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Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: “Our seven Toss-up states remain rated that way, although we do have some inclination of where we might go in our final projections in at least some of them.” “Close polls aren’t telling us much about the ultimate winner, and other metrics, like early and absentee voting patterns, don’t seem all that helpful either, at least at this point.”

“Donald Trump’s political operation has been taking extraordinary measures in a bid to stay financially competitive with Vice President Kamala Harris, deploying aggressive and creative accounting strategies that test the legal limits of how far a candidate can go to offload the core costs of running for president,” the New York Times reports. “The most startling example is the official payroll of the former president’s campaign committee.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) filed a lawsuit against CNN and a porn store employee in which he admits that he frequented a Greensboro porn store to “bring over free pizza” and “socialize.”

Donald Trump weighed in on the new movie The Apprentice, calling it a “cheap, defamatory and politically disgusting hatchet job,” Deadline reports.

John Heilemann: “The target audience for the next three weeks contains essentially no one who watches Fox News or MSNBC or reads the Times, the Post, the Daily Dish (or Puck).” “How do you reach them? Via Stern and Colbert, Call Her Daddy and All the Smoke, or Charlamagne tha God—with whom Kamala is sitting down on Tuesday, an interview that’s part of a much wider effort to address her issues with Black voters.” Harris also gave an interview yesterday to The Shade Room, a website with a massive Black audience.

“Just a former president suggesting he’ll use the military against his fellow citizens for exercising their freedom of speech. Nothing to worry about, folks. Seriously, when is he gonna grow that little mustache already? Because there’s only three weeks left!” — Jimmy Kimmel, on his show last night.