2024 election updates: Trump uses violent rhetoric to attack 'war hawk' Liz Cheney

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He said she should face "nine barrels," appearing to suggest a firing squad.

Last Updated: November 1, 2024, 9:27 AM EDT

With four days to go -- and the candidates engaging in their final push -- Donald Trump is lashing out at Liz Cheney, who's supporting Kamala Harris. Thursday night in Arizona, he called her a "war hawk" and said she should face "nine barrels," appearing to suggest a firing squad.

Both Trump and Harris are campaigning in the crucial Midwest on Friday, both ending up in battleground Wisconsin with dueling rallies in Milwaukee.

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More than 65 million Americans have voted early

As of 5:45 a.m. ET on Friday, more than 65 million Americans have voted early, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida.

Of the total number of early votes, 34,277,250 were cast in person and 30,685,094 were returned by mail.

Trump escalates violent rhetoric in attack on Liz Cheney

Sitting down with Tucker Carlson in Arizona late Thursday, Trump unleashed on former Rep. Liz Cheney.

"She's a radical war hawk," Trump said as he accused her and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, of leading the United States into the war in the Middle East.

"Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her," Trump said, invoking violence on his opponents as he implied that she sends people to war without having any war experience of her own.

"Okay, let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, 'Oh, gee, Will, let's send a, let's send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy,'" Trump continued.

He also repeatedly called Cheney a "stupid" and "bad" person.

-ABC News' Soorin Kim, Lalee Ibssa and Kelsey Walsh