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Donald Trump's final rally on Saturday was in North Carolina, in the city of Greensboro.

The state voted for Trump in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.

He began by saying he would bring back the "American dream" and claimed to have held the "biggest rallies in the history of any country".

In a speech, lasting nearly 90 minutes, he brought up "fake news" and called Kamala Harris a "liar".

Trump went on to describe the US as an "occupied country" and said Tuesday's election would be "liberation day in America".

At one point, he distanced himself from Project 2025 - a "wish list" for the next Republican president that proposes to expand presidential power and impose an ultra-conservative social vision - saying he's "never read it, I don't want to read it".

Trump says if he wins the presidential election, he will "rapidly reduce inflation" by ending "Kamala's war on American Energy".

"And we will drill baby drill," he adds.

Like Harris, Trump also urged people to vote: "When you're winning by a lot you can still lose by a little".

"Every problem facing us can be solved but now the fate of our nation is in your hands," he told the crowd.

"It's in your hands. You're going to tell (Harris) that you've had it... you're the worst vice-president in history, you're terrible at what you do, you've destroyed our country. Kamala, you're fired" he added.

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As we've been reporting, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump both held rallies in the key battleground state of North Carolina yesterday, hoping to win the support of undecided voters.

At her rally in Charlotte, Harris began by criticising Donald Trump.

“This is someone who is increasingly unstable," she said, "obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and the man is out for unchecked power".

If Trump becomes president, he will focus on his "enemies list", Harris said.

"Unlike Donald Trump, I don't believe that people who disagree with me are the enemy," she said.

"He wants to put them in jail. I will give them a seat at the table. That's what real leadership looks like," she added.

Harris said if she wins the presidential election, she'll start working on her "to-do list", which includes a tax cut for more than 100 million Americans, a federal ban on corporate price gauging on groceries and making sure Americans can afford a place to live.

"At the top of my list is bringing down the cost of living for you," she added.

On the war in Gaza, Harris said "we all want that war in the Middle East to end" and "the hostages home". The Vice President added that if she wins the presidential election, "I will do everything in my power to make it so".

Abortion rights was also brought up. She told the crowd that this election was a "fundamental fight for freedom" so that women have "the right to make decisions about her body".

And in a push to mobilise voters, she said: "You all will make the difference in this election. You will make the difference."

Brandon Drenon
Reporting from Charlotte, North Carolina

When I arrived ahead of the Kamala Harris rally in Charlotte in North Carolina on Saturday, there was one thing that immediately struck me - the absence of pro-Harris swagger.

I noticed a few lone vendors wandering on foot selling T-shirts, and one tent selling merchandise.

It was a stark comparison to the Donald Trump rally I attended in Wilmington, North Carolina back in September.

That had the feel of a Trump festival - a Trump-a-palooza - with dozens of tents and vendors lined up one after the other, stretching as far as I could see. They sold everything imaginable with Trump’s name, and oftentimes, face on it. Shirts, hats, pins, stuffed animals.

The gold-painted Mercedes Benz parked out front, featuring the former president’s signature, was not for sale, however.

Harris has had a small lead over Trump in the national polling averages since she entered the race at the end of July and she remains ahead - 48% to 47%, according to the latest data from 538/ABC News, external.

While national polls are a useful guide as to how popular a candidate is across the whole country, they're not the best way to predict the election result.

That's because the US uses an electoral college system, in which each state is given a number of votes roughly in line with the size of its population. A total of 538 electoral college votes are up for grabs, so a candidate needs to hit 270 to win.

There are 50 states in the US but because most of them nearly always vote for the same party, in reality there are just a handful where both candidates stand a chance of winning. These are the places where the election will be won and lost and are known as battleground states or swing states.

In the seven swing states identified as key in this election, the race is also very close. Trump has a slight lead in Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona. Harris commands a small lead in Wisconsin and Michigan.

But it's also important to note all these polling numbers are well within the margin for error, which means they could be wrong in either direction.

• You can read more about the latest election data via our poll tracker here.

More than 75 million people in the US have already cast their ballots, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida, which is tracking declaration information from across the country.

According to its latest figures, that includes nearly 41 million in-person early votes and more than 34 million returned postal ballots.

Peter Bowes
North America correspondent

Such is the importance of North Carolina that the candidates’ planes were parked side by side on the tarmac at Charlotte Airport, while Donald Trump and Kamala Harris made their final appeals to voters.

Trump won the state in 2016 and narrowly again in 2020, but opinion polls suggest he's running neck and neck with Harris in one of the country's most competitive races.

At the second of four rallies the former president is holding in the state this weekend, he told his supporters he will "end inflation" and "stop the massive invasion of criminals into our country".

During her rally in North Carolina, Harris was joined by celebrities including Jon Bon Jovi. She told her supporters she would "fight on your behalf as president".

More than 75 million Americans have now voted. The next two days will see the candidates making a final flurry of visits to the key battleground states, with the race on a knife edge.

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During Donald Trump's Saturday night campaign rally in North Carolina, we heard him urging his supporters to vote as soon as possible, saying: "When you're winning by a lot, you can still lose by a little."

He told them the US is "now an occupied country, but it will soon be an occupied country no longer", adding that the 5 November election "will be liberation day in America, it's going to be liberation".

"I'm working hard, because we have to win it," he said, after asking the crowd if they would mind if he condensed his remarks because it was so "late at night".

Trump ended up speaking for around 90 minutes, which is fairly common for his rallies. They often last several hours with guest speakers - and Trump regularly speaks for more than two hours himself.

The former president told the crowd 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.

According to his campaign schedule, Trump will hold rallies tomorrow in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia.

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Donald Trump's day of campaigning on Saturday ended in North Carolina, where he boasted about holding "the biggest rallies in the history of any country".

We heard him run through some familiar lines, including attacking media organisations at the event as "fake news" and repeatedly calling his opponent Kamala Harris a "liar".

Speaking to the crowd about Harris's claims that a Trump presidency would lead to restrictions on in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatments, he said "I consider myself to be the father of fertilisation" - a repetition of a claim to be the "father of IVF" that we heard earlier in the campaign.

He also addressed 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 never publicly endorsed it. "I've never read it, I don't want to read it," he said last night.

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In case you missed it last night, Kamala Harris turned primetime comedy performer for a few minutes last night.

The Democratic nominee 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 Harris 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 tells the vice-president she is going to "vote for us", to which Harris asks hopefully: "Any chance you're registered in Pennsylvania?"

"Worth a shot," she adds.

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There are just two full days left of campaigning before the US decides who will be the next president. If you are just joining our coverage, here's a summary of what's been happening in the last few hours:

• Kamala Harris has appeared on long-running comedy show Saturday Night Live, where she took part in a sketch alongside actor Maya Rudolph
• It capped off a day of campaign rallies for the vice-president in key swing states Georgia and North Carolina

• Donald Trump also continued his tour of the battleground states, ending the day with a rally in North Carolina
• He told the crowd that the US is "occupied" and 5 November "will be liberation day in America"
• With two days to go until election day, the polls still indicate this race could not be closer - you can check our tracker here

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