Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* The final PBS News/NPR/Marist poll found Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump nationally, 51% to 47%, among likely voters. (Click the link for additional information on the survey’s methodology and margin of error.)
* At his final campaign event in Arizona, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance told supporters, “[H]ere in our movement, we love every citizen of this country.” Just 35 seconds later, the Ohio senator described Harris as “trash.”
* At his final campaign event in Pennsylvania, Trump celebrated the Green Party and its presidential nominee, Jill Stein, for helping Republicans. The former president in reference to Stein, “I’ve never met her, but she may be one of my favorite politicians.”
* On a related note, Green Party leaders in Europe urged Stein to end her campaign in the hopes of preventing a Trump victory. We now know, of course, that she ignored the appeals.
* Trump’s closing ad falsely accuses Algerian boxer Imane Khelif of being a man. She’s a woman.
* On a related note, NBC News reported that a Trump campaign ad declaring America can make a comeback under the GOP nominee “relies on images taken overseas.”
* The Republican presidential hopeful complained over the weekend that it’s “tough” for a GOP candidate to win the national popular vote, which seemed like a rather unsubtle hint that Trump expects to lose the popular vote.
* A day later, Trump held an event in North Carolina, where he looked for Senate hopeful Dave McCormick, which might’ve made more sense were it not for the fact that McCormick is running in Pennsylvania.
