Donald Trump delivered Saturday on his plan to use historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as the setting for a closing argument in his Republican presidential campaign -- but not before lashing out again at familiar targets including rival Hillary Clinton, a “rigged” America and female accusers whom he branded ”liars.” 
 
 Trump vowed after the election to sue the nearly one dozen women who have recently gone to the media with allegations about his sexual misconduct, a situation that Trump says has rigged the election against him. 
 
 “Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign -- total fabrication,” Trump told the crowd. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over.” 
 
 In what Trump billed as a “Contract with the American Voter,” the first-time candidate vowed to within the first 100 days of office to take six majors steps -- including putting term limits on members of Congress. 
 
 “It is a contract between myself and the American voter and begins with restoring honesty, accountability and change to Washington,” Trump said. 
 
 As part of the contract, Trump wants to impose the term limits through a Constitutional amendment and have a 5 year-ban on White House and congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service. And he wants to impose a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government; 
 
 “I am not a politician,” Trump also said Saturday. “But when I saw the trouble our country was in, I felt I had to act.” 
 
 Trump also said that if elected his administration would try to undo an emerging deal in which AT&T will buy Time Warner, which would create a major media conglomerate. 
 
 With Election Day now just 17 days away and Trump trailing Clinton in essentially every poll, the GOP nominee is working to assure voters that he is as capable and knowledgeable about policy as he is about rough-and-tumble electoral politics. 
 
 "Trump will use the historic setting of Gettysburg where the country was saved,” a senior campaign source told Fox News before the speech. “He will lay out a concise program that he will commit to execute from the first day in office.” 
 
 Gettysburg is where Republican President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address in November 1863 in an attempt to unify Americans amid the Civil War. 
 
 Clinton has had a clear policy advantage over Trump since Day One of the 2016 White House race, considering she is a former first lady, New York senator and secretary of state. 
 
 Throughout the campaign, and particularly in the candidates’ third-and-final debate Wednesday night, Trump has argued that Clinton, in her 30 years in politics, has failed to solve any major domestic or foreign issues for the United States. 
 
 On Saturday, Trump again suggested Clinton lied to the FBI and Justice Department in their investigations into her use of a private server system as secretary of state because she said during the probes 36 times that she couldn’t recall what she had done. 
 
 Trump is making several stops this weekend in Pennsylvania, one of a handful of battleground states that he must win to become president. 
 
 He trails Clinton in Pennsylvania by 6 percent points, according to the RealClearPolitics polls average. 
 
 However, Trump appears in the past few days to be cutting into Clinton’s lead, in part with his repeated message that the liberal media has rigged the election. 
 
 A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday showed Trump having cut Clinton’s lead in half. 
 
 “The media refuses to talk about the three new national polls that have me in first place,” Trump tweeted overnight. “Biggest crowds ever -- watch what happens!” ||||| Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., speaks to The Associated Press during an interview in Boston, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016. (Josh Reynolds/Associated Press) 
 
 WASHINGTON — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times EDT): 
 
 2:45 p.m. 
 
 Donald Trump’s running mate is getting a warm welcome in small-town Ohio. 
 
 Mike Pence delighted thousands Saturday at the Circleville Pumpkin Show. He walked the streets, greeted supporters and climbed atop a flatbed trailer to examine prize-winning 1,500-pound pumpkins. 
 
 It was among several unannounced stops for Pence before his evening rally with Trump in Cleveland. 
 
 Circleville is reliable Republican territory. Mitt Romney won 58 percent in surrounding Pickaway County four years ago. Trump is trying to maximize his advantage outside Ohio’s largest cities in hopes of flipping a state President Barack Obama won twice. 
 
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 2:30 p.m. 
 
 Hillary Clinton’s campaign says Donald Trump has given the country an unvarnished look at what a Trump presidency might look like. 
 
 Trump’s advisers billed his Saturday speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as a preview of the agenda for his first 100 days in office. But the GOP nominee went after the women who’ve accused him of sexual assault or other inappropriate behavior. He’s threatening to sue them and he accuses Democrats of orchestrating the allegations. 
 
