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“Only one day – does that sound nice – one day from now,” Trump says, of tomorrow’s election, and the victory he’s anticipating. “We’ve been waiting four years for this.”

“Tomorrow”, Trump says, to cheers. He is standing in front of a crowd of people in plastic hard hats.

Donald Trump is now on stage at his rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and will begin speaking shortly. Both he and Harris will be rallying supporters in Pittsburgh tonight.

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Among the crowd at the Democrats’ East Las Vegas office was Regina Houston, 60 – she had come out to see senators Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto.

“I’m nervous and anxious. I’m nervous about this election, because there’s so much on the line,” she said. “I came down here by myself, because it’s better than sitting home and watching the news.”

Houston votes in every election, but this year has felt especially “heavy,” she said.

Polls show that Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are locked in a tight race, and even seasoned analysts have been struggled to predict the outcome in this key swing state.

Nevada has gone for the Democratic candidate in every presidential race since George W Bush in 2004, but in recent years, Trump appears to have gained support.

Houston said she has her fingers crossed that her state will go blue once again.

“I can’t imagine America operating and functioning at the level that candidate Trump wants to take us to,” she said.

How active are the Proud Boys ahead of another furiously contested election?

Top leaders of the Proud Boys are still in prison for the far-right group’s key role in storming the US capitol on 6 January. But the violent group, known for misogyny, street fighting, and receiving the instruction from Donald Trump in 2020 to “stand back and stand by,” has not collapsed since 2020. NBC News’ Ryan Reilly reports that the Proud Boys are weakened, but still “clearly active,” ahead of the 2024 election.

On Telegram, at least 30 channels run by Proud Boys chapters are sharing pro-Trump election information, according to nonprofit Advance Democracy, Reilly reports.

While most chapters of the Proud Boys and other active militia groups had not made explicit calls to interfere with the election as of Monday, NBC News reports, there were two notable exceptions.

Two Ohio-based Proud Boys chapters have posted that “they’ll be watching the polls on Election Day,” with the Proud Boys of Columbus recently posting “a claim that they had enrolled members as poll watchers and poll workers,” Reilly reports, citing posts reviewed.

“It’s not clear whether claims that they are watching the polls or are embedded as election volunteers will result in any real-world action,” Reilly notes. Far-right groups often make exaggerated public claims about the actions that they’re going to take, or the access that they have, and don’t follow through. Making the public afraid of what they might could is sometimes victory enough.

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On election eve, Democrats in Nevada are doubling down on door knocking efforts – making last pitches to get out the vote.

In East Las Vegas, Democratic senator Jacky Rosen gave canvassers one last pep talk. “We’re at the finish line now, and whatever you do, it makes a difference,” Rosen said. “One last call, one last door knock.”

Rosen is leading in polls as she fights for reelection against Republican Sam Brown. But more Republicans than expected have voted early, and a PAC associated with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has recently spent $6m on ads to promote Brown.

Canvassers for Rosen and the Harris/Walz campaign have been deployed across the state to make final pleas to voters.

Rosen appeared alongside her fellow Nevada senator, Catherine Cortez Masto, at an afternoon canvass launch.

“This is how we win in Nevada, Because of all of you!” Said Cortez Masto. “We organize our way to victory, right?”

The few dozen canvassers cheered. And a few who were standing near a call in the campaig office knocked on wood.

Kamala Harris has been canvassing in Pennsylvania this evening, where she went door knocking in Reading in an attempt to win over voters just hours before polls open on Tuesday.

“It’s the day before the election and I just wanted to come by and say I hope to earn your vote,” Harris told one person, who informed the Democratic candidate “you already got my vote.”

Harris visited a Puerto Rican restaurant in Reading earlier on Monday, joined by Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro and New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Harris initially said she wanted to order a “spicy taquito” but later said she also wanted the rice, plantains, pork and cassava, Associated Press reported.

“I’m very hungry. I don’t get to eat as often as I like,” she said.

Jazmine Sullivan, the R&B star, just took the stage at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, addressing supporters: “Are we ready to make history tomorrow?”

She encouraged Pennsylvanians to vote for Kamala Harris when polls open tomorrow.

“I feel safer when there’s a woman in leadership,” she said.

Abortion rights were under assault across the country, she said, dedicating her rendition of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On to the cause.

“Because what’s going on?” she said.

JD Vance is once again being condemned for misogyny after repeatedly calling Kamala Harris ‘trash’ at campaign rallies.

The Republican vice-presidential nominee compared Harris with trash at a New Hampshire rally yesterday, then did it again today in Flint, Michigan, and Atlanta, Georgia:

Mainstream political commenters have not been complimentary to Vance’s choice to make the closing argument for the Trump campaign so explicitly “nasty”.

“Oh, JD Vance, you just effed up in a way that I’ve never seen in my political life, and I worked for Sarah Palin,” MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace said.

Hours before election day, a crowd has amassed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where Kamala Harris will hold the last rally of her lightning-fast presidential campaign.

The 72 “Rocky Steps” were illuminated in blue lights with scrolling LED signs that say Vote for Freedom and Vote. The DJ is spinning Taylor Swift’s Cruel Summer.

The lines to get in wrapped for ages and people came prepared for a long night. Harris will appear at a rally in Pittsburgh before landing in the city of Brotherly Love for what is expected to be a star-studded event.

After Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate, TikTok and Instagram saw the emergence of a particularly vicious kind of misinformation – that Harris stole someone’s husband, specifically Willie Brown, a former mayor of San Francisco.

This is false. But these rumors were soon translated into Chinese and posted on X, with the language becoming “even more inflammatory”, according to the Chinese factchecking group, PiYaoBa. One Chinese influencer, whose tweet garnered more than 60,000 views, translated “stole a woman’s husband” as “mistress”.

This translation spread to other Chinese platforms like WeChat, accumulating more than 100,000 views and leading some users to refer to her using the word “chicken”, which in Mandarin is often a slur for sex workers.

It suggests how English-language misinformation is not only spreading in other languages – it also takes new, culturally specific forms.

Read the full story here: Chinese Americans targeted with ‘misogynistic and insulting’ election misinformation

Trump ally Nigel Farage says ex-president should accept result and 'play golf' if he loses

Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK’s Reform party, said Donald Trump should accept the result of the election and “go play golf” if he loses decisively to Kamala Harris.

In an interview with the Telegraph at Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, Farage said: “If it was clear and decisive then maybe it’s time [for Trump] to go and play golf at Turnberry.”

Farage said he has “never gone along with” Trump’s 2020 stolen election narrative, adding that “let’s hope and pray that is not an issue this time. If it [the outcome] was clear then Republicans have to accept the result.”

He suggested that Harris could move to quell any potential unrest if she wins the election by pardoning Trump once in office. “If she gets in on Tuesday I hope she pardons him. She could look magnanimous and it would dampen down potential tensions,” he said.

However, he added: “It’s all hypothetical and I still think he is going to win.”

Farage attended Trump’s rally earlier today in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he hailed his “special relationship” with the Republican presidential candidate.

As Shasta county, California, grapples with a thriving election denialism movement that has amplified conspiracy theories about voter fraud and made life increasingly difficult for election workers, residents of one of California’s most conservative counties are bracing for a contentious election.

In recent weeks, some residents of Shasta county, home to 180,000 people in the state’s far north, have urged the county not to certify the election results while one official warned that if Donald Trump is “cheated” out of the election, there would be “a price” to pay.