Donald Trump is still speaking more than an hour after he walked on stage at his North Carolina rally.

He continues to swap back and forth between discussing his policies and lobbing personal attacks at his political enemies, including Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and his longtime rival Barack Obama, who he said is "looking old". Obama is at his own event tonight, campaigning for Harris.

Trump has vowed to tighten up the border as his supporters chanted "build the wall", and highlighted his relationships with foreign leaders - including North Korea's Kim Jong Un and Russia's Vladimir Putin.

He added that he thinks the "real global warming" is the threat of nuclear war.

He also repeatedly interrupted his speech to ask members of the audience to speak. "Did I meet you yesterday," he said to one man, who responded, "no that wasn't me, but I love you man".

He also criticised Harris for campaigning with former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, noting that her father was vice-president when the US declared a "war on terror".

Gary O'Donoghue
Senior North America correspondent, reporting from Detroit

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When former NFL player Calvin Johnson took to the stage, the crowd here in Detroit went wild.

This is one real local hero – having played nine seasons for the Detroit Lions as one of the most successful wide receivers in the NFL.

Johnson, who is black, addressed black voters directly, urging them to reject Donald Trump on grounds of his character.

He also reminded the crowd how Trump had denigrated the city of Detroit by calling it a developing country – while the former president was in Detroit.

"During my career, if anyone said anything negative about Detroit I made sure they felt me on Sunday."

Gary O'Donoghue
Senior North America correspondent, reporting from Detroit

Let's peel away from the Trump rally in North Carolina and head to Detroit.

Now, it’s often said that politics is showbiz for ugly people.

And while the Obama event here in Detroit has plenty of politicians slated to speak, they’ve also shipped in some genuine showbiz types.

Top of the list – the rapper Eminem who will introduce the former president shortly.

Eminem is of course no stranger to politics – penning a couple of songs as long ago as 2016, taking aim at Donald Trump.

The crowd will also get a look at another local hero tonight – the former NFL player for the Detroit Lions, Calvin Johnson, nicknamed “Megatron” during his career. The Harris campaign will no doubt hope people like him will help transform their campaign.

Trump continues to make a bid to working-class voters by promising to bring manufacturing jobs back to North Carolina.

North Carolina was once the furniture capital of the world, he says.

He tells the crowd he used to buy all the furniture for his properties there, and that after he switched to buying Chinese furniture he was repeatedly sued because of faulty products.

Trump repeatedly pledges that as president he would push policies that would keep manufacturing jobs in states like North Carolina, rather than relying on products made in other countries.

"We're gonna bring all of it back," he says.

North Carolina: At a glance

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Trump repeatedly claims that the US is "a failing country" and that Democrats will continue its decline.

He says that he will restore the country to its former glory.

"We're gonna end the looting, pillaging, raping and ransacking of North Carolina, and our whole country," he says.

Shouts of approval from the crowd repeatedly interrupt Trump, who is drowned out for a moment before returning to Harris.

He claims that the vice-president is "sleeping" and "taking a day off".

It's worth noting Harris recorded an interview earlier today with NBC from her home in Washington DC - scroll down to see the key moments from that interview.

• How has North Carolina voted historically? Trump won North Carolina in both of the past two presidential elections and it is the only one of seven battleground states to vote for Trump in 2020

Let's now turn to Donald Trump's rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he began by speaking about Hurricane Helene which brought widespread destruction to the state last month.

"You're gonna see a lot of me. I'll be back and we'll fix it up," Trump promises the crowd.

He then turns to his opponent Harris, attacking her intelligence and calling her "horrible". "It's time for smart people, not these people," he says.

"North Carolina, you have to stand up and tell Kamala Harris we can't take it any more," he continues, adding "You're fired, get out".

He also makes the unusual claim that Biden prefers him to his own vice-president, Kamala Harris.

The Republican candidate spent the first few minutes of his speech touting his policies, including tackling inflation, restricting immigration, and healing a "country being crippled by Harris".

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In one of the more awkward moments of the NBC interview, journalist Hallie Jackson asks Kamala Harris if she was honest about what she witnessed with President Joe Biden when she endorsed his re-election bid.

"You never saw anything like what happened at the debate night behind closed doors with him?" Jackson asks.

"It was a bad debate. People have bad debates," Harris replies.