 Clinton spokeswoman Christina Reynolds says Trump’s “new policy was to promise political and legal retribution against the women who have accused him of groping them.” 
 
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 2 p.m 
 
 Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine is voicing optimism that a Democratic White House could work with Republicans, despite the divisiveness of the campaign. 
 
 He tells The Associated Press that he and Hillary Clinton have not been running a broad-brush race against Republicans, but rather against the nominee, Donald Trump. 
 
 He also predicts the Democratic ticket will get a lot of Republican votes, and that will help bring the country together if Clinton becomes president. 
 
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 1:45 p.m. 
 
 By most accounts, Hillary Clinton bested Donald Trump in three debates. She leads in many preference polls of battleground states across the country. 
 
 And barring a significant shift in the next two weeks, she is in a strong position to become the first woman elected president. 
 
 But Clinton will probably end the campaign still struggling to change the minds of millions of Americans who don’t think well of her. 
 
 While many Americans see her as better prepared to be commander in chief than Trump, she’s consistently viewed unfavorably by more than half of potential voters. Most also consider her dishonest. 
 
 Clinton’s advisers spent months trying to overhaul that perception. But as Clinton starts making her closing argument to voters, her advisers appear to have come to terms with that unfulfilled mission. 
 
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 1:15 p.m. 
 
 Donald Trump is taking a quick tour of the Gettysburg National Military Park after delivering a speech near the historic Civil War site. 
 
 Trump was greeted by park visitors and spent time speaking with a park ranger. He was joined by campaign staff as well as former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. 
 
 The visit follows Trump’s speech laying out policies he’d seek to enact during his first 100 days as president. 
 
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 12:45 p.m. 
 
 Donald Trump is laying out a 100-day plan he says will guide him if he makes it to the White House in 2017. 
 
 In the symbolic setting of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the Republican nominee on Saturday summarized the policy proposals he’s introduced over the course of the campaign. 
 
 Trump says he’ll clean up corruption by pushing for new congressional term limits and by increasing restrictions on lobbying by former government officials. 
 
 He says that he’ll deport without delay immigrants who are imprisoned for violent crimes. And he says he will cancel visas for countries that refuse to take such people back. 
 
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 12:40 p.m. 
 
 Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine has hired a transition director to help him prepare to take office should he and running mate Hillary Clinton win the election. 
 
 Kaine tells The Associated Press he’s tasked Wayne Turnage to help with transition planning. 
 
 Turnage was Kaine’s chief of staff when Kaine was governor of Virginia. Turnage now is director of the District of Columbia’s Department of Health Care Finance. 
 
 Kaine says he asked Turnage to help because in recent weeks, “the prospect of winning is such that we better start doing some thinking about practicalities.” 
 
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 12:30 p.m. 
 
 Donald Trump is threatening to sue all of the women who have come forward in recent days accusing him of groping and sexual assault. 
 
 Trump says in a speech intended to make his closing argument to voters that the women are “liars” attempting to undermine his campaign. And he says all will be sued once the election is over. 
 
 Trump spoke in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on Saturday to lay out his earliest priorities should he become president. 
 
 He’s continuing to make the case that the election is rigged against him, and complains that “corrupt” media are fabricating stories to make him look “as bad and dangerous as possible.” 
 
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 Noon 
 
 Mike Pence is delivering the hard sell on Donald Trump to conservative Christians in presidential battleground Ohio. 
 
 The Republican vice presidential hopeful told a Faith and Freedom Coalition gathering in Circleville that Trump is the right man to pick Supreme Court justices. He emphasized that Trump supports overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide. 
 
 Pence says Democrat Hillary Clinton would empower more “unelected judges” to use “unaccountable power” to make “unconstitutional decisions.” 
 
 The Indiana governor also says Trump would roll back a longstanding federal ban on churches engaging in explicit political activity, including endorsing candidates. 
 
 Some polls suggest Trump is falling short of GOP presidential nominees’ usual performance among white evangelicals. Pence told his listeners they would be “the difference makers in Ohio and all across America.” 
 
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 11:15 a.m. 
 
