“Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are in an even tighter race in the battlegrounds of Michigan and Wisconsin than just seven weeks ago,” according to a new New York Times/Siena College poll.

“Ms. Harris’s advantage from early August has been chiseled away slightly by Mr. Trump’s enduring strength on economic issues, the polls found, a potentially troubling development for the vice president given that the economy remains the most important issue driving voters.”

• Wisconsin: Harris 49%, Trump 47%
• Michigan: Harris 48%, Trump 47%
• Nebraska 2: Harris 52%, Trump 43%

“Donald Trump has promised immediate action on illegal immigration and oil drilling, but behind the scenes, his campaign has begun work on his most personal priority: tearing up the Justice Department,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Nothing has motivated or infuriated Trump more than his relationship with the agency. He is determined to remake it in ways that excite firebrands in his base—by replacing career employees with loyalists, by ordering investigations into those who have prosecuted him and by enlisting the Justice Department on the conservative side of the latest culture wars.”

“Rarely a week goes by without Trump excoriating the justice system.”

“On her first trip to the southern border as the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered one of her party’s toughest speeches on immigration and border policy in a generation. Even as she did, she tried to paint former President Donald Trump as a feckless chaos agent without the ability to deliver the hard-line results he has promised,” the New York Times reports.

“Ms. Harris vowed to carry on President Biden’s crackdown on asylum and to impose order on the southern border, demonstrating how much the politics of immigration have shifted for Democrats. Just one presidential cycle ago, Ms. Harris and most other candidates in the party’s primary race had promised to decriminalize illegal border crossings.”

CNN: Harris vows to resurrect bipartisan border bill Trump opposed.

“Donald Trump crisscrossed the battleground state of Michigan on Friday, casting himself as an economic protectionist to blue-collar voters while attacking Vice President Kamala Harris over immigration on the same day she visited the southern border,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Trump used a pair of events to try to blame Ms. Harris for inflation and the migrant crisis, tapping into some of the populist themes that helped him win Michigan — and the presidency — in the 2016 election. In 2020, the state flipped for President Biden.”

“J.D. Vance will speak at an event on Saturday hosted by the self-styled prophet and political extremist Lance Wallnau, who has claimed Kamala Harris practices witchcraft and has written that the U.S. is headed toward bloody internal conflict,” The Guardian reports.