对白宫的争夺正进入最后阶段，大多数民调显示，副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯和前总统唐纳德·特朗普在关键州不分上下，只剩大约两周时间。
密歇根州和北卡罗来纳州的法官驳回了对海外投票的质疑
密歇根州和北卡罗来纳州的法官周一驳回了试图取消海外合格美国选民的投票资格.
共和党原告声称，这两个州以及宾夕法尼亚州的选举办公室制造了漏洞，允许不合格的人通过海外缺席投票进行投票。
在…里密歇根法官驳回了三起诉讼中的一起，在他看来，这是“剥夺这些选民选举权的最后一刻的尝试。”
在…里北卡罗来纳州法官驳回了原告的一项请求，即在他们的个人资格得到核实之前，搁置海外选民的选票。高等法院法官约翰·史密斯在该案中写道，“绝对没有证据表明任何人曾欺诈性地声称豁免并在北卡罗来纳州的任何选举中实际投票。”
他的裁决还结论性地指出，"本法院权衡了原告受到伤害的假设可能性和被告的权利，认为总的来说，本法院的公平酌处权不应被用来根据没有任何实质性证据的无根据和推测性的指控区别对待整个公民群体。
宾夕法尼亚州一项类似诉讼的裁决预计将很快出台。
尽管选民缺乏兴趣，特朗普仍在反跨性别广告上花费数百万美元
唐纳德·特朗普和他的共和党盟友积极推行反反反转录信息在他竞选的最后阶段——尽管事实上跨性别问题是促使选民走向投票箱的最不重要的问题之一，根据盖洛普民意测验。
截至10月9日，特朗普竞选团队和共和党团体已经在反跨性别和反性少数群体的电视广告上花费了超过2100万美元。
此外，最近几个月，与特朗普结盟的政治团体在电视上播放大量广告，贬低支持跨性别群体的政策。
尽管美国的跨性别人口规模较小，但这些问题在州和联邦层面的许多共和党竞选活动中发挥了关键作用。
特朗普自己的政治议程名为47议程(Agenda 47 ),充满了基于跨性别的提案，包括禁止跨性别者参加女性体育运动，结束由联邦或州政府资助的性别确认护理，等等。
美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)联系了特朗普竞选团队，就他的广告支出发表评论。
本周晚些时候，沃尔兹将前往肯塔基州、北卡罗来纳州和宾夕法尼亚州
明尼苏达州州长蒂姆·瓦尔兹(Tim Walz)周二在威斯康星州竞选后(在那里，他将与前总统巴拉克·奥巴马(Barack Obama)一起在麦迪逊参加集会)，他本周将继续竞选。
周三，沃尔兹将在肯塔基州路易斯维尔的一个晚间筹款活动上发表讲话。
周四，他将在北卡罗莱纳州的达勒姆停留一个上午，这是他与前总统比尔·克林顿访问该市后的第一周。下午，他将在北卡罗来纳州的格林维尔做当地停留，当晚在威尔明顿举行集会。
周五，沃尔兹将在费城竞选，中午左右他将在该市的一个筹款活动上发表讲话。
哈里斯说她因为选举压力在半夜醒来
哈里斯说，当被问及她如何处理竞选期间的压力和焦虑时，她发现自己在半夜从选举最后几天的压力中醒来密歇根的讨论星期一。
“你知道，我半夜醒来，这几天通常都是这样。坦白地说，”哈里斯告诉玛利亚·施莱沃，他在皇家橡树主持了副总统和前怀俄明州共和党众议员利兹·切尼之间的讨论。“但我每天早上都健身。我认为这对我们的思想、身体和精神都很重要。”
“再多说一点，”施莱佛催促哈里斯。
“我努力锻炼，努力吃东西，”哈里斯回应道。“你知道，我爱我的家庭，我确保每天都和孩子们以及我的丈夫交谈。”
“我的家人在各方面都让我有理由，”她补充道。
交换开始时，哈里斯明确表示:她不会带走任何食物。
“每个和我交谈过的人都说，你知道，我必须关掉新闻，我什么也不能看，我在冥想，我在做瑜伽。我好焦虑。我只是不知道。我在吃橡皮糖，各种各样的东西，你知道吗?”施莱佛问哈里斯:“你在干什么?”
