US Election 2024 LIVE Updates: Harris and Trump will both make furious push on final day before Election Day

A presidential campaign that has unfolded through a felony trial, an outcast president and multiple assassination attempts is boiling down to a final push in a handful of states on the eve of Election Day.

Kamala Harris will spend all day Monday in Pennsylvania, whose 19 electoral votes offer the biggest prize among the states expected to determine the Electoral College outcome. The vice president and Democratic candidate will tour working-class neighborhoods, including Allentown, and end with a nighttime rally in Philadelphia featuring Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey.

Donald Trump is planning four rallies in three states, starting in Raleigh, North Carolina, and stopping twice in Pennsylvania, with events in Reading and Pittsburgh. The Republican candidate and former president is ending his campaign the same way he ended the first two, with an event Monday evening in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (PA)

LIVE US Election 2024 Updates: Latest US Campaign Blitz for Harris and Trump

Bitter rivals Kamala Harris and Donald Trump embark on a final frenzied campaign blitz on Monday, both hitting must-win Pennsylvania on the final day of the tightest and most volatile U.S. presidential election in memory.

Republican Trump promised a “landslide” as he seeks a sensational return to the White House, while Democrat Harris said “momentum” was on her bid to become the first female president of the UNITED STATES.

But polls suggest a different story on the eve of Election Day: complete gridlock in surveys nationwide and in the seven swing states where the outcome is expected to be decided. (AFP)

US Election 2024 LIVE Updates: Here’s what to watch as Election Day approaches in the US

In the United States, Election Day is now often considered election week, as each state follows its own rules and practices for counting ballots – not to mention legal challenges – that can delay results. But the truth is that no one knows how long it will take this time for the winner to be announced.

In 2020, the Associated Press declared President Joe Biden the winner on Saturday afternoon – four days after polls closed. But even then, the AP called North Carolina for Trump 10 days after Election Day and Georgia for Biden 16 days later after a hand recount.

On the eve of Election Day, it’s unclear which voters will show up to vote on Tuesday.

More than 77 million people participated in early voting, either in person or by mail. So many people have already voted that some officials say polls in states like Georgia could be a “ghost town” on Election Day.

A key reason for the uptick is that Trump has generally encouraged his supporters to vote early this time around, a reversal from 2020, when he called on Republicans to vote only in person on Election Day. Early voting numbers confirm that millions of Republicans have responded to Trump’s call in recent weeks. (PA)

US Elections 2024 LIVE: Harris promises peace in Gaza, Trump’s tone darkens in final hours

Kamala Harris courted voters angered by the war in Gaza while Donald Trump doubled down on his violent rhetoric by commenting on journalists being shot as the tense US election campaign entered its final hours.

The Democratic vice president and former Republican president frantically attacked several swing states as they tried to defeat the last holdouts less than 36 hours before polls opened on Tuesday, Election Day. (AFP)