US Election 2024 highlights: Trump, Harris hold competing rallies in North Carolina
US Election 2024 live: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are tiptoeing each other to hold competing rallies across the battleground states in the last week of campaigning for US presidency. The vice president and former republican president will head to North Carolina on Saturday just three days before the election. This will be the fourth day in a row when both Harris and Trump will be visiting a battleground state on the same day....Read More
"We have an opportunity in this election to turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump, who has spent full time trying to have the American people point fingers at each other," Harris said on Friday at a rally in Janesville, Wisconsin.
Trump on Friday described the election as a choice for voters on whether they want “four more years of gross incompetence and failure” or whether they want to begin “the four greatest years in the history” of the US.
Meanwhile, the US government blamed Russia for spreading a fake voting video in which a Haitian immigrant claimed to have voted multiple times. US officials said it was part of "Moscow's broader effort to raise unfounded questions about the integrity of the US election".
Moscow on Saturday denied allegations that "Russian influence actors" were behind the fake video.
"We have noticed the statement of the U.S. intelligence services accusing our country of disseminating fabricated videos about electoral violations in the United States. We view these allegations as baseless," the Russian embassy in the United States said in a statement on Telegram.
More than 70 million Americans have already cast ballots, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida.
US Election 2024 live: Victor Orban says Trump's victory will force Europe to rethink Ukraine war aid
US Election 2024 live: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Sunday that Europe will need to rethink its support of Ukraine if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States.
"We (in Europe) need to realize that if there will be a pro-peace president in America, which I not only believe in but I also read the numbers that way, ... if what we expect happens and America becomes pro-peace, then Europe cannot remain pro-war," Orban said.
"Europe cannot bear the burden of [the war] alone, and if Americans switch to peace, then we also need to adapt, and this is what we will discuss in Budapest," Orban added.
US Election 2024 live: “Not a puppet”, says Cardi B on Elon Musk's comment over her support to Kamala Harris
Rapper Cardi B has reacted to Tesla CEO Elon Musk's comment about her. Recently, he called her a "puppet" for the Kamala Harris campaign, reported Deadline.
US Election 2024 live: Women's march protesters come in support of Kamala Harris
Several Women's march protesters gathered in Washington DC to rally for Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of upcoming presidential polls. They marched from Freedom Plaza towards the White House.
Kamala Harris to appear on 'Saturday Night Live' in last episode
Vice President Kamala Harris announced that she will be visiting to New York to appear on an episode of "Saturday Night Live", briefly stepping away from the battleground states she's been campaigning in with just three days to go before the US Presidential election.
US Election 2024 live: Trump promises to bring back American dream
US Election 2024 live: Republican nominee Donald Trump posted on X after a rally in North Carolina that he will bring back the American dream.
In his post, the former president said, “Today, I was thrilled to be back in beautiful North Carolina, with thousands of proud, hardworking American Patriots! With your vote on Tuesday, I will end inflation, I will still the invasion, I will bring back the American dream.”
US Election 2024 live: Georgia judge rejects Republican lawsuit to block counties
US Election 2024 live: A judge in Georgia judge rejected a Republican lawsuit attempting to block counties from opening election offices on Saturday and Sunday to let voters hand in their mail ballots in person, reported AP.
The lawsuit notably mentioned only Fulton County, a Democratic stronghold.
At least five other densely populated counties that tend to vote for Democrats also announced election offices would open over the weekend to allow hand return of absentee ballots.
US Election 2024 live: US supreme court upholds Pennsylvania court ruling on expanding options for rejected mail-in ballots
US Election 2024 live: The US Supreme Court has decided to uphold a Pennsylvania court ruling that is expected to expand options for voters whose mail-in ballots are rejected for technical reasons to have their votes counted, reported CNN.
These voters will have the option to ask for their provisional ballots to be counted as a back-up option.
US Election 2024 live: US supreme court upholds Pennsylvania court ruling on expanding options for rejected mail-in ballots
US Election 2024 live: The US Supreme Court has decided to uphold a Pennsylvania court ruling that is expected to expand options for voters whose mail-in ballots are rejected for technical reasons to have their votes counted, reported CNN.
These voters will have the option to ask for their provisional ballots to be counted as a back-up option.
US Election 2024 live: Biden makes final stop in childhood home on Harris campaign
US Election 2024 live: Joe Biden returned to his childhood hometown in Scranton on Saturday for a final campaign stop in support of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
The sitting president rallied union workers, a constituency with whom he is popular, in the swing state to help Harris beat Donald Trump.
US Election 2024 live: FBI denies apprehending ballot fraud groups
US Election 2024 live: The FBI has stated that a video of them arresting people involved in an alleged ballot fraud was false on Saturday.
The FBI added that another video of them apprehending Kamala Harris' husband was fake as well.
“Attempts to deceive the public with false content about FBI operations undermines our democratic process and aims to erode trust in the electoral system,” they said.
US Election 2024 live: Harris vows to continue investing in American manufacturing
US Election 2024 live: Kamala Harris on Saturday criticized House Speaker Mike Johnson for suggesting that Republicans might cut government subsidies for semiconductor manufacturing.
"It is my plan and intention to continue to invest in American manufacturing, the work being done by American workers, upholding and lifting up good union jobs," Harris said Saturday morning in Wisconsin, as she left for campaigning in North Carolina.
"That is the way we are going to win the competition with China for the 21st century," she added. (AP)
US Election 2024 live: Trump to hold four rallies in North Carolina in last leg of campaigning
US Election 2024 live: Donald Trump will rally his supporters in swing state of North Carolina every day until Tuesday's election. It is the only swing state that he won in both his 2016 and 2020 campaigns.
Trump will campaign in Gastonia, west of Charlotte, and Greensboro on Saturday, with a stop in Salem, Virginia, in between. He will be in the eastern city of Kinston on Sunday and in Raleigh on Monday.
Those four rallies will bring his total events in North Carolina since October 1 to nine. His running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, has been in the state six times during the same period, most recently on Friday. (AP)
US Election 2024 live: Michigan city worries about delayed election results
US Election 2024 live: Election officials in Michigan expressed worry that the city of Warren could lag behind the rest of the state in reporting the election results.
The city opted not to take advantage of changes enacted in a 2022 state law that allowed for up to eight days of pre-processing of absentee ballots. Instead, the city of 135,000 people will wait until Election Day to verify and tabulate more than 20,000 mail-in ballots.
The potential delay from Warren has worried some Democratic leaders that it could leave the results appearing artificially high for Republican Donald Trump on Tuesday evening, and that the former president would seek to exploit the situation by falsely declaring victory in the state before all votes were in. (Reuters)
US Election 2024 live: Trump, Harris reimagined as Indian politicians
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the two contenders for the US presidency, are busy holding competing rallies across crucial battleground states.
How would their election campaigns look like if the current US vice president and the former Republican president were Indian politicians?
An artist named Shahid SK posted AI-generated images on Instagram, reimagining the two leading contenders as Indian politicians. Read more
US Election 2024 live: Trump's rhetoric against Cheney draws blowback
US Election 2024 live: Donald Trump suggested that one of his most vociferous critics, Republican Liz Cheney, would be less of a “war hawk” if she experienced combat conditions herself — employing violent imagery that the former Republican congresswoman cast as a threat and creating the latest flashpoint in the race with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Cheney responded in a post on X Friday, saying, “This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant".
