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To learn more about the fraught choice Arab American community members face this election, check out our story here.

Or, if you’d like to explore how each presidential candidate has tried to appeal to the country’s working-class voters, read our story here.

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

• Trump and Harris have continued their blitz across key swing states such as Georgia, Michigan and North Carolina, as they press for any possible advantage in the closing days of the campaign.
• Harris has sought to appeal to Arab Americans in Michigan by stressing the “devastating” toll of Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon, but community advocates say that words are not enough.
• Trump faces fresh criticism over his attacks against journalists after he said during a Pennsylvania campaign rally that he wouldn’t “mind so much” if a potential assassin would “shoot through the fake news” to get to him.
• In a poll of Latino voters in Pennsylvania, 53 percent said that recent remarks insulting Puerto Rico made at a Trump rally were “very disrespectful” towards Latinos.
• More than 78 million Americans have already cast their votes, according to a tally by the Election Lab at the University of Florida.

Ahead of Election Day, Trump’s supporters are re-sharing an unproven 2020 claim that a high-ranking Dominion Voting Systems employee told Antifa members he “made sure” Trump wouldn’t win.

“Don’t worry about the election, Trump’s not gonna win. I made f****** sure of that!” says a November 1 Instagram post. The post attributes the quote to Eric Coomer, identified as Dominion’s director of strategy and security. The post also says Coomer made the statement while “talking on an antifa conference call”.

Other text on the post says, “(Repost) if you don’t trust Dominion voting machines and want paper ballots instead”, and its caption says, in part, “More than ever we must rise up for the final battle!! TRUMP WILL WIN!! No WAY AROUND THAT!!!”

The Instagram post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed.

Nearly identical images also are being shared on Facebook and X. They include no indication that this allegation originated in 2020.

This claim is unproven and is the subject of a defamation lawsuit. A judge fined the person who originally made the claim $1,000 a day for failing to produce evidence to corroborate the allegation. That fine is currently on hold pending an appeal.

The Harris campaign says it mobilised 90,000 volunteers to do it.

Spokesman Ian Sams said in a social media post that the effort was “the Harris campaign’s GOTV [get out the vote] weekend” – just before Election Day on Tuesday.

The Harris campaign’s GOTV weekend: https://t.co/55XvllDspw

— Ian Sams (@IanSams) November 4, 2024

The former president will spend another busy day on Monday crisscrossing several battleground states.

Trump will hold a rally in North Carolina in the morning before travelling to Pennsylvania for events in Reading, west of Philadelphia, and in Pittsburgh.

He will then end the day with a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he will seek to energise his base to get out and vote on November 5.

Amid a deluge of false claims by Trump and Republicans about election integrity, Georgia’s election authorities have assured voters that they can trust the voting process.

In an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes programme, Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer for the Georgia secretary of state, said that lies about election fraud were meant to undermine faith in the electoral process.

Following the 2020 election, Trump exerted pressure on officials in the state to overturn his loss there.

“Every state in this country now has poked and prodded and looked at their processes. And we know that while we all do it slightly differently, everybody assures that there’s one person and one vote. Everybody assures that there’s a single ballot cast,” Sterling said in the interview.

“We have tonnes of people, processes and policies in place in all 50 states and the district to assure that the outcome of the election is correct,” he added.

Claudia, a 26-year-old first-generation college-educated Latina born in the US, sat at her family’s dinner table, engaged in a heated political debate that switched seamlessly between English and Spanish.

She and her immigrant parents – from Mexico and El Salvador, respectively – clashed over the future of the country they all call home.

“It’s not about loving Harris,” Claudia said, disappointed with the administration’s handling of Israel’s war on Gaza and immigration but committed to voting against Trump.

Her parents feel differently: They worry about their economic security and support Trump for his economic policies, in frustration at the inflation the US has experienced in the last few years.

This generational divide within one family illustrates the challenges both parties face in appealing to a group that resists simple categorisations.

Read more about how Latino voters’ allegiances have changed, in our story, here.

The vice president will spend the final day before the election at a series of campaign events in the swing state of Pennsylvania.

She will be joined by several celebrities, including Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, Just Blaze and Oprah Winfrey at a Get Out the Vote event in Philadelphia on Monday night.

