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We will be closing the live blog soon. Here’s a brief recap of what happened today:

• Trump and Harris continued to press home their closing messages in the key Midwestern swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin.
• Harris slammed Trump for his remarks earlier this week that Liz Cheney should have “guns trained on her”. Trump has previously suggested that Cheney, a vocal critic of his, should face military tribunals.
• Trump’s campaign insisted that the “guns” comment was a legitimate criticism of Cheney’s hawkish foreign policy stance: If she promoted wars, she should have to fight in them herself.
• The US Supreme Court dismissed a challenge by the Republican Party against provisional ballots in Pennsylvania, a key swing state.
• Harris and Trump held duelling rallies on Friday night in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with Harris packing the star power: Her event boasted singers GloRilla, Cardi B and Flo Milli.
• Polling trackers show Harris with a slim lead of about 1.2 points nationally, according to the data firm FiveThirtyEight.

It was a tale of two rallies. On one side of Milwaukee, Harris put on a star-studded show – and wrapped her remarks in more or less 25 minutes.

On the other side of the same city, Trump led with Republican politicians and supporters like Robert F Kennedy Jr, before taking the stage with an hour-plus speech.

It was the usual Trump speech. He pledged to “prevent World War III”. He called his Democratic rival Harris a “low-IQ individual”. And he said he would “end inflation”.

Then he hyped up the fears of undocumented immigrants.

“We want people to come into our country, we do. But they have to come in legally, through a system. They have to love us. They have to love our country,” Trump said, before seeming to go off-script.

“We will not be invaded. We are not going to be invaded. It’s like an invasion. It’s like a military invasion. You know the guns and weapons they have, some of these guys have? They are military grade. They’re at least military grade. Some are better than military grade.”

And before he wrapped up his remarks, he made a final reference to his adversary during the rally: his uncooperative microphone.

“I don’t have to be here. But if I had my choice, I’d rather be right here with a broken-down s*** microphone in Wisconsin. I would rather be in Wisconsin than some beautiful beach.”

With that, the Village People song YMCA ushered Trump off the stage.

In Milwaukee, Trump revisited his false claims of winning the 2020 election – even when the results say otherwise.

He started by reminiscing about his first successful bid for the presidency in 2016 when he defeated Hillary Clinton.

“You know, in 2016, I wanted to win Wisconsin so bad. He said it’s not doable,” Trump said, gesturing to former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson in the crowd.

“You are a very difficult state, but I won it. I did win it despite your difficulty. I actually won it twice, but these are minor details.”

Trump did not win Wisconsin twice. In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden eked out a victory over Trump in the state.

But throughout his Friday night speech, Trump continued to maintain that he won – and would continue to win in this year’s election.

“I don’t like to say, ‘When I win’. Should I say ‘when’ or ‘if’?” Trump said, interacting with the crowd, which cheered.

“I know, but it sounds a little braggadocio. Alright, when I win! You are four days away from the best jobs, the biggest paycheques and the brightest economic future the world has ever seen.”

At her rally in Wisconsin, Harris promised to build an economy for everyday people and listen to a wide range of voices. Here are some photos of that event.

In Milwaukee on Friday, Trump sought to continue to capitalise on remarks outgoing President Joe Biden made, appearing to call Republican supporters “garbage”.

Trump drew a direct line between those remarks and comments Vice President Harris made calling him a fascist.

“Despite all the damage she has caused, Kamala has spent the final week of her campaign comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history. You know that, right? All of us. You. Me,” Trump said.

Trump then recalled the controversial remarks former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made in 2016 when she was running against the Republican.

She called part of Trump’s base “a basket of deplorables” – a comment that prompted immediate backlash. Clinton ultimately lost the race.

“Two days ago, Joe Biden called our supporters garbage. He called them garbage. That’s worse than deplorables. Remember Hillary? How did that work out with deplorables?” Trump said.

