Georgia's top election official warns of fake online video

The video purports to show a Haitian immigrant claiming to have voted.

ByAlexandra Hutzler, Ivan Pereira, Tal Axelrod, and Meredith Deliso
Last Updated: November 1, 2024, 8:03 AM EDT

With five days until Election Day, Kamala Harris attacked Donald Trump for saying Wednesday night in Wisconsin that, against his advisers' advice, he is going to keep saying he will "protect the women" "whether the women like it or not."

Both candidates continued their whirlwind campaigns in the West.

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Election workers are sworn-in ahead of processing ballots for the 2024 presidential election at an election's warehouse in Philadelphia, Nov. 5, 2024.
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    Oct 31, 11:41 pm

    More than 65 million Americans have voted early

    As of 11:40 p.m. ET on Thursday, more than 65 million Americans have voted early, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida.

    Of the early ballots cast, 34,277,250 were in person and 30,685,094 were returned by mail.

    An early voting sign is seen outside of a polling station, Oct. 31, 2024, in Stockbridge, Ga.
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    Oct 31, 2024, 5:25 PM EDT

    Trump campaigns in New Mexico, which he falsely claims he won twice

    With just five days until Election Day, Trump kicked off his western swing at an unlikely stop in Albuquerque, where he spewed false and baseless claims about past election results as he claimed New Mexico is in play for him.

    Trump claimed he won New Mexico in both of his previous presidential runs and that votes from New Mexico were “rigged” -- despite Hillary Clinton winning by more than 8 points in 2016 and President Joe Biden winning the state by more than 10 points in 2020.

    Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally, Oct. 31, 2024, in Albuquerque, N.M.
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    “I'm only here for one reason. They all said, ‘Don't come.’ I said, ‘Why?’ ‘You can't win.’ I said, ‘Look, your votes are rigged.’ We can win New Mexico. We can win New Mexico,” Trump said.

    Trump claimed he can win states like New Mexico and California if his supporters can “keep the votes honest” and “keep the votes on us.”

    “So, you know, we almost won it twice. And let me tell you, I believe we won it twice. Okay?” he said. “You want to know the truth? And if you can watch your vote counter – if we could bring God down from heaven, he could be the vote counter, we would win this,” Trump said.

    -ABC News’ Soorin Kim, Lalee Ibssa, Kelsey Walsh

    Oct 31, 2024, 5:05 PM EDT

    Mark Cuban responds to Trump team's attack over 'strong, intelligent women'

    Harris surrogate Mark Cuban responded on X Thursday to criticism he received from Trump’s campaign over his remarks he made earlier in the day on "The View."

    Cuban expanded on his statement in which he said "Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever. It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them."

    Several Trump allies bashed the Dallas Mavericks owner for his comments.

    In his X post, Cuban said, "I’m happy to clarify that

    1. I know many strong, intelligent women voting for Trump. Including in my extended family. I’m certainly not saying female voters are not smart , strong and intelligent.

    2. I know he has worked with strong intelligent women, like Elaine Chao, Kelly Anne [Conway], Ivanka [Trump] and many others

    I stand by my opinion that he does not like being challenged publicly."

    Oct 31, 2024, 3:39 PM EDT

    Mike Bloomberg endorses Harris 'without hesitation'

    Former New York City mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg revealed Thursday that he voted for Harris.

    Bloomberg, who ran a failed presidential campaign during the 2020 Democratic primary, said in an X post that he voted for Harris "without hesitation."

    Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris talks with Michael Bloomberg while attending the 9/11 Memorial ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Sept. 11, 2024, in New York.
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    "When it comes to policy and personal integrity, the contrast could not be clearer, and I hope undecided voters with a history of supporting candidates in both parties join me," Bloomberg, an independent voter and former Republican, said.

    Oct 31, 2024, 3:33 PM EDT

    Mark Cuban says Trump isn't surrounded by 'strong' women. His allies push back

    On ABC's "The View," Mark Cuban -- a Harris surrogate -- was asked what he made of Nikki Haley not campaigning with Trump.

    "Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever. It's just that simple. They're intimidating to him," the "Shark Tank" investor said.

    Mark Cuban speaks at a campaign rally for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse, in La Crosse, Wis., Oct. 17, 2024.
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    "He doesn't like to be challenged by them and, you know, Nikki Haley will call him on his nonsense with reproductive rights and how he sees and treats and talks about women. I mean, he just can't have her around. It wouldn't work," Cuban added.

    Now, a host of Trump's allies from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to Lara Trump to Sage Steele are all attacking Cuban and trying to tie his words to the Harris campaign.

    Trump's national press secretary Karoline Leavitt called Cuban's words "extremely insulting to the thousands of women who work for President Trump, and the tens of millions of women who are voting for him."

    It comes as Trump's campaign, for much of this election, has had missteps when it comes to courting women -- facing a myriad of questions about reproductive rights and attempting to convince Trump to lay off the personal attacks as he attacked Haley's intelligence during the primaries, and now continues to degrade Harris.

    -ABC News' Lalee Ibssa