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US Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has 1.4 percentage-point lead nationally over Republican Donald Trump, according to FiveThirtyEight poll tracker.
Fallout from Trump’s New York Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday continues after clips of speakers disparaging Puerto Ricans, Palestinians go viral.

Harris set to rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday evening alongside her running mate Tim Walz.
Trump will attend Christian event in Georgia, and hold rally in state capital Atlanta.

As we previously reported, Harris will focus today onMichigan today, where her main event will be a ally and concert in Ann Arbor, alongside Walz and the singer Maggie Rogers. Before that, she’ll be at afternoon campaign events in Saginaw and Macomb County

Meanwhile, Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff will delivers remarks in Pittsburgh, while independent Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign will campaign in Wisconsin.

Elsewhere, former President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen will hold an event in support of the Harris campaign in Philadelphia, while First Lady Jill Biden and Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz will campaign at several events in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani baselessly claimed at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday that Kamala Harris is “on the side of the terrorists” in Israel’s war on Gaza and that Palestinian children “are taught to kill us at two-years old.”

The former New York mayor, who has been disbarred and is facing a host of legal troubles over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, made the remarks at an event filled with insulting and racist comments by several speakers.

Giuliani suggested without any evidence that Harris plans to resettle Palestinian refugees in the US.

She wants to bring them to you,” Giuliani said echoing comments Trump made about Mexicans during his first campaign. “They may have good people. I’m sorry I don’t take a risk with people who are taught to kill Americans at two.”

A speaker at Trump’s New York rally called Puerto Rico, a US territory home to US citizens, “a floating island of garbage”. The remarks have angered many of the more than nine million Puerto Ricans who live — and vote — between the island and mainland US.

Tony Hinchcliffe, a comedian and podcast host, made the crude joke at an event filled with insulting and racist remarks.

The comment prompted immediate condemnation on social media, including by many high-profile Puerto Ricans such as music superstars Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin and Despacito singer Luis Fonsi.

Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny also responded to the remarks by throwing his support behind Harris and sharing a clip with his 45 million Instagram followers in which she slams Trump’s actions on the island, in the aftermath of the devastating Hurricane Maria in 2017. Trump, who was president at the time, sparked massive backlash after tossing paper towels at residents of the island.

I will never forget what Donald Trump did and what he did not do when Puerto Rico needed a caring and a competent leader,” Harris says in the video. “He abandoned the island, tried to block aid after back-to-back devastating hurricanes and offered nothing more than paper towels and insults.”

Some 500,000 Puerto Ricans live in Pennsylvania, a pivotal battleground state.

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s office has filed a lawsuit to stop an Elon Musk-controlled political action committee from giving $1m to registered voters in swing states, CNBC reports.

The DA has accused the PAC of running an “illegal lottery”, and trying to influence voters in a presidential election.

The Department of Justice has already warned that the scheme is illegal. The giveaway picks people at random for signing a petition in support of First and Second Amendment freedoms, but insists that they must be registered to vote to have a chance of winning.

The state of Virginia has asked the US Supreme Court to overrule a federal judge’s order that 1,600 voter registrations be restored, after they had been removed by order of Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin.

Virginia – a state that typically votes Democratic in presidential elections but elected a Republican governor in 2022 – says that the voters are non-citizens.

But a federal judge ruled on Friday that the removal was illegal because it occurred during a 90-day “quiet period” ahead of the November 5 elections. The quiet period is in place to ensure that legitimate voters aren’t removed from the rolls by bureaucratic errors or mistakes that can’t be rectified before the election, which would take away their right to vote.

On Sunday, a federal appeals court backed the judge who ordered the restoration of the voters’ registrations, ruling that Virginia had not presented actual proof that those purged were non-citizens.

It’s crunch time as we enter the last full week of campaigning, with the election only eight days away.

Time is valuable, and the two presidential campaigns will be focusing their time on getting their supporters out to vote, and convincing that small percentage of undecided voters to move to their side.

Kamala Harris is focusing on Michigan today, where her main event will be an evening campaign rally and concert in Ann Arbor, alongside her running mate Tim Walz and the singer Maggie Rogers. Before that she’ll be at afternoon campaign events in Saginaw and Macomb County.

Donald Trump, fresh from his appearance at Madison Square Garden, is in Georgia. He’s attending a Christian faith summit in Powder Springs in the afternoon, before holding a rally in Atlanta this evening.

Harris made a push for young voters in Philadelphia on Sunday, telling them that “no one can sit on the sidelines” in this year’s election.

Speaking at a city recreation centre, Harris praised young people for being “rightly impatient for change”, and told the audience that “there is too much at stake” in the campaign.

We are focused on the future and we are focused on the needs of the American people,” Harris said. “As opposed to Donald Trump, who spends full time looking in the mirror focused on himself.”

Mark Ruffalo and Don Cheadle, two actors who starred in Marvel’s “Avengers” movies, were at the rally. Harris reminded the crowd that Pennsylvania’s deadline for early voting is Tuesday, telling them to “get it done tomorrow if you can”.

Trump rallied his Make America Great Again (MAGA) base at an event in his hometown of New York City, again vowing to crack down on immigration while slamming his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris.

Trump repeatedly attacked immigrants during his speech at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night, pledging to follow through on his campaign promise to carry out the largest deportation operation in United States history if elected.

The event was filled with racist and sexist remarks and insults directed at Harris, with one speaker calling her “the devil” and Trump describing her as an unintelligent, “radical left Marxist” unfit to serve the country.