Election security: Officials say 2024 election saw only 'minor' disruptive activities

Former President Donald Trump kicked off his final day on the campaign trail Monday at a poorly attended rally in North Carolina, where the venue was at least a third empty.

Sparsely populated to begin with, dozens of people left the venue in a steady stream throughout the rambling, unfocused speech.

At one point, Trump told North Carolinians who are desperately waiting for help after hurricane devastation to "sit back and relax" until he takes office.

"Those people, they better get that FEMA here fast. But we're going to on Jan. 20," Trump said. "Just tell everybody to sit back, relax. On Jan. 20, you'll see people come in and help you out like we did in the past."

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

During his two-hour testimony at an ongoing hearing over Elon Musk and his super PAC's $1 million voter sweepstakes, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner characterized America PAC's admission that winners are preselected as the "most amazingly disingenuous defense I have ever heard."

"This was all political marketing masquerading as a lottery," Krasner said during the hearing in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. "This has been a grift from the beginning. This has been a scam from the very beginning."

According to Chris Gober, a lawyer for Musk and America PAC, the winners were selected based on their "suitability" as spokespeople, signed a contract and received the million dollars as a "salary" for their work, despite Musk himself publicly saying that winners would be selected "randomly."

Krasner’s attorney, John Summers, described the claim as "a flat-out admission of liability." While America PAC has openly acknowledged that winners would serve as spokespeople, the hearing marks the first time they have disclosed that the winners were preselected.

"It is deceptive. It is misleading. It is taking advantage of people,” Krasner said. "They are doing everything under the sun to cover it up."

Musk's lawyers have repeatedly argued that the case itself is politically motivated, accusing Krasner of creating a "political circus." Krasner’s attorney attempted to counter that argument by mentioning that Krasner drives a Tesla -- made by the electric car company owned by Musk -- and would theoretically bring the same case against Taylor Swift if she arranged a similar scheme for Harris.

"I have brought action against Democrats in the past," Krasner said. "I would have brought an action against Taylor Swift if she did this. As far as I know, she didn't."

The court is currently on a lunch break following testimony from Krasner, who was the hearing's first witness.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous

Several Harris supporters at her rally in battleground Michigan on Sunday told ABC News they were confident in Harris’ prospects because they knew Republicans in their community who are casting a ballot for Harris -- many of them secretly.

Andrea Galindo said she believes Harris will win “because I know a lot of Republicans voted Democrat.”

Mike Arvizu said his father is a lifelong Republican who is voting for Harris.

“If my father-in-law can do it, there’s a lot more people out there,” Arvizu said.

Their optimism reflects a defining strategy of the Harris campaign: to reach every possible voter in battlegrounds, including Republicans and independents. In her final rally speeches, the vice president is stressing that she would invite those who disagree with her to have a seat at the table.

But voters said that the toxic and divisive nature of politics today means that many of these Republicans aren’t openly saying that they’re backing Harris.

“We’ve become so divided in this country that people don’t even have Thanksgiving with their own family members anymore. I think there is a fear in this country about even talking about politics, especially if you don’t know if someone agrees with you,” said Curtis Hertel, who is running for Congress in Michigan.

But Hertel said he’s seeing more conversation now across party lines, with Harris canvassers making headway even in deep-red areas like Livingston County.

-ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Selina Wang

On the eve of Election Day, the head of elections in the battleground state of North Carolina has issued an on-camera plea to candidates on the ballot tomorrow: "I would just make a plea to the candidates and elected officials: Have a peaceful transition of power. Accept the results. Concede defeat when necessary," Karen Brinson Bell, the executive director of the state’s board of elections, said during a press conference Monday.

While saying that "there’s more hostility" this election, she also urged candidates, voters and others to "please recognize" that election workers are "members of this community" who have "sworn oaths ... [as part of] a bipartisan effort to ensure that every eligible voter is able to cast their ballot, and that these results are tabulated and determined securely, accurately and correctly."

"Please treat others with dignity and respect," she said, adding that state and federal law forbids people from trying to intimidate voters or interfere with election officials carrying out there duties -- and the penalties can include prison time or fines, or both.

-ABC News' Mike Levine