"If you count the legal votes, I easily win," he said.
No indication any of the votes currently being counted are illegal.
MSNBC immediately cuts away for a fact-check. CNN stays with it.
"Fake polls were designed to keep our voters at home," Trump said. "They were what's called suppression polls."
It's true public polling was off, not true it was a suppression tactic. Also an odd argument, that his voters stayed home, when he's bragging about his big win.
"It's amazing how those mail-in ballots are so one-sided," Trump said, suggesting a baseless conspiracy.
He spent months discouraging his supporters from voting by mail.
“Detroit and Philadelphia, known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country—easily—cannot be responsible for the outcome of a presidential race.”
Just an amazingly racist, un-American statement from the president.
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Some technical issues in Kenosha to start rally no. 4. Trump complains about his microphone and the crowd yells that it can't hear him in the back.
Trump switches mics, slams the one affixed to the lectern down, informs the crowd they're witnessing history: "This is the first time I've ever used a hand-held."
Trump stream-of-consciousness on possibly losing to Biden:
"Is this guy really thinking about? Could he really win? Are we serious about this? [Boos] What the hell is going on? Are we serious? Guy has no clue. He's shot."
Trump, in Dubuque, Ia.: "If Biden gets in, you can forget about ethanol, you can forget about everything."
Trump, self-annotating his scripted remarks again:
"No one has fought harder for the people of Iowa. That's true!"
Trump claims Biden's huge fundraising numbers, powered largely by online donors desperate to oust Trump, have come "by making deals," presenting it as if was a data point to support his unproven corruption allegations.
Trump, in Michigan: "You didn't have any auto plants four years ago."
He is freezing but still making time for the usual tangents, telling stories about Pavrarotti being "a diva" and inserting the windmill riff into his closing argument:
"If you want to see a lot of dead birds, go to the bottom of the windmill."
Trump on Texas, where his supporters surrounding the Biden/Harris bus forced them to cancel an event:
"Did you see our people? They were protecting his bus yesterday."