Election 2024 live updates: Harris and Trump hold final campaign rallies on eve of Election Day

Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill endorsed Harris this afternoon in a new track called “Who You Voting For.”

The rapper lays out his case for backing Harris over Trump at the start of the song: “My homie said he vote for Trump, he want that stimulus / I want it too for him, but the way he moving venomous / I work for everything I got, earn all my privileges / they give immunity to cops, they gone probably finish us.”

He later states, “I ain’t vote for Cam-a-la,” mispronouncing Kamala, then saying: “I’m a probably vote Kamala, somebody call her.”

Memos on bathroom stalls. Celebrities on the trail. And supporters of Harris girding for the possibility of a secret vote from Republican women as Liz Cheney proclaims that women “will save the day.” 

For the second time in a decade, a Democratic woman is running against Trump in a presidential race. And once again, Trump faces a persistent gender gap. It is unusual that both Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns are focused on the same slice of voters, but as the race narrows, both Harris and Trump have found themselves pulling out the stops to mobilize women.

Going into Election Day, female voters are much more likely to say they support Harris, with some polls showing her holding a double-digit advantage. In an outlier poll from J. Ann Selzer for the Des Moines Register, Harris has leaped ahead of Trump in Iowa, a state he won in 2016 and again in 2020. According to the survey, which does not disclose how it is weighted to party affiliation, the shift is in part driven by women voters ages 65 and over, who are breaking for Harris by a 2-to-1 ratio.

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Twenty states have placed a total of about 250 National Guard troops on state active-duty orders or are preparing to activate orders for election support.

The troops are mostly activated for cyber support, law enforcement or general support to the election.

Ten states have active-duty orders, including swing states like Arizona and North Carolina, as well as others like Alabama, Illinois, New Mexico and Washington. Another 10 states have troops on standby. They include other battlegrounds like Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, as well as Iowa, Oregon and Texas.

Maricopa County, Arizona, Recorder Stephen Richer said today that his office has discussed with the county attorney’s office some voter registration forms that he said were tied to a group "that we have been not wholly satisfied with the voter registration forms that have been submitted."

Richer was responding to a question from NBC News about whether thousands of voter registration forms that he had characterized as problematic were tied to the group Field+Media Corps. Richer said his office "did not have the specific number for exactly how many of those forms were from" Field+Media.

The upper deck at PPG Paints arena is closed off, which means Trump will speak to a crowd of 10,000 to 12,000 supporters here tonight.

It’s a lively crowd with a fair number of students and lots of folks wearing reflective vests after Trump donned one last week after Biden's "garbage" comment.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner warned against foul play at the city's polls tomorrow saying: "We’re not playing. Eff around and find out.”

Krasner said at a news conference that he wanted to reassure voters that city officials have been working for months to ensure there is "nothing to fear" in casting a ballot on Election Day. He also issued a particular warning to anyone seeking to "play militia" or looking "to threaten people" at the polls.

“We do have the cuffs; we do have the jail cells. We do have the Philly juries, and we have the state prisons," Krasner said. "So if you’re going to try to turn an election into some form of coercion, if you’re going to try to bully people, bully votes or voters, you’re going to try to erase votes, you’re going to try any of that nonsense — we’re not playing. Eff around and find out."

Harris’ last campaign stop in western Pennsylvania tonight will be at a unique venue: Carrie Blast Furnaces — a sprawling relic of Pittsburgh’s steel industry.

The blast furnace, which operated for almost a century until the 1980s, has been designated a National Historic Landmark.

Thousands are gathering in the shadow of the tall, rusted figure while a DJ plays — as they await Harris’ remarks tonight, as well as performances by Katy Perry and Andra Day.

Kimberly Brown, daughter of Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown, took the stage at Trump’s Pittsburgh rally to detail why she is supporting him.

Brown was wearing her father’s uniform — a Cleveland Browns jersey. The Browns, of course, are the arch-rival of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

As the campaign entered its final evening, dozens of Harris supporters lined up outside Hart Plaza in Detroit hours before Walz is scheduled to make one of his final pitches to voters.

Among those in line was Jaz’mene Little, 23, a social media manager for the city government. Little said she lived through the Covid pandemic as a college student and watched the Jan. 6 insurrection take place on her 20th birthday, so Harris’ campaign made her “excited” about the country’s direction again.

“She’s the change that America needs right now, especially in a place like Detroit,” Little said. “It would just be nice to have a leader that actually cares about its people and not just, like, a certain type of, certain group of people.”

Tonight's campaign event is expected to feature a performance by Bon Jovi.

Bill Clinton made 50 stops on behalf of the Harris campaign in the last month of the presidential race, hitting every battleground state in the final stretch, an aide said.

The former president was deployed mostly to small towns in rural areas, including on several bus tours. Clinton held events in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada and Arizona, as well as New Hampshire, Maine and Florida.

Clinton focused his message on the economy and worked to make the case that Harris’ policies would “benefit the middle class and working families,” the Clinton aide said.

Harris cast herself as a friend to people of Puerto Rican descent, appealing to voters who were put off by a comedian’s insulting joke about the island during Trump’s rally last month in New York.

