“The campaigns of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump made strategic adjustments to the content of their TV advertisements between August and September, a CNN analysis of ad tracking data shows, amid a contentious fight to define the transformed race for the White House,” CNN reports.

“Emphasis of key issues, including abortion, immigration and crime, shifted, with the Harris campaign moving away from defensive ads that stressed the vice president’s law enforcement background, and the Trump campaign leaning into economic appeals – the top issue for voters in this election.”

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Sunday refused to say Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, USA Today reports.

Said Johnson: “You want us to litigate things that happened four years ago when we’re talking about the future. We’re not going to talk about what happened in 2020.”

Mother Jones: Top Trump allies help set the stage for election chaos.

Kamala Harris’ campaign is directly invoking special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation to attack Donald Trump with a new ad, Politico reports.

From the new ad: “We knew it was bad. But it’s worse than we thought. Much worse than we thought.”

“It’s a rare attack from the Harris campaign. While Harris — and President Joe Biden before her — have discussed the events of Jan. 6 on the campaign trail, Harris’ campaign has rarely made these attacks in paid advertisements. The digital ad will air in battleground states starting Sunday.”

“Florida is facing the threat of another major hurricane making landfall in the state, prompting state emergency officials to prepare for the evacuation of potentially more than 6 million residents as the state still recovers from its last direct hit,” Politico reports.

“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.