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“A massive $50 million ad buy from Vice President Harris’ outside super PAC signaled the beginning of a spending rush by both campaigns to empty their war chests in the election’s final month,” Axios reports. “Both Democrats and Republicans are unleashing more financial political fire — in just seven swing states — than America has ever seen.” “The Harris campaign and its super PACs are swimming in cash.

“After taking over the Democratic ticket, picking a running mate, staging a convention and turning in a strong debate performance, Vice President Kamala Harris is now embracing potentially the riskiest test of a presidential campaign — the day-to-day grind of unscripted interviews,” the Washington Post reports. “From podcasts to town halls to late night shows and network sit-downs, Harris and Walz plan to spend much more of the final month before the election in situations they cannot fully control — after an initial two months when the vice president agreed to few such events.” “At the core of the strategy is a reality that Democrats inside and outside her campaign have accepted: Harris is locked in a margin-of-error race, despite vastly outspending her opponent Donald Trump in advertising and field operations.

A new New York Times/Siena poll finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump nationally among likely voters, 49% to 46%. The results suggest Harris is making gains, if small ones, on questions about temperament, trust and change that can be critical in a presidential race.

“Soon, the ballots will be cast, the polls will close and a campaign marked by assassination attempts, animosity and anxiety will come to an end. But for U. S. adversaries, the work to meddle with American democracy may be entering its most critical phase,” the AP reports. “Despite all the attention on efforts to spread disinformation in the months before the Nov.

“The leader of an effort among conservative senators to shape the race to elect the next Senate GOP leader — and push the chamber further right — is finally putting his ideas down on paper,” Politico reports. “Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) on Monday night laid out a series of proposals meant to decentralize power inside the Senate Republican Conference, taking it away from the office that outgoing Leader Mitch McConnell has occupied for nearly two decades.” Playbook: “The list is less about policy and more about procedure — and it’s giving us flashbacks to the demands House conservatives made of Kevin McCarthy before he became speaker.

“Democrats have privately grown worried about Kamala Harris’s standing among working-class voters in the crucial ‘blue wall’ states—particularly in Michigan,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Donald Trump has assiduously courted union members and non-college-educated white voters with a message focused on high costs, manufacturing and the threat of China to the U.