Harris opened her 20-minute appearance in this Hispanic-majority city by assuring voters she has a “long-standing commitment to Puerto Rico” and that, if elected, “will be a president for all Americans.”

She did not mention Trump by name, nor did she refer to the comedian’s depiction of Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.” But she and others delivered a message that Hispanic voters in particular need to reject Trump.

A Pennsylvania judge today declined an effort by the Philadelphia district attorney to stop Elon Musk’s America PAC from doling out cash prizes to registered voters.

The injunction means Musk’s PAC will be able to do one last giveaway tomorrow, the last day of the offer.

The America PAC giveaway has promised million-dollar checks to some voters and $47 and $100 payments to other registered voters who signed a political pledge in swing states. It was advertised as a lottery-style giveaway through Election Day.

The PAC picks winners who effectively serve as spokespeople, and they then “earn” $1 million for doing so, America PAC attorney Chris Gober said.

Read the full story here.

The Georgia Supreme Court ruled today that absentee ballots that were sent late in Cobb County will be counted only if they arrive by Election Day, siding with Republicans in an ongoing case in the key swing state.

Ballots arriving after tomorrow will be set aside pending a further ruling from the court, the justices said. Specifically, the ruling orders officials in Cobb County to segregate the ballots received between 7 p.m. ET tomorrow — the time polls in Georgia close — and 5 p.m. Friday. Voters may continue to hand-deliver their absentee ballots to Cobb County elections offices.

The latest ruling puts on hold a decision by a lower court that had extended the deadline for absentee ballots in the county.

A Trump victory won’t change the fundamental challenges his social media company faces, analyst Jay Woods said.

“We are trading this like GameStop on steroids right now,” Woods, chief capital strategist at Freedom Capital Markets, said of Trump Media on CNBC’s “Power Lunch.”

“And, you know, kudos to those that are trading it making money. But over the long term, the metrics don’t make any sense,” he said.

It's "civic engagement night" for the NBA, with all 30 teams playing and sharing "important resources from voting organizations encouraging fans to make a plan to vote" at their games, the league said in a news release.

There will be no basketball games at all tomorrow, part of the league's aim to get people out to vote, and numerous arenas are being used as polling stations, the league said.

It is just after 7 a.m. in the U.S. territory of Guam, which means Election Day has begun and the polls are open.

Guam residents are voting for a nonvoting delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives, the state Senate, the state Supreme Court, intermediate appellate courts and municipal governments. Other positions on the ballot include auditor, the state board of education and the utilities commission.

Guam is the first territory to cast its votes on Election Day, but voters don't get a say in the presidential race because it has no Electoral College votes.

Rapper Azealia Banks withdrew support from Trump today, indicating in a post on X that she plans to cast a ballot for the Democratic presidential nominee — although writing a lengthy post that disparaged both Harris and Walz.

"I will be Voting For Kamala Harris tomorrow," Banks concluded, adding that billionaire and Trump surrogate Elon Musk "belongs no where near American Politics." Banks also took aim at Trump's plans to deport migrants, calling the former president's deportation plans "delusional" in all caps.

Trump has suggested that he could adopt Musk’s plan for a government efficiency commission to reduce spending and has repeatedly indicated plans for massive deportation of undocumented immigrants if he is elected.

Banks had previously endorsed Trump in the 2024 presidential race.

Trump said at his afternoon rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, "We're at the 2-yard line, maybe the 1-yard line."

The former president said that he's not starting from the 20-yard line, but that "we're starting 15 yards off the field."

The upper deck at Trump's Pittsburgh rally is curtained off, slicing the capacity significantly from the roughly 18,000 seats available at PPG Paints Arena.

There was additional seating made available on the floor of the arena, though. And the line to get inside was backed up far from the arena entrance.

Trump is slated to deliver his penultimate rally here Monday evening.

Harris’ campaign was pleasantly surprised by the Des Moines Register poll showing her leading Trump in Iowa, but isn’t banking on a victory in what has long been viewed as a solid red state, a top campaign official said in an interview Monday.

Mitch Landrieu, the Harris campaign co-chair, was among those in the crowd in Allentown for Harris’ speech this afternoon as she blitzed Pennsylvania in a final push for votes.

The new poll showed Harris leading Trump 47% to 44%, a result driven by older, independent-leaning women. The poll was led by J. Ann Selzer, whose surveys are considered Iowa’s gold standard.

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger took to social media to urge Americans to vote — and said his kids are voting for Harris.

"Don't forget to vote — Jagger kids are voting for Kamala," the British singer wrote on Instagram in a post featuring pictures of him with six of his adult children.

Trump is a Rolling Stones fan and has used their songs "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and "Start Me Up" at his rallies. The band's representatives sent him a cease and desist letter in 2020.

The FBI reported a slight uptick in reported election security threats, a boost that officials said could simply be due to heightened awareness of interference efforts.

“So the threat reporting that we’re getting in here is a little more, not a huge volume increase, but people are more aware of reporting information to the FBI,” said agent James Barnacle, deputy assistant director of the bureau's Criminal Investigative Division.

The FBI's National Election Command post launched Friday will be running through at least Saturday. For multiple presidential elections now, Russia has sought to influence the White House race.

