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Harris is releasing her medical information in a challenge to Donald Trump, whose health and age are coming under increased scrutiny
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Kamala Harris has released a health summary from her White House physician, stating that she “possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.”
In the summary released on Saturday morning, the vice president’s physician Joshua Simmons writes that she is in “excellent health.”
Harris is releasing her medical information in a challenge to Donald Trump, whose health and age are coming under increased scrutiny.
Former Trump ally Chris Christie is the latest to sound the alarm over Trump’s competency to serve, saying that he has seen a “significant” mental decline in the former president.
On Friday, Trump espoused more anti-immigration rhetoric at his rallies in Reno, Nevada, and Aurora, Colorado, calling for the death penalty for migrants who kill American citizens and saying he would enact the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
Mike Coffman, Aurora’s Republican mayor, hit out at the comments and insisted neither the city nor state has “not been ‘taken over’ or ‘invaded’ or ‘occupied’ by migrant gangs.”
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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.
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Trump expected to go on anti-immigrant rant during Colorado rally
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
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.
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Tony Schwartz says ‘central warning’ from The Apprentice is that the former president is ‘the same person today that he was as a child’
Trump’s campaign racks up $750,000 in unpaid bills for police protection at his rallies
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
Trump may not be legally obligated to cover those costs, but resource-strained cities say they’re owed for ballooning costs of his hours-long events
Recap: Detroit mayor slams Trump after ex-president trashes his ‘mess’ of a city
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
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Gateway Pundit removes all mention of defamed Georgia election workers
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
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.
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Live: Tim Walz campaigns in Michigan weeks before Election Day
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
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
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
‘For him to single out Black men is wrong,’ said one female Democrat as the former president calls out men of color at a Pennsylvania rally
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