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Fightin’ words: Biden wants to bust Trump up

Smackdown Joe Biden bringing the heat.
Smackdown Joe Biden bringing the heat. Photograph: Jim Cole/AP

1. Dukes up, Donald

At a Pennsylvania rally, Joe Biden expressed disgust with Donald Trump’s stated belief that stardom permits and excuses sexual assault. “What a disgusting assertion for anyone to make,” Biden said. Then he continued…

Trump’s questionable advisers

Biden pysched to find coins on the ground Friday.
Biden pysched to find coins on the ground Friday. Photograph: Glenn Russell/AP

'I wish we were in high school'

He said, ‘because I’m famous, because I’m a star, because I’m a billionaire, I can do things other people can’t.’ What a disgusting assertion for anyone to make. The press always asks me, don’t I wish I were debating him? No. I wish we were in high school, I could take him behind the gym. That’s what I wish.

– Vice-president Joe Biden

2. Trump also spoke in Pennsylvania

3. Trump calls US leaders ‘babies’, 'losers'

“We have a bunch of babies running our country, folks,” Trump told a North Carolina crowd. “We have a bunch of losers. They’re losers, they’re babies. We have a president – all he wants to do is campaign.”

Poll workers trained for mass shooting

18 days.
18 days. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

4. Trump takes swipe at first lady

Trump then turned on Michelle Obama, who has emerged as perhaps his most powerful critic on the campaign trail. “All she wants to do is campaign,” Trump said. Michelle Obama’s public approval is +32. Trump’s is -35

Donald v Michelle

In Phoenix Thursday.
In Phoenix Thursday. Photograph: UPI / Barcroft Images

‘You do not keep American democracy in suspense’

5. Bill Murray meets the press

6. Russia offers to monitor US vote

After a month of steady claims by Trump that the election is “rigged,” Oklahoma and two other states say they’ve denied a request by Russian officials to be present at polling stations during the election, the AP reported.

Inside a Russian troll house

He likes gold, I like gold...
He likes gold, I like gold... Photograph: POOL/Reuters

7. Clinton releases ad featuring Khan family

Ghazala and Khizr Khan, the parents of slain army Captain Humayun Khan, appear in a new Clinton ad that ends with Khizr Khan asking, “Mr Trump, would my son have a place in your America?”

The Khans at the Democratic national convention.
The Khans at the Democratic national convention. Photograph: J. Scott Applewhite/AP

'My son moved forward to stop the bomber'

...and another thing:

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