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Donald Trump has defended his baseless claims about Haitian immigrants eating dogs and cats in the Ohio city of Springfield, saying he was “just reading people’s reporting”.

At a Univision town hall in Miami, which is set to air later tonight, Mr Trump was asked by an undecided voter whether he actually believed the conspiracy theory pushed recently by Republicans.

“I was just saying what was reported, that’s been reported, and eating other things too, that they’re not supposed to be,” Mr Trump said.

He then suggested migrants have brought other problems to Springfield, such as overcrowding and overconsumption.

“If you lived in Springfield, Ohio, and all of a sudden, you couldn’t get into a hospital, you couldn’t get your children into a school, you wouldn’t be able to buy groceries, you could no longer pay the rent, because the government’s paying rent,” he said.

“Any of that, if any of that happened, it would be a disaster for you, and you wouldn’t be happy.”

State’s top court rules convicted felons who have served sentences can vote
Nebraska’s supreme court has ruled that convicted felons who have served their sentences are allowed to vote, after a bid by the state’s top election official to keep them from casting their ballots on 5 November.

Nebraska has historically restored the voting rights of former felons two years after they completed the terms of their sentences.

Earlier this year, state legislators voted to eliminate the two-year waiting period.

Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers later argued that only the state’s board of pardons could restore voting rights, and Nebraska Secretary of State Robert Evnen said election officials should stop taking new registrations from people with felony convictions.

The directive could have kept 7,000 or more people from the state from casting their ballot in the upcoming election, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

But Nebraska’s top court has now said that Mr Evnen had no right to strip voting rights from people convicted of a felony, in a ruling that could add hundreds of new voters to the electoral roll and potentially tip the balance on election day.