US election live updates: Trump and Harris head west with six days to go

Date: 2024-10-31
11.49 CET
Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Hannah Ellis-Petersen

Kamala Harris may never have visited Thulasendrapuram, a sleepy village in south India, but its residents claim to be some of her most devoted fans.

It was here, in among the verdant rice paddies and groundnut farms of rural Tamil Nadu, that Harris’s grandfather PV Gopalan was born. Though more than a century has passed since then, residents have proudly claimed Harris as a “daughter of the land”.

The outcome of the US election next week, where Harris is running as the Democrat party’s presidential nominee, has the community on edge. At the local tea shop, local gossip has been pushed to one side to make way for chatter over the challenges posed by Harris’s opponent Donald Trump and the trends from crucial swing states.

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Opening summaruy

Good morning. It is less than a week before polls close at the 2024 U.S. election and more than 57.5 million Americans have already checked their ballots, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida.

Presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are still hot on the campaign trail in a fiercely contested race that is too close to call.

Trump made an appearance in a high-vis vest at the wheel of a garbage truck before heading off to a rally in Wisconsin, a key battleground state. Trump promised to protect women “whether they liked it or not.”

Harris was also in Wisconsin offering platitudes on climate change, gun control, and abortion. She said those issues were “not political,” but one’s “lived experience.” She was speaking shortly after the latest CNN poll showed her six points ahead of Trump in the state.

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