Election 2024 live updates on Trump vs. Harris polls and campaign rallies 8 days out from Election Day

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced on Monday that 40% of registered voters in the state have already voted, with more than 2.9 million in total turnout, including more than 2.7 million people voting early. He said these numbers were so far "shattering previous early voting performance."

"Georgia voters know we've made it easy to cast a ballot. It's really that simple," Raffensperger said in a statement, noting that the state has worked "tirelessly to prepare for this election" over the last four years. "We're battled tested and ready, despite the critics."

Georgia's top election official, who in 2021 resisted fTrump's urging to "find" more than 11,000 votes for him and overturn the results of the 2020 election in the Peach State, outlined that early voting turnout is expected to rise before ending on Friday. 

The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times are both experiencing resignations and mass subscription cancellations after the newspapers announced they would not endorse a candidate for president in 2024. CBS News correspondent Kelly O'Grady has more.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said Monday that nearly 25% of registered voters in the state have already voted after more than 145,000 voters took part in early voting on Saturday.

"Precincts all over the state reported strong turnout and enthusiastic voters," Benson said at a news conference on Monday. "This is the very first year in our state's history with in-person early voting and our bipartisan professional election officials rose to meet the moment."

In 2022, voters approved a constitutional amendment that gives residents the right to vote in person at early voting sites. The 2024 presidential election marks the third election with the new early voting option in place, after the primaries earlier this year. More than 1.5 million Michiganders have returned their absentee ballots and nearly 25% of registered voters have already voted either absentee or in person at an early voting location. 

Benson said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" earlier this month that she expects to have unofficial results completed by the day after the election.   

Read more from CBS Detroit and watch Benson's full appearance on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" in the player above. 

At his Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday, former President Donald Trump again promised to carry out "the largest deportation program in American history" if he's elected. CBS News immigration and politics reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez has more.

After Mr. Biden cast his ballot, he criticized Trump's campaign rally at Madison Square Garden and said it demonstrated the importance of next week's election.

"It's embarrassing. It's just simply embarrassing. It's beneath any president but that's what we're getting used to," he told reporters. "That's why this election is so important."

Mr. Biden said most presidential scholars that he has spoken with say the most important thing about a president is their character. 

"He puts that in question every time he opens his mouth," the president said.

Mr. Biden has officially voted in the 2024 presidential race. After waiting in the line, Mr. Biden gave a thumbs up to election workers at 12:23 p.m. ET. At 12:25 p.m., an election worker said "Joseph Biden now voting" as he gave his signature. 

He walked into the voting booth one minute later just as a first time voter walked up behind him to vote. He walked out of the voting booth one minute later. 

 Trump will hold a rally in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, on Wednesday. Rocky Mount was particularly hard hit by Hurricane Helene, with an EF3 tornado touching down in the town the day after the hurricane.

President Biden greeted voters in New Castle, Delaware, including first-time voters and a woman in a wheelchair who looked emotional while meeting the president.

There was at least one person who shouted "let's go Brandon" from across the street, and one man waiting on the line had a red hat that said "Elect the Motherf***er Again." 

Mr. Biden is set to vote Monday in Delaware. 

Before heading to Michigan for campaign events in the battleground state, Harris lambasted Trump and comments made by speakers at his campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night, calling the rally "nonsense."

"He is focused and actually fixated on his grievances, on himself and on dividing our country," she told reporters. "And it is not in any way something that will strengthen the American family, the American worker."

The vice president said Trump's remarks are "fanning the fuel of trying to divide our country."

"There's a big difference between he and I," Harris said. "If he were elected, on day one, he's going to be sitting in the Oval Office working on his enemies list. On day one, if I'm elected president of the United States, which I fully intend to be, I will be working on behalf of the American people on my to-do list."

The vice president said her Republican opponent in the race for the White House "fans the fuel of hate and division," which she said is "why people are exhausted with him."

"People are literally ready to turn the page," she said. "They're tired of it."

Harris told reporters she is proud to have backing from singers Bad Bunny and Jennifer Lopez, who are both Puerto Rican and voiced support for the vice president in the wake of offensive remarks made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at Trump's event.

"They understand that they want a president of the United States who is about uplifting the people and not berating, not calling America a garbage can, those are the words he has used," she said.

Early voting is underway in most of the states, and more than 43.3 million people have already cast their ballots, either by mail or in-person, according to data from the University of Florida's Election Lab.

In the 25 states that report party registration data, more Democrats have voted early than Republicans. A higher number of registered GOP voters have cast their ballots in person than registered Democrats, while nearly 1.5 million more Democrats have returned mail ballots than Republicans.

