Capital Journal: Influx of White Retirees Boosts Trump in Florida | Trump, Clinton Target Undecided Voters | Health Insurers’ Pullback Threatens to Create Monopoly Zones

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HIGHLIGHTS

•	Influx of White Retirees Boosts Trump in Florida

•	Siobhan Hughes: Down-Ballot Candidates Target Turnout

•	Clinton's Broadband Plan Draws Criticism From Experts \| Pence: Trump's Immigration Policy Is Steady

•	Health Insurers' Pullback Threatens to Create Monopoly Zones

•	Fed's Dislike of Negative Interest Rates Points to Limits of Stimulus Measures

•	Seib Video: Trump, Clinton Target Undecided Voters

WHITE RETIREE INFLUX BOLSTERS TRUMP IN FLORIDA: Florida, the largest swing state, is being keenly targeted by the presidential campaigns. Fast-growing minority communities give Democrats an increasing advantage in Florida, one of the most heated battlegrounds in the presidential election. A different and little-noted demographic trend is helping to keep the state competitive for Donald Trump: a new influx of white retirees. While Democrat Hillary Clinton can lose the state and find other paths to victory, it is seen as a must-win for Mr. Trump. New arrivals help explain why the Florida race remains tight in polls. The most recent, a Mason-Dixon survey released Friday, showed Mr. Trump trailing Mrs. Clinton by only two points among likely voters, a slim margin helped in part by his lead of over 20 points among white seniors. Arian Campo-Flores and Paul Overberg report.

EDWARD LINSMIER FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

More in 2016: Libertarian Gary Johnson is in the final stretch of his scramble to get into the presidential debates, which he says could give him the platform he needs to make a historically improbable run to the White House … Mr. Trump is preparing to make his pitch directly to black audiences, his campaign chief said.

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SIOBHAN HUGHES: DOWN-BALLOT CANDIDATES TARGET TURNOUT

The question of how many voters will turn out at the polls has long been hanging over the races in a year when both presidential candidates are unpopular. With less than 11 weeks until the Nov. 8 election, the issue hasn't been resolved and there are implications for candidates further down the ballot. Congressional candidates in swing states like North Carolina and Ohio enter the election's home stretch with a risk that some voters core to the party may simply be too turned off by the presidential candidates to bother thinking about House and Senate races. Read Siobhan Hughes's full post in Washington Wire.

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HEALTH INSURERS' PULLBACK THREATENS TO CREATE MONOPOLY ZONES: Nearly a third of the nation's counties look likely to have just a single insurer offering health plans on the Affordable Care Act's exchanges next year, according to a new analysis, an industry pullback that adds to the challenges facing the law. The new study, by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, suggests there could be just one option for coverage in 31% of counties in 2017, and there might be only two in another 31%. That would give exchange customers in large swaths of the U.S. far less choice than they had this year, when 7% of counties had one insurer and 29% had two. Many insurers are losing money on the health plans they sell through the exchanges, and the fallout is coming into focus. Anna Wilde Mathews and Stephanie Armour report.

FED'S DISLIKE OF NEGATIVE RATES POINTS TO LIMITS OF STIMULUS: Federal Reserve officials are turning a cold shoulder to a controversial idea being tried in Japan and much of Europe to boost anemic economies: negative interest rates. Fed officials don't think negative rates are needed in the U.S. because the economy and job market are improving, and they are hoping they will never have to use them in the future given their uncertainty about whether the policy works. The Fed's aversion to negative rates shows how central bankers are confronting the limits of their efforts to stimulate the slow-growing global economy. Jon Hilsenrath and Harriet Torry report.

Plus: It's early, but data so far suggest the British decision to leave the European Union could be another example of a recurring phenomenon: expert predictions of dire consequences to political decisions that end up proving overheated.

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CLINTON'S BROADBAND PLAN DRAWS CRITICISM FROM EXPERTS: On the campaign trail, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton sketches a vision where every home in the U.S. is connected to broadband. In just four years, children in inner cities and rural areas alike will be able to access the internet to do their homework, Mrs. Clinton tells voters. The cost? She doesn't say, but the former secretary of state urges a bold push to quickly close the digital divide. Experts say the Democratic nominee's proposal is indeed ambitious—and expensive. And some question whether her timeline is realistic. Colleen McCain Nelson reports.