“不吃口香糖，”哈里斯对着人群笑着说。
莉兹·切尼为保守派支持哈里斯辩护
副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯周一在宾夕法尼亚州、密歇根州和威斯康星州参加了与前众议员利兹·切尼的一系列有节制的对话。
在这些露面中，切尼呼吁保守派在即将到来的选举中投票给民主党，并支持哈里斯入主白宫。
“我想说的是，如果人们不确定，如果人们在想，'嗯，你知道，我是一个保守派，我不知道我能支持副总统哈里斯，'我会说，我不知道是否有人比我更保守，”切尼说，他是2019年至2021年众议院共和党会议的第三号人物。
切尼还警告考虑投票给特朗普的共和党人，国会不会制衡他。
切尼说:“对于任何认为自己可能会因为国家安全政策而投票给唐纳德·特朗普的共和党人，我请你们研究一下他的国家安全政策。”“这不仅不符合共和党的原则，而且很危险。没有盟友，美国会发现我们的自由和安全受到挑战和威胁。”
“最后一点:不要认为国会可以阻止他，”切尼补充说。
在宾夕法尼亚州的马尔文，切尼说，她认为会有共和党选民投票给哈里斯，即使他们没有公开表示。
在密歇根州，她更进一步，鼓励选民这样做，她说，“如果你担心，你可以凭良心投票，不必对任何人说一句话，11月5日将有数百万共和党人这样做，投票给副总统哈里斯。”
周一，特朗普在北卡罗来纳州格林维尔集会，对2024年选举中可能存在的欺诈行为提出了毫无根据的指控-尽管当天早些时候他说他没有看到证据。
在集会期间，特朗普一度转向共和党全国委员会主席迈克尔·沃特利，问他关于选举安全的问题。
“他会停止作弊的。他将停止作弊，”特朗普对沃特利说。“他们作弊了吗?迈克尔，他们在努力，但真的吗?他们不会得逞的，对吧?...他们在很多地方都逃脱了惩罚。”
早些时候在北卡罗来纳州的阿什维尔，特朗普告诉他的支持者，到目前为止他还没有看到任何选举作弊的证据，但补充说，“我知道另一方，他们不是好人。”
超过150万人在战场佐治亚州提前投票
佐治亚州国务卿办公室周一宣布，截至周一下午，佐治亚州已有超过150万选民亲自提前投票。
“佐治亚州的选民知道，我们让投票变得很容易。真的就这么简单，”佐治亚州国务卿布拉德·拉芬斯佩格在一份声明中说。
10月15日星期二，在关键战场州开始亲自提前投票。
截至周一下午，全国已有超过1500万张提前投票，其中包括近500万张亲自参加的提前投票，根据一项分析佛罗里达大学的选举实验室。
哈里斯重申，在特朗普的特技表演后，她在麦当劳工作
在去密歇根参加她主持的谈话的路上，哈里斯被问及她是否在空军二号下飞机时在麦当劳工作过。
“我有吗?“是的，”她说。
她过去在麦当劳的经历已经成为特朗普的固定资产，他在周末操作油炸锅在费城地区的一家连锁餐厅。
特朗普声称哈里斯从未在这家快餐巨头工作过。哈里斯在这次竞选中向选民介绍自己时，讲述了她在霍华德大学(Howard University)大一和大二期间在那里工作的故事，试图将她的工人阶级根源与特朗普的背景进行对比。
切尼支持哈里斯堕胎
哈里斯周一在一个热点文化问题上得到了一个不太可能的来源的支持——保守派前众议员利兹·切尼。
切尼-在2021年1月6日的美国国会大厦骚乱中与川普决裂-仍然拥有保守的记录。但周一，她介入了一个问题，民主党人希望这个问题能帮助他们在选举日赢得选民。
切尼说:“我认为全国各地有许多人都是反堕胎的，但他们已经看到了自多布斯裁决以来我们各州发生的事情，并看到州立法机构制定的法律导致妇女得不到她们需要的护理，”他指的是最高法院取消联邦堕胎保护的裁决。
“例如，在德克萨斯州这样的地方，司法部长正在谈论起诉，正在起诉，以获得女性医疗记录。作为一个国家，这是不可持续的，必须改变。”
哈里斯在费城郊区发表的这番言论引人注目，因为他希望巩固郊区女性选民的支持。
哈里斯和利兹·切尼一起努力争取宾夕法尼亚州的共和党选票
周一，哈里斯在宾夕法尼亚州、密歇根州和威斯康星州的郊区城市与前怀俄明州共和党众议员利兹·切尼进行了一系列有节制的谈话。
在宾夕法尼亚州，哈里斯和切尼努力消除共和党人对他们党内可能投票支持副总统的提名人的不满，并关注特朗普对国家和民主构成的危险。
哈里斯说:“在我们国家的历史上，有几个月挑战我们，我们每个人都要真正决定我们什么时候支持我们谈论的那些事情，特别是国家高于政党的事情。”
切尼是特朗普的坚定批评者9月份支持哈里斯尽管他们的党派和政策有所不同，但她说“我的经历和背景中的每一件事都起了作用”来支持哈里斯。
“在这场竞选中，我们有机会投票支持你可以信赖的人。我们不会总是意见一致，但我知道副总统哈里斯将永远做她认为对这个国家有益的事情。她有一颗真诚的心，这就是为什么我很荣幸能在这个地方。”
阅读更多关于哈里斯和切尼的活动这里.
