2024 presidential election live: October 7 anniversary of Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel sparks ceasefire calls from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

The 2024 presidential election could be one of the closest in history.

Polls show former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are neck-and-neck during one of the most unprecedented campaigns in recent memory.

The race has been dominated by assassination attempts, two drama-filled debates and President Joe Biden making the monumental decision to forgo a chance at a second term by dropping out of the race.

Every day there are dramatic twists and turns that are shaping the biggest conversation in the nation: Who will be the next president?

As the United States races toward Election Day on November 5, DailyMail.com is launching its first politics newsletter to keep you up to date with the most important developments.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump accused the White House of ‘abandoning’ Americans and ignoring the plights of North Carolinians devastated by Hurricane Helene.

The red-leaning battleground state was rocked by the storm and many accuse President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of not doing enough to provide relief and aid to residents.

Former President Trump said that Biden and Harris are giving emergency funds to illegal immigrants instead of Americans facing fallout from the hurricane.

He wrote on Truth Social on Monday:

The 2024 Republican presidential nominee continued in all caps:

Above: Vice President Kamala Harris helps put together emergency aid packages at a resource donation center in Charlotte, North Carolina to send out to residents hit by Hurricane Helene

On October 7, 2023, thousands of terrorists led by Hamas flooded out of Gaza into Israel to perpetrate the single-worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.

The merciless violence claimed 1,200 lives, mostly civilians, and saw thousands more injured, raped and brutalised. Hundreds were taken back to Gaza as hostages.

A year on, the dust has still not settled.

Here, we recap every twist and turn of the ‘war that will never be won’, and look ahead to how the conflict might escalate given Israel’s incursion into Lebanon and Iran’s missile barrage…

Hamas' October 7 attacks of last year returned Israel back to 'square zero', a senior official gloated this morning one year on from the atrocity as rockets soared over the border and impacted targets in Tel Aviv and elsewhere.

'The Al-Aqsa flood returned the occupation to square zero and threatened its existence,' Khaled Meshaal, the former head of Hamas, said on the Al Arabiya TV station, using the Palestinian group's official name for the attack.

The comments came as Israel began commemorating the anniversary of the horrific assault - one of the darkest days in Jewish history since the Holocaust.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog began the day with a minute of silence at 6:29am - the moment the attack started - at the site of the Nova music festival near Re'im where heavily armed Hamas fighters killed at least 370 people.

Minutes later the service was marred by air raid sirens as Hamas declared it launched projectiles at the 'enemy gatherings' just a few kilometres from the border with Gaza, as well as at Tel Aviv.

Images emerged later this morning showed civilians and rescue workers inspecting damage at various buildings caused by rockets or falling shrapnel, while videos showed smoke trailing from craters near Israel's cultural and commercial capital.

The Israeli army said several rockets were downed by air defence systems, adding that it had foiled what would have been a much larger attack after it 'struck Hamas launch posts and underground terrorist infrastructure throughout the Gaza Strip'.

But some projectiles still hit their targets, prompting an IDF spokesperson to issue an evacuation order to residents in several regions of southern Gaza ahead of an 'extreme response'.

'Due to Hamas' terrorist acts, which will be met with extreme force, you must evacuate these areas immediately and move to the humanitarian area an Al-Mawasi,' the IDF's Arabic spokesman Avichay Adraee declared.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are locked in a neck-and-neck battle for the White House with just one month to go before Election Day.

Polls show that in a nation of over 300 million, the closest presidential race in modern history is likely to be decided by just thousands of voters in seven battleground states.

When the data is processed through the DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners model, it shows the ex-president winning in 56.7 percent of the simulations over Harris.

Voting by mail is already underway in a few states including North Carolina with more joining in the coming weeks. Early voting in person has also begun in a couple of states including Virginia and South Dakota.

At the same time, voter registration cutoffs start Sunday, with 15 states hitting their deadline date in the next few days including several battleground states.

Vice President Kamala Harris said she will 'never forget the horror of October 7, 2023' in her statement on the anniversary of the attacks.

'Women raped on the side of the road. 250 people kidnapped. It was the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,' she said.

The Demcoratic presidential candidate vowed to make sure the threat of Hamas is 'eliminated'.

She also said: 'It is far past time for a hostage and ceasefire deal to end the suffering of innocent people.'

President Joe Biden paid tribute to the 1,200 innocent people - including 46 Americans - killed during the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

The commander-in-chief used the statement to say the U.S. would continue to push for a ceasefire deal in Gaza and said far too many civilians have suffered far too much during this year of conflict.