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A new USA Today/Suffolk University Poll shows the vice president leading the former president by 63% to 34%, close to 2-1, among those who have already voted.

That preference turns around among those who plan to wait until Election Day to vote, with Trump ahead 52% to 35%.

“Vice President Kamala Harris is making an aggressive bid to win over independents and moderate Republicans in the suburbs, visiting vote-rich counties in three Great Lakes swing states Monday with former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney,” CNN reports.

Kamala Harris asked on MSNBC about Donald Trump calling her a “shit vice-president” at a Pennsylvania rally over the weekend.

Fox News election desk chief Arnon Mishkin told Politico he feels no pressure to tell the network’s conservative audience what it wants to hear.
And he suspects it will take days to call the election again: “The over/under is Saturday. Which was when the call was made last time.”

David Plouffe explained to John Heilemann the Harris campaign’s recent change in tone: “Raising the stakes is important because we have to raise the risks of a second Trump term.”

“The Supreme Court brushed aside an appeal Monday from Michael Cohen, the one-time fixer for Donald Trump, who accused the former president of retaliating against him for promoting a critical tell-all book,” CNN reports.
“Without comment, the justices declined to hear the case, leaving in place decisions from lower courts that had dismissed Cohen’s lawsuit.”

“Gov. Ron DeSantis’ top deputies directed a Florida Health Department lawyer to threaten Florida television stations with criminal prosecution for running political advertisements that support enshrining abortion rights in the state’s Constitution,” the Miami Herald reports.

New York Times columnists Bret Stephens and Gail Collins discussed who they were voting for:
STEPHENS: You really want to know?
COLLINS: Um, yeah.

The five men who were wrongly accused and convicted of a brutal New York City assault in 1989, now known as the “Central Park 5,” on Monday sued Donald Trump for defamation after he once again asserted they were responsible for the crime during a debate with Kamala Harris last month, Forbes reports.

Timothy Snyder: “The deep purpose of a mass deportation is to establish a new sort of politics, a politics of us-and-them, which means (at first) everyone else against the Latinos.  In this new regime, the government just stokes the fears and encourages the denunciations, and we expect little more of it.”