We're pausing our live coverage of the 2022 midterm elections, in which the power balance in Washington is up for grabs.

But we'll be back and bringing you all the latest from the many campaign trail on Monday morning, US time.

Today's live coverage was edited by Marianna Brady, Jessica Murphy and Brajesh Upadhyay.

Reporting was provided by Sarah Smith, Sophie Long, Gary O'Donoghue, Nada Tawfik, Nomia Iqbal, Holly Honderich and Max Matza.

In the meantime, you can read all our latest coverage here.

Biden is appealing to young voters - encouraging them to vote on Tuesday for the Democrats, at a rally in New York.

Hundreds of supporters of Ron DeSantis greeted the governor in Sarasota, Florida, where he focused on one of his favourite subjects - education.

To the cheering crowds, he touted his record on siding with parents against what he regards as overbearing authorities.

"Some school districts were not respecting parents' rights and we had to make sure we eliminated student mask mandates,” he said.

The governor also praised his record on backing successful candidates sitting on school boards, which have become a new and explosive battleground in local politics.

The speech was part of his Don't Tread on Florida tour. DeSantis is up for re-election this week and a new poll has him 14 points ahead of Democrat Charlie Crist.

Sophie Long
BBC News, Arizona

The difference in the Democratic and Republican campaigns is both symbolic and symptomatic of the deep divide in America and in Arizona, the Grand Canyon State.

At a Republican rally in Scottsdale, 80's power ballads blare out at a level that makes you reach for ear defenders and people shout at each other because it’s the only way to communicate. As they await their candidate for governor, former news anchor Kari Lake, the crowd stands to pray and pledge allegiance to the flag. It feels more like a call to arms than a call to vote.

At a Democratic event in Tucson the music is much more mellow in a room a fraction of the size filled with a fraction of the number of people. There is an air of determination, but also innocence as the small crowd chants “Katie, Katie!” as they await their candidate for governor, former social worker and current Secretary of State Katie Hobbs.

It’s not just the atmospherics that are different, but the message. Both Katie Hobbs and the Democratic candidate for Senate Mark Kelly say they will fight for the rights of women and workers as they face the removal of their right to an abortion and the impact of inflation and climate change.

Republicans who take to the stage mock the Democrats “hallucinations”. Both Kari Lake and the Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters say they’ll declare war on what they call “the invasion” at the border. Lake says President Joe Biden is solely responsible for the influx of drugs which is killing America's children. One man stands and shouts “that is not true, you’re a fraud”, before being removed. She says, of the protestor, that “he’s been brainwashed by the radical left”.

As candidates from both parties crisscross the Grand Canyon state it feels like they’re preaching to people on different planets. It’s hard to believe these events are taking place in the same country let alone the same state.

They have two things in common: they know this election is crucial and it’s close. And both campaigns believe if they can save Arizona, they can save America.

Joe Biden is speaking in New York, at a campaign event for Governor Kathy Hochul - who is in a surprisingly close race to be re-elected.

"Republicans in Congress, led by South Carolina's Lindsey Graham, already introduced legislation on a national ban for the right to choose," he says, segueing into an opportunity to support the governor, who is pro-choice.

Biden reminds the crowd that even if both sides of Congress go to the Republicans, he still has veto power as the president. He assures the crowd that he will use that veto if Republicans try to implement a national ban on abortion.

He vows that if Democrats keep the House and the Senate, they will codify Roe v Wade - making access to abortion legal across the nation.

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Gary O'Donoghue
BBC News, Georgia

I’m at a fair in Rome, Georgia – built on its very own seven hills. I skip the pony riding, but I come upon Sharpe’s Southern Smokeshack, wafting delicious aromas of brisket and pork.

Michael, the boss, tells me he’s voting for the Republicans, including Herschel Walker for Senate – a man who’s faced allegations of violence against women and hypocrisy over abortion, who is currently neck-and-neck with the Democrat incumbent.

“He’s my Georgia guy,” says Michael. “We’ve all got skeletons in our closet… I’m not perfect, you’re not perfect, he’s not perfect."

