Donald Trump doubled down on his anti-immigrant and xenophobic message at a rally in Colorado, calling for the death penalty for immigrants who kill Americans and announcing sweeping plans to deport Venezuelans.
“The invasion will be thwarted. Migrant flights will end and Camara’s app for illegal immigrants will be shut down immediately within 24 hours,” Venezuela said, despite opposition from local officials, including Republicans. He said the city of Aurora was overrun by gang members.
Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has focused on a more positive message, announcing at an event in Phoenix that if elected president she would create a bipartisan advisory council to provide feedback on policy initiatives and that Republicans He announced that he would appoint him as a cabinet minister.
“I love good ideas, no matter where they come from,” said Harris, who is encouraging Republicans who have doubts about Trump to support her.
Here’s what else happened Friday.
Harris appeared on the cover of U.S. Vogue for the second time on Friday, with a photo by Annie Leibovitz labeled “The Candidate of Our Time.” “It’s rare for an individual to be called upon to rescue a nation, but Vice President Kamala Harris received one in July,” Glossy magazine, which has supported the candidate, reported in X. After his re-election campaign ended, the world looked to Harris with hope and suspicion. ”
Trump’s team has reportedly asked authorities to provide him with a dramatic package of military protection as his presidential campaign concludes, including travel in military aircraft and vehicles. . The Washington Post reported, citing internal emails and sources familiar with the request, that the Trump campaign is tightening flight restrictions around his home and rallies, and that the Trump campaign is planning to use “seven battleground states.” It also requested that bulletproof glass be installed in advance. They were both “extraordinary and unprecedented.”
Longtime Trump ally and friend Roger Stone says Republicans should send “armed security” to polling places in November to ensure Trump’s victory, according to video footage from an undercover journalist. He said that. The video, first published by Rolling Stone, shows an exasperated Stone still angry about the 2020 election and ready to fight in 2024. Stone described the former U.S. president’s legal strategy of constantly filing lawsuits to remove voter rolls in swing states.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it will charge Virginia with violating a federal ban on organized efforts to remove voters within 90 days of an election. On August 7, Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order requiring the Director of Elections to certify that the agency conducts daily updates of voter rolls and, among other things, Removed people who could not be verified. He is a citizen of the Land Transport Bureau.
Harris is expected to emphasize economic policies that benefit black men next week, energizing a voting bloc that some advisers to Democratic presidential candidates fear is supporting Republican rival Trump in large numbers. They are looking forward to it, three people familiar with the plan told Reuters. The report was released a day after former President Barack Obama questioned the reluctance of black men to vote for Harris at an event in Pennsylvania.
Retired U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Trump-Joe Biden administration, faces recall and court-martial if Trump defeats Harris and returns to office next month. I am concerned that this may be the case. “He’s the kind of guy who walks the talk and touts what he’s going to do,” Milley recently warned “former colleagues,” writes veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in the upcoming book I’m writing inside. “He says that, but it’s not just him, it’s the people around him as well.”
Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance refused to acknowledge Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in the 2020 election and dodged questions five times in an interview with The New York Times. The newspaper reported on Friday. The Ohio senator said he is “focused on the future,” repeating a response he used in a debate against Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz.
The criminal trial of two rural Arizona county supervisors who initially refused to certify the 2022 election results will not be held in time for this year’s election after it has been postponed again. Two of the three Republican-led Cochise County supervisors, Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd, have been charged with conspiracy and interfering with election officials. The county typically keeps a low profile, but the case has attracted national attention as election experts predict a wave of local officials refusing to certify the results if Trump loses. are. This red county, located on the U.S.-Mexico border, has a population of approximately 125,000 people.
A recent poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that a solid majority of Hispanic women have a positive opinion of Harris and a negative opinion of Trump. Hispanic men are even more divided in their evaluations of both candidates.
The Elon Musk-owned site said Friday that X is “alert” to any attempts at platform manipulation, following reports that hundreds of apparently pro-Russian bot accounts were amplifying U.S. election misinformation. ”, he told Agence France-Presse. In an investigation shared exclusively with AFP earlier this week, the Washington-based American Sunlight Project found that accounts on X promoting pro-Kremlin propaganda, pro-Trump content and misinformation about Ms. It was announced that nearly 1,200 items had been found.
