Back in Aurora, Colorado, Donald Trump has taken the stage at his rally, where it's expected he'll focus on immigration - a key election issue for both him and Kamala Harris.

He pays tribute to those "still recovering" from Hurricane Milton - before launching into political rhetoric.

"What the hell is happening with our country?" he asks the crowd.

The former president goes on say "they are ruining your state" - though he does not immediately explain who "they" are.

Ana Faguy
US reporter

While we wait for Donald Trump to appear at his campaign event in Colorado, here's a conversation I had with some voters in Allentown, Pennsylvania, yesterday.

Speaking to a group of Kamala Harris supporters in the city, I asked if they knew of any voters who weren’t always Democrats or staunch Harris supporters.

Immediately one woman said: "Let me call my friend Marty."

Two minutes later I was on the phone with Marty Krasnov, a long-time Republican, who told me he can’t stand Trump.

Krasnov said he’s aggravated with the widespread support Trump receives and, unlike supporters of the former president, he is "not enamoured with Trump, especially what he did with 6 January" - referring to riots that broke out at the US Capitol after Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

With all that in mind, Krasnov said in November he'll be voting for Harris.

Here in the BBC's DC bureau, we're looking at a live feed which shows that Trump's rally in Aurora is getting under way.

The stage is set for the Republican presidential nominee, with the words "End Migrant Crime" shown on screens behind a podium.

There are also mugshots of various people. As things stand, we don't know who they are or what crimes they're alleged to have commit.

We haven't seem Trump yet but he's due to speak soon - stick with us as we bring you the latest.

Local mayor brands Trump's Venezuelan gang claims 'exaggerated'published at 19:36 British Summer Time 11 October

19:36 BST 11 October

By Lucy Gilder

Donald Trump, who as we said in our last post is today visiting Aurora, Colorado, has repeatedly claimed that criminal migrants from Venezuela have been taking control of parts of the city.

During the presidential debate last month, he said: "You look at Aurora in Colorado. They are taking over the towns. They're taking over buildings ... These are the people that she and Biden let into our country."

He was referring to a story about Venezuelan gang members living in several apartment buildings in Aurora.

While acknowledging that Venezuelan criminal activity had taken place in some complexes in the city, the Republican mayor of the city, Mike Coffman, described the claim that they are taking over the city as “grossly exaggerated”, external.

Aurora is "not a city overrun by Venezuelan gangs", Coffman said. "The incidents were limited to several apartment complexes in this city of more than 400,000 residents."

In a separate statement, external, the mayor added: "The overstated claims fuelled by social media and through select news organizations are simply not true".

The City of Aurora government told BBC Verify it does not know how many Venezuelan gang members live in the city but that "approximately 40,000 Venezuelan migrants have arrived in the Denver metropolitan area over the last few years".

Sam Hancock
Live page editor, in Washington DC

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It's approaching 14:30 here in DC and we're preparing for another afternoon filled with various campaign events, as US election day draws closer.

In the next hour, Donald Trump is due to speak in Aurora, Colorado, having repeatedly claimed that criminal migrants from Venezuela are taking control of parts of the city.

Our colleagues at BBC Verify have looked into what the former president has been saying and some of the reaction to it from officials there. Look out for that in posts that are coming soon.

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is in the battleground state of Arizona, where she's due to host a rally this evening. She headed straight there from fellow battleground Nevada where she made an appearance on an American Spanish-language broadcaster in what was seen as a bid to court Latino voters.

I'm taking over editing our live coverage now from our colleagues in London - stay with us for the latest news lines, analysis and fact-checking.

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from Michigan

In the Democratic leaning county of Oakland in Michigan, Tim and Janet have already cast their ballots for Donald Trump this election season. They see Trump as a better fit on the economy and the border - but they don’t like his personality.

Trump’s remarks insulting Detroit yesterday were an example of that.

“That was not one of his brighter sayings,” says Tim, who declined to share his last name for privacy reasons.

But Harris, he says, has not been forthcoming about her policies and he thinks she is too much of a “lightweight”.

Democrats are relying on urban areas like Oakland County - which has trended blue in the past few elections - to make up for Republican votes from more rural areas.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will talk about issues impacting women in front of an all-female audience on Fox News next week, the US broadcaster has announced.

