verify found evidence linking the videos to a much larger, Russia-based operation that has produced hundreds of fakes directed at the election in recent months.

In a post on X on Saturday, the FBI said the two videos were spreading rumours about ballot fraud and about Doug Emhoff, the husband of Democrat candidate Vice-President Kamala Harris.

The fake videos, which purport to be from the FBI and include the bureau’s logo, did not receive a large amount of views from real people on X.

“These videos are not authentic, are not from the FBI, and the content they depict is false,” the FBI statement said, external.

“Attempts to deceive the public with false content about FBI operations undermines our democratic process sand aims to erode trust in the electoral system.”

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Trump has turned to the economy, attacking the Biden-Harris administration's handling of inflation and other economic issues.

He cites a jobs report from last week that showed the US economy added just 12,000 jobs in October, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

It was expected there would be a decline in the employment numbers last month due to two major hurricanes and several major labor strikes.

American voters have consistently rated the economy and the costing of living as the most important issues driving them to the polls.

While Trump is firing up a rally in North Carolina, Harris was put in a tough spot while campaigning in Detroit, Michigan.

During a campaign stop in the city, Harris took questions from reporters. But when one asked how she voted on a key crime measure in her home state of California, she declined to say what she ticked on her mail-in ballot.

"I am not going to talk about the vote on that," Harris says, noting it's days before the election. A former California attorney general and a former San Francisco district attorney, Harris says she didn't want to "create an endorsement one way or another around it".

The measure, Prop. 36, makes shoplifting a felony for repeat offenders increases punishments for some drug charges and allows judges to order some drug offenders to undergo treatment.

The ballot measure has divided some Democrats in the state as California fights off perceptions of being lax on crime.

Donald Trump has just taken the stage at a rally in Kinston, North Carolina, a stop on his way to visit battleground states in the last remaining days before the election.

Trump has started his speech with attacks against both Biden and Harris, claiming he doesn't know who's running the White House now.

He also blames Democrats for their handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.

"Every problem we are facing can be solved but now the fate of the nation is in your hands," Trump tells the crowd.

Tom Bateman
Reporting from Pennsylvania

As Donald Trump disembarks his plane for his next rally in North Carolina, let's recap a bit of what we heard from him earlier.

Speaking in another swing state, Pennsylvania, Trump covered his touchstone issues of the economy and immigration.

“I’m asking you to be excited about the future of our country again,” he said, promising the crowd a “golden age” after a “failed country” from a group of “incompetent fools”, meaning the Democrats.

He asked the rally-goers whether or not they felt better off now under the Biden-Harris administration, or four years ago at the end of his presidency. “Four years, four years!” shouted the crowd.

Nearly all the Trump fans I spoke to outside had referenced the cost of living as a major election issue.

Polls suggest is by far the biggest concern for all likely voters in Pennsylvania - Republicans and Democrats alike. Inflation surged during the Biden administration and although the rate of prices increasing has levelled off and begun to fall, it is still a major vulnerability for Harris.

Trump again pledged he would stop what he repeatedly characterises as an “invasion” of migrants at the southern US border. He has promised the biggest mass deportation program in American history.

As we've been reporting, Donald Trump earlier suggested to a crowd in battleground Pennsylvania that a possible assassin at the event "would have to shoot through the fake news. And I don't mind that so much."

The Trump campaign is now responding to criticism of those remarks, saying it was a "statement about protective glass placement" that "has nothing to do with the media being harmed".

"It was about threats against him that were spurred on by dangerous rhetoric from Democrats. In fact, President Trump was stating that the media was in danger, in that they were protecting him and, therefore, were in great danger themselves, and should have had a glass protective shield, also," communications director Steven Cheung says in a statement.

"There can be no other interpretation of what was said. He was actually looking out for their welfare, far more than his own!"

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It's just two days until election day, so let's recap where Donald Trump and Kamala Harris stand on key issues.

Inflation

• Harris says her day-one priority is trying to reduce the cost of living. She promises to ban price-gouging on groceries, help first-time home buyers, increase housing supply and raise the minimum wage. Inflation soared under the Biden presidency, as it did in many western countries. It has fallen since.
• Trump has promised to “end inflation and make America affordable again” - he says more drilling for oil will lower energy costs. He has promised to deliver lower interest rates, something the president does not control, and he says deporting undocumented immigrants will ease pressure on housing.

Law and order

• Harris has tried to contrast her experience as a prosecutor with the fact Trump has been convicted of a crime.
• Trump has vowed to demolish drugs cartels, crush gang violence and rebuild Democratic-run cities that he says are overrun with crime. He has said he would use the military or the National Guard, a reserve force, to tackle opponents he calls "the enemy within" and "radical left lunatics" if they disrupt the election.

Abortion

• Harris has made abortion rights central to her campaign, and she continues to advocate for legislation that would enshrine reproductive rights nationwide.
• Trump has struggled to find a consistent message on abortion. The three judges he appointed to the Supreme Court while president were pivotal in overturning the constitutional right to an abortion, a 1973 ruling known as Roe v Wade.

Get up to speed on more of their policies on issues including healthcare, guns and trade here.

Luiz Oliveira, a small business owner in Nevada, moved to the US from Brazil in the 1980s but he’s not happy with the number of immigrants arriving through the southern border.

“How is this happening in America?” asks the 65-year-old. “All these people crossing, it’s an invasion.”

Oliveira says the Biden administration “opened the border” and allowed it to happen, referring to the rise in border crossings after Biden came to power.

He describes how hard he had to work to get his citizenship, finally “earning” it in 2012. “For me to be a US citizen is a privilege, an honour. I love this country.”

