Kamala Harris concludes her campaign with a rally and concert in Philly; Donald Trump makes two last stops in Pa.

At the end of a presidential campaign in which Pennsylvania was transformed into a 45,000-square-mile political arena, Vice President Kamala Harris made a final appeal Monday at the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the state’s coveted 19 electoral votes.

“We need everyone to vote in Pennsylvania and you will decide the outcome of this election, Pennsylvania,” said Harris, who addressed a late-night crowd that had waited in a decided November chill at a raucous, hours-long Parkway rally.

Invoking Rocky (naturally), she said, “It’s good to be back in the City of Brotherly Love where the foundation of our democracy was forged, and here at these famous steps, a tribute to those who start as the underdog and climb to victory.”

Annette Grimaldi, 66, of Sewickley Hills in Allegheny County, sported a “Polish Americans for Trump” shirt at former President Donald Trump's final rally of his campaign in Pennsylvania Monday night in Pittsburgh.

Grimaldi, who said her grandparents emigrated from Poland, said she loved that Trump’s administration has embraced Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A retired dietician, Grimaldi praised Kennedy’s views on health and said he has a “common sense approach to vaccines.”

Harris made her exit to Beyoncé’s “Freedom” and it seemed like the long evening — “the biggest get out the vote rally of all time!” according to DJ Cassidy — was over.

But not just yet, it turned out. Lady Gaga came back for one more song. She was back at the piano with a power ballad time, “The Edge of Glory,” from her 2011 album Born This Way.

“Where my girls at?” she asked, as she started out quiet and built to the song's over the top climax, as the crowd shuffled off the Parkway and presumably and eventually on their way to their polling places on Tuesday. 

And with that, Vice President Kamala Harris has left the stage at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, marking her final campaign rally before Election Day.

“So America, we started this campaign 107 days ago, and from the beginning, ours has not been a fight against something,” Harris said.

“Generations of Americans before us led the fight for freedom, and now the baton is in our hands,” she added.

Vice President Kamala Harris might still have the word “vice” before “president,” but the Parkway danced to a Mexican Banda song that already calls her Madam President.

Written by Mexican group La Original Banda El Limón, the song “Señora Presidenta” highlights Harris’ modest background and her story as the daughter of immigrants.

“She grew up watching the people struggle for a better future. She is also of the people and has a lot of love for her people,” the lyrics go. “Let one voice be heard loud and clear, together we will move forward.”

As Harris frequently does in her campaign speeches, she framed her campaign as a “fight for the future” and a “fight for freedom” and poised herself to be a president that would put country over allegiance to a political party.

She recalled her growing up as a child of the Civil Rights movement and seeing people of all backgrounds working together for freedom.

“My parents would take me to the marches when I was in a stroller ... At those marches, there were people from every walk of life who came together to fight for freedom and for opportunity,” Harris said.

Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted the crucial role Pennsylvania will play in determining who wins the presidency, exemplified by both the extensive visits to the commonwealth by the campaigns of both Harris and former President Donald Trump.

“We need everyone to vote in Pennsylvania and you will decide the outcome of this election, Pennsylvania,” Harris said.

“So with only a few hours left, we still have work to do. And as you’ve heard me say before, we like hard work. Hard work is good work. Hard work is joyful work. And make no mistake. We will win,” she said.

After performing an acoustic rendition of “God Bless America,” Lady Gaga introduced second gentleman Doug Emhoff to the Philadelphia crowd.

Emhoff could potentially become the first first gentleman of the United States should Vice President Kamala Harris be elected.

“She brings joy and toughness to every task with that laugh and that look, she brings her deep experience to every decision, always disciplined, always focused,” Emhoff said. “And Kamala also brings empathy to every challenge, and as president, she’s never going to stop thinking about you and your family.”

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R, Ohio) made the Trump campaign's closing pitch in Bucks County Monday night at the Newtown Sports & Event Center.

He criticized Vice President Harris' policies on immigration, the economy, and jobs, and highlighted the important role that Pennsylvania, a key battleground state, could play on Tuesday.

