Obama calls Trump 'wannabe king' at Harris event

“That's not what you need in your life," he said.

Last Updated: October 27, 2024, 8:15 AM EDT

The race for the White House is heading into the final stretch with most polls showing Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump neck-and-neck in key states with less than two weeks to go.

Oct 27, 8:12 am

More than 40 million Americans have voted early

As of Saturday night, more than 40 million Americans cast an absentee ballot or voted early in person, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida.

Roughly 19.3 million people voted early in person, the lab reported, and more than 20.9 million returned their ballot by mail.

A man votes on the second day of early voting in Wisconsin at the American Serb Hall Banquet in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 23, 2024.
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Oct 22, 2024, 5:42 PM EDT

Biden warns Trump will eliminate Inflation Reduction Act, Obamacare if elected

President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders teamed up Tuesday afternoon at an event in Concord, New Hampshire, to tout a new report showing Medicare enrollees saved nearly $1 billion on their prescription drugs so far in 2024 through the Inflation Reduction Act.

Biden warned that this progress could be undone if Trump wins in November.

"Trump and MAGA Republicans want to eliminate the Inflation Reduction Act, which we're talking about, the big bill which made all these savings possible, raising prescription drug prices again for millions of Americans," he said.

Biden said Trump and the GOP have tried to replace the Affordable Care Act 51 times and mocked the former president for having only a "concept of a plan."

Biden said if Harris isn’t elected, Trump will “kick 45 million people off their health insurance,” give tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans, get rid of the Department of Education and gut Social Security and Medicare.

"He’ll hurt hard-working people," he said.

-ABC News' Justin Gomez

Oct 22, 2024, 5:57 PM EDT

Vance pushes GOTV message in Arizona

In his fourth visit to the swing state of Arizona, vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance had one simple message to voters: get out and vote for Trump.

"Here's the scenario that I want you to consider, and I don't mean to give you nightmare fuel here, but I'm going to do it," Vance said. "We wake up on November the 6th and Kamala Harris is barely elected President of the United States by a 700-vote margin in the state of Arizona. Think about that and ask yourself what you can do from now until then to make sure it doesn't happen."

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks at a campaign rally in Peoria, Ariz., on Oct. 22, 2024.
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Asked by local reporters what's the strategy to get across the finish line with those who are still undecided, Vance asked them to look at the former president's record, arguing that America was in a better position with him as commander-in-chief.

Asked if he's confident in the Arizona election system and if he's going to accept the results of the 2024 election, Vance said he thinks "that we're in a better place than we were in 2020."

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie

Oct 22, 2024, 5:33 PM EDT

Harris says she believes Trump could declare victory before all votes counted

Harris acknowledged Tuesday that “of course” it is possible that Trump could declare victory before all the votes are counted next month.

"This is a person, Donald Trump, who tried to undo a free and fair election, who still denies the will of the people, who incited a violent mob to attack the United States Capitol and 140 law enforcement officers were attacked, some who were killed," Harris told NBC's Hallie Jackson in a clip of their interview that was released Tuesday afternoon.

Harris said that she and her team "will deal with election night and the days after as they come, and we have the resources and the expertise and the focus" on that scenario.

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

Oct 22, 2024, 4:55 PM EDT

Georgia Supreme Court unanimously rejects controversial election rules

The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday denied an effort from the Republican National Committee to reinstate a series of election rules, including requiring ballots be counted by hand, after they previously were blocked by a lower judge.

The state's high court ruling was unanimous, according to the order.

The lower court judge previously ruled that seven election rules passed by the state's Republican-led Election Board were "unlawful and void." The RNC then appealed, with RNC chairman Michael Whaley in statement saying the judge "exemplified the very worst of judicial activism."

The order from the Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday said the appeal "will proceed in the ordinary court" once it is docketed.

-ABC News' Olivia Rubin