As we flagged earlier, Kamala Harris's husband Doug Emhoff was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, today, exactly six years since a deadly attack on a synagogue which left 11 worshippers dead.

Emhoff said Harris is committed to fighting antisemitism and set out her support for Israel's right to defend itself, while framing a second Donald Trump presidency as a grave threat to America's Jewish community.

He said: “This has been a heart-breaking year to be a Jew in America.

“The question is: Will next year be even harder for us and for Americans of every background, for all of us who believe in freedom? And that answer is in our hands.”

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from Michigan

Kamala Harris spent much of her speech tonight in Ann Arbor, Michigan, focusing on an issue that’s a top priority for young voters: abortion rights.

She references “Trump abortion bans” repeatedly during her pitch to voters in this university town.

At one point she asks the members of the crowd to raise their hands if they’re voting for the first time, and a number of hands shoot up.

She ends her speech by telling her supporters “your vote is your voice and your voice is your power".

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Former President Barack Obama is wrapping up in Philadelphia after his latest in a string of appearances on the campaign trail in the last few weeks.

We've just heard him speaking about the Republican candidate's opposition to a bipartisan bill border proposal earlier this year, which failed to pass amid opposition from Trump.

Obama tells the crowd: "We do not need a president who will make problems worse just to make his politics better.

"We need a president who actually cares about solving problems, not exploiting problems."

Obama says he's tired or "people making excuses" for Trump's behaviour, describing him as someone who "does not believe in duty and honour".

He says some men see Trump's behaviour and "fake macho thing" as a sign of strength. "I'm here to tell you that's not what real strength is and never has been," he adds.

Obama tells a cheering crowd: "Let's go do the work. Let's go vote."

And with that, he leaves the stage.

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In Philadelphia, in the swing state of Pennsylvania, former US president Barack Obama is campaigning with Bruce Springsteen for Kamala Harris.

Speaking to the crowd, Obama says that "this election should not be close. It should be clear."

Obama says Trump's strategy is to divide people, and brings up yesterday's Trump rally at Madison Square Garden as an example, where a comedian called Puerto Rico "an island of garbage."

“These are fellow citizens he is talking about,” Obama says. “Here in Philadelphia, they are your neighbours," referring to the city's sizeable population of Latino voters, including people of Puerto Rican descent.

He also pokes fun at Trump for "pretending to work at McDonald's when it was closed," noting that Harris, his opponent, comes from a middle-class background and had worked at the fast food chain to pay her way through college.

Pennsylvania: At a glance

Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from Pennsylvania

A little earlier, I went to Puerto Rican restaurant Freddy & Tony's here in Fairhill.

It's something of an institution in the community - and also happens to be where Vice President Kamala Harris made her campaign stop yesterday.

It's busy, with streams of mostly Puerto Rican patrons stepping in to quickly get a meal. It smells pleasantly of yucca, and Spanish music is blasting from speakers.

When I walked through the door and they realised I was a reporter, a Spanish-speaking staff member was quick to put me on the phone with the owner, Dalma Santiago.

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Santiago told me she's still "emotional" after the "once in a lifetime honour" of having Harris visit the restaurant.

But mostly, she's furious about the "garbage" comment made by a comedian at Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden last night.

"I'm very, very angry," she told me. "He seems to forget, but Donald Trump makes money in Puerto Rico. He has business there. I even stayed in one of his hotels once!"

She adds that she isn't sure whether it will sway voters here.

"Everybody has their own opinion," she says. "But nobody will be forgetting that one."

• Read Bernd's full report from Philadelphia here

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Back in Georgia, Trump is telling his supporters to get out and vote.

He frames his campaign as one of "solutions," while disparaging his opponent Kamala Harris's as one of "hate".

Trump also takes aim at an attack line from the Harris campaign which claimed that "Donald Trump is simply exhausted," in a social media video.

“I’ve done this stuff for 58 days in a row and I don’t even feel tired a little bit,” he says, before criticising Harris for taking days off on the campaign trail.

“I’m not tired. I’m actually enthused and inspired because we’re close to winning this thing," Trump says.

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from Michigan

Kamala Harris begins by acknowledging how tight the race is: "We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us."

But her speech is being interrupted by a group of protestors. They're calling for an arms embargo on Israel and are being pushed out of the rally by staff.

Harris continues with her speech as supporters in the crowd chant “Kamala”.

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from Michigan

Just before the rally in Michigan, I spoke to Angie Roach, who has never considered herself to be a political person. But her dislike of Trump has turned her into an unlikely Harris enthusiast at the rally here in Ann Arbor today.

Roach says she was shocked when Donald Trump won the election in 2016.

"I cannot believe we're back here again," she says.

Her friend and enthusiastic Democrat, Amy Watts, thinks Harris is going to "sweep" Michigan. Polls show the race in the state is in a dead heat.

