Good morning. It's Saturday, September 7th. Election Day, the longest election in the history of humanity is 59 days away.

The election itself is about to go live because the period between Labor Day and Election Day is often referred to as the final sprint of the campaign season.

This is when things really ramp up and early voting begins.

The first votes of the 2024 general election will soon be cast.

A handful of states are scheduled to mail out absentee ballots in the coming days and or offer in-person early voting options.

North Carolina was supposed to be the first state to send out ballots yesterday,

but that was delayed at the last minute due to a lawsuit filed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

who dropped out of the presidential race two weeks ago, but now he wants his name removed from

the ballots in swing

states like North Carolina to prevent spoiling the candidacy of Donald Trump, whom Kennedy has now

endorsed. More than 130,000 voters registered in North Carolina have requested. They've requested

absentee ballots so far, but it's unclear when they'll receive them because the state

now may have to reprint the ballots, which is an effort that could add days to the delay.

Meanwhile, among the other states scheduled to begin early voting this month are Illinois, Minnesota,

Virginia, and Pennsylvania. A key state, a swing state, figures heavily into both campaigns,

electoral strategies, that all of that

is happening against the backdrop of new developments in the presidential campaign, as well as

Donald Trump's own legal battles. Yesterday, the judge Juan Mershan, postponed Trump's

sentencing in the hush money case until after the election was, the former president was

scheduled to be sentenced on September 18th.

That's now been pushed back to November the 26th, leaving voters guessing as to whether or not

the Republican nominee could actually face jail time. Donald Trump was also back in a courtroom

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