Comment on Washington, D.C. push for statehood resumes

“Several top staffers and fundraisers for Mark Robinson’s gubernatorial campaign have quit,“ WRAL reports. “The North Carolina Republican Party nominee for governor is facing increased pressure and skepticism from members of his party after a recent report by CNN alleging that he made lewd, racist and pro-Hitler comments on a pornographic website’s messaging board.” Raleigh News and Observer: Mark Robinson’s top campaign staff in NC governor’s race resign in wake of scandal.

“House GOP leaders on Sunday unveiled a plan to keep the government funded for three months after Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) opening gambit to avoid a shutdown failed due to opposition from Republicans,” The Hill reports. “The continuing resolution (CR), which was the result of bipartisan negotiations in the House and Senate, would keep the government funded at current levels through Dec.

Kamala Harris repeated her call for Donald Trump to accept an invitation from CNN for a second debate, the New York Times reports. Said Harris: “He should accept. I feel very strongly that we owe it to the American people and to the voters to meet once more before Election Day and continue the conversation.”

“When elections officials in Palm Beach County, Fla., emailed ballots last week to military and overseas voters, they failed to notice a typographical error: The name of Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, the Democratic nominee for vice president, was misspelled as ‘Tom Walz,’” the New York Times reports.

“J. D. Vance not long ago described conspiracy theories as the feverish imaginings produced by ‘fringe lunatics writing about all manner of idiocy,’” the AP reports. “That was before he became a rising star in Republican politics.” “The Ohio senator and GOP’s vice presidential nominee has in recent years declared that the federal government deliberately allowed fentanyl into the United States to kill conservative and rural voters.

Things seem to be going great for Vice President Kamala Harris when it comes to two key data points any politician obsesses over: cash and favorability ratings. A new NBC News poll out today shows Harris with a 5-point lead over former President Donald Trump among registered voters nationally, who prefer her to him 49 to 44 percent.