“Well, garbage is working out even worse for him. They called you, all of us, garbage. I believe we have 250 million people. I believe we have most of the country.”

More than 337 million people live in the US. Only 74,223,975 voted for Trump in the 2020 presidential race, according to the Federal Election Commission.

Following an exhortation to her supporters to do everything they can in the final days of the race, Harris has finished her rally in Milwaukee.

Tomorrow, Harris will head to the swing state of North Carolina for a rally in Charlotte, where Trump will also be campaigning.

Trump took a quick jab at some of Harris’s surrogates, including former First Lady Michelle Obama, who famously said, “When they go low, we go high.”

“Mrs Obama was nasty to me,” Trump told the Milwaukee crowd on Friday. “What was that all about?”

“This is the weave.”

Trump used part of his Milwaukee speech to expound upon his oratorical style. Critics have called his remarks meandering and long-winded – but Trump attempted to correct the record.

“These are stupid people – they used to say, ‘He rambled’. I don’t ramble. I do a weave. You know what a weave is? It’s a story. And as you’re telling the story, you realise there’s a little offshoot. You go up here. But the key is then you have to come back.”

He explained that his remarks had “subplots” and that he preferred to speak in “long form”.

“You always have to end up in the right place, or then you’re rambling. Then you’re rambling. But no, I have a very fertile, very fertile brain.”

Harris has sought to impart a sense of urgency as the race enters its final days, asking supporters to encourage family and friends to vote.

“We’ve got four days to get this thing done. Four days. No one can sit on the sidelines. So let’s spend the next four days so that when we look back on these days, we have no regrets about what we could have done. Let’s know we did everything we could do,” said Harris.

“So let’s knock on doors, let’s text, let’s call, let’s reach out to family and friends and classmates and neighbours and coworkers.”

Trump has been struggling with the audio quality at his Milwaukee rally, with audience members chanting at one point, “Fix the mic! Fix the mic!”

The Republican candidate yanked the microphone out of its holder to bring it closer to his face – only to complain later on that holding it was like weight-lifting. He threatened violence for those responsible for the technical difficulties.

“Do you want to see me knock the hell out of people backstage?” he said.

“I get so angry. I’m up here seething. I’m seething. I’m working my ass off with this stupid mic. I’m blowing out my left arm and I’m going to blow out my right arm and I’m blowing out my damn throat too because of these stupid people.”

Trump used the microphone situation to pivot, promising to fire people who crossed him. The mic situation continued to be a point of conversation, though.

“I don’t ask for much. I don’t ask for much. The only thing I asked for is a good mic.”

Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva seems to have endorsed Harris for president, stating in a social media post that US democracy will be more secure with her in the White House.

“I love democracy. I think it is the best system of government society has built in the world,” Lula wrote.

“It allows for those who are against it, those who are antagonistic, in a civilised debate of ideas, without violence. I think that if Kamala wins the elections, it is much safer to strengthen democracy in the US.”

Harris has slammed Trump, stating that the country is tired of his divisive style of politics.

“In this election, we have an opportunity to finally turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump trying to keep us divided and afraid of each other. We are done with it. We are exhausted with it. We are turning the page,” said Harris.

“And it’s because we know that’s what he’s about. He is constantly about trying to have Americans point their fingers at each other. But that’s not who we are. That’s who he is. That is not who we are.”

“The people we’re running against are crooked as hell.”

At Milwaukee on Friday, Trump returned to a familiar talking point: false claims of election fraud.

It came up as he encouraged his supporters to go to the ballot box.

“We don’t care when you vote. Just make sure you vote. And if you see anybody cheating, then what you do, you know what you do? Report them immediately,” he said.

Despite polls showing him tied nationally with Harris, Trump also told his supporters that he was surging ahead.

“We’re leading, but don’t listen to me now. Don’t listen. Just pretend we’re one down, right?”

