Obama calls Trump 'wannabe king' at Harris event

Vice President Kamala Harris reacted to John Kelly, a former four-star Marine general and the former chief of staff to Donald Trump, coming out swinging against the former president, saying he could fit the bill of a "fascist."

During her CNN town hall in Aston, Pennsylvania, Harris reacted to Kelly's statements and noted how he went public with his interviews so close to the election.

"Why would someone who served with him [Trump], who is not political, a four-star Marine general -- why is he telling the American people now?" Harris questioned.

"And frankly, I think of it as... he's just putting out a 911 call to the American people," Harris said.

Kelly, who had previously refrained from discussing his time in the White House so openly, said in expansive interviews with The New York Times that Trump's discussion of using the military against the "enemy within" pushed him to come forward.

"Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It's a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy," Kelly told The Times.

"So, certainly, in my experience, those are the kinds of things that he thinks would work better in terms of running America," he added of Trump.

During the town hall, Harris was asked by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper if she believes Trump is a fascist.

"Yes, I do," Harris said.

"I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted," the vice president added.

The Georgia secretary of state's office said that its online security experts stopped a cyberattack earlier this month, the intention of which was to crash the state's absentee voter website.

The office was first alerted to a potential issue when staff noticed a dramatic spike in attempts to gain access to the site, sources told ABC News affiliate WSB-TV.

Gabriel Sterling, chief operations officer for the secretary of state's office, confirmed the details to ABC News.

The office also told WSB-TV that its computer experts quickly prevented it from becoming a major issue for Georgia voters, calling it "a big win for the good guys."

The cyberattack consisted of more than 420,000 nearly simultaneous attempts to access the state’s absentee voter portal from around the world. The coordinated flood of entries, late in the afternoon of Oct.14, was intended to make the site crash and become unavailable to Georgia voters.

Oct. 14 was the last day to register to vote in the state of Georgia.

“We are a target. We are the center of the political universe. Our absentee ballot portal is live right now in the middle of an election. It is a ripe and juicy target for bad actors and enemy powers,” Sterling said.

Sterling told WSB-TV that, most likely, a majority of the attempts to access the portal were carried out by bots. “These different login attempts were from all over the globe,” Sterling said. “Many of these entities and these computers have been used in previous attacks.”

But, Sterling added: "We identified it and attempted to mitigate it immediately."

Sterling told ABC News that the attempted breach had the "hallmarks" of a foreign attack, based on his discussion with cyber experts.

However, he told WSB-TV that because of the safeguards in place, the only effect for voters was a brief slowdown on the absentee ballot portal. “By having these resources in place to begin with, we have lowered the likelihood of such an attack being attempted in the future,” Sterling said.

As of Wednesday evening, officials don’t know who was behind the attempted cyberattack or who coordinated it.

-ABC News' Olivia A. Rubin and T. Michelle Murphy

Jason Aldean was on hand in Duluth, Georgia, to introduce former President Donald Trump to the campaign rally stage.

The "Try That In a Small Town" singer spoke of his friendship with Trump and the over $6 million in hurricane relief donations they raised in a joint GoFundMe campaign.

Less than two weeks from Election Day, Harris sat down with Telemundo’s Julio Vaqueiro for an interview that touched on how her economic plan will affect Latino voters, immigration, how she would politically label herself and which team she’s rooting for in the World Series.

Harris pitched herself as a "pragmatic capitalist."

"I believe that we need a new generation of leadership in America that actively works with the private sector to build up the new industries of America, to build up small business owners, to allow us to increase home ownership, to allow people and their families to build intergenerational wealth. I believe in supporting workers," she said.

Harris emphasized how important the Latino vote is in the election while, despite recent polling and disagreed with the idea that Trump was making gains with Latino voters.

"I talk with Latino voters every day, all the time, and there is an incredible amount of support there, because Latino voters understand that they want a president of the United States who treats all people with dignity, with respect, and invests in their dreams for themselves and their family," she said.

Harris reiterated to Telemundo her belief that the U.S. needs an immigration policy that includes a pathway to citizenship

"We need smart, humane immigration policy in America that includes a pathway to citizenship, putting more resources at the border in terms of security, honoring America's history as a country of immigrants, not vilifying people who are fleeing harm, but instead, creating an orderly system for them to actually be able to make their case. That's where I stand. I stand on the principle that we should not be talking about immigrants as ‘poisoning the blood of America,'" she said referring to Trump's rhetoric.

On a lighter note, when asked who she supports in this year's World Series, Harris backed her husband's team, the Los Angeles Dodgers.

"I'm there with him," she said. "He was very excited about this."

-ABC News' Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, Fritz Farrow and Will McDuffie