Trump bashes Jared Polis at Aurora rally, critics accuse GOP nominee of 'demonizing' immigrants

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : "Stephen Miller, a top political aid to Trump, revved up the crowd before Trump took the stage.
56% : "I will rescue Aurora and every town that has been invaded and conquered," Trump told a crowd estimated at about 10,000, who nearly filled an exhibit hall at a luxury resort and convention center near Denver International Airport.
51% : "Many of the state's leading Republicans took a turn at the microphone as the crowd continued to fill into the hall, about two hours before Trump spoke.
41% : "Trump began mentioning Aurora on the campaign trail just over a month ago amid attention to a viral video that showed heavily armed men suspected of being members of a transnational gang known as Tren de Aragua menacing residents of an apartment building in the city.
41% : "At Aurora in Colorado, where Venezuelans are taking over the whole town, they're taking over buildings, the whole town," Trump said in early September during a televised town hall.
41% : Trump also predicted that he will carry Colorado's vote in the general election.
40% : "Colorado is going to vote for me because I am going to make Colorado safe again," Trump said.
36% : Trump announced that, if elected, he plans to launch a mass deportation program dubbed "Operation Aurora" in a nod to his recent focus on reported criminal activity by members of a Venezuelan gang in several apartment buildings in the city, Colorado's third-largest.
36% : "Trump also blamed Polis for leading a move to keep off Colorado's ballot last year, even though it was a liberal-leaning nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. and six Republican and unaffiliated voters who filed the lawsuit under the 25th Amendment, which bars certain federal officials who have engaged in insurrection from running for office.
35% : "You can't live like this, you can't live with these people," Trump said.
34% : "Referring to the Florida Republican who led a revolt against the House speaker last year, Boebert added: "I say we evict Kamala Harris from the White House faster than my friend Matt Gaetz evicted Kevin McCarthy."Weston Imer, a 20-year-old member of the Republican National Committee's Youth Advisory Council, said he was attending his 26th event with Trump, tracing back to his first in 2016, singing the national anthem at a campaign rally.
33% : Flanked by enlarged mug shots picturing alleged Venezuelan gang members and signs that said, "deport illegals now" and "end migrant crime," Trump said he intends to deploy "elite squads" of federal immigration agents to round up and expel people.
31% : After the Colorado Supreme Court upheld a lower court's ruling to remove Trump from the state ballot, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the decision.
30% : Coffman also expressed disappointment that Trump declined his invitation to get a look at the city beyond his quick stop on its outskirts.
30% : "He's a coward, he's a fraud, he's pathetic," Trump said, referring to Polis, as the crowd roared its approval.
26% : Trump added that he wants to see the death penalty for immigrants convicted of murdering American citizens.
19% : Along with Polis, some of Colorado's Democratic elected officials accused Trump and his supporters of overstating the problems in Aurora.
12% : At the rally, Trump repeatedly attacked Polis after first claiming that the governor acted deferential during a White House meeting but later turned on Trump.

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