Today: Trump and Harris head to Arizona, Pence to Wisconsin and Michigan, Biden speaks on the virus.

The Trump campaign website is defaced by hackers.

Biden campaigned on Tuesday in a region of Georgia that is filled with signs and flags supporting President Trump, nervous Democrats had unpleasant flashbacks to 2016, when Hillary Clinton famously invested resources and visited Arizona in the final days of the race, while failing to set foot in Wisconsin.

The Trump campaign tried to paint Mr.

“We encourage him to spend time and resources in Georgia, where the president is definitely going to win,” said Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign communications director.

“He’s wasting time in states he can’t win.”.

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign deployed Melania Trump, the first lady, to Atglen, Pa., a very rare campaign stop — the only one this year — for one of the president’s most popular surrogates, who doesn’t particularly like campaigning.

Trump spent Tuesday shoring up support in states in the Midwest, with rallies in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska.

Other Democrats, however, said they were encouraged that the Biden campaign felt comfortable enough to devote resources to states like Georgia and Texas, forcing Mr.

Trump’s campaign to use some of its limited cash to play defense in Georgia, whil still spending on targeted ads in Pennsylvania and Florida.

Biden appeared to be adding to his schedule states with important Senate seats where Democrats have a victory within reach.

The race between Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, and her Democratic challenger, Theresa Greenfield, is the most expensive Senate race the state has ever seen.

Trump, meanwhile, was set to make two campaign stops in Arizona on Wednesday, pursuing his narrow path to victory.

His campaign, however, noted that he will also travel this week to New Hampshire and Nevada, states Mrs.

With a week left until Election Day, the flood of people moved to cast their ballots early has grown so strong that the early vote has already exceeded half of the number of votes that were counted during the entire 2016 presidential election, according to data compiled by the United States Elections Project.

The coronavirus pandemic, the fear of postal delays and the passions inspired by the presidential candidates, both pro and con, have all contributed to the record early vote.

That is 50.4 percent of the total number of votes that were counted during the entire 2016 election.

The early vote is even more dramatic in a number of key battleground states, including several that polls have suggested are unusually close this year.

Texas has already received nearly 87 percent of the votes it counted in the 2016 election, Florida has already received more than two-thirds, North Carolina has received 72 percent and Georgia 71 percent.

McDonald, a professor of political science at the University of Florida who gathers the data for the elections project, wrote in a recent analysis for the United States Elections Project, which tracks the early vote closely.

Not all states report the party affiliations of those who vote early.

Those which do show a dichotomy in how the members of the two major parties choose to vote, though: Democrats have been much more likely to vote early by mail than Republicans, while Republicans have been a bit more likely to vote early in person than Democrats.

President Trump has repeatedly railed against mail-in voting, making baseless claims that it is subject to fraud.

This trend means that the in-person vote reported on Election Day is more likely to show early Republican leads, and that Democrats may gain ground as absentee votes are tabulated in the days afterward.

McDonald wrote in his analysis that the pace of early voting in some states suggests that they could surpass their 2016 vote totals this week.

More than 69 million ballots have already been cast in the general election.

There are six days till Election Day.

2 p.m.: Holds a rally in Bullhead City, Ariz.

4:30 p.m.: Holds a rally in Goodyear, Ariz.

4 p.m.: Holds a rally in Mosinee, Wis.

7 p.m.: Holds a rally in Flint, Mich.

Morning: Meets with Latina business owners in Tucson, Ariz., then speaks at a rally.

1 order limiting ballot drop boxes to one per county enhanced election security, and he maintained that he was expanding voter access by extending early voting from two to nearly three weeks, ending on Friday.

President Trump lashed out at Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan’s Democratic governor, during a rally in the state’s capital on Tuesday, accusing her of imposing too many restrictions to limit the spread of the coronavirus and saying she was “not a good governor.” He smiled broadly as his supporters chanted “lock her up.”.

Trump said in Lansing during an hourlong rally, the first of three campaign stops as he began the final week of his re-election campaign.

Trump said.

Trump at the rally were also organizing a recall effort against the governor and collected signatures for a petition to limit her powers next to signs that read, “The governor is an idiot.”.

Trump had tweeted that he wanted people in Michigan and elsewhere to “liberate” their states from such restrictions.

Trump won narrowly in 2016, is grappling with record numbers of new coronavirus infections.

stormed into Georgia to deliver his campaign’s closing argument, invoking faith and history to promise a new chapter of national unity as he cast President Trump as a charlatan who has surrendered in the face of crisis.

Biden is traveling to Georgia at all, let alone in the final stretch of the presidential race, suggests that his campaign sees an opportunity to expand its electoral map.

Trump, who won Georgia by five points in 2016, locked in a virtual tie.

Supporters of President Trump have decked out their homes with banners and flags as if decorating for Halloween or Christmas.

In a statement, Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, confirmed the website’s defacement and said it was “working with law enforcement authorities to investigate the source of the attack.” He added, “There was no exposure to sensitive data because none of it is actually stored on the site.

The hackers also accused the Trump administration, without proof, of having a hand in the origins of the coronavirus and cooperating with “foreign actors manipulating the 2020 elections.”.

Trump told a campaign rally in Tucson, Ariz.: “Nobody gets hacked.

The financial crisis was in full swing when Donald J.

Alan Garten, the Trump Organization’s chief legal officer, said the company and Mr.

Before Donald Trump became president, Ms.

Gibbs said.

“I had never had this kind of burning unquestioning desire to do something myself,” Stacey Vernallis, 60, said, of her political life before 2016.

Over 100 million eligible, voting-age Americans did not vote in 2016, more than the number who voted for either presidential candidate2

In traditional swing states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, most political observers believe that turnout is largely fixed and that campaigns rise and fall based on their ability to persuade a set of voters.

But in the new set of battleground states in the South, as well as Arizona in the Southwest, the priority is converting nonvoters into voters.

Nse Ufot, the executive director of the New Georgia Project, a nonpartisan group that has sought to turn out voters among the state’s new residents, said that doing so in a meaningful way could not happen with “five-minute conversations that you have on people’s porches.”.

“It is a sustained campaign that requires smart targeting, messaging and research,” she said.

Americans living outside the United States have been making plans to vote in the general election since the summer.

And recent Supreme Court decisions mean that late arrivals in some states will not be counted at all.

Of the 7.7 million military service members and other American citizens living overseas, more than 630,000 returned ballots in 2016.

Nearly half of those votes were in battleground states, where close races sometimes come down to absentee ballots.

More than 30 states allow overseas voters to return ballots by fax, online or both, including states like Missouri that amended their rules this year because of the pandemic.

But the rest of the states accept ballots only by mail.

Postal delays persist overseas, and once a ballot arrives in the United States it can take weeks more to reach its final destination.

Last month, a group of 10 Americans living in seven countries sued election officials in seven mail-only states — Georgia, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin — arguing that having to return their ballots by mail this year effectively deprived them of the right to vote.

They requested a court order that the seven states allow overseas voters to return their ballots by email or fax.

student in Germany, had no problem voting from abroad in 2016 and 2018 for elections in Georgia, where he lived before moving overseas.

Cole, who is coordinating get-out-the-vote efforts for his local chapter of Democrats Abroad, said of the obstacles facing voters this year

Republicans were having a good night, according to WXYZ, with President Trump winning Michigan over Joseph R

A station employee, who declined to provide his name, said the results had inadvertently appeared on the air as the station was doing tests to prepare for election night

The station hadn’t intentionally been picking winners and losers, the employee said, and the supposed election results were not supposed to show up on TV screens