Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* For the third time this week, a Georgia court has rejected new election-administration rules imposed by Republicans on the state elections board. In the latest instance, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox described seven new policies as “illegal, unconstitutional and void.”
* Speaking of election-related court rulings, NBC News reported that a federal district court in Alabama has “temporarily blocked Alabama’s voter removal program that flagged thousands of registered voters and accused them of illegally registering in the state.”
* While most recent national polling has found Donald Trump trailing or tied with Kamala Harris, the latest Fox News poll found the Republican narrowly ahead, 50% to 48%. The same survey, however, found the Democratic vice president ahead among voters from the seven key battleground states. (Click the link for additional information on the survey’s methodology and margin of error.)
* In related news, the latest Quinnipiac poll found the former president leading Harris in Georgia, 52% to 45%, while Quinnipiac also found the Democratic nominee leading Trump in North Carolina, 49% to 47%. (Click the links for additional information on the surveys’ methodologies and margins of error.)
* Speaking of the Tar Heel State, the same Quinnipiac poll took a look at the state’s gubernatorial race and found Democratic state Attorney General Josh Stein ahead of Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, 52% to 40%. (Click the link for additional information on the survey’s methodology and margin of error.) * Harris held an interesting campaign event in Pennsylvania, appearing alongside a great many Republicans, and The New York Times described it as “her most direct and expansive pitch yet to conservative and moderate voters.” * Former House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney had already endorsed Harris and Democratic Rep. Colin Allred’s Senate campaign in Texas, and now the Wyoming Republican is also backing two Democratic U.S. House candidates: Pennsylvania’s Susan Wild and New York’s John Avlon. * In Montana’s closely watched U.S. Senate race, Republican Tim Sheehy said that if Democrats are in the majority in the upper chamber next year and Donald Trump is president, they’ll impeach him “right away.” What Sheehy apparently doesn’t know — but really should — is that the Senate doesn’t have impeachment authority and it can’t impeach presidents, even if a majority of members wanted to.
Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."
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