Clockwise from left: Vice President Kamala Harris, Sen. JD Vance, former President Donald Trump and Gov. Tim Walz. Photo by Getty Images

In the last full day of the most contentious and polarizing presidential campaign in memory, both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris were in Pennsylvania, the swing state with the highest number of Jewish voters (about 300,000). So was a golden retriever named Edie Cohen, sporting an “I Voted” sticker on her collar; her story is below.

Pennsylvania and its 19 electoral votes are, of course, seen as a must-win by both campaigns. And some Pennsylvania voters received mysterious text messages on Sunday and Monday questioning Harris’s position on the war in Gaza.

Meanwhile, rabbis are trying to reassure their congregants in the final hours of a race that has created unusual levels of anxiety and fear. Global interest is high as well, especially among Americans living abroad. Republican and Democratic activists say they’ve seen particularly high levels of engagement in the election among U.S. citizens living in Israel.

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