Obama calls Trump 'wannabe king' at Harris event

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."

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Trump lashed out Wednesday at John Kelly following his former chief of staff's accounts that Trump praised Adolph Hitler and denigrated soldiers and veterans.

In a lengthy post on Truth Social, Trump claims Kelly, who he labeled a "degenerate" and "tough and dumb," "made up a story out of pure Trump Derangement Syndrome Hatred!"

"The story about the Soldiers was A LIE, as are numerous other stories he told. Even though I shouldn’t be wasting my time with him, I always feel it’s necessary to hit back in pursuit of THE TRUTH. John Kelly is a LOWLIFE, and a bad General, whose advice in the White House I no longer sought, and told him to MOVE ON!" Trump said.

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