"I think there's a wide silent majority [in support of Harris] that will emerge on election day," Watts says.

• With Harris in Michigan and Trump in Georgia, you can see just how close the race is in the seven battleground states below:

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from Michigan

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It’s a cold evening at Kamala Harris's rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but that’s not stopping the large crowd from standing and swaying to singer Maggie Rogers.

Before Harris takes to the stage, midwesterner and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is addressing the crowd.

He attacks Trump, saying he “can’t pass a background check” – a reference to Trump’s felony convictions.

Walz also touches on reproductive rights, an issue that propelled Democrats to victory in the 2022 midterm elections in the state.

And he acknowledges the race is in a dead heat here.

“All gas, no brakes for the next eight days,” he tells the crowd.

Michigan: At a glance

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Donald Trump is still speaking in Atlanta, Georgia, where he's promising a "big, fat, beautiful victory" on 5 November.

Famous for the Savannah skyline, the home of Martin Luther King Jr, and Atlanta’s vibrant music scene, Georgia is key to this election – here's why:

In a nutshell: Donald Trump almost certainly needs to win here to take the White House.

Kamala Harris does not necessarily need to win here to become the next US president, but if she fails in other swing states, Georgia will become key to her path to the presidency.

What's the deal now? All eyes have been on Georgia ever since Democrats unexpectedly triumphed there in 2020 – will that trend continue and will Georgia truly crown itself a swing state? Or will Donald Trump reinstate the status quo and win it back?

2020 margin: Biden by 13,000 votes.

Population: 11m, same as Cuba

Electoral college votes: 16 of 538

• Get up to speed with the seven swing states to watch in this election

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Over in Atlanta, Georgia, we're listening to Donald Trump speaking at a rally – he's repeating his talking points criticising the Biden administration for what he calls "open borders" and promising the dawn of a "golden age" should he be elected.

"We will end inflation, we will stop the invasion of criminals coming into our country, and we will bring back the American dream," Trump tells his supporters.

He makes his oft-repeated insults against his opponent Kamala Harris, calling her "incompetent" and "not a nice person". At one point, his supporters chanted "lock her up", a phrase that was used against Trump's 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton.

Trump also took aim at Michelle Obama, who directly urged male voters to turn out for Harris at a speech on Saturday, calling her "nasty".

Obama blasted Trump at the Saturday rally, accusing him of "gross incompetence".

The BBC's US partner CBS News has obtained a US intelligence report warning that “some individuals are calling for violence as a response to election fraud narratives”.

Published by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis, investigators say the threat is mainly against election officials and “populations” seen as "threatening the integrity" of the 2024 election.

If the election result is close, or there are delays in counting, or any impact on the release of results, the risk of violence could increase, the report warns.

It says that in some online forums, domestic violent extremists "are posting threats of violence toward election officials or infrastructure" if they think election fraud has taken place.

Some of these online users have encouraged violence and promoted methods of sabotaging ballot drop boxes, the report adds.

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from Michigan

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I just caught up with Michigan's Representative Debbie Dingell who is chatting to reporters backstage at the Ann Arbor rally.

The race in Michigan is "tight", she says.

"Neither of them have won. Neither of them have lost," she says.

Trump is "working" the Arab-American community in Michigan, Dingell adds. Michigan is home to the largest population of Arab-Americans in the US, including some who say they are considering not voting for Harris because of her pro-Israel stance.

"Nobody is monolothic," Dingell says. "Some are going to vote for Donald Trump, some are going to vote uncommitted ... and some are going to vote for her."

"My job is to say believe Donald Trump. Believe what he says to you. Believe he wants to ban you," Dingell says, referencing Trump's executive order, nicknamed the "Muslim ban", which limited travellers and refugees from six predominately Muslim countries.

Ana Faguy
Reporting from Allentown, Pennsylvania

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Nerfis Nieves first heard about Tony Hinchcliffe’s Trump rally comments from her 14-year-old son.

Hinchcliffe, a comedian who spoke at the former president’s Madison Square Garden rally last night, called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage".

“To disparage a beautiful country and Latinos in general, I hated that he had to see something like that,” she says of her son hearing the comments.

Nieves, a Democrat who plans to vote for Kamala Harris, says she works with other Latinos who spent the day talking about the comments.

She lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania, which has a large Latino population specifically of Puerto Ricans and Dominican descent.

“Just to hear those words being said about Latinos, it’s disgusting,” she says.

How UK is preparing for new US presidentpublished at 22:04 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October

22:04 GMT 28 October

Chris Mason
Political editor

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In policy terms, a Trump presidency would likely bring rapid change - on climate change, on international trade (whacking up import taxes, tariffs) and on Ukraine.

Unlike a Harris administration, they would likely offer the UK a free trade deal, but it seems unlikely the terms of it would tempt London to sign up.