Bucks County is a purple county in the Philadelphia suburbs and both campaigns have been spending time in the area, known to split their tickets on Election Day. President Joe Biden's successful performance in the Philadelphia suburbs helped contribute to his victory in the commonwealth four years ago.

Former President Donald Trump concluded his about 1-hour and 40-minute remarks at his Pittsburgh rally by suggesting there will be “a landslide that is too big to rig,” in the election, defeating Vice President President Kamala Harris.

The rally was his second to last of his campaign, and last overall in Pennsylvania before Election Day.

“We’re going to have too big to rig,” he added.

For Sara Grimaldi, Vice President Kamala Harris’ rally is her Eras tour.

As she sings along to "Cruel Summer" by Taylor Swift with the crowd beside her, the 22-year-old finds the wait for Harris “cathartic,” amid the frigid temperature.

“I feel like we all need to scream a little bit about this election and this is a really good time to scream,” Grimaldi said.

Valerie Frank, a Democrat from Downingtown, brought her 6-year-old daughter Addison to Vice President Kamala Harris' rally in front of the Art Museum. Frank said she wanted her first grader to witness history as the little girl, wearing a purple tutu dress, twirled beside her.

“It's a big moment. I mean, you know, I thought this in 2016 but I'm really hoping I'm not gonna be disappointed again,” Frank said. “We’re really hoping we're here to be in the same airspace as the first woman president. I can't imagine her life going by without a woman in the White House. So I'm really hoping that happens tomorrow.”

With blankets and Kamala T's, Harris supporters huddled in front of a screen flashing “Fly Harris Fly” as the hours ticked on and the temperature dropped.

After brief remarks, Harris has exited the stage at her Pittsburgh rally. She ended her remarks by imploring the Pennsylvania crowd to cast their votes on Tuesday.

"Are you ready to make your voice heard? Do we believe in freedom? Do we believe in opportunity? Do we believe in the promise of America, and are we ready to fight for it?" she said.

"And when we fight," Harris said. "We win," the crowd chimed in.

The performances were brief on Monday night, seemingly designed to fit into a live stream event that stitched together entertainment from several rallies around the country, with the likes of Katy Perry singing in Pittsburgh and James Taylor playing in Raleigh, N.C. (playing “Carolina On My Mind,” no doubt).

On the ground on the Parkway, that meant long breaks between acts, with the crowd passing the time swaying along to Stevie Wonder and Stevie Winwood songs or entertaining itself with “E-A-G-L-E-S … Eagles!” chants.

Thankfully though, the Roots set quickly followed their predecessor Freeway on stage. The Philly hip-hop collective and Tonight Show house band started off by going deep with “Dear God,” their moody, philosophical folk-rap collaboration with Jim James of My Morning Jacket and Monsters of Folk from 2010.

Megyn Kelly took the stage in Pittsburgh around 8:50 p.m., after the crowd had become visibly smaller, though many remained.

She denounced Mark Cuban, Oprah, and Beyoncé, all validated by the crowd.

She also brought up the same attacks on transgender athletes that former President Donald Trump and other speakers already brought up before he blamed the media for the subject coming up frequently, which he features in campaign ads.

A live feed of Gov. Tim Walz speaking in Milwaukee played on the Parkway for a crowd of bundled-up attendees.

When his voice first came over the speakers, some started running toward the stage, thinking he was here in person.

“We're all in this together, working towards the common good,” Walz said from a screen to the cheers of the Philly crowd. “It does not matter if you're from a red state or a blue state, a big city or a small town, everyone gets a shot to succeed in this country. That's the fight I'm proud to be part of.”

Candis Henderson-Dunlap is raising four daughters in a post Roe v. Wade America.

That reality led the 36-year-old to attend her first rally since the Obama administration.

“I can’t get behind wanting to [dissolve] the department of education and women not having their rights when I am raining young girls,” Henderson-Dunlap said.