 Evangelical leader Ralph Reed says the political arm of his Faith and Freedom Coalition is engaged in an unprecedented outreach to conservative Christians in presidential battlegrounds. 
 
 Reed told a gathering Saturday at Crossroads Church in Circleville, Ohio, that coalition volunteers already have knocked on 772,000 doors in 10 states. He says a digital campaign has placed 32 million online ads on the devices of voters. 
 
 Reed told the audience to pray before the election “like it all depends on God” but “work like it all depends on you.” 
 
 Reed was speaking at an event headlined by GOP vice presidential candidate Mike Pence. The Indiana governor is a favorite of evangelicals and sought to reassure them about GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. 
 
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 10:20 a.m. 
 
 Early voting is surging less than three weeks before Election Day. 
 
 As of Saturday, more than 5.3 million votes have been cast, far ahead of the pace at this time in 2012. 
 
 Balloting is underway in 34 out of 37 early-voting states, both in person and by mail. 
 
 Hillary Clinton so far appears be showing strength in pivotal states such as North Carolina and Florida. Donald Trump has shown promise in Iowa and Ohio. 
 
 In all, more than 46 million people are expected to vote before Election Day — or as much as 40 percent of all votes cast. 
 
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 9:50 a.m. 
 
 A new GOP ad in the Missouri Senate race acknowledges that Hillary Clinton is likely to be president and warns against sending a Democratic senator to join her. 
 
 It’s the latest example of an ad strategy that Republicans have begun employing as Donald Trump’s defeat looks increasingly likely. 
 
 Here’s the message: Elect Republicans to be a “check and balance” against Clinton. 
 
 The ad backing GOP Sen. Roy Blunt is by from the Senate Leadership Fund. It’s a well-funded Senate campaign committee run by allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. 
 
 The ads shows the Democratic candidate in Missouri, Jason Kander, morphing into Clinton and claims the two are identical on issues including immigration and liberal Supreme Court justices. 
 
 The narrator says: “One Hillary in Washington would be bad enough, reject Jason Kander.” 
 
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 9:35 a.m. 
 
 Mike Pence is praising agriculture as an economic and cultural pillar of the United States. 
 
 The GOP vice presidential nominee is appearing at the Future Farmers of America convention in Indianapolis. 
 
 Pence — Indiana’s governor — was speaking in his official capacity and didn’t mention running mate Donald Trump. 
 
 Pence received an enthusiastic ovation from 10,000 high school students when he mentioned “the extraordinary opportunity my little family has today” on “a national ticket.” 
 
 Pence noted that U.S. agriculture and related enterprises employ 21 million people. 
 
 According to federal data, that includes about 740,000 crop laborers who are immigrants working in the U.S. illegally. Those workers and their employers could be affected by Trump’s immigration proposals. 
 
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 9 a.m. 
 
 Look for Donald Trump to lay out his to-do list for the first 100 days of a Trump administration. 
 
 The Republican presidential nominee is set to give what’s being billed as a major speech on Saturday morning in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Trump is trying to shift attention back to his priorities after weeks of campaign controversy. 
 
 Aides say the address is a first glimpse at the closing argument he’ll being making in the final two weeks of the race. 
 
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 8:30 a.m. 
 
 Hillary Clinton’s campaign says four people have been examined by medical personnel after a white powdery substance arrived in an envelope at a New York campaign office — and no health issues have been reported. 
 
 Campaign spokesman Glen Caplin says federal and local officials have determined the substance wasn’t hazardous. 
 
 Police say preliminary tests showed the substance found Friday in an envelope at Clinton’s Manhattan office, where mail is received, wasn’t harmful. A police spokesman declined to identify what the substance was. 
 
 The envelope arrived late Friday afternoon. It was taken to Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters and the 11th floor there was evacuated. 
 
 Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ||||| Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (CNN) Donald Trump on Saturday offered what his senior campaign aides billed as his "closing argument" in the presidential race just 17 days from its conclusion, rehashing his campaign's key policy planks to give voters a sense of his top priorities as president. 
 
