Election 2020: Melania Trump delivers pointed political attack on trail
She took aim at Democrats on issues from the pandemic to impeachment.
With one week until Election Day, and President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden racing toward Nov. 3, nearly 65 million have voted early so far -- a record.
The president continues an aggressive, defensive campaign as polls show him trailing nationally and in several battleground states key to his reelection hopes. He holds rallies in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska. Vice President Mike Pence is in the Carolinas.
Biden is on offense, spending the day in Georgia to deliver a "closing argument" on national unity. While some Democrats argue the usually red state's electoral votes are in play, others warn against losing focus on key swing states like Wisconsin. His running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., is in Nevada.
Top headlines:
- Biden campaign to launch 3-day bus tour in Texas
- Melania Trump bashes Democrats in most political speech to date
- Biden pitches himself as unity candidate in a battle for the ‘soul of the nation’
- Trump departs for 3-state rally tour, Melania to Pennsylvania
- Obama blasts Trump in Orlando, urges Biden supporters to vote 'right now'
The power of the Latino vote
ABC News Senior White White House Correspondent Cecilia Vega reports on the uncertainty faced by DREAMers under the Trump administration as part of “America’s Future: The Power of the Latino Vote” on ABC News Live
"Their futures may depend on the outcome of this presidential election."
Trump campaign website 'attacked'
The Trump campaign confirmed that its website was compromised, but has since been restored.
“Earlier this evening, the Trump campaign website was defaced and we are working with law enforcement authorities to investigate the source of the attack," communications director Tim Murtaugh said.
The campaign said it is working with law enforcement to investigate the "source of the attack," adding that there was no exposure to sensitive data, given it's not stored on their site.
-ABC News' Will Steakin
Texas Supreme Court reverses lower court ruling on ballot drop-off sites
The Texas Supreme Court this evening has now ordered Gov. Greg Abbott's proclamation limiting counties to one mail-in ballot drop-off location be put back into effect -- reversing an order last Friday from a state appeals court.
The court argues that the challenging parties did not overcome their burden to prove that Abbott was acting in bad faith in his decision to order the shutdown of drop-off locations in the state's counties.
"The Governor’s October Proclamation provides Texas voters more ways to vote in the November 3 election than does the Election Code," the court writes. "It does not disenfranchise anyone."
-ABC News' Alexander Mallin
Breaking down how Trump, Biden are campaigning in the final days before the election
ABC News Political Director Rick Klein breaks down how Trump and Biden are campaigning on the final days before the election.
While the president has said he's tired of talking about COVID-19, his biggest problem one week from Election Day may be that voters he needs are living it – still, and especially now, Klein wrote in The Note on Tuesday.
Among the 13 most competitive battleground states, coronavirus positivity rates are going up in 11 of them -- including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Arizona, according to an ABC News analysis of COVID Tracking Project data.
Hospitalization rates are up in nine of the 13 top-targeted states, including the five top-tier battlegrounds just referenced. The number of daily deaths is up in six critical states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Ohio and Minnesota.