Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is trying to get Americans to see a second a second Donald Trump presidency as taking the country further off track and to view Harris as an acceptable agent of change in the final sprint to Election Day, a dozen top aides and outside allies told CNN.

As Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told top donors in Philadelphia during a retreat last week, they may not believe that the race could still be tied, but in the battleground states where the presidency will be won, it is.

Some of the outreach will include reviving Biden-style themes around Trump’s unfitness for office, trying to make the argument for a stable commander in chief while convincing wavering voters to make the leap toward electing the first Black female president.

But rather than moralistic and abstract messaging, Harris and her ads will focus on how much worse they believe a second Trump presidency would be. And in a way Biden never could, this would include more hammering of Trump as unfit for the presidency, specifically because of their claims that he is in mental and physical decline.

Reproductive rights will remain central, but the outreach will also keep pressing Harris’ biography and economic plans, convinced her campaign has real room to grow with non-college-educated White women repelled by Trump, who aides believe she can win if they feel she’s more middle class than radical left.

The team also expects to build on its efforts among seniors and maximize the enthusiasm for Harris among Black women, while pushing to grow support among Black men and Latinos.

Bushy-bearded United Auto Workers leader Dan Vicente has watched first-hand as his fellow union workers have drifted away from the Democratic Party here in Pennsylvania.

He was almost one of them.

The plain-spoken UAW Region 9 director told a bustling hall on Sunday that he nearly voted for Donald Trump in 2016. Now, two elections later, Vicente said he’s still “not super into” either party but is backing Kamala Harris because she “at least comes from the working class.”

But he worries that Trump is still the one breaking through in many union shops like his.

The labor leader’s warning is yet another alarm bell for Democrats about their clout with labor nationally, which has been slipping for decades, according to interviews with more than a dozen union workers and local Democrats. Trump’s strength in places like eastern Pennsylvania have made it a far more urgent problem for Harris, whose ability to win the White House could come down to a few thousand votes here in the state.

Read more about the challenge Democrats face in courting union workers.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz accused Donald Trump of descending into “madness” on Tuesday, following a report that the former president pined for the loyalty of the “kind of generals that Hitler had.”

Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate seized on the report in The Atlantic as top party figures warned of dark days ahead if Trump wins the presidency in 13 days given his often-expressed autocratic instincts.

A tense atmosphere around a neck-and-neck election ratcheted up significantly following the article by Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg that said Trump had noted in a private conversation while president: “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.” The report was substantiated in the article by Trump’s former White House chief of staff John Kelly. Trump’s alleged fixation with Hitler was also supported by material in several books, including one by CNN’s Jim Sciutto.

In a separate interview with The New York Times, Kelly said Trump fit the definition of a fascist.

During a rally in Wisconsin, Walz capitalized on new suggestions of Trump’s extremism on a day when other senior Democratic figures raised what they see as the dire specter of an unchained Trump second term as they try to rally support for Harris.

“Don’t be the frog in the boiling water and think this is okay,” the Minnesota governor, who served in the Army National Guard, said, referring to the revelations in The Atlantic.

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Vice President Kamala Harris will take questions at a CNN presidential town hall tonight at 9 p.m. ET in the pivotal battleground state of Pennsylvania.

The event, which will be moderated by Anderson Cooper, will take place outside of Philadelphia and feature an audience of undecided and persuadable voters.

It comes as the vice president is working to make her final pitch to voters with less than two weeks to go until Election Day — especially to voters in battleground states who have not yet made up their mind.

CNN also invited former President Donald Trump to participate in a town hall, but he declined.

“(Donald) Trump may want to hide from the voters, but Vice President Harris welcomes the opportunity to share her vision for a New Way Forward for the country. She is happy to accept CNN’s invitation for a live, televised town hall on October 23 in Pennsylvania,” Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said previously in a statement.

The network previously proposed a debate between Harris and Trump in Atlanta on October 23. Harris quickly accepted the invite, but Trump repeatedly shrugged it off, despite the Harris campaign’s attempts to goad him into participating.

CNN’s Brian Stelter contributed reporting to this post.

There are less than two weeks until Election Day, and the candidates are hitting battleground states as they try to get voters to the polls.

Former President Donald Trump will be in Georgia on Wednesday, while Vice President Kamala Harris heads to Pennsylvania for a CNN town hall tonight.

Here’s a rundown of today’s campaign events:

Harris: CNN will moderate a live CNN presidential town hall with the vice president on Wednesday from Delaware County, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia. The town hall will be moderated by Anderson Cooper and begin at 9 p.m. ET.

Harris will take questions from undecided an persuadable voters in the audience. It comes as Harris is working to continue to make her case to the American people as early voting is already underway in many states.

Tim Walz will join an interview with Univision Radio before travelling to Louisville, Kentucky for a fundraiser.

Trump: The former president will deliver keynote remarks at a “Georgia for Trump” rally in Duluth on Wednesday. The event is hosted by Turning Point PAC and Turning Point Action.

JD Vance will be in Nevada to speak in Las Vegas and Reno.

Meanwhile, former President Bill Clinton will hold a campaign event in Phoenix, Arizona, where he will encourage Arizonans to vote for the Harris-Walz ticket.

Clinton has been campaigning in battleground states for Harris, as has former President Barack Obama.

With 14 days to go before Election Day, more than 20.2 million Americans have already cast their ballots in the November election, either by mail or through early in-person voting, getting a head start on shaping the presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

CNN is monitoring who is casting pre-election ballots in the 36 states that offer early voting, as well as how early voting numbers compare with four years ago, when pre-election voting reached historic levels during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Democrats held a wide advantage over Republicans in early voting four years ago, but the gap could be narrower this time as top Republican officials urge supporters to embrace voting before Election Day on November 5.

Here are the pre-election voting breakdowns, by party preference, in key battleground states where registration information is available: