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Kamala Harris in Michigan as Donald Trump heads to Pennsylvania as election nears final hours

Next up we’re expecting Donald Trump to take the stage in Macon, Georgia, where Arkansas governor and former Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is currently warming up the crowd.

Georgia is another swing state – it went for Biden in 2020 by 11,779 votes, out of 5m ballots cast, the first time since 1992 that the state turned blue.

And that’s it from Harris, who wraps up her speech, waves to supporters and makes her exit to the familiar sound of Beyoncé’s Freedom.

After taking about her history as a prosecutor, Harris also hones in on young people and first-time voters, proclaiming “I love Gen Z!”

“You are all rightly impatient for change,” she says, repeating remarks she has made recently about the younger generation having grown up only knowing the climate crisis, active shooter drills and with women having fewer rights than their mothers.

She starts by making remarks on the Middle East, noting the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza.

As president I will do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza, to bring home the hostages, end the suffering in Gaza, ensure Israel is secure and ensure the Palestinian people can ensure their right to dignity, freedom, and self-determination.

Michigan is the swing state with the US’s largest Arab American population and many have been dismayed by the Biden administration’s response to the Gaza war. While calling for peace, it has also supplied Israel with billions of dollars worth of weapons.

Kamala Harris has taken the stage in East Lansing, Michigan. We’ll bring you any standout moments as they happen. This is Helen Livingstone taking over from my colleague, Coral Murphy Marcos.

The Trump campaign claimed that recent polling by the New York Times and the Des Moines Register is designed to suppress Trump voter turnout by presenting a bleak picture of Trump’s re-election prospects. The memo claims that the Times’s polls have biased samples and overrepresent Democratic voters compared with actual voter registration and turnout trends.
Kamala Harris made several stops in Michigan today, delivering remarks at a church service in the morning and later visiting a chicken and waffles joint in Detroit. She’ll be holding a rally later today in East Lansing.

Donald Trump delivered a speech in Lancaster county, a sector that rarely ever switches parties, usually voting for the Republican nominee in presidential elections. The former president told supporters that he should have stayed in the White House, despite his losing the 2020 election, while at Lititz.
Harris dodged a question on whether she voted for California’s Proposition 36, which would make it easier for prosecutors to send repeat shoplifters and drug users to jail or prison, after submitting her ballot. The measure would roll back provisions of Proposition 47, which downgraded low-level thefts and drug possession to misdemeanors.

After a speech in Pennsylvania, Trump delivered his remarks in Kinston, North Carolina. He accused his opponent Kamala Harris of doing “the worst job ever on hurricane salvage and removal” and attacked Senate GOP minority leader Mitch McConnell.
That’s all from me, Coral Murphy Marcos, for today. My colleague Helen Livingstone will be along shortly to continue bringing you all the latest from the US election.

Kamala Harris is scheduled to deliver remarks in about half an hour in East Lansing, Michigan, taking the stage at Michigan State University.

Harris landed at Detroit Metro airport at 1am this morning, and stopped in several locations in Detroit before heading to the Jenison Field House arena for her speech at 6pm ET.

This morning, Harris delivered remarks at a Sunday church service in Detroit and later visited Kuzzo’s Chicken & Waffles, joined by Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer and Detroit mayor Mike Duggan.