“Democrats have spent the last year eyeing a familiar trio of northern states that would deliver the White House in November: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania are the ‘clearest pathway’ to victory, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign leaders wrote in July — as long as she also picks up a single electoral vote in the Omaha area,” the Washington Post reports.

“The Trump team, meanwhile, has been focused on its own path in the Eastern time zone, a veritable ‘Red Wall’ trifecta that overlaps with the northern ‘Blue Wall’ around the Great Lakes.”

Said one Trump campaign official: “As long as we hold North Carolina, we just need to win Georgia and Pennsylvania. That is all we need to win. So when everybody is running around with all the machinations, she’s still playing defense.”

Politico: Where Harris chooses to campaign tells an important story about her strategy.

“Kamala Harris campaigned through Pennsylvania’s conservative interior on Friday, aiming to shave a few percentage points off former President Donald Trump’s winning margins in parts of the state where he remains popular,” the New York Times reports.

“When a moderator asked Donald Trump about Jan. 6, 2021, at the presidential debate, the former president slipped immediately into a now-familiar revisionist history of the attack on the U.S. Capitol,” the New York Times reports.

“He falsely claimed that he had nothing to do with the assault, blaming it on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the police officers who protected the building that day against a mob of his supporters.”

“But then Mr. Trump made a brief but telling remark: He used the pronoun ‘we’ to describe some of the rioters, grammatically placing himself among those who have been charged with storming into the Capitol.”

“Kamala Harris sat for a one-on-one interview with a local station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Friday, sharing how she offers a ‘new generation of leadership,’” Axios reports.

“It’s the first formal, solo interview Harris has done since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.”

“Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, along with former first lady Michelle Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, are preparing to lend their political star power to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign in the final stretch of the election,“ NBC News reports.

“The high-profile surrogates all felt ‘energized’ by their roles in the Democratic National Convention last month and have offered to help the Harris team in any way that would be most helpful.”

“I observed him to be a man who is not mentally fit for the job… He’s a narcissist, and he’s a pathological liar.”

— Former Rep. Jim Greenwood’s (R-PA), on MSNBC, explaining why he’s voting for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.

A new Data for Progress survey finds Kamala Harris now leading Donald Trump by four points nationally, 50% to 46%.

Donald Trump downplayed the significance of right-wing agitator Laura Loomer traveling with him on his private plane earlier this week, describing her to reporters as “a free spirit” who “speaks very positively of the campaign,” Semafor reports.