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Harris tells Nevada: ‘Make no mistake – we will win’

“Make no mistake: we will win,” she says.

“It is time for a new generation of leadership in America,” says Harris. “And I am ready to offer that leadership.”

Harris, who recently turned 60, is a generation younger than Donald Trump, her opponent, who is 78, and Joe Biden, 81, who she replaced on the Democratic ticket.

Kamala Harris addresses supporters in Reno. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

The Associated Press reports, citing two US government officials and an internal email obtained on Thursday, that White House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which Joe Biden appeared to take a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump, drawing objections from the federal workers who document such remarks for posterity:

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Biden created an uproar earlier this week with his remarks to Latino activists responding to racist comments at a Trump rally made by the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who referred to the US island territory of Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

n Biden, according to a transcript prepared by the official White House stenographers, told the Latino group on a Tuesday evening video call, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters – his – his demonisation of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

n The transcript released by the White House press office, however, rendered the quote with an apostrophe, reading “supporter’s” rather than “supporters,” which aides said pointed to Biden criticizing Hinchcliffe, not the millions of Americans who are supporting Trump for president.

n The change was made after the press office “conferred with the president,” according to an internal email from the head of the stenographers’ office that was obtained by The AP. The authenticity of the email was confirmed by two government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.

n The supervisor, in the email, called the press office’s handling of the matter “a breach of protocol and spoilation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices.”

n “If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently,” the supervisor wrote, adding, “Our Stenography Office transcript – released to our distro, which includes the National Archives – is now different than the version edited and released to the public by Press Office staff.”

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Cutting away from the rally for a moment, the Georgia secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, has released a statement in which he says that a video that claimed to show a Haitian immigrant claiming to have voted multiple times is “false” and “targeted disinformation”.

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He said:

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Earlier today, our office became aware of a video purporting to show a Haitian immigrant with multiple Georgia ID’s claiming to have voted multiple times.

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This is false, and is an example of targeted disinformation we’ve seen this election. It is likely foreign interference attempting to sow discord and chaos on the eve of the election.

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We are working to combat this and identify the origin of it with our state and federal partners. CISA is currently investigating. In the meantime, we ask Elon Musk and the leadership of other social media platforms to take this down. This is obviously fake and part of a disinformation effort. Likely it is a production of Russian troll farms.

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As Americans we can’t let our enemies use lies to divide us and undermine our faith in our institutions – or each other.

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Harris says forcefully, and with seriousness: “We’re here because we’re fighting for a democracy!”

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She gets huge cheers.

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Then she appears to be heckled, though I could not make it out. She says: “It’s OK. It’s OK. You know what, democracy can be complicated.

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“We’re fighting for the right for people to be heard and not jailed because they speak their mind.”

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“Make no mistake: we will win,” she says.

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“It is time for a new generation of leadership in America,” says Harris. “And I am ready to offer that leadership.”

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Harris, who recently turned 60, is a generation younger than Donald Trump, her opponent, who is 78, and Joe Biden, 81, who she replaced on the Democratic ticket.

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Practising witches from around the world gathered in Salem by the hundreds on Thursday night to honour Stormy Daniels at their annual “magic circle” ceremony recognizing loved ones who have died.

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Daniels – the adult film actor who allegedly had an affair with Donald Trump and was at the center of his May criminal trial that led to the former president’s conviction on 34 felonies – was chosen to be honored in the Halloween ceremony as the organisers believe that she has been the victim of a modern-day witch-hunt.

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The event, which started at 5pm at Salem Common in Salem, Massachusetts,was part of the Festival of the Dead, an annual event series exploring “death’s macabre customs, heretical histories and strange rituals”.

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The magic circle ceremony is intended to be a time to “renew connections, mourn those you miss and to celebrate all that these cherished souls brought to your life”, according to the event details:

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Here’s what’s coming up over the next few hours:

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    Kamala Harris will hold a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada in the early evening.

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    Harris will also a campaign rally and concert in Las Vegas.

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    Trump will attend a Tucker Carlson tour event in Glendale, Arizona.

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This is Helen Sullivan taking over the Guardian’s live US politics coverage – my colleagues and I will bring you the latest from those events, and any other breaking news.

