Live updates: Donald Trump, Kamala Harris election

• Three days to go: Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump rallied in Southern battleground states Saturday, with Trump in North Carolina and Harris in Georgia. The vice president later held her own rally in North Carolina, underlining its importance in the sprint to Election Day.

• Tight race: New state polling shows a close race in “blue wall” states, with a slight tilt toward Harris in Michigan and Wisconsin and a tie in Pennsylvania. The candidates remain deadlocked nationwide.

• New poll: Trump is no longer leading in Iowa, according to a new Des Moines Register and Mediacom poll, which suggests there is no clear leader in the state, which Trump carried in 2016 and 2020.

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Vice President Kamala Harris holds 47% to former President Donald Trump’s 44% among likely voters in the final Iowa Poll before Election Day from the Des Moines Register and Mediacom. That margin falls within the poll’s 3.4 point margin of sampling error and suggests no clear leader in the state, which has widely been rated as solidly in the GOP column during this year’s campaign.

The findings suggest a shift toward Harris compared with the previous Iowa Poll, in September, which found a narrow edge for Trump. In that poll, 47% of likely voters backed Trump to 43% for Harris.

There has been little other high-quality polling in Iowa thus far this cycle with which to compare these findings. Iowa has a mixed record in the last four presidential elections, breaking for Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012, while Trump won it in 2016 and again in 2020.

The new poll also finds that women in the state largely favor Harris over Trump and suggests that older voters are firmly in Harris’ camp.

More than 9 in 10 Iowa likely voters said their minds are made up in the new poll.

The Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll was conducted October 28 to 31 by Selzer & Co. among 808 Iowa likely voters. Interviews were conducted by telephone. Results among likely voters have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.4 points.

GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Saturday said Republicans are in a “very, very good spot” and have a “big advantage” in the battleground state of Arizona, but he does not want Trump supporters to “rest on our laurels.”

The Ohio senator slammed Gov. Tim Walz’s comparison of Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally to a 1939 pro-Nazi rally held in the same venue, saying he knew people in the rally who were “actually victims of the Holocaust.”

Vance went on to argue the stakes of the race “could not be higher” and “Arizona knows it better than almost any state in the union,” before railing against illegal immigration.

The senator also asked attendees to help get GOP Senate nominee Kari Lake “over the finish line” against her Democratic opponent Ruben Gallego.

The former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., was at the rally.

Harrison Ford, an actor best known for his iconic roles in the Indiana Jones and Star Wars movies, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the 2024 presidential election in a series of videos posted Saturday.

Ford’s endorsement follows a slew of star-studded endorsements of the Harris-Walz team, ranging from Beyoncé and Taylor Swift to George Clooney and Leonardo DiCaprio. The actor typically does not endorse political candidates but endorsed Joe Biden in 2020.

In one of three videos posted in conjunction with the Harris-Walz campaign, Ford said warnings about the former President offer evidence for keeping Trump from returning to the Oval Office.

There are only three days left until Election Day, and the candidates are making some of their final pitches to voters in Southern battleground states.

Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, and later spoke in Charlotte, North Carolina. Donald Trump started the day in Gastonia, North Carolina, is now speaking in Salem, Virginia, and then will return to North Carolina for a rally in Greensboro.

Here’s what we’ve heard at their respective campaign events so far:

Harris:

The vice president told CNN in an exclusive interview before her Atlanta rally that her campaign is still trying to reach everyone in the electorate. She said she intends “to be a president for all Americans,” which is a message echoed on the campaign signs that her team has been using in the final sprint.
During the campaign event, she contrasted the leadership she seeks to bring to the Oval Office with that of Trump, slamming the former president’s threats against his political rivals and saying those who disagree with her will have a “seat at the table.”
Later, in Charlotte, Harris cast Trump as consumed by revenge, calling him “increasingly unstable,” and reiterated her line that Trump is focused on his “enemies list” while she’s focused on her “to-do list.”
At the North Carolina rally, Harris was interrupted by protesters several times. She used the moments to emphasize her campaign theme of democracy, and said she would work as president to end the war in Gaza and bring hostages home.

Trump:

The former president repeated the baseless claim that undocumented immigrants are taking Black Americans’ jobs during his rally in Gastonia.
Trump also said he was doing “great with men” at his North Carolina rally, but acknowledged the widening gender gap that has caused alarm for some Republicans. He repeated Saturday that, despite criticism stemming from the remark, he will “protect women” if elected.
At his Virginia rally, Trump continued his attacks on Harris’ record, tying her to the Biden administration on immigration and economic issues. GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance echoed those points at a rally in Las Vegas, where he told voters that a vote for Harris was a vote for “more of the same” with regard to inflation and the border.
Calling in to “Fox & Friends Weekend” earlier today, Trump also criticized the idea of women voters not telling their husbands who they vote for, following a prominent pro-Harris ad telling women they can keep their vote to themselves.

