Highlighting threats to women's reproductive rights and Donald Trump's apparent fatigue at a rally Saturday in south Atlanta, Kamala Harris continued her push for votes in Georgia as early voting breaks records here.

The Georgia race appears to remain close, with polls suggesting the Republican candidate has a one-point lead in the state. Trump has made several appearances in Georgia and has a Turning Point Action rally planned next week in Gwinnett County, outside Atlanta.

However, the National Rifle Association canceled a planned Saturday rally with Trump in Savannah, citing a “scheduling conflict.” Trump has also canceled several news interviews in the last week.

The Trump campaign has angrily pushed back against an aide's claim that Trump was exhausted by the appearances. But Harris took the idea as a rallying cry.

“And now he’s dodging debates and canceling interviews because of exhaustion,” Harris said. “And when he answers a question or gives a speech at a rally, have you noticed that he tends to go off script and ramble, and that he generally can't finish a thought? …People are exhausted by someone trying to get Americans to point fingers at each other. We are exhausted. That’s why I say it’s time to turn the page.”

Harris touched on familiar themes on a day of perfect weather in Atlanta, describing the “opportunity economy” as an economy that lowers the cost of living on prescription drugs, groceries and housing through anti-price gouging initiatives while providing financial support to new parents and entrepreneurs.

Expanding Medicare coverage to home health services would prevent working adults from having to leave productive jobs or spend their savings caring for aging parents. “It’s about dignity,” she said at the city’s Lakewood Amphitheater.

Harris will attend services Sunday at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a majority-black megachurch in the heart of Atlanta's black suburbs in southern DeKalb County. New Birth and other large black churches in Georgia traditionally organize a “souls to the polls” drive on election Sundays.

As of 5 p.m. Saturday, about 1.3 million Georgians had cast their early votes, more than double the number in 2020 on the fifth day of early voting in Georgia. In 2020, about 2.7 million of 5 million voters cast their ballots early in person, with more than two-thirds of votes cast before Election Day. However, the number of postal votes has fallen sharply, reflecting the end of the pandemic and changes to postal voting rules.

Early voting provides campaign strategists with real-time feedback to target voters who have not yet cast a ballot. Democrats urged their supporters in Georgia to vote in early 2020 and 2022. This strategy helped the party win the 2020 presidential race and Georgia secured two key U.S. Senate victories.

“Georgia, out of nowhere we found a way,” said U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff. “This is an election that will determine the character of our republic. This is much deeper than Democrats versus Republicans. Former President Trump is unfit for the presidency.”

But so far this year, early voting in rural and ex-urban areas of Georgia rich in Republican votes has exceeded turnout in the Atlanta core. Donald Trump explicitly encouraged his supporters to vote earlier this year, a tacit acknowledgment of the strategic mistake of 2020.

Early voting also began Saturday in Nevada, where Barack Obama campaigned for Harris in Las Vegas. The former president also mocked Trump, telling the audience, “We don't need to see what an older, crazier Donald Trump looks like without guardrails.”

In Georgia, Democratic early voters were vocal about abortion policies that influenced their votes. The deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, two Georgia women who lacked access to timely maternal health care or legal abortions, have resonated in election rhetoric.

“Let's agree, you don't have to give up your faith or your deeply held beliefs to agree: the government shouldn't tell you what to do,” Harris said. The rally showed clips of Thurman's family describing their grief and then showed Trump mocking her loss in a town hall interview hosted by Fox News.

“He trivializes their grief and makes it all about himself and his television ratings,” Harris said. “It’s cruel.”

But the Lakewood rally was clearly about increasing turnout and enthusiasm among black voters. Usher, a legendary R&B musician and dancer from Atlanta, addressed the crowd early, urging people to vote for Harris early and to reach out to friends and family.

“How we vote — I mean, everything we do in the next 17 days — will impact our children, our grandchildren and the people we love most,” Usher said.

Ryan Wilson, co-founder of the private networking center Gathering Spot and a well-known Atlanta entrepreneur, discussed Harris' proposal to offer grants of up to $50,000 to Black entrepreneurs. “That would have been a turning point for me,” he said. “Vice President Harris' opportunity agenda for black men, giving people like me the tools to achieve intergenerational prosperity, reduce costs and protect their rights. And what would Donald Trump do? I think it’s fair to say: nothing.”