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Trump and Harris have delivered their closing arguments in Michigan and Pennsylvania respectively, a day before Election Day.

Here’s what you need to know:

• Trump held his rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he also closed his 2016 and 2020 campaigns. He predicted a large victory, following a tirade of false claims about widespread voter fraud.
• The Republican nominee suggested that he survived an assassination attempt earlier this year because God had a plan to make him president again.
• He once again made an effort to win over Muslim and Arab voters in Michigan dissatisfied with Harris’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
• Harris was in Pennsylvania, a swing state crucial to Democrats, to address supporters at the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
• She outlined how she plans to “build an economy where we bring down the cost of living” and promised to make housing and childcare more affordable.
• The Democratic nominee cautioned her supporters not to be complacent. “This could be one of the closest races in history – every single vote matters,” she said.
• The latest opinion polls suggest the two candidates are locked in a tight race. Harris is slightly ahead with 48.1 percent of the vote, according to FiveThirtyEight’s national poll tracker. Trump is not far behind, with 46.8.

Both are swing states expected to play a critical role in this election. Swing states refer to states that are narrowly contested in presidential races.

Each of the 50 states is apportioned a certain number of Electoral College votes, in proportion to their population size. A presidential candidate must secure 270 electors to win.

This year, the states being closely watched are Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada and North Carolina.

Among those, Pennsylvania has the highest 19 Electoral College votes. Trump’s 2016 victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton was the first time a Republican candidate won Pennsylvania since 1988.

Michigan has 15 Electoral College votes, where Trump won over Clinton, marking the first time a Republican candidate won Michigan since 1992.

Trump has been increasingly using the slogan “Too big to rig” in the lead-up to Election Day, and his son Don Jr used the term again in remarks at Trump’s final rally of the campaign tonight.

But what does it mean? Basically, Trump is urging his supporters to vote for him in numbers large enough to “guarantee we win by more than the margin of fraud”.

The Republican continues to falsely say the 2020 election that he lost to Democrat Joe Biden was marred by widespread fraud. In the 2024 campaign also, he has falsely accused Democrats of trying to rig the vote.

Experts say widespread voter fraud in the US is “simply a myth”, and they have warned that Trump appears poised to try to subvert the November results just as he did in 2020.

Once again noting his efforts to win over Muslim and Arab voters in Michigan dissatisfied with Harris’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza, Trump said that supporters from those communities may help play a role in his victory in Michigan.

“Hundreds of thousands of people, that could be very big. Because the Democrats are not happy about this. This was supposed to be their vote, and they’re not at all happy,” he said.

Trump has again linked immigration to a high crime rate, but the data doesn’t back that up.

Research at Stanford University in California last year showed that “immigrants are 30 percent less likely to be incarcerated than are US-born individuals who are white”. They also were 60 percent less likely to be imprisoned than the overall US-born population.

The American Immigration Council also compared crime and demographic data from 1980 to 2022 and found that as the immigrant share of the US population grew, the crime rate dropped.

Despite Republican claims that a “migrant invasion” has been under way at the US-Mexico border under the Biden administration, arrivals have dropped.

In September, the last month for which data is available, US Border Patrol recorded about 53,900 “encounters” between ports of entry at the southwest border. That’s 7 percent fewer than a month earlier and a 75 percent drop from September 2023.

As Trump repeats false claims of elections being rigged against him and questions why election results aren’t available on the night of voting, here is some information about how election results are announced.

The process of “calling” winners and losers in each state is not necessarily based on exact vote tallies, but on projections made by analysts who look at polling and how vote counts are shaping up in key precincts or counties.

If a candidate is expected to win a certain state from the get-go, that can be projected as soon as polls close or shortly after that.

If it is a closely contested state or it is not obvious who the winner is at a state’s poll closing time, then projections of winners will be delayed as analysts watch the vote tallies come in.

If the count is close – or if there are any vote-counting problems – this can slow down the timing of a projection.

Voters in the US hamlet of Dixville Notch launched Election Day with a tied vote, mirroring the incredibly close national polls in the White House race.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump each got three ballots in the tiny community in the northeastern state of New Hampshire which for decades has kicked off Election Day at the stroke of midnight on Monday, hours before the rest of the country’s polling stations open.