Other headlines:

About 71.5 million Americans have voted, according to data from 47 states and the District of Columbia gathered by CNN, Edison Research and Catalist.
Ahead of potential civil unrest due to Tuesday’s presidential election, the National Guard is on standby as a precaution in several states, including Washington, Nevada and Oregon.
The FBI said a video circulating on social media claiming the agency had “apprehended three linked groups committing ballot fraud,” and another one relating to second gentleman Doug Emhoff, are both false.

Former President Donald Trump is now speaking in Salem, Virginia, where he will share his closing message as his third presidential campaign reaches its final days.

The event is part of the campaign’s strategy to target Southern states Saturday. The former president held a rally in North Carolina earlier in the day, and will travel back to the battleground in the evening for another rally in Greensboro.

Vice President Kamala Harris was also in the Tar Heel State Saturday evening, where she held a rally in Charlotte.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Saturday further leaned into former President Donald Trump’s pledge to “protect” women whether they “like it or not,” tying his language to the consequences for women living in states with strict laws governing access to reproductive health care.

At a campaign rally in Flagstaff, Arizona, Walz laid out what he sees as the consequences of Trump’s appointing three Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, while inverting Trump’s phrasing.

Walz then reiterated a line he has used previously in recent days, calling on women voters to rebuke Trump, again borrowing Trump’s phrasing.

Walz’s heightened emphasis on the contrast between his running mate Vice President Kamala Harris’ stance on reproductive health care issues and Trump’s comments about women come as polls continue to show a significant gap between women who support Harris and those who support Trump.

Vice President Kamala Harris cast former President Donald Trump as consumed by revenge, calling him “increasingly unstable,” and stressing the stakes of the election during a stop in battleground North Carolina Saturday.

Harris reiterated her line that Trump is focused on his “enemies list” while she’s focused on her “to do list.”

Harris also talked about lowering costs and reproductive rights, saying: “I’m not looking to score political points; I’m looking to make progress.”

Vice President Kamala Harris, who was interrupted by protesters several times during her Saturday rally in North Carolina, used the interruptions to emphasize her campaign theme of democracy.

As some of the protesters were escorted out, others also began to shout and held up a sign reading, “Free Palestine.” The crowd drowned out the protesters with cheers of, “We’re not going back.”

“It’s alright, y’all,” Harris said. “Democracy can be complicated. This is what democracy looks like.”

“We all want that war in the Middle East to end,” Harris said. “We want the hostages home, and when I am president, I will do everything in my power to make it so.”

Demonstrators protesting the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza have become a mainstay on the campaign trail, often interrupting Harris’ remarks on the stump.

Earlier this week, she evoked a similar message of democracy when faced with at least one protester during a rally in Arizona.

“That’s alright. Democracy can be complicated, but we believe in democracy and the right of everyone to have their voices heard,” Harris said Thursday.

Vice President Kamala Harris is addressing supporters at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The campaign event comes as CNN polls show Harris and former President Donald Trump in a tight race for the key Southern battleground.

North Carolina is among the seven states viewed as likely to determine the presidential election. Both Harris and Trump have campaigned there today, underlining its importance with just three days until the election.

Former President Donald Trump said he was doing “great with men” at his North Carolina rally on Saturday, but acknowledged the widening gender gap that has caused alarm for some Republicans.

“I will protect our women, I’m going to protect our women. I got in to so much trouble, you saw that,” Trump said. At a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, he recounted advice from aides urging him to drop his repeated promise to be women’s “protector” because they saw it as inappropriate.

Trump continued: “What I do is very controversial. I don’t care, I do the right thing. I want to protect women, but I want to protect our men, I want to protect our — I want to protect everybody.”

Ahead of potential civil unrest due to Tuesday’s presidential election, the National Guard is on standby as a precaution in several states, including Washington and Oregon, where hundreds of ballots were damaged or destroyed after at least three ballot drop boxes were recently set on fire, officials say.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee addressed the ballot box fires in a news release Friday announcing the National Guard being placed on standby, saying, “The southwest region of Washington state has already experienced specific instances of election-related unrest.”

Inslee did not disclose how many troops would be activated on Tuesday, but said they will be available to support law enforcement from Monday to Thursday, according to the news release.

In Oregon, Gov. Tina Kotek said in a statement Friday that the National Guard is standing ready as political leaders call for peaceful protests, according to CNN affiliate KTVZ.

While there is “no current information to suggest unrest,” Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said, according to KTVZ, “there is a lot of uncertainty and tension in our community.”

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo this week also announced that 60 National Guard troops are on standby “in preparation for a safe and smooth Election Day.” Lombardo said it mirrors the state’s routine preparation for past elections, and that “it is one of many proactive steps the state is taking.”

Preparations are also underway in Washington, DC, where more than 3,000 police officers will work 12-hour shifts, Police Chief Pamela A. Smith said in a news conference Tuesday.

The issue has become more pressing for law enforcement since the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol that delayed certification of the last presidential election.

CNN’s Chris Boyette, Shimon Prokupecz, and Meridith Edwards contributed to this report.

In the closing stretch of the 2024 race, Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance told voters that former President Donald Trump has demonstrated “courage under fire” and will fix what the Biden-Harris administration “broke,” while Vice President Kamala Harris represents the status quo.

