Nearly 25 million votes are cast in crucial battleground states as Trump and Harris campaign

With nearly 25 million votes already cast, Harris and Trump have stepped up their campaigns in crucial battleground states.

According to tracking statistics from the University of Florida Election Lab, about 25 million voters have already cast ballots, either via mail-in ballots or in-person early voting.

Last week’s first day of early voting set records in a number of states, including Georgia and North Carolina, two battleground states.

At a “ballots and believers” event in Zebulon, Georgia, with a religious theme, Trump declared, “The votes in Georgia are at record levels.” To be honest, the number of votes in each state is at an all-time high. We’re doing great, and maybe we can turn our nation around.

In an attempt to allay Christian evangelicals’ worries about his numerous offensive remarks, such as his story about Arnold Palmer’s anatomy, Trump has been trying to rally them in recent days.

In Zebulon, Trump, who began making campaign rallies a mainstay of his political career in 2015, said that “in many ways it’s sad” that his days as a candidate are drawing to an end.

He will serve his second and last term if he prevails on November 5.

“It’s down to 12 days after nine years of doing this,” he stated.

In Duluth, Georgia, Trump was speaking at a rally alongside former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson and former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. following Zebulon. Country music icon Jason Aldean was also there, and he urged people to cast their ballots early—a message that Trump is gradually adopting after years of condemning the practice.

Both candidates will probably spend a significant portion of the remainder of their campaigns traveling to Pennsylvania and Georgia, two of the seven battleground states that will determine the winner of the president.

Harris took advantage of remarks made earlier in the day by John Kelly, the former White House chief of staff to Trump, who told the New York Times that the former president supported tyrants and fit the “general definition of fascist.”

According to Kelly, Harris described Trump’s comments as “deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous.” Kelly’s story has been rejected by Trump’s team, which refers to them as “debunked stories.”

After winning the first and only presidential debate between the two candidates, which took place in September, the vice president attempted—but was unsuccessful—to persuade Trump to agree to a second one.