Comment on Fears About Biden’s Age Are Real

Semafor: “The former president announced Tuesday that he’d seek to eliminate the limit on state and local tax deductions that he himself imposed in his signature 2017 tax law. That was the fifth separate new tax break he’d supported in three months; he wants to eliminate tax on tips, overtime pay, and Social Security benefits, plus lower the corporate tax rate to 15%.” “That sounds good to Republicans and even some Democrats.

A new Pan Atlantic Research poll in Maine finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump statewide, 50% to 41%. However, within Maine’s 2nd congressional district — which awards one electoral vote — Trump leads 49% to 42%.

“Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell suggested that Wednesday’s larger-than-expected interest rate cut may have a limited effect on the presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, because the decision’s impacts will ripple into the economy slowly,” CNBC reports.

“I’m still gonna call them an illegal alien.” — Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH), at a campaign rally, on Haitian immigrants who are in Ohio legally.

A new University of New Hampshire poll finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by a wide margin among likely voters, 54% to 43%. Harris’s increased lead is largely due to consolidating support among Democrats and left-leaning voters.

“Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. (D) and his wife, La’Quetta, the city’s superintendent of schools, have been indicted on child endangerment and other charges for allegedly beating their teenage daughter on numerous occasions,” the AP reports.