Trump repeated Elon Musk’s recent suggestion that people should only vote via paper ballots and that voters should only be allowed to cast their ballots on one day.

The former president also sowed skepticism in election processes in the coming days.

“Elon said that there is no computer in the world that can’t be broken into very easily by somebody that’s computer smart,” Trump said, adding to the doubt he created a few moments earlier when the former president said that "they may take 12 days extra to count the ballots."

Former President Donald Trump brought up four of his children on stage — all but Ivanka and Barron, who he noted is still young — to the crowd’s excitement.

Trump noted that this is his last campaign rally and said he has one more — the Pittsburgh event is his last in Pennsylvania, before he ends the day with a rally in Michigan later Monday.

He got nostalgic about the raucous, often off-scripted events that have been a hallmark of his political identity.

Cheers echoed through the parkway as Mayor Cherelle L. Parker welcomed the crowd to Philadelphia with a roll call of counties.

Wearing a red suit, Parker took the stage reminding attendees of the importance of Pennsylvania in the looming election.

“The path to the White House is paved through Pennsylvania, the Keystone State,” she told the cheering crowd inviting them to think about how they felt the morning after the 2016 election.

After falsely claiming that the Green Party has performed better among Hispanic voters in recent polling than Harris, Trump said: “I love the Green Party.”

“Jill Stein…I’ve never met her, but she may be one of my favorite politicians,” he said.

2024 marks Stein’s third presidential run and has based her campaign on peace and the environment, pledging to end fracking and positioning herself as an alternative candidate to Harris and Trump.

Former President Donald Trump denied that the race is tight despite the “fake news” saying so.

Poll after poll has shown an extremely tight race. The national polling average, as of Monday, shows Vice President Kamala Harris leading Trump by one percentage point, according to the New York Times.

Both nationally and across key battleground states together, neither Harris nor Trump is leading by more than just one percentage point, according to Nate Cohn, chief political analyst at the New York Times. No race in modern polling history has been closer, according to Cohn.

Sen. Bob Casey, facing a neck-and-neck race of his own, told rally goers that electing Democrats is their best hope of defending women’s rights, workers rights and an increasingly common theme Monday — voting rights.

The focus on voting and safe elections has run through some of the early speeches tonight as former President Donald Trump has ramped up false claims of election fraud in Pennsylvania. “We cannot fail in this election,” Casey said, speaking without a jacket on the cool November evening. “In the end this will be the most consequential election in our lifetime. We’re gonna work up until 24 hours and a couple minutes,” he added, checking the time on his phone.

Earlier Mayor Cherelle Parker defended Philadelphia’s voting system.

Former President Donald Trump recognized the importance of Pennsylvania while nodding to his frequent false election claims.

"If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole thing," Trump said.

He then went on to say that he did great in 2016 in the state, but did even better in 2020. Some attendees jeered out remarks, like “cheaters!”

Former President Donald Trump casually repeated many of his signature lines in attacking Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden, with each attack met with a roaring “boo!” from the audience.

Among the attacks, were saying undocumented immigrants “can have transgender operations,” and that men can play women's sports.

Trump and his allies have frequently attacked transgender people who play women sports and have paired attacks on gender-affirming care with attacks on undocumented immigrants.

Trump has taken the stage at his rally in Pittsburgh Monday evening at PPG Paints Arena, almost two hours after he was scheduled to start speaking.

He spent some of his first moments on stage, catering to the Pennsylvania audience as he did during his rally in Reading this afternoon.

“I went to school in Pennsylvania. I know everything about Pennsylvania,” Trump said in Pittsburgh.

Former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who previously ran for president as a Democrat and now has a prominent role for former President Donald Trump’s campaign on his transition team, said at the Pittsburgh Trump rally that Trump “is committed to ending wars, not starting them.”

“He is committed to truly bringing about peace and having the courage and the strength to stand up against the war mongers in Washington,” she added.

She said electing Vice President Kamala Harris would be “four more years of tyranny, poverty, and war, war, and more war.”

