Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* If voters missed Liz Cheney’s event with Kamala Harris last week, they’ll probably be reminded of it soon. The New York Times reported, “Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign will air a new ad in battleground states featuring endorsements from a retired general, former members of the Trump administration and former Representative Liz Cheney.”
* How important is Wisconsin in this year’s presidential race? Over the last eight days, Donald Trump campaigned in the Badger State four times. A report by The Associated Press added, “Voters in Wisconsin are already casting absentee ballots and in-person early voting begins Oct. 22.”
* Today — Monday, Oct. 7 — is the last day to register to vote in several states nationwide.
* Indiana’s gubernatorial race wasn’t expected to be especially competitive, but some recent polling found a close race, and the Democratic Governors Association is investing $600,000 in support of former state education chief Jennifer McCormick — a onetime Republican who switched parties and is taking on Republican Sen. Mike Braun.
* The New York Times reported on conservative activists in Arizona, among other states, who are monitoring and filming voter registration sites in pursuit of a larger partisan conspiracy theory.
* In Georgia, the DeKalb County Republican Party had a pending lawsuit, claiming vulnerabilities to the state’s voting system. Last week, a state judge dismissed the case.
* Donald Trump claimed in a social media post last week that he’d been endorsed by JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. The CEO’s office made clear soon after that he has not, in reality, endorsed Trump or any other candidate.
* And as Election Day 2024 draws closer, expect to see a lot more of Barack Obama. NBC News reported, “Former President Barack Obama will campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh [this] week, his first foray into the election as a battleground-state surrogate. The event, according to a senior Harris campaign official, will launch a larger effort by Obama, who intends to ramp up his campaigning for Harris in the final stretch of the election cycle.”
