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In the meantime, here are some of today’s main developments:

• Crowds have begun gathering in Washington, DC, for Kamala Harris’s “closing argument” rally.
• Controversy continues over comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s comments at Donald Trump’s New York rally on Sunday comparing Puerto Rico to “a floating island of garbage”.
• Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny and Archbishop of San Juan Roberto Octavio Gonzalez Nieves have denounced the comedian’s comments today, with the latter saying Trump needs to issue a formal apology.
• The Republican presidential candidate, however, says the rally at Madison Square Garden was a “lovefest“.
• Harris has received yet another endorsement from a figure traditionally associated with Republican politics, with Barbara Pierce Bush, daughter of former Republican President George W Bush, telling People magazine that she spent the weekend campaigning for the Democratic presidential candidate.

El Nuevo Dia has endorsed the Democratic candidate as backlash continues against a racist joke about the island by a speaker at Trump’s New York rally.

Puerto Rico’s largest newspaper explained its decision in an editorial that slammed the Republican candidate.

“One week before the election, Trump’s erratic and narcissistic behaviors reveal a lack of balance and ability to build agreements and solutions to the serious problems facing the United States, its territories, and the broad group of its allied countries,” Maria Luisa Ferre Rangel, the editor, wrote.

“Trump suffers from psychopathic elements that he evidences by lying repeatedly,” she said. “He has no moral compass and believes that the rules do not apply to him.

“Puerto Ricans should vote for Kamala Harris.”

The US Electoral College goes back to the country’s early days.

“What we have to realise is that the entire US Constitution is a series of compromises”, Lara Brown, professor at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, told Al Jazeera. “They eventually landed on a compromise that looked to balance populous states with small states.”

“What this means is that individuals – their votes are important through their state, [but] not nationally,” she said.

The exact number of votes each state gets is based on a census every 10 years, but the system continues to favour small states.

“It creates an odd situation in which small states like Wyoming, for example, have a per capita higher representation than Texas,” said Robinson Woodward-Burns, an associate professor with Howard University’s Department of Political Science.

“The Electoral College also creates other kinds of dysfunctions,” he added. “States that have higher Electoral College votes like Pennsylvania and that are narrowly divided, are swing states in which candidates spend a disproportionate amount of time in, and this sort of creates these sort of hyperlocal politics.”

Two hours away from Detroit, Saginaw County is a highly contested area in central Michigan.

Experts say whoever wins the election in this so-called “swing county” could help determine who will win the battleground state in next week’s elections.

This is a swing county in the swing state of Michigan,” said Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo, reporting from Saginaw. “The majority of the population voted for Barack Obama twice, then for Donald Trump in 2016 and in 2020 for Joe Biden. However, when you talk to people here, there is lots of concern that this election could end up in violence and unrest.”

Both Harris and Trump have in recent weeks intensified their campaigning in Michigan, where there are 15 electoral votes up for grabs.

“When I hear the Republicans saying that we’re going to change the Constitution, we’re going to take away your right to make decisions, we’re going to take away your right to be educated, I remember, I remember those very same rights being fought for,” Bishop Hurley Coleman told Al Jazeera.

“The phrase ‘Make America Great Again’ is frightening because it depends on what your great period was,” he said, referring to Trump’s slogan.

At a pumpkin farm just outside the city, people said they were concerned about the economy and the loss of jobs in past decades. Many said they supported Trump, repeating unfounded claims that the 2020 election was rigged.

“It’s going to be chaos – and I hope that it doesn’t happen,” local machinist Tom Rupprecht told Al Jazeera. “I don’t trust the government whatsoever because they tell you one thing and then they do what they want.”

Professor Brady Baybeck said there has been “a lot of damage done to the system in the last four to 10 years”.

“People don’t trust it,” he said. “I work in elections and I can tell you, in Michigan at least, it’s absolutely impossible for anybody to systematically rig an election.”

About 20,000 attendees were initially expected for Harris’s “closing arguments” speech at Washington, DC’s Ellipse.

