2024 election live updates: Trump trades swing states for Madison Square Garden rally in NYC

JD Vance appeared on CNN State of the Union On Sunday he faced sharp questions from Jake Tapper about Donald Trump's comments about the “enemy within” and his suggestion that he might use the US military to crack down on his opponents.

Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who has supported Kamala Harris, criticized Vance's response, saying: “We've just seen what it looks like when someone has to go through incredible contortions to find a way to defend the person who is JD Vance himself is called “America’s Hitler.”

It's difficult to gauge the crowd size at Madison Square Garden about two hours before the doors open, but a wide line is packed from the Seventh Avenue entrance halfway down the street to 33rd Street, across from the Penn Station entrance.

The street is now fully pedestrian-accessible, with NYPD barricades on both sides and beneath downtown landmarks such as Sbarro and Target.

A sea of ​​red MAGA hats and a few flags fly above the crowd.

We should be inside by lunchtime.

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will crisscross the country in the coming days to visit all seven battleground states, part of a final push before the end of the presidential campaign.

The Democratic presidential candidate will spend Sunday in Philadelphia, attending morning church services and visiting a hair salon. Harris also plans to stop at a Puerto Rican restaurant and a youth basketball facility.

On Monday, Walz, who is governor of Minnesota and Harris' vice president, will campaign in Manitowoc and Waukesha, Wisconsin, before traveling to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a joint rally with Harris. Singer Maggie Rogers is scheduled to perform.

The Independents Ariana Baio and Alex Woodward stand outside Madison Square Garden ahead of Trump's rally later on Sunday.

Vendors outside the arena swapped out their regular merchandise for MAGA products.

Two people were seen impersonating Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – a dictator Trump has often praised.

A Nigel Farage-inspired attempt to persuade Donald Trump to veto Keir Starmer's controversial Chagos Islands deal can be unveiled today.

The Independent has received legal advice on Starmer's controversial deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius to Mr Trump, requested after the chairman of Reform UK raised the issue directly with the former president's team.

The advice was drawn up by legal experts who worked with Mr Farage on the Brexit campaign.

Mr Farage says he was not directly involved in the legal advice, but his ties to Trump are believed to have played a crucial role in the initiative.

The goal of Farage and his allies is to persuade Trump to block the deal if he becomes president.

More Americans say Donald Trump is too old to be president — but not as many as when President Joe Biden faced similar concerns about his age over the summer.

A new poll from YouGov found that 44 percent said Trump, at 78, is too old to lead the executive branch. That number is higher than the 35 percent who said the same in a similar poll in February.

Likewise, the number of people who said he wasn't too old fell from 53 percent in February to 46 percent in October.

These numbers are compared to 81-year-old President Biden, who dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and supported Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. In a similar poll in February, 63 percent of respondents said Biden was too old to be president. That number rose to 70 percent in July.

According to the Harris-Walz campaign, Harris and her candidate will storm through battleground states for a series of rallies aimed at winning votes and “using the energy of these events to mobilize voters to the polls.” .

The Trump campaign has sent out the speaker list for the former president's Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden.

Doors open at 12 p.m. and the former president's speech is scheduled for around 5 p.m. ET.

• Senator JD Vance
• Speaker Mike Johnson
• MP Elise Stefanik
• MP Byron Donalds
• Tulsi Gabbard
• Rudy Giuliani
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• Lara Trump
• Eric Trump
• Donald Trump Jr.
• Elon Musk
• Dan Scavino
• Stephen Miller
• Dana White
• Tucker Carlson
• Brooke Rollins
• Steve Witkoff
• Howard Lutnick
• Grant Cardone
• Sergio Gor
• Michael Harris Jr.
• Tiffany Justice
• Lee Greenwood
• Christopher Macchio
• Mary Millben
• Sid Rosenberg
• Kill Tony
• Scott Lobaido
• David Rem

With just over a week to go until Election Day, a historic gender divide is emerging that could determine whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris wins the White House.

Recent national polls showed that women strongly supported the vice president over her Republican rival, 53 percent to 36 percent.