Trump set to spew anti-immigrant rhetoric in Colorado rally: Live

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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??

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.