特朗普出现在殡仪馆的播客上
川普继续他的替代媒体外联努力，坐下来接受退役职业摔跤手马克·卡拉韦的播客采访，也被称为“承办人”
在播客中，特朗普重复了他的反跨性别言论，承诺不允许“男性参加女性运动”，因为卡拉威提到了他十几岁的四分卫女儿。
“如果你这样做，你不会想去和一个人摔跤，因为人们会这样做——就像你的父亲——对吗?他有点难以应付，”特朗普对采访时在场的卡拉威的女儿说，卡拉威问了他关于第九章的问题..
“我会很快摆脱它。男子参加女子运动是疯狂的，”特朗普说。
共和党人在这个周期投入了大量针对跨性别群体的广告。
沃尔兹谈到他会采取哪些不同于拜登政府的措施，并吸引选民
蒂姆·瓦尔兹(Tim Walz)周一参加了美国广播公司(ABC)的“观点”(The View)，在那里他讨论了他会采取哪些不同于拜登-哈里斯政府的措施——哈里斯本人在脱口秀节目中也曾提出过这个问题。
这位州长说，他希望他们候选人的提议之一——扩大医疗保险——“能早点提出来。”他认为他们的活动主要集中在医疗经济和儿童保健的可负担性上。
瓦尔兹还讨论了他们如何吸引男性和黑人选民，这两个投票区是特朗普取得成功的地方。
“正如副总统所说，我们有责任赢得每个人的选票，而不是假设男人或女人会支持我们。我经常听说黑人社区。除非我们提出对他们的生活产生积极影响的建议，否则我们为什么要假设他们和我们在一起?”沃尔兹说。
他认为，他们正试图让选民了解他们在住房、儿童保育、小企业等方面的提议。
在“观点”上阅读更多关于Walz的信息这里.
Trump won't denounce violence against FEMA workers during North Carolina stop
Trump toured devastation caused by Hurricane Helene just outside Asheville, North Carolina, and later delivered remarks to the press where he began by slamming the job from the White House for their hurricane response, continuing to push false claims about FEMA assistance in the wake of violence against FEMA workers.
"The power of nature. Nothing you can do about it, but you got to get a little bit better crew in to do a better job than has been done by the White House. It's been not good. Not good. I'm here today in western North Carolina to express a simple message to the incredible people of the state, I'm with you, and the American people are with you all the way," Trump said.
Later, he pushed false claims about the allocation of FEMA assistance, once again falsely saying that money dedicated to hurricane relief was going to offer assistance to migrants unaffected by the storm.
"FEMA has done a very poor job … They had spent hundreds of millions of dollars doing other things, things that I don't think bear any relationship to this money, there was, they were not supposed to be spending the money on taking in illegal migrants, maybe so they could vote in the election. Because that's what a lot of people are saying. That's why they're doing it," Trump falsely said.
Sen. Bernie Sanders to join Biden in New Hampshire
In a strategic visit to boost Democrats’ presence in the purple state ahead of the election, President Joe Biden will be joined by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Tuesday in New Hampshire to talk about lowering the cost of prescription drugs, a senior administration official told ABC News.
The president is also expected to stop by a New Hampshire Democratic Party campaign office to support Vice President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, the official said.
The economy and costs are a top issue to voters in New Hampshire, polling shows, and Sanders, who made the high price of U.S. health care a central point of both his presidential campaigns, is a popular figure in the state, which neighbors his own.
Sanders and Biden will discuss new data on savings brought about by the administration’s hallmark Inflation Reduction Act, the senior official said. The act implemented significant price caps for Medicare enrollees, including a $35 cap on insulin already in effect and a $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket drug costs that kicks in in 2025. The White House estimates the caps will bring about cost savings of $400 per year for nearly 19 million seniors.
