Election updates and polls: Harris, Trump make final push in Pennsylvania

With Election Day just one day away, about 50% of Florida’s registered voters have already cast their ballots, according to Florida Division of Elections data and registered voters data analyzed by the Miami Herald. The Herald’s calculations include both active and inactive voters who are eligible to vote.

Only seven of Florida’s 67 counties had Democrats leading in voter turnout for early voting and vote by mail. However, those seven counties’ registered voters represent about 26% of all registered voters in the state.

On Sunday, two days before Election Day, Walker appeared alongside Trump at a rally in Macon, Georgia, in a last-ditch attempt to appeal to undecided voters in the battleground state.

In at least two campaign rallies in recent days, crowds have laughed with him as he jokes about a recording that captured him saying “grab ‘em by the p****” — published just weeks before he won the 2016 presidential election.

In North Carolina on Monday, he said mechanical arms that latch to a SpaceX rocket “grab that thing like you grab your beautiful baby.”

It had been seen as a near-inevitability by some for months. With the loss of West Virginia’s seat thanks to the retirement of Joe Manchin, the defeat of Jon Tester — the incumbent senator from Montana, who has been trailing his opponentTim Sheehy through the summer and fall — was set to throw the majority into GOP hands, unless Democrats unseated a Republican incumbent elsewhere.

With just under 24 hours until Election Day, the contrast between the two campaigns — and the mood of their employees — couldn’t be more clear.

Harris, who just a few weeks ago appeared to have run out of the momentum she’d quickly gathered after President Joe Biden ceded the Democratic ticket to her this past July, is surging thanks to a series of late-game missteps by Trump and his allies. Those missteps include the disastrous decision to include a comedian who called Puerto Rico an “island of floating garbage” in the lineup at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally late last month.

Trump called his hundreds of rallies “flawless” apart from sometimes making an “aggressive statement.”

“We’re going to get together again, but it’s going to be different. It’s not going to be a rally. It’s going to be applause for what we’re doing,” the former president said.

“These incredible rallies, and there may have been like 900 of them, a tremendous amount over nine years,” he added. “We celebrated 507 – it was a few years ago … I don’t know whatever it was, but it’s hundreds and hundreds, and they’ve been flawless, right? Every once in a while I make a little aggressive statement that people didn’t like, but don’t forget, I’m rarely on the teleprompter.”