Harris will also campaign with D-Nice, Katy Perry and Andra Day in Pittsburgh earlier in the day.

In a familiar refrain on the campaign trail, the Republican has blamed his Democratic rival for soaring costs and promised to tackle inflation if re-elected.

Trump has zeroed in on the economy during his push for the White House as public opinion polls show that the issue is the top concern for Americans.

But recent polls suggest voters are split on whether they trust Trump or Harris more to handle economic issues such as unemployment and the cost of living.

In an AP-NORC poll on October 21, 43 percent of voters said they trusted Harris while 41 percent trusted Trump. On the cost of groceries and gas, the Republican had a slight edge, with 42 percent support compared with 40 percent for his Democratic rival.

Meanwhile, in a Gallup survey from early October, 54 percent of voters believed Trump would do a better job of handling the economy than Harris, compared with 45 percent who favoured the Democrat.

“Trump is favored over Harris to better handle the issue, giving him a significant advantage in the election, though this is partly influenced by Republicans being more likely than Democrats to rate the economy as an extremely important issue,” Gallup said.

The US Federal Reserve bank is scheduled to meet on Wednesday to consider further interest rate cuts, as votes from the Tuesday election are counted.

Inflation in the US has fallen below the bank’s target of 2 percent, offering a dose of good news amid widespread concerns about the economy and costs of living that could shape the outcome of the vote.

Vanessa Montgomery says she will not return to her role as a voting site manager during this year’s United States presidential election.

Her reason? “It’s just a lot,” she told Al Jazeera, speaking from her home state of Georgia.

The 61-year-old is a veteran of the state’s elections. Since 2015, Montgomery served Bartow County, northwest of Atlanta, directly overseeing a polling site over the last five years. It was her job to make sure voting went smoothly.

But, for many election officials and poll workers, 2020 represented a turning point.

Montgomery was among the many election employees who faced threats — and even violence — as a result of false claims of voter fraud.

Read more about the threats US election workers face in our full story, here.

Layla Elabed is keeping the top of the ticket – where Americans select their choice for president – blank.

But she says she wants Arab Americans and Palestinian rights supporters to cast their ballots by the end of Election Day.

Elabed acknowledged that both major candidates represent “impossible choices” for Arab Americans due to their support for Israel but she urged people to still vote and assert their political power to continue to push for change after the elections.

“We’re past the point of trying to convince anybody to vote a certain way at the top of the ticket,” she told Al Jazeera. “I just hope that our community goes out and votes no matter what. Let’s not invisibilise our community.”

Stephen Miller has continued to champion nativist rhetoric targeting immigrants, calling people who come to the US without documentation “gang members, criminals, killers, rapists, murderers” who “attack our own people”, during the Trump rally in Georgia.

Miller is one of the chief advocates of a mass deportation campaign that Trump has promised to carry out, which experts say would tear families apart and severely damage the US economy.

The American Immigration Council has broken down the feasibility and cost of Trump’s promise to carry out the “largest deportation operation” in the country’s history if re-elected – and the numbers are staggering.

To deport about 11 million undocumented immigrants as well as 2.3 million others who crossed into the US irregularly between 2023 and April 2024, the council estimates that it would cost the US government at least $315bn.

“We wish to emphasize that this figure is a highly conservative estimate,” the group said.

“It does not take into account the long-term costs of a sustained mass deportation operation or the incalculable additional costs necessary to acquire the institutional capacity to remove over 13 million people in a short period of time—incalculable because there is simply no reality in which such a singular operation is possible.”

When Li Wei took over the running of his father’s glass-making business in northern China’s Cangzhou in 2020, he immediately set about optimising the firm’s operations.

Li moved Hebei Yiyue Glass Products’ sole factory from its city location to a site outside Cangzhou, providing better access to important road networks and more space to expand the facility.

At the same time, Li changed the primary focus of the company from selling glass components to customers in China to exporting finished glass products to customers abroad.

Today, he oversees a successful export business – much of it owed to the demand for his products in the US, which in recent years has been the destination for as much as 80 percent of his company’s exports.

But now, Li and his colleagues are concerned that their success could all come crashing down if Trump is re-elected to the White House on November 5.

Read more about why in our story here.