Live election updates as Trump and Harris take to the battlefield on the final day of the 2024 campaign

As the Americans get closer Election Day 2024 and will choose between the first President Donald Trump And Vice President Kamala Harriseveryone who is registered as a voter does not have to be re-registered every year, unless there is a change in name, address or political belief.

Each state’s voter re-registration or voter registration update deadline can be found on the respective Board of Elections website.

Read is a state-by-state breakdown of the rules.

— Patrick Maguire and Emily Hung

More than 78 million early votes were cast in person or by mail on the eve of Election Day, according to data from the University of Florida Election Lab.

More people voted in person than by mail. More than 42.6 million votes were cast in person at polling places and more than 35.3 million ballots were returned by mail. 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 states reporting party affiliation.

Tim and Gwen Walz spend the final day of the campaign in the Midwest, the first time the pair have campaigned together after voting together. They have crossed the theaters of war separately.

They will first participate in a farewell rally in Minneapolis at 11:45 a.m. ET, then head to a voting rally in Detroit.

There will be some glitches, errors and misinformation this year, but that should not be confused with election fraud, CBS News election law contributor David Becker told “60 Minutes.”

Come Election Day, voters don’t expect results quickly in many breeds.

“Definitely don’t expect to know who controls the United States House of Representatives. There are a lot of very close races, even in places like California, that will take days or maybe even weeks to resolve. We may know the Senate a little bit earlier, but unclearly,” Becker said. “We’ll probably have a pretty good idea who won the presidency by Thursday or Friday.”

Read more here about 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 on X that it was “a clear and blatant attempt to circumvent 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 skit 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 have this.”

Oprah Winfrey and a string of music stars will join Vice President Kamala Harris as she tries to energize supporters and mobilize voters in a concert and rally 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 takes place at the bottom of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The Art Museum is closed on Mondays.

The rally and concert mark the campaign’s latest Get Out The Vote effort to get voters to the polls ahead of Election Day on Tuesday.

Read more from CBS Philadelphia here.

More than 78 million Americans voted early, according to data from the University of Florida Election Lab. That includes more than 42.6 million early in-person votes, and more than 35.3 million mail-in ballots have been returned to date.

Former President Donald Trump said at a meeting on Sunday that he would not mind if someone tried to blast through the group of reporters covering the event, complaining 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 fake news,” Trump said, pointing to the glass between him and the frontal riser where the press was located. “And to get me, someone would have to go through the fake news. And I don’t mind that so much. I don’t mind that.’

During the meeting, he repeatedly mocked news reporters and called the media “leeches.”

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

Read more on Trump’s comments here.

– Jacob Rosen and Olivia Rinaldi

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

“We are joined today by leaders from 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 has been devastating,” Harris said.

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

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

After her comments about the war, Harris stuck to her usual stump speech. Her statements on reproductive rights drew the most applause and cheers from the crowd, which was filled with younger voters.