A bipartisan group of Wisconsin business leaders launched a new ad urging moderate voters in the state to vote for the Harris-Walz ticket, saying that a Trump presidency could have detrimental effects on the economy.

The ad, which is part of the Project Democracy political action committee’s “Business Case Against Trump” ad campaign, showcases a bipartisan group of five prominent Wisconsin business leaders who argue that democratic stability and economic prosperity go hand in hand, and that Trump poses threats to both.

House Republicans today are expected to derail their own plan to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month, with the party divided over the length of a short-term funding bill and what, if anything, should be attached to it.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan calls for extending funding at current spending levels for six months, through March 2025, and linking it with the SAVE Act, Trump-backed legislation requiring that people show proof of citizenship to register to vote.

The funding package is on track to fail given Republicans’ razor-thin 220-211 majority and the fact that a number of GOP lawmakers — a mix of fiscal conservatives and defense hawks — have vowed to tank it.

Democrats want a “clean” three-month funding patch with nothing attached and nearly all plan to vote no. Many oppose the SAVE Act, noting that it is already illegal, and rare, for noncitizens to vote.

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The Harris campaign released ads today targeting Asian American voters and highlighting its commitment to reproductive freedom.

The ad titled “My Mother,” is aimed at mobilizing Asian American voters and is set to air in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The 60-second ad features Harris’ remarks at the Democratic National Convention last month paying tribute to her late mother, breast cancer researcher Shyamala Gopalan.

Another ad, titled “Monster,” to air on national TV during large viewership moments, features Hadley Duvall, a Kentucky woman who became pregnant after her stepfather raped her at age 12 after years of sexual abuse. In the ad, Duvall says that while she “had options” after she became pregnant, other women have lost the ability to have abortions following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Montana's Senate race will include Green Party candidate Robert Barb on the November ballot, the state's Supreme Court ruled yesterday.

The Montana Democratic Party had sought to remove Barb from the ballot, arguing that the Green Party did not properly nominate him after the winner of its primary ended his campaign.

The court's decision could be a blow to Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, as Barb has the potential to pull liberal-leaning voters away from the incumbent in a state Trump won by 16 points in 2020.

Tester is facing a hotly contested race against Republican Tim Sheehy that could determine which party controls the Senate. Libertarian candidate Sid Daoud is also expected to appear on the ballot.

At the Aspen Institute's cybersecurity summit, FBI Director Christopher Wray made his first public remarks on his agency's investigation into the apparent assassination attempt on Trump on Sunday.

"For the second time in just over two months, we’ve witnessed what appears to be an attempt to attack our democracy and our democratic process, and I’m relieved that former President Trump is safe, and I want the American people to know that the men and women of the FBI are working tirelessly to get to the bottom of what happened," he said.

Wray said that the work is "very much ongoing" and that the FBI is limited in what it can share with the public, adding, "we're working around the clock to investigate this" and "have dedicated the full force of the FBI to this investigation."

A group of more than 100 Republican former national security and policy officials who served in the Reagan, both Bushes and Trump administrations and in Congress announced their endorsement of Harris’ presidential campaign.

The former officials said Harris is the kind of “principled, serious" and “steady leader” the country needs, who has “demonstrated that she can engage in orderly national security decision-making, without the constant drama and Cabinet turnover of the Trump Administration.”

Trump supporters and Democrats are scheduled to hold competing events on Long Island ahead of Trump’s rally tonight in Uniondale, New York.

Nassau County Democrats will hold an anti-Trump rally in Uniondale at 12 p.m.

Suffolk police will hold a pre-rally and tailgate in support of Trump in Garden City at 2 p.m.

There will also be a rally in Uniondale to support the Haitian immigrant community and denounce the false claims directed at them, which Trump and Vance have amplified, at 3 p.m.

The president of Wittenberg University, a liberal arts college in Springfield, Ohio, condemned the false claims pushed by Trump and Vance saying Haitian immigrants in the city have eaten cats and dogs.

“They’re falsehoods, and I don’t know that there’s anything I could say or anybody could say to change their opinion,” Michael Frandsen said during an interview on CNN’s “The Situation Room” yesterday.

Wittenberg University received bomb threats by email seemingly "from the same source" after the baseless claims, Frandsen said, which prompted the school to cancel in-person classes and hold them virtually. He said the school has shared those emails with the city police department and the FBI.

Members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus last night elected Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., as its new chairman after Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., the only other candidate, dropped out of the race, according to two GOP sources familiar with the matter.

The election was called after Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., resigned as the group's chairman last week in the middle of his term following his primary loss this summer to a Trump-backed challenger, GOP state Sen. John McGuire. 

Good had originally endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the GOP presidential primary, dividing the Freedom Caucus.

Harris is a staunch Trump ally. His term will only run through early January 2025. Freedom Caucus members, who frequently clash with and create headaches for GOP leadership, will select a new chairman for the next Congress, though Harris will have an opportunity to run for a full-two-year term at that time.