US caucuses: Trump steps up anti-immigrant rhetoric as Harris promises bipartisan council | US Election 2024

Donald Trump At a rally in Colorado, he doubled down on his anti-immigration and racist messages, calling for the death penalty for immigrants who kill US citizens. Plan to deport Venezuelans.

“The invasion will stop. Migrant flights will end and Kamala's use for illegals will be immediately shut down within 24 hours,” he said in the city of Aurora, which he says has been taken over by Venezuelan gang members. Including pushbacks from local authorities, Republicans.

Kamala HarrisMeanwhile, focusing on a positive message, he said at an event in Phoenix that if elected president he would appoint a Republican to his cabinet, creating a bipartisan panel of advisers to give him feedback on his policy initiatives.

“I like good ideas wherever they come from,” Harris said, trying to get Trump-skeptic Republicans to support him.

Here's what else happened on Friday:

• Harris landed her second US Vogue cover on Friday with a photo of Annie Leibovitz captioned “The Candidate for Our Time”. “Individuals are rarely called upon for national rescue operations, but in July, Vice President Kamala Harris received one of those calls,” the glossy magazine, which previously endorsed the candidate, told X. “With President Joe Biden's decision to end his re-election campaign, the world looked to Harris with both hope and doubt.”

• Trump's team has reportedly asked officials to provide him with dramatic military protections, including travel in military planes and vehicles as the presidential campaign ends. Trump's campaign has called for increased flight restrictions around his residences and rallies, and for “pre-deployed ballistic mirrors in seven battleground states” for his team's use. The Washington Post cited internal emails and sources familiar with the requests, saying they were both “unusual and unprecedented.”

• Roger Stone, a longtime Trump ally and friend, said Republicans should send “armed guards” to the November election to ensure a Trump victory Video footage by an undercover journalist. The video, first published by Rolling Stone, shows an embittered Stone still angry about the 2020 election and ready to fight in 2024. Stone described the former U.S. president's legal strategy in a standard case to purge voter rolls in swing states.

• The U.S. Department of Justice said Friday it will sue the state of Virginia for violating a federal ban on formal voter suppression efforts within 90 days of an election. On August 7, Republican Governor Glenn Youngin signed an executive order requiring other groups to certify that the commissioner of the Department of Elections conducts “daily updates to voter rolls” to remove people who cannot verify the voter rolls. Citizens of the Department of Motor Vehicles.

• Harris will next week highlight his economic policies that benefit black men to energize a constituency that some of the Democratic presidential nominee's advisers fear has largely embraced Republican rival Trump, three sources familiar with the plans told Reuters.. The statement comes a day after former President Barack Obama questioned black men's reluctance to vote for Harris at an event in Pennsylvania.

• Mark Milley, a retired US Army general, was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump and Joe Biden. Fears of being recalled to uniform and court-martialled should Trump defeat Harris and return to power next month. “He's a walking, talking advertisement for what he's going to do,” Milley recently “warned former colleagues,” veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward writes in a forthcoming book. “He says it, and it's not just him, it's the people around him.”

• JT Vance, the Republican vice presidential candidate, refused to acknowledge that Joe Biden won the 2020 election over Trump, avoiding the question five times in an interview with The New York Times.The newspaper reported on Friday. The Ohio senator repeated a response he used during a debate against Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walsh, saying he was “focusing on the future.”

• A criminal investigation into two rural Arizona county supervisors who refused to certify election results in 2022 will not happen until after this year's election, which has been delayed again. Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd, two of three Republican-led Cochise County supervisors, face charges of conspiracy and election interference. Despite the county's generally low profile, the test is being watched nationally as election experts anticipate the possibility local officials will refuse to certify the results if Trump loses. Located on the US-Mexico border, Redd County has a population of approximately 125,000.

• A majority of Hispanic women have a positive view of Harris and a negative view of Trump. But a recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that Hispanic men are more split on the two candidates.

• Following a report that hundreds of pro-Russian bot accounts were spreading US election disinformation, the Elon Musk-owned site was “alert” to any attempts at platform manipulation.. An investigation, shared exclusively with AFP earlier this week, found nearly 1,200 accounts at Washington-based American Sunlight Project X that spewed pro-Kremlin propaganda, pro-Trump content and misinformation about Harris.