Virginia officials on Monday asked the Supreme Court to allow the state to move forward with its removal of roughly 1,600 alleged noncitizens from its voter rolls, seeking its intervention just days before the November general election.

State election officials requested the high court pause a lower court order that blocked Virginia from continuing its systematic voter removal program that was launched in August, exactly 90 days before Election Day. A provision of the National Voter Registration Act requires states to complete programs aimed at purging ineligible voters from registration lists up to 90 days before federal elections.

Virginia officials asked the Supreme Court to grant its request for emergency relief by Tuesday. They claimed that the district court's order violates Virginia law "and common sense" and "mandates a variety of disruptive measures."

Read more here.

The Trump campaign is hosting their election night party at the Palm Beach Convention Center.  

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee and Attorney General Merrick Garland are in court Monday in a dispute over audio recordings of President Biden's interview with Rober Hur, the special counsel who investigated his handling of classified materials after his vice presidency. 

The committee sued Garland in July in the U.S. District Court in D.C., escalating the fight over the audiotapes of Hur's interview with the president and the ghostwriter of his book, Mark Zwonitzer. Hur interviewed both men as part of his investigation. 

Hur declined to seek criminal charges against Mr. Biden for his handling of the documents. The president said he was largely unaware of how classified government records from his decades-long career in public office ended up in his homes and private office, according to the transcript of the interview, which was released in March. Hur said the evidence did not establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Biden had violated the law. 

However, the special counsel made a number of observations about the president's memory that enraged the White House and provided political ammunition to Republicans, whose impeachment inquiry into the president fizzled out. 

Republicans on the panel argued that they needed the audiotapes "because they offer unique and invaluable insight about information that cannot be captured in a transcript, such as vocal tone, pace, inflections, verbal nuance, and other idiosyncrasies," according to the lawsuit, which asked the court to order the Justice Department to hand over the material.

Read more here. 

The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office is suing to halt a political action committee run by billionaire Elon Musk from giving away $1 million to registered voters in swing states.

Some legal experts have questioned the legality of the giveaway.

Read more here. 

Vice President Kamala Harris, responding to former President Donald Trump's claims about her IQ, said she would take a cognitive test — and "would challenge him to take the same one."

"This is what he has resorted to, and I think he actually is increasingly unstable and unhinged and has resorted to name calling because he actually has no plan for the American people," Harris said in an interview with "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell conducted on the campaign trail in Kalamazoo, Michigan. 

The vice president pointed to a slew of individuals who worked closely with Trump who have spoken out against him in recent weeks as evidence that he is "unfit to be president of the United States."

"Don't take it from me, listen to the people who know him best," Harris said. "His former chiefs of staff. Most recently, 4-star Marine General John Kelly. Listen to two former secretaries of defense who worked for him, listen to his national security adviser, listen to his vice president, who have all, in one way or another, said he is unfit to be president again, should never be president again, and is dangerous."

Read more here and watch more of the interview in the player above. 

Thousands of people from around the New York area and other parts of the country descended on Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday afternoon for former President Donald Trump's campaign rally.

Trump vowed to win New York, saying it would be an "honor" to win his home state. But his remarks were overshadowed by the crude and offensive speakers that went before him, which included racist jokes about Puerto Ricans and Black people as well as prominent Democrats. 

In the lead-up to Trump, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who goes by Kill Tony, referred to Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage," made a crude joke about Hispanics and birth control, inferred that Jews are cheap and Palestinians are "rock-throwers" and made a racist comment about a Black man in the audience eating watermelon.

The comments were widely condemned, with the Trump campaign saying the joke about Puerto Rico "does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign." Republican Rep. Anthony D'Esposito of Nassau County, who is of Puerto Rican descent and attended the rally, posted on social media after the rally that he's "proud to be Puerto Rican" and "the only thing that's 'garbage' was a bad comedy set."

Read more from CBS New York. 

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With just over a week until Election Day, Puerto Rico has been thrust into the spotlight by both campaigns. Vice President Harris unveiled a plan to assist the island — leading to an endorsement from Bad Bunny — while Puerto Rico was referred to as "a floating island of garbage" by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who spoke at a rally for former President Donald Trump in New York City. 

In an effort to court Puerto Rican voters in the U.S. mainland, Harris on Sunday posted a video on her social media platforms pledging to create a Puerto Rican task force to create jobs, cut red tape to ensure disaster recovery funds are used quickly and efficiently and work with leaders across the island to ensure Puerto Ricans have access to reliable and affordable electricity. 

Reggaeton musician and singer Bad Bunny, a global superstar from Puerto Rico, shared the vice president's video on his Instagram account with his 45 million followers and later posted a clipped portion of the video in which Harris slammed Trump for his response to Hurricane Maria, which devastated the island in 2017. 

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