Donald Trump kicked off his final day of campaign rallies and predicted victory if his MAGA fans make it to the polls, but revealed his hoarse voice is a problem and again defended the speaking style he calls ‘the weave.’
“If we get our vote, there’s nothing they can do,” he told a crowd in North Carolina.
“I really hate that expression, but we’re the ones who lose,” Trump said.
Speaking for 90 minutes despite time pressure, Trump talked about all sorts of topics and then revealed some familiar advice near the end of his remarks.
‘Ivanka called me a while ago and sends her love to everyone. “She’s fantastic,” he said of his daughter, who advised his White House but has not accompanied him on the election campaign.
And I have a boy who is at home with the first lady. He is very intelligent… He is 18 years old. And he gives me good advice.’ Trump then did a quick impression of his son, a college freshman. ‘Dad: take it easy, now. Take it easy dad, okay? You don’t have to go too far here. “It’s good for me, it’s very wise,” Trump said.
Last day for the rally: Former President Donald Trump rallied his supporters in North Carolina and indicated that his son Barron tells him to “take it easy.”
He has been projecting optimism even as he occasionally admits the possibility of defeat.
‘I hope everything goes well. We are very ahead. “All we have to do is close it,” Trump said, after polls showed one of the closest races in years.
But as he concluded his campaign, Trump acknowledged that his voice was failing, went off script to attack Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Michelle Obama, and revealed his desire to “get out of here quickly” even as he spoke for 90 minutes.
Trump also noted that sometimes things don’t go the way Republicans expected. “You looked at him as a racehorse and sometimes they got there and sometimes they didn’t,” Trump admitted. ‘My sole purpose for being here today is to get out and vote. You already know that,’ he said.
Trump sounded hoarse Sunday during an extended rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, where he said he shouldn’t have left the White House and talked about how “someone would have to cut through the fake news” to catch him.
On Monday he regained his voice and turned the teleprompter on and off, threatening to tell Mexico’s new president that he would impose a 25 percent tariff. He anticipated possible extortion in a show of force. “If you don’t give us $3 billion, I’ll impose the biggest damn tariff…” Trump said, pausing before saying the last word.
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Trump said he ‘loves dogs’ and talked about the advice he received from his son Barron
At one point he told the crowd that he “loves dogs,” in a campaign that has included more comments about pets than most. Notably, Trump became the first president in years not to have a pet in the White House.
He made the comment after a high-pitched noise came from the crowd.
‘I love dogs. We love dogs,’ Trump said, before
He then went on to talk about his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump. ‘She comes to the office and loves dogs and pets. And she made me do things for the puppies that you wouldn’t believe,” Trump said.
‘Dad, we have to make the cages bigger. “We have to put in air conditioning,” he said Lara told him.
‘I said: do we have to give them a steam bath? ‘
With every minute counting, Trump is scrambling to stay on schedule and share time management strategies with his crowd, all the while claiming that his rival Kamala Harris is sleeping and not working hard.
‘I was going to get out of here quickly. I’m doing four of these things today. And the voice remains, barely,’ he said after making several long digressions.
He defended his way of speaking. ‘The press will say, ‘Oh, I rambled.’ No, do you know what that is? That’s great. That’s the fabric. … That was the definitive fabric.”
But he was looking at the clock. ‘I have to go a little faster now. I took Marco’s place and I took Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ place… and I’m going to ask them to come up right now,’ he said. He mentioned Senator Rubio and his former press secretary.
He praised its brevity. “What they just did was better and appreciated, it gets us a little bit closer to the schedule,” Trump said.
He took the time to promote former first lady Melania Trump’s book. ‘She loves you. She greets you,” Trump said. He then defended the digression, which he called weaving.
‘And I said first lady. First woman. Look, this is a little knit… First lady book, boom. But you always have to get it back. When there comes a time when you’re not at the bottom, then it’s time to say: let’s not do this shit anymore. We won’t do this again. But the thing is, Van Jones was crying,” he continued, mentioning one of his favorite stories about the CNN commentator.
Trump returned to his refrains about Kamala Harris surrogates coming after him.
Among them is the popular former first lady Michelle Obama. “She fired a few shots at me. I said, ‘Wow, wow, wow.’
He called Barack Obama “the great divider,” and then called him by his full name, “Barack Hussein Obama.”
‘The same thing happened to Hillary, how did it turn out?’ Trump added.
He then called former Speaker Nancy Pelosi “a disgrace.” She also criticized her husband for selling Visa shares two months before the Justice Department announced an investigation.
‘They accused me without evidence, I didn’t do anything wrong. Fortunately, the Republicans supported me 100 percent,” he said. Trump was acquitted by 57 votes in favor and 43 against, that is, below the necessary two-thirds majority, and seven Republicans voted to convince.
Trump continues to tour battleground states, with his final rally scheduled for Grand Rapids tonight.
