Obama calls Trump 'wannabe king' at Harris event

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that voters in the swing state must be allowed to cast a provisional ballot at their polling place if their mail-in ballot was previously rejected because it was not placed in a so-called "secrecy envelope."

The case stems from two voters in Butler County whose mail-in-ballots were rejected after they were sent in without the required secrecy envelope, creating what is known as a "naked ballot." They later submitted provisional ballots, but they were not counted, leading to the lawsuit.

In its ruling, the court said Butler County "erred" when it rejected those provisional ballots to be uncounted and affirmed the lower courts ruling directing them to be counted.

"The General Assembly wrote the Election Code with the purpose of enabling citizens to exercise their right to vote, not for the purpose of creating obstacles to voting," the opinion said.

The ruling is a loss for the Republican National Committee, which was looking to have the lower court's ruling overturned and have those voters' provisional ballots remain uncounted. It is one of the multiple cases around the country the RNC is involved in, litigating over which ballots should count during the 2024 election.

The court seemed to reprimand the RNC repeatedly in its order, including for "engaging in wordplay to confuse the Code and reach an absurd result" where provisional ballots of these voters should not be counted.

The order also rebuked the RNC's claims that "election integrity" calls for the votes to not be counted stating, "[W]e are at a loss to identify what honest voting principle is violated by recognizing the validity of one ballot cast by one voter."

-ABC News' Olivia Rubin

The Harris campaign confirmed reports Wednesday that the vice president will deliver a major "closing argument" address at the Ellipse on the National Mall on Tuesday, a week before Election Day.

The location is the same location where Trump held his rally on Jan. 6 before his supporters stormed the Capitol.

Harris will provide a contrast between a first Harris term and a second Trump term by pointing to the future as a way to move past Trump and pursue a new way forward, according to a senior Harris campaign official.

The campaign believes that this symbolic location will help crystallize the choice for the American people in the election -- providing an opportunity for Harris to stress that the U.S. does not have to be defined as a nation by Trump’s chaos and division.

Campaign advisers say Harris will approach this moment like the former prosecutor she is: she has given her opening argument, laid out all the evidence, and now plans to take her closing argument directly to the “jury” -- the American people who will decide the outcome of this election, the official said.

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

President Joe Biden will campaign in Pittsburgh on Saturday, however the White House did not detail any of the events in the announcement.

The president also addressed Pennsylvania local and statewide leadership of the Pennsylvania North American Building Trades Union/AFL-CIO to thank them for their continued efforts to mobilize workers in support of the Harris-Walz campaign and Democratic candidates, according to the Harris-Walz campaign.

-ABC News' Justin Gomez

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday that seeks to order the Wisconsin Election Commission to cover his name on the swing state's presidential ballot by with stickers.

Previous attempts to remove Kennedy's name from the ballot were rejected by state and federal courts.

Kennedy argues that his 1st and 14th Amendment rights are being violated by keeping his name on the ballot.

It's likely the court will seek a response from the Wisconsin Elections Commission before rendering a decision on whether to intervene in the next 13 days.

Kennedy was running for president as.a Democrat before abandoning that effort to run as an independent instead. He later suspended that campaign and endorsed Trump.-ABC News' Devin Dwyer