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.
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 22, 2024, 10:04 AM EDT
Trump courts Latino voters, Harris off the trail
Trump will hold a roundtable at the Latino Summit at his Doral golf club in Miami. The event was postponed because of Hurricane Milton and comes as the former president seeks to eat away at Harris' edge with Hispanic voters, particularly males.
Trump will later head to Greensboro, North Carolina, for a rally.
Harris, notably, has no public events scheduled for Tuesday, spending her afternoon instead doing interviews with NBC News and Telemundo.
Former President Barack Obama joins Minnesota Gov. and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz for a rally in Madison, Wisconsin.
Oct 22, 2024, 10:00 AM EDT
Trump and Harris prepare for flood of legal activity around election
Harris and Trump are preparing for a flood of legal activity before and after the election after the former president launched an avalanche of lawsuits seeking to overturn his loss in 2020.
Earlier this year, the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign announced what they described as an "historic" "election integrity" program that an RNC official said in recent months has engaged in over 130 election lawsuits across 26 states, and recruited approximately 5,000 volunteer attorneys who are ready to be activated on Election Day.
Democrats, for their part, have intervened in "dozens of baseless Republican lawsuits to debunk their lies and defeat them in court," according to an internal memo prepared by Harris' chief attorney, Dana Remus.
Read more here from Olivia Rubin, Will Steakin and Lucien Bruggeman.
Oct 22, 2024, 9:57 AM EDT
Nevada Republicans outpace Democrats in in-person early voting, trail in mail-in voting
Republicans are outpacing Democrats in in-person early voting in Nevada while Democrats are outpacing Republicans in mail-in voting, the Nevada Secretary of State Office's latest report shows.
The latest report, updated Monday night, reflects early in-person voting and mail-in voting turnout in the first three days. It showed 52% of in-person early voters so far have been Republicans, while 28% were Democrats. Of all mail-in ballots cast so far, 43% so far have been Democrats and 30% Republicans.
The pattern reflects trends from the 2020 presidential election, when Republicans outpaced Democrats in early in-person voting and Democrats outpaced Republicans with mail-in voting.
In total, 245,356 mail-in ballots and early in-person ballots had been cast as of Monday night, with just under 40% of them being Republicans and 36% of them being Democrats.
In-person early voting in Nevada began on Oct. 19.
-ABC News' Soorin Kim
Oct 22, 2024, 6:56 AM EDT
Could teenage voters swing Pennsylvania?
In the final sprint of the election campaign, local officials in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania have mounted an unprecedented push to engage some of the state's newest and untested voters: 18-year-old high school seniors.
"They're the largest registered bloc of voters in the city. It's just a matter of getting them energized to come out and turn out to vote," said Philadelphia City Commissioner Seth Bluestein.
High school students who will be 18-years-old by Election Day are receiving special attention in Pennsylvania where both parties are aggressively courting votes.
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Fewer than half of 18- and 19-year-old voters nationwide cast ballots in the 2020 election, according to the Center for Information and Research on Learning and Engagement at Tufts University.
At Martin Luther King High School in Germantown, Pennsylvania, ABC News joined hundreds of high school seniors assembled for an outdoor field day of election-themed activities.
"I am following the political election a lot. I am into the debates, and I am watching the debates. So I do feel pretty positive about who I'm taking on voting for this year," said Jymirah Wood.
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She and fellow senior Janeeiah Simmons said they also volunteered to be poll workers on Election Day.
"I'm not, like, someone who's super duper political myself," Simmons said, "but I feel like in this year with the election, it's really important because so many changes can happen depending on who wins."
