Trump says he'll win Michigan easily at final campaign rally

President Trump used his final rally in Michigan to make a bold prediction: he's going to win the state, and he'll do so easily.

Trump arrived in Grand Rapids Mich., for the midnight event, before throwing a few "Make America Great Again" hats into the crowd of supporters who came out despite temperatures in the low 40s.

"We're gonna win the state of Michigan so easily," Trump said. Recent polling data suggested he was trailing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the state.

Supporters cheer as President Donald Trump exits a campaign event early Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

The city was also the final stop of the Trump campaign in 2016 before he defeated Hillary Clinton.

"This was our final night prior to a very, very big victory," Trump told the crowd. "We're going to have another beautiful victory tomorrow."

His comments came as Biden predicted a victory in Pennsylvania on the eve of the election.

“I have a feeling we’re coming together for a big win tomorrow," Biden told a crowd of about 250 cars gathered in the parking lot of Heinz Field during a drive-in rally in Pittsburgh.

Trump spent the earlier portions of the rally thanking supporters and members of his campaign. He later took personal shots at Biden.

Trump also attacked Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris and the media. The president was seen pointed at what he said were media members at the rally covering the event, calling them "fake news."

Rapper Lil Pump later made a brief speech during the campaign rally where he showed support for the president.

After the rally, Trump thanked his supporters in a Tweet early on Tuesday.

Officials say Trump plans to spend election night at the White House.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

 

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Gaetz slams FBI probe into Texas Trump supporters surrounding Biden bus

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., took to Twitter Sunday to criticize the FBI’s decision to open an investigation into an incident caught on video that showed cars with Trump flags surrounding a Biden campaign bus traveling in Texas.

“If you need any further proof that the FBI will look for any reason to target Trump supporters,” Gaetz tweeted, while linking out to a New York Post article.

President Trump also retweeted a screenshot of the FBI’s statement and said, “In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong. Instead, the FBI & Justice should be investigating the terrorists, anarchists, and agitators of ANTIFA, who run around burning down our Democrat run cities and hurting our people!”

Trump’s criticism of the FBI comes amid reports that Trump is considering replacing FBI Director Christopher Wray.  Last month, a senior administration official told Fox News that Wray will likely be gone after the election.

Rep. Andy Biggs, the Arizona Republican, wrote a letter to Wray earlier this month after the New York Post’s explosive report about alleged emails pertaining to Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings. Biggs said the most "concerning" element about the Post's report was the allegation that the information came from a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden and that the FBI "was in possession of this computer and hard drive back in December 2019."

“This action took place right at the end of the U.S. House of Representative’s impeachment sham against President Donald J. Trump, and right before the U.S. Senate tried the case,” Biggs wrote.

Biggs claimed that the revelation would have “given even more weight” to Trump’s legal defense. Joe Biden has insisted his son did nothing wrong and called the attacks a “smear campaign.”

An FBI spokesperson told Fox News at the time the agency had received the letter, but declined to comment further in keeping with its practice of not confirming or denying an investigation. The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to an email from Fox News seeking comment on the Gaetz tweet.

In videos posted on Twitter, a group of cars and pickup trucks — many adorned with large Trump flags — can be seen riding alongside the campaign bus on Friday, and at times boxing it in, as it traveled from San Antonio to Austin. At one point, one of the pickup trucks can be seen colliding with an SUV that was driving behind the bus.

Neither Joe Biden nor his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, was aboard the bus. Biden criticized Trump's response to the incident.

“We’ve never had anything like this. At least we’ve never had a president who thinks it’s a good thing,” Biden said during a campaign event in the Philadelphia suburbs.

Fox News' Andrew O'Reilly, Adam Shaw and the Associated Press contributed to this report

 

Bret Baier: Talk of Biden blowout on Election Night has died down: 'The picture has changed'

Political insiders once believed Joe Biden was on course for a blowout victory over President Trump on Election Night, but "the picture has changed" in the waning days of the campaign, Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier said Sunday.

"For Trump supporters, they said they knew this all along, in fact, they say it will be a blowout the other way," Baier told "Tucker Carlson Tonight". "I don't see that picture either, [but] I do see a national race that may have some separation [between Biden and Trump states], if you look at the corners of the country." 

