While announcing a peace deal this afternoon between Israel and Sudan -- the third Arab country to move toward normalizing relations with the Jewish state in an election-season push by the Trump administration -- the president took a swipe at his political rival in the historic joint phone call from the Oval Office.

"Do you think Sleepy Joe could have made this deal, Bibi?" Trump asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a speakerphone, referring to Biden.

"Well, Mr. President," Netanyahu replied, starting slowly, "one thing I can tell you is we appreciate the help for peace from anyone in America, and we appreciate what you've done enormously."

Trump took questions from reporters following the call, and in speaking to the massive amount of early voting across the country, he predicted a “great red wave” is imminent -- "like you've never seen before."

But polls show Trump trailing Biden nationwide, and some Republicans in tight races have sought to distance themselves from the president in the homestretch to Election Day.

When asked about his debate performance last night compared to his first debate, Trump said while he thinks his approach to the second debate was “obviously a more popular way of doing it,” the first debate was more effective.

“I think the other is more effective in terms of business and life,” Trump said. “The first one. I thought I did great. There are certain groups of very aggressive people that loved the first debate. But I think this was better. This was obviously a more popular way of doing it."

-ABC News' Elizabeth Thomas

With early voting having kicked off in all 50 states plus Washington, D.C., at least 52 million votes have already been cast in the 2020 general election -- breaking records across the country.

In 2016, a total of 47 million early votes were cast, meaning the country has already surpassed its 2016 early voting data by roughly 5 million votes.

As of Friday at 1 p.m. an unprecedented 52,480,306 voters had already voted and at least 85,546,463 ballots had been requested in early voting states, according to the United States Elections Project, spearheaded by University of Florida's political expert Michael McDonald.

TargetSmart, a Democratic firm that collects political data including early voting statistics, reports that 10 million voters who have already voted in the 2020 election did not participate in the 2016 election. Many of these early votes are coming from young people as well as first-time voters. Individuals under 30 years old have cast 9.1% of early votes.

During a press conference Thursday, TargetSmart predicted there will still be an additional 40 million early votes cast as well as between 60-70 million votes cast on Election Day. The prediction is for at least 150 million ballots cast in total. In comparison, in the 2016 election, there were 138 million total votes.

-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh

Upon landing in Atlanta, Sen. Kamala Harris was asked to give her response to workers in the energy sector who might be worried about Biden's remark at the debate that his administration would transition out of the oil industry over time and end federal subsidies for fossil fuels.

"Let’s be really clear about this. Joe Biden is not going to ban fracking," Harris said. "He is going to deal with oil subsidies but that’s -- you know the president likes to put everything out of context, but let’s be clear what Joe was talking about was banning subsidies but he will not ban fracking in America."

Harris' defense of her running mate comes as Trump and his campaign have seized on the comment, claiming Biden has said in the past he would ban all fracking. The former vice president insists he said he would ban fracking on federal lands, not altogether.

It also comes as Trump and Biden court the battleground state of Pennsylvania, key to a pathway to the White House.

The comments are significant as Pennsylvania is the second-largest producer of natural gas in the U.S. More natural gas was fracked from Pennsylvania wells in 2019 than in any prior year, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection.

-ABC News' Averi Harper

Here’s where the candidates on the Democratic ticket are campaigning today:

Former Vice President Joe Biden:

Biden is slated to deliver a speech on COVID-19 and the economy at 2:30 p.m. from Wilmington, Delaware, where he's been hunkered down for the majority of the week to prepare for the debate.

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif.:

The California senator has landed in Atlanta and is expected to make multiple stops to encourage Georgians to vote early. In the evening, at 5:10 p.m., Harris is scheduled to participate in drive-in rally.