New: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will visit Raleigh on Thursday. She will make stops at Wake Tech Community College (with Gov. Cooper) and the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce. specne.ws/31quBd #ncpol Spectrum News 1 RDU

Election Day is still 2 months away but first ballots will be sent out in the swing state of North Carolina Friday. A new Catawba College YouGov survey shows confidence in absentee by mail voting in NC is low among Republicans, high among Democrats. More:

You will be missed Mary Helen! Congrats on your new adventure.

Happening this week in NC presidential politics: -Doug Emhoff and Gwen Walz will be in Raleigh for their reproductive rights tour -Trump/Harris debate in Philly on Tuesday -Kamala Harris will be in Charlotte and Greensboro Thursday for campaign rallies #ncpol Spectrum News 1 RDU

The return of Congress brings a fancy new vending machine to Cannon rotunda basement. Photo from Kenneth Carrick.

📌 Jorge Ramos dejará Univision a fin de año. univision.com/noticias/estad…

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Dr. Michael Bitzer Chris Cooper The statement in the majority opinion that reprinting will cause “significant expense to the State” is totally wrong. Under NC election financing system, 100% of the cost of ballot printing is borne by the counties. (Wake apparently will pay 25% more per ballot for re-order)

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Top ten markets for last night’s debate: Pittsburgh - 44.2 Philadelphia - 43.4 West Palm - 43.3 Minneapolis - 38.7 Milwaukee - 37.8 Detroit - 37.4 New York - 36.7 Kansas City - 36.7 St Louis - 36.2 Providence - 36.2

How are lawmakers in the swing state of North Carolina reacting to last night's debate? Here's my report: #ncpol

Early Nielsen ratings show the debate drew around 58 million viewers. That ~6.5 million more people than the final tally for the June 27 debate between Trump and President Joe Biden. hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/har…

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, says Springfield, Ohio officials "have no evidence" of Haitian migrants eating pets there, a claim amplified by former President Trump during Tuesday night's debate, saying, "I think we go with what the mayor says, he knows his city." "The

Kamala Harris will start her post-debate tour in North Carolina today with campaign rallies in Charlotte and Greensboro. She was recently in Raleigh for a policy speech. I spoke with the DNC acting executive director earlier this week and asked whether Harris or Tim Walz should