US election campaign live: Donald Trump says Miles Taylor, aka Anonymous, 'should be prosecuted'

Donald Trump has responded to the fresh revelation of Anonymous's true identity with a call for the man to be prosecuted.

Welcome back to our live coverage of the US presidential election campaign.

We're now six days away from the votes being counted, and it seems as though there will be no shortage of them.

According to the latest data from the US Elections Project, at least 75 million people have already voted early, either in person or by mail. That is well over half of the total turnout from 2016, when a tick under 130 million Americans cast ballots.

The man behind the Elections Project, University of Florida Professor Michael McDonald, has predicted this year's final tally could reach 150 million. If that does happen, it will be the highest turnout for a presidential election since 1908, more than a century ago, with about 63 per cent of the voting-eligible population taking part.

Meanwhile,  Donald Trump has called for one of his former administration officials, Miles Taylor, to be prosecuted.

Mr Taylor, who used to work as chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, today revealed himself as Anonymous - the long-unidentified official who had slammed Mr Trump from within his own government.

The President responded to the news during one of his political rallies in Arizona.

"You know Anonymous? You know this Anonymous, that everyone's been looking for? That law enforcement could have found early if they wanted to? But everybody was looking for Anonymous," he said.

"It turned out to be a low-level staffer, a sleazebag, who's never worked in the White House. Anonymous was a nobody, a disgruntled employee who was quickly removed from his job a long time ago, for they tell me incompetence.

"He wrote a phony book. If you heard about Anonymous, it was like somebody that was right next to me. I thought it might have been Hope Hicks, I thought it might have been Jared, I thought it might have been Mike Lee! I was extremely worried about Rand Paul.

"This guy's a low-level lowlife, that I don't know. I have no idea who he is, other than I got to see him a little while ago on television. And I think they threw him out a long time ago.

"His phony book was just based on fake articles and left-wing outlets. He worked with the fake news New York Times. And he's an employee of Google, he works for Google, isn't that nice?

"The whole thing was just one more giant hoax from the Washington swamp and a corrupt special interest group.

"I tell you what, this guy, in my opinion, he should be prosecuted. He should be prosecuted."

Read on for all the latest news from the campaign.