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Austin Davis emphasized wanting his daughter to grow up in a world with greater reproductive rights and fewer school shootings during his remarks at Vice President Kamala Harris’ rally in Pittsburgh Monday evening.

“I refuse to allow my daughter to grow up in a country where she has fewer rights and freedoms than her mother and her grandmothers,” Davis said. “I refuse to allow my daughter to grow up in a country where she has to live in constant fear of school shootings. I refuse to allow my daughter to grow up in a country where she doesn’t have the freedom to be herself, to pursue her dreams, no matter what they may be.”

He said that Trump was out of touch with the working class, referencing Trump’s shift at a McDonald’s in Feasterville on Oct. 20.

Dave McCormick repeated his frequent claim that Vice President Kamala Harris wants to ban fracking at a Pittsburgh rally for former President Donald Trump.

Harris said in 2019 that she would ban fracking but she has since changed her stance and has repeatedly said that she now opposes a ban, and also supports clean energy.

Fracking is a drilling method used to extract fossil fuels, and the method helped the United States become the world’s top oil producer. Environmentalists warn that fracking can worsen the impacts of climate change and contaminate water supplies, but supporters of the practice say it creates jobs and lessens dependence on other countries for oil.

Several attendees at the Pittsburgh rally for former President Donald Trump said they do not believe he lost the 2020 election. They also expressed that they believe God is watching out for Trump.

Trump has relentlessly repeated the false claim that he actually won the 2020 election since he lost to President Joe Biden. He said at a rally in Lancaster County on Sunday that he “shouldn’t have left” the White House.

There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election and Trump’s claims were repeatedly debunked and shot down in court. But his repeated attempts to instill skepticism in the election process has resonated with supporters.

Lynn Norsha, a Harris volunteer in Pennsylvania wound her way through the crowd in a red cloak and white bonnet, dressed like a handmaid from the dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

“Between the taking away of a woman’s right to control their own body, or talking about, you know, that childless women are of no value, I really don't know what I'll do if Trump wins,” Norsha, who lives in Sterling NJ and volunteers for the Harris campaign said. “I just can't even imagine what our country would be like.”

Right on cue — and topic — Jazmine Sullivan played the first songs of the night for the crowd, introducing Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” by saying “Because they’re trying to take our reproductive rights, so what’s going on?”

Philly-born R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan took the stage on the bottom of the Philadelphia Art Museum’s steps just before 7 p.m., walking out to cheers as Jennifer Lopez’s cover of “Let’s Get Loud” faded into the background.

Sullivan, who grew up in Strawberry Mansion, is a two-time Grammy winner and former Time Magazine 100 honoree.

“I don’t know about you, but I feel safer when there’s a woman in power,” Sullivan told the crowd.

Kimberly Brown, daughter of the late NFL Hall of Fame player Jim Brown, said that she and her husband support Trump because he’s going “to keep men out of women’s sports” which was met with roaring applause. Trump and other GOP candidates have fixated on transgender people in women’s sports throughout the campaign cycle.

Brown called out directly to appeal Black voters with various points, including saying Trump gave record investment into Historically Black Colleges and Universities. President Joe Biden has also touted helping HBCUs, and spoke at the HBCU conference in Philadelphia this year.

Trump had a relationship with HBCUs that was frayed at times and his views of funding the institutions have not been consistent, CNN reported.

Sporting an orange tan and white circles around his eyes, a man in a blue suit and a red hat briefly tricked Vice President Kamala Harris’ Philadelphia crowd into thinking former President Donald Trump had arrived.

“Do you like the rally, she does the best rallies,” John Walsh said with Trump’s voice and hand gestures, making the crowd chant the vice president’s name.

Walsh has been impersonating Trump on TikTok since 2020, but his political stance lines up with the Democratic ticket enough to make him drive 90 minutes from New Jersey to support Harris’ campaign.