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PENCE: TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION POLICY IS STEADY: Mike Pence defended running mate Donald Trump's immigration position as consistent but responsive to practical considerations, a stance that campaign manager Kellyanne Conway described as a softening in "approach" as opposed to policy. Mr. Trump sent mixed signals in the past week about his plan for the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., indicating he might ease off from earlier proposals to deport them. That brought criticism from opponents of illegal immigration. Mr. Pence, the GOP's vice-presidential nominee, said Sunday on CNN that Mr. Trump's positions on core matters of immigration policy remained solid, that securing the border was chief among those, and that the question of people living in the U.S. without authorization was one Mr. Trump would resolve in the future. Louise Radnofsky and Brent Kendall report.

ALSO IN THE NEWS

• Recent initiatives by technology companies to push back against Islamic State's social-media messaging highlight a sobering fact: The U.S. government's battle on that front has mostly sputtered. One man's fight against ISIS: Mohamed Amin Ahmed manages a gas station in Minneapolis. And in his spare time, he fights back against the Islamic State propaganda he believes is poisoning his local community. Muslim extremists supporting the Islamic State group freed eight militants from a southern Philippine prison in a daring attack that also saw 15 other inmates escape, police said.

• At a time when debate is raging between political parties over climate change, and critics charge that "green energy" is little more than a government creation, Texas has taken an approach that works within the state's free-market-based electricity system.

• Mylan said it would launch a generic alternative to EpiPen at a 50% discount after being criticized for sharply raising the price of the lifesaving drug. 29

• Legislative efforts in two of the country's most populous states to boost urban housing construction are facing a common barrier: resistance from construction unions.

• The first detailed U.S. rules for flights of small commercial drones go into effect Monday, including nationwide licensing requirements for pilots and a ban on nighttime operations.

• Three years after fire-prone lithium batteries led to the temporary grounding of Boeing's flagship 787 fleet world-wide, U.S. regulators are ratcheting up safety standards.

• The death of a Turkish soldier in the newest battlefront of the Syrian war is stoking tensions between two U.S. allies, Turkey's military and Syrian Kurdish rebels.

• Iran said Sunday that it had arrested a person involved in the negotiations of its nuclear deal with six world powers last year and accused him of spying.

• Iraq on Sunday asked Saudi Arabia to replace its ambassador to the country, accusing him of trying to interfere with its internal politics.

• Two men have been charged with the shooting death of a 32-year-old cousin of Chicago Bulls star Dwyane Wade who was walking with her baby, Chicago Police said Sunday.

SEIB VIDEO: TRUMP, CLINTON TARGET UNDECIDED VOTERS

As Labor Day weekend nears, Washington Bureau Chief Jerry Seib breaks down where the presidential candidates stand in the race for the White House as they continue to court undecided voters.

HERE'S A LOOK AT THE DAY AHEAD

• OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have meetings at the White House. Secretary of State John Kerry is on foreign travel to Bangladesh and India.

• ELECTION 2016: Gov. Mike Pence, Donald Trump's running mate, holds a town-hall meeting in Perry, Ga., at 2 p.m. and a rally in Atlanta at 7:30 p.m.

• ECONOMIC INDICATORS: The Commerce Department releases personal income and spending for July at 8:30 a.m.

WHAT WE'RE READING AROUND THE WEB

• Donald Trump has been involved in periodic disputes with New York City over a peculiar aspect of his signature Trump Tower development, writes Robert Rosenberger of The Atlantic: The issues is that "the atrium of Trump Tower is what's called a privately-owned public space, the product of an agreement in which a developer receives special permissions from the city in exchange for the inclusion and upkeep of spaces open to the general public." And the city has periodically charged that Mr. Trump isn't living up to the agreement.

• "Drugmakers are learning to duck for cover when Hillary Clinton puts them in her sights," writes Anna Edney of Bloomberg News. The latest example came last week when she went after Mylan NV for the explosive price increase in its EpiPen emergency allergy shot.

• The Los Angeles Times's Doyle McManus writes: "Lucky for [Hillary Clinton] she's running against Donald Trump – who has been even less transparent about his own tax returns, business dealings and foreign interests than she has."

• In the WSJ's Think Tank, Ron Klain, who led the White House effort to combat the Ebola outbreak, writes the Zika virus should be getting far more attention--and would be if the number of cases weren't being seriously undercounted: "About 80% of people who contract the Zika virus experience no symptoms....This means that most people in the U.S. and its territories who have Zika do not know that they have the virus."

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