Latest Update: Harris and Trump race to deliver closing pitches with 2 days to election….. Continue Reading

Key things to know
• Two days to go: Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are campaigning in battleground states, with Trump holding rallies in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia, and Harris spending the day in Michigan.

• Closing messages: Trump invoked dark rhetoric at his first rally of the day, saying that he “shouldn’t have left” the White House after he lost the 2020 election and that he didn’t mind that somebody would have to “shoot through the fake news” to get him. Harris, meanwhile, spoke at a Detroit-area church, where she said the community must act to “decide the fate of our nation.”

Voter resources: See CNN’s voter handbook for how to vote in your area, and read up on the 2024 candidates and their proposals on key issues. Catch up here on how US elections work.

Harris does not mention Trump in final pitch to Michigan voters
From CNN’s Ali Main with Samantha Waldenberg
Vice President Kamala Harris notably did not mention her opponent, former President Donald Trump, in her final pitch to Michigan voters during a rally on Sunday.

“America is ready for a fresh start, ready for a new way forward, where we see our fellow American not as an enemy, but as a neighbor. We are ready for a president who knows that the true measure of a leader is not based on who you beat down, it is based on who you lift up,” she said as she vowed to “turn the page on a decade of politics driven by fear and division.”

Though she has made contrasting Trump’s “enemies list” with her own “to-do list” a staple during her speeches in the final days of her campaign, Harris did not use the line this evening as she addressed young voters in East Lansing, Michigan.

“I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy. In fact, I’ll give them a seat at the table, because that’s what strong leaders do,” she said, receiving applause from the room.

Harris and her allies had taken to calling the former president “unhinged” in recent weeks, as he claims the vice president is mentally impaired and he has used violent rhetoric against the press and critics like former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney.

Harris says “we have momentum” as she makes final pitch to Michigan voters

Vice President Kamala Harris made a final pitch to Michigan voters on Sunday evening, asking people who had not yet voted to cast their ballots on Election Day and those who had already done so to help get her campaign across the finish line in the battleground state.

With two days to go in “one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime,” Harris asserted, “we have momentum. It is on our side.”

“We have the momentum because our campaign is tapping into the ambitions, the aspirations and the dreams of the American people, because we are optimistic and excited about what we can do together, and because we know it is time for a new generation of leadership in America,” she continued.

Harris chose to finish out her last scheduled swing through Michigan in East Lansing, home of Michigan State University, in an auditorium packed with many young people, as her campaign hopes to garner the youth vote to boost her over former President Donald Trump in the state. The city is also in a highly competitive congressional district that Democrats hope to retain to help them gain control of the the House.

“Michigan, I am here to ask for your vote,” Harris said, to a prolonged cheer from the crowd. She again pledged to seek “common ground and common sense solutions” and vowed she was “not looking to score political points.”

“We need everyone to vote in Michigan. You will make the difference in this election,” she said.

CNN’s average of polling shows no clear leader between Harris and Trump in Michigan, with the vice president at 48% and the former president at 46%.

Federal judge lets Iowa continue to challenge voter rolls, although newly naturalized citizens might be affected

A federal judge ruled Sunday Iowa officials can continue challenging the validity of hundreds of ballots from potential noncitizens, even though critics said the effort threatens the voting rights of people who have recently become US citizens.

US District Judge Stephen Locher, an appointee of President Joe Biden, sided with the state in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the League of Latin American Citizens of Iowa and four recently naturalized citizens. The four were on the state’s list of questionable registrations to be challenged by local elections officials.

The state’s attorney general and secretary of state argued investigating and potentially removing 2,000 names would prevent illegal voting by noncitizens.

In his ruling Sunday, Locher pointed to a US Supreme Court decision four days prior, which allowed Virginia to resume a similar purge of its voter registration rolls, even though it was affecting some U.S. citizens. He also cited the Supreme Court’s recent refusal to review a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision on state electoral laws surrounding provisional ballots. The Supreme Court decisions advised lower courts to “act with great caution before awarding last-minute injunctive relief,” he wrote.

Locher also said the state’s effort does not remove anyone from the voter rolls, but rather requires some voters to use provisional ballots.