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At Kansas rally, Trump focuses closing midterm message on anti-Muslim racism – as it happened
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Closing summary
This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: Donald Trump made anti-Muslim racism a focus of his attacks on Democrats in remarks in Kansas on Monday, with attacks on Abdul El-Sayed, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, and gratuitous me…
State of Israel is paying to run TV ads supporting Iran war in Iowa ahead of midterms
According to AdImpact Politics, a firm run by Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Brad Parscale, has reserved $32,000 in advertising time to broadcast ads on behalf of the state of Israel in the Des Moines, Iowa market starting on Saturday, 24 October. According to video posted on social media…
Trump says he will not allow year-round sales of gasoline blended with 15% ethanol if Kansas elects Democratic senator
In addition to repeating a huge number of false claims about his presidency is his remarks in Kansas which have just ended, Donald Trump also frankly stated that he will only use the power of the federal government to allow year-round sales of gasoline containing higher volumes of ethanol if Kansas…
In Kansas, Trump says he will drop tariffs on Canadian jet manufacturer key to Wichita economy
Speaking outside Wichita, Kansas on Monday, Donald Trump seemed to back off his threat to ban the sale of jets made by the Canadian manufacturer Bombardier, which employs 1,500 people in Wichita. Last month, Trump intensified his trade war with Canada by writing on social media: “NO MORE SELLING BO…
Trump focuses closing message on anti-Muslim racism, with attacks on Abdul El-Sayed, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib
Donald Trump made anti-Muslim racism a focus of his attacks on Democrats in remarks in Kansas on Monday, with attacks on Abdul El-Sayed, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, and gratuitous mentions of Barack Obama’s middle name. “Democrats are the party of Abdul Mohammad El-Sayed,” Trump said of the Michi…
Trump repeats wildly false claims that inflation is down and schools are performing transgender surgeries
Donald Trump’s ongoing speech to supporters in Kansas is filled with false claims he has made previously at rally after rally. Among the whoppers the president told are that inflation, which is up since he took office and started a war with Iran that has driven global oil prices sky-high, is down.…
Trump repeats racist false claim that rioting in France is related to immigration
Speaking in Kansas on Monday, Donald Trump repeated his entirely imaginary theory that the wave of protests and rioting in France is being led by immigrants. In fact, as the Guardian’s Jon Henley reports from Paris, a month-long student protest by over crumbling and crowded classrooms “converged wi…
Protesters disrupt Trump rally in Kansas, where Republican fear losing US Senate seat
Protesters disrupted the first minutes of Donald Trump’s speech to a Republican midterm campaign rally in Kansas, where his party is concerned that his deeply unpopular policies could cost incumbent Republican senator Roger Marshall his seat, in the face of a strong challenge from Democrat Adam Ham…
US attorney in Texas threatens to hunt down 'crooked local election administrators'
Amid concerns that the Trump administration could use the power of the federal government to intimidate voters from casting ballots against Republicans in the midterm elections, the senior federal prosecutor in south Texas released a menacing social-media video on Monday, promising to hunt down “cr…
Our colleague David Smith reports from Park City, Kansas, where Donald Trump is scheduled to address a Republican campaign rally, that the president’s false claim that rioting in France is driven by immigrants preceded him. Donald Trump’s latest campaign rally has kicked off with something unusual:…
Trump's claim 'a million' Ukrainians have been killed contradicted by evidence
Before we move on from Donald Trump’s latest attempt to blame Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for the death of “a million” Ukrainians since the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022, it is worth pausing for a moment to explain that this number, which Trump has been repeating for two years,…
Vance speech disrupted by protester shouting 'release the Epstein files'; he replies with a racist joke
A protester disrupted a speech by JD Vance, the US vice-president, in North Carolina on Monday, shouting “Release the Epstein files! God bless our children!” before being led away. The protester, who was positioned directly behind Vance during a midterm campaign rally in support of Republican candi…
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New Reuters poll shows Trump's approval rating dropping to a record low
A new poll by Reuters shows that only 31% of Americans approve of Donald Trump’s performance in office, a percentage point lower than the survey from two weeks ago and a record low for the president. It comes as Trump embarks on another campaign sprint to help beleaguered Republicans in competitive…
'It's time for somebody else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine': Trump slams Zelenskyy and defends lifting Russian sanctions
Trump again rebuked the idea that his move to waive sanctions for Russia last week was ultimately to hand Moscow a win. “I’m supporting stopping the war between Russia and Ukraine,” Trump told reporters. “Frankly, Zelenskyy is not helping matters much. I think he doesn’t want to stop it, but I want…
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Ahead of leaving for a campaign rally in Wichita, Kansas, Donald Trump again claimed – without evidence – that the riots throughout France were due to mass migration. “I told Emmanuel [Macron], you should close up your borders,” the US president said. “I’ve known him for probably eight or nine year…
Attorneys for Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University student who has become the symbol of the Trump administration’s crusade against pro-Palestinian speech, have petitioned the US supreme court to review his case – the final chapter in a months-long legal saga that could determine countless…
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Here's a recap of the day so far
The justice department announced the arrest of 28 legal permanent residents in California “who are charged in criminal complaints with federal crimes, including that they fraudulently registered to vote in US elections, electoral contests in which most of them cast illegal and fraudulently obtained…
A man who heckled the Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed and demanded he disavow the Muslim Brotherhood at a Michigan town hall is a former aide to the Republican senator Josh Hawley, according to congressional staff records. At the event on Saturday, an attender who gave his name only…
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Zelenskyy tells lawmakers that Starlink services 'remain degraded'; US intelligence sharing disruptions persist
In a bipartisan call with GOP Senator Thom Tillis and Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine’s access to Starlink satellite services “remain degraded” and “disruptions to US intelligence sharing” persist, when it comes to the “early warning of Russian ballisti…
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