Follow our live updates eight days before polling stations open, with the race as too close to call and both candidates closing in on seven key swing states.
With eight days to go until polling stations open across the US, the race between presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is still tight.
The next week is set to be crucial in determining the election’s outcome, and comes against a global backdrop of uncertainty as Iran weighs up how to respond to unusually public airstrikes against it from Israel on Friday.
Trump has seen his campaign knocked by controversy after a rally in New York was marred by speakers using crude and racist insults.
Nevertheless, the Republican campaign has been bolstered by large amounts of early voters turning out in droves to support it — even breaking records in some key battleground states such as Georgia.
Harris will lean into symbolism as she is set to deliver her campaign’s “closing argument” at the same spot where Trump spoke in 2021 shortly before his supporters attacked the Capitol.
Join us for live updates as the final week before the vote begins.
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