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Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* The latest national polls from NBC News, ABC News and CBS News all showed Kamala Harris and Donald Trump effectively, if not literally, tied. In each instance, these same outlets showed the Democratic vice president with an advantage in last month’s surveys. (Click the links for additional information on the surveys’ methodologies and margins of error.)
* Speaking of 2024 polling, the latest New York Times/Siena College surveys found Trump leading Harris in Arizona by 5 points, 51% to 46%, while Harris was ahead of the former president in Pennsylvania, 50% to 47%. (Click the links for additional information on the surveys’ methodologies and margins of error.)
* The day after Trump slammed Detroit while speaking in Detroit, the Harris campaign turned the incident into a very effective television ad that aired during Detroit Tigers and Detroit Lions games over the weekend. (If the voice-over sounds at all familiar, the commercial was narrated by Emmy- and Tony-winning actor Courtney B. Vance, who is a Detroit native.)
* In Missouri’s U.S. Senate race, the editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch endorsed Democrat Lucas Kunce over Sen. Josh Hawley, arguing, among other things, that the Republican incumbent “is quite possibly the worst sitting senator in America right now.”
* In Florida’s U.S. Senate race, a Mason-Dixon poll commissioned by the NBC affiliate in Miami found Republican Sen. Rick Scott leading former Democratic Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, 48% to 41%.(Click the link for additional information on the survey’s methodology and margin of error.)
* In Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race, the Senate Leadership Fund, the Republicans’ top super PAC focused on Congress’ upper chamber, is making another $6.6 million investment into the race, hoping to unseat Democratic incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin.
* In Ohio’s U.S. Senate race, Democrats are staying on the offensive against Republican Bernie Moreno, launching new ads highlighting the fact that he called women who are single-issue voters on abortion “crazy.”
* The New York Times reported that the Arizona Democratic Party “shut down a campaign office in suburban Phoenix after it was struck by gunfire and a BB gun on three occasions over the past month.” The report added that while no one was hurt, the shootings “raised concerns about the safety of campaign workers and volunteers.”
* At a campaign rally in Nevada on Friday night, Trump told supporters that Harris “doesn’t know she’s alive.” (I’m still not entirely sure what that meant.) A day later, the GOP candidate told a different audience that the vice president “essentially” hasn’t gone to North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Harris was in North Carolina at the time.