“Lawyers are ramping up battles over who gets to vote and how those votes are counted in the presidential election,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Democrats sued Georgia’s state election board Monday about its contentious new rule for certifying results. Republicans filed lawsuits in North Carolina and Arizona challenging voter registration procedures there. The Supreme Court also stepped into the fray: Last week the justices took a mixed approach over proof-of-citizenship rules in Arizona.”

“Election lawyers say that the volume of lawsuits is an unprecedented surge from previous contests, but that the last-minute litigation follows a familiar playbook.”

“Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has dominated social media with an influx of viral memes and cutting taunts of the opposition — and behind the keyboard is a team of Gen Zers,” Axios reports.

“The ‘mobilization team,’ made up of the generation that encompasses 12-27 year olds, is leveraging talked about moments from the campaign trail and reacting with humor while capitalizing on viral TikTok trends to force a contrast between Harris and former President Trump.”

“The most thunderous sound in all of American politics is the sound of a turning page.”

— James Carville, in an interview with the New Republic.

The New York Times highlights 12 times Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized Donald Trump.

“Special counsel Jack Smith defiantly re-injected the question of Donald Trump’s bid to steal the 2020 election into the intensifying end game of this year’s White House race,” CNN reports.

“By trying to rescue his case after his initial indictment was gutted by the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling, Smith signaled that he is determined to bring the former president to justice — even though there will be no trial before Election Day.”

“His move underscored the huge personal investment Trump has in winning the presidency in November: He not only would return to the nation’s top office, but would also gain the authority to halt this and another federal case against him and head off any sentences that could include jail time if he is convicted.”

New York Times: How the federal case against Donald Trump came sputtering back to life.

William Kristol: “Last night I watched the new and terrific video takedown by Tim Miller and Sam Stein of Donald Trump’s latest grift. Those of you who aren’t avid followers of all of Trump’s enterprises may not be aware that he’s selling a new series of digital trading cards. To sweeten the offer, if you buy enough of them, Trump offers an additional reward: Snippets from the suit he wore during his debate with Joe Biden. What an incentive! You can own a relic of the holy garment that adorned his body on that majestic occasion.”

“It’s one of Trump’s most tasteless and shameless ever grifts—which is saying something. It’s ludicrous. It’s farcical. Tim and Sam brilliantly deconstruct Trump’s video sales pitch, and have a great time doing so. I laughed out loud several times, and I’m not a big laugh-out-loud guy.”

“But of course it’s creepy as well as funny, as Tim and Sam point out. And the creepiness isn’t confined to Trump. It’s pervasive. MAGA world is a creepy world.”

Jake Lahut: “Over the past week, four Republicans familiar with discussions on Lewandowski’s new role and who’ve worked alongside him before shared new details with Straight from the Hut on how he’s shaking up the campaign. They said to expect more free wheeling policy speeches slash press conferences to inject Trump back into the news cycle, a return to old school Trumpworld infighting, and that the best way to understand his re-hiring is through the lens of the Butler shooting.”

“The mystique and fear around Lewandowski starts with his ever-changing story on what his job actually entails, but the traces of his vision for a strategic shift are beginning to take shape.”

Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball shifted its rating of North Carolina’s gubernatorial race from Toss Up to Leans Democratic.

The Cook Political Report did the same.

A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds Kamala Harris edging Donald Trump nationally in a multi-candidate field, 46% to 45%.

In a head-to-head match up, Harris leads 47% to 46%.

A new analysis finds striking surges in voter registration among Democratic-leaning voter groups during the week of July 21st, after President Biden left the race and endorsed Kamala Harris.

Greg Sargent interviewed Tom Bonier, the author of the study.

It may not be possible for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to remove his name from ballots in the majority of seven battleground states: Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin, NPR reports.

Axios: RFK Jr. can’t escape the Blue Wall.

“Flush with cash and fresh off the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is flooding the airwaves and the internet with advertising that is meant to combat an overarching weakness: Voters trust former President Donald Trump more than her on the economy,” the New York Times reports.

“The ads, targeted to the battleground states, lean into Ms. Harris’s middle-class background. They aim to tell Americans that she is the candidate who understands the pain of stubbornly high prices and can help tame inflation, pointing to her plans to lower the cost of housing, food and other daily necessities while calling Mr. Trump an ally of billionaires and giant corporations. They are being complemented by similar spots from the biggest super PAC supporting her, Future Forward.”

“The Harris campaign said it spent $150 million on ads in August and announced that it would reserve $370 million worth of ads between Labor Day and the November election. Digital ads will account for $200 million of that spending in the coming months, a tremendous sum that underscores the increasing need to reach voters on their phones and other devices.”

“Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is expected to headline a fundraiser for former President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign in Atlanta on Thursday alongside first lady Marty Kemp and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,” ABC News reports.

“It’s a signal of how Kemp is working to reelect Trump despite their public feud, and though Kemp voices his commitment to working to elect the entire Republican ticket, he previously revealed he didn’t vote for Trump during the state’s presidential primary.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told TMZ that his wife, Cheryl Hines, is not a Trump supporter despite his endorsement.

Donald Trump’s advantage over Kamala Harris on the economy and crime is eroding among U.S. voters, a sign the Democratic vice president’s campaign is gathering momentum ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.