That number has since been updated to 40,000, with DC Metro police projecting it could be as many as 52,000.

The line is currently circling the Ellipse, located near the Washington Monument, moving up 15th Street and into Lafayette Park in front of the White House.

“At least it will be a big crowd,” one person waiting in line told Al Jazeera.

Here’s a recap of the latest developments:

• Controversy continues over comments made by a stand-up comedian at Republican Donald Trump’s New York City campaign rally comparing Puerto Rico to a floating island of garbage.
• Rapper Bad Bunny and Archbishop of San Juan Roberto Octavio Gonzalez Nieves have denounced the comments today, with the latter saying Trump needs to issue a formal apology.
• Trump, however, says the rally at Madison Square Garden was a “lovefest“.
• National polls show a virtual tie between Democrat Kamala Harris and Trump, with Harris leading by 1.4 points according to FiveThirtyEight’s poll tracker.
• However, a new Rasmussen poll shows 51 percent of Americans have an “unfavourable” view of Harris.
• Trump is in Pennsylvania today for campaign events, and Harris is gearing up for her last major speech of the campaign in Washington, DC.
• Harris has received yet another endorsement from a figure traditionally associated with Republican politics, with Barbara Pierce Bush, daughter of former Republican President George W Bush, telling People magazine that she spent the weekend campaigning for the Democrat.

Eric Adams, who is facing federal charges of accepting bribes and illegal campaign contributions, has deflected questions about his relationship with Trump as he declined to say whether he would oppose the Republican candidate’s plan to carry out the largest mass deportation programme in US history, dismissing the proposal as a “hypothetical”.

The mayor of New York repeatedly responded to journalists inquiries about his feeling towards Trump during a news briefing with, “Next question.”

He declined to say when he last spoke to Trump, if he was seeking a pardon from him or whether he disagreed with any of Trump’s statements at the Madison Square Garden rally.

Asked specifically if he opposed Trump’s plan for historic mass deportations, Adams voiced his support for New York as a sanctuary city, but said he would not be “entertaining any hypotheticals”.

Adams, a centrist Democrat, has shown a growing reluctance to criticise Trump in recent weeks, breaking with party leaders on the question of whether the former president is a fascist. That support has fuelled speculation that Adams, is seeking to align himself with Trump. If he were to win the presidency, Trump could halt the corruption case against him.

Al Jazeera has spoken to Clyde Wilcox, a Georgetown University professor, about the challenges faced by Democrats in Michigan and whether the Harris campaign has done enough to change perceptions in the swing state.

Here’s what he said:

“The protest against the Biden-Harris administration is very understandable, I think, among Muslims and Arab voters, but Republicans are pouring money into this vote for the Jill Stein campaign.

“But I think the 2000 [election] is an interesting way to look at the protest vote because at the time, Ralph Nader was running as a Green Party candidate protesting that Al Gore was not being green enough in the campaign.

“And so, Nader ended up with 97,000 votes in Florida and Bush won by 540 – and his was most certainly not a green administration, right?

“So basically, a vote for Stein is a vote essentially for Trump; Netanyahu prefers Trump, Trump will have the Arab ban, the Muslim ban again, he’s talked about deporting pro-Palestinian protesters, so I do understand the anger truly, but I think that a protest vote here probably is a backfiring vote.”

According to the Arab American Institute, a think tank, Michigan is home to nearly 400,000 Arab Americans, making four percent of the state’s population. The group calculates the number of Arab Americans based on Census data, adjusted to undercounting because the survey does not have a specific box for Arabs.

The elections department in Florida’s largest county has confirmed that a sealed bin and a sealed bag were found by a driver and the ballots inside had already been scanned and tabulated at an early voting site yesterday, the Miami Herald reports.

A county employee forgot to lock the back of a truck and the containers fell out when they drove off, according to county elections supervisor Christina White, who said election workers confirmed nothing was damaged or tampered with.

