The campaign’s remittance to Sharpton’s National Action Network was part of a flurry of donations—$5.4 million in all—to black and Latino advocacy groups that seem aimed at winning Harris support from those constituencies. Harris’s campaign gave two payments of $250,000 to National Action Network on Sept. 5 and Oct. 1, according to campaign finance records.

On Oct. 3, Sharpton aired a video of Harris wishing him happy birthday on his MSNBC weekend show, PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton. “Happy birthday, Rev,” Harris said, using Sharpton’s nickname. “You have been over all of your years such an extraordinary leader. You have been a voice of truth, a voice of conscience.”

Sharpton, 70, conducted a glowing interview with Harris on Oct. 20 in which he touted her “extraordinary historic campaign” while referring to Trump as “hostile and erratic.” His questions lined up closely with messages that Harris sought to highlight on the campaign trail. Sharpton addressed concerns among black voters—especially black men—about Harris’s record as a prosecutor in California, where she was given the nickname “Kamala the Cop.” Sharpton brought up Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, and one of Harris’s personal heroes, to put Harris’s candidacy in historical perspective. Sharpton asked Harris whether men who opposed her were “misogynistic.”

Sharpton did not disclose payments from the Harris campaign during either segment with the candidate. National Action Network did not respond to requests for comment. MSNBC also did not respond to comment requests. […]

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But to spread that message, Tester is relying on out-of-state donors who bought up property in Montana, a Washington Free Beacon review of campaign finance records found. Those records reveal that Tester has accepted tens of thousands of dollars from millionaires who own sprawling second homes across the state.

That fact reflects the difficult balance Tester faces this November. Montana is a solid-red state that former president Donald Trump won by double digits, and Tester is the only remaining Democrat who was elected to statewide office.

Tester’s base of support among native Montanans—those who were born in the state—has eroded since he first arrived at the Senate in 2007. Recent polls show he is trailing Sheehy, who has repeatedly pointed out Tester’s liberal voting record.

Wealthy outsiders buying up property is a common grievance among Montanans. During the first debate between Tester and Sheehy, the Democrat said, “The bottom line is Montana is changing. We’re seeing a lot of folks come into the state—rich folks—who want to buy our state to try to change it into something it’s not.” […]

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Civic Truth Action, a super PAC launched in July, has spent more than $1.5 million on ads supporting Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver, according to campaign finance disclosures released this week. The group is airing dozens of YouTube ads in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada touting Oliver as a “true conservative” who will “abolish income taxes” and “dismantle the nanny state,” according to the company’s ad database.

But Civic Truth Action isn’t funded by a group of small-government activists. Its sole backer—a dark money outfit called Evidence for Impact—has contributed $4,350,000 to Civic Truth Action since September, according to campaign finance records. Little is known about Evidence for Impact, but records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show that its “beneficial owner” is Ezra Reese, an attorney at the Democratic elections firm Elias Law Group.

Marc Elias, who opened the firm in 2022, serves as a top lawyer for the Harris campaign. While Democrats consider Elias a hero for his aggressive legal strategies, he has embraced the dark side of politics throughout his career. As an attorney for the Clinton campaign in 2016, Elias commissioned the infamous Steele dossier, which falsely accused Donald Trump of colluding with Russia.

Harris has a deep history with Elias. He served as general counsel to her 2020 presidential campaign, and Harris thanked Elias for his “wise” counsel in her 2019 autobiography. Elias said after joining the Harris team that he looked forward to helping “defend democracy.” […]

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The turnaround is sudden. Having secured the presidential nomination without winning a single primary and with three months to go before Election Day, Harris was forced to improvise. Gone was the candidate who wanted to abolish private health insurance, decriminalize border crossings, ban fracking, phase out the internal combustion engine, and close private prisons. A new Harris was born. When she couldn’t ignore her earlier policies, she repudiated them.

Today Harris says that if she’s elected, current health care arrangements will remain in place. She’ll work with Congress to build the southern border wall and reduce illegal immigration. Fracking will continue, but electric vehicle mandates might not. She’ll keep sending military aid to Ukraine and defend America and Israel against Iran. Her legislative agenda will use the tax code to redistribute wealth to first-time homebuyers, small businesses, and parents. Republicans will sit in her cabinet. The business sector will influence her administration.

