Today, with 15 days until Election Day, President Biden plans to make the short trip from the White House to the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington to give staffers a pep talk. While some analysts say the political terrain has recently grown more favorable for Republicans, Biden predicted last week a swing in favor of Democrats before voting in the midterms concludes. Democrats are likely to seize later this week on a report expected to show strong growth in the economy.

In New York, the Trump Organization, former president Donald Trump’s namesake company, is set to go on trial for alleged tax crimes. Though Trump is not charged personally, the case is among an array of legal challenges facing the former president as he weighs a 2024 presidential biThe Post’s Robert Barnes reports that Thomas’s short order appears to be an attempt to maintain the status quo as the petition advances. Prosecutors face a Thursday deadline for responding to Graham’s request. Per Bob:

A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit last week turned down Graham’s attempt to block a subpoena from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D), in which the lawmaker claimed a sitting senator is shielded from testifying in such investigations.

A district court judge had said Graham must appear, but narrowed the range of questions that prosecutors can ask.

Without a stay of the lower courts’ rulings, Graham’s lawyer, Donald F. McGahn, told the Supreme Court, “Sen. Graham will suffer the precise injury he is appealing to prevent: being questioned in state court about his legislative activity and official President Biden is spending the final month of the campaign reminding Americans of the ways his administration has delivered on its promises.

Biden is making what might be called a quality-of-life argument in his final stretch of campaigning before the midterm election, talking up everything from jobs growth, to lower prices on hearing aids or medicine, to the construction of literal bridges, to efforts to rein in gas prices.

As Olivier Knox wrote in Monday’s Daily 202, one recurring theme on Biden’s schedule throughout September and October: Variations on “lowering costs for American families,” a direct nod to American concerns about painfully high inflation, which has smothered real-wage gains and made it harder for him to capitalize on the kind of job creation that should be an electoral assWhat the future holds is anybody’s guess, though The Daily 202 has a pretty decent line on what Biden will be talking about come Thursday, due to this reporting from my colleague Abha Bhattarai about a report on U.S. Economic growth that’s expected to have good news for him.

It’s been interesting, though, to listen to recent comments from two prominent leaders on the left — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — who have both expressed urgency about fixing the Democrats’ midterm message on the economy. ...

So Biden, Pelosi and Sanders seem to agree. The question, with barely more than two weeks before what we all still agree to call Election Day, is whether Democrats can fully implement this consenStewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, at a rally outside the White House on June 25, 2017.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes has tested positive for the coronavirus in jail, his lawyers said, potentially delaying by a week or longer his trial on a seditious conspiracy charge stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

The Post’s Tom Jackman and Spencer S. Hsu report that U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta on Monday morning recessed the trial for Rhodes and four others for the day. Monday would have been the start of the fourth week of testimony for the trial in Washington. Per our colleagues:

Rhodes’s defense team said he could waive his in-person presence at trial and participate by videoconference during what the U.S. Marshals Service told them was a mandatory five-day quarantine preventing his transport to court under health protocols.

Mehta required Rhodes’s approval, however, and his attorneys said officials at the Alexandria City Jail told them that he was in “total isolation” and that they had been unable to speak with him and would be unable to do so before Monday afternoon.sus.et.acts.”d.