“Brad Raffensperger is all too familiar with attempts to subvert U.S. democracy,” the Financial Times reports.

“The Secretary of State for Georgia was on the receiving end of the infamous Donald Trump phone call after the 2020 election, when the then-president urged his fellow Republican to ‘find’ the 11,780 votes he needed to win the state. Raffensperger refused and death threats ensued.”

“Almost four years on from the unrest that followed the last presidential election, Raffensperger is again in the crosshairs of the Trump faithful, as he battles a MAGA-friendly majority on the swing state’s election board who passed last-minute laws that critics claim will pave the way for post-election legal chaos, if not violent unrest.”

Said Raffensperger: “There are a lot of bad actors out there.”

“Voter registration is breaking records as Election Day approaches, particularly among young people, including many first-time voters,” USA Today reports.

“Kamala Harris’s campaign raised more than four times as much as Donald Trump’s effort in August, capitalizing on the surge of Democratic enthusiasm during the first full month of her presidential campaign,” the Washington Post reports.

“But the super PACs aligned with Trump are continuing to raise large sums from high-dollar donors as the two candidates enter the final sprint before November.”

“Harris’s flush coffers have allowed her to build out a campaign operation with at least 2,000 aides and 312 offices across the battleground states at the same time she has held an advantage over Trump with her budget for television and digital ads. The Trump campaign, which is relying on outside groups to power its ground game, has not disclosed comparative details about the size of its operation.”

“In a race between a Democrat who could be America’s first female president and a Republican who has been found liable for sexual abuse, the issue of gender was always going to be inescapable,” the New York Times reports.

“But this week, the subject surged to the forefront of the fall contest in new and vivid ways, as Democrats found fresh fuel for their argument that today’s Republican Party is disrespectful of women and their autonomy — sometimes with dangerous consequences.”

Said Vice President Kamala Harris: “It’s clear that they just don’t trust women.”

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%.

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.”

“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.”

“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.

“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.