Good morning. There are 56 days until election day.
Trump, Biden spar over economy, workers in Labor Day blitz Labor Day typically marks the unofficial start to the fall campaign season as candidates accelerate their activity for the final sprint to Election Day. Biden was meeting with labor leaders and union workers in Pennsylvania while his running mate Harris campaigned in Wisconsin. Pence was in Wisconsin, too, while Trump held a White House press conference. -- AP
Trump faces fallout from report he calls veterans 'losers' and 'suckers' President Trump vehemently denied the report in The Atlantic, which cited unnamed sources describing offensive comments Trump has made about America's war dead and wounded veterans. Other media outlets have corroborated parts of the story. -- NPR
“It’s been so long since Minnesota voted Republican in a presidential election that many Democrats suspected a head fake when Donald Trump first boasted about his intent to compete there. But two months before the general election, the race has tightened and both Trump and Joe Biden are pouring millions of dollars into the state. Minnesota is the rare offensive opportunity for Trump on a battleground map that has him mostly on defense. And with early voting beginning on Sept. 18, the state will offer one of the first tests of the question at the center of his re-election campaign: whether he can turn out enough white, working class voters who did not participate in 2016 to expand his base. ‘It’s in play,’ said Mike Erlandson, a former chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.” -- Politico’s David Siders