It’s the largest town in Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district – a key voice in Trump's efforts to deny the outcome of the last presidential election.

Around the corner from Michael, Tiffany is selling her own designs on mugs and t-shirts.

She’s voting for Herschel Walker too. She says he’s “the lesser of two evils”. “I’m a Republican," she says.

Next door, Nicole with her baked goods tells me she votes “biblically”. She won’t say exactly who she prefers, but there’s a clue when she says everyone deserves "forgiveness".

Tuesday will tell us just how many others are prepared to forgive.

As the US gets ready for Tuesday's crucial vote, we'd love to hear about which key issues matter most to you, to help shape our coverage.

On Monday and Tuesday, BBC News correspondents from across the US will be answering your questions as part of the build up to election night - one which could define the next two years of Joe Biden's presidency. No question is too silly - we want to help explain this election.

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Ever the showman, Trump again teased that he may announce his intention to run for president in 2024 before midterm election season is through.

"I ran twice, I won twice," he says, repeating the false claim that he was the actual winner of the 2020 presidential election.

Trump's false claims that he won the election in 2020 had widespread effects. A group of his supporters stormed the Capitol building on 6 January 2021 to try and overturn Joe Biden's victory as lawmakers were about to certify the results.

At a rally he had urged his supporters to march "peacefully" to the Capitol, but also made unsubstantiated claims of massive voter fraud and told them to "fight like hell".

Five people died during the riot, and Trump became the first president to be impeached twice, though he was never convicted.

Nomia Iqbal
BBC News, Washington

The Latino vote shifted towards the Republicans in 2020 – could it shift even further two years on?

“There is no such thing as the Latino vote!” That was what one man said to us in Florida whilst we were covering the presidential election in 2020.

Another voter said: "Democrats shouldn’t take us for granted.”

It’s the demographic that Trump hugely focused on and it paid off - the Sunshine State voted for him in 2020 by a 3.4% margin and since then, it keeps shifting right. Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis – a possible heir to the Trump throne – is seen as the favourite to win his race in the midterms.

Latinos are the largest minority group in the US and make up nearly a fifth of the population – but they defy easy categorisation. In Florida we see the Republican party’s strategy of labelling Democrats as communists motivating many Cuban Americans - but that same messaging doesn't win over Mexican Americans in Arizona.

One thing that is alarming for Democrats is that the Latino vote has dipped overall in key places like south Florida but it’s difficult to say whether this is evidence of a broader change. It may be Latino voters are becoming swing voters - with both Democratic and Republican parties now seeing them as an incredibly powerful voting bloc that’s required for any path to victory.

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"Does anyone here happen to be Hispanic?" Trump asks to a roar of applause from the Miami crowd.

Behind him are dozens of people waving signs that read "Venezuelans for Trump" and "Cubans for Trump".

Trump says that many in the audience hail from "nations that have been absolutely destroyed by violent ideologies".

"Democrats want to turn America into communist Cuba or socialist Venezuela," he says.

"To every Hispanic American in Florida and across the land, we welcome you with open open open arms to our [Republican] party," he says.

Latinos in south Florida traditionally vote more conservatively than the national average, and though Trump lost the election in 2020, the Republican party saw gains among Latino voters. Republicans are hoping for this trend to continue - as evidenced by what Trump's saying tonight.

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Kayla Epstein
BBC News

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We'll continue to bring you coverage from the DeSantis and Trump rallies, but let's turn our attention New York - where Biden is on the campaign trail with Governor Kathy Hochul. He's expected to speak soon.

There are lots of nail-biter elections for governor this year, but the one nobody predicted was New York state.

Hochul, a Democrat who rose to power after New York’s previous governor was ousted in a sexual harassment scandal, is running against Republican Lee Zeldin, a staunch backer of Donald Trump who has failed to denounce his election conspiracies.

In this famously Democratic-leaning state, you’d expect a Republican to have zero chance. No Republican has held the governor’s mansion since 2007. So why do polls show Zeldin doing so well, trailing Hochul by only a few points heading into voting day? It has a lot to do with the issue of crime.

