US election campaign enters final week with race on a knife-edge

USA: The race for the White House has entered its final week, with national and swing state polling showing the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is incredibly close.

Harris will deliver her “closing argument” in Washington DC later, giving a speech in the same place Trump held a rally 6 January 2021 – shortly before his supporters stormed the Capitol.

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Trump is due to speak from his home in Mar-a-Lago in Florida, before heading to the swing state of Pennsylvania.

On Monday, influential Puerto Ricans called on Trump to personally apologise, after a comedian speaking at his rally in New York called the US territory a “floating island of garbage”

Trump’s campaign has said the comment does “not reflect” the former president’s views but he is yet to publicly condemn it.