With one day left before the election, Donald Trump has raised the specter of a rigged election, accusing the Democrats of trying to steal it.
"They are fighting so hard to steal this damn thing," Trump said on Sunday at a rally in Pennsylvania, referring to moves to extend the polling hours and warning of the possibility of voting machine tampering.
Have to be decided by 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock on Tuesday night," he said.
"These are crooked people," he said, referring to the Democrats.
They spend "all this money on machines, and they're going to say, we may take an extra 12 days to determine (the result). And what do you think happens during that 12 days?".
He said he is the only one talking about election risk because no one else will.
"And then they accuse you of being a 'theorist,'" he said. "And they want to lock you up." "The ones that should be locked up are the ones that cheat on these horrible elections that we go through in our country," he added.
He may be building a case to contest the legitimacy of the election in case he loses.
Despite still claiming he won the 2020 election, he said he should not have left office.
"We had the safest border in the history of our country the day that I left," and added, "I shouldn't have left (the White House) because we did so well."
Before those important swing states of North Carolina and Georgia, a day in Pennsylvania was taken.
The three of these are among seven in that play an disproportionate roles of swinging the balance the decision for who will finally win since these seven go both ways, while those of 43 states that feel like either party is as a foregone conclusion either vote strictly along one of two party lines.
He's sweating a great deal on both of their turf.
Trump has lately taken his campaign speeches to be about illegal migration, crime, return of manufacturing and jobs, and inflation. He also spoke off the teleprompter to inject some spontaneity.
Speaking extempore in Pennsylvania mostly eliminated the use of machines for him.
"I love being off these stupid teleprompters, because the truth comes out" when he speaks extempore, he said.
He appeared from behind bulletproof glass with a slit on the side to take pictures. Donald Trump, who survived two attempted assassinations, told the crowd that "somebody would have to shoot through the fake news."
"To get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news," he declared.
Although he'd probably be hit, he added, "I don't mind that so much."
He took abuse for egging on the assassination of the media.
His spokesman, Steven Cheung, added that it was far from the intention to target media but "actually looking out for their welfare, far more than his own".
Trump felt "reporters were in great danger themselves, and should have had a glass protective shield, also," he added.
At his next two stops, Trump mostly stuck to his campaign's themes as he repeated his promise of a "Golden Age" if he is elected and turned towards the familiar themes of his campaign.
He is facing criticism over an insult a comedian hurled during his New York rally against Puerto Rico, calling it an island of garbage.
In Georgia, he attacked the open border policy of the administration of President Joe Biden and Harris saying it had allowed murderers, among other criminals, to enter the country.
In the rally, he went on stage with the mother and family of a murdered Puerto Rican woman who died allegedly at the hands of an illegal migrant.
Carmen Ramirez, mother of the victim, Mimi Rodriguez-Ramirez, said, "I have a 25-year-old daughter with a lot of life and somebody stopped her life. And we have to stop with this and keep going with Donald Trump."
It was to show he had support among Puerto Ricans and that they, like other Latinos, were opposed to open borders.
