“As Donald Trump and Kamala Harris feverishly chase undecided voters in the final stretch of the presidential campaign, millions of people in battleground states are being served ads on Facebook and Instagram from an obscure page calling itself The Daily Scroll,” CNN reports.

“The social media ads, which are adorned with a nondescript logo resembling a pair of checkmarks, have promoted news articles from mainstream outlets including CNN, ABC and NBC, showing easing US inflation, cheaper insulin prices, and the consequences of state abortion bans.”

“But the ads on Meta-owned platforms aren’t being paid for by any news outlet — they’re a product of Harris’ presidential campaign, which has spent heavily on social media platforms and embraced influencers to power her online efforts against Trump.”

Drew Harwell: “A sign of how challenging it’s become to promote news articles on social platforms: the Harris campaign is paying lots of money so that people can see factual information about slowing inflation, falling drug prices and abortion ban risks in their feeds.”

Montana U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy’s (R) book appears to contain four plagiarized portions, the Daily Montanan reports.

“It is not the first time the details of Sheehy’s life before politics have come under scrutiny for their truthfulness. Sheehy’s past, including a gunshot wound that may have been sustained in Glacier National Park, claims of parachute training over Glacier, and his business dealings including his aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace, have come under fire.”

J.D. Vance filled in some of the gaps on Donald Trump’s “concepts of a plan” for health care over the weekend, but in doing so raised new questions about how a second Trump administration would handle pre-existing conditions, Semafor reports.

“White House officials are signaling that President Joe Biden will not imminently move to block Nippon Steel’s bid to acquire U.S. Steel amid mounting concerns over the political and economic consequences of nixing the deal,” the Washington Post reports.

Moments after the presidential debate ended tonight, the Harris campaign called for a second debate, CNN reports.

“President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will appear together on Monday in Pittsburgh to celebrate labor unions, a crucial mobilizing force for Democrats, at their first joint campaign event since Ms. Harris replaced Mr. Biden at the top of the ticket in July,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Biden has called himself the most pro-union president in history, and last year he became the first sitting president to visit a picket line.”

“Now Ms. Harris is hoping to adopt that pro-worker mantle for herself. As vice president, she led a task force examining the ways that the government could help expand union membership. But business leaders generally see her as friendlier to their interests and more flexible on policy than Mr. Biden.”

Associated Press: Harris looks to Biden for a boost in Pennsylvania as the two are set to attend a Labor Day parade.

“Donald Trump’s campaign was warned about not taking photographs before an altercation at Arlington National Cemetery during a wreath-laying ceremony earlier this week to honor service members killed in the Afghanistan War withdrawal,” the AP reports.

“Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s revenge tour is sputtering to an end this week, with just one primary win to show for it,” Axios reports.

“McCarthy’s former colleagues complain he’s effectively lit millions of dollars on fire and made it harder for new leaders to do their jobs.”

“Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is expected to win easily on Tuesday despite a McCarthy-linked PAC spending more than $3 million against him.”

Said Gaetz: “McCarthy thinks about me a lot more than I think about him.”

Jamelle Bouie: “There is also the issue of Trump himself. He cares less for the fate of the Republican Party than he does for his personal and pecuniary interests. He has no reason to loosen his grip on the party and every reason to keep it in hand. The real question is whether there are Republicans who could pry it away from Trump. The failure of any Republican to successfully contest his leadership or offer a path away from his personal domination of the party is evidence enough that the answer is no.”

“The anticlimactic truth is that in the wake of a third Trump nomination and a second Trump defeat, the Republican Party would simply stumble along, stuck in his orbit and too weighed down by his gravitational pull to escape.”

“In 2016, the Republican Party was too weak to stop Trump, and after eight years of his leadership it is too weak to break the hold he has over most of its voters and many of its elected officials. If Trump does lose in November, the Republican Party will still be his, for as long as he wants it to be.”

“Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz launched his first solo campaign stop as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate Tuesday by leaning into his union background and championing workers in a speech to a labor group in Los Angeles,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

As Kamala Harris heads to Las Vegas for a rally later today, the Culinary Union endorsed her for president.

A new Decipher Ai (R) poll in Nevada finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump in the presidential election, 49% to 44%.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets just 4%.

“I think you should get a one year jail sentence if you do anything to desecrate the American flag. Now, people will say, “Oh, it’s unconstitutional.’ Those are stupid people. Those are stupid people that say that.”

— Donald Trump, on Fox & Friends.

There was no follow up about whether this pertains to the Capitol rioters who used flags to hit police on January 6.

David Graham: “At the start of the day yesterday, it was conceivable that Joe Biden might manage to hold on to the Democratic nomination for president. But this morning, things seem to be slipping out of his grasp.”

“The blows to Biden were both procedural and political: The Democratic National Committee delayed a pivotal vote that would have made replacing him more difficult, a prominent Democrat called for Biden to step down, and reports of behind-the-scenes maneuvering made clear that other top party leaders have lost faith in Biden’s candidacy, even if they aren’t willing to say so publicly yet.”

Financial Times: “The White House’s decision to pause approvals for new liquefied natural gas projects has angered the shale gas industry, a big employer in Pennsylvania. It has also raised concerns among local Democrats, who warn a policy designed to appeal to young climate-conscious voters could harm Biden’s campaign in a state that produces a fifth of America’s natural gas.”

“Wall Street has always played a big role in politics, but never like this,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Former President Donald Trump is tantalizingly close to tapping a multibillion-dollar windfall that could help pay his legal bills and give a much-needed cash injection to his presidential campaign.”

“Almost no one saw it coming. Nearly everything went wrong with the get-rich-quick plan for Trump’s social-media platform to go public by riding one of the biggest speculative waves in market history.”

Officials from the FBI, Justice Department and Office of the Director of National Intelligence will brief all House lawmakers on TikTok Tuesday at 1 p.m., Punchbowl News reports.

The classified briefing comes one day before the House is slated to vote on a bill that would force ByteDance to divest its holdings in the popular social media app.