Trump calls US an ‘occupied country’ as he ramps up anti-immigrant rhetoric at Reno and Aurora rallies: Live

Former president Donald Trump espoused more anti-immigration rhetoric at his rallies in Reno, Nevada and Aurora, Colorado on Friday, calling for the death penalty for migrants who kill American citizens and saying he would enact the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

Trump repeated his false claims that migrants are committing mass violent crimes in the country and occupying cities, despite there being no evidence of ‘migrant crime’.

In Aurora, a city he often says has been taken over by Venezuelan gangs, Trump said he would institute the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as part of his “Operation Aurora” to “expedite the removals of the savage gangs.”

According to the Brennan Center for Justice, the law gives the government detention and deportation power which poses “an alarming risk of abuse and rights violations in both wartime and peacetime.”

Mike Coffman, the Republican mayor of Aurora, released a statement after the former president’ brief visit saying “The city and state have not been ‘taken over’ or ‘invaded’ or ‘occupied’ by migrant gangs.”

“The concerns about Venezuelan gang activity in our city – and our state – have been grossly exaggerated and have unfairly hurt the city’s identity and sense of safety,” Coffman said.

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Trump mocks Harris for using a teleprompter while using a teleprompter

04:01 , Ariana Baio

At the same time Donald Trump falsely accused and criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for using a teleprompter, the former president removed a piece of signage that fell on his teleprompter at a rally in Reno, Nevada on Friday evening.

Halfway through Trump’s rally, he walked away from the lectern to pick up a piece of signage that fell onto the teleprompter which caused it to stop projecting a script.

“Thank god I don’t use teleprompters too much,” Trump told rallygoers. “I look at the teleprompter, it’s totally gone. I say ‘What the hell happened’. The sign fell on top of it.”

The irony of the incident comes to light when reflecting on the number of times the former president has accused Harris of relying on a teleprompter and mocking her for it.

Trump told supporters on Friday he would “level” with them, admitting to his teleprompter usage and yet still asserted Harris uses one more.

“Isn’t it nice to have a guy that doesn’t need a teleprompter, a president, a potential president that doesn’t need a teleprompter?” Trump asked supporters moments after fixing his teleprompter.

He went on to, again, falsely accuse Harris of using one during her town hall with Univision on Thursday.

Jon Bon Jovi endorses Harris

03:30 , Ariana Baio

Singer and songwriter Jon Bon Jovi announced he is endorsing Kamala Harris for president in a post on X today and wrote a new song about unity.

“The People’s House is a song that celebrates this beautiful place that we call home, from sea to shining sea. The truth matters. And the truth is on election day I’ll be voting for [Harris and Walz] because I believe in the power of we, not of me. I’ve written a song reminding us that out of many, we are still one,” he wrote.

Harris says she would form bipartisan group of advisors

02:59 , Ariana Baio

Vice President Kamala Harris said if she is elected in November she will create an advisory group comprised of people on both sides of the aisle.

“Wherever they come from, I love good ideas,” Harris said at a campaign event in Scottsdale, Arizona. “We have to have a healthy two-party system.”

The proposal is the Harris campaign’s latest effort to appeal to moderate Republican voters. Harris has promoted a list of Republicans or former Republicans who endorsed her, even campaigning with former Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney.

Trump rants about ‘60 Minutes’

02:35 , Ariana Baio

Despite turning down the opportunity to appear on 60 Minutes, Trump went on an angry rant about Vice President Kamala Harris appearing on the CBS show – claiming they edited her interview to appear better.

Trump accused the show of “election interference” and their “license” should be “revoked.”

60 Minutes asked Trump to appear for an interview – a tradition for presidential elections. He turned it down.

Trump repeats lies about Venezuelan gang in Aurora

02:20 , Ariana Baio

Trump, once again, repeated lies about Aurora, Colorado being taken over by violent Venezuelan gangs at a rally in Reno on Friday night.

The former president claimed the gangs were taking over apartment complexes, “shooting people, smashing skulls, breaking down doors, collecting the rent”.

Officials in Aurora have said Trump’s claims are inaccurate and exaggerated. After Trump held a rally in Aurora on Friday afternoon, Republican Mayor Mike Coffman released a statement saying, “the city and state have not been ‘taken over’ or ‘invaded’ or ‘occupied’ by migrant gangs.”

While there was a group of people, associated with a Venezuelan gang, that were involved in crimes in Aurora – authorities and officials have said they did not take over apartment complexes and 10 of those individuals were arrested.

