The 2024 Election season is reaching its crescendo.

Labor Day traditionally marks the final stretch ahead of a presidential election, and there are just nine weeks of campaigning left until Election Day on Nov. 5.

In a slew of states, however, the election actually gets underway this month. In swing state North Carolina, mail-in voting begins on Sept. 6. Early voting begins on Sept. 16 in Pennsylvania and Sept. 26 in Michigan, two other crucial electoral battlegrounds.

With the clock ticking, former President Donald Trump says he has the momentum.

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"We're leading in the polls now," the former president said in an interview Friday with Fox News' Bryan Llenas.

Minutes later, at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Trump touted that "our poll numbers are starting to skyrocket."

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Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris is urging her supporters to "not pay too much attention to the polls because we are running as the underdog."

Harris, at a rally in Savannah, Georgia, late last week, pointed to her showdown with Trump and said, "We have some hard work ahead of us."

Most of the latest national surveys show Harris with a slight single-digit edge over Trump, but the presidential election is not a national popular vote contest. It is a battle for the individual states and their electoral votes.

The latest surveys in the seven battleground states that decided the 2020 election between Trump and President Biden – and will likely determine the outcome of the 2024 showdown – indicate a margin-of-error race. Among those polls are a batch from Fox News that made headlines last week.

It is a big change from earlier this summer when Biden was still running.

Biden's disastrous performance against Trump in their late June debate turned up the volume of existing doubts from Americans that the 81-year-old president would have the physical and mental stamina to handle another four years in the White House. It also sparked a rising chorus of calls from top Democratic Party allies and elected officials for Biden to drop out of the race.

National and battleground state polls conducted in July indicated Trump had opened up a small but significant lead over Biden.

The president dropped his re-election bid on July 21 and endorsed his vice president, and Democrats immediately coalesced around Harris, who quickly enjoyed a boost in her poll numbers and in fundraising.

Still, pollsters and political analysts stress that the Harris-Trump contest remains a coin-flip at this point.

While the former president touts his standing in the polls, his team emphasizes they like the current poll position, as they point out that the former president has a history of outperforming public opinion surveys.

"At this point in the race in 2016, Donald Trump was down to Hillary Clinton by an average of 5.9 points. At this point in the race in 2020, it was 6.9 to Joe Biden," senior adviser Corey Lewandowski noted this weekend in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."

Meanwhile, Harris predicts that "this is going to be a tight race until the very end." 

Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.

A woman asking others for help on social media described a "nightmare" scenario involving her brother's children — detailing why she won't allow the kids to stay at her place again.

Over 5,500 reactions to date have come in, with over 1,500 comments posted on the personal drama as well. 

Describing herself as 32 years old, the woman told others on the Reddit page known as "AITA" ("Am I the a--hole") that she lives "in a nice, cozy home that I've worked really hard to maintain."

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She said her brother, who is 34, has three kids, ages 10, 8 and 6 — and that "a few months ago, he ask[ed] if they could stay at my place for the weekends because he and his wife needed a break."

The woman agreed, she said, "thinking it would be nice to bond with my nieces and nephew."

That was a mistake, apparently.

The "weekend turned into a nightmare," she wrote. 

"The kids went absolutely wild. They broke several things, including a [vase] that was a gift from my late grandmother, spilled juice on my white couch, and even scribbled on the walls with markers." 

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The woman said she "tried to manage the situation, but whenever I told them to stop or tried to set boundaries, they completely ignored me."

When she later reported the "damage" to her brother, she said he "just laughed it off and said, ‘Kids will be kids.’ He didn't offer to help clean up or replace anything."

The woman described herself as "really hurt, but [I] didn't make a big deal out of it at the time," she shared with others.

So — "fast-forward to now, [and] he's asking if the kids can stay over again because they want to go on another weekend trip." 

The woman said she "told him no, explaining what happened last time and that I don't want to deal with that again."

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At that, "he got really upset, saying I'm punishing his kids for being kids and that I'm being unfair."

Now, her "parents are involved," she wrote, "saying I should 'be the bigger person' and help out my brother. They say the kids are sorry and just want to spend time with their aunt. But I'm still traumatized by the last time they were here."

The woman asked others if she was wrong "for refusing to let them stay at my house again."

In the top "upvoted" response on the platform, a user wrote, "This is utterly ridiculous. You are not these children's parent, and they do not live in your home. You have no obligation to care for them except in an emergency."

The person also said, "It's perfectly reasonable and acceptable to say that you can't handle having them in your home, particularly given your previous experience."

The same person also suggested, "Why don't your parents take in their grandchildren for the weekend?"

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Or, "if you do want to help out, you could stay at your brother's place for the weekend," the same user wrote. 

"That way, the kids are at home and can scribble on their own walls if they so choose. Also, your brother could pay you for doing this."

Another user on the platform responded to that reply, writing, "That last paragraph is a genius remedy."

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Still another person on the platform wrote, "Kids are kids but not destructors. He and his wife probably need a break because they can't control their own kids."

Fox News Digital reached out to a psychologist for insights. 

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On the issue of family members watching the children of others within their family unit, etiquette expert Lizzie Post, co-president at the Emily Post Institute and co-author of "Emily Post's Etiquette, The Centennial Edition," told the Scary Mommy website recently that people should not assume that "anyone with experience watching kids is available or willing to spend their time caring for your children."

She added that as much as people may want to think that grandparents, aunts, uncles, older cousins and siblings will help out with child care, "it's asking a lot." 

The piece also noted that "every child care arrangement is nuanced and worth discussing."