Both presidential candidates held late night campaign events on Thursday, with four days left to go
Kamala Harris promises to "fight for working people" after being joined on stage by singer Jennifer Lopez in Las Vegas
Donald Trump repeats false election fraud claims during an on-stage interview with Tucker Carlson in Arizona
More than 65 million people have already cast their vote - beating the early voter turnout record set in 2020
The race for the White House is on a knife edge - check our poll tracker here
A rare look at the pure joy supporters on both sides feel
We're soon to hear from Kamala Harris in Arizona – one of the seven key swing states.
When we heard from her earlier in the day, she branded comments Trump made yesterday about protecting women "very offensive".
Trump told a rally he would protect women whether they "like it or not".
Christal Hayes
Reporting from Phoenix, Arizona
The Harris rally has turned into a bit of a party here in Phoenix as Los Tigres del Norte takes the stage with a whole accompaniment of instruments.
The popular Mexican band has people screaming their lyrics and dancing in the stands of the Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre.
Some by the stage are two-stepping and tossing their cowboy hats in the air. Many are waving Harris fans in the air.
The band is mostly speaking in Spanish to the crowd and urged them to vote. At one point, they said in English, “I don’t want to go back to Mexico,” an apparent toss to one of the biggest issues in this border state - immigration.
Image source, ReutersWe've just been hearing from Donald Trump, who's been delivering a speech in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Here's a run down of what he said:
Image source, ReutersVice-President Kamala Harris has arrived in Phoenix in the swing state of Arizona for a campaign event.
She will be joined on stage by Latin band Los Tigres del Norte.
In a few hours the Democratic candidate will go on to a major event in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Both Arizona and Nevada have large Hispanic populations, 31% and 30% respectively.
Christal Hayes
Reporting from Phoenix, Arizona
Dallas Salas, 19, says he's concerned about the impact the overturning of Roe v Wade has had
The line to see Harris today in Phoenix wraps around the Talking Stick Amphitheatre. I keep running into voters who say abortion is the key issue for them this election cycle.
I ran into Dallas Salas, a student at Arizona State University and a first time voter.
The 19-year-old is studying healthcare in school and studying to become a doctor. He said he was fearful seeing the overturning of Roe v Wade - a decision which rescinded US women's right to abortion - and the ripple effects it has had.
“This is a health issue,” he tells me. “Harris is for everyone, not just herself.”
Image source, EPAEarlier, Trump's running mate JD Vance spoke in North Carolina with conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at a town hall targeting Gen-Z voters.
The Trump-Vance campaign has really amplified their efforts to appeal to younger voters - particularly young males - this election cycle, to tip the scales in their favour in what is predicted to be an incredibly tight race.
Vance talked about immigration under the Biden-Harris administration and then blends the discussion with the economy. He says homes are unaffordable, blaming it on the current administration's regulatory policies which he says is slowing development and supply.
"If Donald Trump is president, we will build far more homes than we could if Kamala Harris were president," he says.
He adds "it's important to recognise that no matter how many homes you build, if you allow an unlimited wave of illegal immigrants... those people are going to end up owning the houses."
Christal Hayes
Reporting from Phoenix, Arizona
In the sea of Harris supporters here, Priscilla Velazquez can be probably be spotted a mile away.
She’s donning a large satin Puerto Rico flag.
“You’ve got to represent,” she tells me.
The 20-year Navy veteran says she’s “mad as hell” over the remarks at a recent Trump rally where a comedian called the US territory a “floating island of garbage”.
“It’s a political rally, not a comedy show. How dare you say that,” she says.
Jordan Kenny
Newsbeat politics reporter, in North Carolina
You join me at the latest stop on Newsbeat’s swing states tour, travelling through some of the US states that could decide the election winner. Today, it’s the turn of North Carolina.
Waiting in line to see Country singer Jelly Roll, I meet Rusty and Britney – a brother and sister who tell me they’re “completely different” when it comes to their politics.
Britney? She’s “Kamala all the way,” she says. Her brother meanwhile says he’s “Republican – hardcore”.
