Obama criticizes comic's Puerto Rico remarks at Trump's MSG rally

“These are fellow citizens he’s talking about," Obama said in Philadelphia.

As we head into the final full week of campaigning before Election Day, the latest ABC News/Ipsos poll shows Kamala Harris with a slight 51-47% lead over Donald Trump among likely voters nationally -- but the polls in the battleground states remain essentially deadlocked within the margin of error.

Fallout continues over racist comments made at Trump's big rally on Sunday at Madison Square Garden and Harris is preparing for her "closing argument" Tuesday night on the Ellipse near the Capitol and White House in Washington.


More than 47.5 million Americans have voted early

More than 47.5 million Americans have voted early as of just after 9 p.m. ET Monday, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida.

Of the total number of early votes, 24,243,105 were cast in person and 23,384,971 were returned by mail.


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Vance suggests American World War II soldiers would vote for Trump

During his second campaign event Monday, vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance accused Vice President Kamala Harris of doubling down on "divisive rhetoric" and displayed images of American World War II soldiers landing at Normandy in 1944.

"What the Democrats have decided to do in this last week of the campaign is to double down on the most divisive rhetoric, I think, that we have ever seen from a major party presidential candidate in my lifetime," Vance told the crowd in Racine, Wisconsin.

Flanked by two monitors while talking to a crowd of about 200 people, Vance showed photos of troops landing at the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in 1944.

Vance questioned what those soldiers would think of Harris and her policies.

"Do you think that those men who saved a continent, and I would say, saved the world for freedom and liberty? Do you think that they were fighting to open the southern border of their own country? Do you think that those men were fighting for taxpayer-funded sex reassignment surgeries for illegal aliens?" Vance asked the crowd.

"I'd like Kamala Harris to go back in time and hop on that boat and say that she wants taxpayer-funded sex reassignment surgeries for illegal aliens. And I'd like to hear the response of those brave men," Vance said.


Trump says 'I'm not a Nazi, I'm the opposite of a Nazi'

During his campaign event in Atlanta on Monday, Trump responded to claims his rhetoric can be likened to fascist beliefs, saying "I'm not a Nazi."

"The newest line from Kamala and her campaign is that everyone who isn't voting for her is a Nazi," Trump told the crowd.

"I'm not a Nazi. I'm the opposite of a Nazi," Trump said.

During a CNN town hall last week, Harris was asked if she thought Trump was a fascist and replied, "Yes, I do."

Harris went on to say American voters don't want "a president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist."


Trump says Michelle Obama was ‘nasty’ to him

Trump told a rally in Atlanta on Monday that Michelle Obama has been “nasty” to him.

“You know who’s nasty to me? Michelle Obama,” he said. “I always tried to be so nice and respectful. Oh, she opened up a little bit of a little bit of a box, she opened up a little bit of something. There she was nasty. Shouldn't be that way.

“That was a big mistake that she made,” he added.

Obama attacked Trump while stumping for Harris in Michigan on Saturday, telling the crowd, “I hope that you’ll forgive me if I’m a little angry that we are indifferent to his erratic behavior, his obvious mental decline, his history as a convicted felon, a known slum lord, a predator found liable for sexual abuse, all of this while we pick apart Kamala’s answers from interviews that he doesn’t even have the courage to do, y’all.”

Trump also claimed he could have locked up Hillary Clinton but didn’t.

Trump had just repeated his often used line “Get out of here, Kamala! You’re fired!” when the crowd broke into a chant of “Lock her up!”“Be nice, be nice,” Trump told the crowd. “You know, they used to say that with Hillary, and I'd always go, ‘Relax. Take it easy, we’re going to win.’”

“Then we won. When they said, ‘Lock her up, lock her up, lock her up.’ Easy, easy -- we won. We're going to have unity,” he said.

“I could have locked her up, but I didn't want to lock her up. She's the wife of the president of the United States, previously, and the presidential secretary of state. I said that would be so terrible for our country, and then try and do it to me.”


Biden touts Harris' character, says nation is at an 'inflection point'

President Joe Biden spoke of Harris' character and qualifications as she heads into the home stretch of the campaign trail during remarks Monday on the upcoming celebration of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.

"I selected Kamala to be my running mate for many reasons: She's smart, she's tough, she's trusted, a district attorney and an attorney general in California, a United States Senator, now vice president of the United States," Biden said in the White House's East Room. "There is more experience that she has than the whole of that other guy she's running against. But most importantly, and I mean this sincerely from the bottom of my heart: She has character."

As he spoke about "light" in the country, Biden said the U.S. is at an "inflection point" ahead of the election.

"Every generation has been called to move us forward to be the nation we say we are but only once in every few generations are we reminded not to take the idea of America for granted," he said.

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin