In full: Barack Obama admits election will be tight for Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh speech

Barack Obama, the former US President, is lending some much-needed firepower to Kamala Harris’s campaign Thursday in the must-win swing state of Pennsylvania. America’s first Black president is leading a rally in the steel city of Pittsburgh, his first stop on a tour of battleground states, to urge people to cast early votes for November’s nail-biting election. Harris was in battleground Nevada for a town hall Thursday and heads to Arizona Friday to reach out to Latino voters. But the White House said the vice president had also taken part in a virtual briefing on deadly Hurricane Milton, which crashed into Florida overnight. Read more here: and are websites of The Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.