Obama calls Trump 'wannabe king' at Harris event

Harris will deliver a speech on the National Mall in Washington next Tuesday, one week before Election Day, two people familiar with the planning confirmed to ABC News.

The Washington Post first reported the plans.

The Harris campaign has been granted a permit for this event, which it listed as a "First Amendment Activity: Political Speech" in the application with the National Park Service.

The application shows that the campaign requested to move the location of the speech to the Ellipse.

The application requests an 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. window on Oct. 29th, and estimates that roughly 7,500 people will attend along with 250 staff and volunteers. Organizers added that the speaking program will "consist of 4 to 5 individuals & elected officials."

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart, Will McDuffie, Gabrielle Abdul-Hakim and Fritz Farrow

A comprehensive audit of Georgia's voter rolls found that just 20 noncitizens were registered to vote on a registration list of over 8 million, according to an announcement Wednesday from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

All 20 of those registrations have been canceled and referred to the authorities for investigation and potential prosecution, Raffensperger said.

An additional 156 registrations were flagged for a "human investigation" that is now underway.

The result of the audit stands in stark contrast to claims being pushed by some Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, that large numbers of noncitizens are going to vote in the 2024 election.

Read more here from ABC News' Olivia Rubin.

"The big theme of the first month of their campaign was that they were the joyful campaign," Trump's running mate Sen. JD Vance said of Harris' campaign as he stumped in battleground Nevada. "And my friends, the joy is gone. The joy is gone from the Kamala Harris campaign."

During his remarks in the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino, Vance said Harris was scolding Trump supporters.

"She was like, how can you dare have a sense of humor about American politics? It's one of the things I love about my running mate is he does have a sense of humor. You can fix the country but have a good time while you're going around and campaigning across the United States, right?" Vance said.

Harris has recently revived one of President Joe Biden's key campaign attacks: that Trump represents a threat to democracy.

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie

Republicans are warning that they could get vastly outspent in the battle for state legislative races across the country, a continuing reversal from last decade's elections, when the GOP dominated such contests.

In a donor memo first reported by Politico and obtained by ABC News, Republican State Leadership Committee President Dee Duncan wrote to donors that his group's historic $44 million investment in state legislative races this year would pale in comparison to the $175 million its Democratic counterpart and allied liberal groups planned to dish out.

"Since the…aforementioned national liberal outside groups have already combined to spend at least $69 million of traceable money across the country, that means they are on the road to dump at least another $100 million into key races between now and November," Duncan wrote in his call to action.

"We don't expect to fully close the fundraising gap we face, but additional resources are still immediately needed to counter the opposition's massive spending advantage in these final weeks to ensure we remain on course to defend our majorities and seize any and all opportunities to flip chambers still within reach," he added.

Democrats have made a concerted effort to get off the mat in state legislature races across the country. In 2022, the DLCC was able to overwhelm the RSLC in spending in the final weeks, a scenario Duncan specifically referenced as wanting to avoid this time around.

After having their ranks decimated in the 2010 midterms and struggling for over a decade to recoup, voting and abortion restrictions pushed by Republicans helped underscore the importance of such bodies for voters, producing an influx of funds that have helped Democrats go on offense. This year, the Democratic National Committee sent a first-of-its-kind $2.5 million to the DLCC.

Democrats are now on offense in Arizona, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and the Pennsylvania Senate, where they're seeking to flip state chambers. Republicans are working to regain ground in Michigan and Minnesota, as well as in the Pennsylvania House.