The Confederacy Of Dunces Turns On Trump

“Sen. Bob Casey is bracing for a GOP onslaught,” CNN reports. “After a summer where he and his GOP opponent, David McCormick, have engaged in a brutal exchange of attacks in the marquee US Senate race in Pennsylvania, leaving the race in a dead heat, Republicans are preparing to drop more than $100 million across the airwaves in the final two months of the campaign.” “The staggering sum, which accounts to roughly $40 million more than Casey and his allies are preparing so far, gives McCormick the biggest edge on the airwaves of any Senate candidate in the campaign’s home stretch.

“Cheney and I agree on nothing — no issues. But what we do believe in is that the United States should retain its democratic foundations… I applaud the Cheneys for their courage in defending democracy.” — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), on Meet the Press.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign will kick off what it’s billing as the “New Way Forward Tour” on Thursday, two days after the debate and a day after the vice president marks the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, The Hill reports.

“We see it on a daily basis, somebody who was willing to use violence in order to attempt to seize power, to stay in power, someone who represents unrecoverable catastrophe, frankly, in my view, and we have to do everything possible to ensure that he’s not reelected.” — Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), to ABC News, on why she’s voting for Kamala Harris.

In Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — all tight races — a new CBS News poll finds the larger contours of the entire presidential contest ahead of the first Harris-Trump debate. Michigan: Harris, 50%, Trump 49% Pennsylvania: Harris 50%, Trump 50% Wisconsin: Harris 51%, Trump 49% “One one hand: Trump leads with voters who just don’t think they’re better off financially since the pandemic, whose incomes aren’t keeping up with inflation and especially with non-college and White voters who say this.” “On the other hand, Harris holds her own in one sense.

“The Russian government’s covert efforts to sway the 2024 presidential election are more advanced than in recent years, and the most active foreign threat this political season,” the Washington Post reports.