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• Harris has campaigned in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, with pro-Palestinian protesters interrupting her rallies in the battleground states.
• Trump has visited Wisconsin, as well, where he posed in a garbage truck amid Republican criticism of recent comments by President Biden.
• Trump has continued to try to distance himself from the comic who called Puerto Rico “garbage” at his rally in New York City, saying: “I know nothing about him”, and “He’s a comedian. What can I tell you?”
• A judge has ordered Elon Musk to attend a court hearing in Philadelphia on Thursday in a lawsuit challenging his pro-Trump America PAC awarding $1m per day to registered voters.

That’s according to a tally by the Election Lab at the University of Florida.

More than 31 million votes were cast in person, while nearly 28 million others were sent via mail-in ballot.

The prominent broadcaster and outspoken critic of Israel’s war on Gaza has spoken publicly for the first time after walking out of a CNN panel when a far-right panellist told him: “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.”

In a video shared on X, Hasan warned that if Trump wins the US election, his supporters will be emboldened to be more openly racist. He also acknowledged that if Harris loses, it is because she “morally deserves to lose” for refusing to “budge even an inch on Gaza”.

A Trump presidency, Hasan said, will be “a white-supremacist presidency, an anti-Black, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic presidency, in which people like the bigot I had to deal with on CNN will be emboldened like never before”.

“They’ll also be in charge of US foreign policy, egging on Israel to do more beeper attacks, even more acts of terror,” he added.

Nearly 40 people were killed and thousands wounded in two days of unprecedented attacks in September when pagers, walkie-talkies and other handheld communication devices exploded across Lebanon in an attack blamed on Israel.

“As shocked and stunned as I was, there was no way I was going to let him say that to me, unchallenged.”

My response to the racism & incitement on Monday, to a CNN pro-Trump panelist telling me: “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off,” because I said I supported Palestinian rights. pic.twitter.com/GJCAC1vAKd

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) October 30, 2024

The Democrat is heading to the western US tomorrow, where she will make campaign stops in two swing states.

Harris will hold events in Reno and Las Vegas in Nevada, as well as in Phoenix, Arizona.

Her Republican rival Trump will also be in Nevada and Arizona on Thursday.

Ken Burns, Ron Chernow and Jon Meacham are among hundreds of historians who have signed an open letter endorsing Harris for president.

Calling themselves “Historians for Harris”, the signees condemned Trump as “openly hostile to democracy and to American constitutional customs”, and praised Harris for dedicating “her life to affirming the rule of law and democracy”.

“We believe, based on our study of the past, that the nation stands at an unprecedented historical as well as a political crossroads,” the letter reads.

“We appeal to our fellow citizens, whether conservative, independent, or liberal, regardless of party affiliation, to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.”

As we’ve been reporting, Harris has faced multiple protests today over the Biden administration’s support for Israel amid its war on the Gaza Strip.

Here’s what you need to know:

• The US provides Israel with $3.8bn in military assistance annually, and the Biden administration greenlit an additional $14bn in aid since the Gaza war began.
• While Washington says it is pushing for a ceasefire and wants to see a de-escalation of tensions in the region, it refuses to suspend weapons shipments to Israel or condition its unwavering support for the country.
• Harris has pledged to continue arming the top US ally despite ongoing, well-documented abuses in Gaza and Lebanon.
• Groups representing key segments of the Democratic Party base, including Arab and Muslim Americans, have said they could not endorse Harris over her stance.
• At least 43,163 Palestinians have been killed and 101,510 others wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023.
• In Lebanon, at least 2,822 people have been killed and 12,937 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.

For more on the situation in Gaza and Lebanon, check out our live page here.

The Republican candidate is holding several rallies tomorrow.

He’ll be in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the US Southwest and in Henderson, Nevada, before heading to Phoenix, Arizona.

Nevada and Arizona are two of the seven battleground states that will decide this election.

As Israel’s war on Gaza continues, each candidate has a vision on how to end the conflict.

See what Trump and Harris are proposing in our video below.

After snagging an early coveted endorsement from Taylor Swift, Harris has continued to draw star power to her campaign, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mumford & Sons and Beyonce adding their voices to her campaign just this week alone.

That’s not to mention the Puerto Rican superstars who came out in support of Harris after a relatively unknown comedian described their island home as “garbage” at a recent Trump rally.

Trump’s campaign has also drawn some big names, including retired professional wrestler Hulk Hogan and Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to ever walk on the moon.

But while Harris may have more artists in her corner, Trump’s star status among his own supporters is clear.

He’s not afraid to remind his supporters of his celebrity past either, including by peppering his speeches with references to “The Apprentice”.

That’s what a large banner reads behind the stage at tonight’s Harris rally in Madison, Wisconsin.

The Badgers is the name of sports teams at the University of Madison-Wisconsin. But the nickname comes from the state of Wisconsin itself.

“The territory was dubbed the ‘Badger State,’ not because of animals in the region, but rather an association with lead miners in the 1820s,” the school says.

“Prospectors came to the state looking for minerals. Without shelter in the winter, the miners had to ‘live like badgers’ in tunnels burrowed into hillsides.”

After facing threats and harassment from Trump supporters convinced the 2020 election was stolen, clerks around the country are bracing for more violence.

Thirty election officials from both parties told the Reuters news agency they are preparing for a replay of what happened four years ago when Trump and his lawyers pushed false charges about late-night ballot dumps and rigged machines in an effort to overturn his loss.

Here’s how some of them have been preparing:

• In Wisconsin, election workers have been trained on de-escalation techniques and polling stations have been rearranged so workers have escape routes if they are menaced by protesters.
• In Arizona, an epicentre in 2020 for false claims by Republicans about rigged voting, the secretary of state is working with local officials on how to respond to misinformation, including deep-fake images of purported fraud.
• In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – one of Trump’s favourite targets for false claims of voter fraud – the fence surrounding the ballot-counting warehouse is now topped with barbed wire.
• In Detroit, Michigan, and Atlanta, Georgia, some election offices are protected by bulletproof glass.