Court of Claims already rejects Robert F Kennedy Jt’s suit seeking an order making MI SOS take his name off Nov ballot

A Democracy With Everything but a Choice A new analysis of American elections finds that in half of all races for partisan offices, a candidate runs unopposed. Democrats are the biggest no-shows. nytimes.com/2024/09/04/us/…

The whole Vance family, including the three kids and dog Atlas, are heading to Arizona.

Awful. washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09…

Republicans are still much less likely than Democrats to say they'll vote early or by mail

NEW: Harris called Trump’s border wall “a monument standing in opposition to not just everything I value, but to the fundamental values upon which this country was built” in 2019. Now, she’s using Trump’s wall in an ad to say she’s tough on the border. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/04…

Tucker Carlson's video in a Russian grocery store was apparently deemed not subtle enough for a Russian influence operation.

Liz Cheney at Duke: “As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this, and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris.”

Student-run, independent paper at University of Florida with another in a series of big scoops on former Sen. Ben Sasse’s spending as university president:

Vance on Cheney news: “This is a person whose entire career has been about sending other people's children off to fight and die for her military conflicts and her ridiculous ideas that somehow we were going to turn Afghanistan… into a thriving liberal democracy.“

Breaking: RFK Jr. must remain on the NC ballot, a Wake County judge orders. Forcing the state to reprint ballots and delay the start of mail-in voting outweighs, she said, any “minimal” harm to Kennedy by remaining on the ballot #ncpol wral.com/story/court-ba…

Trump says his new Elon Musk-led commission will identify "trillions" of dollars in government spending cuts, reiterating that claim twice, and says the US will provide the same level of government service even after Budget experts of both parties are extremely skeptical

Update:

Trump is asked what specifically he'd do to address the lack of affordable childcare in the US but delivers an answer that meanders between a pledge to zero out the deficit and produce enormous economic growth to cover the cost

New: Mail-in ballots were supposed to go out tomorrow in North Carolina. However, a judge ruled today to keep RFK Jr. on the ballot in the battleground. RFK Jr. 24 now has 24 hours to appeal, so ballot delivery is paused for that time period, per Allison Novelo

Asked about McCain’s son’s Harris endorsement, Vance said “I do not believe for a second that if John McCain were alive today, and he sees what's going on in the American Southern border that he would support Kamala Harris.”

Vance also told the crowd: “We lost Arizona. 10,000 votes was the difference between Arizona going for Donald Trump.” The audience shouted back at him, saying it wasn’t lost, it was stolen.

Donald Trump was asked today what he’d do about child care if elected president. This is what he said, in its entirety:

Vance visits the factory in Phoenix where Ping golf clubs are made

Why is RFK Jr. now withdrawing from red state ballots? Kennedy has grown increasingly concerned in recent days about the consequences of a Harris victory, including its impact on his ability to run again in 2028, his campaign manager told Michael Scherer. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…