 Trump began his remarks here near the site of President Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" by urging the country to follow Lincoln's example to "heal the divisions" the US now faces. But he quickly slipped into his combative rhetoric, slamming a "totally rigged" system and raging against establishment politicians and the media for seeking to sink his campaign. 
 
 He slammed Hillary Clinton as an insider politician and accused her of "running against change" and "all of the American people. 
 
 "Hillary Clinton is not running against me, she's running against change. And she's running against all of the American people and all of the American voters," Trump said. 
 
 And before getting to what he would seek to accomplish in the first 100 days of his presidency -- which campaign aides said Friday evening would be the focus of his speech -- Trump went on to again attack women who have accused him of sexual assault or misconduct, saying, "every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign" and vowing to sue them after the election is over. 
 
 Finally, 15 minutes later, Trump pivoted to his plan for the first 100 days of his presidency should he be elected in terms of "measures," "actions" and legislative bills -- terms that gave his policies a more concrete and realistic flair. 
 
 "I am asking the American people to dream big once again. What follows is my 100-day action plan to make America great again," he finally said, calling it "a contract between Donald J. Trump and the American people." 
 
 Trump offered no new major policy announcements, instead mostly reiterating key plans of his presidential campaign and offering sparse new details. 
 
 He promised to propose a constitutional amendment to impose congressional term limits, vowed again to begin renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement of the 90s and announce his intention to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and promised to take a tough approach to countries like China that he believes are abusing free trade laws. 
 
 He promised to cancel out every "unconstitutional executive action" enacted by President Barack Obama, cut federal funding to "sanctuary cities," begin deporting undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes in the US and "suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur." 
 
 And that litany of proposals -- and several more -- is only what Trump vowed to accomplish on his first day in office, raising questions about the number of executive orders he would need to sign in order to uphold his promises. 
 
 Trump said his priorities would be to tackle corruption in Washington, protect American workers through protectionist trade measures and prevent illegal immigration and terrorism. He proposed up to 10 bills addressing those issues that he said he would work to pass in this first 100 days in office. 
 
 As he laid out a bill to "end illegal immigration," Trump offered up new details on how he would look to disincentive undocumented immigrants from crossing into the US, calling for a two-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for those who illegally re-enter the US and a five-year minimum sentence for those with prior felony convictions, multiple misdemeanors or two or more previous deportations. 
 
 Currently, there is no mandatory minimum sentence, but undocumented immigrants who seek to re-enter the US can face up to two years in prison and those with felonies can face up to 10 years in prison. 
 
 Trump also called for a hiring freeze on all federal employees -- except military and public health and safety officials -- as part of his "six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington," though he did not say how long the freeze would last. The Republican nominee has also previously called for a freeze on new federal regulations and repeated Saturday that he would require federal agencies eliminate two federal regulations for every new one. 
 
 'A time of division' 
 
 While Trump opened his remarks by recognizing a former Republican president Lincoln's leadership "at a time of division like we've never seen before," Trump quickly abandoned that hopeful tone in favor of blistering attacks on the media and establishment politicians in Washington, and once again cast doubt on the US democratic system by arguing that there could be rampant voter fraud on Election Day, despite evidence to the contrary. 
 
 Trump accused the FBI and Department of Justice of having "covered up" Clinton's "crimes" given the Justice Department's decision not to pursue criminal charges after investigating Clinton's use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state. 
 
 Christina Reynolds, a Clinton campaign spokeswoman, said Trump's speech presented a "troubling view." 
 
 "Today, in what was billed as a major closing argument speech, Trump's major new policy was to promise political and legal retribution against the women who have accused him of groping them," Reynolds said in a statement. "Like Trump's campaign, this speech gave us a troubling view as to what a Trump State of the Union would sound like—rambling, unfocused, full of conspiracy theories and attacks on the media, and lacking in any real answers for American families." 
 
 Trump also accused the "dishonest mainstream media" of being "a major part of this corruption," accusing the press of fabricating stories to make him look "as bad and even as dangerous as possible," before complaining about the media's insufficient coverage of the crowd sizes at his rallies. 
 
 Trump took his complaints further, promising action to prevent AT&T from buying Time Warner, the parent company of CNN, which he argued would concentrate too much power in one company. And he also slammed Comcast's purchase of NBC. 
 
