Trump is doing his third-last rally of the campaign, in Cleveland. Tweets here. (I will skip the second-last one and then do the last one.)
Trump's first words: "There is something going on, Ohio, that they're not talking about. There is something going on. You look at this gigantic room, and there are many more people outside, trying to get in."
Trump on his campaigning: "I did a lotta stops. I saw a lot of people. I saw a lot of Make America Great Again hats. Lotta hats. I saw a lot of spirit. Like this country hasn't seen. What we've done, this is the greatest political movement of all time, in this country."
"We have a lot of great, great sound bites," Trump warns his future 2020 opponent.
Trump calls Dem Ohio governor candidate Richard Cordray "a bad person who will do a terrible job." He adds, "It's true. He's a bad person."
Trumps says that with presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens, and "some dictators, but we don't mention that," they all tell him immediately that he has the hottest economy anywhere in the world.
Trump says the midterms are a choice between a “socialist nightmare for our country" or “the American dream.”
Trump claims the media would have wanted to delay the jobs report until the day after the election so that he would look worse. He touts the good unemployment numbers.
Trump re-touts his imaginary 10% tax cut, says that people should "put it in your heads" that they can't do this tax cut unless they win the House.
Trump on midterm elections: "The midterm elections used to be like boring, didn't they? Do you even remember what they were? People say 'midterms,' they say, 'what is that, what is it?' Now that's like the hottest thing. These guys are making a fortune because of me. And you."
Trump: "Who ever even heard of midterms? They don't even know what it is. I've had a lot of people say, 'I don't know what midterm is, but now I'm watching every single minute.'"
Trump says, "In a sense, I am on the ticket."
Trump lies that Democrats will try to shut down steel mills if they're elected. He then lies, "Take away your health care - you can forget it. You're gonna live in a socialist world." ???
Trump on his time in Ohio as a young business guy: "I won't tell you...but I on occasion would be known to sneak into Kentucky, because I liked Kentucky. I like Kentucky for all the wrong reasons, but I like Kentucky. I like it."
Trump lying: "Democrats are inviting caravan after caravan of illegal aliens to flood into our country and overwhelm your communities." Asylum seekers aren't illegal; Dems aren't inviting caravans; there won't be a flood of people.
Trump just saying words: "The Democrat platform is a 2018 socialism open borders edict." (I think he said edict.)
Trump lies that he is building the wall, then adds, "Although barbed wire looks like it's gonna be very effective too. With soldiers standing in front of it. By the way, how good does our military look?" Soldiers won't be guarding the border; they're doing logistics, backup.
This is a good story about what the troops at the border are actually doing, which is not what Trump suggests they are doing. buzzfeednews.com/article/verabe…
Trump gives an extended shout-out to Jim Jordan, praising his skills as a wrestler, and calls Jordan up to speak. (Jordan has been accused of ignoring sexual assault as a wrestling coach. ) Trump: "I love him defending me on television...he doesn't give a damn...BOOM BOOM BOOM."
Now Jim Jordan is speaking. He lies that Maxine Waters told people to harass anyone who supports Trump. (She called on people to verbally accost members of Trump's Cabinet.)
Trump complains that it's "politically incorrect" to call a woman beautiful, so he won't call his daughter Ivanka beautiful, "but she's really smart."
"That was some introduction," Ivanka Trump says.
"I never said she was beautiful," Trump says again about Ivanka, to laughs. He tells the story about how she got great marks in school even though she didn't even try.
Trump calls Cordray a disciple of Warren, wrongly says he was proven right that she has "no Indian blood" (I know it's weird to talk about "Indian blood"), says he therefore can't call her Pocahontas, but that he will still call her Pocahontas, because it's too good a name.
Trump, just making stuff up, said that the renovated elevators at Cordray's CFPB were the "most expensive elevators in the history of the world." I asked Trump's CFPB about Trump's previous claim that they cost $50 million; they said that is not true at all.
Trump falsely claims that anyone with money in any country with single-payer health care comes to the U.S. for surgeries or recovery. Even according to the contested numbers of a right-wing Canadian think tank, 99% of Canadians don't leave the country for any care in any year.
Trump is saying his usual very false things about Democrats and immigration. He calls these things that aren't happening "a lawless assault on our dignity."
Trump: "By the way, you think we're letting that caravan come into this country?" Crowd: "NOOOOO." Trump: "You can forget it."
Trump says foreign countries have been stealing American jobs "like we're babies. Like we're little babieeesss."
Trump tells his usual lie about how the "previous administration" said there'd be no manufacturing jobs brought back to the US. He says he's "being nice" by not naming who he's talking about. Neither Obama nor his officials ever said this.
Trump starts to warn China that he could impose another $2...in tariffs, then stops himself, saying, "Should I say it? Should I say it? If I say it, it's a big story." The crowd eggs him to say it. He says, "Let's put it this way: it's a lot of money left."
Trump repeats his usual lie that the American steel industry was almost dead before his tariffs. It was very non-dead. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Trump: "I've actually kept more promises than I've made. When did you ever hear that from a politician? Maybe never. Never. It's true."
Trump asks what other president would call up drug companies to get prices reduced, adding, "You think Hillary would do that? I don't think so." There is a very loud Lock Her Up chant.
Trump with his usual specificity on health policy: "We're going to be the ones that solve the health care."
Sir Alert: Trump repeats his usual lie, this time featuring a "sir," that Veterans Choice couldn't get passed for "over 40 years" until he independently thought of the idea and then pushed for it: "You know what, I'm good at getting approvals." It was created in 2014.
Trump does the usual false claim about how he moved the embassy to Jerusalem for $500,000 "or less." The renovations will cost at least $21 million.
Trump says "we're at a disadvantage" in the midterms because the president's party almost always does poorly, except previous presidents haven't been doing this well.
Trump closing pitch: “Tuesday is your chance to send a message to the Democrat mob and to everyone who has made it their mission to denigrate our movement and to divide our great nation.”
Trump has concluded in Ohio. He's now off to a rally in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
