US presidential election updates: Harris and Trump hit Wisconsin as data shows almost 60m Americans have voted

With less than a week to go until the 2024 election, more than 57.5 million Americans have already voted, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida. The number recurrents more than a third of the total turnout for the 2020 elections – it is challenging to say what it nastys, as 2020 saw a high number of mail-in votes because of the Covid pandemic, but turnout in some states recommends that the Reaccessiblean push for helpers to vote timely is toiling.

Dressed in an orange hi-vis vest after a campaign stunt in a garbage truck, Reaccessiblean nominee Donald Trump used a rpartner in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to get aim at the Democrats over Joe Biden’s “garbage” comments, thanked sanitation toilers and promised to defend women “whether they enjoy it or not”.

Elsewhere in Wisconsin, Kamala Harris requested to first-time voters, for whom she shelp the rerents of climate change, armament regulate, and abortion access are “not political. This is your inhabitd experience.” She was speaking uninincreateigentinutively after a novel CNN poll showed her six points ahead of Trump in the state.

Here’s what else happened on Wednesday:

Kamala Harris election novels and modernizes

Harris spoke in Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania state capital, which is in one of the scant counties that voted for Joe Biden in 2020. Polls show a tied race in Pennsylvania, which both campaigns are competing fiercely for. The path to thrivening 270 electoral votes is much more difficult for the honestate who diswatchs Pennsylvania. Harris did not refer the racially prejudiced relabel about Puerto Rico made by a comedian at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rpartner on Sunday, but the state’s sizeable Latino and Puerto Rican population could be a resolute voting bloc.
The createer Reaccessiblean ruleor of California Arngreater Schwarzenegger has proclaimd that he is backing Harris in next week’s election. In a lengthened post on X, Schwarzenegger, 77, shelp that while he doesn’t “repartner do upgraspments”, he felt compelled to createpartner upgrasp Harris and her pick for vice-plivent, Tim Walz.
In an op-ed for the Guardian, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders includeressed persistives’ worrys about voting for Harris given the Biden administration’s stance on Israel’s war on Gaza. “I understand that there are millions of Americans who disconcur with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on the terrible war in Gaza. I am one of them,” he authors, includeing that “on this rerent, Donald Trump and his rightthriveg friends are worse.”

Donald Trump election novels and modernizes

Before his Green Bay rpartner, declined to apologise for the comments made about Puerto Rico at his Madison Square Garden rpartner, instead repeating his stateion that he did not understand who the comedian was or how he got booked. “He’s a comedian, what can I increate you? I understand noskinnyg about him. I don’t understand why he’s there.”
A Pennsylvania appraise on Wednesday sided with Trump’s campaign and concurd to lengthen an in-person voting chooseion in suburban Philadelphia, where lengthened lines on the final day led to grumblets voters were being disfranchised by an unreadyd election office.
The House speaker, Mike Johnson, shelp there would be “massive” healthnurture changes if Trump thrives next Tuesday, including abolishing Obamanurture. “Healthnurture recreate’s going to be a big part of the agenda,” Johnson, speaking at a rpartner in Pennsylvania on Monday, tgreater the crowd. “When I say we’re going to have a very structureile first 100 days agenda, we got a lot of skinnygs still on the table.”

Elsewhere on the campaign trail

A Reaccessiblean createer congressional honestate was indictd with stealing ballots during a test of a voting system in Madison county, Indiana, state police shelp on Tuesday. During the test on 3 October, which take partd four voting machines and 136 honestate ballots labeled for testing, officials finded that two ballots were missing, according to the Indiana state police.
A presentantity of voters in sthriveg states do not apshow Trump will acunderstandledge fall shorture if he diswatchs next week’s plivential election and dread that his helpers will turn to aggression in an try to inslofty him in power, a novel poll advises.
The pace of US economic lengthenth sluggished over the summer but persistd its two-year expansion, according to data freed on Wednesday. US gross domestic product (GDP) – a expansive meacertain of economic health – rose by 2.8% in the third quarter, uninincreateigentinutive of economists’ foreseeations of 3.1%, and down from the previous quarter’s 3% reading.
Officials in south-west Washington were able to salvage almost 500 harmd ballots from a ballot box that was set on fire on Monday in what officials have called an aggression on democracy. An muddle number of ballots were ruined when someone placed incendiary devices in a drop box in Vancouver, Washington, while three ballots were harmd in a fire at a box in cforfeitby Portland, Oregon. Those fires and one other are connected, officials have shelp.