“Senate Republican spending is heavily concentrated in just a handful of races — a distribution that doesn’t match the reality of the battleground map,” Politico reports.

“That dynamic is the result of poor fundraising from some key candidates and the party’s reliance on fickle big donors to close the gap. The playing field is ripe with inviting targets, but the advertising from the GOP and its allies is heavily lopsided instead of spread across them. And some of the places where they’re more involved are not the most obvious pickup opportunities.”

“Instead, a combination of individual candidate strengths and weaknesses, donors’ preferences, and targeting by special interests has created a highly uneven playing field and a clear picture of a party that’s fallen badly behind in individual fundraising.”

Sen. J.D. Vance had kind words for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) — just hours after she suggested that a mysterious “they” can control the weather and inflicted Hurricane Helene on Republican voters in Georgia and North Carolina, The Independent reports.

Said Vance: “We have got another great, strong, woman leader in Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. Now you may not know this, but one of the very first endorsements … I got when I was running in the Republican Senate primary in Ohio a few years ago was from Marjorie Taylor Greene, so she’s been a great friend of mine.”

He went on call Greene a “loyal person” and a “hell of a Congresswoman.”

“Republicans’ faith in the accuracy of the election results nationwide has sunk 16 points since the 2020 election, now registering 28%. This follows an 11-point decline to 44% in 2020 from 55% in 2016, the last time a majority of Republicans were confident,” Gallup reports.

USA Today: “Nearly half of Republicans say they won’t accept the results of the presidential election if their candidate loses, and some of them say they would ‘take action to overturn’ the results… Only 29% of Republicans said that the electoral process is free from corruption, compared to 56% of Democrats.”

“If you think the lies and distortions and know-nothing takes about FEMA are bad, just wait until this time next month.”

— Tim Alberta, on X, warning about the misinformation ahead in the presidential campaign.

Georgia Democrats trolled Donald Trump at yesterday’s Georgia-Auburn game.

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) will appear on Fox News for an interview on Sunday, according to an announcement from the network.

Wall Street Journal: “Though he keeps up a packed schedule campaigning for next month’s election, Trump Jr.’s primary focus is what happens afterward. He is working to make sure the next Trump administration and GOP Congress are stocked with more JD Vances—and to keep out those who might hinder an aggressive second-term agenda.”

Said Trump Jr.: “What I want to do is work on the transition, and it’s not about placing people. It’s about blocking the people who would be a disaster in that administration. I will cut out so many people, people’s heads are going to spin.”

“Donald Trump has delivered a barrage of lies and distortions about the federal response to Hurricane Helene,” CNN reports.

“While various misinformation about the response has spread widely without Trump’s involvement, the Republican presidential nominee has been one of the country’s leading deceivers on the subject. Over a span of six days, in public comments and social media posts, Trump has used his powerful megaphone to endorse or invent false or unsubstantiated claims.”

“Republicans are pouring tens of millions of dollars into getting GOP voters to cast ballots before Election Day,” Politico reports.

“They’re frustrated because Donald Trump keeps getting in the way.”

“In just the last few weeks, the former president has dismissed early voting as ‘stupid,’ falsely claimed that 20 percent of mail ballots in Pennsylvania are ‘fraudulent,’ suggested mail carriers could ‘lose hundreds of thousands of ballots, maybe purposefully,’ and baselessly accused Democrats of exploiting a program that sends ballots to overseas and military voters to evade citizenship checks.”

“This is no longer a fight between Republicans versus Democrats, left versus right. It’s good versus evil. And good is going to win.”

— RNC co-chair Lara Trump, at a rally in Pennsylvania for Donald Trump.