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Last Updated: October 27, 2024, 8:15 AM EDT

The race for the White House is heading into the final stretch with most polls showing Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump neck-and-neck in key states with less than two weeks to go.

Oct 27, 2024, 8:12 am

More than 40 million Americans have voted early

As of Saturday night, more than 40 million Americans cast an absentee ballot or voted early in person, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida.

Roughly 19.3 million people voted early in person, the lab reported, and more than 20.9 million returned their ballot by mail.

A man votes on the second day of early voting in Wisconsin at the American Serb Hall Banquet in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 23, 2024.
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Oct 21, 2024, 10:47 PM EDT

Harris takes jabs at Trump's dance moves, calls him 'increasingly unstable'

Vice President Kamala Harris and former Rep. Liz Cheney capped off their battleground tour in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in their bid to appeal to moderate Republicans and independents.

During the final event on Monday, Harris continued to draw a contrast between herself and former President Trump and even poked fun at his dance moves during his campaign rally last week.

Harris, who called Trump's onstage dancing a "solo dance," said that it was proof that the former president is "increasingly unstable."

“What we see about him in public, whether it be his rallies or, as you said, the -- what would it be called? -- just a solo dance? I don't know,” said Harris, drawing laughter from the crowd.

"I think it does lead us, and it should lead us, to observe that he is increasingly unstable," Harris said.

Harris was referencing Trump's town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania, last week where two medical emergencies in the crowd interrupted the event, which eventually turned into what his campaign at the time called an "impromptu concert."

-ABC News' Gabriella Abdul-Hakim

Oct 21, 2024, 10:14 PM EDT

Tim Walz reacts to 'Daily Show' appearance with Jon Stewart while fundraising in NYC

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

Oct 21, 2024, 9:18 PM EDT

Trump recalls assassination attempt while courting religious voters in North Carolina

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

Oct 21, 2024, 8:50 PM EDT

Judges in Michigan and North Carolina reject challenges to overseas votes

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

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