Barnacle said the threats are varied: “We’ve also seen some, some attempted cyberattacks, which we see cyber instances all the time, where adversaries are trying to hit the secretaries of state or state governments or local governments and cause issues with their infrastructure."

The head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is confident in the security of the 2024 election despite minor disruptions, she said in a press call. 

“I can say with great confidence that our election infrastructure has never been more secure and that the election community has never been better prepared to deliver safe, secure, free and fair elections. State and local election officials have been preparing for this day for years, working tirelessly and selflessly on the front lines of our democracy,” CISA Director Jen Easterly said.

This is despite several issues, including a criminal attempt to destroy several ballot drop-off boxes, hurricanes Helene and Milton, and at least one low-level hacking attempt, she said.

Stocks typically rise after a presidential election — but investors need to be prepared for some short-term choppiness first, history shows.

The three major benchmarks on average have seen gains between Election Day and year-end in the presidential election year going back to 1980, according to CNBC data. However, investors shouldn’t be expecting a straight shot up in the market after polls close.

In fact, the three indexes have all averaged declines in the session and week following those voting days. Stocks have tended to erase most or all of those losses within a month, CNBC data shows.

This means investors shouldn’t be anticipating an immediate pop Wednesday or the next few days after.

That’s especially true given the chance that the presidential race, which is considered neck and neck, may not be called by Wednesday morning. America may also need to wait for close congressional races to have final counts for determining which party has control of the either chamber.

Read the full story on CNBC.

In the event Harris wins Michigan, a source close to Gretchen Whitmer believes the credit is due to the second-term Democratic governor.

Whitmer has "gone above and beyond to help the VP” win over independents and Republicans, the source said.

All told, Whitmer’s Fight Like Hell PAC has supported or co-supported more than 160 voter activation, engagement and outreach events in Michigan since January. The governor hit the campaign trail, boosted the Harris-Walz ticket on social media and served as a key media surrogate.

A man working as a poll worker in Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District — where government officials conscript poll workers for mandatory duty similar to jury duty — was wearing a shirt disparaging the role as Douglas County's Election Commission began counting early votes today.

The man was spotted by NBC News wearing a yellow shirt that said, "Welfare recipients should be here instead of me" in an area where poll watchers can view the counting of votes. NBC News was allowed access to the area for about 30 minutes today. The man's identity is unclear.

He was also wearing a hat that said, "Wood Chipper ‘24" that mimicked a campaign graphic or slogan.

Pennsylvania election officials cannot start counting the nearly 2 million ballots that have already been returned until 7 a.m. tomorrow, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt told reporters today in the latest of eight recent news conferences.

“That means election officials can’t even remove the ballot from their envelope and prepare them to be counted until then, which is the same time those officials will be also running more than 9,100 polling places across the commonwealth for in-person voting,” he said. 

Schmidt added that the Pennsylvania Department of State has “never had final official results on election night, regardless of whether media outlets have projected winners on that night or a later date. The department is confident the counties will work diligently to count every eligible ballot cast, and we can’t predict what percentage of those votes will be counted on election night.”

In a video posted on X by Doug Emhoff, several of Harris' relatives showcased their support ahead of Election Day.

Tony West, Harris' brother-in-law, said, "She never met a bully she didn't stand up to or a person in need she didn't stand up for."

Harris's stepson, Cole Emhoff, had a similar message, saying, "Her intent is always to protect."

The video also showcased Harris' niece Meena Harris, sister Maya Harris, stepdaughter Ella Emhoff, in-laws Barbara and Mike Emhoff, and Meena Harris' partner, Nik Ajagu.

In a news conference this morning, Fulton County officials responded to a pair of lawsuits filed against the county by the Republican National Committee and Georgia Republican Party claiming the county had illegally accepted absentee ballots over the weekend.

The first lawsuit claimed Fulton County broke state law by allowing absentee ballots to be returned at government buildings over the weekend. A state judge on Saturday ruled the practice is legal, as absentee ballots can be returned any time before polls close on Election Day. 

The RNC and Georgia have since filed a similar lawsuit in federal court against Fulton and six other counties. 

At a news conference this morning, the Fulton County Commission board chair, Robb Pitts, said the county anticipates more legal challenges and has lawyers ready.

Both federal and local officials are taking extreme measures to ensure voter safety with some states even putting the National Guard on standby. Officials are also working to stop the online spread of disinformation and lies particularly coming from Russia, China and Iran intended to disrupt the election. NBC’s Stephanie Gosk reports for "TODAY."

PITTSBURGH — No state has played a bigger role in the presidential campaign in the run-up to Election Day than Pennsylvania.

It’s been the backdrop for Trump and Harris more than any other state and the site of the most spending on behalf of either candidate. It’s where Trump was almost killed over the summer, only to make his triumphant return months later. It’s where he served french fries during a photo op at a McDonald’s restaurant and danced before the cameras for almost 40 minutes during a rally that turned into an impromptu music-listening session. It’s where Harris unveiled her running mate, her economic platform and made appeal after appeal to disaffected Republicans.

It’s where Harris and Trump held their only debate of the cycle. It’s served as a proverbial red carpet for prominent surrogates. Harris has benefited from having three presidents on the trail here boosting her, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, while Trump has had Antonio Brown and Le’Veon Bell, two-thirds of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ “Killer B’s” offense of the prior decade, backing him.”