Stacy Satchell, 53, of Southwest Philly, was pressed up against a barricade blocking off the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art alongside her best friend Dionne Johnson. They were among the first let into Vice President Kamala Harris’ rally in Philly when gates opened at 5 p.m. To set the mood, a DJ played “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge.

“It’s my first rally, but just know I’ll be attending presidential rallies from now on if she wins,” Satchell said. Satchell has been a staunch Harris supporter since 2020, saying  that President Biden picking Harris as vice presidential nominee made her want to vote for him in the last general election.

Next to her was Stephen Pierce from Havertown, who dressed up as a Continental Army solider, a reference to the group that fought for American independence from the British in 1776.

Signs of the Pittsburgh Trump rally appeared hours away from the city, with “Magabuses” in tow on the turnpike. In Pittsburgh, a truck with a big Trump flag drove around near the PPG Paint Stadium, where Trump supporters stood in a line wrapping around the block to see the Republican presidential nominee.

A vendor with Trump merch posted next to the line outside threw free buttons to attendees on the sidewalk.

Someone drove by with a Harris-Walz flag hanging from his car, and shouted out the window “your crowd size is too small!” making fun of Trump’s habit to exaggerate his crowd size.

Former President Donald Trump took a pause during his usual diatribes about the dangers of immigration to bring members of his family on stage, striking a reflective tone the day before what will presumably be his last election as a candidate.

“I want to thank you very specially,” Trump said in a rally at Reading's Santander Arena. “You know, these [rallies today] are our last time now, for forever. We started it really as a family unit nine years ago. We had the biggest rallies, the most spectacular rallies in the history of politics.”

At the crowd’s urging, Trump was then joined on stage by Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Laura Trump, Tiffany Trump, and her husband, Michael Boulos.

Former President Donald Trump once again catered to the Pennsylvania crowd in the Santander Arena Monday, marveling over the commonwealth’s “political history.”

"Think of the history you have here. Think of the history. You have the political history. Is there any place like it?” Trump said.

“As I said, we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole bag of wax… this will be one of the truly big events in the history of our country, so why don’t we have Pennsylvania be there for that?” he added.

James Garnett, 51, said he had passed out upwards of “30 or so” gin and tonics to those waiting in line by the time gates opened at 4 p.m. for Vice President Kamala Harris’ rally on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Garnett showed up at noon with several handles of gin, pretzels, a quart of Wawa lemonade, and bourbon to sip straight from the bottle.

“It’s a rally,” Garnett, 51, said. “It should feel like a party.”

Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage at Muhlenberg College’s gymnasium in Allentown at around 4:15 p.m. to a standing ovation.

She took a confident stance, asking the crowd if they were ready to win, drowned out by the cheers.

“Make no mistake, we will win,” she said.

Asher Matthews, 15, of Media, isn’t old enough to vote yet. That didn’t stop him from convincing his mother Robin to pull him out of school early to attend Vice President Kamala Harris’ final rally of the campaign trail.

He’s been donating money from his allowance to the campaign, his mother said, and religiously following the polls.

“It’s a historic event,” Asher Robins said, but also something their grandmother — a lifelong Democratic voter from Massachusetts — would’ve wanted. She died three weeks ago, a day after her absentee ballot was delivered, Robin said.

Rapper of Puerto Rican descent Fat Joe opened his brief remarks at Muhlenberg College ahead of an appearance by Vice President Kamala Harris chanting “yo soy Boricua pa' que tu lo sepa,” which translates to “I’m Boricua, just so you know.”

He asked Latino voters casting their ballots for former President Donald Trump where their pride is. He called Harris a great leader and reminded the crowd of Trump’s response during Hurricane Maria.

“The man went over there and threw tissue at the people of Puerto Rico,” said the rapper, whose real name is Joseph Antonio Cartagena.

Trump praised billionaire Elon Musk for “what he's done,” referring to the X owner’s pro-Trump efforts on the 2024 campaign trail.

“You know where he is right now? He's in Pennsylvania, fighting for the election,” Trump said.

