Obama calls Trump 'wannabe king' at Harris event

Fresh off his taping of the "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," Gov. Tim Walz told a crowd at the Standard Hotel in New York City on Monday night that the experience was “great” but that the comedian’s monologue at the start of the show was filled with what he considered “doom.”

“I'm like, 'Quit with the doom.' You know?” Walz said.

“Yes, Donald Trump is horrible, and the stakes are incredibly high, and women's lives are at risk, and they demonize immigrants. And then he goes to McDonald's to try and distract us, even though, the day before that, he said, you know, 'We need to do something against the enemy from within,'” he went on.

“But there's an antidote to this,” he concluded, explaining that there was more than enough positivity in the support he has been receiving as he campaigns in battleground states.

At the fundraising event, Walz was introduced by New York Governor Kathy Hochul. Hochul told the crowd that she got to know Walz when they were both representing red districts as Democrats in Congress.

She said that she gives Vice President Kamala Harris “a lot of credit” for choosing Walz as a running mate, whom she called “a genuine human being.”

-ABC News' Isabella Murray

At a Believers and Ballots event in North Carolina Monday, former President Donald Trump worked to court religious voters.

Trump talked about his spiritual journey with the crowd as he emphasized a faith background we don’t often hear him talk about.

"But as I look back at my life's journey and events, I now recognize that it's been the hand of God leading me to where I am today," said Trump.

The former president reflected on the assassination attempt made against him at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania over the summer.

“My faith took on new meaning on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, where I was knocked to the ground, essentially by what seemed like a supernatural hand," Trump said.

"I would like to think that God saved me for a purpose, and that's to make our country greater than ever before," he added.

-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa

Judges in Michigan and North Carolina on Monday ruled against legal challenges that attempted to disqualify votes cast by eligible American voters overseas.

Republican plaintiffs claimed that election offices in those two states, as well as in Pennsylvania, had created loopholes that would allow ineligible people to vote through overseas absentee ballots.

In Michigan, the judge dismissed one of three suits filed, calling it in his opinion "an 11th-hour attempt to disenfranchise these electors."

In North Carolina, the judge denied a request by plaintiffs to set aside the ballots of overseas voters until a time at which their individual eligibility could be verified. Superior Court Judge John Smith wrote in that instance that there was "absolutely no evidence that any person has ever fraudulently claimed that exemption and actually voted in any North Carolina election."

His ruling also stated conclusively that, "This court has weighed the hypothetical possibility of harm to plaintiffs against the rights of the defendants and finds that on balance the equitable discretion of this court should not be invoked to treat an entire group of citizens differently based upon unsupported and speculative allegations for which there is not even a scintilla of substantive evidence."

A ruling on a similar lawsuit in Pennsylvania is expected soon.

-ABC News' T. Michelle Murphy and Ivan Pereira

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