 "We'll look at breaking that deal up and other deals like it," he vowed. "They're trying to poison the mind of the American voter." 
 
 As he sought to draw a heavy contrast with Clinton, who is leading Trump in most recent national and battleground state polls just over two weeks from the election, the Republican nominee urge voters to "dream big once again" and take a chance on his unconventional -- and controversial -- candidacy. 
 
 "I'm asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics and to embrace that great faith and optimism that has always been that central ingredient in the American character," he said. ||||| Republican presidential contender Donald Trump laid out a multi-pronged vision for his presidency on Saturday, saying in a speech that he opposed the proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner while staking out opposition to China, illegal immigration and the current tax code. 
 
 In a high stakes speech billed as a "closing argument to voters," Trump used the speech to lay out a plan for his first 100 days in office, if he's elected. It functioned as a substantive laundry list of policies that the Republican vowed to address in the Oval Office, including ethics reform and stemming the flow of undocumented immigrants. 
 
 "On November 8, Amereicans will be voting on this 100 day plan to restore prosperity to our country, secure our communities and [restore] honesty to our government," Trump told an audience in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—an historic site where Abraham Lincoln gave his famous Civil War address. 
 
 
 
 The GOP nominee struck familiar themes on a broad range of subjects, including tax reform, free trade and regulation that served as red meat to his base and a blueprint for his initial months in office. He also reiterated his support for building a wall on the border of Mexico, vowing that "Mexico would pay for a wall." 
 
 
 
 Down in most national polls and with his campaign overshadowed by accusations of sexual improprieties, the real estate mogul vowed to take a tough line on trade deals and struck a number of populist themes. He said he would brand China as a currency manipulator and would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). 
 
 In addition, he vowed to repeal and replace Obamacare, which is currently in trouble as premiums soar and insurers bolt the insurance program. Trump also pledged to cancel "unconstitutional" executive orders issued by President Barack Obama, and said he'd find a suitable nominees for the Supreme Court. 
 
 On Friday, news broke that the cellular carrier AT&T and entertainment giant Time Warner were nearing agreement on a deal that could be announced this weekend. Trump said under a potential GOP White House, his administration would not approve the deal. 
 
 AT&T told CNBC it has no comments on Trump's remarks. 
 
 In a shift, Trump mostly refrained from directly attacking his Democratic challenger, Hillary Clinton, but enumerated several policy differences between the two. His Gettysburg appearance came days after the final presidential debate, in which he pointedly lashed out at Clinton as a "nasty woman," reinforcing criticism that he was insensitive to women. 
 
 
 
 In that vein, Trump also vowed that he would sue the litany of women who have come forward to accuse him of inappropriate behavior after the election, branding them as "liars." 
 
 "This is my pledge to you, and if we follow these steps we will once more have a government of, by and for the people, and more importantly we will make America great again," Trump stated. 
 

– With 17 days left before the election, Donald Trump was set to give a "closing argument to voters" near the site of President Lincoln's most famous address at Gettysburg, CNBC reports. Instead, CNN states Trump spent the first 15 minutes of his speech railing against the corrupt media, rigged elections, Hillary Clinton, and every woman who has accused him of sexual assault. And that was after he promised to "heal the divisions" in America. “Every woman lied," Fox News quotes Trump as saying about his nearly dozen accusers. "All of these liars will be sued after the election is over.” He also said Clinton is "running against all of the American people." Trump eventually turned to his plans for his first 100 days in office, listing six major steps he'll take once elected—in addition to suing his accusers, presumably—that he called a "contract between myself and the American voter." Those plans include congressional term limits and more restrictions on government officials becoming lobbyists, the Washington Post reports. Trump said he would immediately deport immigrants in prison for violent crimes and cancel visas for countries that won't take them back. He said his administration wouldn't approve of the AT&T/Time Warner merger announced today. He would also implement a hiring freeze on all federal employees outside public health, safety, and the military. According to CNN, there were few policies or details laid out Saturday that Trump hadn't already discussed elsewhere.