Trump says he 'shouldn't have left' the White House

The former president made the remarks during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

Last Updated: November 4, 2024, 8:26 AM EST

With two days to go until Election Day, the candidates making in their final appeaks to voters over the weekend.

After popping up on "Saturday Night Live," Vice President Kamala Harris will campaign in battleground Michigan on Sunday. Former President Donald Trump is hitting three swing states on Sunday: Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia.

Nov 4, 4:26 am

More than 78 million Americans have voted early

As of 9 p.m. ET on Sunday, more than 77 million Americans have voted early, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida.

Of the total number of early votes, 42,654,364 were cast in person and 35,348,858 were returned by mail.

A man waits in line with other community members in East Tampa to enter the C. Blythe Andrews, Jr. Public Library at a early voting polling precinct to cast their ballots in Tampa, Fla., Nov. 2, 2024.
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Nov 03, 2024, 2:59 AM EST

Michelle Obama hits out at 'conman' during Pennsylvania rally

Former first lady Michelle Obama spoke at a rally in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Saturday night evoking the "yes we can" ethos and slogan of former President Barack Obama.

Her theme was that of a divided America, and her call to voters one of staying the course and defeating the "conman" who she said wishes to "tear" the country apart -- though Obama did not mention former President Donald Trump by name.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama speaks at a rally on Oct. 29, 2024, in College Park, Georgia.
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"It always felt as though, even with our differences, something true, something fundamental, was stitching us together, the values that have guided and nourished us for generations," Obama said, as quoted by ABC News' Philadelphia station WPVI.

"Pennsylvania -- this is who we are, this is us," she added. "This is our creed as Americans, that if we keep our feet on the ground and our eyes on the horizon, we will leave this country a little better than we found it."

"The tactics to tear it apart are not new," Obama continued. "Sadly, they have become more insidious, more cunning, led by a more skilled conman who is more brazen and bombastic. But this, too, is part of the great experiment that we call democracy. Can people who strongly disagree still find common ground?"

She continued: "We have had our fair share of dark moments, some lasting for decades, stretches of time that have been hard and scary, but for anyone who's ever endeavored to build or do something hard or scary, erecting a skyscraper, scaling a mountain, even a child building a sand castle, you learn very quickly that it's a lot easier to destroy than to build up."

Obama hit out at Trump's campaign without naming him, criticizing "the folks telling us that things may not be as they appear, that we should be suspicious of our neighbors, that military service and sacrifice is for suckers, that there's an enemy from within."

"Every time I hear someone say that the hope and pride that I feel for the country I love is misplaced, that down is up and right is wrong -- my god, it's bewildering. It is dangerous. It is shameful."

-ABC News' Gabriella Abdul-Hakim

Nov 03, 2024, 12:14 AM EDT

Harris joins Maya Rudolph on 'SNL' cold open

Coming from a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, Air Force 2 made a surprise landing at LaGuardia Airport Saturday evening.

Vice President Kamala Harris made a quick appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” joining her doppelganger Maya Rudolph during the show’s cold open.

The matching duo traded lines rhyming words with Kamala, "The American people want to stop the chaos, and end the drama-la, with a cool new step mom-ala."

Continuing on, "watch a rom-com-ala, like 'Legally Blonde'-ala, and start decorating for Christmas, fa-la-la-lala."

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US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (R) and US actress Maya Rudolph participate in "Saturday Night Live" (SNL) live late-night sketch comedy show at NBC studios in New York City on November 2, 2024. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
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The vice president stepped out from behind the mirror to join Rudolph in saying, “Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!”

Harris has previously endorsed Rudolph’s “SNL” impression of her while on “The View” last month, saying, "Maya Rudolph, she's so good, she had the whole thing, the suit, the jewelry, the mannerisms."

Nov 03, 2024, 12:13 AM EDT

Trump calls himself 'father of fertilization'

Speaking during his second North Carolina rally of the day, former President Donald Trump called himself the “father of fertilization,” as he described conversations with an Alabama senator about in vitro fertilization treatments.

“I consider myself to be the father of fertilization,” said Trump to laughs from the audience, explaining his support for IVF, which was thrust into limbo in Alabama after a court decision in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

“Katie Britt, the senator from Alabama, called up. ‘Sir, you have to help us. You have to help us. I said, ‘Explain.’ She said, ‘About what happened with the IVF. The judge said, close all the clinics all over Alabama.’ And she said, ‘Everyone is furious.’ I said, ‘Explain it to me.' And when she explained, it took me about two minutes to figure it out, and I came out with a very strong statement, totally in favor.”

Trump attacked Vice President Kamala Harris for saying he would attempt to limit IVF treatments, distancing himself from the far-right think tank proposal Project 2025.

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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives for a campaign rally at First Horizon Coliseum on Nov. 2, 2024 in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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"I've never read it. I don't want to read it, because that way I can be honest with you, I don't want to read it. Some people got together. I assume they're extremely conservative, that's OK. Then they came up with a plan. But I told them, I don't know about the plan. They had a couple of people that work for me in the administration, I guess, or something. But they came up with some kind of a plan, and it's on the conservative side, I assume. And they keep talking about Project 2025, but I said, I don't know about it … Everything she says is a lie."

-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa, Soo Rin Kim and Kelsey Walsh

Nov 02, 2024, 10:39 PM EDT

Trump campaigns in longshot Virginia

Three days out from Election Day, former President Donald Trump made a stop in Virginia as the campaign attempts to expand its electoral map.

Trump told the crowd that he was capable of making the longshot bid to win Virginia before quickly saying it wouldn’t be that important.

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Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia, on November 2, 2024.
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“I'll tell you what. We win Virginia, we win the whole thing without question," he said. "Now it's very possible that without winning Virginia we're going to win the whole thing, too, but …wouldn't it be cool?”

The last Republican to win Virginia was George W. Bush in 2004.

In a state where Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin successfully ran on education in his winning 2021 gubernatorial bid, Trump struck a similar tone, saying he would "stop the indoctrination of your children."

He added, "And we will not let them try to change your kid's gender … We won't be changing your children's gender with their transgender craziness."

Trump also brought to stage members of the Roanoke College women’s swimming team to highlight his anti-trans messaging.

The team was embroiled in a controversy last year after members of the team called for the NCAA to change policies to ban transgender athletes from competing in women's sports.

Continuing to court suburban women, Trump also highlighted a promise to expand the child tax credit and to create a tax credit for family caregivers.

Trump went on to argue that if immigration numbers were released before the election, Harris wouldn’t get a single Black person to vote for her, making the racial argument that immigrants were stealing the jobs of the African American community.

“The African American population of this country is being decimated by the hundreds of thousands of people that just keep pouring through the open borders of stupid Kamala."

-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa, Soo Rin Kim and Kelsey Walsh