The Washington Post announced Friday it will not issue an endorsement in this year's election -- a first for the legacy newspaper in more than three decades.

"The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates," publisher William Lewis wrote in a note explaining the decision.

The Post follows the Los Angeles Times in not backing a candidate.

Both newspapers had endorsed President Joe Biden in 2020 against Trump.

In a rare joint statement, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell strongly condemned Harris calling Trump a "fascist" and comparing him to Adolf Hitler.

The two Republican leaders say Harris' remarks have "only fanned the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of political animus. Her most recent and most reckless invocations of the darkest evil of the 20th century seem to dare it to boil over. The Vice President's words more closely resemble those of President Trump's second would-be assassin than her own earlier appeal to civility."

McConnell and Johnson say they have been briefed on the "ongoing and persistent threats to former President Donald Trump."

Harris quickly seized on John Kelly's comments to The New York Times this week that he believed Trump fit the description of a fascist. Kelly served as Trump's chief of staff and is a retired general.

Trump has claimed for months that Harris is a "fascist" or "communist" or "Marxist."

-ABC News' Lauren Peller

A federal judge issued a partial ruling finding that Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's executive order to conduct a daily voter purge process violated the National Voting Rights Act of 1993.

A total of 1,600 voters removed from the rolls since August must be added back within the next five days.

The judge said the process left no room for individualized inquiry, which violated the act's requirement that "when in the 90-day provisional, it must be done on an individualized basis."

-ABC News' Beatrice Peterson

Trump will embark on a rigorous schedule making his final pitch to voters. The former president is focusing on the "blue wall" states this weekend and early next week, specifically targeting Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

After stops in Michigan and Pennsylvania on Saturday, Trump will culminate his weekend campaigning with a rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, in which the former president has coined as a "celebration of the whole thing" with his nine years of campaigning coming to close.

-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh, Lalee Ibssa and Soorin Kim