Biden angers Republicans by associating 'garbage' with Trump supporters
The remark is being compared to Hillary Clinton's 2016 "deplorables" comment.
As the race reaches one week until Election Day, Kamala Harris delivered her "closing argument" on The Ellipse -- in the same spot where Donald Trump rallied his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, to march on the U.S. Capitol nearby.
Trump tried to preempt Harris's remarks, speaking to reporters Tuesday morning at Mar-a-Lago after declaring he's "the opposite of a Nazi" on Monday night in Georgia. He holds a rally later in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where there is a large population of Puerto Rican Americans.
Key Headlines
- Trump says his campaign is one of 'positive solutions'
- Michelle Obama warns Atlanta crowd young people will have to 'clean up the mess' if Harris doesn't win
- Trump on comedian's 'garbage' speech at Madison Square Garden says, 'I can't imagine it's a big deal'
- Biden angers Republicans by associating 'garbage' with Trump supporters
- RFK Jr. says Trump 'promised' him 'control of the public health agencies'
More than 53 million Americans have voted early
As of 11:59 p.m. ET on Tuesday, more than 53 million Americans have voted early, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida.
Of the total number of early votes, 27,765,237 were cast in person and 25,686,627 were returned by mail
There is now just one week until Election Day.
Trump and Harris effectively tied among likely voters in 2 swing states: Polls
A set of state polls by CNN and SSRS released Tuesday found Trump and Harris to be effectively tied among likely voters in Arizona and Nevada.
The Democratic Senate candidates, meanwhile, comfortably lead in each state.
In the Senate race in Arizona, Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego faces Republican Kari Lake. Lake is a Trump ally who was one of the most vocal election deniers after the 2020 election, refusing to concede that Trump had lost the presidential election and that she had lost her governor's race.
In Nevada, Democratic incumbent Jacky Rosen races Republican candidate Sam Brown.
Federal judge dismisses suit to delay ballot count for PA ex-pats
A federal judge in Pennsylvania dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday brought by five GOP congressmen who sought to segregate absentee ballots from overseas voters, including military members and their families.
On Sept. 30, Reps. Guy Reschenthaler, Dan Meuser, Glenn Thompson, Lloyd Smucker and Mike Kelly filed a suit against Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt and Deputy Secretary for Elections Jonathan Marks, accusing them of providing guidance to local election offices to not allow ID requirements for their foreign absentee voters.
They asked that the overseas ballots be segregated to ensure their validity.
Pennsylvania election law only permits ballots to be sent overseas if the applicant is eligible and the office has rarely seen any misuse, representatives from the Pennsylvania Secretary of State argued.
U.S. District Judge Christopher C. Conner sided with the secretary of state's office in his 21-page decision.
"Plaintiffs delayed too long to file their action, they lack standing, they have failed to join indispensable parties, and they have failed to articulate a viable cause of action," he said.
Similar lawsuits filed by the Republican National Committee in Michigan and North Carolina were dismissed by local courts. The plaintiffs have vowed to appeal..
USPS urges absentee voters to mail ballots today
The U.S. Postal Service issued an alert to voters who are planning to mail an absentee ballot and urged them to send them through the mail on Tuesday.
Although the USPS said it is "ready to successfully deliver the nation's mail-in ballots for voters who choose to use us to vote," it is anticipating an uptick of ballots in the mail over the coming days.
"We continue to recommend that it is a good common-sense measure for voters who choose to mail in their ballots to do so before Election Day and at least a week before their election office needs to receive them. If a ballot is due on Election Day, the Postal Service recommends mailing the ballot by this Tuesday (October 29)," the agency said in a news release.
The USPS said 99.9% of ballots were delivered within a week in 2020 and 98.3% of ballots were delivered within three days.
The USPS said it has undertaken "extraordinary measures" that it has taken in past elections, including extra deliveries and collections, special pickups, specialized sort plans at processing facilities to expedite delivery to boards of elections, and local handling and transportation of ballots.
Vance to join Joe Rogan podcast on Wednesday
Vice presidential nominee Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump's running mate, will sit down for an interview with Joe Rogan on Wednesday for his podcast, a spokesperson for Vance told ABC News.
The interview will take place in Austin, Texas, and is expected to drop later this week.
Vance's interview with Rogan comes after Trump sat down with Rogan last week for a three-hour interview.
Rogan posted on X on Monday that Vice President Harris' campaign offered to do his podcast on Tuesday on the road, but that he didn't want to travel from his studio.
-ABC News' Hannah Demissie