The event will be held in a town hall in Cumming, Georgia - another battleground state in the presidential election.

An ABC News/Ipsos poll released in September suggested the Kamala Harris led Trump 54% to 41% among women - a seven-point jump since the Democratic National Convention late in August.

Trump has previously been courting male voters in appearances with social media personalities such as Logan Paul and Adin Ross. This town hall would appear to mark a distinct effort to gain more female voters.

Fox News Channel's Harris Faulkner will present the event on 16 October.

“Women constitute the largest group of registered and active voters in the United States, so it is paramount that female voters understand where the presidential candidates stand on the issues that matter to them most," Faulkner said in a statement.

We've just heard from Kamala Harris's running mate Tim Walz at a rally with union workers in Macomb County, Michigan.

He hits back at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for his comments yesterday in Detroit, where the former president said America "will end up being like Detroit" if Kamala Harris is elected as president.

Walz says Trump would "tear America down", adding that Detroit is experiencing a "comeback" and "renaissance".

"The city's growing, crime's down, factories are opening up," the Democratic vice-president nominee says.

He goes on to claim that the former president has been the biggest "disaster" for working people.

Detroit is the largest city in the crucial swing state of Michigan. And both Trump and Harris have been campaigning in the area.

Earlier, Trump's campaign issued a statement to BBC's US partner, CBS News, which said "As President Trump emphasized in his speech, his policies will usher in a new era of economic success and stability for Detroit".

Kamala Harris has appeared on the front cover of Vogue, external.

In an interview with the influential fashion magazine, which has a large female readership, she speaks about apprenticeship programmes, small businesses, and the conflict in the Middle East.

She says she sees the role of America in the Middle East as one that creates “incentives” for de-escalation and a “pathway” for stability.

The Vogue cover - her second - follows Harris' appearance last week on Call Her Daddy, which claims to be the "most-listened to podcast by women".

Her recent appearances on more non-traditional media outlets follows those of Republican nominee Donald Trump - who has in recent months appeared on podcasts like Impaulsive, hosted by social media influencer Logan Paul, and This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, as well as a live stream with 24-year-old internet personality Adin Ross.

Eric Trump, the former president's third child, joined Fox News this morning to discuss the ongoing presidential campaign.

The show's host asked Trump why former President Barack Obama was singling out black men in his remarks yesterday as voters who needed to back Harris.

"Because everything's gone downhill," Trump responded.

Trump said that lack of support from black men is because of high mortgage rates, the increased price of goods and services people are experiencing right now.

"No-one think this world is doing better, no-one thinks America is doing better," he said.

North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher makes sense of the race for the White House in his weekly US Election Unspun newsletter.

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With only a handful of weeks to convince voters, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are once again out on the campaign trail today.

Trump will appear in Aurora, Colorado for a speech that is expected to focus on immigration. Trump lost to Joe Biden in Colorado in the 2020 election.

After that, he will head to Reno, Nevada for a rally - it's a battleground state for this election.

Harris is expected to speak at a campaign event in Scottsdale, Arizona later today. It's also a battleground state.

Ana Faguy
Reporting from Pennsylvania

Dimitri Chernozhukov is backing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in the upcoming election.

He’s a senior at Layfette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he is working to get students on campus registered to vote, regardless of their party affiliation.

Some 250 student are now registered to vote because of Chernozhukov’s efforts working with All In To Vote.

On campus, he said, students are not being appealed to by the candidates.

“People could be courted more,” he said.

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Democratic vice-president nominee Tim Walz will try to bolster support among male voters this weekend by taking social media influencers hunting, according to US outlet Politico.

The group of influencers, reportedly to include David Boomer and Ramontay McConnell, will head out on Saturday morning in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. Walz is the Governor of Minnesota.

Trump's campaign has also been trying to gain support from younger male voters. The Republican presidential candidate has recently been interviewed by several social media influencers, and has appeared on podcasts that skew towards that demographic.

And last night we heard from former president Barack Obama - who urged black men to support Harris.

As election day nears, the focus on male voters is seemingly becoming increasingly important for both parties.

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Speaking at a Detroit Econonic Club event on Thursday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said America "will end up being like Detroit" if Kamala Harris is elected as president.

"You're going to have a mess on your hands," he told the audience.

Detroit is the largest city in the crucial swing state of Michigan. And both Trump and Harris have been campaigning in the area.

The governor of Michigan, Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, responded to Trump's comments in a post on X, telling him to "keep Detroit out of your mouth".

"Detroit is the epitome of 'grit', defined by winners willing to get their hands dirty to build up their city and create their communities—something Donald Trump could never understand," she said.

The city's mayor, Mike Duggan - also a member of the Democratic Party, praised Detroit on X, external, saying "lots of cities should be like Detroit". "And we did it all without Trump’s help," he added.

Trump's campaign issued a statement to BBC's US partner, CBS News, which said "As President Trump emphasized in his speech, his policies will usher in a new era of economic success and stability for Detroit".

Mike Hills
Visual Journalist

With less than four weeks left to go until election day, the race for the White House is as close as ever.

Nationally, Kamala Harris remains a couple of percentage points ahead of Donald Trump - a lead she has had since she entered the race at the end of July.

But the US election is won and lost in the handful of states where both candidates stand a chance of winning - those known as the swing states.

The biggest prize in the seven swing states in this election is Pennsylvania, because it has the highest number of electoral college votes on offer and therefore makes it easier for the winner to hit the required 270 votes to become president.

At the moment, the latest data puts Harris on 48% and Trump on 47.2% - one of the smallest leads in the swing states.

READ MORE: What do polls tell us about race for Pennsylvania?

Ana Faguy
Reporting from Pennsylvania

Roger Gilbert was Democrat all his life until Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower in 2015.

“He’s not a politician, he’s a businessman,” Gilbert told me inside the Northampton County GOP office.

Northampton is one of two Pennsylvania counties that voted for Trump in 2016, but went to Biden in 2020.

The direction the county swings this year may be in the hands of volunteers like Gilbert.

He spends each day answering calls and distributing lawn signs to fans of Trump and other Republicans running for office in the area.

In recent weeks, he said signs “are flying out of the office”.

Even while we were speaking, three people called the office and two more came in asking about Trump signs for their lawn.

“You can see how this country went down in the last three years,” he said. “People are hurting now, and they weren’t under Trump.”

Brandon Livesay
US reporter

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the US election for Friday, 11 October.

There's plenty of discussion in political circles today about Barack Obama's speech at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania overnight, where he had a pointed message for black men.

He told them he had seen too many "reasons and excuses" from black men for not supporting Kamala Harris, and he has "a problem with that".

Elsewhere overnight, Donald Trump spoke to an economic group in Detroit, Michigan and he was critical of the city. "Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she's your president," Trump said, referring to his political opponent for the presidential election.

Looking ahead, today we will hear from Trump on the campaign trail in Colorado and Nevada, while Harris is expected to speak in Arizona. House Speaker and key Trump ally Mike Johnson is also expected to speak today.

Stick with us, we'll bring you all the updates and analysis as it happens.

Sam Hancock
Live page editor, in Washington DC

Thursday was well and truly about those all-important battleground states: Nevada, Wisconsin, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Arizona.

While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump headed to Michigan to talk about his ideas to fix a "failing" automotive industry, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris was in Nevada trying to secure the support of Latino voters.

Meanwhile, the BBC held a special US election edition of Question Time in Pennsylvania, with audience members and panellists debating whether Trump's criminal record matters and how both Harris and President Joe Biden have handled - or mishandled - immigration.

Also in Pennsylvania, former president Barack Obama held a rally where he attacked Trump's record and made a case for Harris as the 'change' candidate.

Our reporters on the ground spoke to an array of voters, with one eastern Pennsylvania resident describing how it feels to live in a state considered vital in the race to win the White House.

We'll be back to bring you all the latest news lines and analysis tomorrow - join us then.

We're going to pause our US politics coverage soon - but before then let's remind ourselves of the latest polls.

Democrat Kamala Harris has been ahead of Republican Donald Trump in the national polling averages since she entered the race at the end of July - as shown in the chart below, with the latest figures rounded to the nearest whole number.

Remember, though, while these national polls are a useful guide as to how popular a candidate is across the country as a whole - they're not necessarily an accurate way to predict the result of the election.

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 and a candidate needs to hit 270 to win.

Among the US's 50 states, there are just a handful where both candidates stand a chance of winning - know as battleground or swing states. Here's what the latest data shows in those seven places.