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 24, 2024, 4:31 AM EDT
Trump says Harris raising rhetoric because 'she is losing'
In a Wednesday social media post, former President Donald Trump suggested that Vice President Kamala Harris criticized him as a "fascist" because she is losing ground in the presidential race.
"She is a Threat to Democracy, and not fit to be President of the United States -- And her Polling so indicates!" Trump fired back at the vice president.
"Now she is increasingly raising her rhetoric, going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler," Trump added.
Trump did not mention why Hitler's name emerged. The New York Times reported this week that the former president allegedly praised Hitler, according to former White House chief of staff John Kelly.
-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh, Lalee Ibssa and Soo Rin Kim
Oct 24, 2024, 4:12 AM EDT
'Be a little careful': Trump floats baseless election claims in Georgia
Former President Donald Trump addressed a packed 13,000-seat arena in Duluth just outside of Atlanta on Wednesday, suggesting to supporters -- without evidence -- that vote counting might not be secure.
"Got to get out there and vote, but most importantly, just vote whichever way you want to do it," Trump said at the rally hosted by Turning Point USA.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump gestures at a campaign rally, Oct. 23, 2024, in Duluth, Ga.
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"I've been one that says whichever way. Just get out and vote. Be a little careful. Make sure your vote gets counted. There are ways of doing that too."
Trump also again floated a conspiracy theory that Vice President Kamala Harris did not hold a public campaign event on Wednesday because she already knew the results of the coming election.
"Maybe she knows something we don't know," Trump said. "That's bad, right? Maybe she knows something we don't know."
"Does everybody understand that? Maybe," he added, to supportive responses in the crowd.
-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa, Soo Rin Kim and Kelsey Walsh
Oct 23, 2024, 9:58 PM EDT
Harris says 'yes' Trump is a fascist during town hall
During Wednesday's town hall, moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked point-blank if she believes former President Donald Trump is a fascist.
"Let me ask you tonight, do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?” Cooper said.
“Yes, I do. Yes, I do. And I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted,” Harris replied, referencing the recent statements made by John Kelly, Trump's former chief of staff.
Oct 23, 2024, 9:31 PM EDT
Harris calls John Kelly coming out against Trump a '911 call to the American people'
Vice President Kamala Harris reacted to John Kelly, a former four-star Marine general and the former chief of staff to Donald Trump, coming out swinging against the former president, saying he could fit the bill of a "fascist."
During her CNN town hall in Aston, Pennsylvania, Harris reacted to Kelly's statements and noted how he went public with his interviews so close to the election.
"Why would someone who served with him [Trump], who is not political, a four-star Marine general -- why is he telling the American people now?" Harris questioned.
"And frankly, I think of it as... he's just putting out a 911 call to the American people," Harris said.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks as CNN moderator Anderson Cooper looks on during a town hall at Sun Center Studios on Wednesday in Aston, Pennsylvania.
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Kelly, who had previously refrained from discussing his time in the White House so openly, said in expansive interviews with The New York Times that Trump's discussion of using the military against the "enemy within" pushed him to come forward.
"Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It's a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy," Kelly told The Times.
"So, certainly, in my experience, those are the kinds of things that he thinks would work better in terms of running America," he added of Trump.
During the town hall, Harris was asked by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper if she believes Trump is a fascist.
"Yes, I do," Harris said.
"I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted," the vice president added.