Musk, the richest man in the world, has put extensive time and financial capital into his hopes to deliver crucial Pennsylvania for Trump on Election Day, much of which is sponsored by his America PAC. He’s established a “war room” in Pittsburgh, held a series of town halls across the commonwealth to mobilize Trump’s base, and created a petition that has given way to Musk’s legally questionable $1 million daily prizes to swing state voters.

Donald Trump began his political career in 2015 by calling immigrants rapists and murderers.

Nine years later, on the day before what is presumed to be the last election with his name on the ballot, he’s closing with the same message.

“The United States is now an occupied country,” Trump said at a rally in Reading on Monday in which he repeated a series of now-familiar lies about migrants in Aurora, Colo., and elsewhere. “Nov. 5, 2024, will be liberation day in America.”

In a more aggressive turn to his Reading rally, former President Donald Trump suggested that the Penn State wrestling team, whom the former president brought on stage at his rally in State College on Oct. 26, could fight migrants coming into the United States.

“They had more muscle than I ever saw in a human being. And I look at them, I said, you know, fellas you may be the only ones in this room, in this country, that could take the migrants in a fight,” Trump said, before suggesting that migrants “fight dirty.”

Trump’s rhetoric Monday is part of an ongoing pattern in his campaign that features disparaging and violent comments about immigrant communities in the United States.

Addressing the hundreds waiting for Vice President Kamala Harris at Muhlenberg College, Gov. Josh Shapiro focused on reproductive rights as he began his closing message to the crowd.

“Kamala Harris is going to protect our freedoms, starting by restoring Roe in this country,” he said. “He took away Roe, you remember that?”

Shapiro also referenced the controversial rally for former President Donald at Madison Square Garden where comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean,” an incident brought up by almost every speaker as Harris spends the day courting that demographic in Allentown and Reading.

Hundreds had already lined up along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway by 3 p.m. to hear Vice President Kamala Harris speak on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art later Monday. To keep the growing crown entertained, Philly Elmo and his drumline were working the crowd across from the Rodin Museum. Further back, campaign volunteers were leading the crowd in a singalong to “Born This Way” by Lady Gaga, who is also slated to perform.

Nathaniel Bowman — a 22-year-old political science student at the University of the District of Columbia — was first in line after arriving at 12:15 a.m. To pass the time, Bowman said he slept on a park bench, took long walks to stave off the cold, and ordered several coffees via Uber Eats.

Bowman took the trip from the Capitol after hearing Harris speak at the Ellipse last week. He’d been “nervous for the past days, weeks, months really” but has been feeling more hopefully after recent polls have shown Harris pulling unexpectedly ahead in places like Iowa.

Former President Donald Trump took the stage at Reading's Santander Arena at about 3:20 p.m. Monday.

The 8,800-seat arena was just under half-full. Trump was scheduled to speak at 2 p.m.

He was introduced by his son Eric Trump, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio.

Vice President Kamala Harris is set to take the stage at Muhlenberg College’s gymnasium in Allentown around 4 p.m.

Hundreds spent the morning waiting to get into the rally, passing time by singing and breaking out into chants of, “When we fight, we win.”

Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk, the city’s first Latino mayor, was one of the first speakers and was welcomed with roaring applause.

RNC co-chair and Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump baselessly implied that there was cheating in the 2020 election and falsely claimed that Bucks County “tried to shut down early voting” during her remarks at the GOP presidential nominee’s rally in Reading Monday,

“We’re not going to have any cheating in this election this time around,” Trump said.

On Wednesday, a judge mandated Bucks County extend on-demand mail voting until Friday at 5 p.m. after Trump’s campaign sued because the county stopped offering on-demand ballots before the deadline to request mail ballots on Tuesday, instead offering voters mail ballot application forms and allowing voters to either pick up their ballot the next day or have it mailed. Voters have until 8 p.m. on Election Day to return their mail ballot.

At 2 p.m. Monday, when former President Donald Trump was set to take the stage for a rally on the eve of the election, Reading’s 8,800-seat Santander Arena was less than half-full.

