New polls show Trump losing edge over Harris on economy two weeks out from Election Day: Live updates

Nineteen percent of GOP voters believe the former president should do “whatever it takes” to return to power, even if that means calling the results invalid if he loses, according to a new national poll by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute.

Worrying, in a word.

Here’s Gustaf Kilander’s report.

As Kamala and Tim Walz methodically campaign in the swing states stressing the importance of the issues and politely articulating policy positions that might actually help people, Trump is out joking about Arnold Palmer’s three-wood and salting fries for yucks while JD Vance goes largely unnoticed.

Here’s Eric Garcia on two sharply contrasting strategies for the final weeks.

Here’s Graig Graziosi with some better news for democracy fans: the vice president has a near two-to-one lead over Trump among voters who have already cast their ballots, according to the latest USA Today/Suffolk University poll.

“True Trump patriots” can now purchase a white T-shirt emblazoned with an image of the Republican nominee waving from the drive-thru window in his apron.

Although pitched as a “McGift” in a fundraising email to supporters, the shirt is not free, with his campaign’s website suggesting a donation of $100 would be appropriate.

I think it was Stephen Colbert who characterized the relentless MAGA cash grab as “the grifting of the rubes” and perhaps there is no finer example.

James Liddell reports.

The Republican nominee’s daughter-in-law snapped at the Detroit radio host when he laughed at her for claiming she had “never seen” her Trump “say a racist thing.”

Appearing on The Breakfast Club on Monday, the co-chair of the RNC was asked about Trump being sued for defamation by the Central Park Five when the disagreement erupted.

Rhian Lubin reports.

Staff from the Golden Arches have given their verdict on Trump’s performance behind the fry cooker on Sunday.

Here’s Kelly Rissman on where they marked him down.

Over on NBC, another late-night host pronounced himself baffled by the Republican presidential nominee’s crude anecdote in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night about the legendary golfer.

James Liddell reports.

The Minnesota Governor assured Jon Stewart that Democrats would not adopt former GOP vice president Dick Cheney or his daughter Liz Cheney’s foreign policy postitions despite accepting their endorsement.

Here’s Eric Garcia on Walz’s latest late-night appearance on Comedy Central.

Here’s another interesting line from Trump during his Concord address yesterday.

I wonder what Judge Juan Merchan thinks about this, given that the former president spent the entire spring smearing him and his family as he attempted to preside fairly over his Manhattan hush money trial, repeatedly insisting without evidence that Merchan was corrupt and the instrument of a “weaponized” justice system.

His dear friend and supposed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk should also surely be incensed by the hypocrisy.

The Republican yesterday shamelessly claimed that he was “not familiar with the state of the race” in North Carolina that Robinson is currently losing to Josh Stein after being caught in the “Black Nazi” porn website scandal.

Meanwhile here’s Gustaf Kilander on that master of sensitivity showing off his McDonald’s fry cook pin while surveying hurricane damage during the same visit.