“Our primary focus is not to get out the vote. It’s to make sure they don’t cheat. Because we have all the votes we need.”

— Donald Trump, at a campaign rally in North Carolina.

It’s important to note that Trump is already declaring himself the winner… in August.

“Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) seems to be having the time of her life in Chicago,” the Washington Post reports.

“She is taking a victory lap of sorts after publicly pressuring President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 race, a move that has reinvigorated a beleaguered party. Since arriving here on Sunday, she has attended over 20 events — where she is often greeted like a hero — hosted over 500 guests at a Tuesday luncheon and stopped to take innumerable selfies.”

“California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) introduced himself during Tuesday night’s roll call by saying he’s from ‘the great state of Nancy Pelosi,’ with a beaming Pelosi standing right next to him.”

“The Kamala Harris campaign is launching its own Twitch channel where it will be streaming the vice president’s acceptance speech on Thursday,” Wired reports.

“The Twitch channel is part of the campaign’s broader strategy for engaging young and difficult to reach voters online.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell anticipates the upcoming presidential election will be “very, very competitive,” WLEX reports.

Speechwriter Jon Favreau explains how Barack Obama’s devastating mockery of Donald Trump’s penis made it into his final speech at the Democratic convention.

Nate Cohn: “The top of the list, however, is led by an entirely different group: those with a ‘somewhat’ unfavorable view of Mr. Trump. In an extraordinary measure of Mr. Biden’s weakness, Mr. Trump actually led voters who had a somewhat unfavorable view of him back in May. Now, Ms. Harris has a wide lead among this group — at least for the moment.”

“And there’s one group that reveals Ms. Harris’s distinctive mark on the race: women. She didn’t simply make gains among young and nonwhite voters; she made outsize gains among young women.”

“Overall, Ms. Harris gained 11 points compared with Mr. Biden among women while she improved just three points among men.”

“Donald Trump will hit the campaign trail in Glendale on Friday, holding a rally at the same venue where Kamala Harris drew a crowd of 15,000 people earlier this month,” the Arizona Republic reports.

“It’s the perfect opportunity for a crowd size comparison.”

“The Republican former president is under pressure to upstage Harris by packing Desert Diamond Arena with a huge crowd. It’s a comparison of his own making: Trump has been disputing the size of Harris’s fired-up campaign crowds lately, even falsely claiming she used artificial intelligence because her sea of supporters was so large at a recent event.”

Alan Abramowitz: “This year’s version of the model shows Kamala Harris as a narrow favorite in both the popular vote and Electoral College, but her predicted margins are so small that the safest prediction we can make about the 2024 presidential election is that it is likely to be very close.”

A source in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign told The Hill that his wife, Cheryl Hines, does not want Kennedy to endorse Donald Trump.

“Bill Clinton served as Barack Obama’s economics explainer-in-chief in a memorable speech a dozen years ago at the Democratic convention in Charlotte,” Politico reports.

“On Wednesday, the Big Dog, a little older and his bark more faint, sunk his teeth into another favorite topic and savaged Donald Trump as a narcissist obsessed with himself.”

“We don’t have it. We are a polarized nation in a challenging time and despite all the things that are happening in this country, Donald Trump still has more support than he has had at any other point… It is going to come down to every single vote.”

— Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon, quoted by Politico, on whether she has identified a clear path to victory.