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Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal released separate national polls late last week, and both showed Donald Trump leading President Joe Biden by 6 points. (Click the links for information on the surveys’ methodology and margins of error.)
* The Times reported late last week, “Abortions rights supporters in three states this week said they had secured enough signatures to put measures on the November ballot that would enshrine some abortion access in their state constitutions.” The report specifically referenced developments in Arkansas, Missouri and Montana.
* Overturning a ruling from 2022, the Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to reinstate the use of most ballot drop boxes across the battleground state.
* In Michigan, Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told The Associated Press that she wouldn’t be a presidential candidate this year, even if Biden were to end his candidacy, which he has said he won’t do.
* Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argued online late last week that it’s “hard to tell what is a conspiracy theory and what isn’t” when it comes to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which is very much on-brand for the strange conspiracy theorist.
* In keeping with the kind of class and decorum we’ve come to expect from the former president, Trump was filmed on a golf course last week referring to the incumbent president as a “broken-down pile of crap.”
* And speaking of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, Trump published an online item urging Biden to participate in another debate, except this time, there would be no moderators. The Republican concluded, “ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE!!!”