Hello from CNN I'm Joe Beck with the five things you need to know for Monday

October 28th former president Donald Trump made his closing arguments for the

2024 election at an event at Madison Square Garden last night.

I'd like to begin by asking a very simple question, are you better off now than you were four years ago?

And Vice President Carmelah Harris is expected to have her turn in an address on the

National Mall with the White House behind her tomorrow.

And while Trump's key issue for the final push has been immigration,

Harris is leaning into abortion rights.

She addressed Gen Z voters in Pennsylvania last night.

You who right now know fewer rights than your mothers and grandmothers

understand the importance of fighting for the right of a woman to make decisions about her own body

and not have her government tell her what to do.

With just eight days to go, some people are thinking about what will happen after the election,

with a new CNN poll saying most voters don't think Trump will concede if he loses.

The SSRS survey found that just 33% of registered voters think he'll accept the result if that happens.

While 73% said Harris would accept if she lost.

Hostage ceasefire talks between Israeli and Hamas negotiators aren't expected to see any, quote, significant progress until after the US election.

That's what a source briefed on the talks told CNN.

They added that the negotiations that started up again over the weekend didn't focus on a

deal itself but on jump-starting the process

instead. At the same time though Egypt is proposing a two-day ceasefire deal in which

four Israeli hostages in Gaza would be exchanged for an unspecified

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