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WASHINGTON \u2015 In the final sprint toward Election Day, Donald Trump has mused about former congresswoman Liz Cheney as well as journalists covering his rallies getting gunned down, confirmed that he will put an anti-vax conspiracy theorist in charge of the government\u2019s health care apparatus and explained that talking about a fictional serial killer proves his genius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that was all before he declared at a rally Sunday that he should have just stayed in office despite his 2020 election loss and failed coup attempt on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe day that I left, I shouldn\u2019t have left,\u201d he said at a rally in Pennsylvania. \u201cI mean, honestly, because we did so well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump did not elaborate on how, exactly, that might have worked. At noon on Jan. 20, 2021, Joe Biden became the new president and commander-in-chief. At that moment, Trump would have been a trespasser had he chosen to remain in the White House and subject to arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s critics cite Trump\u2019s advancing years \u2015 he is now 78 \u2015 and apparent mental decline<\/a> as the cause for his inability to deliver a succinct closing message as to why voters should, despite everything, return him to office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAge and cognitive decline?\u201d offered one veteran Republican consultant on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPsychological decompensation,\u201d said George Conway, whose former wife, Kellyanne Conway, ran Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign in its final months. George Conway supported Trump that election before quickly concluding he had made a terrible mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s campaign rejected the idea that Trump is losing focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Trump is the greatest orator in political history and his patented \u2018weave\u2019 is a brilliant method to convey important stories and explain policies,\u201d spokesman Steven Cheung said. \u201cThe media is too stupid and ignorant to understand or comprehend what is happening in the country and, therefore, is unable to accurately report on President Trump\u2019s achievements while in office and the pro-America agenda he will implement in his second term.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weave refers to Trump\u2019s claim that his rambling speaking style of jumping from topic to topic, eventually returning to his original thought, shows off his great intellect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, Trump\u2019s increasingly erratic campaign rhetoric in the finals of his 2024 campaign stands in stark contrast to his performance eight years ago, when he robotically stuck to reading poll-tested themes from his teleprompter multiple times a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, on Sunday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Kellyanne Conway has spoken often about how she persuaded him to stay on message for the final weeks after the release of the Access Hollywood tape on which he was heard to boast that his celebrity allowed him to grab women by the genitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump took that advice then, hitting the same points over and over every night: the latest Hillary Clinton emails, stolen by Russia and released by Wikileaks; the southern border wall and making Mexico pay for it; bringing back jobs from overseas; fighting radical Islam; and redoing unfair trade deals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that final month, Trump cut way back on interviews and largely stuck to the script written for him by others, for the most part avoiding meandering detours. Once he even reminded himself aloud about remaining focused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to be nice and cool, nice and cool, right?\u201d Trump said<\/a> at a rally on Nov. 2, 2016. \u201cStay on point, Donald, stay on point. No side tracks, Donald. Nice and easy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight years later, Trump instead spends most of his hour-and-a-half speeches on those side tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I say insane asylums, and then I say, Doctor Hannibal Lecter, does anybody know? They go crazy. They say, oh, he brings up these names out of\u2014 Well, that\u2019s genius. Right. Doctor Hannibal Lecter. There\u2019s nobody worse than him. Silence of the Lambs. Who the hell else would even remember that? I have a great memory, but they always hit me. I don\u2019t bring it up too much because they have to take such a\u2014 he brought up Hannibal Lecter. What does that have to do with this? What is it? It has everything to do with it, right?\u201d he said at a North Carolina rally on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo I\u2019ve done something for you that I haven\u2019t done in 20 speeches. I brought up Doctor Hannibal Lecter and we\u2019re allowing him, you watch, you watch these fake people will say again, he brought up Hannibal Lecter has absolutely nothing to do. You know I do the weave, right? The weave. It\u2019s genius. You bring up Hannibal Lecter, you mention insane asylum. Hannibal Lecter. You go out, no. There\u2019ll be a time in life where the weave won\u2019t finish properly at the bottom and then we can talk. But right now it\u2019s pure genius. Hey, I have an uncle, my uncle, Uncle John, my father\u2019s brother, 41 years at MIT, longest serving professor has so many degrees, he didn\u2019t know what the hell to do with them all in the most complicated. I understand a lot of this stuff, you know, I believe in that. Like, I mean, Jack Nicklaus is not going to produce a bad golfer. Right. You know, that\u2019s the way it works. It\u2019s just one of those things and it\u2019s in the family and it\u2019s whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KINSTON, NORTH CAROLINA – NOVEMBER 03: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Kinston Regional Jetport on November 03, 2024 in Kinston, North Carolina. With only two days until the election, Trump is campaigning for re-election on Sunday in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images) (Photo: Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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