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There are five days left until the US election. Here are the key recent developments:

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    Kamala Harris has taken the stage in Phoenix, telling supporters: “We have five days left in one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime.” She emphasized the threats a Trump administration would pose to reproductive rights. “Did everyone hear what he just said yesterday, that he will do what he wants, whether the women like it or not?” she said, referencing his appearance in Wisconsin, when he declared he would protect them “whether the women like it or not”.

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    Tim Keller, the mayor of Albuquerque, where Trump is holding a rally, said last Friday that the Republican presidential candidate owes the city hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills from his last visit. The Trump campaign owed the city $200,000 for when he hosted his last rally at its convention center in 2019, which has climbed to almost $445,000 with interest. The costs covered police coverage, barricades and other expenses. Trump is banned from rallying in the city over the unpaid bill – his event is being held instead at a private hangar owned by CSI Aviation near the Albuquerque international sunport.

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    Billionaires have flushed the election with cash – roughly $1.9b to be exact, largely to the benefit of republican candidates like Trump. “Billionaire campaign spending on this scale drowns out the voices and concerns of ordinary Americans. It is one of the most obvious and disturbing consequences of the growth of billionaire fortunes, as well as being a prime indicator that the system regulating campaign finance has collapsed,” said David Kass, ATF’s executive director.

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    Voter enthusiasm is at a historical high for a presidential election, a Gallup poll found. Similar to November 2020, 70% of registered voters nationwide said that they were more enthusiastic than usual about voting now compared to March, when only 56% expressed enthusiasm.

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    Trump’s former attorney Kenneth Chesebro has been suspended from practicing law in New York. Chesboro was indicted on state racketeering and conspiracy charges over efforts to overturn Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election in Georgia.

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    Harris has received more endorsements today. Former New York mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg and the Economist have publicly expressed their support.

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    Harris said on Thursday that Trump’s comment that he would protect women “whether the women like it or not” showed that the Republican presidential nominee does not understand women’s “agency, their authority, their right and their ability to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies”. “I think it’s offensive to everybody, by the way,” Harris said before she set out to spend the day campaigning in the western swing states of Arizona and Nevada.

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    Harris will be joined by Jennifer Lopez for her rally in Las Vegas, Nevada – a critical swing state.

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    Ex-Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson will interview Trump in Arizona before the former president heads to his own rally in Nevada.

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While Elon Musk faces his own election integrity questions offline, the X owner has deputized his followers to spot and report any “potential instances of voter fraud and irregularities”. The community he spawned is rife with unfounded claims passed off as evidence of voter fraud.

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Musk opted not to show up to a required court appearance Thursday in Philadelphia to respond to a lawsuit challenging his political action committee’s daily $1m voter giveaway. Meanwhile, online, he has started a dedicated community space on X, formerly Twitter, where he’s asked users to share any issues they see while voting. Users posting on the self-contained feed, the “election integrity community”, quickly began pointing out what they deemed as evidence of fraud and election interference.

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Tweets showing everything from ballots that arrived ripped, an ABC news system test, a postal worker doing his job and dropping off mail-in ballots were all presented as evidence that the upcoming presidential election had been compromised. Some users posted videos of individuals they deemed suspicious, despite providing little or no proof of suspicious activity and asked others in the community to help identify them.

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Among the tweets are attempts at doxxing and identifying people who users falsely accuse of ballot box stuffing or preventing Trump supporters from voting. In one case, a post with 14,000 shares and 31,000 likes includes a video of a postal worker bringing ballots into a polling location in Northampton county, Pennsylvania.

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Kamala Harris has taken the stage in Phoenix, telling supporters: “We have five days left in one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime.”

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She emphasized the threats a Trump administration would pose to reproductive rights. “Did everyone hear what he just said yesterday, that he will do what he wants, whether the women like it or not?” she said, referencing his appearance in Wisconsin, when he declared he would protect them “whether the women like it or not”.

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“There’s a saying that you gotta listen to people when they tell you who they are,” she said. “He does not believe women should have the agency and authority to make decisions about their own bodies.”

