Joe Biden's campaign heads south on Tuesday, with the former vice president stumping in Georgia as his former boss, President Barack Obama, encourages Floridians to vote at an Orlando rally.
Biden's Southern push comes exactly one week before Election Day, when the Democrats hope Sun Belt voters help hand Biden an Electoral College victory.
Southern states are just a few of the battleground areas the two sides are fighting for in the run-up to Nov. 3. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have been on a Rust Belt swing as of late, with a focus on Pennsylvania. Trump campaigns in Michigan and Wisconsin today before heading to Nebraska.
Trump and Republicans completed their sprint to get Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court before Election Day. Barrett was confirmed in a narrow Senate vote Monday evening and then sworn in shortly after at the White House by Justice Clarence Thomas. She'll take the judicial oath on Tuesday, allowing her to begin work on the court.
☕ The latest:
Where are Pence and Harris?: Sen. Kamala Harris campaigns in Reno, Nevada, and Las Vegas Tuesday while Vice President Mike Pence gives speeches in South Carolina and North Carolina.
Melania Trump: First lady Melania Trump makes her first major campaign appearance Tuesday at an event in Atglen, Pennsylvania.
📊 What the polls are saying: USA TODAY's average of averages showed Trump gained on Biden in nine of the 12 battleground states over the past week, though Biden still leads in 10 of those states.
📆 Seven days until Election Day, 85 days until Inauguration Day, 66 days left in 2020.
🗳️ Voting: See USA TODAY's Voter Guide for information on registering to vote, when your state begins voting and what the candidates think about the issues.
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Ex-US attorneys appointed by GOP presidents endorse Biden
A group of former U.S. attorneys appointed by Republican presidents are endorsing Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, citing what they described as politicization of the Justice Department under President Donald Trump.
"The president has clearly conveyed that he expects his Justice Department appointees and prosecutors to serve his personal and political interests in the handling of certain cases – such as the investigations into foreign election interference and the prosecution of his political associates – and has taken action against those who have stood up for the interests of justice," according to a statement from 20 U.S. attorneys who were appointed by Republican presidents, including George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon and Dwight Eisenhower.
– Kristine Phillips
Biden endorsement: Former U.S. attorneys appointed by Republican presidents endorse Joe Biden
DOJ can't represent Trump in E. Jean Carroll case
A federal judge Tuesday blocked the Justice Department's effort to intervene in a defamation case against President Donald Trump brought by E. Jean Carroll, who claimed the president disparaged her when he denied her claim that Trump raped her in the mid-1990s.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected the government's central argument that Trump was acting in his official duties as president last year when he denied magazine writer Carroll's allegation that he had raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in New York City.
The Justice Department's intervention was seen as an effort to shield the president from the potentially damaging legal action in the midst of a re-election campaign. The judge's ruling effectively keeps Carroll's claim alive.
– Kevin Johnson
Trump holds late-night swearing-in for Amy Coney Barrett
President Donald Trump held a hasty swearing-in ceremony Monday night following the Senate's confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett.
Trump rushed back from the campaign trail in Pennsylvania for a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in the midst of a global pandemic.
The event took place near the Rose Garden, where a month earlier the federal appeals court judge from Indiana was introduced in a crowded setting that contributed to the spread of COVID-19, both at the White House and in the Senate.
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, the longest-serving member of the current court, delivered the constitutional oath of office. Most of the assembled guests wore masks.
On Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts will complete the process by delivering the judicial oath to the court's newest member.
– Richard Wolf and David Jackson
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Election 2020 updates: Biden in Georgia, Trump in Midwest on Tuesday