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Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* Nearly a month after vowing to go after CNN “full throttle,” North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson says he has filed suit against the news network. It was last month when CNN published reports about racist comments the Republican gubernatorial candidate allegedly posted in an online pornography forum.
* In Michigan, Republican congressional hopeful Tom Barrett ran an advertisement in a Black-owned newspaper, incorrectly telling readers that Election Day is Nov. 6, instead of Nov. 5. The GOP candidate blamed a clerical error, but the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus filed a complaint with the state attorney general’s office, seeking an investigation into whether Barrett’s campaign was trying to suppress Black turnout.
* Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz is scheduled to unveil a “Plan for Rural America” in Pennsylvania, which focuses on adding 10,000 health care workers in rural areas, expanding access to telemedicine, lowering child care costs, expanding the Child Tax Credit and boosting access to markets, credit and land for farmers and producers.
* In Michigan’s closely watched U.S. Senate race, the Senate Republicans’ top super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, is investing an additional $10.5 million, hoping to boost former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers over Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin.
* At Donald Trump’s latest campaign rally in Pennsylvania, he thanked independent presidential candidates Jill Stein and Cornell West by name, boasting to supporters that the far-left third-party candidates are helping him.
* During the former president’s event late last week in Colorado, he suggested he was “very close” to winning the Rocky Mountain State, claiming that he had seen a poll showing him up “by a little bit” in Colorado. No such poll appears to exist in reality, his campaign isn’t on the air in the state, and Trump lost Colorado four years ago by double digits.
* Around the same time, Trump said he believes former President Barack Obama might vote for him, which might very well be the most ridiculous claim the Republican has ever made.