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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been locked in a fierce election battle for months, but tens of millions of Americans will compare their presidential bona fides side-by-side anew on Monday.

The first of three debates promises to be a national sensation, contrasting two vastly different New Yorkers who are recognized around the world.

Inside Trump’s campaign spending

Donald Trump‘s campaign filed its fundraising reports last night (as did Hillary Clinton and Gary Johnson - Green Party candidate Jill Stein apparently failed to file by the deadline), and The Washington Post provides an interesting look at where he is spending his money:

Donald Trump finally ramped up his campaign spending. So where did the money go?

Now we can report that Trump has, at long last, ramped up his campaign spending, paying out nearly $30 million in August, according to ... Read More >>

NRA working to run up Trump’s margins in rural areas

Donald Trump is focusing on running up his margin of victory in rural areas to offset his weakness in the suburbs.

The National Rifle Association is boosting this effort with a $5 million advertising campaign focused on smaller media markets in battleground states.

Donald Trump finally ramped up his campaign spending. So where did the money go?

Last month at this time, regular readers will recall, we posed this question: Donald Trump is finally raising money. So why isn’t he spending it? The Republican presidential nominee had shelled out just $18.4 million in July, about a third of the amount that Democratic rival Hillary Clinton raced through that month.

Polls: Race is even in N.C., while Clinton up in Florida

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a virtual tie in North Carolina, according to a poll released Tuesday by Elon University.

Trump led Clinton by 1-point (44%-43%) in the new poll, but that number is well within the margin of error. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson had 6% support.

Trump Campaign Vows to Fund Florida Push, Official Says, but Cash Is in Limbo

The campaign of Donald J. Trump, whose grass-roots organizing in Florida is far behind that of conventional presidential nominees, promised $1.9 million for a ground game in the state but has yet to come through with the money, less than five weeks before early voting begins.

Warning that there is “no time to waste,” Susan Wiles, Mr. Trump’s Florida state director, wrote in an internal email on Sunday that the campaign’s New York leaders gave a “green light” to begin spending a seven-figure sum for a field program to get out the vote. On Monday, Ms. Wiles said the money was being delayed.