Welcome back, Wake Up Right fam! We are just one day away from the first Trump-Harris debate. Word on the street is that Kamala has been camped out inside a Philly hotel room for the last five days, doing “highly choreographed” rehearsals against a staffer dressed as Donald Trump 🤣. So neurotic.

• 🆘 17.9% of homes with kids are food insecure, up from 12.5% in 2021

• 🧠 60% of GenZ and Millennial males take care of their mental health

• 🏈 Rapper, Kendrick Lamar, will headline Super Bowl halftime show

^{Sources: USDA, Cleveland Clinic, AP}

Major left-wing poll has Democrats terrified

A new "high quality" poll has Donald Trump up slightly over Kamala Harris, and the data under the hood shows the former president has key strengths where it matters most.

The details: The New York Times and Sienna College [widely regarded pollsters] surveyed 1,695 registered voters between September 3 and 6 and found, overall, Trump leads Harris by 1 — 48% to 47%.

• Notably, the last time the NY Times conducted this poll, right after Joe Biden dropped out of the race, the numbers were essentially the same — indicating that through six weeks of campaigning and endless media propaganda, Harris has not changed voters’ opinions.

Zoom out: Trump’s 1% lead might not seem like much, but remember, polls almost always overperform for Democrats. At this point in 2016, Clinton was beating Trump in the polls, 42.1% to 38.9%.

Under the hood: This is where the data gets interesting. More than 60% of voters say they want the next president to bring major change.

• Just 25% said Kamala represents ‘major change’

• But 51% said Trump represents ‘major change’

The demographic shift: Trump is also outperforming his 2020 numbers across all demographics:

• 17% of Black voters support Trump, up from 7% in 2020.

• 42% of Hispanic voters support Trump, up from 31% in 2020.

• 57% of White voters support Trump, up from 44% in 2020.

Too liberal: Over the last few weeks, we’ve watched Harris attempt to convince the public that she’s not a radical liberal. She’s walked back radical policies on EV mandates, open borders, and

• 47% of voters still say Harris is “too liberal.”

Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller responded to the poll, telling Politico: "The honeymoon is officially over."

Zoom out: Over the weekend, Harris got more bad news. FiveThirtyEight, which calculates the odds of either candidate winning, found that Trump had a 63.8% chance of winning the electoral college — a new high for the GOP nominee.

Big picture: This poll will put added pressure on Kamala to reach voters during tomorrow night’s presidential debate. It’s a widely known secret that Kamala does not deal well with pressure, and it gives her fits behind the scenes.

[Source: NY Times]

What the media won’t show you in the latest jobs report

On the surface, the August data on U.S. job growth sent mixed signals and generated a “meh” response from the media. But under the hood, the engine is smoking.

The top-line numbers: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy added 142,000 jobs in August, slightly below the 161,000 economists expected. The good news was the unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 4.2% from 4.3% in July.

Under the hood: In the August report, the Labor Department admitted it had overestimated job growth in its June & July reports by a combined 86,000 jobs.

• The Biden-Harris regime’s Labor Department has overestimated jobs in six of the last seven monthly reports. Coincidence?

Full-time vs. Part-time: Over the past year, 438,000 full-time jobs disappeared, while part-time jobs increased by 527,000.

American jobs: The report found over the past year, jobs for native-born Americans declined by 1.3 million while jobs for foreign-born people increased by 2 million.

Big picture: Americans repeatedly tell pollsters that the economy is their number one issue in the 2024 election — which is why the media won’t tell you any of this.

[Source: Zero Hedge]

🗓️ On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress renamed the United Colonies to the United States of America. Read more.

✅ Judge Juan Merchan postponed sentencing for Donald Trump's non-disclosure agreement case until after the 2024 election. Read more.

🐁 Scientists at Stanford University made a mouse's skin transparent using a common food dye found in Doritos. Read more.

🗳️ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won his legal bid to have his name removed from the ballot in North Carolina and Michigan. Read more.

😲 California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have extended home loans to undocumented immigrants. Read more.

🧃 Flip-flopper: Kamala Harris’ campaign claims she no longer supports her 2020 position to ban plastic straws. Read more.

✅ An illegal alien from Venezuela was arrested in Wisconsin for raping a woman and assaulting her child. Read more.

✅ Attorney Alan Dershowitz says he is leaving the Democratic Party after being “disgusted” by the recent DNC. Read more.

✅ YouTube will limit teenagers' access to fitness videos in the EU, saying it could hurt their self-esteem. Read more. Insanity. They can’t watch fitness content, but the kids can watch all the muckbang videos they want.

📚️ While political leaders promote "gender fluid" restrooms and let boys into girls’ lockers, our education system continues to fall apart. That’s why we need to support groups like PragerU that are fighting to bring sanity back to our schools. Please sign their petition to show the left we have strength in numbers and DEMAND the end of woke education. *

🎥 Elon John has a classy response when a reporter asks about Trump using his music. Watch.

🎥 Trump’s new ad hammers Kamala Harris for laughing about migrant crime. Watch.

🎥 Bill Maher calls out the illiberal left for turning on RFK Jr's wife. Watch.

🎥 Ohio woman begs the city council to do something about the illegals squatting on her lawn. Watch.

🎥 Dolphins star Tyreek Hill was arrested outside the stadium hours before his game for a traffic violation. Watch.

🎥 Bernie says the quiet part out loud about Kamala's flip-flops. Watch. He knows she’s lying to get elected.

🎥 Former NYC mayor Bill DeBlasio gets called out to his face. Watch.

🎥 Kamala says she's "honored" to be endorsed by war criminal Dick Cheney. Watch.

🎥 LOL this guy trolls Nancy Pelosi at her book signing. Watch.

🎥 NY Jets owner: Trump will grow the country out of inflation. Watch.

🎥 Go long: The best thing I watched this weekend was Tucker Carlson interviewing Russel Brand. Watch. [89 minutes]

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