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Vice President Kamala Harris cited remarks by John Kelly, Mr. Trump’s former White House chief of staff, who told The New York Times that the former president meets the definition of a “fascist.” She will do a town hall with CNN tonight. Mr. Trump has two events in Georgia.Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that former President Donald J. Trump has grown “increasingly unhinged and unstable,” putting his fitness for office at the center of her closing message with less than two weeks until Election Day. It was the latest effort by Ms. Harris to remind voters why they rejected...

Voting rights groups are keeping tabs on roughly two dozen counties as potential hot spots for electoral discord, places that in recent cycles have seen pushback on the certification of results or efforts to disqualify some ballots or common election procedures. The counties have repeatedly found themselves at the center of legal disputes, some aimed at overturning former President Donald J. Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election. These are some of the places that democracy watchdogs are closely monitoring: ArizonaCochise County: This deeply Republican area in the southeastern part of the state has been a cauldron of election-driven conspiracy theories,...

In 2005, one year into her job as San Francisco district attorney, Kamala Harris was showing a new hire around the office. Ms. Harris had recruited Lateefah Simon, a 28-year-old racial justice activist, to lead a new program aimed at keeping first-time drug offenders out of jail. As the two women walked the halls, they stopped in front of a wall lined with photographs of Ms. Harris’s predecessors — all of them white men. “The expectation of our community is that I’m going to fix all the havoc,” Ms. Harris said, according to Ms. Simon’s recollection. “They’re going to want...