"Normal life. That's all we want: normal life," Trump says to start his rally tonight in Erie, PA.

"Pennsylvania's been shut down long enough. Get your governor to open up Pennsylvania."
Trump says if Obama and Biden "did a good job, I wouldn't have run."

"I didn't need this. Although we're having a good time."
Trump revels in his crowd size: "It makes you feel good."
"You have to watch what we're going to do to 60 Minutes .... Leslie Stahl's not going to be happy."
Trump has now thrown to video, a montage of clips of Biden and Harris speaking about curtailing and banning fracking, but then he pivots away quickly:

"Right now he's got bigger problems than fracking...you know what it's called? 'The laptop from hell.'"
Trump is mocking Biden for not campaigning more and then says he "can't answer questions" from the press.

Earlier today, he walked out of an interview with CBS.
Trump's mic just cut out.

"I wonder who did that to our mic," he riffs after it comes back. "I think it was probably Crooked Hillary."
Trump returns to COVID. "You guys never opened. What the hell is going on in Pennsylvania?"

Answer:
Trump, who often claims the country will be destroyed if Democrats win, says: "If you want depression, doom and despair, vote for Sleepy Joe. And boredom."

[whispers: "voters might prefer boredom]

latimes.com/politics/story…
Rep. Mike Kelly offers tonight's hagiography segment, telling the crowd there will never be another president like Trump and touts his strength in recovering from coronavirus:

"There's no flu that's going to keep this man down"
Trump mentions Portland, Baltimore, Chicago and blames the unrest on local Dem officials.

But prior to 2016, it was the president's fault!

"Just remember this: with Obama/Biden, they have nothing but problems... Ferguson, look at St. Louis... it was horrible."
Trump just now: "Nobody has ripped us [off] like China."

NYT 43 min earlier posts story revealing Trump has secret Chinese bank account:
nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/…
Trump explains to crowd he's going to end his speech earlier than usual tonight so they can go vote.
Well, we were at the big finish, but we are now off on a tangent about 401Ks and a segment Trump say today on "Varney, Varney, you know Stuart?"
And then it's finished. Abrupt.
Shorter, slightly less angry as some of his weekend rallies in MI and out west. But not that different.

Okay, folks, time for baseball.

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22 Oct
In first 15 minutes, Stahl’s comment about Trump’s smaller rally crowds appears to have set him off more than anything else.
After the back and forth on Trump’s nonexistent healthcare plan, Stahl’s pushback on Hunter Biden stuff gets to him:

DT: “He’s in a huge scandal.”

LS: “He’s not.”

...

DT: “They spied on my campaign!”

LS: “There’s no real evidence of that.”

DT: “Of course there is.“
(cont.)

LS: “This is 60 Minutes. We can’t put on something we can’t verify.”

DT: “No you won’t put it on because it’s bad for Biden.”

LS: “But we cant verify.”

DT: “It’s been totally verified. Just go down and get the papers.”
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17 Oct
Trump predicts wins in MI and MN, and that "having people like [Rep. Ilhan] Omar really helps."

Then exaggeratedly mispronounces her name: "Eel-an Omar...she does not love our country too much."
Then he rails at @GovWhitmer: "Get your governor to open up your state and get your schools open!"

A loud "Lock her up!" chant erupts.

Trump: "Lock em all up!"

This comes after 14 people were arrested for plotting to kidnap the governor.
Trump now really leaning into culture war stuff, claiming Dem opposition to ACB, "cancel culture" around, Confederate statues, teaching American history, etc.

"They basically want to take out our heritage."
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9 Oct
Rush Limbaugh begins this "radio rally" by playing Trump's walk-up music and then a tape of crowd noise of people chanting "we love you."
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"I want people to get to know the Donald Trump I know."
Trump starts by saying he "jumped" on the invite to do this rally because Rush's audience is so large.

Then he falsely claims on COVID-19:

"We have a cure. More than just a therapeutic. We have a cure."

Blames "fake news" for mischaracterizing everything.
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Read ⁦@Noahbierman⁩ on the ground in Iowa, which Trump has managed to put in play. latimes.com/politics/story…
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Trump's reliance on patronage, and the conditioning of government funds on political benefit, is actually one of the clearest through-lines of his presidency.

Today, it's $13 mil for Puerto Rico, which he'd long denied more aid, to try and win Florida in 46 days:
But this is how he ran Trump Corp. and how he's approached the presidency, even from the transition period when he got IN to cough up $7m in tax breaks to save 1,000 jobs at Carrier.

The pattern was clear in 2017, when the FoxConn plant went to WI..

wsj.com/articles/white…
And it explains so much of what's happened since: the quid pro quo with Ukraine that sparked impeachment, the pandemic response, the indifference to the fires out west.

We've long known this, but just it's still striking just how much of this is all innate of one thing.
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The race is basically tied in Florida, so.
And, just in case it wasn't clear this Puerto Rico aid was all about the election in Florida, Trump makes it clear:

"Biden's devastated the island of Puerto Rico."
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