US elections live: Donald Trump claims he is the ‘opposite of a Nazi’ as anger continues over Puerto Rico comments

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The Democrats are fending off a Republican offensive aimed at overturning their tiny majority in the Senate.

Retaking control of the US Congress’s upper chamber may represent the GOP’s best opportunity of success in November’s election, according to analysts, surpassing their chances of retaking the White House or even retaining control of the House of Representatives.

But with a burst of enthusiasm from Kamala Harris’s campaign, Democrats are still competitive…

Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon has been released from prison after serving a four-month sentence.

Bannon, 70, was jailed for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. When he began serving his sentence in July, Bannon called himself a “political prisoner”.

“I am proud of going to prison,” he said at the time, adding that he was standing up to the attorney general, Merrick Garland, and a “corrupt” justice department.

Bannon will have to answer further charges at trial in New York. He is accused of tricking donors who gave money to help build Trump’s notorious wall along the US-Mexico border. Bannon has pleaded not guilty to money laundering, conspiracy, fraud and other charges. The trial begins in December.

Trump claims he's 'the opposite of a Nazi' as rally fallout continues

Campaigning is ramping up in the race to the White House as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continue to exchange barbs on the campaign trail. Only seven days remain until Americans head to the polls on Tuesday, 5 November. On Monday, Harris and Tim Waltz courted young voters in Michigan, while Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen spoke in Philadelphia.

Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Georgia, Donald Trump railed against being compared to Hitler, telling voters that he was the “opposite of a Nazi” in response to Democratic opponents, who likened him to the Nazi dictator after a slew of racist remarks were made at his rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

On Tuesday, Trump will hold a news conference at Mar-a-Lago at 10am ET – where he is likely to face questions about racist remarks about Puerto Rico at the New York event.

He is then heading to Allentown, Pennsylvania – home to tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans.

• Campaigning for Harris in Wisconsin, Bernie Sanders said: “You have Mike Pence saying I can’t support the guy I worked with for four years” and “We cannot allow someone to be president of the United States who is a pathological liar and who is working night and day to undermine American democracy.”

• Sanders also released a video addressing voter concerns over the Biden-Harris administration’s record on Gaza, saying: “After Kamala wins, we will together do everything that we can to change US policy towards Netanyahu.”

• Before performing at a rally with Obama in Pennsylvania, Bruce Springsteen said: “I’m Bruce Springsteen and I’m here today to support Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and to oppose Donald Trump and JD Vance … I want a president who reveres the constitution, who does not threaten but wants to protect and guide our great democracy, who believes in the rule of law and the peaceful transfer of power, who will fight for women’s rights … [and] create a middle-class economy that works for all our citizens.”

• Anita Hill, a former clerk to the US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, has said “racist, misogynist and sexistinsults” aimed at Kamala Harris “must sting”. In a New York Times opinion piece published on Monday, the Brandeis University professor – who was famously brought before Thomas’s confirmation hearings only to have her sexual harassment allegations against him picked apart by sitting senators – wrote that she sympathises with the US vice-president.