“Kamala Harris is the candidate of more of the same, more broken dreams, more open borders, more Americans who can’t afford the cost of groceries. And I happen to think, my friends, that we’re ready to deliver change to the American people,” Vance said at an event in Las Vegas.

Touting Trump’s record, Vance also accused Harris of spending her campaign “lying” about what Trump has said and done.

“Why isn’t Kamala Harris bragging about what she has done to make your life better? The simple answer is she can’t brag about it because she hasn’t done it,” Vance said.

As he did yesterday in North Carolina, Vance brought Donald Trump Jr. up to speak, who joked about the state of the economy under Democratic leadership.

Las Vegas is in Clark County, which is home to nearly 75% of the state’s population.

The last Republican to win Nevada in a presidential election was George W. Bush in 2004.

At 109 years old, Lessie Benningfield Randle, one of the two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, said she has cast an absentee ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

Benningfield Randle was born in November 1914 and raised in the community of Greenwood, Oklahoma. Greenwood, known as Black Wall Street, was the location of one of the largest moments of racial violence in US history. As many as 300 Black people were killed, and more than 1,000 homes, businesses, schools and churches were destroyed when a White mob looted and burned the district.

“As voters, we must protect our children from politicians who believe that retribution and violence are virtues,” Benningfield Randle said. “Because I have lived through that nightmare. And trust me, we can’t afford to go back.”

Viola Fletcher, who is 110 and the other remaining survivor of the massacre, also plans to cast her ballot for Harris in person on Election Day, according to the news release.

President Joe Biden described former President Donald Trump and his “Republican friends” as “the kind of guys you’d like to smack in the ass” in spirited remarks to union workers in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.

The president was describing what he said were Trump’s plans for a second term, including “another giant tax cut for the wealthy.”

Biden moved from Scranton when he was around 10, and he seemed to be evoking imagery of childhood bullying, as he has before with Trump.

As Biden expounded on his support for organized labor and told a number of recollections about his early life in Scranton, he said he had one final ask for the union groups that had helped start his career and remained a reliable ally through his half-century in public life.

“You know, we’ve asked a lot of each other — you and I, unions and me,” Biden said. “I ask you one more thing: I’m asking your support for Kamala and Tim Walz.”

“I’m not just asking for me, I’m going to be gone,” he added, in a frank acknowledgement his time in office is nearing an end. “I’m asking to do something for yourself and the families, for the people you grew up with, the neighborhoods you come from.”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz went door knocking in Henderson, Nevada, on Saturday, as part of the Democratic vice presidential nominee’s final visit to the battleground state before Tuesday’s election.

Walz stopped at two houses and met with people who had already cast ballots for Vice President Kamala Harris. At his first stop, he spoke with a couple about the importance of preserving benefits and health care for veterans and senior citizens. He also offered his interpretation of the early voting data in Nevada.

At the second stop, Walz visited a house alongside Democratic Rep. Dina Titus of Nevada. They spoke with two people who said they had donated, volunteered and voted for Democrats, including Harris and Walz.

As Walz was leaving the second house, reporters traveling with Walz asked him how he was feeling about the election.

Earlier in the day, Walz rallied supporters and volunteers at a canvass launch event in Las Vegas, Nevada alongside Nevada Rep. Susie Lee and actress Eva Longoria, whom he tipped as a possible future “Gov. Longoria.” Walz urged those gathered at the campaign’s field office to close strongly the final few days of the campaign, noting all of the effort and investment made in the state, including campaign ads placed on the Sphere in Las Vegas.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday contrasted the leadership she seeks to bring to the Oval Office with that of her opponent Donald Trump, slamming the former president’s threats against his political rivals.

“That’s what real leaders do. That’s what strong leaders do,” she added.

Trump has routinely suggested he would weaponize the justice system to go after his political opponents if he returns to the White House. He has also threatened prosecution and “long term prison sentences” for election officials and political operatives, who he suggested could cheat in the 2024 election.

Harris’ vow to give those who disagree with her “a seat at the table” comes as she has said she would name a Republican to her Cabinet.

CNN’s Kate Sullivan and Jack Forrest contributed to this post.

Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN in an exclusive interview Saturday that her campaign is still trying to reach everyone in the electorate with Election Day just three days away.

The Democratic presidential nominee called the election “one of the most, if not the most, consequential elections of our lifetime.”

The vice president also emphasized differences between her campaign and that of Donald Trump’s, saying that as president she would “be working on behalf of the American people,” while Trump would be “all about himself” in the Oval Office.

Harris said she believes voters who cast their ballots for Trump in 2020 are turning to vote for her instead this year because “they’re just exhausted with the approach that’s about trying to have Americans point their fingers at each other.”

She outlined some of her policies on affordable housing as well as growing the economy and noted the importance of Georgia to the election.

“Georgia is incredibly important, which is why I’m here and I keep coming back. The people here have so much at stake, and I am going to earn the votes, which means I’m going to be here on the ground, listening and talking with folks,” Harris said.

New CNN polling conducted by SSRS shows that likely voter