Trump suggests he might fire Fauci

The president was responding to chants of "Fire Fauci" at a Florida rally.

President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are racing toward Election Day with Biden in Pennsylvania and Trump Michigan, Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida on Sunday.

Vice President Mike Pence is in North Carolina and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., is in Georgia and North Carolina.

In the season's final ABC News/Washington Post polls, the pandemic versus the economy defines the presidential contest in two key battlegrounds, with Florida holding firm to its toss-up status while Biden leads slightly in Pennsylvania.

There's little change in either state. In Florida, Donald Trump has 50% support among likely voters to Biden's 48%; it was 51%-47% in an ABC/Post poll Sept. 20. Trump won the state by 112,911 votes out of more than 9.4 million cast in 2016.

In Pennsylvania, the race stands at 51%-44%, Biden-Trump, a 7-point advantage for the Democrat; that compares with a 9-point margin late last month. Here, Trump's 2016 win was even narrower: 44,292 votes out of nearly 6.2 million cast.


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Trump's final campaign rally blitz

Trump on Sunday kicks off two back-to-back five-rally days, bounding across the country to hold packed events in hopes of boosting turnout in the final days leading to Election Day, just like he did in 2016.

The president is set to hold his last rally before Election Day in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the same city where he wrapped up his 2016 campaign four years ago.

But some of the other stops on the president's final campaign push have changed since his initial run.

Unlike 2016, in 2020 Trump is not campaigning in the final 48 hours in New Hampshire, Minnesota, or Virginia — all states he ended up losing. In fact, the president has no rallies scheduled in the final two days in any pickup states, as Trump remains on defense with time running out.

For his re-election, Trump is zeroing in on Midwestern states, especially Michigan -- holding three rallies in the state over the next two days. Trump is also traveling to Iowa, a state he won by nine points, and Georgia where he won by over five points.

-ABC News' Will Steakin


Philadelphia prepares for 'avalanche' of mail-in ballots

The Philadelphia Convention Center will become the center of election activity in the city on Tuesday at 7 a.m., as hundreds of election officials start working to process hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots.

Their work in Pennsylvania's largest city -- a key Democratic stronghold -- could be crucial to determining who wins the battleground state next week, and with it, the White House.

Under pressure to work quickly, officials are also being squeezed by the calendar, after Republicans in control of the state legislature opted not to allow counties to begin processing mail-in ballots before the election, as is the case in most other states.

That abridged timeline, the potential for legal challenges and the sheer volume of mail in ballots in Pennsylvania -- which is allowing voting by mail for the first time this year -- could complicate a ballot count that is expected to continue until Friday, according to the state's top election official.

-ABC News' Benjamin Siegel


'Law enforcement feeling the stress'

On ABC's "This Week," Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas talked about law enforcement's greatest fear on Election Day.

“Law enforcement is feeling the stress as we race towards Tuesday … there’s a real worry about white supremacists, anti-government extremists and anarchists, who might see such a toxic environment as an opportunity for violence.”


Why voting in the coronavirus pandemic will be unlike any other year

Counting the votes “might take some time in this election … and everyone watching at home should know that it is not a sign that anything has gone wrong,” said ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on "This Week" Sunday.