'No way': Trump tells rally crowd he wouldn't have come if he wasn't down in the polls

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Independent


Trump claims he had already ‘made it’ to a second term – until the coronavirus pandemic struck

Namita Singh
2 hours ago

Addressing a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump told his supporters that “there’s no way” he would have bothered to campaign there – had it not been for the coronavirus pandemic hurting his re-election prospects.

“Four or five months ago when we started this whole thing before the plague came in, I had made it, I wasn’t coming to Erie,” said Mr Trump.

“I mean, I have to be honest. There’s no way I was coming. I didn’t have to. I would have called you and said, ‘Hey Erie, you know if you have a chance get out and vote’. We had this thing won,” he added.

Mr Trump said he had to return to battlegrounds like Pennsylvania because of the damage caused to the economy by the pandemic.

“We were so far up. We had the greatest economy ever, the greatest jobs, greatest everything. And then we got hit with the plague. And I had to go back to work. Hello Erie, hey may I please have your vote.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-rally-polls-erie-pennsylvania-coronavirus-pandemic-b1196763.html

[helpisontheway]

1. Oh so he stopped calling it the Chyna virus? Fool! Nt

[SergeStorms]

23. Temporarily.

Until it suits his needs again.

[patricia92243]

2. Nothing like insulting the crowd.

[ananda]

10. He also looks and sounds high as a kite.

I wonder what he took besides the usual.

[IronLionZion]

25. Meth

He has to be high on something to have such a miraculous recovery from COVID.

[ananda]

26. Does meth make you act that silly and goofy?

I thought it was meth and something else maybe.

[PatSeg]

19. I'm surprised he didn't ask

"What do you have to lose?" What a great salesman he is.

[captain queeg]

3. 4 or 5 months ago when he started? He's never stopped campaigning.

And things were certainly not great at that time. But he lives in an alternate reality bubble. Which reminds me, haven’t seen the sea hag lately. Ever since Kelly Ann got her plastic surgery she’s kept a low profile. Maybe she’s embarrassed that her kids think she’s full of shit. Certainly never cared what the public has thought of her.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. She officially "left" the administration at the end of August

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/23/politics/kellyanne-conway-george-conway-white-house-lincoln-project/index.html

But then she still showed up for events and got caught in the super-spreader at the WH, tested positive, and passed it onto her daughter (who had posted about it on social media).

She's still tossing barbs on twitter however.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. When he calls them losers and suckers, just used to...

... promote his own interests, then I'll wonder if he was given truth serum.

[riversedge]

5. ...He SAID IT OUT LOUD and some of those fools cheered. Its a cult............

Trump actually told a crowd of his supporters in Erie PA that he wouldn't have bothered to visit them if he was winning. He SAID IT OUT LOUD and some of those fools cheered. Its a cult.

Link to tweet

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[Botany]

16. Erie, PA in late October on a cold dark rainy night ... doesn't get any better than that.

And then he tells the crowd that he doesn't want to be there anyway and the maskless
morons cheer him on in a super spreader event.

[Nexus2]

6. I guess that's more of that advanced neuro-linguistic programming Scott Addams was on about.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. We're at the point where Trump upends the applecart to suit himself

Prepare for anything.

[mwb970]

8. What contempt the Dear Leader shows for his devoted worshipers!

[mdbl]

9. There was a crowd? What the F is wrong with those people?

Do they have any morals or respect for democracy? Obviously not.

[AZ8theist]

14. It's not about morals or respect for democracy.

It's about being so fucking stupid you would rather listen to, and obey, the musings of an imbecile than to the professionals who have spent their lives trying to make America a better, more healthy and safer place.

[honest.abe]

12. Basically he was saying "I wouldn't set foot in this shit hole city if I was winning"

Nice way to talk to your loyal idiots.

[rpannier]

13. Sports analogy

"We'd be in the Super Bowl right now. We were so far up in the standings. We had the greatest offensive numbers, the greatest defensive numbers, greatest everything. And then we got hit with the Steelers, the Seahawks, the Chiefs, the Buccs, the Packers and the Bears. We'd be so far in first if it weren't for those teams."

[AZ8theist]

15. Sounds like every Dallas Cowboys fan every year.....

[Paladin]

20. Excellent comparison.

I don't know why the Cowboys have any fan base left, at all. Not after the decades of crass mismanagement by good ol' Jerry Jones.

Same for trump. What sort of dumbfuck worshipper do you have to be at this point, to cast a vote for his sorry ass?

[AZ8theist]

27. Hey, go easy on Jerry Jones.

He's the best GM for that organization. He even said so himself.

[Laha]

17. "And I had to go back to work."

He just admitted he spends most of his time *not* working. That idiot needs to staple his mouth shut.

[Happy Hoosier]

18. I guess his idiot followers LOVE that he doesn't really give a shit about them.... NT

[Eyeball_Kid]

21. That's how it's been since the night of his inauguration.

On Inauguration night, Trumpy-Boy told his adoring fans that HE DIDN'T NEED THEM ANYMORE, since he won. Oh, he might need them again in four years, but for now, fuck off and kiss my ass.

[CountAllVotes]

22. Keep dreaming

Lard ass!

[OregonBlue]

24. My God. These people are too stupid to realize he just insulted them big time.

[quaker bill]

28. untrue like all things Trump

He was 5 to 6 points behind the day Biden announced. He has never gotten any closer than that.