Trump holds rally in Reno after unveiling ‘Operation Aurora’ during dark speech in Colorado: Live
Trump held a rally in Aurora, Colorado, a city subjected to his false claims of mass ‘migrant crime’
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During a rally in Aurora, Colorado on Friday, former president Donald Trump called for the death penalty “for any migrant that kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer”.
The comment is a reference to Trump’s widely spread false claims that migrants are committing mass violent crimes in the country. He uses Aurora as an example of this by claiming the city has been taken over by Venezuelan gangs – something Colorado leaders deny.
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.”
Anti-immigration policies are a staple of Trump’s campaign for president, despite there being no evidence of ‘migrant crime’.
He is expected to espouse similar rhetoric about immigrants at a rally in Reno, Nevada on Friday evening.
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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.
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“This is a country that became back-to-back World War champs, you’re welcome world,” Hunt said.
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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
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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.”
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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.
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