As candidates make their final pitch to the American people, the race in battleground states "is narrowing, and narrowing fast," the "Special Report" host told Tucker Carlson.

"If you look at 2016 as a template, if you are within the margin of error, Donald Trump has outperformed that, at least in the past," Baier said, "and there is some indication that it is not going to be different. They are already seeing some movement in Florida."

If Trump carries Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona, the fate of his reelection bid will come down to Pennsylvania, the "Special Report" host explained.

As for the sudden movement in the polls, Baier said it could be attributed to Trump's recent "barnstorming and whipping up the vote," coupled with a recognition among voters that this election represents "a binary choice."

" This is not just 'we hate Donald Trump,' this -- you go in and you make a choice," he explained. "Either you choose the Trump administration or Biden and Harris.

"When you get to that choice, it's not just a referendum on the guy that half the country does not like. I think Donald Trump has done an interesting job focusing on the economy. And I think Joe Biden, if you look where he's going, is trying to shore up some of that vote."

As for the 92 million voters who have already cast their ballots, Baier said the question remains whether Trump can "meet the numbers to overcome the Biden early advantage."

However, he added, "Some of those early advantage states really did not turn out as big as Democrats hoped."

 

Biden's gaffes continue as Election Day draws near

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden two more verbal stumbles while campaigning this weekend with less than 100 hours to go until the Nov. 3 election. 

Speaking during a drive-in rally in Michigan on Saturday, Biden told voters about how President Trump would destroy the Affordable Care Act, the decade-old health care law, and take away coverage from people with pre-existing conditions.

'We're also going to act to protect health care," he said. "Trump and the Republicans just jammed through a Supreme Court nominee for one overwhelming reason, as Barack said, the president said, they have been trying with over 50 shots to take out Obamacare, to destroy the Affordable Care Act," he began. 

But the former vice president, who has spoken openly about suffering from a stutter, which he's struggled with since childhood, then tripped over the word "health care" in his next sentence.

"Donald Trump thinks health care is a privilege, Barack and I think it's a right to have badakathcare," he appeared to say.

Trump has repeatedly attacked Biden -- a self-described "gaffe machine" -- over his verbal stumbles, questioning whether they're evidence of cognitive decline. He played a video of Biden saying "badakathcare" during a campaign rally in Michigan on Sunday, along with footage of other gaffes his opponent has made on the trail. 

Biden fumbled again on Sunday during a campaign event in Philadelphia: While wearing a jacket featuring the logo of the University of Delaware -- the blue hens -- Biden told rallygoers that he was wearing a jacket of the Philadelphia Eagles.

"I know Philadelphia well, I married a Philly girl, by the way, and by the way, I got my Eagles jacket on," Biden said. 

The Trump campaign quickly latched onto the moment.

"The "Eagles" jacket Biden claims he's wearing to try and show how much he's in touch with Pennsylvania? It's a Delaware Blue Hens jacket," tweeted Zach Parkinson, the deputy director of communications for Trump's re-election campaign. 

But Biden is not alone in making the verbal mistakes: Trump went viral in August after he mispronounced  "Yosemite," one of the most famous U.S. National Parks, as "Yo Semites" during a ceremony touting his signature on a major piece of conservation legislation. He's also mistakenly called "NAFTA" as "NASTA."

 

Philadelphia mayor warns residents it may take days to count mail-in ballots

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, warned residents in his city that counting the mail-in ballots “will easily take several days” after Election Day, which increases the possibility that it could be a while before the election is settled.

Pennsylvania has been seen as one of the most pivotal states in the election. President Trump hopes to attract a massive surge in voters from outside Philadelphia and its suburbs in order to offset the highly Democrat city. Kenney’s announcement could open the possibility that Trump opens up a massive lead going into Nov. 4, but could see that advantage evaporate as the vote from the city gets tallied.

Kenney’s letter was also signed by Lisa Deeley, the chairwoman of the Philadelphia City Commissioners, and it assured voters in the city that the “process and procedures favor no party or group.” They said that staffers are not allowed to start counting the mail-in ballots until Election Day.

Nate Silver, the pollster, told ABC’s “This Week” that he thinks the 2020 election will come down to  Pennsylvania.

