Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail in Minnesota on Wednesday and immediately went on the attack, making unsubstantiated - and racist - claims about the state’s Somalia-born congresswoman Ilhan Omar, whom he said had “harvested” mail-in ballots, entirely without evidence.
To chants of “Lock her up!”, the US president complained in Duluth that local voters had elected Ms Omar, who, in his words “tells us how to run our country”, and argued she would assist his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, with “flooding” the state with refugees - another claim without any basis whatsoever.
Overnight, the president’s former campaign manager, Brad Parscale, announced that he was stepping down from his position following his arrest at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Sunday, citing stress.
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