This isn’t Build Back Better. It’s Build Back Barely, as circumstances allow.

And circumstances are not good for the Left. Four years of the Biden presidency have diminished Bernie Sanders and the democratic socialist “Squad.” The revolutions of 2016 and 2020 belong in the past. Sanders hopes that Harris doesn’t mean what she says. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grows comfortable in the party establishment. Two “Squad” members lost Democratic primaries. Harris brags that Goldman Sachs is on her side. […]

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“[Trump] understands the critical role that law enforcement plays in maintaining safety, stability, law and order. And that’s why we are confident in his leadership and his ability to safeguard our country,” the letter reads. Forty-nine of the 67 county sheriffs in Pennsylvania signed the endorsement, Fox News reported.

“We are proudly standing with President Donald J. Trump and wholeheartedly endorse his candidacy for President of the United States,” the letter continued.

Taking a swipe at Vice President Kamala Harris’s record as President Joe Biden’s “border czar,” the sheriffs praised Trump as “the only candidate who has supported and continues to support law and order.”

“This is most evident with our Southern Border,” the sheriffs said. “Without his strong leadership, our border has been swung open—open to thousands of border crossers each day and unimaginable quantities of lethal drugs such as fentanyl and methamphetamine that are pouring right into Pennsylvania communities, bringing crime and devastation to countless families.” […]

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Baccam that year sat on a panel, “Rural ≠ White,” at the Netroots Nation convention, which bills itself as the “largest annual conference for progressives.” That year, the event featured Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Cory Booker (N.J.), as well as then-Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.). Vox described the convention as “Warrenmania.”

“Rural areas are ripe for big gains for Democrats and progressives, and having this conversation about how rural is not white will show us a way in which we can organize and do outreach to rural areas into a community that will be sympathetic and empathetic to our causes and our issues,” Baccam said ahead of the panel.

“Making sure we tell our story, spread our message, and have that hard conversation that people don’t want to have in these rural areas is key,” he continued. “And you’d be surprised how many people will be willing to support folks who are progressive and have our types of ideals.” […]

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Such moments brought clarity. They defined the candidates. They laid out the stakes. They changed the story.

Add another to the list. On Tuesday, Kamala Harris appeared on The View. A friendly host asked if there’s anything she would do differently than President Biden. Harris hesitated, as if she hadn’t anticipated or understood the question.

That was typical. Her answer was not. “There is not a thing that comes to mind,” she said.

Oof. Not only did Harris take ownership of the Biden record. She displayed a startling lack of independence. Not a thing comes to mind? Not the inflation that’s gnarled the economy, not the millions of illegal immigrants who have crossed the southern border, not the widespread feeling of social disorder in cities and on campuses, not the withdrawal from Afghanistan, handling of Ukraine, nor the regional war in the Middle East?

Harris says no. She’s proud of this administration. She stands by her man. “I’ve been part of most of the decisions that have had impact,” she added. And what impact: a president with 41 percent job approval and a nation where just 22 percent of people are satisfied with the direction of the country. […]

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The Democrats’ fears come as Harris’s polling leads have shrunk or even disappeared in the Blue Wall states even as the vice president has received favorable media coverage and good marks for her debate performance against former president Donald Trump, Axios reported.

Harris had a more-than-2-point lead in Pennsylvania following the Sept. 10 debate, but that lead has shrunk to about half a point as of Thursday, according to an average of polls from The Hill. In Wisconsin, Harris held an almost 5-point advantage over Trump following the Democratic National Convention in August, a lead that has also fallen to about half a point. Trump holds a half-point lead over the vice president in Michigan, a state where Harris led throughout August and September. Some polls even have Trump ahead of Harris in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Trump was able to sweep all three states in the 2016 election, allowing him to beat then-candidate Hillary Clinton. Democrats fear a similar sweep in light of Harris’s record-low approval ratings among working-class voters and multiple unions’ decisions to withhold their endorsements. […]

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