“Pennsylvania has not bumped up to a seven or eight-point Biden lead, like we see in Michigan and Wisconsin,” he said. Biden leads Trump by 4.9% in Pennsylvania, according to FiveThirtyEight’s updating average of 2020 presidential general election polls, compared to a more sizeable lead of 8.4% in Michigan and 8.6% in Wisconsin.

Bloomberg reported that Philadelphia has already received 400,000 mail-in ballots and pointed out that three-quarters of the voters there are registered Democrats. They noted that the city could very well determine who wins the state.

A higher percentage of Pennsylvanians who requested mail-in ballots are Democrats and there is the potential for a “red mirage,” which describes a situation where Republican candidates could appear to have an outsized amount of support as votes are reported on Election Day – followed by a shift toward Democratic candidates in the days that follow.

Joe Biden was in Philadelphia on Sunday, the largest city in what is emerging as the most hotly contested battleground in the closing 48 hours of the campaign. He participated in a “souls to the polls” event that is part of a nationwide effort to organize Black churchgoers to vote.

“I think it’s absolutely true that more Republicans will vote in-person,” Republican Bucks County Commissioner Gene DiGirolamo told Fox News. “If you’re just announcing the results from people who voted at the polls, I think that number is going to show … [more] favor for the president than it will for Biden.”

Fox News' Brittany De Lea, Talia Kaplan and the Associated Press contributed to this report

 

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Sen. Rick Scott: I voted for Trump because the 2020 election is about my family and yours

Forget everything you’ve heard from the media about this election. Forget the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of TV ads. Forget what the candidates have said and forget what the pundits have predicted.

Think about your family.

I was governor of Florida for eight years. I spent every day thinking about what I could do to improve the lives of every family in my state.

I grew up poor. We lived in public housing when I was a kid. I remember when my dad’s car got repossessed. I remember my mom traveling four hours to get to a hospital to help treat my brother’s medical condition.

I thought about families like mine growing up and focused on getting results for them.

We supported our law enforcement and reached a 47-year low in our crime rate. We created nearly 1.7 million jobs over eight years.

We cut taxes nearly 100 times, putting more than $10 billion back in the pockets of hard-working Floridians.

We paid down one-third of state debt to reduce the burden on future generations. And our pro-growth policies allowed us to invest record funding in education, environmental protection and transportation.

Now think about the choice you have on Tuesday – a choice that will decide the future of our country.

Donald Trump supports our law enforcement and has made great progress to secure the border. He believes in the rule of law.

Donald Trump believes in capitalism which creates opportunity for every American to live their dream.

He believes in free-market solutions to address health care needs. More choice and more competition, not more government, is the solution to bring down health care costs in this country.

He supports our military and understands that creating and maintaining the most lethal fighting force in the history of the world is the best way to prevent the forever wars that have taken the lives of far too many Americans and burdened future generations with unnecessary debt.

Donald Trump stands up to dictators in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and China, using his platform and his pulpit to make clear that there will be no safe harbor for those who kill and deny human rights to their own people, support terrorism, and foment hatred of the United States.

He believes in the greatness of America – a country that, while flawed, is the greatest country in the history of the world. A country that has created more opportunity for more people than any other place on earth.

Now think about former Vice President Joe Biden. He’s a nice enough guy, but after 47 years in politics, with few accomplishments to his name, why should we trust him to handle the challenges our country faces?

Whether or not he’s aware of it, he’s a vessel for the radical policies of the new Socialist Democrat Party.

They want to defund the police, making every family in this country less safe.

They want "Medicare-for-all," a massive government takeover of our country’s health care system that would eliminate the employer-sponsored health care of more than 150 million Americans.

They want the Green New Deal, a $93 trillion program that would end fossil fuels and destroy our economy.

They want to allow late term abortions and want taxpayers to pay for it.  They want open borders and free health care for illegal immigrants.

They want to pack the Supreme Court – some have even floated packing the District Courts – so they can chip away at our 2nd Amendment rights and our religious freedoms.

To me, this choice is simple.

For the sake of my children and grandchildren and yours, I voted for freedom and opportunity, for a strong military and a secure border, for supporting law enforcement and for the greatness of America. I voted for Donald Trump.

I hope you do, too.