Jackson then followed up, saying Biden's poor debate performance was the reason Harris is now the Democratic Party's nominee.

"Well, you'd have to ask him if that's the only reason why (he stood down)," Harris says.

The topic hung in the air when Jackson again asked the vice-president about Biden.

"I am running for president of the United States. Joe Biden is not - and my presidency will be about bringing a new generation of leadership to America," she says.

Harris then vouches for the president's political achievements and leadership. And with that, the interview somewhat abruptly ends.

Kamala Harris is then asked, if she were to be elected president, would she pardon Trump so as to help erase divisions in the country.

"I'm not going to get into those hypotheticals. I'm focused on the next 14 days," she replies.

Kamala Harris is asked what her plan will be if Donald Trump declares himself as the winner before the election votes are counted.

"We will deal with election night and the days after as they come and we have the resources and the expertise and the focus on that," Harris says in the NBC interview.

When asked if her team is thinking about this hypothetical scenario, she responded "of course".

"This is a person, Donald Trump, who tried to undo the free and fair election, who still denies the will of the people, who incited a violent mob to attack the United States Capitol... this is a serious matter," she says.

• For context: Trump faces four criminal cases, including allegations he pressured officials to reverse the results of the 2020 election, knowingly spread lies about election fraud and sought to exploit the Capitol riot on 6 January 2021 to delay the certification of Joe Biden's victory and stay in power.

Let's turn now to Kamala Harris's interview with NBC, which started a few moments ago.

One of the first questions posed to Harris is why she's reluctant to lean in to talking about the historic nature of her candidacy on the campaign trail, and whether she's concerned about sexism.

"I'm clearly a woman. The point that most people really care about is can you do the job and do you have a plan to actually focus on them," she says.

Harris would be the first female president if elected.

Bernd Debusmann Jr
BBC News

The BBC has reached out to the Harris-Walz campaign for comment on the Trump campaign's complaint, and the various news reports it cites. At the moment, however, there is no indication that the Harris-Walz campaign was aware of any efforts by Labour or its staffers. We'll keep monitoring the situation and bring you any updates we receive this evening.

This is nothing new - but doesn't bode well for Starmer and Trump's relationshippublished at 23:45 British Summer Time 22 October

23:45 BST 22 October

Sarah Smith
North America editor

Labour Party members helping out Democrats in an election is nothing new.

For decades they’ve been coming to America to both lend a hand and possibly pick up a few tips at the same time. Democrats often return the favour. There are also often contacts between the British Conservative Party and the US Republicans.

But now the Trump-Vance campaign is complaining that it amounts to "blatant election interference” to have volunteers from what they described as the “far left Labour Party” coming to campaign for Kamala Harris

There are strict laws about foreign nationals not being allowed to donate money or anything of value to American candidates and the Trump-Vance campaign says in the complaint that media reports of volunteers coming to America creates a "reasonable inference that the Labour Party has made, and the Harris campaign has accepted, illegal foreign national contributions".

Foreign nationals are permitted to serve as campaign volunteers as long as they are not compensated, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) rules.

Controversy was created by a now deleted social media post that said any Labour Party volunteers would need to pay for their own flights and car hire but that “we will sort your housing”.

The BBC understands from Labour Party officials that accommodation is being arranged by volunteers campaigning for the Democrats, not being paid for by the party.

Even if Trump is wrong about whether the Labour Party is making illegal campaign contributions to the Harris-Walz campaign, it seems that if he is re-elected president this controversy will not make relations with Prime Minister Keir Starmer any easier.

Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with Hallie Jackson from NBC News on Tuesday at the US Naval Observatory for an interview that is set to air this evening.

The interview will be broadcast as part of NBC Nightly News followed by another interview with Telemundo’s Julio Vaqueiro.

It gets under way at 18:30 EDT (23:30 BST). We'll be bringing you lines from that interview in the next little while - stick with us.

The complaint filed on behalf of the Trump-Vance campaign references a number of media reports as well as an apparently deleted LinkedIn post.

The Washington Post article

One relates to a Washington Post article, external, with the complaint picking out a line from the report detailing how some strategists linked to the UK Labour Party "have been offering advice to Kamala Harris about how to earn back disaffected voters and run a winning campaign from the center left".

