A new Spotlight PA/MassINC poll in Pennsylvania finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump among likely voters in a multi-candidate race, 50% to 46%.
Harris Tells Wisconsin Rally to Ignore the Polls
Kamala Harris on Friday night told rallygoers in Wisconsin not to pay too much attention to the polls, The Hill reports.
Said Harris: “46 days until the election. And, what we know, this is going to be a tight race until the very end. So, let’s not pay too much attention to the polls because let’s be clear, we are the underdog in this race and we have some hard work ahead of us.”
Why Couldn’t Republicans Push Mark Robinson Out?
Jonathan Last: “Up until last night, the GOP in North Carolina could have replaced its gubernatorial candidate. Robinson is going to lose this race. He’s going to lose it so badly that he might pull the top of the ticket down with him. And he’s going to lose it dishonorably. He isn’t Barry Goldwater going down to defeat because of his principles.”
“What happened is that the Republican Party of North Carolina got hijacked by an insane person. And when the shit hit the fan, the NC GOP didn’t have the ability to push this insane person aside.”
“This is the difference between a healthy institution and a failed institution.”
For members: Trump Risks Being Doomed by Ally in North Carolina
Harris Slams ‘Trump Abortion Bans’
“Kamala Harris delivered an impassioned speech about abortion rights on Friday in Georgia, accusing Republicans who support abortion bans of causing unnecessary suffering as she described the far-reaching, painful and even deadly consequences of such policies,” the New York Times reports.
“Ms. Harris’s speech in Georgia, a top battleground state where she has narrowly trailed in polls, signaled a more combative and nimble approach in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign.”
Politico: “It’s the vice president’s latest attempt to hold Trump responsible for the near-total abortion bans that have taken effect in more than a third of states since Roe’s fall. For weeks, she has been highlighting stories of women who were denied abortions in emergency situations and families who have struggled to receive fertility care, like in vitro fertilization, to demonstrate the sweeping consequences of such laws.”
House GOP Trails Badly in Fundraising
“The NRCC raised $9.7 million in August, $12.6 million less than the DCCC raised over the same time period,” Punchbowl News reports.
“The NRCC has $70.75 million on hand, $16 million less than the DCCC.”
Quote of the Day
“That’s the ‘Roy Cohn School of Management.’ You demonize and demonize and demonize and give credit to nobody else. And that is the antithesis of good leadership. That’s the antithesis of good character. That’s the antithesis of being ethical. That’s who Donald Trump is. I’ve known him for 25 years. I’m never going to say we were best friends, but he is the most unethical… Lacks character, dishonest person… I’ve ever done business with or worked with.”
— Mark Cuban, speaking to Brian Tyler Cohen.
Trump Has No Plans to Pull Endorsement of Mark Robinson
“Donald Trump is facing calls both from his allies and from within his own campaign to pull his endorsement from scandal-plagued North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson,” NBC News reports.
“So far, however, there are no plans for the former president to formally drop him.”
“There are pockets of advisers within the Trump campaign who have quietly been urging him to withdraw his endorsement of Robinson, but so far those requests have fallen on deaf ears.”
Trump Lobbies to Change Nebraska Law
“Donald Trump spoke by phone this week with a Nebraska state senator as part of a last-minute push to change how the state allocates its electoral votes and block the easiest path Vice President Kamala Harris has to win the White House,” the Washington Post reports.
North Carolina Governor Shifts to Likely Democrat
Cook Political Report: “Things already weren’t looking great for North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s chances in the race for governor. Democrats have pummeled him for months over his inflammatory rhetoric about women and abortion, and recent polls have shown him trailing Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein by anywhere from high single digits to double digits.”
“But damning stories out Thursday further imperil Robinson’s already slim hopes.”
A Last-Minute Effort to Mess With the Vote Is Underway
Rick Hasen: “With early voting already underway, one might think that the rules of the game for November’s election are set, and that it will all just come down to turnout, as the cliché goes. Well, not so fast. In North Carolina, Georgia, and Nebraska, at least, Republicans have been looking for ways to make last-minute changes to the rules to their advantage in the hopes of eking out a presidential victory for Donald Trump that seemed all but assured a few months ago.”
“Although most of them are unlikely to matter, the one in Nebraska just might work.”
New Poll Shows Virginia Is Close
A new University of Mary Washington poll in Virginia shows Kamala Harris barely ahead of Donald Trump among likely voters in a multi-candidate race, 47% to 46%.
Teamsters Chief Clarifies Meaning of No Endorsement
Teamsters president Sean O’Brien told CNN that the Teamsters’ decision not to endorse in the presidential race “was not an endorsement for the Republican Party.”
Mark Robinson Won’t Be at Trump’s Rally This Weekend
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) will not be attending Donald Trump’s rally Saturday in Wilmington, North Carolina, NBC News reports.
Sheehy’s Book Appears to Include Plagiarized Passages
Montana U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy’s (R) book appears to contain four plagiarized portions, the Daily Montanan reports.
“It is not the first time the details of Sheehy’s life before politics have come under scrutiny for their truthfulness. Sheehy’s past, including a gunshot wound that may have been sustained in Glacier National Park, claims of parachute training over Glacier, and his business dealings including his aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace, have come under fire.”
Trump Backs Off Demand to Shut Down Government
“Speaker Mike Johnson signaled that former President Donald Trump could soften on his calls to shut down the federal government if a measure requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote is not attached to a short-term spending bill,” CBS News reports.
Republicans Would Push Harris Cabinet to the Right
“There’s a real possibility that Kamala Harris wins the presidency and Democrats lose the Senate in November – in which case she’ll almost surely run into trouble stocking a Cabinet and the courts,” Semafor reports.
“Republicans are already vowing to block progressive nominees Harris might choose, push her Supreme Court picks to the right and potentially stop some of her lifetime judicial appointments, if they win back the Senate and she defeats Donald Trump – a split presidential-year election outcome that hasn’t happened for decades.”
“Many in the GOP are in a fighting mood after seeing President Joe Biden push his nominees through over the past several years, thanks to a slim Senate Democratic majority.”
Related for members: Manchin and Sinema Could Get One Last Power Grab
Nikki Haley Iowa Co-Chair Backs Kamala Harris
Nikki Haley’s Iowa campaign co-chair writes in the Des Moines Register that she endorses Kamala Harris for president.
Harris Answers the Web’s Most Searched Questions
Vice President Kamala Harris did the Wired autocomplete interview.
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