Trump, who is often an hour or more late to his own rallies, had not yet taken the stage, but the program of Republican officials and candidates scheduled to speak before him had begun as scheduled around noon.

It’s unclear what to make of the sparse showing. Despite Trump’s obsession with crowd sizes, there is little evidence that they provide a useful indication of electoral performance.

A majority of voter registration applications being reviewed in Lancaster County have been verified as legitimate.

Only 17% of about 2,500 voter registration applications the Lancaster District Attorney was reviewing have been found to be fraudulent so far, county officials said Monday. Another 26% were still being reviewed and 57% were verified as legitimate applications.

Lancaster County announced last month that they were reviewing two batches of voter registration applications that were turned in close to the state’s voter registration deadline which had signs of fraud.

Activists have filed more than 4,000 challenges mail ballot applications across Pennsylvania, with several focused on invalidating ballots from Pennsylvanians living overseas, including those in the military.

By Friday’s deadline to challenge mail ballot applications activists had challenged more than 4,000 applications across 14 counties. That includes challenges in Philly’s collar counties that used error-prone U.S. Postal Service data to claim registered voters in the area had moved and were therefore ineligible to vote.

But the vast majority of challenges — including 1,110 challenged ballots in Bucks County — appeared to be mass challenges to the eligibility of voters residing overseas to cast a ballot, according to data from the Pennsylvania Department of State.

Stumping for Vice President Kamala Harris in the final hours of the campaign, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker delivered a rousing cry for Philadelphians to vote for the Democratic candidate at the Constitution Center this morning.

And Parker was flanked by a special celebrity guest - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, of "Seinfeld" and "Veep" fame.

"In just a few hours, two incredible things are going to happen," Louis-Dreyfus said, standing before a Harris-Walz campaign sign. "First, thanks to Pennsylvania, Kamala Harris will become the next president of the United States. And second, Donald Trump will accuse Pennsylvania of cheating. Maybe he will even tweet, 'I hate PA' in all caps, or 'Ben Franklin is overrated, I invented electricity.' "

An additional 150,000 voters in Pennsylvania have cast ballots since Thursday, bringing the total of early voters over 1.7 million statewide as of Monday, according to latest voting data obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State.

Early ballot returns have already drawn optimism among Democrats, who view their edge among women, seniors, and young voters as a boon for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Here’s how those demographics broke down after the final weekend surge:

Elon Musk’s daily $1 million giveaway to voters in battleground states is not a lottery and its winners were not randomly chosen, his lawyers said in court Monday as they sought to defend the tech billionaire’s sweepstakes against a lawsuit by Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner.

Musk’s attorneys maintained the 16 winners so far were not chosen randomly from the pool of registered voters who signed a petition launched by his America PAC. Instead, they said, each was selected for specific characteristics including their backgrounds, personal stories, and “suitability” for serving as a “spokesperson” for Musk’s political organization.

“You will hear evidence,” Musk attorney Chris Gober said at the start of a hearing before Common Pleas Court Judge Angelo Foglietta, “that there is no ‘prize’ to be won. Instead recipients must fulfill contractual obligations to serve as spokesperson for the PAC.”

Donald Trump seemed to reference the video that nearly sank his 2016 campaign as he expressed amazement at how two giant mechanical arms caught Elon Musk’s reusable rocket — “like you grab your beautiful baby.”

“See, I’ve gotten much better. Years ago I would have said something else. But I’ve learned,” Trump said, prompting laughs from his crowd in Raleigh, North Carolina. “I would have been a little bit more risqué.”

Trump’s 2016 campaign was nearly derailed by the “Access Hollywood” tape, in which he was caught bragging about grabbing women by their genitals.

Philadelphia law enforcement said Monday they are prepared for Tuesday’s election and issued steep warnings to anyone who may seek to interfere with the democratic process.

“F around and find out,” Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner repeated three times referring to people who may try to intimidate voters, “play militia” or mistreat or threaten voters.

