“A week after President Barack Obama won reelection in November 2012, JD Vance, then a law student at Yale, wrote a scathing rebuke of the Republican Party’s stance on migrants and minorities, criticizing it for being ‘openly hostile to non-whites’ and for alienating ‘Blacks, Latinos, and the youth,'” CNN reports.

“Four years later, as Vance considered a career in GOP politics, he asked a former college professor to delete the article. That professor, Brad Nelson, taught Vance at Ohio State University while Vance was an undergraduate student.”

“Nelson told CNN that during the 2016 Republican primary he agreed to delete the article at Vance’s request, so that Vance might have an easier time getting a job in Republican politics.”

“The presidential candidates and their allies plan to spend more than half a billion dollars on television and radio advertising over the final seven weeks of the campaign,” the New York Times reports.

“Groups backing Vice President Kamala Harris have reserved $332 million worth of airtime for television and radio ads — 63% of the total — while just about $194 million will come from groups backing former President Donald Trump.”

“The ad wars are the consequence of the fund-raising wars: Democrats have significantly out-raised Republicans in the months after Ms. Harris succeeded President Biden as the head of the Democratic ticket, and Ms. Harris has more money to spend on paid media.”

Peter Baker reminds us:

“Trump has long favored the language of violence in his political discourse, encouraging supporters to beat up hecklers, threatening to shoot looters and undocumented migrants, mocking a near-fatal attack on the husband of the Democratic House speaker and suggesting that a general he deemed disloyal be executed.”

“While Mr. Trump insists his fiery speech to supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, was not responsible for the subsequent ransacking of the Capitol, he resisted pleas from advisers and his own daughter that day to do more to stop the assault. He even suggested that the mob might be right to want to hang his vice president and has since embraced the attackers as patriots whom he may pardon if elected again.”

“Donald Trump is poised to capitalize on the second attempt on his life in recent months, using the shocking development to try to snatch back the political momentum that Vice President Kamala Harris has enjoyed,” Bloomberg reports.

“By portraying Trump as a fighter and survivor, his campaign hopes to capture Americans’ fractured attention and lay the blame for yet another assassination attempt on Harris and Democrats.”

Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: “Polling in states that are somewhat competitive for president but outside the group of 7 that is likely to decide this election generally reflect what happened in 2020, although Donald Trump is usually performing slightly better than the actual 2020 results in those states, much like the polling in the key battlegrounds that we covered last week.”

Joe Rogan praised Kamala Harris on his podcast saying she was much better prepared for the debate than Donald Trump.

Said Rogan: “I just wanna say, whoever’s helping her, whoever’s coaching her, whoever’s the puppet master running the strings, you did an amazing job.”

He added: “The difference in that debate was not a difference in who’s gonna have better policies? Who’s gonna be better for the country? The difference in the debate, in my opinion, was who was better prepared. She was way better prepared… Even when it came to answering tough questions, instead of answering, she would just say things that she believed and they sounded real good, and that’s the sound bite.”

A new Monmouth poll finds 49% of registered voters say they will either definitely (39%) or probably (10%) vote for Kamala Harris in November while just 44% will definitely (34%) or probably (10%) support Donald Trump.

About half say they will definitely not vote for Trump (48%), while a smaller number say they definitely will not vote for Harris (42%).