Trump teases economic plan

02:08 , Ariana Baio

Donald Trump teased his plan to release a comprehensive economic policy at his rally in Reno on Friday evening.

So far, Trump has shared economic ideas like implementing tariffs, not taxing on tips or overtime and extending his 2017 tax plan. But has not released a comprehensive plan.

The former president told rallygoers his campaign would release something soon.

JD Vance was asked 5 times if Trump lost the 2020 election. He refused to answer

02:00 , Ariana Baio

With only three weeks left before the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump’s running mate repeatedly refused to answer whether he believes the former president lost the last race.

JD Vance was asked five times by The New York Times within two minutes if he believes Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, but he refused to acknowledge his loss.

Read more from Alex Woodward:

JD Vance was asked 5 times if Trump lost the 2020 election. He refused to answer

Texas congressman describes US as ‘back to back World War champs’

01:38 , Ariana Baio

Texas Representative Wesley Hunt opened for Donald Trump’s rally in Reno, Nevada on Friday by using an interesting description to describe the United States.

“This is a country that became back-to-back World War champs, you’re welcome world,” Hunt said.

Trump to rally in Reno, Nevada soon

01:10 , Ariana Baio

Donald Trump is expected to take the stage in Reno, Nevada around 8:30 p.m. ET for another campaign rally.

Nevada is a swing state, recent polling shows Trump is essentially tied with Vice President Kamala Harris

Trump calls Harris a ‘criminal’ in rally

01:03 , Ariana Baio

Fox News to host town hall with Trump to be broadcast on October 16

Saturday 12 October 2024 00:35 , Gustaf Kilander

Harris Faulkner of Fox News will host a town hall with former President Donald Trump to be recorded on October 15 and broadcast the following day.

The event will take place in Cumming, Georgia, with the audience being “entirely composed of women,” Fox News said in a press release.

“Women constitute the largest group of registered and active voters in the United States, so it is paramount that female voters understand where the presidential candidates stand on the issues that matter to them most,” Faulkner said in a statement. “I am looking forward to providing our viewers with an opportunity to learn more about where former President Trump stands on these topics.”

Biden calls Trump ‘biggest mouth’ in spreading misinformation

Saturday 12 October 2024 00:15 , Gustaf Kilander

Bill Clinton to campaign for Harris in Georgia and North Carolina

Friday 11 October 2024 23:55 , Gustaf Kilander

Former President Bill Clinton will campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris in battleground states, with swings through Georgia and North Carolina, according to CNN.

Clinton is set to attempt to increase Harris’s support among rural voters, a subset of voters that the vice president has been struggling to attract.

President Joe Biden became the first Democratic nominee in 2020 to win Georgia since Clinton managed to eke out a win in 1992.

Clinton will focus on counties previously won by former President Donald Trump and is set to appear at local fairs and porch rallies with at most a few hundred attendees at a time.

Walz mocks Trump for Bibles he endorsed being made in China

Friday 11 October 2024 23:30 , Gustaf Kilander

Walz slams Trump for Detroit comments

Friday 11 October 2024 23:05 , Gustaf Kilander

Harris campaign releases ad focusing on Trump’s Detroit comments

Friday 11 October 2024 22:45 , Gustaf Kilander

The Harris campaign has released a new ad focusing on Trump’s disparaging comments about Detriot to run during Lions games.

The vice president is set to visit the city on Tuesday.

Trump ends rally by promising to close the border

Friday 11 October 2024 22:07 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump ended his rally in Aurora, Colorado on Friday, pledging to “close the border” and “stop the invasion of illegals into our country.”

“We will defend our territory. We will not be conquered. We will not be conquered,” he added. “We will reclaim our sovereignty, and Colorado will vote for Trump as a protest and signal to the world that we are not going to take it anymore.”

Trump calls for the death penalty for migrants killing American citizens

Friday 11 October 2024 21:50 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump called for the death penalty “for any migrant that kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer.”

The comments came after he announced that he would institute a federal “operation Aurora” to “expedite the removals of the savage gangs.”

“I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798,” he added.

According to the Brennan Center for Justice, “This detention and deportation power poses an alarming risk of abuse and rights violations in both wartime and peacetime.”

Trump said he would use the law “to target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil.”

WATCH: Trump claims to not be using teleprompter with one feet away

Friday 11 October 2024 21:40 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump says ‘enemy within’ is bigger threat than China and Russia

Friday 11 October 2024 21:29 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump argued that the “enemy within” is a bigger threat to the US than either China or Russia.