A video posted by the popular South Florida social media account Only in Dade shows a passing driver apparently stopping to pick up the containers labelled with county barcodes and drive them to a police station.

The employee driving the truck has since been fired.

Shattered glass, clashes with police, protesters scaling walls: The images from the US Capitol riot on January 6, 2021 remain some of the most memorable in modern US political history.

That day saw thousands of supporters of then-President Donald Trump storm the building in an effort to overturn his election defeat, forcing legislators to flee for safety.

According to US lawmakers who investigated the riot, Trump watched what was happening on television and ignored calls from his staff and family members who “begged him” to intervene.

A recent criminal case filing also said that Trump – when told by an aide that his Vice President Mike Pence’s safety was at risk – replied: “So what?”

Trump has denied any wrongdoing and described January 6 as “a day of love”.

The Democratic candidate is going behind the White House to the Ellipse; that’s where Donald Trump spoke on January 6, 2021 before that crowd stormed the US Capitol and broke into it.

So there will be an implicit link between Harris, as what her campaign wants to present this image of stability, and Trump at that same spot years ago.

She is going to talk about her biography, she’s going to talk about economics and she will make her case for trying to bring down prices because that’s something that Americans are very concerned about, – even though inflation has gone down considerably over the past four years, people still feel a sense that it’s still cumulatively very high

And she is also going to make that point about Donald Trump being at that spot in 2021 rousing that crowd and to make the point that in her view, it is irresponsible to bring him back, that he will be a danger.

Harris will likely remind people the two four-star generals who worked for Trump have called him a “fascist” and it probably doesn’t hurt her that a couple of days ago at a Trump rally there was a comedian who called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage” in the middle of the Atlantic.

She is going to continue making her positive case, balancing that also with attacks on Trump, who has largely gone negative and is trying to bring her numbers down.

We’re down to the last few days and in those seven swing states they are all within the margin of error in polls, so it’s a very close race and they’re both trying to make their case.

The rapper, singer and producer has posted an eight-minute video to his Instagram account captioned: “garbage”.

The caption is an obvious reference to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s widely criticised joke at Sunday’s New York City Trump rally, in which he called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage”.

Prominent Puerto Ricans across the US have spoken out against Hinchcliffe’s comments, which Trump has not apologised for, merely saying instead that he does not know Hinchcliffe.

Though residents of Puerto Rico cannot vote in the US election, groups of Puerto Ricans live in Latino communities across the seven key battleground states, and could influence the vote.

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Barbara Pierce Bush, the daughter and granddaughter of former Republican Presidents George W Bush and George H.W. Bush, has endorsed Kamala Harris, a Democrat.

Bush spent part of her weekend in Pennsylvania campaigning for the vice president, the US magazine People reported. She cited Harris’s support for reproductive rights as a reason to vote for her.

“It was inspiring to join friends and meet voters with the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania this weekend,” the 42-year-old said. “I’m hopeful they’ll move our country forward and protect women’s rights.”

Bush had previously supported Planned Parenthood. Her mother, former First Lady Laura Bush, had also broken with the Republican Party’s stance by saying she supports same-sex marriage and abortion.

Jen O’Malley Dillon has released a video aiming to convince supporters that they “don’t have to feel anxious” but “can feel good” about the elections.

O’Malley Dillon argued Harris has “multiple pathways” to get to the 270 Electoral votes needed to win the presidential race, saying that seven states remain in play: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada.

Harris’s campaign chair said early voting returns in key states suggested the Democratic candidate’s supporters are  turning out in numbers she needs to win. She added many Republican-leaning voters were voting early in strong numbers as well – but those tended to be people who would have otherwise voted on Election Day.

By contrast, she said, the Harris campaign believes low-propensity voters are breaking for the Democrat

O’Malley Dillion said the campaign’s polling shows that late-breaking undecided voters “are more open to supporting” Harris if they find out “more information” about her in the campaign’s closing days.

“It’s OK to be worried,” before Election Day, she said, but added: “We are on track to win a very close election.”