Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand (D) is out with a new ad which points out that he’s annoying.

Longshot House candidate Katie Darling (D) is out with a new ad in Louisiana that shows her giving birth.

Donald Trump threatened Fox News with a lawsuit for running political ads produced by “the perverts and lowlifes” of the Lincoln Project.

Said Trump: “I thought they ran away to the asylum after their last catastrophic campaign, with charges made against them that were big time sleaze, and me getting many millions more votes in 2020 than I got in 2016. The Paul Ryun (sic) run Fox only has high standards for ‘Trump’ ads, but not for anyone else. The Perverts should not be allowed to ‘false advertise,’ and Fox News should not allow it to happen. See you all in Court!!!”

“A slip-up by social media giant Snap allowed leading Democratic campaigns and party committees to unwittingly tap into a vast repository of Republican voter data to hone their midterm ads,” Axios reports.

“There’s no indication Snap was aware of or facilitated that data sharing, and the company said it’s taking steps to rectify the oversight. But the blunder underscores the sensitivities surrounding reams of voter data that have become a highly valuable political commodity.”

“Five House Democrats in battleground districts have spent at least five figures from their office accounts on Facebook ads over the last week,” Politico reports.

“The spending comes from each office’s ‘franking’ budget, which each House office receives for communication with constituents. The five members who spent at least $10,000 — Democratic Reps. Matt Cartwright, Josh Gottheimer, Andy Kim, Dina Titus and Henry Cuellar — are all in at least nominally competitive districts, and are the only members to crack five figures in that same time period.”

“The return from the Labor Day holiday marks the unofficial final sprint to Election Day, and this year is slated to be no exception — there’s already been $1.4 billion in political ad bookings placed between Tuesday and Election Day, with that number expected to swell in the coming weeks,” NBC News reports.

“Right now, Democrats have the edge overall — more than $658 million in bookings compared to the GOP’s $554 million, per ad-tracking firm AdImpact.”

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) is running an ad talking about how he’s keeping his district safe.

Punchbowl News: “The interesting thing is that he paid for this spot with government money, not campaign funds. The ad isn’t explicitly political – but it’s awfully close.”

“Clearly, what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was going for was a comparison to Tom Cruise,” the Washington Post reports.

“Hence the ‘Top Gov’ label at the beginning of his latest political ad, which resembles that of Cruise’s Top Gun movies, and the slo-mo shots of the Republican governor zipping up a flight suit over an energetic guitar music track. DeSantis ‘briefs’ an out-of-view team — presumably Florida voters — about the ‘rules of engagement’ for ‘dogfighting’ with the ‘corporate media.’ At one point, he sits in the cockpit of what appears to be a fighter jet, flight helmet on, and says, ‘Alright, ladies and gentlemen.'”

“What are DeSantis and his team getting instead? Comparisons to Michael Dukakis, the Massachusetts governor who made one of the most-mocked campaign photo ops in modern political history while running for president in 1988.”

FWIW: “With less than 12 weeks (!) to go until Election Day, we’ve noticed a pretty consistent trend in our digital ad tracking. Week after week, Democratic candidates in competitive Senate, House and Gubernatorial contests are outspending — sometimes dramatically — their Republican opponents.”

“A viral ad in which former Vice President Dick Cheney attacks former President Trump as a “coward” will begin airing on Fox News on Tuesday, a week before his daughter Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) faces a Trump-backed primary challenge,” Axios reports.

“The ad, which initially aired solely in Wyoming, got so much attention that Cheney’s campaign has decided to take it directly to Trump’s favorite programs. The ad will air twice daily this week during ‘Fox & Friends’ and once daily on Sean Hannity’s prime-time show.”

Disney confirmed to Axios that it “would allow political issue ads — in addition to candidate ads — on Hulu’s streaming service, effective immediately, bringing Hulu’s ad policies to parity with Disney’s cable networks.”

“The change comes amid a controversy over Hulu’s decision to reject political issue ads around guns and abortions from Democratic groups.”

“The Disney-backed streaming service Hulu is refusing to run political ads on central themes of Democratic midterm campaigns, including abortion, guns and the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, prompting fury from the party’s candidates and leaders,” the Washington Post reports.

“The streaming service popular among younger voters, which has a policy against running content deemed controversial, is like other digital providers in not being bound by the Communications Act of 1934, a law that requires broadcast television networks to provide politicians equal access to the airwaves.”