US election 2024 as it happened: Trump tells New Mexico rally votes are ‘rigged’; Kamala Harris visits Arizona in campaign’s final days

Chansley is not allowed to vote on Tuesday due to his actions on January 6, for which he was sentenced to 41 months in prison for obstruction of an official proceeding.

He wishes the riot hadn’t happened but stops short of regret. “If I could go back in time, if I could change anything, I would try to stop the whole thing from happening to begin with. But that’s not how reality works,” he says.

“I think that living with regret is a terrible way to live. So I don’t live with regret and I try to become better in every way, in every situation in my life – the whole thing about how life is 10 per cent what happens to you, and 90 per cent what you do about it.”

But while Chansley appears to have chilled out since 2020, according to the AFR, there are concerns that many others backing the two rival campaigns may not show restraint next week.

According to a transcript prepared by the official White House stenographers, Biden told a Latino group on a video call: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters – his – his demonisation of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

But the transcript released by the White House press office rendered the quote with an apostrophe – reading “supporter’s” rather than “supporters”. Biden’s aides said it showed the president criticising Hinchcliffe, not the millions of Americans who are supporting Trump for president.

Biden himself took to social media to say he was not calling all Trump supporters garbage and that he was referring specifically to the “hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally”.

The change was made after the press office “conferred with the president”, according to an internal email from the head of the stenographers’ office, which was obtained by the news agency.

But the supervisor, in the email, called the press office’s handling of the matter “a breach of protocol and spoilation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices”.

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This means either Trump or Harris could win next week depending on who can mobilise more people to turn up on election day to vote on issues that resonate.

In a battleground fuelled by tourism, gaming and hospitality, few issues matter more to voters than the economy. Nevada has the highest petrol prices in the country (up to $US5 a gallon – or $1.91 a litre) and the second-highest grocery prices ($US294.76, or $425.44 on average per week).

Harris describes Trump as someone who is “unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and he’s out for unchecked power”. “If elected, Donald Trump on day one would walk into that office with an enemies list,” she says.

“When I am elected, I will walk in with a to-do list, on behalf of you. And at the top of my list is bringing down your cost of living. That will be my focus every single day as president.”

She pitches her cost-of-living policies: a middle-class tax cut, the first federal ban on corporate price gouging on groceries, to make housing more affordable by building more homes and taking on corporate landlords who buy up properties and jack up rents, and to raise the minimum wage and removing taxes on hospitality tips.

Among them are 81 leaders of local Republican organisations; 50 are Republicans running for Congress, and some are vying for state executive offices in the crucial swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico.

But here’s the kicker: according to the group’s study, 102 of those election deniers are currently sitting on state-based election boards that can influence the way the vote is counted and certified.

Hold on to your hats, folks. Next week could be wild.