The Telegraph report

It also includes lines from a Telegraph report, external, which names senior Labour staffers as having gone to the Democratic Convention in Chicago and another as having gone to Washington on a separate occasion.

The LinkedIn post

The document also makes reference to a now-apparently-deleted LinkedIn post, reportedly written by a senior Labour Party official, in which they say nearly 100 Labour Party staff are going to swing states in the US in the next few weeks, adding: "I have 10 spots available for anyone available to head to the battleground state of North Carolina - we will sort your housing."

The document also picks out more quotes from the Telegraph's report, which includes reported emails sent by the senior Labour Party official to staff asking if anyone would be willing to travel to the US to "help our friends across the pond elect their first female president” and “let’s show those Yanks how to win elections!”

It's understood from Labour officials that party activists campaigning in the US election are doing so in a personal capacity.

According to the Federal Election Commission, external, a foreign national can participate in campaign activities as long as they are not compensated.

It says: "Although foreign nationals may not make contributions or expenditures... in connection with any federal, state or local election, an individual who is a foreign national may participate in campaign activities as an uncompensated volunteer."

• For context: This election is not the first time that either Labour or Tory staff have campaigned in the US election for the Democratic Party or the GOP.

Labour activists campaigning in the US election are doing so in a personal capacity, it is understood from Labour Party officials.

The trips are funded by individuals who have taken leave from their roles, and are not organised or funded by Labour - accommodation is arranged by volunteers campaigning for the Democrats, it is understood.

The party has yet to officially comment.

Some more details now about the foreign interference complaint filed by the Trump campaign.

A statement on the Trump-Vance campaign website, external accuses the Harris-Walz campaign of "seeking foreign influence to boost its radical message".

"The Harris campaign’s acceptance and use of this illegal foreign assistance is just another feeble attempt in a long line of anti-American election interference," the statement says.

The statement goes on to accuse the UK Labour Party of inspiring Harris's "dangerously liberal policies and rhetoric".

The complaint comes after a since-deleted post on LinkedIn from a senior Labour Party official which reportedly said: "I have nearly 100 Labour party staff, current and former, going to the US in the next few weeks, heading to North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia. I have 10 spots available for anyone available to head to the battleground state of [North] Carolina - we will sort your housing."

We're chasing the Labour Party and Harris-Walz campaign for a response to these latest developments.

The Trump campaign says it's filed a complaint to the Federal Election Commission against the Harris-Walz campaign, as well Keir Starmer's Labour Party in the UK, for what it calls "illegal foreign campaign contributions and interference in our elections".

This is a developing story - we'll bring you more on this as we get the details.

Mike Wendling
Reporting from Madison, Wisconsin

All of the speakers at this Democratic Party rally have talked plenty about health care, abortion rights and housing prices, but there’s one subject they keep returning to: Donald Trump.

Barack Obama, Tim Walz and the others who came on before them repeatedly questioned the Republican candidate’s policies, behaviour and mental acuity.

“He’s like Fidel Castro,” Obama tells the crowd. “He just keeps talking.”

Obama brings up a recent town hall where Trump stopped taking questions and played music for half an hour.

“You’d be worried if grandpa would be acting like this,” he said. “But this is coming from someone who wants unchecked power.”

The tone has shifted back and forth from joking to deadly serious. But either way, it’s a strategy that Democrats clearly think is a winning one.

If the election turns into a referendum on Donald Trump, they think Trump will lose.

Image source, Getty Images

Image source, Getty Images

The BBC's US news partner CBS has now also confirmed that Donald Trump will join Joe Rogan on his podcast on Friday, citing a senior campaign adviser.

In the past, Rogan has expressed mixed views towards Trump. In 2022, he said Trump would not be welcome on his podcast and that he had turned down the former president multiple times.

He also voiced support for RFK Jr earlier in this year's presidential campaign, saying he was "the only candidate that makes sense". He later rowed back on the comment, saying it was not an endorsement for RFK Jr.

But Rogan has at times expressed his preference for Trump over Biden, more specifically ahead of the 2020 election. And then more recently, he suggested that under the former president's tenure in the White House, the economy "really did well".

There have also been unconfirmed reports, external, citing unnamed sources, earlier this month that Kamala Harris's campaign team had met Rogan to discuss a possible podcast appearance - though we've heard nothing further on that since the meeting.