“Donald Trump escalated the nativist, anti-immigration rhetoric that has animated his political career with a speech Friday in Aurora, Colo., where he repeated false and grossly exaggerated claims about undocumented immigrants that local Republican officials have refuted,” the New York Times reports.

New York Times: “The bipartisan council proposal is the latest effort by the Harris campaign to court Republican voters disaffected with former President Donald Trump. It also dovetails with the vice president’s attempts to counter her image as a California liberal. She has sought to move away from some of the progressive positions she took during her 2020 presidential run.”

“Donald Trump will reiterate plans to use an immigration law from 1798 to target members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua for deportation at an event Friday in Aurora, Colorado,” Bloomberg reports.

“Trump has made Aurora a centerpiece of his efforts to highlight the border and immigration after surveillance video showed heavily armed men in the town forcing their way into an apartment at a complex on the edge of the city.”

NPR: Trump is rallying in Aurora — a city he has demonized as overrun by migrant crime.

“Donald Trump has been privately asking confidants what they would think of his appointing his former White House domestic policy adviser, Brooke Rollins, as his chief of staff if he wins the election,” the New York Times reports.

“In multiple private conversations in recent weeks, Mr. Trump has said that he thinks Ms. Rollins would make ‘a great chief of staff’ and that ‘she’s tall’ and ‘she’s got the look,’ among other attributes.”

Several cities are seeking more than $750,000 in unpaid fees from Donald Trump’s campaign for rallies held over the past several years, NBC News reports.

Four cities say Trump owes them reimbursements for the costs of local law enforcement and first responder support at his campaign events.

“Donald Trump turned down Fox News’s invitation to debate Vice President Kamala Harris on the air this month,” the New York Times reports.

“But the Republican nominee will appear on the network next week for an unusual televised town hall, fielding questions from an all-female audience.”

Kamala Harris plans to air a new TV commercial this weekend spotlighting a negative remark Donald Trump made about Detroit, the Detroit News reports.

The spot will air during the broadcasts of the Detroit Tigers’ playoff game on Saturday and the Detroit Lions’ game on Sunday.

Barack Obama at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania:

OBAMA: Do you think Donald Trump has ever changed a tire in his life?… You think Donald Trump’s ever changed a diaper?

AUDIENCE MEMBER: His own!

OBAMA: I almost said that, but I decided I shouldn’t say it.

“Donald Trump’s campaign quietly has changed a key part of its messaging operation, tapping Trump 2020 veteran Tim Murtaugh to lead its communications in the final month before the election,” Axios reports.

Pollster John Della Volpe to Semafor: “I think that many folks underestimated the degree to which younger people were looking for political leaders they could connect with. There’s not a lot of daylight in the policy between Harris and Biden, but there’s just a tremendous amount of confidence in Vice President Harris that you can feel from this data. There’s a genuine enthusiasm for voting among Democrats now.”

He added: “And I’ve said, for a decade, that for a Democrat to have a strong chance of winning the Electoral College, you need to be at 60% plus with younger people. It’s going to make the pathway much, much easier. And she’s in the ballpark. She needs to stay there and build.”

“Mark Milley, the US Army general who Donald Trump appointed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, now says the current Republican presidential nominee is a “fascist to the core” and says no person has ever posed more of a danger to the United States than the man who served as the 45th President of the United States,” The Independent reports.

Vanity Fair: “Bannon, a self-declared general of global populists, wants to break the world order. And he’s tapped into something much bigger than Trumpism.”

Charlie Warzel: “The truth is, it’s getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality. As Hurricane Milton churned across the Gulf of Mexico last night, I saw an onslaught of outright conspiracy theorizing and utter nonsense racking up millions of views across the internet…”

“Even in a decade marred by online grifters, shameless politicians, and an alternative right-wing-media complex pushing anti-science fringe theories, the events of the past few weeks stand out for their depravity and nihilism. As two catastrophic storms upended American cities, a patchwork network of influencers and fake-news peddlers have done their best to sow distrust, stoke resentment, and interfere with relief efforts.”

“But this is more than just a misinformation crisis. To watch as real information is overwhelmed by crank theories and public servants battle death threats is to confront two alarming facts: first, that a durable ecosystem exists to ensconce citizens in an alternate reality, and second, that the people consuming and amplifying those lies are not helpless dupes but willing participants.”

Donald Trump has not played golf since an apparent assassination attempt near one of his courses on Sept. 15, and he will not do so until after the election, NBC News reports.

Trump was told that federal agents could not ensure his safety to a degree that they were comfortable with if he were to play.

A new Pew Research survey finds Kamala Harris edging Donald Trump nationally among registered voters, 48% to 47% with another 5% opting for a third-party candidate.

The poll also shows there are just 13% who might change their minds.