At one point in his speech, Trump yanked the microphone from its holder, complaining, “The mic stinks!”

“I never held a microphone up so long in my damn life. It’s like I’m weight-lifting. This sucker’s heavy.”

Harris is having trouble winning over men in labour unions, even as the vice president pitches herself as a strong supporter of the country’s labour unions and working class.

“Let’s be honest, there are people who look at a female candidate and at face value dismiss her because, you know, she’s perceived as not being presidential,” Liz Shuler, president of the 12.5-million-member AFL-CIO, told the Reuters news agency.

“No one questions Donald Trump in that way.”

Harris has walked on stage to a chorus of applause, greeting supporters with a smile.

“Always good to be back! Good evening!” she said.

“Are we ready to do this? Are we ready to vote? Are we ready to win?”

“I don’t want your money. I want your damn vote. We want that vote!”

Republican presidential candidate Trump has taken the stage at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where earlier this year he appeared for the Republican National Convention in July.

In his remarks, Trump made reference to the convention, which he attended with a patch over his ear after he was shot in an attempted assassination.

“We had a little event here recently. That was the convention,” Trump said. “I had a little patch on my ear. Excuse me. A little patch. I said, ‘I don’t know.’ I was a little embarrassed walking out with a patch. But there’s nothing you can do about some things, huh?”

The patch later became a kind of fashion statement at the Republican convention, with Trump supporters wearing bandages of their own over their ears.

Trump continued to use his Milwaukee speech on Friday to blast his Democratic rival Harris.

“Is she the vice president, the president? Is she a contender? What the hell is she?” Trump said of Harris. He also emphasised the importance of the swing state of Wisconsin.

“We win this state, we win the whole thing.”

Earlier on Friday, Republican presidential nominee Trump announced that, if elected, former independent candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr would “have a big role in healthcare” in his government.

Kennedy has been widely denounced for espousing conspiracy theories about vaccines and other aspects of healthcare, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

But he has become a prominent part of Trump’s campaign – and continued his streak of rally appearances with remarks on Friday in Milwaukee.

“We are destroying these children,” Kennedy said, returning to oft-expressed concerns about chronic illness among children.

“Why do all of our kids have eczema and asthma and allergies? This is not normal. I know what a normal child looks like. And our kids today are injured, and they’re damaged – and they’re damaged because we’re being poisoned. And that comes from corruption.”

Kennedy suspended his own presidential bid on August 23 of this year. But as he spoke on Friday, he described his decision in divine terms.

“For 19 years, I have – every morning without one exception – I have said a prayer to God to put me in a position where I could end the chronic disease epidemic,” Kennedy said.

“And on August 23 of this year, God sent me Donald J Trump.”

The rapper and singer Cardi G has taken the stage, touting Harris’s economic policies and saying she was not planning to vote before Harris entered the race.

“I wasn’t gonna vote this year. I wasn’t. But Kamala Harris joining the race, she changed my mind completely. I did not have faith in any candidate until she joined the race,” Cardi B said.

“She’s gonna pass a ban on price gouging on groceries,” referring to a proposal by Harris to crack down on companies that charge exorbitant prices for essential goods.

Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling has said in a social media post that the race would be close and either major party candidate could win.

Sterling asked supporters of both Harris and Trump to prepare for the possibility their candidate could lose, a possible reference to previous efforts by Trump and his supporters to claim victory in the state despite losing there in 2020.

“As we get closer to Election Day, I have a message for supporters of both candidates. Especially their most vociferous supporters. You’re [sic] candidate may lose,” Sterling said in a social media post.

“This is a close race. You need to emotionally and mentally prepare for that possible outcome.”

As we get closer to Election Day, I have a message for supporters of both candidates. Especially their most vociferous supporters.

You’re candidate may lose.

This is a close race. You need to emotionally & mentally prepare for that possible outcome. (1/5)

— Gabriel Sterling (@GabrielSterling) November 1, 2024