Tim Walz to join ABC's 'The View'
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Harris' running mate, will join ABC's "The View" on Monday.
His interview comes after Harris herself appeared on the showas part of a media blitzearlier this month.
Walz recently quipped on Trump's visit to a McDonald's on Sunday as part of his mockery of Harris' past employment there. Walz said he took "full responsibility" for thecampaign stopafter he once joked he couldn't imagine the former president working a McFlurry machine.
Harris, Cheney to make the case to disaffected Republican voters
Harris is stumping with former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney on Monday in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. The two will hold a moderated conversation in each of the "blue wall" states.
Cheney endorsed Harris in early September, warning Trump posed a threat to democracy after what happened on Jan. 6, 2021.
"Donald Trump was willing to sacrifice our capitol to allow law enforcement officers to be beaten and brutalized in his name and to violate the law and the Constitution in order to seize power for himself," Cheney said at her first joint appearance with Harris earlier this month.
"I don't care if you are a Democrat or a Republican or an independent, that is depravity, and we must never become numb to it," she continued. "Any person who would do these things can never be trusted with power again. We must defeat Donald Trump on Nov. 5."
Trump to survey hurricane damage before rally in North Carolina
At noon, Trump will survey devastation caused by Hurricane Helene in Asheville, North Carolina.
He'll later hold a 3 p.m. rally in Greenville before a 6:30 p.m. meeting with faith leaders in Concord.
Trump has criticized the Biden-Harris response to the storm, andspread misinformationabout the federal government's recovery efforts and assistance. Such misinformation, Biden and other officials have said, is harming those who need assistance and resulting in threats against FEMA workers.
Polls show close race between Harris, Trump
The latestpolling averages from 538show the two candidates running even in key swing states Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Trump, meanwhile, has a slight lead over Harris in Georgia and Arizona.
Overall, 538's national polling average shows Harris ahead by just 1.8%.
2024 election updates: More than 1.5M have voted early in battleground Georgia
The race for the White House is heading into the final stretch with most polls showing Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump neck-and-neck in key states with just about two weeks to go.
Judges in Michigan and North Carolina reject challenges to overseas votes
Judges in Michigan and North Carolina on Monday ruled against legal challenges thatattempted to disqualify votes cast by eligible American voters overseas.
Republican plaintiffs claimed that election offices in those two states, as well as in Pennsylvania, had created loopholes that would allow ineligible people to vote through overseas absentee ballots.
InMichigan, the judge dismissed one of three suits filed, calling it in his opinion "an 11th-hour attempt to disenfranchise these electors."
InNorth Carolina, the judge denied a request by plaintiffs to set aside the ballots of overseas voters until a time at which their individual eligibility could be verified. Superior Court Judge John Smith wrote in that instance that there was "absolutely no evidence that any person has ever fraudulently claimed that exemption and actually voted in any North Carolina election."
His ruling also stated conclusively that, "This court has weighed the hypothetical possibility of harm to plaintiffs against the rights of the defendants and finds that on balance the equitable discretion of this court should not be invoked to treat an entire group of citizens differently based upon unsupported and speculative allegations for which there is not even a scintilla of substantive evidence."
A ruling on a similar lawsuit in Pennsylvania is expected soon.
Trump spends millions on anti-trans ads despite lack of voter interest
Donald Trump and his Republicans allies areaggressively pushing anti-trans messagingin the final stretch of his campaign — despite the fact that transgender issues are among the least important issues motivating voters to head to the ballot box, accordingto a Gallup poll.
The Trump campaign and Republican groups have spent more than $21 million on anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ television ads as of Oct. 9.
Additionally, in recent months, Trump-aligned political groups have flooded the airwaves with ads disparaging policies that support the transgender community.
Despite the small size of the transgender population in the U.S., these issues have played a key role in many Republican campaigns on both the state and federal levels.
Trump's own political agenda, titled Agenda 47, is laden with transgender-based proposals, including a ban on transgender participation in women's sports, an end to gender-affirming care funded by federal or state dollars, and more.
ABC News has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment on his ad spending.
Walz to travel to Kentucky, North Carolina and Pennsylvania later this week
After Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz campaigns in Wisconsin on Tuesday (where he'll be joined by former President Barack Obama for a rally in Madison), he’ll remain out on the trail this week.
On Wednesday, Walz will speak at an evening fundraiser in Louisville, Kentucky.