Zeldin has been pummeling Hochul on the issue of crime throughout his campaign. The data around crime rates is complicated, especially in New York City where some crimes like murder are down year over year but others, like robbery and grand larceny, are up. Zeldin’s managed to tap in to a perception among suburban and rural voters that their state is less safe under Hochul.

It’s a smart stragy for Zeldin; a mid-October Quinnipiac Poll , externalshowed crime was the top issue for likely New York voters — ahead of even inflation. It was far and away the top issue for Republican and independent voters, and second for Democrats.

It’s still Hochul’s race to lose, and her lead has widened to 52 percent of likely voters to 44 percent who support Zeldin, according one recent poll., external But the New York governor’s race will be an indicator of the effectiveness of Republicans’ strategy of relentlessly playing up crime was this year – and whether Democrats did enough to push back.

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Trump’s speech has barely started when the crowd starts chanting ”we want Trump”.

After encouraging the crowd to support Republican candidates on the ballot in Florida, he condemns speeches on Saturday made by President Biden and former President Obama in Pennsylvania. Mashing their two names together he calls them “O’Biden”.

“It’s a combination of Obama and Biden,” he says, noting Obama’s middle name of Hussein. Trump, remember, was one of the first people to falsely claim the former president was born outside the US.

He leads the crowd in boos as he points to the “fake news” media covering his rally - a familiar feature of his presidential campaign rallies.

Trump goes on to condemn the situation at the border, saying it’s “the worst border, in my opinion, in the history of the world”.

Trump says that “third-world countries” would not tolerate such illegal migration, saying: “They would use sticks and stones, they wouldn’t allow millions of people that they don’t know anything about to enter their country and take over their country”.

“Its an invasion,” he adds, accusing Democrats of “obsessing over the borders of distant foreign nations” and ignoring America’s own borders.

He goes on to describe brutal murders that he says were committed in Florida by undocumented migrants.

Donald Trump has just taken the stage in Florida, where he opened by encouraging people to vote for Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio and Governor Ron DeSantis.

Trump calls the crowd is "feisty". Many have been waiting in the Florida sun for hours to hear him speak.

We'll be bringing you live updates.

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Nada Tawfik
BBC News, Miami

Donald Trump has just taken the stage, and his Miami supporters are fired up to hear him speak, some telling me they drove for hours to be here.

The upcoming midterm elections have certainly heightened the feeling that they are in a battle to “save America”.

Nydia Goodwin tells me she’s looking expecting a red tsunami of Republican victories and is looking for true conservatives who are “pro-God, pro-country, pro-family, pro-life and pro-second amendment.”

The atmosphere here less like a midterms rally for current politicians and more like a build up to the possibility of a Trump 2024 presidential run.

For $20 here, one can get a “Trump 2024” or “Ultra Maga” shirt and those are the options without vulgar language. Around the rally, flags are waved that declare “Trump won” in 2020.

His supporters truly believe the former president can win again, despite acknowledging that he comes with baggage. And some tell me they do believe the election was stolen from him, despite all evidence to the contrary.

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Twitter will delay the implementation of its new paid blue badge system, according to the New York Times, amid criticism that it could unleash a wave of disinformation.

The reversal comes one day after the company said it would begin charging accounts $7.99 (£7.09) for its subscription Twitter Blue service.

“Power to the people,” the announcement said on Saturday. “Your account will get a blue checkmark, just like the celebrities, companies, and politicians you already follow.”

Citing internal company memos, the Times reports that the new rollout will begin on 9 November, one day after the election and when the results of many races are still being counted.

Critics note that the new paid plan could make it easier for fake accounts to become verified.

Nada Tawfik
Reporting from Florida

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Former allies Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are quickly turning into rivals as each seeks to take credit for Florida’s move to the right, in preparation for their White House bids.

Columnist Myra Adams says that not only has DeSantis replaced Trump as a fixture on Fox News, a favourite channel of conservative voters, but the donor class is also investing in DeSantis as the future of the party.