Krasner was joined by representatives from his office, the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office, the Philadelphia Police Department and the Philadelphia City Commissioners, who are in charge of running the city’s elections.

Former President Donald Trump got a bit of free air time on NBC Sunday night to make a last-minute pitch to voters ahead of Election Day Tuesday.

“We’re losing jobs, we’re losing everything, including viability,” Trump said in a 60-second video that ran twice on NBC Sunday — during the network’s NASCAR coverage and following Sunday Night Football.

Trump was given the free air time after Vice President Kamala Harris, made a surprise guest appearance on Saturday Night Live, appearing in the show’s cold open alongside Maya Rudolph, who is portraying her during the election.

Vice President Kamala Harris will crisscross Pennsylvania Monday, her final opportunity to make her case to voters in the Keystone State ahead of Election Day Tuesday.

Harris began the day in Allentown. Next, she'll travel west to Pittsburgh, where she'll hold a Get Out the Vote rally and concert featuring Katy Perry. The campaign hasn't announced an exact time, but C-SPAN is beginning its live coverage at 8 p.m.

Harris will end the day in Philadelphia in front of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art around 11 p.m. She'll be joined by a star-studded cast of celebrities and performers, including Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, The Roots, and Oprah Winfrey. Here's a list of tonight's performers.

On the final day before the election, former President Donald Trump is will headline four rallies – two in Pennsylvania. where polls show him in a virtual tie with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump is scheduled to speak in Reading, Pa. at 2 p.m. before traveling west to Pittsburgh, where he'll take the stage around 6 p.m., according to his campaign.

The former president attended a rally in Lancaster County Sunday, where he spoke about reporters being shot and said despite losing the 2020 election, he shouldn't have left the White House.

When polls open at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, officials across Pennsylvania are expecting more voters to arrive and cast their ballots in person than they’ve seen in nearly a decade.

More than 6 million voters cast ballots in the presidential election in 2016; the lion’s share of those were in person on Election Day as Pennsylvania had not yet enacted widespread mail voting.

As analysts predict 2024 could become the highest-turnout election in U.S. history, election officials are preparing for more in-person voters than they’ve seen in years.

In one of his final rallies in the most critical battleground of the presidential election, former President Donald Trump ranted off-script about unproven election fraud in the state and called the Democratic Party “demonic” and “cheaters.”

In what appears to be a neck-and-neck race in the state, Trump spent his 22nd visit of the year here ignoring the teleprompter and vamping with a crowd of faithfuls who gathered on a chilly, sunny Sunday morning. The visit came as polling three days before Election Day predicted a photo finish in Pennsylvania. But Trump’s closing pitch included just a brief mention of pledging to “fix” what Democrats “broke,” and otherwise played out like a lengthy stream-of-consciousness tirade.

“When they say he gave a long and rambling speech, say, ‘It was brilliant,’” the Republican candidate told the crowd as his remarks hit the 90-minute mark.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent proponent of debunked public health claims whom Donald Trump has promised to put in charge of health initiatives, said Saturday that Trump would push to remove fluoride from drinking water on his first day in office if elected president.

Fluoride strengthens teeth and reduces cavities by replacing minerals lost during normal wear and tear, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The addition of low levels of fluoride to drinking water has long been considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century.

Kennedy made the declaration Saturday on the social media platform X alongside a variety of claims about the heath effects of fluoride.

The 2024 presidential election is just around the corner, and The Inquirer’s voters guide is bringing you key information about your ballot in Pennsylvania.

General elections — this year’s held on Nov. 5 — determine which candidates will be elected for their respective offices. The major party candidates on the ballot are typically chosen through the primary elections held in the spring. Voters can pick any candidate in the general election, regardless of their political party. This guide provides key points for all federal and statewide races as well as state legislative races in Philadelphia and its four collar counties.

The ballot will be crowded this year. Pennsylvanians will vote for U.S. president; their representatives in the U.S. Senate and House; representatives in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, including members of the state House and state Senate; as well as auditor general, attorney general, and treasurer.