Over the final two weeks of the race, both candidates and their running mates held 16 events in Pennsylvania — including today, marking some of their final rallies of the campaign. In short, in Harris’ and Trump’s cross-country dance, Pennsylvania is the belle of the ball.

Read the full story here.

On her first stop of her Pennsylvania tour today, Harris offered a moment of optimism to her supporters and drew a comparison between her and Trump's campaign, saying pointing fingers at each other is not beneficial and that she has "a people-driven campaign."

"It makes people feel alone. It makes us feel like there’s nobody standing," she said. "And so the way I’ve always been thinking about our campaign and these next 24 hours is as we are getting out the vote, as we are canvassing, let’s be intentional about about building community, about building coalitions, about reminding people we all have so much more in common than what separates us.” 

Harris is making several stops in Pennsylvania today, concluding with rallies tonight in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

Trump posted a video on his Truth Social account this afternoon featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. encouraging his one-time supporters to back the former president.

“It will be too late by 2028. Once we’re in the grips of totalitarianism, we’re not going to be able to vote our way out of it. This is our last chance to stop them,” Kennedy says, speaking directly to the camera. 

“As you know, this could be a very close election. A disputed election result would be a disaster for our divided nation. President Trump needs to win in a landslide,” he said.

Kennedy, who initially ran as a Democrat in this cycle for president and then decided to run as a third-party option, dropped out of the race in August and immediately endorsed Trump for president. Trump has hinted that if he's elected again, he would put Kennedy — a conspiracy theorist and someone who's warned about the effects of vaccines — in charge of the nation's health issues.

After voting for Harris, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., took to X to urge voters to join her in supporting the Democratic ticket.

"Voting is always a happy occasion to me — our voice is our vote," Pelosi said in a video of her submitting her mail-in ballot. "But today I am so happy to be voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to be president and vice president of the United States and to have a Democratic Congress. So it is with great joy that I mail in my ballot for Kamala Harris."

Americans should prepare for minor voting hiccups and for the election not to be officially called tomorrow, the country’s leading organizations that represent state election officials said today.

In joint announcement today, the National Association of Secretaries of State and National Association of State Election Directors, sister organizations that represent officials in all 50 states, said Americans should have confidence tomorrow.

“Planning for tomorrow’s election began four years ago, and the election community is prepared," the groups said. "Our members, along with their colleagues at the local level, have devoted extensive time, energy and resources to safeguard America’s elec­tions."

Trump Media stock was trading higher the day before Election Day.

Market analysts have characterized it as a meme stock, since the company, which owns Truth Social, doesn't make much revenue and has lost millions of dollars. Many of the company’s retail investors are supporters of the former president, who are buying the stock as a way to back Trump or bet on his odds of winning the election.

While the stock was up this afternoon, trading around $35 a share, it has fallen a great deal since surging above $54 last Tuesday. It trades under the ticker symbol DJT, which are the former president's initials.

Trump owns almost 57% of the company, a stake worth about $3.6 billion as of this afternoon. Trump Media executives have said that the company would benefit if Trump beats Harris in the election.

Read more from CNBC here.

Democrats have made another infusion of spending to reach Latino voters in battleground states and for key downballot races in time for Election Day. 

The Democratic National Committee said it has invested a seven-figure amount to reach millions of Latino voters with two bilingual radio campaigns — IWillVote.com and VoyAVotar.com — which have been ongoing for about three weeks. The campaign was to be focused on states with competitive downballot races, but the party also added battleground states more broadly, the DNC said. 

The campaigns are instructional, with details on when, where and how to vote. The ads have been airing in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin and Washington. They’ll continue airing until polls close tomorrow. 

Michigan’s unofficial election results are expected by midday Wednesday, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced today.

Because of a new state law that allows clerks to preprocess absentee ballots, the 2024 election is expected to avoid counting delays that plagued the 2020 election.

So far, 3.2 million voters in the state have cast ballots, with 1.2 million participating in the state’s first year of early voting and 2 million returning absentee ballots, Benson's office said.

With 44% turnout among active registered voters, she said the trends indicate the state is on pace for a high-turnout election.

A source familiar with former President Barack Obama’s strategy this cycle said his plan this fall has been driven by “where he can move the needle with Democrats and persuadable voters, particularly in states with key races.” As a result, the person pointed out that Obama traveled to every swing state (and some like Pennsylvania twice), engaged digital creators and taped dozens of digital get-out-the-vote, persuasion and fundraising ads.

“President Obama has been clear-eyed that the stakes of this election could not be more consequential and that is why he has been doing everything he can to help elect Vice President Harris, Governor Walz and Democrats across the country,” Eric Schultz, a senior advisor for Obama, said in a statement. “His goals are to win the White House, keep the U.S. Senate, and take back the House of Representatives. In the final days of voting, our focus is on persuading and mobilizing voters, especially in states with key races. Many of these races are likely to go down to the wire and nothing should be taken for granted.”

Puerto Ricans expressed their support for Harris ahead of her rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, saying the "floating island of garbage" comments by a comedian at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally last week changed their perspective.

