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 less than two weeks to go.
More than 24 million Americans have voted early
With less than two weeks before Election Day, over 24.3 million Americans have cast their vote through early voting methods, according to data from the Election Lab at the University of Florida.
The majority of those early votes come from mail ballots as 14.4 million absentee ballots have been returned nationally as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the data.
More than 9.7 million have voted in-person at early voting polling places in several states, the data showed.
Several states are slated to begin early voting options in the coming days.
-ABC News' Ivan Pereira
Gov. Walz voting today with wife, son
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Harris' running mate, is casting his ballot Wednesday in the 2024 election.
Walz is voting with his wife Gwen and their son Gus, who is a first-time voter, according to the campaign.
They will vote early for Harris at the top of the ticket, the campaign said. They will also vote for Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who is seeking a fourth term, and Rep. Betty McCollum as well as other Democratic candidates further down the ballot.
Hope, the governor's daughter, has already cast her ballot in Montana, Walz has said. On Sunday during a stop in Saginaw, Michigan, the governor said that Hope, who lives in Bozeman most of the time but is often out campaigning with him, had recently returned to the state to cast a vote for Democratic incumbent Jon Tester in that critical Senate race.
-ABC News' Isabella Murray
Harris calls Trump 'unhinged and unstable'
Harris swiped at Trump's past comment about being a dictator only on "Day One" and his more recent threat to use the military against political opponents.
"Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable," she said. "And in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions. Those who once tried to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be there, and no longer be there to rein him in."
Harris did not take any questions after she finished the brief remarks.
Harris: Trump's Hitler remarks 'deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous'
Harris, speaking at the vice president's residence, hammered Trump after his former chief of staff John Kelly's bombshell comments to the New York Times.
Kelly claimed Trump said he wanted generals like the ones Adolf Hitler had, and that, in his view as a retired general, the former president fell under the definition of a "fascist."
"It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans," Harris said. "All of this is further evidence for the American people of who Donald Trump really is."
"The bottom line is this. We know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power," Harris added. "The question in the next 13 days will be: What do the American people want?"
Trump says he'll vote early while continuing to sow doubt about the process
As Republicans attempt to encourage early voting, Trump called into Fox News host Brian Kilmeade's radio show to say he'll vote early, but he continued to show reluctancy about the practice.
"I'm very mixed on it. I mean, I'm OK with the Tuesday voting, which they like doing, Republicans like, and I'm also, I say, the main thing I say is vote," he said.
Trump also reiterated his baseless claims about cheating in this election cycle, saying it was his biggest concern when he was asked which of the battleground states worried him most.
"All of them. I mean, did they cheat? All of them? I mean, the biggest risk to me," Trump said. "I think we win it easily."
-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa
Walz and family cast their votes early in Minnesota
Gov. Tim Walz, his wife Gwen Walz and their son Gus Walz voted early in St. Paul on Wednesday. The precinct cheered for Gus Walz as he voted for the first time.
"Exciting, an opportunity to turn the page on the chaos of Donald Trump and a new way forward,” Tim Walz said in brief remarks following the vote.
-ABC News' Isabella Murray
Gov. Walz voting today with wife, son
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Harris' running mate, is casting his ballot Wednesday in the 2024 election.
Walz is voting with his wife Gwen and their son Gus, who is a first-time voter, according to the campaign.
They will vote early for Harris at the top of the ticket, the campaign said. They will also vote for Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who is seeking a fourth term, and Rep. Betty McCollum as well as other Democratic candidates further down the ballot.
Hope, the governor's daughter, has already cast her ballot in Montana, Walz has said. On Sunday during a stop in Saginaw, Michigan, the governor said that Hope, who lives in Bozeman most of the time but is often out campaigning with him, had recently returned to the state to cast a vote for Democratic incumbent Jon Tester in that critical Senate race.
-ABC News' Isabella Murray