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Supporters of Donald Trump in Henderson, near Las Vegas in Nevada, are giving short shrift to a controversy over his remark on Wednesday that he would protect women “whether the women like it or not”.

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Awaiting a Trump campaign rally, Patty Periva, 74, a retired education worker, said: “I don’t care. The Democrats do not protect women. They allow abortions. How many of those abortions are women? They’re killing women and they don’t protect women. It’s a lie.”

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Lisa Consigilo, 60, a retired personal trainer, added: “My family’s from New York. Some things he says people take literally but I know how he speaks: it’s how my dad spoke. You don’t need to take stuff so literally.

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“All their campaign is running on lies. He’s not going to ban abortion across the country. You can’t: it’s impossible. He’s not for that. Everything that they’re running on is not true about Project 2025. He’s a dad, he’s a grandfather, it wasn’t literal like: ‘I’m going to protect women.’”

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Opinion polls suggest a historic gender gap in the presidential election, with women supporting Kamala Harris by a wide margin. But Kathy Holesapple, 56, an entrepreneur, pilot and aircraft mechanic, said: “They’ve weaponised the women against this party but the truth is that they’ve also held down the women in this nation by calling us Karens.

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“We’re not allowed to stand up and speak for our beliefs. They call us a Karen every time we speak up. So the American woman needs to stand up – and they will – and they’re going to realise that Trump is for American women. He’s for women all over the world.”

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Raids and mass deportations lie at the heart of the former president’s second-term vision – a web of policies so vast that critics say their collective implementation would challenge the very ideal of the United States as a nation of immigrants.

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Should he win in November, the Republican nominee has vowed not only to restore many of his most controversial immigration policies, but to go even further. While a number of his first-term plans were stymied by the courts and Congress, immigration rights leaders believe a second Trump administration would likely be more sophisticated and strategic.

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“It is different this time. There’s a plan. There is a sense of urgency that they’ve created around this issue,” said Vanessa Cárdenas, executive director of the immigration advocacy group America’s Voice. “And they know how to use the levers of government in a way they didn’t in 2016.”

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Donald Trump would also be operating in a changed political landscape. Since leaving office, the political center of gravity has shifted rightward, amid a post-pandemic rise in global migration that saw a record number of people arriving at the southern border and claiming asylum. Americans have become less tolerant of illegal immigration while a growing minority is increasingly concerned about its impact on the country’s economy and national identity.

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Though border crossings have plummeted this year following the president’s asylum clampdown, a sense of disorder persists. Voters continue to broadly disapprove of the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the situation. Trump and his team are confident immigration remains a potent political issue for voters – and one that he has long played to his advantage.

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When Trump first descended a golden escalator in 2015, he pledged to construct a “great wall” along the south-west border with Mexico to keep out immigrants he disparaged as “rapists” and drug dealers. Now, in the final weeks of his third presidential race, Trump has again escalated his threats against immigrants, but this time he is turning his vitriol inward toward those already here.

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“The United States is now an occupied country,” Trump claimed recently at a rally in Atlanta. “But on November 5, 2024, that will be liberation day in America.”

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The vice-president will be appearing in Phoenix alongside the musical group Los Tigres del Norte.

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Then, she’ll be heading to Las Vegas, where she will be campaigning alongside Jennifer Lopez and Maná.

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In both cities, Harris will seek to energize Latino voters, who could help decide the outcome of the race in the key swing states of Arizona and Nevada.

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Happy Halloween! There are barely five days left in the 2024 US presidential election and polls show the candidates – Kamala Harris and Donald Trump – remain neck and neck in swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina. More than 60 million Americans have cast ballots so far.

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Harris and Trump are traveling across the western half of the country in states like New Mexico, Nevada and Arizona in the final days of their campaigns.

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Here’s a summary of the day so far:

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    Tim Keller, the mayor of Albuquerque, where Trump is holding a rally, said last Friday that the Republican presidential candidate owes the city hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills from his last visit. The Trump campaign owed the city $200,000 for when he hosted his last rally at its convention center in 2019, which has climbed to almost $445,000 with interest. The costs covered police coverage, barricades and other expenses. Trump is banned from rallying in the city over the unpaid bill – his event is being held instead at a private hangar owned by CSI Aviation near the Albuquerque international sunport.

