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Donald Trump Jr has defended his father’s comments on Liz Cheney last night.

Mr Trump said last night that Ms Cheney would not be a “radical war hawk” if she was in a war herself and had guns “trained on her face”.

“Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face,” Mr Trump said during an event with Tucker Carlson.

Arizona’s DA is currently investigating the comments as a potential death threat.

“My father says it’s strange – if Liz Cheney wants to be in all of these wars, she should pick up arms,” mr Trump Jr said. 

“But it seems like the people that get us in the wars never seem to be the people fighting them. The media says Donald Trump thinks that Liz Cheney should be shot. But that’s what we’re dealing with, right? They have nothing else.”

Philly jail cells are ready for anyone who tries to mess with city’s vote

As Donald Trump’s team once again targets large cities in swing states like Pennsylvania with claims of election fraud, Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner issued a warning to anyone thinking about interfering with elections in America’s birthplace: “F around and find out.”

“If people think they’re going to erase votes in Philly or terrorise people who are here to protect those votes, we’ve got some handcuffs, we’ve got some jail cells, and we’ve got some Philadelphia juries who want to hear why, exactly, it is that somebody thought they could erase our votes or terrorise our elections workers,” Mr Krasner, a Democrat, told our partner network NBC News.

Mr Krasner said that his “patriotic” team was prepared to handle any issues on election day and called any attempts to undermine or influence the vote in Philadelphia “utterly unacceptable”.

“As they say in Philly, if somebody wants to come and do that, they can ‘F around and find out’,” he added.

Pennsylvania to count thousands of contested ballots after court decision

The Supreme Court has denied a Republican bid to block the counting of provisional ballots cast by voters in Pennsylvania who make mistakes on their mail-in votes.

The decision could affect thousands of votes in possibly the most important swing state of this election.

A Pennsylvania court had ruled that voters who returned postal ballots without a secrecy envelope could submit a provisional ballot instead on election day.

A secrecy envelope is required when submitting a postal vote – and Republicans had asked the US Supreme Court to freeze that decision, saying it was a violation of the state’s election code – a motion that has now been denied.