Election live: Trump fantasizes about Liz Cheney being shot at; Vance tells Joe Rogan GOP has got ‘normal gay guy vote’

The Super PAC run by former GOP operatives that’s been working to convert former Trump voters into supporters of Kamala Harris is making a final push in key swing states with a massive billboard campaign meant to hammer home the message that it’s OK for a Republican to vote for a Democrat this time around.

On Friday, Republican Voters Against Trump rolled out a six-figure campaign to cover the sides of main roads in three key swing states with signs featuring ex-Trump voters who are now voting for Harris.

The billboards will be placed in “swarms” in which multiple signs will greet drivers, back-to-back, as they commute over the next few days. They will run in the Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Detroit media markets on November 1 and November 4.

Andrew Feinberg has more.

The Republican said twice yesterday that the conspiracy-minded vaccine-sceptic will be given responsibility for women’s health in his prospective future administration.

This was Harris’s pithy response to that nightmare scenario.

This meme is also reason enough not to appoint the former independent candidate to anything.

But RFK Jr may not even be the weirdest member of Trump’s hypothetical next Cabinet…

I suppose even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

The Republican presidential nominee said the above during his first engagement on Thursday in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which also contained more not-particularly-subtle projection as he claimed it was Kamala, not he, that is exhausted and, bafflingly, called her “a cracker”.

There was also another musical interlude as a member of the crowd received medical attention.

Before we recap the Republican’s other big event yesterday, here’s a look at his number two’s sitdown with Rogan.

Amusingly, the pair gushed that Trump looks better now than he did in 2016, only for the man himself to repay Vance for the compliment with this crushing remark in Albuquerque.

The Ohio Senator otherwise claimed the Republican ticket could pick up “the normal gay guy vote” and scaremongered about the imposition of Sharia law in Tim Walz’s Minnesota, which is, needless to say, not something that is actually happening.

Here’s Oliver O’Connell’s report.

Before his sit down with Tucker, Trump was in Henderson, Nevada, yesterday afternoon, where his rolling river of bile saw him utter the immortal words of Elon Musk: “In terms of computer, I would say he’s probably about as good as you get.”

He also threatened to shut down both ABC and CBS (imagine the lawsuits), twice declared himself the “father of IVF”, said Democrats are opposed to windows (?!), described all of America’s cities as dirty and smelly and attempted to put aside concerns about his authoritarian instincts by saying: “I am the least threat.”

Over in Nevada, the Democrat was doing some normal campaigning in the course of which she ridiculed Trump’s crowd size mania and called out her opponent’s closing message to the American people of “hate and division”.

She was joined by pop superstar and actress Jennifer Lopez, who delivered an emotional and scathing takedown of Trump campaign’s “floating garbage island” comments about Puerto Rico.

Let’s start with a look back at Donald Trump’s final event of Thursday, a 90-minute sitdown with Tucker Carlson, in which the Republican presidential nominee fantasised about the shooting of former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, a truly shocking moment.

Remember the post-Butler “new tone” we were promised in July?

In truth that was just one of several nasty attacks by Trump on his enemies, with personal insults dished out about Joe Biden, Adam Schiff and Hillary Clinton as Carlson sat there, variously chuckling obsequiously or blankly moon-faced.

We were also treated to warnings about election “cheating”, insane rants about crowd size, “the enemy within” and non-existent forced sex change operations.

Incredibly disturbing that this man, a twice-impeached convicted felon openly indulging violent revenge fantasises rather than offering coherent policy platforms for making people’s lives better, should be this close to the White House but here we are with four days to go.

James Liddell has this report.

The final Marist polls from the Blue Wall states has some good news for Kamala Harris.

The vice president is up 51/48 in Michigan against Donald Trump; 50/48 in Pennsylvania; and 50/48 in Wisconsin.

Marist last polled these states in September. Pennsylvania was tied, and Harris was up 50/49 in Wisconsin and 52/47 in Michigan.

There is also good news for the Democratic candidates in the three Senate races in those states.

John Bowden reports from Odenton, Maryland:

Thursday was the perfect weather to do some last-minute voter canvassing. Larry Hogan said he might just do that.

Maryland’s former two-term governor is in the home stretch of a Senate campaign which began only in February — a run, he says, that was born out of frustration over the inaction just a short drive away in Washington, particularly as the Senate this year failed to reach a compromise (once again) on border security and immigration reform.

He was outside of the Odenton library on Thursday with less than a week to go in the election, revving up a small crowd of volunteers who were greeting early voters. Hogan spoke to a handful of supporters and journalists on scene and projected confidence, remarking that in every race he’d run, “everyone has always counted us out, and we’ve always come out on top”.

A line for early voting stretched out the door and around the corner of the library behind him as he spoke.

Gustaf Kilander looks at the numbers.