“It’s the enemy from within, all the scum that we have to deal with that hate our country. That’s a bigger enemy than China and Russia,” he said.

“Every day Americans … are living in fear, all because Kamala Harris decided to empty the slums and prison cells of Caracas and many other places,” Trump said.

He added: “Prison populations all over the world are down. Crime all over the world is down because they take the world’s criminals, gang members, drug dealers, and they deposit them into the United States, bus after bus after bus.”

‘These people are the most violent people on earth’

Friday 11 October 2024 21:25 , Gustaf Kilander

WATCH: Trump calls for CBS’s license to be taken away

Friday 11 October 2024 21:23 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump says Election Day will be ‘liberation day in America’

Friday 11 October 2024 21:09 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump claimed during his rally that Election Day will be “liberation day in America.”

“To everyone here in Colorado and all across our nation, I make this pledge and vow to you. November 5, 2024, will be Liberation Day in America,” the former president said. “I will rescue Aurora and every town that has been invaded and conquered. These towns have been conquered. Explain that to your governor, he doesn’t have a clue.”

WATCH: Trump falsely claims Harris used teleprompter during town hall

Friday 11 October 2024 21:06 , Gustaf Kilander

Town hall host Enrique Acevedo said on X, “The prompter displayed my introduction (in Spanish) and then it switched to a timer. Any claim to the contrary is simply untrue.”

Trump says Colorado has to ‘flip’ in November

Friday 11 October 2024 21:02 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump said Colorado has to “flip” into Republican hands in November’s election. The last Republican to win the state on the presidential level was George W Bush in 2004.

“That’s why I’m here … I’m not here for my health,” Trump said.

“I could be with the beautiful beaches all over the world. I could be in Monte Carlo. I could be all over the world … And where am I? I’m right now in Aurora, and that’s where I want to be,” he added.

Even Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Republican colleagues are outraged by her ‘loony toons’ hurricane conspiracies

Friday 11 October 2024 21:00 , Mike Bedigan

House Republicans are becoming more and more frustrated with their colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene and her bizarre, and debunked, claims that Democrats are “controlling the weather” following the recent devastation caused by hurricanes in the southeastern US.

The Maga firebrand from Georgia has doubled down on her conspiracy, leading even her fellow party members to speculate that she “needs [her] head examined.”

Greene claimed online last week that “they” can control the weather after Hurricane Helene killed more than two dozen people in her state and more than 230 in total. On Wednesday she doubled down, clarifying that she was referring to governmental organizations including NOAA.

Republicans outraged by Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘loony toons’ hurricane conspiracies

Trump pushes claim rejected by police that Aurora apartment complexes has been taken over by gangs

Friday 11 October 2024 20:58 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump said during his Friday rally in Aurora that he was in the city to “call the attention of the world … to one of the most egregious betrayals that any leader in any nation has ever inflicted on its own people.”

“We are being led by stupid people, we cannot take it anymore,” he added.

“Kamala has imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the Third World,” the former president argued.

“From prisons and jails, insane asylums and mental institutions, and she has had them resettled beautifully into your community to pray upon innocent American citizens,” he added. “That’s what they’re doing. And in no place is it more evident than right here. Because in Aurora, multiple apartment complexes have been taken over by the savage Venezuela prison gang known as Tren de Aragua.”

Police in the Denver suburb have rejected the claim that apartment complexes have been taken over.

Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates

Friday 11 October 2024 20:30 , Alicja Hagopian

Vice President Kamala Harris will go head-to-head with Donald Trump in less than a month as Americans cast their votes in the 2024 election.

With just weeks to go, a new poll now finds Trump leading in multiple swing states, with margins mostly too close to call between the two candidates.

But Trump may be losing his grip on older generations of voters, with the latest New York Times polls showing the two candidates split by a hairline — and Harris ahead by 3 points.

With nearly 1 in 10 Republicans leaning left, how will Harris and Trump fare in November?

Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates from the 2024 election

Live: Harris campaigns in Arizona as election day nears

Friday 11 October 2024 20:25 , The Independent

Trump campaign uses mug shots of gang members as backdrop during Colorado event

Friday 11 October 2024 20:25 , Gustaf Kilander

The Trump campaign is using mugshots of gang members arrested in Aurora as a backdrop for his speech in the city on Friday afternoon.

Jose Miguel Reyes-Perez and Juan Carlos Mejia-Espana were two of 10 members identified by the Aurora Police Department last month, according to TND. Their mugshots were seen on stage behind Trump’s podium on Friday.

