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This live page will soon be closing. Here’s what happened today:

• Trump has rallied at Madison Square Garden, where he retread the major themes of his campaign to rally his base in the final stretch before election day.
• Harris has spent the day in Pennsylvania, where she struck an optimistic tone but warned of the “high stakes” of the upcoming vote.
• Comments made by a comedian at Trump’s New York rally have sparked outrage among Latino artists and civil rights groups, with Puerto Ricans representing a potential key voting bloc in some swing states.
• More than 41 million Americans have already cast their ballots in this year’s election, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida.

Tony Hinchcliffe’s remarks – in which, as we reported earlier, he called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” – have been widely condemned by several Latino organisations and legislators.

The criticism may also give a boost to Harris, who earlier today posted a video online in support of Puerto Rico.

After Hinchcliffe’s joke, that Harris campaign video was shared by Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican rapper and singer, as well as artists Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin. Together, the trio have 341 million Instagram followers.

There are also large Puerto Rican populations in the key swing states of North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania.

Luis Fonsi, who sang Despacito, trashed Tony Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” and said it’s “Una falta de respeto,” which means “it’s a lack of respect.” He also shared Kamala Harris’s video talking about Puerto Rico. pic.twitter.com/rte4Nb4Art

— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) October 27, 2024

But the reality is that the base support for both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is essentially baked in.

Both [candidates], in national polls today, are at 48 percent.

This election is going to come down to places not like New York, but the seven swing states – several thousand voters are going to make the final verdict.

And it’s there that the candidates will concentrate their efforts in the last nine days of this election campaign.

Biden is set to cast his ballot tomorrow in his home state of Delaware, according to the White House.

Delaware is a Democratic stronghold and Biden served as its senator from 1973 to 2009.

Harris will be rallying tomorrow in Ann Arbor, Michigan – a key battleground state.

Here’s what you need to know about the swing state:

• Population: More than 10 million
• Electoral College votes: 15
• Who won in 2020? Democrat Joe Biden
• What was the margin of victory? Biden had 50.6 percent of the vote compared with 47.8 percent for Trump
• Did you know? Trump’s 2016 victory in the state over Democrat Hillary Clinton was the first time a Republican candidate had won Michigan since 1992.

In an email to supporters, the Trump campaign has said it is selling “what might be our 3 millionth MAGA hat in history”.

The hat – which was originally red but is also sold in Black and other colours – has become ubiquitous in US politics since 2016.

The campaign called it a “historic milestone”.

A federal appeals court judge has upheld a ruling that blocked state officials from automatically purging voters from registration rolls on suspicion they are non-citizens.

The effort had been struck down due to a federal law that prevents such moves within 90 days of an election.

The Department of Justice and voting rights organisations had challenged the purge, arguing it threatened to ensnare citizens with the legal right to vote.

Republicans have increasingly pushed claims of widespread non-citizen voting in the US, which is illegal. But several audits by both state authorities and independent experts have found instances of such voting are exceedingly rare.

The Republican will be holding a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday.

Trump lost the key battleground state to Democrat Joe Biden by a narrow-thin margin in 2020.

The 2020 results marked the first time a Democratic presidential candidate had won in Georgia since 1992.

The Democratic candidate’s campaign has been responding in real-time to Trump’s speech.

Here are the lines Harris’s camp is highlighting to make the argument that Trump is unfit to serve as president:

• The campaign posted a clip of Trump broadly portraying Democrats as the “enemy within”.
• They also posted a clip of Trump calling two of his former generals, Mark Milley and James Mattis – who have become vocal critics of the former president – “stupid”.
• Finally, they seized on Trump’s promise to invoke a 1798 law to carry out mass deportations.

“Trump says he wants to bring back laws from the 1700s,” the campaign said.

That’s according to a tally by the Election Lab at the University of Florida.

About half of those early voters – more than 20 million Americans – cast their ballots during in-person voting while the other half voted via mail-in ballots.

Trump has hardly broken new ground on stage in New York, instead repeating the claims – many of them false – that have defined his campaign for months.

Here’s what he has said so far:

• Promised to “build the greatest economy in the history of the world”, end inflation, stop the “invasion of criminals coming into our country” and “bring back the American dream”;
• Promised to cut taxes on tips, overtime and social security as he accuses Harris of “destroying the middle class”;
• Falsely claimed a “migrant invasion” is under way; pledged mass deportations and to impose the death penalty on migrants who kill US citizens or law enforcement officers;
• Derided US journalists in the room as “fake news”;
• Falsely claimed the Biden administration did not have money for hurricane recovery because it had spent too much on migrants;
• Claimed Russia would have never invaded Ukraine and Hamas would have never attacked southern Israel if he had been president.

The Republican has falsely claimed – again – that his Democratic rival Harris “imported criminal migrants” into the US.

“She has resettled them into your communities to prey upon innocent American citizens,” he said, promising to crack down on migration if elected.

Rights advocates have condemned Trump’s incendiary, anti-migrant rhetoric as inciting violence against immigrant communities.

In true Trumpian fashion, the former president has promised to “build the greatest economy in the history of the world”.

He touted his economic proposals, which include cutting taxes for overtime and tips, as well as on social security benefits. He also introduced a new proposal to give tax credits to “family caretakers” of loved ones, without providing much more detail.

On energy, he said, “We’re going to drill, baby drill.”

Trump also again pledged to impose tariffs to force more companies to boost domestic manufacturing.

“We’re going to protect our companies. They’re not leaving any more,” he said.