The Wall Street Journal runs a scathing editorial:

Even with more than 80 days left, Mr. Trump’s window for a turnaround is closing… Those who sold Mr. Trump to GOP voters as the man who could defeat Hillary Clinton now face a moment of truth. Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Paul Manafort and the talk-radio right told Republicans their man could rise to the occasion.

If they can’t get Mr. Trump to change his act by Labor Day, the GOP will have no choice but to write off the nominee as hopeless and focus on salvaging the Senate and House and other down-ballot races. As for Mr. Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be President—or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence.

A new USA Today/Rock the Vote poll finds Hillary Clinton is favored by 56% of voters under the age of 35, while Donald Trump is backed by only 20%.

“The findings have implications for politics long past the November election. If the trend continues, the Democratic Party will have scored double-digit victories among younger voters in three consecutive elections, the first time that has happened since such data became readily available in 1952. That could shape the political affiliations of the largest generation in American history for years to follow.”

James Carville is not impressed with Donald Trump’s political skills, The Hill reports.

Said Carville: “These guys have been outflanked, outmaneuvered, outsmarted, and they’re not taking it very well. They’re just going to have to stand there and just get beat because that’s what’s going to happen to Trump. He’s just getting slapped around every time you turn around.”

He added: “If anything, he’s pretty stupid when it comes to politics.”

“As anxious party leaders await a more conventional Florida campaign apparatus by Trump — field offices, paid organizers and TV ads that Giorno says are coming soon — the Clinton campaign is methodically building a massive get-out-the-vote effort,” the Miami Herald reports.

“Clinton has opened 14 offices statewide: Ybor City, Lakeland, East Orlando, Sanford, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Pensacola, Port St. Lucie, Lake Worth, Fort Lauderdale, Wynwood (Miami), Miami Gardens, Fort Myers, Naples — and has her Florida headquarters in the Town ’N Country section of Tampa.”

Here are the latest state polls of the presidential race:

Florida: Clinton 45%, Trump 40% (CBS News/YouGov)

New Hampshire: Clinton 45%, Trump 36% (CBS News/YouGov)

Georgia: Trump 45%, Clinton 41% (CBS News/YouGov)

“If the disgusting and corrupt media covered me honestly and didn’t put false meaning into the words I say, I would be beating Hillary by 20%.”

— Donald Trump, on Twitter.

“I am who I am.”

— Mitt Romney, quoted by CBS News in August 2012.

“I am who I am.”

— Donald Trump, on Twitter this morning.

Associated Press: “Right now, Trump doesn’t have a lead in any of the states where he will need to win and where recent polling exists, and in several states, he’s significantly behind Clinton.”

“Publicly, Republican Party officials continue to stand by Donald Trump. Privately, at the highest levels, party leaders have started talking about cutting off support to Trump in October and redirecting cash to saving endangered congressional majorities,” Politico reports.

“Since the Cleveland convention, top party officials have been quietly making the case to political journalists, donors and GOP operatives that the Republican National Committee has done more to help Trump than it did to support its 2012 nominee Mitt Romney and that, therefore, Trump has only himself and his campaign to blame for his precipitous slide in the polls.”

A telling anecdote on how the Washington Post came to write a book on Donald Trump:

Hicks cut him off, calling the decision to write a book “incredibly disingenuous… You are profiteering off Mr. Trump. This isn’t something we’re participating in; you all are making money on this.”

Fisher pointed out that in every election year, The Post publishes a comprehensive series of articles tracing the candidates’ lives. This would be no different, except that the same reporting that was going toward newspaper articles was also being used to tell the story in one narrative, in book form. The Post planned a similar examination of the life and record of the Democratic nominee. Hicks was unimpressed. She reiterated icily that no cooperation would be forthcoming and she ended the call.

After the weekend, Hicks called back, her tone now bright and friendly. “I told Mr. Trump about your project, and he loves it,” she said. “He’s happy to meet with you.”

Award winning actor Robert De Niro compared Donald Trump to his mentally unstable character Travis Bickle in the 1976 movie Taxi Driver, calling the Republican nominee “totally nuts,” The Hill reports.

Said De Niro: “What he has been saying is totally crazy, ridiculous, stuff that shouldn’t be even… he is totally nuts.”

He added: “I don’t know, it’s crazy that people like Donald Trump… he shouldn’t even be where he is, so God help us.”