"My first thoughts were, you never come for Puerto Rico, that's a mistake," said Josie Lopez, who grew up in Allentown. "It was illegal to talk about Puerto Rico independence for multiple years. It was illegal to fly our flag," she said. "So a lot of people don't know that, and that's why there's a lot of Puerto Rican pride. We're very proud of our island. We always will be and forever."

Another Harris supporter, Lisa Richie, said Puerto Ricans were hurt by the comedian's comments, adding "it offended all of us."

Another supporter, Ada Kelly, said the comments have allowed Puerto Ricans to come forward.

"They're finally putting us on the map," she said. "It's a shame what happened at that Trump rally. I think it was disgusting what that person said, but it put us on the map. It identified, it said we're important."

While the Polish American vote is up for grabs, Poles in Poland think Harris would be better for their country than Trump, state run Polish Radio reported today.

Some 58% of the Poles responding to a United Surveys poll gave the nod to Harris, while 31% backed Trump, the outlet reported.

The survey of 1,000 Polish participants, which was conducted by phone and email from Oct. 25-27, also noted a deep gender divide similar to what pollsters in the U.S. have found.

Among Polish women, 77% favored Harris. Among Polish men, 55% backed Trump.

While Polish Americans are a small sliver of the U.S. electorate, they're concentrated in must-win swing states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. And many of these voters, experts say, are deeply concerned about the ongoing Russian war against Ukraine, which borders their ancestral homeland.

Trump is a "patriot," "energetic" or simply a want-to-be "tyrant" depending on whom you ask in battleground Arizona.

When NBC News asked random voters in Phoenix to sum up the former president in one word, the answers were as expectedly varied.

"Patriot," said 70-year-old, Trump supporter Ned McCarthy. "He doesn’t take any money for the job he does. He’s lost hundreds of millions of dollars working for this country. I just think he’s a quality person."

Patricia Lam, a 63-year-old backer of the former president, called him "energetic" and said "he seems to care about people."

But 63-year-old Harris backer David Duane said "tyrant" best fits Trump because of his long list of grievances and promises to settle scores.

Katy Perry, who is set to appear at a Harris rally tonight in Pennsylvania, posted on X and Instagram that she's officially filled out her ballot and voted for the vice president.

The pop star shared what appeared to be a throwback video of the two when Harris was senator, saying, "She's going to be, well ..." before Harris responds "I'm just a fan!"

Another image in the carousel featured Perry's pup Nugget with an "I voted" sticker on her head. Perry ended the short social media post by encouraging her followers to vote.

Trump said he would impose a 25% tariff on all Mexican imports unless the country enacts stricter border regulations.

If Mexican leaders “don’t stop this onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country, I’m going to immediately impose a 25% tariff on everything they send in to the United States of America,” the Republican presidential nominee said at his first rally of the day in Raleigh, North Carolina.

He added that it was the first time he had announced the proposal, though for months, a central plank of his economic platform has been a hard-line approach to tariff policy. Trump has floated a 20% tariff rate on all imports from all countries with an especially high 60% rate on China.

Economists and Wall Street analysts view Trump’s hyperprotectionist trade policy as a potential threat to America’s inflation recovery, just as consumer prices have begun to cool from their pandemic-era spikes. In turn, the Harris campaign has branded the tariff plans as the “Trump sales tax.”

Read more from CNBC here.

Trump will vote in person along his his wife, Melania Trump, sometime tomorrow morning. He will then call into a few "tele-rallies" from Mar-a-Lago, according to a source familiar with the planning.

The former president plans to spend the late afternoon and early evening at Mar-a-Lago with a tight-knit circle of advisers, friends and donors, according to another source familiar with the plans.

The former president plans to host a dinner at Mar-a-Lago for club members and top donors, according to a source who received an invitation.

Trump will eventually go to the Palm Beach County Convention Center later in the evening, when the results are better known, according to the second source familiar with this plans.

Jason Miller, a Trump campaign senior adviser, said the former president would declare victory when his team believes he has hit the 270 threshold in the Electoral College.

In a post on X, Vance drew a comparison between a normal sized six pack of beer and the display at the World's Largest Six Pack in La Crosse, Wisconsin, aiming to make the point that under Trump, life for Americans is better.

"This is a six pack under the leadership of Kamala Harris," he said holding a six pack of a beer. He then pointed to the large tanks, saying "This is a six pack under the leadership of Donald J. Trump. Let's make America great again."

The World's Largest Six Pack site in Wisconsin showcases various brewery tanks that appear like a six pack of beer.

Trump falsely claimed at a morning rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, today that Harris has been inactive on the campaign trail "every other day" and claimed he's been campaigning for more than two months straight.

"You know, I've gone through 62 days without a day off," Trump told his supporters in the key battleground state during one of four rallies he's scheduled to hold today.

"You know what? She takes a day off every other day," he added.

That claim was false, however, as Harris has been holding near-daily events over the last few weeks, sometimes multiple events a day.

Harris andTrump are making their final pitches to undecided voters ahead of Election Day. NBC News’ Vaughn Hillyard, Allie Raffa, Maura Barrett, and Chuck Todd break down the latest developments from both campaigns as the race to the White House nears its end.

Conservative pundit Megyn Kelly said today on her show that she will attend Trump's rally in Pittsburgh — the last Pennsylvania rally of his campaign — to speak about why she's voting for him.