Britney’s focused on women’s rights, a key battleground in this election.
“I think a woman has a right to choose what she does with her body,” she says. “10,000 %.”
North Carolina changed its laws on abortion after the national right to have one was scrapped in 2022.
Speaking to other voters here, many aren’t sure where they stand on the abortion issue – a lot aren’t even comfortable to talk to me about it.
For Rusty, it’s one policy area where, despite their differences, he’s more aligned with his sister.
“I am Republican but there are some things with both sides I do agree with,” he says.
Image source, Getty ImagesFormer First Lady and presidential nominee in the 2016 election Hillary Clinton will be knocking on doors with canvassers in Tampa, Florida on Saturday, the Harris-Walz campaign has confirmed.
The appearance will be her first on the campaign trail in support of Harris this election.
Lately, Florida has been a Republican stronghold. But Hillary Clinton barely lost the state to Trump by 1.2% in 2016.
Trump nearly doubled that lead in 2020 when he beat Joe Biden in the state by just over three percentage points.
Donald Trump is in Albuquerque, New Mexico for his first appearance of the day, as a large audience has formed, waiting to hear what he has to say.
Some are even embracing the Halloween spirit.
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Image source, ReutersAnd in Henderson, Nevada, which is Trump's second scheduled rally of the day, crowds are also bustling.
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Image source, Getty ImagesAs we reported in the post below, more than 61.9 million Americans have already cast their vote this election cycle.
Early voting - which allows people to vote in-person or by mail before election day - has previously favoured the Democratic Party.
Their candidate, Joe Biden, won the presidential election in 2020, when nearly 60 million Americans voted early. Democratic voters tend to participate in mail-in voting in higher rates, also known as casting an absentee ballot.
In the 2024 election, Republicans are trying to encourage more early-voting/mail-in voting after heavily criticising mail-in voting as being ripe with fraud in the last election.
Numerous national and state-level studies have shown that although there have been isolated cases, electoral fraud is very rare.
Many US states have been taking part in the early voting, including in key battleground states - where Trump and Harris have focussed their campaigns in recent days.
Image source, EPAAccording to the University of Florida's Election Lab, 61.9 million people have already voted in the election - smashing the early voter turnout record set in the 2020 election, where around 158 million people voted in total.
Early voting - which allows voters to cast their ballot in-person or by mail before polling day - had previously favoured the Democratic Party, helping Joe Biden secure the White House in the last election.
Republicans had criticised mail-in voting the last time around, saying it was ripe with fraud.
Numerous national and state-level studies have shown that although there have been isolated cases, electoral fraud is very rare.
Image source, ReutersIt's no surprise that with an election this big comes equally big celebrity endorsements.
The Harris-Walz Campaign has announced that rapper Cardi B will be speaking at the vice-president's rally in Milwaukee tomorrow.
Other celebrities have made appearances at rallies for Harris, including Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has signalled his support online, as did Taylor Swift.
On the Trump side, billionaire and Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is a fierce campaigner, and he's also been supported by rapper Kanye West, F1 pundit Danica Patrick, and social media influencer Jake Paul.
The second man to step foot on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, has also posted online in Trump's favour.
After Sunday's Puerto Rico comment at a Trump rally, the controversy rippled through the community and stars Jennifer Lopez, Luis Fonsi, Don Omar, Ricky Martin and Marc Anthony have all shown support to Harris. Nicky Jam, who had previously appeared onstage supporting Trump, withdrew his endorsement over the remark.
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Ione Wells
Reporting from the Michigan
I’m in Michigan, one of the seven swing states in this election. I’ve just spoken to Kevin Moore, president of the local Teamsters Union, 299.
It’s the biggest workers’ union in the US, representing people from nurses and pilots to warehouse workers. The national branch hasn’t endorsed any candidate, but this branch did endorse Kamala Harris.
Mr Moore says: “We’ve seen first hand what Republican control will do to you - taking away workers’ rights, trying to take away your organising freedoms.”
He believes in 2016 Trump won in Michigan because: “We didn’t take him seriously. That’ll never happen again.”
