Good morning. 
Tuesday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of sixty-one. Sunrise is 6:28 AM and sunset 7:15 PM, for 12h 46m 50s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 68.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand four hundredth day.
The Whitewater School Board’s Policy Review Committee meets via audiovisual conferencing at 10 AM, and the city’s Public Works Committee meets via audiovisual conferencing at 6 PM.
On this day in 1930, 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
Recommended for reading in full —
Molly Blackall reports Vice-presidential candidates launch campaign season in Wisconsin:
Kamala Harris and Mike Pence, the vice-president, kicked off this year’s campaign season with a visit to Wisconsin, which Donald Trump won in 2016 by less than a percentage point. In her first visit to a battleground state as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, Harris met privately with the family and legal team of Jacob Blake, who was left paralysed after being shot repeatedly by police. Blake’s lawyer described the meeting as “inspirational and uplifting”.
On the other side of the state, Pence delivered a speech to power workers, taking the opportunity to praise Trump and his response to the coronavirus pandemic, and promise a vaccine by the end of the year.
Margaret Sullivan writes Here’s what the media must do to fend off an election-night disaster:
This time, with the stakes of the election so high, news organizations need to get it right. They need to do two things, primarily, and do them extraordinarily well.
First, in every way possible, they must prepare the public for uncertainty, and start doing this now. Granted, the audience doesn’t really show up in force until election night itself, but news reports, pundit panels and special programming can help plow the ground for public understanding of the unpredictability — or even chaos — to come.
Second, on election night and in the days (weeks? months?) to follow, news organizations will need to do the near-impossible: reject their ingrained instincts to find a clear narrative — including the answer to the question “who won?” — and stay with the uncertainty, if that’s indeed what’s happening.
Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman report How Trump’s Billion-Dollar Campaign Lost Its Cash Advantage:
Money was supposed to have been one of the great advantages of incumbency for President Trump, much as it was for President Barack Obama in 2012 and George W. Bush in 2004. After getting outspent in 2016, Mr. Trump filed for re-election on the day of his inauguration — earlier than any other modern president — betting that the head start would deliver him a decisive financial advantage this year.
It seemed to have worked. His rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr., was relatively broke when he emerged as the presumptive Democratic nominee this spring, and Mr. Trump and the Republican National Committee had a nearly $200 million cash advantage.
Five months later, Mr. Trump’s financial supremacy has evaporated. Of the $1.1 billon his campaign and the party raised from the beginning of 2019 through July, more than $800 million has already been spent. Now some people inside the campaign are forecasting what was once unthinkable: a cash crunch with less than 60 days until the election, according to Republican officials briefed on the matter.