Trump speaks in Colorado amid false gang claims and anti-immigrant rhetoric: Live

Trump argued that the “enemy within” is a bigger threat to the US than either China or Russia.

“It’s the enemy from within, all the scum that we have to deal with that hate our country. That’s a bigger enemy than China and Russia,” he said.

“Every day Americans … are living in fear, all because Kamala Harris decided to empty the slums and prison cells of Caracas and many other places,” Trump said.

He added: “Prison populations all over the world are down. Crime all over the world is down because they take the world’s criminals, gang members, drug dealers, and they deposit them into the United States, bus after bus after bus.”

Trump claimed during his rally that Election Day will be “liberation day in America.”

“To everyone here in Colorado and all across our nation, I make this pledge and vow to you. November 5, 2024, will be Liberation Day in America,” the former president said. “I will rescue Aurora and every town that has been invaded and conquered. These towns have been conquered. Explain that to your governor, he doesn’t have a clue.”

Town hall host Enrique Acevedo said on X, “The prompter displayed my introduction (in Spanish) and then it switched to a timer. Any claim to the contrary is simply untrue.”

Trump said Colorado has to “flip” into Republican hands in November’s election. The last Republican to win the state on the presidential level was George W Bush in 2004.

“That’s why I’m here … I’m not here for my health,” Trump said.

“I could be with the beautiful beaches all over the world. I could be in Monte Carlo. I could be all over the world … And where am I? I’m right now in Aurora, and that’s where I want to be,” he added.

House Republicans are becoming more and more frustrated with their colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene and her bizarre, and debunked, claims that Democrats are “controlling the weather” following the recent devastation caused by hurricanes in the southeastern US.

The Maga firebrand from Georgia has doubled down on her conspiracy, leading even her fellow party members to speculate that she “needs [her] head examined.”

Greene claimed online last week that “they” can control the weather after Hurricane Helene killed more than two dozen people in her state and more than 230 in total. On Wednesday she doubled down, clarifying that she was referring to governmental organizations including NOAA.

Trump said during his Friday rally in Aurora that he was in the city to “call the attention of the world … to one of the most egregious betrayals that any leader in any nation has ever inflicted on its own people.”

“We are being led by stupid people, we cannot take it anymore,” he added.

“Kamala has imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the Third World,” the former president argued.

“From prisons and jails, insane asylums and mental institutions, and she has had them resettled beautifully into your community to pray upon innocent American citizens,” he added. “That’s what they’re doing. And in no place is it more evident than right here. Because in Aurora, multiple apartment complexes have been taken over by the savage Venezuela prison gang known as Tren de Aragua.”

Vice President Kamala Harris will go head-to-head with Donald Trump in less than a month as Americans cast their votes in the 2024 election.

With just weeks to go, a new poll now finds Trump leading in multiple swing states, with margins mostly too close to call between the two candidates.

But Trump may be losing his grip on older generations of voters, with the latest New York Times polls showing the two candidates split by a hairline — and Harris ahead by 3 points.