It was a good great week for the Harris/Walz campaign:

Tuesday night was a Wipe Out for Donald Trump – a one-on-one confrontation just as one-sided as the earlier debate that ended Joe Biden’s reelection bid. Days earlier they picked up the endorsements of arch conservative GOP icons Liz and Dick Cheney, followed by support from George W. Bush’s Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez; inflation is down to a three-year low, with gas prices plunging and the Fed poised to lower interest rates; renowned childless cat owner Taylor Swift posted her endorsement of the ticket for her 284-million Instagram followers; and the latest polls show Harris’s lead over Trump nationally edging upward.

And the Trump/Vance campaign became a national laughing stock with its claims of Haitians in Springfield Ohio kidnapping and eating pet dogs, cats and ducks. Even Ohio Governor Mike DeWine called out the campaign for spreading a baseless lie. The Trump campaign doubled down, wrongly claiming the Ohio Haitians are in the country illegally. They are not.

Also on our radar this week:

• Republicans in Congress are reprising their performance of “Let’s shut down the government” with more dramatics as the deadline for passing a budget approaches. To borrow from the late, great baseball manager Casey Stengel: “can’t anyone play this game?”
• The campaign for the U.S. Senate heats up with Democrats hitting Mike Rogers for his role in promoting opioids – he was for them before he was against them.
• The Michigan Supreme Court is leaving RFK Jr. and Cornel West on the November presidential ballot.
• Attorney General Nessel wraps up her investigation into MSU’s handling of the Larry Nasser debacle with some harsh criticism

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