Former policy director and CIA agent Evan McMullin has launched a third-party bid for president as the conservative alternative to Donald Trump. McMullin was most recently the chief policy director for the House Republican Conference. Speaking with ABC news, McMullin said of his candidacy: “In a year where Americans have lost faith in the candidates of both major parties, it’s time for a generation of new leadership to step up.”

Following complaints from the Donald Trump camp, Hillary Clinton has said that she will participate in the three scheduled presidential debates. The debates are scheduled for September 26, October 9 and October 19. Referring to Trump’s complaints about the schedule, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said: “Our campaign is not interested in playing along with a debate about debates or bargaining around them.”

At a rally in New Hampshire over the weekend, Donald Trump attacked Hillary Clinton for having mental health problems: “She is a totally unhinged person. She’s unbalanced. And all you have to do is watch her, see her, read about her.” The irony is not lost on most observers; many have been saying similar things about Trump for a number of months now.

The Never-Trump movement failed to make any lasting impression on the Republican National Convention, and Trump is now the GOP nominee. The group of never-Trumpers are at it again, however, in what looks like another act of defiance rather than a believable attempt to unseat the nominee. Some Republicans are further distancing themselves from Trump and making it clear that he does not represent their values as Republicans.

Jeb Bush’s son, George P. Bush, has broken ranks with the Bush camp and has come out in support of the Republican nominee. This Bush, the land commissioner of Texas, explained: “From Team Bush, it’s a bitter pill to swallow, but you know what? You get back up and you help the man that won, and you make sure that we stop Hillary Clinton.”

The Trump campaign released a video depicting Hillary Clinton as Ms. Pac-Man eating emails and trying to avoid FBI ghosts. In a Facebook post in which Trump included the video, he writes: “Crooked Hillary is a lot like Ms. Pac-Man -- she’ll keep going and going and going until she’s cornered or caught!” Last month, Trump used a Pokemon Go-themed video to attack Clinton.

Following the publication of racy photos of Melania Trump in the New York Post earlier this week, new questions have been raised about her immigration status in the 1990s. It appears that Mrs. Trump may have been in the United States in 1995 on a tourist visa, which would not have allowed her to work in the country — at the time that the modeling photos were taken. She has since said that she “followed the law” as an immigrant.

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has Clinton with a strong 9-point national lead over Donald Trump. Clinton’s lead is now 47% to 38%, which grew four points from before the July conventions. The Democratic nominee also holds solid double-digit leads in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.

According to a statement released by the Trump campaign, the GOP nominee has quickly closed the fund-raising gap between himself and Hillary Clinton. The Trump campaign raised $64 million directly through his campaign, with another $16 million raised through Trump Victory, the joint Trump-RNC fund-raising vehicle. Clinton and her joint vehicles with the DNC raised a total of $90 million in July.

Mike Coffman, GOP congressman from Colorado, is the first Republican congressman to use anti-Trump messaging in paid advertising. In the 30-second spot Coffman explains: “People ask me, ‘What do you think about Trump?’ Honestly, I don’t care for him much. I’m a Marine -- for me, country comes first. My duty is always to you. So if Donald Trump is the president, I’ll stand up to him. Plain and simple.”