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    Billionaires have flushed the election with cash – roughly $1.9b to be exact, largely to the benefit of republican candidates like Trump. “Billionaire campaign spending on this scale drowns out the voices and concerns of ordinary Americans. It is one of the most obvious and disturbing consequences of the growth of billionaire fortunes, as well as being a prime indicator that the system regulating campaign finance has collapsed,” said David Kass, ATF’s executive director.

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    Voter enthusiasm is at a historical high for a presidential election, a Gallup poll found. Similar to November 2020, 70% of registered voters nationwide said that they were more enthusiastic than usual about voting now compared to March, when only 56% expressed enthusiasm.

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    Trump’s former attorney Kenneth Chesebro has been suspended from practicing law in New York. Chesboro was indicted on state racketeering and conspiracy charges over efforts to overturn Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election in Georgia.

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    Harris has received more endorsements today. Former New York mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg and the Economist have publicly expressed their support.

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    Harris said on Thursday that Trump’s comment that he would protect women “whether the women like it or not” showed that the Republican presidential nominee does not understand women’s “agency, their authority, their right and their ability to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies”. “I think it’s offensive to everybody, by the way,” Harris said before she set out to spend the day campaigning in the western swing states of Arizona and Nevada.

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    Harris will be joined by Jennifer Lopez for her rally in Las Vegas, Nevada – a critical swing state.

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    Ex-Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson will interview Trump in Arizona before the former president heads to his own rally in Nevada.

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Tim Keller, the mayor of Albuquerque, where Trump is holding a rally, said last Friday that the Republican presidential candidate owes the city hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills from his last visit.

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“Trump now owes almost a half a million dollars to the city of Albuquerque … We’ve had collection agencies calling and so forth for about two years now,” Keller said.

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The Trump campaign owed the city $200,000 for when he hosted his last rally at its convention center in 2019, which has climbed to almost $445,000 with interest. The costs covered police coverage, barricades and other expenses. Since the Trump campaign still allegedly hasn’t paid its bills, he was banned from rallying there. Instead, the rally is being held at a private hangar owned by CSI Aviation near the Albuquerque international sunport.

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The general manager for the Albuquerque convention center, Ray Roa, confirmed to the Albuquerque Journal onMonday that members of the Trump campaign contacted them to try to rent the convention center but were denied.

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Michael Bloomberg has announced he voted for Kamala Harris.

The former New York City mayor, who governed as a Republican and as an independent, and who was also a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, wrote in an article for his own news media company, Bloomberg News, that he voted for Harris “without hesitation”. Bloomberg said that although he disagreed with Harris on some issues, he applauded a number of her policies including women’s reproductive rights, immigration, gun safety, and the climate crisis.

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Bloomberg called the US “the world’s greatest nation” and said Trump made it “look like a banana republic” when he tried to overturn the results of the election and incite violence on 6 January at the Capitol.

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Bloomberg added: “Most Americans never thought we’d witness such a shameful episode. Trump, rather than apologizing for it – as some of those convicted of January 6-related crimes have done – celebrates it.”

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Bloomberg concluded with an ask to “undecided voters of all political stripes” to join him in voting for Harris.

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The Economist magazine announced their endorsement of Kamala Harris on Thursday.

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In the statement, editors at the Economist wrote:

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Tens of millions of Americans will vote for Mr Trump next week. Some will be true believers. But many will take a calculated risk that in office his worst instincts would be constrained. We see that as recklessly complacent.

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By making Mr Trump leader of the free world, Americans would be gambling with the economy, the rule of law and international peace.

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Ms Harris’s shortcomings, by contrast, are ordinary. And none of them are disqualifying. If The Economist had a vote, we would cast it for her.

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A state appeals court in New York ruled on Thursday that Kenneth Chesebro – the attorney who allegedly devised the “fake electors” plan to prevent Joe Biden from winning the 2020 election – will have his law license suspended.

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Last year, in August, Chesebrowas indicted, along with Trump and 17 others in Georgia on state racketeering and conspiracy charges over efforts to overturn Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election there.

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In October, Chesebro accepted a plea deal.

