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

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

ByAlexandra Hutzler, Ivan Pereira, Tal Axelrod, Meredith Deliso, David Brennan, and Julia Reinstein
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.

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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 01, 2024, 10:40 AM EDT

Trump campaign attempts to spin Cheney comments

Trump's campaign is attempting to spin Trump's violent rhetoric against former Rep. Liz Cheney.

Karoline Leavitt, Trump's spokesperson, claimed on Friday morning that his remarks were being taken out of context.

"President Trump was CLEARLY explaining that warmongers like Liz Cheney are very quick to start wars and send other Americans to fight them, rather than go into combat themselves," Leavitt wrote on X.

She also shared a clip of Trump's talk with Tucker Carlson when Trump said: "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. OK, let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, 'Oh, gee, well, let's send a -- let's send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.'"

-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa

Nov 01, 2024, 9:31 AM EDT

Cheney responds: 'This is how dictators destroy free nations'

Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney responded to Trump's comments in a post on X.

"This is how dictators destroy free nations," she wrote. "They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant."

She also included the hashtag #VoteKamala in the post.

Nov 01, 2024, 9:26 AM EDT

Trump escalates violent rhetoric in attack on Liz Cheney

Sitting down with Tucker Carlson in Arizona late Thursday, Trump unleashed on former Rep. Liz Cheney.

"She's a radical war hawk," Trump said as he accused her and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, of leading the United States into the war in the Middle East.

"Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her," Trump said, invoking violence on his opponents as he implied that she sends people to war without having any war experience of her own.

Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a live interview with Tucker Carlson during the finale of the Tucker Carlson Live Tour at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Ariz., Oct. 31, 2024.
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"Okay, let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, 'Oh, gee, Will, let's send a, let's send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy,'" Trump continued.

He also repeatedly called Cheney a "stupid" and "bad" person.

-ABC News' Soorin Kim, Lalee Ibssa and Kelsey Walsh