Trump vs Harris live: Trump to address conservative Moms for Liberty after Harris’s major CNN interview

Donald Trump found him once again defending himself and his running mate against the Tim Walz-coined attack line: being “weird”.

The former president said the word “weird” 11 times in about 45 seconds during a rambling monologue at a town hall in La Crosse, Wisconsin, alongside former Democrat-turned-Trump ally Tulsi Gabbard.

After telling the crowd that his VP pick JD Vance was doing a “great job”, he said: “He’s not weird and I’m not weird. We’re of things but we’re not weird.”

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Donald Trump has wildly claimed that “107 percent” of new jobs have been taken by illegal immigrants.

Trump made the baseless claim at a town hall event on Thursday night in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, after a woman in the crowd told him she was worried about illegal immigrants “taking away opportunities from Americans”.

The Republican presidential nominee responded: “It’s going to start with the Black population. African Americans are losing their jobs. And I don’t know if you heard the latest statistic, that of the jobs that these people created, which is very little, every single job was taken – about 107 percent – was taken by illegal immigrants.

Rhian Lubin has the story.

David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to Barack Obama, says it’s imperative for Kamala Harris to make Donald Trump “small” in their first televised debate on September 10.

Axelrod appeared on CNN’s Newsnight following Harris and her running mate Governor Tim Walz’s primetime interview with Dana Bash on Thursday evening.

“I guess if I were advising her… don’t make Trump big by trying to get into back and fourth with him throughout the night. Make him small. He’s going to try to do what Trump does,” he told host Abby Phillip on Thursday evening.

“This is his seventh presidential debate; nobody’s done more. We know what his habits are.”

He concluded: “She should have a conversation with the American people about the future she envisions and spar with him when she has to.”

Speaking at a Michigan campaign event on Thursday, Trump addressed accusations that he used a commemoration for the 13 soldiers killed outside Kabul Airport in 2021 as a campaign stunt and tried to turn the discourse on the Biden administration.

“Biden killed their children by incompetence – should’ve never happened,” boomed the former president into the microphone.

Myriam page has the full story.

When a flagging Joe Biden turned in a dismal presidential debate performance earlier this summer against Donald Trump, everyone from George Clooney to Jon Stewart called on the 81-year-old to quit the race.

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Donald Trump has been threatened with another lawsuit after an aide posted a clip of the former president using the White Stripes song Seven Nation Army in the background.

Trump’s deputy communications director Marco Martin posted a video of former president climbing the stairs to his airplane ahead of rallies in Michigan and Wisconsin along with the 2003 garage rock smash-hit.

One half of the White Stripes, Jack White, has now threatened legal action and slammed the president for using the song without attaining permission.

“Oh….Don’t even think about using my music you fascists. Law suit coming from my lawyers about this (to add to your 5 thousand others.) Have a great day at work today Margo Martin,” he wrote on Instagram on Thursday.

White also took a swipe at Trump’s controversial trip to the Arlington National Cemetery where his campaign allegedly got into an “altercation” with a staff member. The former president was also photographed smiling and flashing a thumbs up besides the graves of fallen soldiers and their families.

“And as long as I’m here, a double f*** you DonOLD for insulting our nation’s veterans at Arlington you scum,” White continued. “You should lose every military family’s vote immediately from that if ANYTHING makes sense anymore.”

Musk’s X is suing the non-profit media watchdog Media Matters, accusing them of kicking off an advertising exodus after it published a “harmful” article alleging the platform allowed top brands display adverts beside antisemitic and pro-Nazi content.

US District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled at a hearing on Thursday that X’s lawsuit against Media Matters and two staff members will proceed to trial on April 7 next year.

Read Rhian Lubin’s story below.

The former president made the bold claim as an answer to a young rally-goer asking what his plan is, “to make life more affordable and bring down inflation for someone like me.”

“It’s probably the question I get most,” Trump responded at first, eventually launching into what on critic denounced as a “word salad.”

Myriam Page has the full story.

Former President Donald Trump will hold a rally at the Cambria County War Memorial in Johnstown, Pennsylvania at 4.30pm ET.

He will then arrive in Washington DC at 8pm for a fire-side chat with Tiffany Justice, the co-founder of far-right political organisation Moms for Liberty.

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will be carrying the torch on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris today as he heads out west after the Harris-Walz tour bus made its final stop in Georgia yesterday.

He is slated to deliver remarks at campaign events in San Francisco, California, before traveling to Aspen, Colorado, according to the White House.