Trump news: White House tries to walk back president's 'vote twice' comments, as Biden meets Jacob Blake family in Kenosha

The White House tried to walk back Donald Trump's suggestion that voters cast two ballots in November's presidential election, one by mail and a second in person to "check'' the system. Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the president was being taken out of context and he was referring to a situation where if a mail-in vote is not counted, a provisional ballot cast in-person would be counted.

It comes as Trump's Democratic challenger Joe Biden arrived in Kenosha to meet with family of Jacob Blake, who is still hospitalised after he was shot in the back several times by police.

Trump himself, meanwhile, has spent most of the day on Twitter lashing out at Andrew Cuomo after the New York governor suggested the president would "need an army" as he is now a "persona non grata" in the Big Apple.

At a campaign stop in Pennsylvania, Trump said Democrats want to "blow up" Mount Rushmore and take down the Washington Monument while claiming he "ended that problem" in Kenosha.