Police said they arrested Reyes-Perez earlier this year for aggravated assault, menacing, and vehicle theft.

Meija-Espana was detained following an alleged domestic dispute involving a weapon.

The polls are clear: Kamala Harris’s honeymoon period is over

Friday 11 October 2024 20:00 , John Bowden

Where will the 2024 election be decided?

In short, everywhere.

A new batch of polls came out this week, with a little less than one month to go in the presidential election. Kamala Harris’s “honeymoon” surge is now officially over.

Donald Trump is on the rise. A new Quinnipiac poll of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan this week showed him leading in the latter two; RealClearPolitics’s polling average now has him ahead for the first time in months in the state of Michigan, a state which spurned Hillary Clinton in 2016 but flipped back to Democratic control in 2020.

But what’s really clear — what Quinnipiac’s poll and every other survey of the race indicates this week — is how close the race is in every state. No candidate has a lead higher than the low single digits in more than a half dozen states, all of which will play a significant role in the Electoral College.

The polls are clear: Kamala Harris’s honeymoon period is over

Maryland’s Senate race was friendly — until it really, really wasn’t

Friday 11 October 2024 19:30 , John Bowden

The conversation between Angela Alsobrooks and her opponent Larry Hogan started off cordial, even friendly on Thursday evening.

It was a vibe that lasted for all of about thirty seconds.

Within moments of the debate hosted by NBC’s Chuck Todd kicking off on Maryland Public Television (MPT), the two candidates had dropped the cordiality and were trading accusations of dishonesty. That’s a sign of not just the passionate state of politics in 2024, but the stakes on the line in Maryland, where Hogan’s candidacy puts a formerly safe Democratic seat in the US Senate in real contention for the first time in many years.

Maryland’s Senate race was friendly — until it really, really wasn’t

Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’ and ‘most dangerous person to this country,’ new book says

Friday 11 October 2024 19:00 , Andrew Feinberg

Mark Milley, the US Army general who Donald Trump appointed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, now says the current Republican presidential nominee is a “fascist to the core” and says no person has ever posed more of a danger to the United States than the man who served as the 45th President of the United States.

Milley, a decorated military officer who became a target for right-wing scorn after it became known that he expressed concerns over Trump’s mental stability in the wake of his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, is described by journalist Bob Woodward in his new book, War, as incredibly alarmed at the prospect of a second Trump term in the White House. The Independent obtained a copy ahead of the book’s October 15 release date.

In the wake of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by a riotous mob of the then-president’s supporters, Woodward writes that Milley insisted on securing a meeting with the then-newly-minted attorney general, Merrick Garland, to urge him to investigate domestic violent extremism and far-right militia movements.

Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’

Trump, trailing badly with women, goes after ‘The View’ host in latest rant

Friday 11 October 2024 18:30 , John Bowden

Donald Trump is watching Kamala Harris’s post-debate media blitz. He’s watching, and he’s not happy about it.

And as the former president struggles to mend his own self-inflicted wounds, Harris has taken on an energetic campaign schedule. The vice president has held multiple rallies and smaller events, while also hitting the interview circuit to reach wider audiences. Trump, meanwhile, has remained on the trail as well, with multiple events on his weekly calendar.

As the former president plays to the crowds of supporters at his rallies, however, he clearly has his mind on the larger audiences Harris is reaching with appearances on 60 Minutes, The View and even the Spotify podcast Call Her Daddy.

On Wednesday, at a rally in Pennsylvania, he highlighted some of his opponent’s media tour onstage, playing a clip of Harris’s interview with The View. Sunny Hostin, who asked Harris what she would have done differently than Joe Biden over the last four years had she been president, was a target of ridicule.

Trump, trailing badly with women, goes after ‘The View’ host in his latest rant

Trump ally Roger Stone suggests sending ‘armed guards’ to voting stations in undercover video

Friday 11 October 2024 18:00 , James Liddell

Newly surfaced video footage reveals former Donald Trump adviser and longtime ally Roger Stone suggesting the deployment of Trump-backed “armed guards” at vote counting areas.

The notorious self-styled GOP “dirty trickster” was secretly recorded responding to a question about how Democrats can be stopped from “stealing” the election while mingling with attendees at his Jacksonville, Florida, event: ‘A Night with Roger Stone.’

“We have to fight it out on a state-by-state basis, but you have to be ready,” Stone can be heard replying in the undercover recording first given to Rolling Stone by documentarian Lauren Windsor.

