⁍ U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will hold dueling prime-time town halls on Thursday instead of their second presidential debate.

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⁍ With less than three weeks to go until the Nov. 3 vote, the Republican president is searching for ways to change the dynamics of a race in which Biden has a double-digit advantage in some national polls.

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⁍ Nearly 15 million Americans, a record for this date, have cast ballots, according to the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida.

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– The third and final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden has been moved up to Thursday night because Trump is still feeling the effects of the Ebola-like virus that has forced him to cancel the first debate. The second debate will be held Oct. 22 in Tennessee. The Trump-Biden town halls will be held at 8pm EDT, with Trump on NBC from Miami and Biden on ABC from Philadelphia, Reuters reports. A round-up of coverage: Two Biden staffers have tested positive for the virus, including one on the staff of California Sen. Kamala Harris, who was scheduled to travel with the vice-presidential candidate on Thursday. The Biden campaign says the staffer was not in close contact with either Biden or Harris before they contracted the virus, the Washington Post reports. The Biden campaign says the other staffer tested positive for the virus after coming in contact with the president. The Biden campaign says the infected staffer was not in close contact with either Biden or Harris before they contracted the virus. The Biden campaign says the infected staffer was not in close contact with either Biden or Harris before they contracted the virus. A round-up of coverage. Trump has returned to the campaign trail after spending several days being treated for the virus in a military hospital. NBC said on Wednesday that Clifford Lane, clinical director at the National Institutes of Health, and the government’s top infectious disease specialist, Anthony Fauci, had concluded ‘with a high degree of confidence’ that Trump was no longer ‘shedding infectious virus.’ The election could be the most closely contested in recent memory due to a deeply divided electorate and the possibility that Trump will challenge widely used mail-in ballots, claiming without evidence they are fraudulent.