US election 2024 as it happened: Trump campaign in damage control over racist rally jokes, Biden votes ahead of November 5

Conservative commentator Ryan Girdusky has been banned as a panelist for CNN after telling fellow guest Mehdi Hasan that he hopes “your beeper doesn’t go off”.

Hasan, a British-American Muslim progressive broadcaster, was arguing with Girdusky over commentary during Donald Trump’s New York rally on Sunday.

In the middle of the argument, Hasan said he was supporting Palestinians so was used to being called an antisemite.

“I hope your beeper doesn’t go off,” Girdusky replied, in a reference to Hezbollah terrorists being killed in pager attacks.

The archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico has called on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to apologise personally after a comedian’s comments at his rally.

On Sunday, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at Trump’s New York rally called the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico – a US territory – “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean”. He also said Latinos “love making babies … there’s no pulling out, they don’t do that, they come inside – just like they did to our country”.

Trump’s campaign apologised for the remarks but the presidential candidate himself has not.

In an open letter posted to Facebook, archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico said he was “dismayed and appalled” by Hinchcliffe’s comments.

Kamala Harris, speaking in Michigan, has urged people to follow the advice of vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and vote early.

“You can vote early now through Sunday, November 3. And we need you to vote early, Michigan, because we have just eight days to go,” she said. “Eight days left in one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime. And as everybody here knows, this is going to be a tight race until the very end.”

Early voting data shows more Democrats than Republicans are voting in advance.

However, there are more registered Republicans voting early in the battleground states of Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina than there are Democrats.

Rallies across the United States today have become a race for the support of women.

Tim Walz has told the Democrat crowd in Michigan that, as president, Kamala Harris would put Roe v Wade back into law as he warned that the Republicans could also come after people’s access to fertility treatment.

“Let’s be very clear. The most basic freedom, when we talk about freedom, Kamala Harris and I mean the freedom for every woman to make decisions about her body, without government interference,” Walz said a few moments ago.

“I mean fertility treatments, too … If you’ve never gone through the hell of infertility, I guarantee you know somebody who has. It took Gwen and I years to have the daughter that we had... [We were] only able to have that family because we had access to fertility treatments.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz tells a crowd in Michigan that there will be “plenty of time to sleep when you’re dead” as he rallies them to make every phone call and door knock count in a tight race.

“Eight days to go. This election has already started. People are voting across the country,” he said. “We got to admit it, this game is tied ... [But] boy, do we have the right team. So all gas, no breaks for the next eight days. Plenty of time to sleep when you’re dead ... We’re moving this thing over the next eight days, an inch at a time, a yard at a time. One door at a time, one phone call at a time.”

He said pushing for one or two more votes in Michigan could make Harris president, as he spruiked the Democrats’ promises on freedom, gun ownership and women’s rights.

“We got a pretty young crowd, and that’s a good thing, but there’s some grey hairs in here. You can remember when the Republican Party actually used to talk about freedom and meaning. Turns out that this group means that the government is free to invade your office, your library, your bedroom,” he said.