Obama calls Trump 'wannabe king' at Harris event

Donald Trump and his Republicans allies are aggressively pushing anti-trans messaging in the final stretch of his campaign — despite the fact that transgender issues are among the least important issues motivating voters to head to the ballot box, according to a Gallup poll.

The Trump campaign and Republican groups have spent more than $21 million on anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ television ads as of Oct. 9.

Additionally, in recent months, Trump-aligned political groups have flooded the airwaves with ads disparaging policies that support the transgender community.

Despite the small size of the transgender population in the U.S., these issues have played a key role in many Republican campaigns on both the state and federal levels.

Trump's own political agenda, titled Agenda 47, is laden with transgender-based proposals, including a ban on transgender participation in women's sports, an end to gender-affirming care funded by federal or state dollars, and more.

ABC News has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment on his ad spending.

-ABC News' Kiara Alfonseca and Soo Rin Kim

After Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz campaigns in Wisconsin on Tuesday (where he'll be joined by former President Barack Obama for a rally in Madison), he’ll remain out on the trail this week.

On Wednesday, Walz will speak at an evening fundraiser in Louisville, Kentucky.

On Thursday, he will spend the morning making political stops in Durham, North Carolina -- just a week after he visited the city with former President Bill Clinton. He'll then make local stops in Greenville, North Carolina, in the afternoon and hold a rally in Wilmington that night.

On Friday, Walz will campaign in Philadelphia, where he'll speak at a fundraiser in the city around noon.

-ABC News' Isabella Murray

Harris said she finds herself waking up in the middle of the night from the stress of the final days of the election, when asked how she handles stress and anxiety during a discussion in Michigan on Monday.

"You know, I wake up in the middle of the night, usually these days. Just to be honest with you," Harris told Maria Shriver, who moderated the discussion between the vice president and former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney in Royal Oak. "But I work out every morning. I think that's really important to just kind of, you know, mind, body and spirit."

"Say more about that," Shriver pressed Harris.

"I work out, I try to eat,” Harris responded. "You know, I love my family, and I make sure that I talk to the kids and my husband every day."

"My family grounds me in every way," she added.

The exchange started with Harris making something clear: She's not taking edibles.

"Everybody I talked to says, you know, I have to turn off the news, I can't read anything, I'm meditating, I'm doing yoga. I'm so anxious. I just don't even know. I'm eating gummies, all kinds of things, you know?" Shriver said to Harris, asking, "What are you doing?"

“Not eating gummies,” Harris said to laughs from the crowd.

-ABC News' Fritz Farrow, Gabriella Abdul-Hakim and Will McDuffie

Vice President Kamala Harris participated in a series of moderated conversations with former Rep. Liz Cheney in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin on Monday.

In those appearances, Cheney made a case for conservatives to vote Democrat in the upcoming election and support Harris' bid for the White House.

"What I would say is that if people are uncertain, if people are thinking, 'Well, you know, I'm a conservative, I don't know that I can support Vice President Harris,' I would say, I don't know if anybody is more conservative than I am," said Cheney, who was the third-ranking member of the House Republican Conference from 2019 to 2021.

Cheney also warned Republicans considering voting for Trump that Congress would not be a check on him.

"For anybody who is a Republican who is thinking that, you know, they might vote for Donald Trump because of national security policy, I ask you, please, please study his national security policy," Cheney said. "Not only is it not Republican — it's dangerous. And without allies, America will find our very freedom and security challenged and threatened."

"And one final point on this: Don't think that Congress can stop him," Cheney added.

In Malvern, Pennsylvania, Cheney said she thought there would be Republican voters who would cast their ballots for Harris — even if they did not reveal it publicly.

In Michigan, she went further, encouraging voters to do just that, saying, "If you're at all concerned, you can vote your conscience and not ever have to say a word to anybody, and there will be millions of Republicans who do that on Nov. 5, vote for Vice President Harris."

-ABC News' Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, Fritz Farrow, Will McDuffie and T. Michelle Murphy