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President Trump said at a campaign rally Friday in West Virginia that it's possible that the Democrats win the House this midterm election.

Why it matters: Trump has been rallying for Republican races across the country in a last-ditch push for Republican voters to turn out to the polls and vote in favor of the party to maintain control. Many of the candidates he is campaigning on behalf of are in tight races against their Democratic opponent. Trump said in West Virginia, the Democrats "will try to erase our gains and eradicate our progress. It’ll be bad for the country, the Democrats. And it could happen. Could happen."

Speaking to reporters before taking off on Marine One, President Trump blamed the media for inciting violence in the U.S. and, when asked if his rhetoric sparked violence, the president specifically told one reporter that "you're creating violence by your questions."

"The fake news is creating violence....if the media would write correctly and write accurately and write fairly, you'd have a lot less violence in the country."

The big picture: Trump is blaming the media for violence in America on the heels of the mail bomb attacks and a string of hate crimes that shook the nation. Go deeper: Hate, at scale

President Trump's request for a stay in a lawsuit alleging that the business his company conducts with foreign governments is in violation of the constitution has been denied by a federal judge, the Washington Post reports.

Why it matters: According to the Post, Trump claimed the term emoluments is a "subject of such 'substantial grounds of disagreement' that payments his business received from foreign governments could not qualify." The judge, Peter J. Messitte, found that his proposition was "dubious." Messitte questioned Trump's assertion that his business doesn't accept gifts or payments from foreign government entities. The decision creates a path for the attorneys general in Washington, D.C. and Maryland who filed the suit to seek information from Trump's hotel in D.C.

President Trump said Friday there are no plans to have troops shoot at the caravan of Central American migrants approaching the U.S.-Mexico border. When asked if he promises troops won’t shoot, Trump said, "well I hope they won’t."

Why it matters: Trump claimed Thursday troops deployed to the south border would shoot at migrants if they threw rocks, but many military experts have been claiming such action would violate the military’s rules of engagement. Per the Pentagon's rules, troops are allowed to use lethal force in the face of "imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm."

A federal judge ordered that Georgia must allow new U.S. citizens to vote if they show proof of citizenship at polling locations, per the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Why it matters: More than 3,000 U.S. citizens who have been newly naturalized have been turned away from early voting locations in the state when their citizenship status hadn’t been updated in government computers.

President Trump said Thursday that the administration is finalizing a plan that would prevent immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally from receiving asylum.

Why it matters: The briefing comes as Trump continues to make immigration a focal point ahead of the midterm elections and as a caravan of thousands of Central Americans — many of whom are likely to seek asylum — makes its way through Mexico toward the U.S.

President Trump, who has frequently made false and misleading statements while in office, told ABC News' Jon Karl that he tried to tell the truth, "when [he] can".

"Well, I try. I do try ... When I can, I tell the truth. And sometimes it turns out to be where something happens that’s different or there’s a change, but I always like to be truthful."

By the numbers: The Washington Post’s Fact Checker reported last month that Trump made more than 5,000 false or misleading statements in the first 601 days of his presidency, an average of 8.3 claims a day.

When asked at a Washington Post event if President Trump has called Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to personally ask for lower interest rates, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow replied: "Not yet."

Why it matters: Trump has publicly criticized Powell at least six times for raising interest rates in the midst of a booming economy, even going as far as to claim the Fed is his "biggest threat." Kudlow said Trump doesn't want to replace Powell, but — as Axios' Jonathan Swan reported last month — the president has no plans to curb his attacks against the Fed, an institution historically viewed as independent from the White House.

More than half of registered voters (56%) say that President Trump has done more to divide the country than to unite it, but even more (64%) say national news media has divided the country, according to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll.

The big picture: In an interview with "Axios for HBO," President Trump defended his red-hot rhetoric against the media, claiming that he has to do so "when people write stories about me that are so wrong." And when asked if he was worried that some supporters might take his incendiary message too far, Trump responded, "It’s my only form of fighting back. I wouldn’t be here if I didn't do that."

Since 2014, at least 56,800 migrants around the world have gone missing or been killed, according to an Associated Press report.

The big picture: The AP's number doubles the one from the UN's International Organization for Migration, which is the only official attempt to tally the toll of the world's migration crisis. And the news agency admits that its count is "still low" as a portion of migrant deaths inevitably go undiscovered or unreported.

Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker, who announced his retirement at the beginning of this year, criticized Republican rhetoric about a migrant caravan moving through Mexico as "using fear to stimulate people to come out at the polls," the Tennessean reports.

"I've just never been angry at someone who wants to come to the greatest nation on earth and live the kind of life that we lead. To make pejorative statements about all of them…I don’t approve of that. I don't."

The big picture: President Trump has been pushing misleading warnings about the caravan, claiming that a full-on invasion at the southern border is imminent. Corker told the Tennessean that the issue is a "political football" and broke with the conspiracy theory that the caravan is being funded by liberal billionaire George Soros: "If anybody's funding it, it's some Republican donor, because it has obviously turned into an election issue that has benefited the Republican side."

In one of the most blatant and misleading attempts ever to scare American voters days before an election, President Trump is warning in speeches, tweets, interviews and ads that scary, deadly migrants are about to storm our southern border.

Reality check: Almost none of what he warns is demonstrably true, at least in terms of scale and scope of threat. 

Recent Department of Homeland Security records show that 433,556 foreign graduates were approved for temporary jobs in their academic field in the U.S. after finishing school in 2017, per The Wall Street Journal.

Why it matters: More students from outside the U.S. are choosing to stay in the country for jobs as software engineers and other highly-skilled roles that Americans aren't studying for, under the federal work-authorization program, per the data.