“President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Philadelphia on Oct. 28 to boost Pennsylvania Democrats up and down the ticket as the state hosts some of the country’s most critical elections,” the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

Former President Barack Obama will head to Milwaukee on October 29 to bolster Democrats in the state, some of them in desperate need of a boost, NBC News reports.

The AP says Obama will also campaign in Michigan and Georgia.

“In his campaign to unseat Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Republican Blake Masters has consistently amplified skepticism and conspiracy theories surrounding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election,” the Daily Beast reports.

“But during the final stretch of his own 2022 race, Masters is starting to cast doubt on the outcome of this election—before the votes are even counted.”

If you missed tonight’s Senate debate in Georgia, the New York Times, Atlanta Journal Constitution, CNN and USA Today have the key takeaways.

“In a grunt for attention, third-party Congressional candidate Mike Itkis has released a sex tape to highlight his sex positive campaign platform,” City & State reports.

“The 53-year-old Army cyber operations officer is bound to lose to Rep. Jerry Nadler in Manhattan’s 12th Congressional District. But he posted the 13 minute video to a popular online porn site of him having sex with porn performer Nicole Sage as ‘a conversation piece.'”

Said Itkis’s Republican opponent: “You gotta do what you gotta do. The media ignores everybody that’s not a Democrat in the city.”

James Carville told Vanity Fair that given the current political environment, Democrats wouldn’t ordinarily stand a chance in 2022.

Said Carville: “You have an election with ‘wrong track’ for the country at 65%, presidential approval at 41% — all that is a guaranteed landslide for Republicans. Why has this electorate been resisting this and resisting it hard? That’s the question that we should be asking ourselves.”

“Hispanic voters favor Democrats in November’s congressional elections, but by a smaller margin than four years ago, with inflation concerns and President Biden’s middling approval helping Republicans hold onto gains made in 2020,” a Washington Post-Ipsos poll finds.

“Overall, the Post-Ipsos poll finds 63 percent of Hispanic registered voters would support Democrats for Congress if the election were held today, while 36 percent support Republicans. Democrats’ 27-point advantage is similar to Biden’s support in 2020 but smaller than Democrats’ roughly 40-point advantages in 2018 and 2016 in exit polls and validated voter surveys.”

Charlie Cook: “A diagram of the direction of the 2022 campaign would look like a zigzag. Democrats faced near gale-force headwinds into June, but that moderated considerably in the first half of the summer, with the most optimistic of Democrats having visions of retaining majorities in both the House and the Senate.”

“In recent weeks, though, those winds in Democrats’ faces have partially returned, almost ensuring that the party will lose its House majority and turning the Senate into something closer to a fair fight, with Democrats still possessing a slight edge. With Vice President Kamala Harris presiding over the Senate, no net change works out just fine for Democrats; Republicans have to actually gain a seat in order to reach majority status.”

“Kris Kobach, the Kansan with a national reputation as a hardline provocateur on immigration and voter ID laws, is trying to rebrand himself as a calmer, steadier voice in his comeback bid for elective office,” the AP reports.

David Wasserman: “We’ve spent a lot of time this cycle talking about why Republicans’ modest gains from redistricting are a valuable ‘insurance policy’ in the fluid 2022 House race. But an arguably bigger GOP advantage in the homestretch is the high number of vulnerable Democratic open seats — a legacy of the bleak outlook in late 2021 that prompted many Democrats in swing seats to head for the exits.”

“It’s almost always easier to pick up an open seat than defeat an incumbent — not just because incumbents have more well-established personal brands, but because open seats usually feature a more level financial playing field.”