Electoral laws in New Hampshire allow municipalities with fewer than 100 residents to open their polling stations at midnight and to close them when all registered voters have fulfilled their civic duty.

Dixville Notch’s residents voted unanimously for then-candidate Joe Biden in 2020, reportedly only the second presidential hopeful to get all the votes since the midnight voting tradition began in 1960.

Trump has suggested that he survived an assassination attempt earlier this year because God had a plan to make him president again.

“Just a few months ago, in a beautiful field in Pennsylvania, an assassin tried to stop our great movement, the greatest movement in history,” he said.

“But that brush with death did not stop us, by any means. It only made us more determined to finish the job that we had only just started. That was not a pleasant day, I will tell you, that was not a pleasant day. But many people say that God saved me in order to save America.”

The US president issued a historic apology for a system that sought to erase Indigenous culture.

Under the federal boarding school policy, Indigenous children were forced into boarding schools where many were physically and sexually abused and nearly 1,000 died.

But will it mobilise Native voters?

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Following a tirade of familiar, false claims about widespread voter fraud and undocumented immigrants voting in elections, Trump has predicted a large victory in tomorrow’s election.

“If we get out our people, it’s over, there’s nothing they can do about it,” he said, adding “to make you feel a little guilty, we would only have you to blame.

“They have to cheat, and they do, and they do it very well actually. And I think we’re in very good shape. You show up, and you’re going to have the biggest victory. You know what this will be? The single greatest victory, politically speaking, in the history of our country,” he said.

After greeting his supporters, Trump starts the rally by recounting his unlikely victory in 2016.

“Doing four of these [rallies] in one day is a little difficult, but not really. Because the love at every one of them has been incredible,” he said as the audience held signs reading “Trump will fix it” and “Dream big, again!” in the background.

“And I want to say a very special hello to Grand Rapids, it’s a special place, remember?” he added. “[In] 2016, we were given a 3 percent chance [of victory].”

Trump has arrived on stage, more than 90 minutes after he was scheduled to begin his remarks, as his familiar favourite “God Bless the USA” plays in the background.

With Trump nearly an hour and a half late to his final rally of the campaign in Michigan, an old clip of Trump appearing on a wrestling show has been played to entertain the crowd.

The clip, from WWE WrestleMania 23 in Michigan, shows Trump shaving the head of disgraced former WWE CEO and longtime associate Vince McMahon, who has faced a federal investigation related to sex trafficking allegations.

While election watchers have been glued to the opinion polls, the financial markets have also been sending signals about the possible outcome.

On Monday, the value of the US dollar dropped to a two-week low – a sign that currency traders sensed the race was moving in Harris’s direction. During October, the dollar had strengthened as the market viewed a Trump victory as increasingly likely.

The election of Trump is associated with a stronger dollar because his proposed tariffs would likely lead to higher inflation, in turn prompting the US Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.

When interest rates rise, global investors typically seek out dollar-denominated investments such as government bonds to capitalise on higher yields. Currencies follow the law of supply and demand just like other goods – the more people buy dollars, the more its value rises.

Much like the polls, however, the market has not been pointing to a clear result. On Monday, shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Trump’s Truth Social platform, soared 12 percent – an apparent sign of investors betting on the Republican returning to the White House.

Harris has outlined how she plans to “build an economy where we bring down the cost of living” in her speech in Philadelphia.

Here’s what she said:

• “We will ban corporate price gouging on groceries.”
• “We will make housing and childcare more affordable.”
• “We will cut taxes for workers, for middle-class families and small businesses.”
• “We will lower healthcare costs, including the cost of home care for seniors, because, on the issue of healthcare, I absolutely believe access to healthcare should be a right, and not just the privilege of those who can afford it.”

As promised by her campaign, Harris has begun her remarks at her final rally on a positive note.

“We are optimistic and we are excited about what we can do together,” Harris said.

The Democratic nominee, however, cautioned her supporters not to be complacent.

“The race ain’t over yet, and we must finish strong. And this could be one of the closest races in history – every single vote matters,” she said.

The Democratic nominee has taken to the stage at her last rally and campaign concert in Pennsylvania’s largest city Philadelphia not long before midnight local time [05:00 GMT].