"Over the weekend, we got an invitation that we never really expected to get, and that was from Team Trump, to show up tonight in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and for yours truly to make some remarks on the president's behalf or really, more accurately, just to explain why I'm voting for him," she said. "And I said yes."

Kelly, who hosts one of the internet's most popular podcasts, has also emerged in recent years as one of his most vocal and ardent supporters. Her appearance also comes as Trump's campaign continues to struggle to attract women voters.

Six Harris and Trump supporters asked by NBC News about his plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants said they were against the policy, with the exception of one of the Trump supporters who said she was open to the idea. 

“That might be a little radical, but I’m all for closing the border,” said Patricia Lam, a gallery owner. “I don’t know how they’re going to expel them, but it might be a good idea because it’s affecting a lot of people,” she added.  

Ned McCarthy, a Trump supporter, said undocumented immigrants who commit a crime apart from crossing the border illegally should be deported, but added, “I’m cool with them putting a program together that they could pay a fine, pay their back taxes and stay.”

Sandra Cano-Bravo, an activist and banker who is supporting Harris, had a different view.

In a video on the YouTube channel Jubilee, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg attempted to convince 25 undecided Michigan voters to cast their ballots for Harris on Tuesday.

Jubilee produces videos of people with varying political beliefs, lifestyle preferences, ethnic backgrounds, occupations, and other characteristics confronting each other about their differences.

Buttigieg was featured in an episode of "Surrounded," a series that puts people in a hot seat to debate a group of people encircling them. Buttigieg presented four claims to the voters, who then had the opportunity to question him about his statements.

The signature red MAGA hat was the opening salvo in the battle for headgear supremacy. The Harris campaign countered with the camo hat, but the creative juices are still flowing for supporters of both candidates — and the competition is only heating up in the final days of the campaign.

A Trump campaign ad declaring America can make a comeback under Donald Trump relies on images taken overseas. The ad and the links to the overseas images were shared with NBC News by a strategist who opposes Trump. 

In a section saying that Americans’ “values were labeled shameful,” the ad shows an image inside a German church from 2012, according to Getty Images, which sells the photo.

As the speaker begins the line, “And we’re wondering if America can make a comeback,” the ad shows a video clip from Thailand of a model dressed as a construction worker in 2021, according to Getty Images.

Another section saying Americans have “surrendered” their paychecks shows a grocery cart in a parking lot in Thailand in 2020, according to the information on istockphoto.com where that clip is available for sale.

Energy was high on the last day of early voting in Columbus, Ohio.

Meredith Freedhoff, the chairwoman of the Franklin County Republican Party, spent yesterday afternoon at the Board of Elections with other members of her party passing out cards with information about the Republican ticket to voters.

“I just can’t believe politics in the U.S. right now,” Freedhoff said. “I see the division and I see the anger and the emotional response, and I wish that we could get that out of the equation and just get back to talking about issues and what people want and what they need.”

Freedhoff, who voted for Trump, said the division in American politics is of high concern, and that increased bipartisanship could result in progress on voters’ top issues.

“If we all work together as a country, we could do so much better than dividing like we are over issues that probably would never affect us,” she said.

Lisa Chaffee, secretary of the Franklin County Republican Party, was also at the Board of Elections to witness the large number of voters at the polls.

“No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, the right to vote is a very precious thing, and to see so many people taking part of that, it’s an amazing day,” she said.

Chaffee, a single mother working two jobs, said she voted for Trump in hopes that he would address her concerns about inflation.

“People can’t afford the cost of inflation, the cost of goods,” she said. “We’re going to make this country great again, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with putting Americans first.”

A "coordinated effort" was launched across 14 Pennsylvania counties through the weekend challenging about 4,000 mail ballot applications, mainly from overseas voters, state officials said today.

The Pennsylvania Department of State described the action as "several bad-faith mass challenges," and they appeared to be "coordinated efforts to undermine confidence in the Nov. 5 election" by targeting overseas voters who generally are permitted to vote in federal elections.

Overseas voters can include military members and U.S. citizens living abroad who are uncertain when they will return. The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act of 1986 allows certain groups of citizens to register and vote absentee in elections for federal offices.

The issue in Pennsylvania has been resolved in at least one county — Chester County, located outside of Philadelphia, which has more registered Democrats than Republicans . There, the local Board of Elections dismissed all of the more than 200 challenges after hearing hours of testimony, Department of State spokesman Matt Heckel said.

Elon Musk’s million-dollar voter giveaway isn’t a lottery, it’s actually a job, his lawyers said in a Pennsylvania courtroom today.

Musk and his America PAC were sued last month by Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who alleged that the super PAC's million-dollar giveaway is an illegal lottery. Musk said Oct. 19 announcing the giveaway for registered voters who signed a PAC pledge of support to the Constitution that his PAC would choose winners “randomly” each day through Nov. 5.

But in a hearing this morning, attorney Chris Gober said winners aren’t determined by chance. The PAC picks winners who will serve as an effective spokesperson, and they then “earn” a million dollars, Gober said.

The admission could have legal implications elsewhere: Krasner’s suit said “if their scheme actually did not involve a chance or random selection of winners,” then they “would be admitting to acting deceptively and in violation of the Commonwealth’s consumer protection law.”

