Trump is now on Fox & Friends, sounding more subdued and talking slower than usual. (He was up late doing rallies.) He repeats his usual false claim about how 2.2 million pandemic deaths were initially expected, then touts his pandemic response in the familiar manner.
"I'm doing a big series of phone calls" today to "very loyal" and "very important" people. (He suggests he might mean media interviews but doesn't specify.)
"No one doubts your work ethic," Kilmeade tells Trump, citing the fact that he has done 14 campaign rallies over the last three days.
Asked at what point he will declare victory, Trump says, "When there's victory. If there's victory." He adds, "I think we'll have victory...but only when there's victory. There's no reason to play games."
Trump says "we have a very solid chance of winning," then immediately says, "I don't know what the chances are."
Trump talks about how much his rally attendees love him -- "They even say, many of them, 'We love you, we love you, we love you.' They're screaming, 'We love you'" -- then touts the boat parades in support of him.
Asked if he got emotional when he told his supporters to not make him cry with their "we love you" chant, Trump emphasizes over and over that he was just kidding, he wasn't going to cry.
Trump repeats his story about how "it's hard to have friends" because people are so intimidated by the presidency, then repeats his story about how he tells people "the US" is by far the world's toughest country for him to deal with, more than China, Russia, North Korea.
Asked about Obama, Trump mocks Obama's crowd sizes, then criticizes Fox for airing Obama speeches, saying "Fox has changed a lot" and is the biggest difference between now and 2016. "Fox is a much different place," he says.
Fox & Friends tells Trump they're trying to show both sides by airing speeches by Obama, that they're fair unlike the others. Trump responds, "Well, in the old days they wouldn't put Sleepy Joe Biden on every time he opened his month. They have other networks for that, frankly."
Trump, who last night introduced Lil Pump as Lil Pimp and called hypersonic missiles hydrosonic missiles, is talking at length about how Biden sometimes gets mixed up, saying, "That's something you can't let happen."
Trump repeats his usual remarks about how "it would be a terrible thing for women" if Kamala Harris became the first woman to be president.
Trump questions the motives of people who mail in ballots at the end of the election, slowly making baseless and vague accusations about Philadelphia as Fox & Friends keeps trying to end the interview.
Asked what he thinks the score will be in the Electoral College this time, Trump says last time it was 306 to 223 (actually 232; he never gets Clinton's number right) and "I think we will top it. I think we'll top it."
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