Kamala Harris will bring out an A-list cast in Atlanta tonight, with Bruce Springsteen, Samuel L Jackson and Tyler Perry all set to feature, before Beyonce joins her at a rally tomorrow. Meanwhile, Donald Trump targets two swing states with rallies in Arizona and Nevada.
Thursday 24 October 2024 23:56, UK
Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player
Bruce Springsteen is taking to the stage at a huge Harris rally in the state of Georgia, which Joe Biden narrowly won in a stunning upset in 2020.
‘The Boss’ has endorsed Democrats at all recent election cycles, having performed at various rallies across the country.
Actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry will then address the crowd, before former president Barack Obama takes to the stage.
After what will no doubt be a rousing speech from the former preisdent, the headline speaker, Vice President Kamala Harris, will address the crowd.
Watch live in the stream above, at the link below – and we’ll bring you all the key updates right here.
In the next few minutes, Bruce Springsteen will take to the stage at a huge Harris rally in the state of Georgia, which Joe Biden narrowly won in a stunning upset in 2020.
‘The Boss’ has endorsed Democrats at all recent election cycles, having performed at various rallies across the country.
Former president Barack Obama will then take to the stage for what will no doubt be a rousing speech, after whom Vice President Kamala Harris will address the crowd.
We’ll have a live stream and updates right here in this live blog, so don’t go anywhere…
Two Democrat lawmakers asked the Justice Department today to designate a special counsel to probe Trump’s son-in-law and former senior adviser, Jared Kushner for potentially violating a federal law that requires “certain agents of foreign principals who are engaged in political activities” to publicly disclose their ties to a foreign principal.
Congressman Jamie Raskin and Senator Ron Wyden wrote in a letter to the Justice Department: “While on the Saudi government’s payroll, Mr Kushner is simultaneously serving as a political consultant to former president Trump and acting as a shadow diplomat and political advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and other foreign principals.”
They went on: “Despite being engaged in plainly political activities, Mr. Kushner has not made [Foreign Agents Registration Act] disclosures to DOJ related to the millions of dollars he receives annually by entities owned and controlled by the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.”
The Senate Finance Committee, which is chaired by Senator Wyden, said it estimated that from the conclusion of the Trump administration through the middle of this year, Kushner’s firm Affinity Partners has received $157.5m in fees from foreign clients, including $87m from Saudi Arabia.
NBC News has reached out to Affinity Partners for comment.
Donald Trump has accused Kamala Harris of having “deliberately dismantled our border”.
Speaking at a rally in Arizona, the former president said his Democratic rival “threw open the gates… to an invasion of criminal migrants from prisons and jails from insane asylums and mental institutions from all over the world”.
He went on to claim that people from 181 different countries are coming to the US illegally, adding: “We’re a dumping ground. We’re like a garbage can for the world.”
Donald Trump has taken to the stage in Tempe, Arizona, to address a crowd of supporters.
The former president is desperate to win back the state after having narrowly lost it at the 2020 election.
If you were watching that election night as closely as we were at Sky News, you’ll recall that conservative TV channel Fox News stunned the world by calling it for Joe Biden quite early in the night – triggering furious demands for a retraction from the Trump team, which were not acceded to.
You can watch the rally in the stream above, at the link below – and we’ll bring you any key lines right here.
Donald Trump has outdone himself.
His rhetoric has long been extreme but, in campaign remarks as it heads towards a close, it’s more so.
Consider the direct quotes from his “enemy within” interview on Fox News on 13 October.
Asked about “bureaucrats undermining you” in a second term, he replied: “We have two enemies: we have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within.
“And the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries.”
Referring to Adam Schiff, a Democratic candidate for the Senate, he says: “Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff, who’s a total sleazebag, is going to become a senator. But I call him the enemy from within.”
Asked whether he expects chaos on election day from outside agitators, he replied: “I think the bigger problem are the people from within.
“We have some very bad people, we have some sick people, radical left lunatics.
“It should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard or, if really necessary, by the military.
Critics have interpreted the remarks as a threat to use the military against political opponents, even though he would need to be president to try.
They accuse Trump of shaping an authoritarian agenda – true, they say, because it’s laid out in his own words.
What does the overall picture look like?
Kamala Harris currently holds a slender lead over Donald Trump, according to the latest numbers…
If you’re wondering whether we can trust the polls, you can read Professor Will Jennings’s analysis here.
The Democrat candidate for vice president has ripped into Elon Musk, the Tesla billionaire who is vocally supporting Donald Trump for president.
Tim Walz criticised Mr Musk for “prancing around on stage offering people a million dollars” to registered voters who sign his America PAC’s petition.
He went on: “That was a Minnesota term when I called him a dipshit, because that’s what it is.”
Mr Walz criticised Mr Musk for “standing up there as the richest man in the world” and giving away $1m a day to sign his petition instead of using it “to help people and end homeless, or end hunger”.
“You’re looking for a damn tax cut for yourself, that’s what you’re looking for,” he added.
Earlier this month, our US correspondents held a live Q&A session. James Matthews, Martha Kelner and Mark Stone gathered in Washington to answer all your questions about the US election.
We’ll be bringing you all their expert opinions and analysis in this blog as we wait to find out who will be the next president of the United States on the 5 November.
One of the first questions they were asked was…
What has Kamala Harris done to help America so far?
Kelner said there wasn’t a “great sense” about the finer detail of what vice presidents do.
But she noted that Ms Harris has been running a reproductive rights tour around the country, and she’ll continue to do that as part of her election campaign.
Ms Harris has also been handed a “poison chalice” in terms of being given some responsibility over the southern border, Kelner added.
Matthews said she was given the “pet project” by Joe Biden but it has been a point of a contention with Republicans labelling her as a border tsar and Democrats denying that was the case.
“In fact, the job was to research the root causes of immigration from Central American countries,” he added.
He also noted that she had supported a movement to defund the police to give more money to communities in the wake of the George Floyd killing in 2020.
“Since she was chosen as a vice presidential candidate by Biden, she supports funding the police and it’s a question of balance, she wants to do both,” he said.
“But, that doesn’t stop the Republicans saying she is soft on crime and they’re using that to try to undermine her framing of the election as the prosecutor against the crook.”
You can catch up on the full Q&A below…
Betting markets, unlike polls, are driven by people willing to back their predictions with real money.
Sky News is tracking the odds of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump winning the 2024 election, and we’ve translated the odds into percentages to reflect the implied probability of each candidate’s victory.
The percentage refers to the candidates’ overall chance of winning, by whatever margin, not an implied vote share or electoral college split.
Be the first to get Breaking News
Install the Sky News app for free