Donald Trump Jr. urged his father's followers to get out to the polls tomorrow by baselessly saying votes cast by mail or counted late are fraudulent.

He told attendees at a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, that if "we win decisively, we stop them from playing the games where they drag it out," suggesting, in an oft-repeated falsehood that votes by mail or counted late, often in large urban areas, are somehow not legitimate.

"So if we win decisively tomorrow, you don’t give them a week to find that magical truck filled with ballots. Right?" the former president's son said. "No one knows where they came from but — take back your country America."

Landy Twum had already cast her ballot but she made the trip out to the Franklin County Board of Elections to support one of her four daughters, Mikia Lewis, through the process.

“I already came and voted, but it was a great opportunity for me to bring my second-born to get an opportunity to vote,” she said.

Twum added that the economy is a top concern this election season.

“This inflation has really taken us to the other side," she said. "It’s a struggle even with as much money as I’m making to provide for me and my girls. So I don’t think we can sustain another four years of Trump.”

Lewis, 22, a first-time voter, said seeing Harris be elected would mean a lot to her.

Rapper Cardi B hit back at a claim from tech billionaire Elon Musk that she is a "another puppet" for the Harris campaign.

"I’m a daughter of two immigrant parents that had to work their ass off to provide for me! " she wrote in a post on X on Saturday, after joining Harris for her rally in Milwaukee. "I’m a product of welfare, I’m a product of section 8, I’m a product of poverty and I’m a product of what happens when the system is set up against you….But you don’t know nothing about that. You don’t know not one thing about the American struggle."

Musk has become one of the former president's biggest donors and supporters. He's come under scrutiny in the last week for his super PAC’s $1 million daily giveaways to registered voters in swing states.

In recent months, Musk has also turned his social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), into an echo chamber amplifying right-leaning causes and Trump’s electoral campaign. In her post, Cardi B called on Musk to "fix" her algorithm.

NBC News interviewed Trump and Harris supporters from Arizona about what it’s like being bombarded with TV, digital, mail and text message ads for the campaigns — which amounted to almost a billion dollars' worth of advertising for races across the country in the last week alone. 

“I’m dying for it to be over. I can’t wait,” said Ned McCarthy, a 70-year-old Trump supporter, whose feelings were mirrored by the others NBC News interviewed.

"It’s the mail, the TV commercials. It’s ridiculous how much they’re putting into it," McCarthy added. He lamented what all that money could have accomplished if it had been put "towards something good."

Patricia Lam, a Trump supporter, said, "I think they’re wasting too much money, and I think they should have given half of it to veterans that are homeless on the street instead of people on the border."

Lala Johnson, 24, who supports Harris, said, “I’m sick of getting text messages every day people blowing up my phone."

Given former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s lack of physical presence on the Trump campaign trail — and her consistent drumbeat of criticism of the way he and the party are speaking to women voters — it’s notable that she put her pro-Trump stance in written form for voters in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. 

“I don’t agree with Mr. Trump 100% of the time. But I do agree with him most of the time, and I disagree with Ms. Harris nearly all the time," she wrote in the op-ed, which was published yesterday. "That makes this an easy call."

Haley, who served as Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, delved into the cost of living and national security — that latter being an area of divergence between her and Trump when she was running against him for the GOP nomination. She backed Ukraine; Trump waffled on the war. She was unequivocal about Putin as an adversary; Trump has never been very clear. 

In the op-ed, she allowed for the likelihood that they’ll disagree again.

NBC’s Steve Kornacki joins "TODAY" to break down the final national NBC poll that shows a dead heat between Harris and Trump, the latest Iowa poll showing a new lead by Harris that could symbolize a shift from voters in a state that voted dominantly red in the last two elections, and how the gender gap could decide the 2024 election.

The Franklin County Board of Elections, the sole early voting place in Columbus, Ohio, closed late last evening after holding four hours of polling from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Lines were long, with some voters willing to wait up to three hours to cast their ballots. Others told NBC they would not wait in line but planned to head to their polling site tomorrow.

Polls in Franklin County are closed today. As of 2 p.m. yesterday, early in-person voting hit an all-time high record of more than 123,000 voters, said Aaron Sellers, the board's spokesman.

Americans have two big questions as they head into another election with a deeply divided electorate: who will win and when will they know it?

In 2020, election week replaced election night: Joe Biden wasn’t declared the winner until Saturday. This year, it could go either way. It may take as long as a week for the NBC News Decision Desk to project a presidential winner, or it could happen as early as Wednesday, even by Wednesday morning. 

The truth is the Decision Desk cannot know until election night which scenario will unfold, regardless of how carefully we have analyzed the polls, early vote and other election-related data. The answer depends not only on how states count their votes, but also on the unknowable factor of how close the margins will be.

One thing is clear: The days of projecting a winner on election night itself are almost certainly over.

NBC News interviewed four Democrats and one Republican from Arizona about what electing the country’s first female president would mean to them. 

“It would be historic. It would be that every little girl can look up and see and see a woman as president, as a leader of the free world, and say, I can be president of the United States of America,” said Sandra Cano-Bravo, a Democrat from Phoenix. 