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Voter enthusiasm is high for this presidential election, according to a new Gallup poll.

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The poll, released on Thursday, found that 70% of registered voters nationwide said that they were more enthusiastic than usual about voting, up from 56% in March.

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The increase was largely a result of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents expressing heightened enthusiasm for Kamala Harris after Joe Biden dropped out of the race, the survey states.

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70% enthusiasm is also one percentage point higher than what Gallup measured at the close of the 2020 election.

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Americans’ attention to the election is also relatively high, the poll writes, with 83% of registered voters and 77% of US adults saying they have given “quite a lot of thought” to the election.

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More than 60 million Americans have already voted in the 2024 election.

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With just five days until election day, 60.9 million people in the US have voted early as of Thursday at noon, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida.

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Of the nearly 61 million, just over 32 million voted early in person and about 28 million voted early by mail.

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A lot of money has been spent on this year’s elections.

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Of this giant figure 72% went to support Republicans compared with the 22% spent on Democrats.

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“Billionaire campaign spending on this scale drowns out the voices and concerns of ordinary Americans. It is one of the most obvious and disturbing consequences of the growth of billionaire fortunes, as well as being a prime indicator that the system regulating campaign finance has collapsed,” said David Kass, ATF’s executive director.

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“We need to rein in the political power of billionaire families by better taxing them and by effectively limiting their campaign donations. Until we do both, we can only expect the influence of the super-rich over our politics and government to escalate.”

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A new Washington Post poll has found that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are tied in toss-up state Michigan. Harris has 47% support among likely voters while Trump has 46% support.

n ”Both margins are within the poll’s margin of error of 3.7 percentage points, indicating either candidate could hold a lead,” the newspaper said.

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With 50.6% of the vote, Joe Biden won the midwest state in 2020 compared to the 47.8% who voted for Trump. Trump narrowly won Michigan in 2016 by a little less than 11,000 votes.

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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will travel out west in the US election race on Thursday, as opportunities to edge ahead are running out.

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Both candidates are trying to get Latino voters to support them. Harris has secured the star power of Jennifer Lopez for her rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, a critical swing state. Meanwhile, ex-Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson will interview Trump in Arizona before the former president heads to his own rally in Nevada.

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A stand-up comedy set performed at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden is still reverberating throughout this campaign. Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe likened Puerto Rico to a floating island of garbage, which Harris’ campaign has seized upon, claiming that it reveals the racism of Trump supporters.

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This was gaining traction, but President Joe Biden still managed to make it backfire on his party when he appeared to describe all Trump supporters as “garbage.” This prompted Trump, who has also branded Harris’ supporters as garbage, to use a garbage truck in a publicity stunt in Wisconsin.

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Trump is due to deviate slightly from campaigning in battleground states with a trip to New Mexico on Thursday, a state pollsters forecast will go to Harris.

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Good morning. It is less than a week before polls close at the 2024 US election and more than 57.5 million Americans have already checked their ballots, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida.

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Presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are still hot on the campaign trail in a fiercely contested race that is too close to call.

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Trump made an appearance in a high-vis vest at the wheel of a garbage truck before heading off to a rally in Wisconsin, a key battleground state. Trump promised to protect women “whether they liked it or not”.

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Harris was also in Wisconsin offering platitudes on climate change, gun control and abortion. She said those issues were “not political” but one’s “lived experience”. She was speaking shortly after the latest CNN poll showed her six points ahead of Trump in the state.

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The comments by Trump come as he has struggled to connect with female voters and as Harris courts women in both parties with a message centered on freedom. She’s making the pitch that women should be free to make their own decisions about their bodies and that if Trump is elected, more restrictions will follow as both campaigns sprint toward Tuesday’s presidential election.

At a rally Wednesday evening near Green Bay, Wisconsin, Trump told his supporters that aides had urged him to stop using the term protector because it was “inappropriate.”

Then he added a new bit to the protector line. He said he told his aides: “Well, I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I am going to protect them.”

Those comments shaped much of Harris’ Thursday as the two campaigns jostled over the remarks.

More detail on Harris’s remarks: she said that Donald Trump’s comment that he would protect women whether they “like it or not” shows that the Republican presidential nominee does not understand women’s rights “to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies.”

