Millions of Americans have already cast a ballot in the 2024 elections through mail and in-person early voting.

Alternatives to in-person Election Day voting made up a staggering 70 percent of overall turnout in the 2020 election, up from 40 percent in 2016, as states temporarily expanded their options for how voters could cast their ballots during the pandemic. Two years later, in the 2022 midterms, half of all votes were cast early.

Former congressman Fred Upton of Michigan — one of 10 Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach President Donald Trump over the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — announced his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday.

Upton is the latest Republican to cross party lines to support Harris.

Former president Donald Trump often credits two factors for his survival of an attempt on his life three months ago. The first is God, who he has (with decreasing subtlety) suggested intervened to preserve Trump’s political ambitions. The other, unexpectedly, is a graph.

As Trump was speaking during that July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, he turned his head to look at a graph that appeared on large screens behind him.

Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance will deliver remarks at former president Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally this Sunday, according to a Vance spokesperson.

Trump’s rally at the storied New York City venue is his second this election year in a city he is unlikely to win.

Former president Donald Trump said Thursday that he would “fire” special counsel Jack Smith on his first day back in the White House if he is elected again, making clear that he would push to drop a pair of federal cases against him.

In an interview Thursday morning with conservative podcast host Hugh Hewitt, Trump was asked what he would do if he had to choose between firing Smith or pardoning himself at the start of a second term.

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to undecided voters at a town hall event hosted by CNN on Wednesday in Pennsylvania.

Here are six key moments from Harris’s appearance — with less than two weeks until the election.

Democrat Angela D. Alsobrooks maintains a clear lead in Maryland’s closely watched U.S. Senate race, fueled by voters’ lopsided preference for Democrats to control the chamber and doubts that Republican Larry Hogan would buck the will of party leaders, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.

Closing the Education Department is a central plank in former president Donald Trump’s schools agenda. Inside the Republican Party, he’s not alone.

GOP candidates in some of the most competitive Senate and House races have proposed shuttering the agency, in some cases following Trump’s lead. Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for a future Republican administration, lays out a detailed plan for how to go about ending it.

The mayor of Waukesha, Wisconsin, a Republican city in the battleground state’s largest Republican county, said late Wednesday that he plans to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly told Fox 6 News that he privately voted for a third-party candidate in 2016 and for Joe Biden in 2020. Now, he said, he feels the country is “at a crossroads” and that he needs to publicly say he is supporting Harris.

A Florida ballot measure could help boost Democrats in the state, especially Vice President Kamala Harris. And it’s not the initiative to overturn Florida’s six-week abortion ban.

Amendment 3 would legalize the recreational use of marijuana and is on the ballot in November, too. Harris isn’t going to win Florida, but political strategists say that it could help narrow the margin in a state that has backed Trump in the last two elections.

A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation that targets Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, according to Russian documents obtained by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post.

Just about every time former president Trump ventures into the battleground state of Pennsylvania, he mentions that fracking is responsible for 500,000 jobs there. He also falsely claims that Vice President Kamala Harris wants to ban fracking.

That was her policy five years ago, in 2019, but since then she has switched her stance.

The head of editorials at the Los Angeles Times, Mariel Garza, resigned Wednesday after the paper’s billionaire owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, vetoed the editorial board’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris in the presidential election, a move that the Trump campaign has seized on to attack the Democratic nominee.

Thursday is the final campaign finance deadline before the election. Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and Senate and House campaigns — along with their allied super PACs — must disclose their recent contributions and spending by midnight, as well how much cash they had on Oct. 16.

DULUTH, Ga. — Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson warmed up the crowd at Donald Trump’s rally here Wednesday night with a dark metaphor, bashing Vice President Kamala Harris and declaring that “dad” was coming home to mete out discipline.

“He’s pissed!” Carlson said to extended cheers. “Dad is pissed. … And when dad gets home, you know what he says? ‘You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl, and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now.’”

PHILADELPHIA — Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday she believes former president Donald Trump is a fascist, agreeing with the assessment of a growing number of Trump’s former top aides as she escalated her warnings about the Republican nominee’s character and fitness for office less than two weeks before Election Day.

Asked directly during a CNN town hall whether she thinks that Trump is a fascist, Harris said, “Yes, I do. Yes, I do.”

Sister Stephanie Schmidt had a hunch about what her fellow nuns would discuss over dinner at their Erie, Pennsylvania, monastery on Wednesday night.

The day before, a Republican operative in the battleground state falsely suggested to his nearly 58,000 followers on X that no one lived at the monastery and that mail ballots cast from there would be “illegal votes.”