Summary
That’s all the live coverage for the day, thanks for following along. Some key developments from the day:
Robert F Kennedy Jr suspended his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump.
Kennedy gave a rambling speech about his decision to support the GOP nominee and later appeared with Trump at a rally in Arizona.
Five of Kennedy’s siblings released a statement denouncing their brother’s decision to endorse Trump.
A county judge in Ohio temporarily blocked several state laws on Friday that combined to create a 24-hour waiting period for obtaining an abortion.
Kamala Harris’s Democratic national convention speech provoked a torrent of outrage from Trump as the former US president fired off a volley of ripostes, rebuttals and angry calls to TV stations.
US polls suggest Harris is making gains on Trump in national averages.
An Arizona man who was wanted after threatening over social media to kill Donald Trump was arrested on Thursday, the Cochise county sheriff’s office said.
The inclusion by the Democratic National Committee of a hostage family but not a representative of the Palestinian community provoked exasperation over the inequities surrounding the program at the Democratic party’s biggest show.
Arizona man arrested for alleged threats against Trump
A 66-year-old Arizona man has been arrested for allegedly making death threats on social media against Donald Trump, officials said.
Ronald Lee Syvrud was taken into custody on Thursday afternoon, officials with the Cochise county sheriff’s office said on Friday, Reuters reports. Syvrud was booked into the county’s jail on a felony warrant for “failure to register as a sex offender and two counts of threatening for this case”, the sheriff’s office said, saying Syvrud had been arrested without incident. The sheriff’s department hasn’t specified the exact nature of the threat, but said in a statement on Thursday that Syvrud’s “threatening message” had included “language that indicated bodily harm to the candidate”.
When Trump was asked about the alleged threat while campaigning, the former president said: “I am not that surprised and the reason is because I want to do things that are very bad for the bad guys.”
Trump is currently speaking in Glendale, Arizona.
On Friday, the US attorney’s office announced that a Memphis-area man was charged with threatening high-profile Democrats. Kyl Alton Hall, 37, “threatened to kill, assassinate, shoot, and crash the plane of President Biden; assassinate Vice President Harris; and assassinate former President Obama”, prosecutors said.
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