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Susan Ford Bales, the daughter of former President Gerald Ford, endorsed Kamala Harris, saying that while she and Harris may disagree on policy, the Democratic presidential candidate will “defend the rule of law and our Constitution,” MLive reports.

A new AP-NORC poll finds only 38% of registered voters think the national economy is doing well, while 62% say it is in poor condition.

“In the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows,” CNN reports.
“The vast majority of those infants had congenital anomalies, or birth defects.”

Wall Street Journal: “Arizona is one epicenter for threats against election officials propelled by years of Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, which he has told his supporters could happen again…”

“Senate Republicans’ top super PAC is jumping into Nebraska’s closer-than-expected Senate race,” Semafor reports.

“Donald Trump’s campaign pledges would hasten the insolvency of the Social Security trust fund and lead to a 33% across-the-board cut to all benefits, according to a new analysis from the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget,” CBS News reports.

New York Times: “Inside the Delaware headquarters of Ms. Harris’s campaign, analysts have spent 18 months curating a list of which television shows and podcasts voters consume in the battleground states. Her team has assigned every voter in these states a ‘contactability score’ from 0 to 100 to determine just how hard that person will be to reach — and who is best to deliver her closing message.”

Plans by sports mogul Stan Kroenke and company to redevelop the parking lots around Ball Arena would reshape the Denver skyline — but only if the City Council gives developers permission to pierce a legally protected view of the Rocky Mountains.

By BILL BARROW
RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. — Renee Kyro already has voted for Republican nominee Donald Trump for the third consecutive presidential election. But she plans to volunteer for the first time, reaching out to her neighbors in hurricane-battered western North Carolina to make sure they have a voting plan amid a flurry of precinct changes.

Many feel that the right course of action this November is to abstain from voting because Donald Trump will not pursue a nationwide ban against abortion.