So what of Trump’s Democratic rival, the vice-president Kamala Harris?

Diplomatic niceties suggest if you meet one candidate in a foreign election contest, you meet the other one too.

But that isn’t likely to happen with Harris, despite Sir Keir visiting America three times since July.

No 10 blames the pressures on the vice-president’s diary in an election campaign.

It is worth stating the obvious too – while Sir Keir and Harris have never met, she is a vastly more known quantity and far more likely to be conventional in her approach to high office than her rival.

And Sir Keir has gone out of his way to spend a lot of time with President Biden in the last four months, including two trips to the White House and a recent meeting in Berlin.

• You can read the rest of Chris Mason's analysis by following this link

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from Michigan

Young voters have turned up in droves this evening at the Harris-Walz rally in Ann Arbor, home to the University of Michigan.

Democrats are counting on students at the university and other schools around the state to turn out on election day. Young people helped deliver Biden a win in Michigan in 2020 when the state led the nation in youth voter turnout.

Hannah Brock, Luke Meijer and Allanah Hjelm are at the Harris rally after voting for her in their first-ever election.

The 18-year-olds have been helping their fellow students register to vote and knocking on doors to encourage residents to vote for Harris.

"Their policies are rooted in kindness and empathy and helping the middle-class," Hjelm says.

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Donald Trump's been continuing to talk at the faith summit in Georgia and has just been asked about his record on Israel and other international affairs.

Trump starts by saying he thinks he's "been better to Israel than any other president by far".

He backs up his claim by saying "we did the Golan Heights, we did the Abraham accords", and adds that all he wants is for Iran to not have a nuclear weapon.

The former president also says he thinks "we're closer to World War Three right now than we've ever been".

He refers to the ongoing war in Ukraine and says "the Middle East is exploding and going crazy".

Early voting is in full swing ahead of polling day on 5 November.

About 45 million Americans have already voted early, either in-person or through a mail-in ballot, just eight days ahead of the election, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab. , external

We're now hearing that early voting numbers are breaking records in some battleground states.

Here's a closer look:

• Michigan: Jocelyn Benson, Michigan secretary of state, says more than 245,000 people came out to vote over the weekend, marking a "record turnout" for the first weekend of early voting in the state. She says 25% of all active registered voters have already cast their ballot, either via absentee ballot or early voting
• Georgia: More than 2.7 million people have voted in-person just 15 days after early voting began in the state, according to a statement by Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who says the figure is "shattering previous early voting performance". The total turnout so far is 2.9 million people
• North Carolina: More than 2 million people had voted by Thursday last week in the state, comprising 26% of registered voters, according to the North Carolina State Board of Elections. By end of Wednesday, about 1.8 million people had voted in-person during the first seven days of early voting, a 6.6% jump over 2020, the board reports

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Donald Trump has been speaking at a Q&A session at a faith summit in Georgia, during which he said that America is "heading in the wrong direction" and that religion is the glue that holds America together.

He also spoke about being shot at a rally in July, saying that when he heard the bullet "I knew something was really bad", describing it as "surreal".

He says it's a "miracle" that he is even talking, and that "we had a little help up there", referring to God.

It's a busy day on the campaign trail as the finish line of the presidential race rapidly approaches.

Here's what we're watching today:

Kamala Harris is spending the day in Michigan, where she has three appearances planned.

• She has already spoken in the city of Saginaw
• Harris next appears in Macomb County just north of Detroit, at 17:20 ET (21:20 GMT)
• Then, it's to Ann Arbor where she is due to appear with musician Maggie Rogers at 19:30 ET (23:30 GMT)
• Additionally, former President Barack Obama is appearing with rock star Bruce Springsteen to rally for Harris in Philadelphia at 19:15 ET (23:15 GMT)
• Harris's husband Doug Emhoff is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to speak at the six-year anniversary of the deadly attack at a local synagogue at 17:00 ET (21:00 GMT)

Donald Trump is in Georgia for two events.

• He will appear at the first-ever National Faith Summit taking place in Powder Springs, in the Atlanta area, alongside some 1,000 Christian pastors at 16:00 ET (20:00 GMT)
• He then holds a rally in Atlanta at 18:00 ET (22:00 GMT)
• Trump's eldest son and avid gun enthusiast, Donald Trump Jr, will appear at a shooting range in the rural community of Coplay, Pennsylvania at 18:00 ET (22:00 GMT)

Tim Walz is spending his time in the Midwestern swing states of Wisconsin and Michigan.

• Walz has already delivered remarks in the city of Manitowoc
• He next travels to Ann Arbor to appear alongside his running mate there

JD Vance is in Wisconsin for two events.

• Earlier today, he spoke to voters in Wausau city
• Later on, he participates in a campaign event in the city of Racine at 18:30 ET (22:30 GMT)