The Florida governor has amassed an incredible fortune in his war chest – more than $200m (£177m) – raising more than Trump since the former president left office.

And the name calling has already started.

Speaking to the New York Times White House Correspondent Maggie Haberman this summer, Trump described DeSantis as “fat,” “phony,” and “whiny”.

And just yesterday at a rally in Pennsylvania, Trump took another jab at DeSantis, calling him "Ron DeSanctimonious", while pointing to polls that show him at the head of the pack for the Republican nomination.

Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from Washington DC

Among the most high-profile candidates in the upcoming midterm elections is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis - a man some journalists and Republican observers have described as “Trump with substance” or "Trump 2.0”.

But who is he?

At 44 years old, DeSantis is still a relative newcomer to US politics, having first been elected to the House of Representatives in 2012. Just six years later, he became governor.

A Harvard and Yale-educated lawyer, DeSantis is also a former officer of the US Navy’s legal arm. After his service ended, he became a federal prosecutor before entering politics.

As governor, he gained national prominence for lifting Florida’s Covid restrictions despite scathing criticism and skyrocketing cases.

He’s also been described as an enthusiastic “culture warrior”, and was recently accused of "weaponising" migrants for a political stunt, when he arranged for a group of mostly Venezuelan asylum seekers to be flown from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, a liberal enclave in Massachusetts.

Read more about Ron DeSantis in our profile here.

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Georgia Republican Senate candidate and former NFL star Herschel Walker has just been speaking on the campaign trail.

He took the stage after being introduced by Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the UN.

"He's a good person who’s been put through the ringer, and has had everything and the kitchen sink thrown at him - and he’s still fighting for you," says Haley.

Walker has been embroiled in scandal as two women have accused him of paying for their abortions, despite running on an anti-abortion platform. He has denied the allegations.

Walker began his speech by thanking God - "If you don’t acknowledge him, he's not gonna acknowledge you" - before thanking his wife in the audience.

"I'm gonna tell you all to go vote for me and we’re gonna get to the promised land," says the former NFL player.

He criticised his Democratic opponent, Senator Raphael Warnock, saying he was responsible for evicting tenants being housed by his church in Georgia - the same church where Martin Luther King preached.

"He's not giving you nothing. Don't believe in him," he says. "We gotta vote for something new starting in November."

Ending his speech, he told the crowd: "Put me in coach, I'm ready to play."

Polls show an extremely tight race in Georgia - with most analysts saying its too close to make any accurate prediction.

Holly Honderich
Reporting from Colorado

A few hours outside of Denver - the capital city of Colorado, a vast mountainous state in the country’s west - you’ll see an enormous sign.

"This Is Boebert Country," it reads.

“Boebert” is Lauren Boebert, a 35-year-old Republican congresswoman from Colorado.

She hails from the far-right wing of her party: anti-abortion, pro-gun and very pro-religion (she has called the separation of church and state ‘junk’).

Boebert is expected to sail to victory on Tuesday as her more moderate Republican colleague in the state could lose out to the Democrat challenger.

Her likely triumph offers a hint at the future of the Republican party and the far-right figures - like Boebert - who may lead it.

Read more about the race in Colorado here.

A series of false and misleading claims have gone viral online days before the US midterm elections.

Some of the claims cast doubt on the legitimacy of the voting process in key states, while others include manipulated content from across the political spectrum.

The BBC has examined some of the most widely shared claims.

One is over doctored memes of Republican Mehmet Oz that have been shared in recent weeks which claim to show voters in Pennsylvania tell him to his face that they don't intend to vote for him.

An example shows a house with Dr Oz's campaign sign upside down in the front garden, which makes one of them appear to read "no" above his name.

But the same picture of the house, located in Pittsburgh, can be found on the website of a real estate company without the upside down Oz campaign signs.

The person who created the picture told the BBC it was done as a joke and should not be taken seriously.

The Pennsylvania Senate race between Oz and Democrat John Fetterman is seen as one of the crucial battles of the midterms campaign, which could potentially decide whether the Senate remains in Democratic control or flips to the Republicans.

Read more about other false claims here.