Oct 25, 2020, 12:41 PM EDT
Trump arrives in New Hampshire for rally
Air Force One touched down in New Hampshire a short time ago and was making its way over to the crowd of people waiting for the president's campaign rally.
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More than 58 million Americans have already voted
U.S. voters have cast 42.7% of the total votes counted in the 2016 election.
Last Updated: October 26, 2020, 11:05 AM EDT
With nine days to go until Election Day, and President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden racing toward Nov. 3, voters are turning out in record numbers to cast their ballots early.
More than 58 million Americans have already voted in the 2020 election, reflecting an extraordinary level of participation and interest despite unprecedented barriers brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
In the final weeks of campaigning, the president has continued to press as polls show him trailing nationally and in several battleground states key to his reelection hopes. The president had a campaign rally in New Hampshire Sunday to top off a weekend of events across multiple states, and Biden appeared at a virtual "I Will Vote" concert.
All 50 states plus Washington, D.C., have some form of early voting underway. Check out FiveThirtyEight’s guide to voting during the COVID-19 pandemic here.
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Here's how the news developed Sunday. All times Eastern.
Oct 25, 2020, 12:16 PM EDT
5 in Pence's orbit test positive for the coronavirus
Five individuals in Vice President Mike Pence's orbit have tested positive for the coronavirus, including his chief of staff Marc Short and political aide Marty Obst.
Devin O'Malley, press secretary for the vice president, announced Saturday in a statement that Short tested positive.
Sunday morning, multiple sources familiar with the matter told ABC News that in addition to an outside political ally of Pence's four of his staffers have tested positive. One senior-level source stressed that the three of the staffers have been quarantining since the middle of this past week.
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O'Malley said both Pence and wife Karen Pence tested negative for the virus on Saturday and a pool report indicated they tested negative again on Sunday morning. The vice president is still expected to travel to North Carolina later on Sunday to speak at a rally in Kinston.
-ABC News' John Santucci and Katherine Faulders
Oct 25, 2020, 10:31 AM EDT
Foreign efforts to undermine US election
ABC News Chief Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas said Russia appears to be "seeking direct access" to American voters to sow division and unrest.
Senior national security officials alerted the American public Wednesday that Iran and Russia have both obtained voter data in their efforts to interfere in the 2020 U.S. election.
Thomas said on ABC's "This Week" Sunday that those efforts appear to be aimed at creating problems before the election and possibly just after Election Day "if we don't quickly know a result."
On Friday, U.S. officials told ABC News that systems containing election-related information from two counties in two separate states were successfully hacked by the Russian effort. While the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have seen no evidence that data has been altered, FBI and Homeland Security officials expressed concern that Russia "may be seeking access to obtain future disruption options, to influence U.S. policies and actions, or to delegitimize SLTT government entities."
Iran is "aggressively pursuing the same goal," Thomas said Sunday.
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Wednesday that Iran was separately behind a series of threatening emails that were found to be sent this week to Democratic voters, which he said was "designed to intimidate voters, incite social unrest and damage President Trump."
Alireza Miryousefi, spokesman for the Iranian Mission to the U.N., denied the allegations to ABC News.
Oct 25, 2020, 9:42 AM EDT
Talking with Pennsylvania voters
ABC's "This Week" Co-anchor Martha Raddatz talked with voters from the battleground state of Pennsylvania, a must-win for Trump.
The president won the state in 2016, with a slim margin, and there are "worrisome signs" this year.
Tanya Siletsky is the kind of supporter the Trump campaign hopes will help him win the battleground state.
"I would say no," she said on "This Week" on whether anything has given her pause about Trump. "All his policies I agree with 100%."
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Six for the Win: Pennsylvania voters share their thoughts ahead of the election
"This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz traveled to Pennsylvania to speak with voters less than two weeks before the 2020 election.