On Thursday, he will spend the morning making political stops in Durham, North Carolina -- just a week after he visited the city with former President Bill Clinton. He'll then make local stops in Greenville, North Carolina, in the afternoon and hold a rally in Wilmington that night.
On Friday, Walz will campaign in Philadelphia, where he'll speak at a fundraiser in the city around noon.
Harris says she wakes up in middle of night from election stress
Harris said she finds herself waking up in the middle of the night from the stress of the final days of the election, when asked how she handles stress and anxiety during adiscussion in Michiganon Monday.
"You know, I wake up in the middle of the night, usually these days. Just to be honest with you," Harris told Maria Shriver, who moderated the discussion between the vice president and former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney in Royal Oak. "But I work out every morning. I think that's really important to just kind of, you know, mind, body and spirit."
"Say more about that," Shriver pressed Harris.
"I work out, I try to eat,” Harris responded. "You know, I love my family, and I make sure that I talk to the kids and my husband every day."
"My family grounds me in every way," she added.
The exchange started with Harris making something clear: She's not taking edibles.
"Everybody I talked to says, you know, I have to turn off the news, I can't read anything, I'm meditating, I'm doing yoga. I'm so anxious. I just don't even know. I'm eating gummies, all kinds of things, you know?" Shriver said to Harris, asking, "What are you doing?"
“Not eating gummies,” Harris said to laughs from the crowd.
Liz Cheney makes a case for conservatives to back Harris
Vice President Kamala Harris participated in a series of moderated conversations with former Rep. Liz Cheney in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin on Monday.
In those appearances, Cheney made a case for conservatives to vote Democrat in the upcoming election and support Harris' bid for the White House.
"What I would say is that if people are uncertain, if people are thinking, 'Well, you know, I'm a conservative, I don't know that I can support Vice President Harris,' I would say, I don't know if anybody is more conservative than I am," said Cheney, who was the third-ranking member of the House Republican Conference from 2019 to 2021.
Cheney also warned Republicans considering voting for Trump that Congress would not be a check on him.
"For anybody who is a Republican who is thinking that, you know, they might vote for Donald Trump because of national security policy, I ask you, please, please study his national security policy," Cheney said. "Not only is it not Republican — it's dangerous. And without allies, America will find our very freedom and security challenged and threatened."
"And one final point on this: Don't think that Congress can stop him," Cheney added.
In Malvern, Pennsylvania, Cheney said she thought there would be Republican voters who would cast their ballots for Harris — even if they did not reveal it publicly.
In Michigan, she went further, encouraging voters to do just that, saying, "If you're at all concerned, you can vote your conscience and not ever have to say a word to anybody, and there will be millions of Republicans who do that on Nov. 5, vote for Vice President Harris."
Trump pushes false claims that Democrats are trying to cheat in election
Rallying in Greenville, North Carolina, on Monday, Trump launched baseless claims about possible fraud in the 2024 election -- despite earlier in the day saying he hadn't seen evidence of it.
At one point during the rally, Trump turned to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley to ask him about election security.
"He'll stop the cheating. He's going to stop the cheating," Trump said to Whatley. "Are they cheating? Michael, they're trying, but are they? They're not going to get away with it, right? ... They got away with it in plenty of places."
Earlier in Asheville, North Carolina, Trump told his supporters that he hasn't seen any evidence of cheating in the election thus far, but added, "I know the other side and they are not good."
More than 1.5M have voted early in battleground Georgia
The office of the Georgia Secretary of State announced Monday that more than 1.5 million voters have voted early in person in Georgia as of Monday afternoon.
“Georgia voters know we’ve made it easy to cast a ballot. It’s really that simple,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a statement.
In-person early voting started in the key battleground state on Tuesday, Oct. 15.
As of Monday afternoon, more than 15 million early votes have been cast nationally, including almost 5 million in-person early votes,according to an analysisby the Election Lab at the University of Florida.
Harris reiterates she worked at McDonald's after Trump stunt
On her way to her moderated conversation in Michigan, Harris was asked if she had worked at a McDonald’s while deplaning Air Force 2.
“Did I? I did," she said.
Her past experience at McDonald's has become a fixation of Trump's, who over the weekendworked the fryerat one of the chain's restaurants in the Philadelphia area.
Trump has claimed Harris never worked at the fast food giant. Harris, in introducing herself to voters this campaign, has told the story of working there between her freshman and sophomore years at Howard University in an effort to contrast her working-class roots with Trump's background.