Mr Oliveira is confident Trump will put an end to what he calls a border crisis. “You want to come to America? Earn it, like I did.”

Trump has vowed to secure the border and deport anyone living in the US illegally. Harris says she would revive a cross-party bill, opposed by Trump, that would expand the authority to deport people and build more border wall.

• Read more: Six Trump voters on why they’re backing him in 2024

Sam Cabral
Reporting from Washington DC

During his rally earlier today in Lititz, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump appeared to suggest he "shouldn't have left" the White House following his defeat in the 2020 election.

“We had the safest border in the history of our country the day that I left," the Republican nominee said. "I shouldn’t have left. I mean, honestly, because... we did so well."

While Trump's critics have accused him of fomenting an insurrection with the US Capitol riot of 6 January 2021, his allies insist it was a peaceful transition of power, pointing to the fact that he left Washington DC on his final day in office on 20 January.

According to a 2022 book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, following his loss to Biden, Trump said on several occasions that he ought to stay put, telling one aide: "We're never leaving. How can you leave when you won an election?"

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A little earlier at Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania, he departed from the teleprompter script and began talking about the safety glass surrounding him on stage.

Pointing to the safety glass in front of him, he says: "I have this piece of glass here, but all we have really over here is the fake news, right? And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. And I don't mind that so much."

"I don't mind," he says, to cheers in the crowd.

"The problem with that glass it's - I don't look great on television when you have a 4-inch piece of glass that a howitzer can't go through," he says.

Carl Nasman
News correspondent, reporting from Green Bay

If there’s one thing nearly all Wisconsinites can agree on, it’s their support for the Green Bay Packers football team.

We’re in Green Bay, just outside the famous Lambeau Field ahead of today’s game. But it’s clear that this fraught election has also come to town.

We’ve seen political yard signs, trucks and even banners flown by planes over the stadium (one says “it’s Kamala o’clock!!!").

The city of Green Bay and the surrounding county will be critical in deciding which way Wisconsin swings in 2024. The Trump campaign has leveraged the state’s football fever, campaigning earlier this week with Packers legend Brett Favre.

Both Harris and Trump hope a last-minute drive to get voters to the polls can help them win on Election Day.

Brandon Drenon
Reporting from North Carolina

I’m at the home of a Democratic volunteer in a southeast Charlotte suburb, a relatively conservative area in an otherwise deeply Democratic corner of the map.

Roughly 50 people are piled into the kitchen and living room, preparing to hear a brief speech from the state Democratic chair, Anderson Clayton, and a few candidates running for local races.

It’s all meant to excite the small crowd gathered, soon to embark on a canvassing effort in the area. The goal: Get Democrats to the polls in just two days. “We’ve got less than 48 hours,” people here repeatedly yell out.

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Meanwhile, Democratic vice-presidential hopeful Tim Walz has been campaigning in the swing state of Georgia.

Speaking to voters in the Atlanta area, the Minnesota governor said he is "feeling pretty optimistic" two days out from the election but he expects the contest to be "razor thin".

"A vote or two per precinct, a few more students getting out there, we win this thing," he says.

So how close is the contest? Extremely - the polling is within the margin of error across the seven swing states. Take a look at our poll tracker.

Anthony Zurcher
North America correspondent

Image source, Reuters

Kamala Harris spoke for approximately 10 minutes here in Detroit. In remarks, she quoted the prophet Jeremiah, who she said told “hard truths”.

“God has a plan for us,” she said. “But we must act on the plans he has in store for us.”

About halfway through her speech, she pivoted toward a more traditional campaign message, including calls for turning the page on “hate and division.”

“What kind of country do we want our children and grandchildren to live in?” she asked.

Frequently during her speech, members of the congregation nodded and voiced their approval.

The band has now kicked back up, as the bishop has finished his own remarks. People are dancing in their pews.

Image source, Reuters

As Trump wraps up his speech in Pennsylvania, let's recap why it's one of the seven key states to watch on Tuesday.

In a nutshell: It’s hard to win the White House without Pennsylvania, which carries the most electoral votes of all the swing states.

2020 margin: Biden by 82,000 votes.

What's the deal now? Pennsylvania’s prized 19 electoral votes make it one of the most visited states by both candidates. It is also the place where a supporter of Trump was killed at a rally, in a hail of bullets targeting the former president.

Famous for: The Liberty Bell, Will Smith and the 72 “Rocky Steps”.

What to watch out for on election night

• It was one of the last states to be called in 2020, four days after the election, so don’t expect a fast outcome

• Look out for Erie County which has been a bellwether in recent presidential elections

Read more about the other six swing states here.

Tom Bateman
Reporting from Lititz, Pennsylvania

Trump’s speech here in Pennsylvania launched straight into a series of accusations that the Democrats were “cheats”. He has also made similarly baseless claims of election fraud.

Pennsylvania allows early voting and more than 1.7 million votes have already been cast. Trump has been suggesting this, and the likelihood of a days-long count, mean the system is rigged. He called for one day voting with results declared on the night.

Former election officials have said the count may take several days, as it did in 2020, to ensure its accuracy given how close the polls are between Trump and Harris.

Trump’s opponents accuse him of using these rallies to create an atmosphere of suspicion over the election process, to lay the groundwork for a challenge to the outcome. All candidates are legitimately entitled to use the courts for legal challenges to results.

Trump is accused of attempting to undermine the legitimacy of the election system among voters by repeating claims of voter fraud that aren’t backed by evidence.

• BBC Verify has looked at various allegations from Pennsylvania here