Wall Street Journal
Jim VandeHei, co-founder of Politico, is developing a new media outlet aimed squarely at corporate executives and other professionals. The soon-to-launch property -- which will include a blend of business and political news -- just secured about $10 million in financing, according to The Wall Street Journal. “The investment round was led by Lerer Hippeau Ventures,” it reports.
The Washington Post
The Clinton campaign has planned dozens of phone drives, voter registration events and roundtables aimed at mobilizing women to vote in November. “Women have been a driving force behind this campaign since day one, and we are so grateful for the support and tremendous contributions they have made to this historic campaign,” said Mini Timmaraju, the Clinton campaign’s women’s vote director.
The Washington Post
While it has been many months since Hillary Clinton held an open press conference, the Democratic nominee did field questions from the press corps traveling with her on her plane on Monday. She appeared before the press three times, answering questions about the Clinton Foundation, Russia’s involvement in the presidential election and her inability to remember certain email classification briefings during her tenure as Secretary of State.
The New York Times
The Trump campaign will release on Tuesday an open letter signed by 88 retired generals and military officers endorsing Donald Trump. The letter calls for a “long overdue course correction in our national security posture.” The release of the letter comes a day before a national security forum hosted by MSNBC and NBC, which both Trump and Clinton are expected attend.
Mediaite
A new Suffolk University/USA Today poll which shows Clinton with a solid lead over Trump nationally also asked respondents whether they think Trump is a racist. Overall, 47% say he is racist, compared to 44% that say he is not. Breaking it down, 77% of Clinton supporters call him racist, while 7% of his own supporters think the same.
Politico
Former Democratic candidate for president Bernie Sanders is heading to New Hampshire on Monday to campaign for Hillary Clinton. It will be his first solo event in support of the Democratic nominee since he announced his endorsement in July.
Politico
After Trump’s hardline immigration address in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday evening, a number of Hispanic Trump surrogates are reconsidering support for the GOP nominee. They include Jacob Monty, who resigned immediately after the speech from Trump’s National Hispanic Advisory Council, pastor Ramiro Pena, who said he’d reconsider being part of a “scam,” and Alfonso Aguilar, president of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, who is now “inclined” to pull support.
USA Today
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Appeals Court decision from last month that struck down voter I.D. laws in North Carolina. The Appeals Court decision said that “the new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision. They constitute inapt remedies … and impose cures for problems that did not exist.”
The Washington Post
The Clinton campaign will start airing anti-Trump ads in Arizona on Friday, a state that has been historically reliably Republican. The ad buy is said to be six-digits, but the campaign refrained from giving an exact number. The ad portrays children watching a number of off-color Donald Trump quotes from the campaign.
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