Trump ally Roger Stone suggests sending ‘armed guards’ to voting stations

Trump expected to go on anti-immigrant rant during Colorado rally

Friday 11 October 2024 17:38 , Gustaf Kilander

Donald Trump is expected to go on an anti-immigrant rant as he visits Aurora, Colorado on Friday for a rally.

The Republican has claimed the Denver suburb has become overrun by immigrants and turned it into a “war zone,” suggestions that have been rejected by local officials.

“Aurora, Colorado has become a ‘war zone’ due to the influx of violent Venezuelan prison gang members from Tren de Aragua,” the Trump campaign said in a statement as the rally was announced.

During the debate on September 10, Trump said that members of the Tren de Aragua had taken control of a number of apartment buildings in the suburb, claims that have been denied by city leaders.

“They are taking over the towns. They’re taking over buildings. They’re going in violently,” Trump said at the time. “These are the people that she and Biden let into our country.”

The rally is set to begin at 3pm ET at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center.

Trump’s ghostwriter says ‘The Apprentice’ biopic gets ‘most things’ right

Friday 11 October 2024 17:35 , Joe Sommerlad

Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter who wrote Trump’s The Art of the Deal, has said the new biopic about the former president gets the most important thing about him right.

Gustaf Kilander has more.

Trump’s ghostwriter says ‘The Apprentice’ bio-pic gets ‘most things’ right

Trump’s campaign racks up $750,000 in unpaid bills for police protection at his rallies

Friday 11 October 2024 17:15 , Joe Sommerlad

Cities across the US have tried to chase down money they say Donald Trump’s campaign owes them for providing law enforcement and other public safety measures at his hours-long rallies.

Trump’s campaign has been routinely accused of dodging invoices from local governments for the costs of increased police presence and other expenses that come with hosting large-scale events where crowds begin lining up hours ahead of his remarks, which typically go on for 82 minutes, on average.

In just five cities, that total is at least $750,000, with many of those bills dating back to rallies held while he was running for president in 2016, according to a new review from NBC News.

Here’s Alex Woodward’s report.

Trump racks up $750,000 in unpaid bills for police protection at his rallies

Recap: Detroit mayor slams Trump after ex-president trashes his ‘mess’ of a city

Friday 11 October 2024 16:55 , Joe Sommerlad

Mayor Mike Duggan came out swinging after the Republican presidential candidate had the audacity to criticize the Motor City during his appearance before the Detroit Economic Club, a tactic that was never likely to win him many Michigan votes.

Gustaf Kilander has this report.

Detroit mayor slams Trump after ex-president trashes his ‘mess’ of a city in speech

Gateway Pundit removes all mention of defamed Georgia election workers

Friday 11 October 2024 16:35 , Joe Sommerlad

The far-right conspiracy theory-driven website earlier this week settled a defamation claim from Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Peach State election workers who received a massive compensation payout from Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.

It now appears to have scrubbed any mention of the duo from its pages.

Meteorologists sent death threats over right-wing conspiracy theories alleging government ‘controls’ hurricanes

Friday 11 October 2024 16:15 , Joe Sommerlad

This is deeply stupid and depressing.

FEMA has already warned that misinformation spread by Trump and his MAGA allies has hindered its efforts to help the worst-hit communities in America’s southeastern states.

Now, meteorologists say they are facing a backlash and even death threats in response to false claims like Marjorie Taylor Greene’s intensely idiotic pronouncement that “they” control the weather.

“I’ve never seen a storm garner so much misinformation, we have just been putting out fires of wrong information everywhere,” Katie Nickolaou, a Michigan-based weather expert, told The Guardian.

“I have had a bunch of people saying I created and steered the hurricane, there are people assuming we control the weather.

“But it’s taken a turn to more violent rhetoric, especially with people saying those who created Milton should be killed.”

You can follow all the latest on Hurricane Milton in our dedicated liveblog below.

Hurricane Milton live: Florida records fatalities and damage from the storm

Live: Tim Walz campaigns in Michigan weeks before Election Day

Friday 11 October 2024 15:55 , Joe Sommerlad

You can watch a livefeed of Kamala Harris’s running mate’s latest appearance right here.

Walz can be relied upon to ridicule Trump over his comments about Detroit yesterday and will come prepared with attacks on the Republican’s lacklustre job creation record in the White House.

Trump-aligned UFC boss Dana White attacks Harris over Stephen Colbert interview

Friday 11 October 2024 15:35 , Joe Sommerlad

White, who spoke at the Republican National Convention this summer but suggests he doesn’t generally like to get political, goes after Harris here for her late-night appearance earlier this week.

