With one week until Election Day, and President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden racing toward Nov. 3, nearly 65 million have voted early so far -- a record.
The president continues an aggressive, defensive campaign as polls show him trailing nationally and in several battleground states key to his reelection hopes. He holds rallies in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska. Vice President Mike Pence is in the Carolinas.
Biden is on offense, spending the day in Georgia to deliver a "closing argument" on national unity. While some Democrats argue the usually red state's electoral votes are in play, others warn against losing focus on key swing states like Wisconsin. His running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., is in Nevada.
Here is how the day is developing. All times Eastern.
Oct 27, 2020, 8:48 PM EDT
Trump campaign website 'attacked'
The Trump campaign confirmed that its website was compromised, but has since been restored.
“Earlier this evening, the Trump campaign website was defaced and we are working with law enforcement authorities to investigate the source of the attack," communications director Tim Murtaugh said.
The campaign said it is working with law enforcement to investigate the "source of the attack," adding that there was no exposure to sensitive data, given it's not stored on their site.
The Texas Supreme Court this evening has now ordered Gov. Greg Abbott's proclamation limiting counties to one mail-in ballot drop-off location be put back into effect -- reversing an order last Friday from a state appeals court.
The court argues that the challenging parties did not overcome their burden to prove that Abbott was acting in bad faith in his decision to order the shutdown of drop-off locations in the state's counties.
Workers drop voters ballots into a secure box at a ballot drop off location on Oct. 13, 2020, in Austin, Texas.
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"The Governor’s October Proclamation provides Texas voters more ways to vote in the November 3 election than does the Election Code," the court writes. "It does not disenfranchise anyone."
-ABC News' Alexander Mallin
Oct 27, 2020, 7:35 PM EDT
Breaking down how Trump, Biden are campaigning in the final days before the election
ABC News Political Director Rick Klein breaks down how Trump and Biden are campaigning on the final days before the election.
While the president has said he's tired of talking about COVID-19, his biggest problem one week from Election Day may be that voters he needs are living it – still, and especially now, Klein wrote in The Note on Tuesday.
Among the 13 most competitive battleground states, coronavirus positivity rates are going up in 11 of them -- including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Arizona, according to an ABC News analysis of COVID Tracking Project data.
Hospitalization rates are up in nine of the 13 top-targeted states, including the five top-tier battlegrounds just referenced. The number of daily deaths is up in six critical states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Ohio and Minnesota.
Pence holds rally inside air hangar despite COVID-19 outbreak in his orbit
Following his stop in Greensboro, North Carolina, Pence held a campaign rally in Greenville, South Carolina, inside an air hangar packed with at least 2,000 people shoulder-to-shoulder -- just days after at least five people in his inner circle tested positive for COVID-19.
Pence's team said Monday that they'd be prioritizing outdoor events to have Pence go straight from Air Force Two to the stage and not use a motorcade. That wasn't the case for this stop as he rode in a motorcade to the airport location.
Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a campaign rally at an airplane hangar, Oct. 27, 2020, in Greenville, S.C.
As he did with Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., earlier, Pence thanked Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who joined him on stage, for his work on the Senate Judiciary Committee and urged supporters to reelect Graham as their senator, calling him a "stalwart, courageous, principled leader" and adding, "I was for Lindsey Graham before it was cool."
"Lindsey Graham's gonna win because of the way he handled the Kavanaugh hearing. And he topped it off yesterday by leading the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett," Pence said, praising the senator for defending Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the wake of sexual assault allegations.
Supporters wait for Vice President Mike Pence at a campaign rally, Oct. 27, 2020, in Greenville, S.C.
