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“Kamala Harris is launching a seven-figure ad blitz about health care targeting Donald Trump’s calls to replace the Affordable Care Act with a mystery plan he hasn’t yet released,” NBC News reports. “The ad campaign is aimed at elevating the issue and capitalizing on what polling says is a weakness for Trump.

“Jimmy Carter is preparing to celebrate his 100th birthday on Tuesday, the first time an American president has lived a full century and the latest milestone in a life that took the son of a Depression-era farmer to the White House and across the world as a Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian and advocate for democracy,” the AP reports. Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: The connection between Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday and tonight’s VP debate.

The Dispatch: “It’s a question you hear a lot around Washington, D. C., where the former Fox News star is usually referred to by his first name alone, not because of his fame—like Hillary or Oprah—but because pretty much everyone had some personal contact with him. Tucker was such a man about town and media fixture that, in 2021, 16 reporters told the New York Times that he was a great source for Trump White House gossip and news.” “Pretty much everyone, including those who knew him well, remains perplexed by his transformation in the Trump era…” “What happened to Tucker is that he went from being a P.

A new AARP poll in Pennsylvania finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump among likely voters, 49% to 47%.

NOTUS: “Lawmakers said they are still emotionally recovering… They also agreed, regardless of where they stood during the fight, that the rebellion didn’t meaningfully change much of anything about how the House operates as an institution, like McCarthy’s detractors… had hoped.”

“A seemingly non-competitive Senate race in deeply Republican Nebraska is no longer a safe bet for two-term incumbent Sen. Deb Fischer — the dynamics jolted by the late-stage insurgence of independent Dan Osborn, who, if successful, could be the deciding factor on which party has control of the chamber, where Democrats currently hold a razor-thin 51-49 majority,” ABC News reports. Said Osborn: “I hate to call it like I’m trying to call a Nebraska football game, but I would say I’m gonna win pretty substantially.