“I think it’s offensive to everybody, by the way,” Harris said before she set out to spend the day campaigning in the western battleground states of Arizona and Nevada.

She followed up those remarks at her rally in Phoenix: “He simply does not respect the freedom of women or the intelligence of women to know what’s in their own best interests and make decisions accordingly. But we trust women.”

Chris Stein

Chris Stein

Meanwhile in Arizona, we’re now taking quite the trip down political memory lane, as Trump recounts his opposition to the Iraq war, and takes a swipe at George W Bush, the last Republican to occupy the White House before he got in.

“Anybody that went into the Middle East, I thought was stupid,” Trump said.

“Bush, oh, he was just, he was another beauty,” he continued, appearing to hold himself back from insulting the ex-president.

There are five days left, and “no one can sit on the sidelines” Harris says.

People should reach out to friends and family and neighbours and co-workers.

“In these next days let us please be intentional about building community,” she says

Harris reminds supporters in Las Vegas that she has spent her life fighting for people who “have been hurt”.

She has lived the promise of America, she says, and sees it in everyone there tonight.

Chris Stein

Chris Stein

Donald Trump, in Arizona, is now insulting Kamala Harris, saying she isn’t as smart as Hillary Clinton.

The invective came as he recounted his path to the White House in 2016, saying, “All of a sudden I’m fighting against crooked Hillary Clinton, who’s a smart woman, much smarter than Kamala, but doesn’t lie as much. Hillary was a liar, a horrible scoundrel, but this one lies so much, and she’s a low IQ individual.”

Another one about Harris, from Trump: “She’s dumb as a rock. And you can’t have that.”

At the Harris event, the crowd is chanting “We’re not going back! We’re not going back!”

“We’re not going back because ours is a fight for the future, and a fight for freedom. The freedom for a woman to make decisions about her own body.”

She reminds voters that changes to abortion laws under Trump mean that one in three women now lives in a state with an abortion ban.

Chris Stein

Chris Stein

Tucker Carlson then teed-up a question about the CIA and FBI conspiring against Trump, but the former president didn’t seem interested in answering it.

Instead, he proposed firing anyone involved in the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.

“You mentioned the enemy within. . … It’s a fact that the CIA and the FBI, which are absolutely not allowed by law to have any influence in American politics, because that’s the end of democracy. Both of them and a bunch of other intel agencies worked against you on behalf of the Democratic Party from the minute you got elected in 2016 and they’re still doing it. They’re working against you. Now, what will you do about that?” Carlson asked.

Trump didn’t quite say, instead talking about how succeeding in Washington was all about finding the right people. Then he brought up the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the point at which Joe Biden’s approval ratings began dropping to levels from which they have not recovered.

“By the way, every one of those people having to do with Afghanistan should be fired immediately. Every general should be fired immediately. You know, Biden doesn’t fire anybody,” Trump said.

Chris Stein

Chris Stein

Meanwhile at Trump’s event:

Donald Trump doubled down on his insistence that “the enemy from within”, as he called his political opponents, are a true threat to the country.

Kamala Harris has seized on his remarks to argue that he is a fascist looking for “unchecked power”, but Trump doesn’t appear bothered.

“We do have an enemy from within. We have some very bad people, and those people are also very dangerous. They would like to take down our country. They’d like to have our country be a nice communist country or fascist in any way they can, and we have to be careful of that. But they’re the greatest con artists, because [as] soon as I said an enemy from within, they said … oh, he’s saying an enemy from within. These are sick puppies, I’m telling you.”

More detail on J Lo’s appearance a few moments ago, from the press pool report:

Jennifer Lopez took to the stage at 9.02, wearing a long olive-colored dress. The crowd sounded very pleased.

The event is being livestreamed but here are a couple of quotes:

“You are the ones who are going to send a message – that Las Vegas is Harris country

“Kamala Harris gets it …. As president of the United States Kamala will fight for us … And the freedom to choose to do what we do with our bodies.”

On Trump and Madison Square Garden:
“It wasn’t just Puerto Ricans who were offended that day. It was every Latino”

Shouts of ‘thank you’ and ‘we love you J-Lo’

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