US Presidential Election Updates: Campaign Ends with Celebrity Endorsement and Nate Silver Prediction | US elections 2024

Donald Trump And Kamala Harris On the last day of the campaign before the US election, they held their closing speeches and held dueling rallies in the battleground states until late into the night.

Harris was there Pennsylvaniathe largest swing state and crucial for the Democrats’ election campaign. She held the final rally of her campaign on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, made famous by the film Rocky. Introduced by Oprah Winfrey And Lady GagaHarris emphasized her message of hope. “We finish the same way we started, with optimism, with energy, with joy,” she said. “We have to get to work.”

Trump struck a darker tone in the same state, threatening to impose tariffs on all imports from Mexico unless it prevented migrants from entering the US – although he interrupted himself at one point to express his support from the podcaster to celebrate Joe Rogan. The Republican candidate also held hour-long events North Carolina And Michigan.

Lead forecaster Nate Silver released his final forecast, saying Harris won in 40,012 out of 80,000, or 50.15%, of simulations run with his model. Polls released Monday showed Harris with a narrow lead in Michigan but tied with Trump in Pennsylvania and other key swing states. Trump has maintained a lead in the betting markets, but that edge is dwindling.

This is what else happened on the last day of the 2024 election campaign:

News and updates on the election of Donald Trump

• Trump held his final campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan – the same place where he ended his 2016 and 2020 campaigns. “With your vote tomorrow, we can solve every single problem facing our country and take America — indeed, the world — to new heights of glory,” he told the crowd.

• The former president began the final day of campaigning in North Carolina. personal attacks on a number of high-ranking Democratic women, He then traveled to Reading, Pennsylvania, where he portrayed migrants as dangerous criminals. “November 5, 2024 will be Liberation Day in America,” he said. “And on day one, I will launch the largest criminal deportation program in American history.”

• In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Trump praised Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein as “one of my favorite politicians.” and was happy about the prospect of returning to the White House: “Just one day – that sounds nice – one day. We’ve been waiting four years for this.”

• JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, has been condemned again for misogyny after repeatedly calling Kamala Harris “trash” at campaign rallies. The Republican vice presidential nominee compared Harris to trash at a rally in New Hampshire on Sunday and did it again on Monday in Flint, Michigan, and Atlanta, Georgia.

News and updates on the election of Kamala Harris

• The vice president began the day in Scranton, Joe Biden’s childhood hometown, where she told her supporters to “get this done.” Biden did not appear with Harris in Scranton, continuing her campaign efforts to close a gap between the candidate and her former vice president.

• Harris reached out to Pennsylvania’s Puerto Rican and Latino populations. Visiting a Puerto Rican restaurant in Reading with a congresswoman
  Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and governor Josh Shapiro and appearing at a rally in Allentown with rapper Fat Joe, who criticized Trump for his treatment of Puerto Ricans and Latino voters: “(If) you haven’t made up your mind, then where is your pride as a Latino?”

• Harris knocked on doors in Reading and held a rally in Pittsburgh, supported by pop star Katy Perry. The vice president tried to strike a positive tone, saying it was time to overcome the “fear and division” of the last decade and drawing a contrast with Donald Trump without mentioning his name. “It’s time for a new generation of leadership,” she said.

• Harris headed home to Number One Observatory Circle in Washington in the early hours of Tuesday morning after their final rally in Philadelphia. She will spend Tuesday calling local radio stations in the seven battleground states to reach remaining voters, her communications director told reporters.

• Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, campaigned in his home state before visiting Wisconsin, where he struck a hopeful tone: “Look at the movement and look at the energy that Kamala Harris has built in 107 days – imagine what she can do in the next eight years.” Walz ended Monday in Michigan, where he performed with Jon Bon Jovi, telling supporters that women would be sending a message to Trump tomorrow “whether he likes it or not.”

Elsewhere in the election campaign

• A judge in Pennsylvania rejected legal challenges to Elon Musk’s $1 million gift. This means the billionaire’s electoral competition can continue until the presidential election on Tuesday.

• The Republicans also won a victory in their legal battle over voting rights. after Georgia’s highest court ruled that mail-in ballots must be returned by Election Day. As legal battles unfold across the country, the Harris campaign told reporters that it stands ready to counter any attempts by Trump to discredit the result.

• The Harris campaign expects “near complete results” from Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan on election nightalong with partial results from Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Arizona, the campaign manager said Jen O’Malley Dillon.

• Officials have begun preparing for a feared escalation in political violence on Election Day and beyond. More than two dozen states are ready to send National Guard troops to Washington, National Guard officials said, while election officials in a Nevada county said polling places had installed “panic buttons” because of the increasing threats. A group of Democratic secretaries of state has asked social media companies how they will moderate inflammatory content as violent threats and disinformation spread.

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