Republican presidential candidate, former US President Donald Trump (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
In an effort to leave nothing to chance when it comes to the battleground in North Carolina, former President Donald Trump held a late Sunday afternoon rally in Kinston, hours after campaigning in Gastonia and Greensboro on Saturday.
During his 70-minute speech at the Kinston Jet Center, Trump returned to many of the themes he had focused on in the final days of the presidential campaign.
Trump told his supporters that North Carolina has brought him luck in the past and predicted that the state would ultimately give him 16 electoral votes on Tuesday.
“We won twice. We won every primary. We won everything [in] this place. We even named that beautiful little granddaughter Carolina,” Trump said, repeating a phrase he had used during every stop in the Tar Heel State.
Trump promised the public that with their vote on Tuesday, he would put an end to inflation and the “invasion of criminals” coming into the country.
“We have some of the worst terrorists in the world in our country right now. Maybe they live near you. They let them in by the tens of thousands,” Trump said, blaming the current administration. “If we let this pass us by, we need to have our heads examined.”
Trump told the crowd that major Republicans were running in the 2024 election. He then accidentally mentioned the name of a Senate candidate from Pennsylvania.
“You’ve got one of the best of them all here, David McCormick. You know, that…David is here somewhere. You know, we just left him. He’s a great guy.”
McCormick was not in Kinston at the time.
Trump briefly turned to the recent jobs report before returning to his own grievances.
He told the audience that he has been investigated more than the late American gangster Al Capone.
‘Has anyone ever heard of him? He’s a nice man,” Trump said.
“When he went to dinner with Mike Lindell and Mike offered him some pillows. And if he didn’t sleep well because he didn’t like Mike’s pillows, Mike had almost no chance of living. He was going to throw Mike somewhere in the foundation of a building or something. You would never see Mike again. Mike doesn’t want to have dinner with Scarface, does he?’
The CEO of MyPillow was in the crowd supporting Trump.
Trump promised to cut energy prices in half within 12 months, build an additional 200 miles of border wall and impose tariffs on companies that don’t make their products in the United States.
Economists have repeatedly said Trump’s tariffs would do even more damage to the economy.
“You will be so happy,” Trump said.
Trump is expected to make a similar call when he addresses supporters at Dorton Arena in Raleigh on Monday.
More than 4.2 million North Carolina residents have already cast ballots during the in-person early voting period.
