US heads to polls as Trump and Harris in one of closest elections in history: Live

After Trump tried to turn Joe Biden’s “garbage” gaffe into a campaign stunt last week (the president having said it, if he even did say it, in response to a comedian’s offensive joke at Trump’s rally, don’t forget), garbage-gate came full circle last night in Atlanta, Georgia, when Trump’s running mate rounded out their campaign by saying the only real garbage was Kamala Harris.

As we’ve seen from the nominee himself, closing on a provocative note was clearly all part of the plan for the Republican ticket.

Here’s Alex Woodward on Trump appearing to reference his notorious Access Hollywood remarks in Raleigh, North Carolina, which almost derailed his campaign in 2016.

Let’s have another look at Trump’s marathon string of rallies yesterday.

In the Keystone State, where he had events in Reading and Pittsburgh, Trump admitted he hoped Green Party candidate Jill Stein would peel votes from Harris and offered more disturbingly violent rhetoric on migrants.

He did belatedly announce a new policy: placing hefty tariffs on Mexican imports unless the US’s southern neighbor did more to stop illegal immigration.

After that, it was back to dark fantasies about what will happen if Harris wins, a visit from his one-time media enemy Megyn Kelly and then a worrying proclamation that his prospective health and nutrition czar RFK Jr is “so into women’s health”.

Here he is giving a shoutout to his friend Nigel Farage, a “rebel” who he claimed was the “last big winner” of a British election, which, I would have said, was prime minister Sir Keir Starmer.

It’s worth pointing out that, whatever happens this evening, last night’s event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, might have been Donald Trump’s last ever rally appearance after dominating the American political landscape for almost a decade.

Here’s more evidence of him using that moment to deride his enemies, rather than reflect on the wider meaning of it all.

It was not just Joe Rogan leaving it late to come out for a candidate.

Here’s Roisin O’Connor on Perry backing Harris as she performed for her in Pittsburgh yesterday.

Here’s a little democracy in action for you in the Big Apple.

Here’s James Liddell with more on the influential media personality’s address to voters on Harris’s behalf in Philadelphia yesterday.

Here’s Rhian Lubin on the very different messaging Donald Trump and Kamala Harris offered up in their final addresses of what has been a deeply gruelling election season.

Take a bow Larry Krasner, who said this yesterday:

“I want people to be reassured that, when they get up tomorrow to go vote – if they have not voted already – that everybody in this city is working and has been working for months to make sure that there will be nothing tough about that experience and nothing to fear in that experience.

“But I also want to be clear. Anybody who thinks it’s time to play militia: Eff around and find out.

“Anybody who thinks it’s time to insult, to deride, to mistreat, to threaten people: Eff around and find out. We do have the cuffs, we do have the jail cells, we do have the Philly juries and we have the state prisons.”

Roisin O’Connor has an urgent broadcast from Her Majesty.