It has been a long time coming, Bernie Sanders has finally officially endorsed his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, for President of the United States. Sanders made the announcement in New Hampshire this morning while campaigning with Clinton. “I have come here to make it as clear as possible as to why I am endorsing Hillary Clinton, and why she must become our next president,” Sanders explained.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will debate three times before the November 8 election. The first event will take place on September 26 at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. The second will be held at Washington University in St. Louis on October 9, and the final debate will take place October 19 at the University of Nevada - Las Vegas. Each debate will run from 9-10:30pm Eastern Time, without commercial breaks.

In a interesting change of pace, Donald Trump is refusing to appear on a number of TV channels on which he was once a regular. Advisers have even stopped notifying him of every interview request. He is no longer appearing on CNN or MSNBC and has not been seen on Sunday morning shows for a while. Since June 1, nearly all of his TV appearances have been on Fox News.

Political advertising changed dramatically with the advent of household television sets. NBC took a look at six political ads that made a mark on the political advertising front. From Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy” in 1964, to the strange and silent “Rock” aired by lesser-known Democratic candidate Mike Gravel in 2008, presidential TV ads have been central to differentiating between candidates.

We may finally be seeing a serious coming together of the Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton campaigns. Sanders will appear with Clinton at a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Tuesday. The move could help to appease the Sanders base that has been hard pressed to move over to Clinton.

A number of big firms and individual donors are looking to minimize their visibility around the party conventions coming up this month. Paul Singer, Apple, Coca-Cola, Microsoft and Wal-Mart are all tampering back on their donations to host committees. With both the Democratic and Republican candidates at historic unfavorability levels, these big names, and others, will try to do what they have done in the past, but with less visibility.

In a victory for progressives and the Sanders camp, Democrats have added a call for a $15 minimum wage to their party platform. Despite this win for the Sanders contingent, other significant policies were rejected by the committee, including one which would have expanded Social Security.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) plans an estimated $1 million ad buy on TV and online, pinning Republicans in Congress to Donald Trump, their presidential nominee. The unusually early ads addressing congressional seats target 10 incumbent GOP lawmakers in parts of the country where Donald Trump is expected to have a poor showing. They include Denver, San Antonio and the suburbs of Chicago.

America Rising, the opposition research firm, is launching a large-scale initiative to identify and target independent women. The group, which is both a PAC and LLC, is calling the project the women’s initiative. It will focus on what drives independent women to the polls, how media is consumed in that group and what issues resonate most with them.

In an angry speech on Wednesday, Donald Trump rebuked criticism that has dogged him over the past few days. Following a restatement of the praise he exclaimed for Saddam Hussein, the GOP nominee for president said that he regretted removing the tweet containing what looked like a Star of David. He recalls telling a campaign staffer: “You shouldn’t have taken it down. Too bad, you should have left it up.” Adding that he would have wanted to defend the tweet.