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Tomorrow: Trump To Hold GA Rally For GOP Senators

NPR reports: Georgia Republicans are excited that Donald Trump is coming Saturday to Valdosta to help save Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. They’re also a little scared. They’re not entirely certain what to expect from the president’s first postelection rally. Though Trump will tell his supporters to head to the polls for Loeffler and Perdue, he’s also likely to …

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Analysis: Trump’s Final Rallies Didn’t Help Local Result

NBC News reports: As the 2020 campaign wound down, President Donald Trump held rallies across the country to fire up his supporters and get them out to vote. Many saw the rallies as a sign of big enthusiasm for Trump, but the data suggest the visits did not produce the desired impact for the president. Comparing Trump campaign stops over …

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Pope Francis Appears To Liken Trump Rallies To Hitler

“Today, listening to some of the populist leaders we now have, I am reminded of the 1930s, when some democracies collapsed into dictatorships seemingly overnight. We see it happening again now in rallies where populist leaders excite and harangue crowds, channeling their resentments and hatreds against imagined enemies to distract from the real problems.” – Pope Francis, in his new …

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Axios: Trump To Hold Rallies In Which He’ll Brandish Obituaries Of Dead People He Claims Voted For Biden

Axios reports: President Trump plans to brandish obituaries of people who supposedly voted but are dead — plus hold campaign-style rallies — in an effort to prolong his fight against apparent insurmountable election results, four Trump advisers told me during a conference call this afternoon. Obits for those who cast ballots are part of the “specific pieces of evidence” aimed …

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Trump Plays Video Of Biden’s Verbal Flubs Just Before Introducing Rapper Lil Pump As “Little Pimp” [VIDEO]

The Independent reports: Moments after showing the crowd a compilation of Joe Biden’s gaffes at his Michigan rally, Donald Trump called the rapper Lil Pump “Little Pimp” as he invited him on to the stage. In his last rally for the 2020 elections at Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Monday night Mr Trump called the rapper on stage in front of …

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Trump Fantasizes About Physically Assaulting Biden: “You Wouldn’t Even Have To Close The Fist” [VIDEO]

The Daily Beast reports: As this dreadful election cycle hurtles toward its sorry climax, we have reached a point that was perhaps always inevitable—the incumbent president threatening to kick his Democratic rival’s ass. At a Sunday night rally in Florida, the recently hospitalized president, who famously believes that doing exercise makes people die young because humans have a finite amount …

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Trump Says He’ll Fire Fauci “A Little After The Election”

Forbes reports: All pretense of Donald Trump getting along with Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has advised six presidents in his nearly four decade tenure as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is gone after the president hinted that he may fire the long-serving official after the November 3 election at a rally Sunday. At a packed …

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Thousands Stranded After Trump Rally For Third Time

Newsweek reports: Supporters of President Donald Trump were left stranded overnight after a campaign rally in Georgia ended in chaos. Thousands were bussed into the Richard B. Russell Regional Airport in Rome, leaving their cars in parking lots, but were left waiting for hours after coaches failed to pick them up. The Georgia rally was Trump’s fourth and penultimate campaign …

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The Villages Sees COVID Outbreak After Trump Rally

The Villages News reports: The Villages saw a significant jump in COVID-19 patients on Friday as Florida surpassed 800,000 cases of the potentially deadly virus. Thirty-nine new COVID-19 cases were reported Friday in and around Florida’s Friendliest Hometown. The Villages continues to lead Sumter County with 778 cases – an increase of 20 in a 24-hour period. All told, Florida …

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Trump Campaign Again Strands Thousands In Cold

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, PA had a chilling ending — literally — with thousands of the president’s supporters left stranded in the dark and cold, waiting for almost two hours for buses to take them back to their cars. And it wasn’t the first time this had happened. A similar scene had unfolded Tuesday night at …

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STUDY: Trump Rallies Led To 30K Cases, 700 Deaths

The Washington Post reports: A new study from Stanford University estimates that 18 of Trump’s recent large-scale campaign rallies ultimately resulted in 30,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and probably led to more than 700 deaths among attendees and others infected by them. The study, released Friday by Stanford economics professor B. Douglas Bernheim and three doctoral students, examined rallies …

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Trump Gives Shortest Rally Speech Due To Small Crowd

The Independent reports: As Minnesota reached its highest-ever single-day coronavirus case count, Donald Trump attacked the state’s governor Tim Walz for limiting his campaign rally attendance before a brief campaign speech to the roughly 250 people in attendance. “All because the governor wants to play games,” the president said before shaking hands and tossing campaign hats to supporters in an …

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GOP US Rep Sick With COVID After Attending Georgia Trump Rally, Gov. Brian Kemp And Wife In Quarantine

The Daily Beast reports: Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA) on Friday announced he’d tested positive for the coronavirus, three days after stumping for President Donald Trump with Gov. Brian Kemp. In a statement, Ferguson said he had cold-like symptoms on Thursday night and took a COVID-19 test the next morning. “While the vast majority of my recent schedule has been virtual, …

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Trump To Hold 11 Rallies In Final 48 Hours Of Race

CBS News reports: Trump will attempt to hold 11 rallies in several key states in the final 48 hours before Election Day, according to a campaign official. Trump is expected to spend the majority of his time in Pennsylvania, Florida and North Carolina — although a final schedule hasn’t been set. According to the campaign official, the strategy is to …

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Trump Supporters Stranded In Cold After Omaha Rally

The Washington Post reports: By the time President Trump finished speaking to thousands of supporters at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield on Tuesday night and jetted away on Air Force One, the temperature had plunged to nearly freezing. But as long lines of MAGA-clad attendees queued up for buses to take them to distant parking lots, it quickly became clear that something …

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Trump Seats “MAGA Nuns” Behind Him At Ohio Rally

Fox News reports: A group of Trump-loving nuns grabbed attention on social media Saturday after they were spotted wearing MAGA masks with their habits and cheering the president on in Circleville, Ohio. Three nuns were behind the president’s podium, two holding rosaries and a third holding a Bible. During the Republican National Convention, another nun, Sister Deirdre Byrne, called the …

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Trump Tells Rally: Politics Would Be Boring Without Me

The New York Daily News reports: President Trump claimed that politics would be ‘boring without me,’ as he slammed Joe Biden while speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. Trump’s comments came as he spoke to supporters in Erie. “If you had Sleepy Joe, nobody’s going to be interested in politics anymore,” Trump said. He claimed Biden would bring …

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Trump Rally Attendee Laughs When Off-Camera Man Threatens ABC Reporter: “Put A Bullet In Your Head”

Mediaite reports: ABC News reporter Will Steakin was shocked when a Trump supporter outside President Donald Trump’s Ocala, Florida rally told him “Put a bullet in your head, buddy. I got one,” drawing laughter from the woman he was interviewing. In the video, Steakin is interviewing a woman — on line for Trump’s jam-packed and mask-optional rally — who can …

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Billboard Directs Iowa Cultists To Today’s Trump Rally

Des Moines’ ABC News affiliate reports: If you’re heading to President Trump’s rally at the Des Moines International Airport Wednesday, you may see a digital billboard along Fleur Drive. The billboard reads, “Trump Covid Superspreader Event,” with an arrow pointing toward the airport. Rural America 2020 posted the picture on Twitter commenting that it’s doing its part to warn Iowans …

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Trump To Flout WH Guidelines With Today’s Iowa Rally

The Washington Post reports: Trump on Wednesday is seeking to shore up support in Iowa, a state he won comfortably four years ago but that polls show to be in play this year. The president plans to stage a rally at the Des Moines International Airport amid a flurry of travel this week to battleground states that he carried in …

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