Diana Bejarano-Figueroa, a Democrat who works in marketing, said, “To see a woman be the president of the United States would be amazing. To see a woman of color be the president of the United States would be tremendously amazing. I would be so overjoyed."

Lala Johnson, a Democrat who recently moved to Phoenix from Los Angeles, said, "Crazy how it’s not normal for us already, how a lot of people, a lot of different countries, have already elected female presidents or female rulers, and we haven’t yet. So I feel like it’s going to make a huge difference for women.”

Patricia Lam, a Republican gallery owner, said the gender issue didn't matter to her.

The Democratic National Committee plans to deploy mobile billboards in neighborhoods across the key battleground states as part of a final push to get voters to the polls.

The billboard campaign caps off the party committee's $7 million paid media investment during this cycle, according to a news release.

"The DNC's multimillion-dollar and multimedia 'I Will Vote' campaign is a testament to Democrats’ commitment to and investment in the many communities that make up our strong coalition of voters," DNC Chair Jaime Harrison said. 

"Throughout this campaign, Democrats have worked with diverse vendors and talent that are reflective of our values as a party and the communities that we are reaching with the campaign," he added.

During a weekend battleground blitz, Trump said that he should have never left the White House despite his 2020 campaign loss. Referring to the bulletproof glass now that now surrounds him at his rallies, he said anyone who might want to shoot him would first have to fire through the reporters covering him. “I wouldn’t mind that,” he said. NBC’s Garrett Haake reports for "TODAY."

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Republicans would "take a blow torch" to Social Security, Medicare and the Affordable Care Act if they win both chambers of Congress.

Democrats, on the other hand, "will put the American people first," he said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

If the Democrats retake the House, Jeffries would likely be the next speaker.

Jeffries' comments came as House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., faces scrutiny for remarks he made about the ACA at an event in Pennsylvania last week.

Trump will spend his final full day of campaigning in the "blue wall" states of Pennsylvania and Michigan and the Sun Belt battlegrounds of Georgia and North Carolina.

Trump has appearances set for Raleigh this morning, Reading this afternoon, Pittsburgh in the early evening before wrapping up in Grand Rapids.

Vance has an equally busy schedule with stops in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania.

The close and uncertain battle for the White House has taken center stage this year. But Congress will play a major role in implementing (or blocking) the next president’s agenda — and the fight for the legislative branch is coming down to the wire.

Both parties only need to net a handful of seats to flip each chamber, with Republicans currently controlling the House and Democrats controlling the Senate with slim majorities.

Senate Republicans need a net gain of two seats to win the majority outright or just one seat if Trump also wins the White House, since the vice president casts tie-breaking votes in the Senate.

In the House, Democrats need to net just four seats to take control of the chamber, and it is possible they could win the House even if Harris loses the White House. Control of the House could also be unclear for days, with several battleground seats in slow-counting California.

As the battle for Congress comes to a close, here are five things to watch.

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Harris is wrapping up her campaign with a rally in Pennsylvania featuring Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, among others. Harris’ message in the closing days of the election included remarks on the Israel-Hamas war and a message urging voters to ignore recent indications by Trump that he might prematurely claim victory on election night like he did in 2020. NBC’s Peter Alexander reports for "TODAY."

Let’s get one thing straight: The polls can’t tell us who is going to win the presidential election. Or which party will control Congress. Or who will win a particular state.

The race is that close and uncertain, and polls in previous election cycles have been that far off the mark.

With those caveats out of the way, let’s not ignore the consistent storylines in the polls that have defined the political forces shaping the election.

They don’t tell us who’s going to win — but we’ll know that soon enough. What the polls can do already is help explain the forces that shaped this election and how either Trump or Harris could emerge victorious.

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Trump’s campaign spent the final Sunday of the 2024 election on all-too-familiar turf: responding to the reaction to the candidate.

Speaking at a rally outside Lancaster in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania, Trump noted the bulletproof glass that his security team has used to protect him since he was shot in the ear this year in the western part of the state.

“To get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news,” he said. “And I don’t mind that so much.”

Trump, who had criticized the media earlier in his remarks, drew immediate backlash for the violent rhetoric. His spokesman Steven Cheung quickly fired off a statement insisting that Trump was arguing the media should be shielded and that he was “looking out for their welfare, far more than his own!”

Read the full story here.

Harris will spend the last day before Election Day campaigning in cities across Pennsylvania, hitting Scranton, Allentown, Reading, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, according to the campaign.

During her campaign blitz, she will appear alongside Democratic stars such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. She'll also be joined by Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Andra Day, Fat Joe, Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities.

Harris' stops in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are scheduled to feature concert performances.

Democrats flipped Pennsylvania blue in 2020, and it is expected to be a closely contested battleground state tomorrow.

The Democratic National Committee will use a bilingual mobile billboard advertisement today to highlight a Trump ally's racist joke about Puerto Rico, and the ad will target the Pennsylvania city where Trump is set to appear.

The billboard, detailed first to NBC News, will run a video of Trump praising his rally at Madison Square Garden and the racist joke about Puerto Rico by the comedian who performed, as well as TV clips of the fallout.

"Puerto Rico deserves respect," the final image of the video reads. "Not Trump's racism and neglect."