NEW reporting from my CNN Investigates colleagues: cnn.com/2024/08/15/pol… Vought said his group was secretly drafting hundreds of EO's, regulations + memos that would lay the groundwork for rapid action, describing his work as creating “shadow” agencies.

RFK Jr. is cancelling his planned Chicago events next week, and will instead testify in ballot access cases in Pennsylvania and New York, a campaign spokesperson tells me. He'd originally advised two events in the city coinciding with the DNC.

Spox: "Mr. Kennedy will now be testifying in court next week in Harrisburg, PA on Tuesday and Mineola, NY on Wed or Th to defend ballot access challenges. In order to prep for the court appearance, the Kennedy campaign has canceled its events in Chicago on Sun and Mon."

Outside the Tim Walz event in La Vista, Nebraska today, pro-Palestinian protesters gather near the line for attendees holding signs calling for a ceasefire and arms embargo.

After his Nebraska rally, Tim Walz picked up a $600+ order worth of food at this Runza, a regional fast food chain. “They probably ordered everything on the menu,” an employee told me. At the rally, Walz swiped at JD Vance by saying he’d call a Runza sandwich “a Hot Pocket.”

At the Native American DNC caucus meeting, Tim Walz touts approving a redesign of Minnesota’s state flag from its current version that features a “racist” depiction of a Native American. He gets big cheers for saying MN Lt. Gov. Flanagan could become the first native governor.

At the DNC Black Caucus, Tim Walz urges the crowd to “take some time tonight to honor” President Biden ahead of his speech tonight. “With all the good decisions that he’s made, one of the first ones he made was he put Kamala Harris at his side, and then he listened to her.”

RFK Jr. is expected to end his campaign on Friday and endorse Trump in remarks at an event in Arizona, from Kristen Holmes and me cnn.com/2024/08/21/pol…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to suspend his campaign on Friday at an event in Arizona, two sources familiar with the plans told CNN More on how he got there, and the backchanneling in Trumpworld w/ Kristen Holmes Aaron Pellish cnn.com/2024/08/21/pol…

RFK Jr. is expected to suspend his long shot White House bid today in Phoenix, but his affect on the presidential race may not end there. Alayna Treene Aaron Pellish and I on what the Trump campaign hopes to get from a long-sought Kennedy endorsement. cnn.com/2024/08/23/pol…

RFK Jr. is expected to end his campaign this morning, but he could still alter a tight presidential race. Trump is banking on it A behind-the-scenes look at his race, the back channeling with Trumpworld, and what comes next w/ Steve Contorno Aaron Pellish cnn.com/2024/08/23/pol…

Outside the RFK Jr. event in Phoenix today, MoveOn and Progress Now Arizona are driving a mobile billboard highlighting past comments he's made about Trump calling him "a sociopath" and "barely human." RFK Jr. is weighing whether to endorse Trump, who also speaks in AZ today.

RFK Jr. says he is suspending his presidential campaign and will "now throw my support to President Trump." He said he will attempt to withdraw his name from the ballot in some key battleground states.

RFK Jr. speaks at a Trump rally in Arizona after suspending his campaign and endorsing him earlier today. He says they spoke about "the chronic disease epidemic" during their two previous meetings. “Don’t you want a president that’s gonna make America healthy again?," he said.

.Kit Maher is an amazing and fair and very hard working journalist.

Trump said today in Michigan he would implement a policy as president that would pay for in vitro fertilization treatments, without specifying how the treatments would be paid for. w/ Aaron Pellish cnn.com/2024/08/29/pol…

SCOOP: The United States has seized Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro’s airplane after determining that its acquisition was in violation of US sanctions, among other criminal issues. The US flew the aircraft to Florida on Monday. cnn.com/2024/09/02/pol…

New battleground #’s: CNN POLL CONDUCTED BY SSRS Aug. 23-29 LIKELY VOTERS          Harris    Trump WI 50%      44% MI 48%      43% GA 48%      47% NV 48%      47% PA 47%      47% AZ 44%      49%   Margin of error: +/-4.9% pts cnn.com/2024/09/04/pol…

This morning, Tim Walz visited Pamela's Diner in Pittsburgh's Strip District to eat breakfast with his daughter Hope. They ordered hot cakes and eggs, a staffer told me and Eva McKend. The press pool traveling with Walz on his PA swing did not accompany him to the restaurant.

Echoing VP Harris, Tim Walz said Israel has the right to self-defense but called conditions in Gaza a "humanitarian crisis" and said pro-Palestinian protesters in Michigan are "speaking out for all the right reasons" in an interview with WCMU News