Both candidates know the economy is a key concern for voters. Trump has tried courting workers here with some of his protectionist policies, such as increasing tariffs on foreign imports, and is planning a rally tomorrow here.
But Mr Moore says: “If you tax every good and service that comes into this country, who’s paying for it? The middle class people are paying whether it’s shoes, medicine, clothes, groceries, televisions. It’ll put America in a recession or a depression.”
Natalie Sherman
New York business reporter
As we've just reported in the post below, polls say the presidential election remains too close to call but Donald Trump has been telling crowds he has the wind at his back.
His evidence? The odds on betting sites, such as Polymarket, Kalshi and PredictIt, which all have him heavily favoured to win.
Proponents of such sites see them as efficient markets, capable of rapidly digesting new information. Researchers say the track records of betting markets stand up as well to scrutiny as other prediction tools.
Sceptics note that those wagering are a bit of a self-selected crowd and have raised questions about the risk of market manipulation.
On New York-based Polymarket, for example, US citizens are technically barred and the bets are made in crypto.
Fortune has reported that some analysts tracking Polymarket activity see signs of wash trading – when the same people buy and sell repeatedly, giving an inflated sense of activity on the platform.
And though some sites have rules, such as limits on bet size, on Polymarket, a few big wagers can tilt the odds. This year, Polymarket has said four accounts from a single French trader were responsible for moving the market.
In the national polling averages, Kamala Harris currently retains a small lead over Trump in the election race - 48% compared with Trump's 47%.
There are also minimal differences in each of the seven swing states, as you can see in the graphic below. Harris has a slight lead in Nevada, Wisconsin and Michigan while Trump currently leads in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona.
But, the leads in the swing states are so small that it's impossible to know who is really ahead from looking at the polling averages.
In Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina, the lead has changed hands a few times since the start of August but Trump has a small lead in all of them at the moment. It’s a similar story in Nevada but with Harris the candidate who is slightly ahead.
In the three other states - Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - Harris had led since the start of August, sometimes by two or three points, but the polls have tightened significantly and Trump now has a very small lead in Pennsylvania.
Rachel Looker
Karen Comeau is a library assistant who voted for Trump in 2020, but is now undecided. She is considering "writing in" a candidate - casting a vote for someone who is not officially running.
This ain't my first rodeo and I've gotten to the point in my life where I can look past the advertising they're doing for two specific groups.
It's wonderful that we have Harris as a female seriously running for the presidency and that she has been a vice-president and has some experience. But Trump, when he was in office, I wasn't too upset with what he was doing.
I wouldn't mind having a female president but some of Harris's political doctrine and what I think is right don't line up.
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Ottilie Mitchell
US reporter
I never thought I would share the same stage as Donald Trump.
But hours before he was due to speak to tens of thousands of his supporters at his Madison Square Garden rally, I walked the steps along the red-carpeted platform that he and Elon Musk would later take.
Singer Mary Millben was rehearsing the Star-Spangled Banner dressed head to toe in a fuzzy white sweatsuit - video journalist Eloise Alanna and I had been following her preparations for the performance behind the scenes.
Millben’s soaring operatic vocals and the scale of the 360 degree stage and arena were dizzying. In the MAGA-emblazoned front row seats, several early attendees gripped a fist tight to their chests.
“There’s no greater honour,” she said, than “to encourage citizens to respect God and respect your country.”
Later that night, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe would call Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” on that same stage.
Image source, Getty ImagesWe reported on Donald Trump's remarks on protecting women earlier, now Kamala Harris has just told reporters in Wisconsin she thinks the comments were "very offensive".
She was referring to the remarks he made at a rally on Wednesday night when he said he would protect women whether they "like it or not".
"He does not prioritize the freedom of women and the intelligence of women to make decisions about their own lives and bodies," Harris said, highlighting the issue of abortion again as a key election issue.
As we've just reported, Trump and Harris will be focussing on Arizona and Nevada, but here's everything you can expect from their campaigns today:
Stay tuned, as we bring you live updates from the campaign trail.