Obama calls Trump 'wannabe king' at Harris event

“That's not what you need in your life," he said.

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 22, 2024, 6:43 PM EDT

Harris declines to discuss 'hypotheticals' on possible Trump pardon

Harris declined to discuss a possible pardon of Trump, who was convicted in May in a New York court of 34 criminal counts.

"I’m not going to get into those hypotheticals. I’m focused on the next 14 days," she told NBC's Hallie Jackson.

Asked if doing so could help the country move on, Harris said, "What’s going to help us move on is I get elected president of the United States."

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

Oct 22, 2024, 6:37 PM EDT

Harris evades questions on Biden's decline

Harris was asked about President Joe Biden's mental state during an interview with NBC's Hallie Jackson on Tuesday.

Asked by Jackson whether she had seen “anything like what happened at the debate night behind closed doors," Harris did not answer directly.

"It was a bad debate. People have bad debates. He is absolutely..."

"Well, that’s the reason why you’re here and he’s not running for the top of the ticket,” Jackson responded.

“Well, you’d have to ask him if that’s the only reason why,” Harris said.

“What do you think?” Jackson asked.

“I am running for president of the United States, Joe Biden is not, and my presidency will be about bringing a new generation of leadership to America that is focused on the work that we need to do to invest in the ambitions and aspirations of the American people.”

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

Oct 22, 2024, 5:42 PM EDT

Biden warns Trump will eliminate Inflation Reduction Act, Obamacare if elected

President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders teamed up Tuesday afternoon at an event in Concord, New Hampshire, to tout a new report showing Medicare enrollees saved nearly $1 billion on their prescription drugs so far in 2024 through the Inflation Reduction Act.

Biden warned that this progress could be undone if Trump wins in November.

"Trump and MAGA Republicans want to eliminate the Inflation Reduction Act, which we're talking about, the big bill which made all these savings possible, raising prescription drug prices again for millions of Americans," he said.

Biden said Trump and the GOP have tried to replace the Affordable Care Act 51 times and mocked the former president for having only a "concept of a plan."

Biden said if Harris isn’t elected, Trump will “kick 45 million people off their health insurance,” give tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans, get rid of the Department of Education and gut Social Security and Medicare.

"He’ll hurt hard-working people," he said.

-ABC News' Justin Gomez

Oct 22, 2024, 5:57 PM EDT

Vance pushes GOTV message in Arizona

In his fourth visit to the swing state of Arizona, vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance had one simple message to voters: get out and vote for Trump.

"Here's the scenario that I want you to consider, and I don't mean to give you nightmare fuel here, but I'm going to do it," Vance said. "We wake up on November the 6th and Kamala Harris is barely elected President of the United States by a 700-vote margin in the state of Arizona. Think about that and ask yourself what you can do from now until then to make sure it doesn't happen."

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks at a campaign rally in Peoria, Ariz., on Oct. 22, 2024.
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Asked by local reporters what's the strategy to get across the finish line with those who are still undecided, Vance asked them to look at the former president's record, arguing that America was in a better position with him as commander-in-chief.

Asked if he's confident in the Arizona election system and if he's going to accept the results of the 2024 election, Vance said he thinks "that we're in a better place than we were in 2020."

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie

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