Live election updates as Trump, Harris declare final day battleground of 2024 campaign

On the eve of Election Day, more than 78 million votes had been cast early, in person or by mail, according to data from the University of Florida Election Lab.

More people voted in person than by mail, with more than 42.6 million votes submitted at in-person polling places and more than 35.3 million absentee ballots returned. More than 67.4 million mail-in ballots have been requested, according to figures from the University of Florida.

Slightly more registered Democrats — 14.8 million — voted before Election Day, compared to 14.1 million registered Republicans, according to data from just over half of the states reporting party affiliation.

Tim and Gwen Walz are spending the final day of the campaign in the Midwest, the first time they will campaign together after voting together. They crisscrossed the battleground states separately.

They will first participate in a farewell rally in Minneapolis at 11:45 a.m. ET, then head to a get-out-the-vote rally in Detroit.

There will be outages, errors and misinformation this year, but none of that should be confused with voter fraud, CBS News election law contributor David Becker told “60 Minutes.”

Come election day, voters you should not expect to get results quickly in many races.

“Certainly don’t expect to find out who controls the U.S. House of Representatives. There are a lot of very close races, even in places like California, that will take days, if not weeks, to resolve. The Senate , we might know a little bit more sooner, but it’s not clear,” Becker said. “We’ll probably have a pretty good idea of ​​who won the presidency, maybe around Thursday or Friday.”

Read more here on how election officials protect the vote.

After Harris appeared in a skit on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” Republican FCC Commissioner Brandon Carr said in a social media post about and egregious attempt to evade the FCC’s equal time rule.”

In another tweet, Carr, a Trump appointee, noted that NBC had filed a notice with the FCC acknowledging that it had given Harris 1.5 minutes of free airtime.

In the sketch with Maya Rudolph, Harris played herself while Rudolph also played Harris.

“It’s nice to see you Kamala,” Harris told Rudolph. “And I’m just here to remind you that you get it.”

Oprah Winfrey and a group of music stars will join Vice President Kamala Harris as she seeks to energize her supporters and mobilize voters at a rally. concert and gathering in Philadelphia Monday evening.

According to the Harris campaign, the vice president will also be joined by Lady Gaga, DJ Cassidy, Fat Joe, Freeway and Just Blaze, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Ricky Martin, The Roots, Jazmine Sullivan and Adam Blackstone.

The event will take place at the bottom of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The Art Museum will be closed Monday.

The rally and concert mark the latest effort by the Get Out The Vote campaign to get voters to the polls before Election Day on Tuesday.

Read more CBS Philadelphia here.

More than 78 million Americans voted early, according to data compiled by the University of Florida Election Laboratory. This includes more than 42.6 million in-person early votes and more than 35.3 million absentee ballots returned so far.

Former president Donald Trump said at a rally on Sunday that he would not mind if someone tried to shoot through the group of journalists covering the event, as he complained that the bulletproof glass positioned around him was “ridiculous”.

“I have a piece of glass here, and I don’t have a piece of glass there. And I have this piece of glass here, but all we have here is the fake news,” Trump said , designating the glass positioned between it and the front riser where the press was located. “And to get me, someone would have to take on fake news. And that doesn’t bother me that much. It doesn’t bother me.”

He repeatedly mocked journalists throughout the rally, calling them “bloodsuckers.”

Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement that Trump was trying to protect the media.

Read read more about Trump’s comments here.

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At a campaign rally Sunday in East Lansing, Michigan, Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the war in Gaza at the top of her speech.

“We are joined today by leaders of the Arab American community, which has deep and proud roots. here in Michigan. And I want to say that this year has been difficult, given the scale of death and destruction in Gaza and given the civilian casualties and displacement in Lebanon, it is devastating,” Harris said.

“As president, I will do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza, bring the hostages home, end the suffering in Gaza, ensure the security of Israel, and ensure that the Palestinian people can exercise their right to dignity, liberty, security and self-determination,” she added.

Harris said she would also work to find a “diplomatic resolution across the Israel-Lebanon border to protect civilians and ensure lasting stability.”

After her comments on the war, Harris stuck to her usual speech. His remarks on reproductive rights drew the most applause and cheers from a crowd made up of younger voters.