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“Palm Beach, one of the richest American enclaves, is seeking government assistance after the cost to protect its most famous resident — former President Donald Trump — soared to $93,000 a day,” Bloomberg reports. “The local sheriff’s office was forced to ramp up spending on Trump’s security detail after an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania two months ago.

Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: “Polling in states that are somewhat competitive for president but outside the group of 7 that is likely to decide this election generally reflect what happened in 2020, although Donald Trump is usually performing slightly better than the actual 2020 results in those states, much like the polling in the key battlegrounds that we covered last week.”

“A long-awaited plan to help Ukraine rebuild using Russian money is in limbo as the United States and Europe struggle to agree on how to construct a $50 billion loan using Russia’s frozen central bank assets while complying with their own laws,” the New York Times reports.

Wisconsin U. S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde (R) “has quietly replaced key parts of his campaign in recent months as he continues to trail Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) in the polls,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. “Over the last three months, the multimillionaire banking mogul has parted ways with his fundraising and media consultants and the top member of his communications team.”

Joe Rogan praised Kamala Harris on his podcast saying she was much better prepared for the debate than Donald Trump. Said Rogan: “I just wanna say, whoever’s helping her, whoever’s coaching her, whoever’s the puppet master running the strings, you did an amazing job.” He added: “The difference in that debate was not a difference in who’s gonna have better policies?

A new Monmouth poll finds 49% of registered voters say they will either definitely (39%) or probably (10%) vote for Kamala Harris in November while just 44% will definitely (34%) or probably (10%) support Donald Trump. About half say they will definitely not vote for Trump (48%), while a smaller number say they definitely will not vote for Harris (42%).