Admittedly this is not her best answer but have you seen, oh I don’t know, literally any video of Trump speaking publicly from the last nine years??

Watch: Obama criticized for singling out Black men during Harris-Walz campaigning

Friday 11 October 2024 15:15 , Joe Sommerlad

Former Democratic Ohio state senator and activist Nina Turner appeared on CNN last night and argued that the former president was “wrong” to take Black men to task for backing away from supporting Kamala Harris.

James Liddell has more on Turner’s comments.

Obama faces fury after ‘lecturing’ Black men for not backing Harris

Fewer ‘everyday people’ have donated to Trump’s campaign than in 2020

Friday 11 October 2024 14:55 , Joe Sommerlad

The Republican’s campaign has seen a more than 10 percentage point drop in the number of “small donors” this presidential election cycle compared to 2020.

So far this year, and with just 24 days to go until Election Day, only 31.7 percent of campaign donations have come from small donors – classified as people who give less than $200, according to OpenSecrets.

Four years ago, nearly half of Trump’s campaign donations came from small donors.

Ariana Baio has more.

Fewer ‘everyday people’ have donated to Trump’s campaign than in 2020

‘They came to see Vance’s new civil persona. They got the attack dog’

Friday 11 October 2024 14:35 , Joe Sommerlad

Trump’s running mate has seen his numbers improve since last week’s VP debate against Tim Walz when he was surprisingly respectful to his opponent.

But that hasn’t stopped him reverting to a more pugnacious tone on the campaign trail.

Eric Garcia reports from Greensboro, North Carolina.

JD Vance’s debate rehabilitated his image. He quickly went back to throwing bombs

Trump seizes on one block of a Colorado city to warn of a migrant threat, even as crime dips

Friday 11 October 2024 14:15 , Joe Sommerlad

Here’s a timely little reality check on Aurora, the Denver suburb where Trump is holding the first of two events today, the second following later in Reno, Nevada.

Trump seizes on one block of a Colorado city to warn of a migrant crime threat, even as crime dips

Inside the Trump campaign’s ‘edgy’ and crass approach to appeal to men

Friday 11 October 2024 13:55 , Joe Sommerlad

Donald Trump has proclaimed himself the “protector” of women but the tone of his messaging has become incrasingly geared towards young men with crass language and put-downs in the hope that that bloc will back him in November.

But the former president risks further isolating female voters by doing so, writes Kelly Rissman.

Inside the Trump campaign’s crass approach to appeal to men and ride them to victory

Watch: Pennsylvania Governor tells Trump to ‘stop s***-talking America’

Friday 11 October 2024 13:35 , Joe Sommerlad

Josh Shapiro was as fired up as Obama in Pittsburgh yesterday.

Harris appears on the cover of Vogue as ‘the candidate for our times’

Friday 11 October 2024 13:15 , Joe Sommerlad

How long before Trump goes insane about this on Truth Social?

The View hosts nail Trump after verbal attack at Pennsylvania rally

Friday 11 October 2024 12:55 , Joe Sommerlad

Whoopi Goldberg was hardly likely to take the Republican calling her “dirty and disgusting” lying down.

Here’s Inga Parkel on how she and her fellow View hosts responded to the nominee’s slur.

Whoopi Goldberg fires back at Trump after he called her ‘filthy, dirty, disgusting’

Fox News host blasts Trump over Hurricane Helene misinformation

Friday 11 October 2024 12:35 , Joe Sommerlad

“For the most part, we’ve seen a lot of responsible actors on both sides of the aisle,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told Neil Cavuto on Fox yesterday.

“You would never know from the conversations we’re having which one was a Republican and which one was a Democrat.

“Right now you have a lot of people pulling together, working to get the job done for people, regardless of how you voted.”

Cavuto responded to that by saying: “We also get a lot of misinformation, don’t we? We have people who say in North Carolina – if you’re a Republican, you’re not going to get help.

“If you’re a Democrat, you’re going to get help. I would imagine that does a huge disservice to people working together and scares the bejesus out of others when they believe it.”

Here he is pretty frankly calling out Trump:

Buttigieg subsequently took his message to CNN:

As to the point the secretary raises there, here’s Graig Graziosi’s report on a North Carolina man who says his father-in-law is refusing help from FEMA explicitly because of Trump’s words.

Man says hurricane-hit father-in-law refusing FEMA help after falling for Trump lie

Watch: Obama uses diaper joke to mock Trump at Pittsburgh rally for Harris

Friday 11 October 2024 12:15 , Joe Sommerlad