Former President Donald Trump returned to Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Monday for what is possibly his final political rally as a presidential candidate.
Trump has said he won't run for president in 2028 if he is unsuccessful in this election; he will not be eligible to run again if he wins due to the 22nd Amendment which limits presidents to two terms each.
And with the Republican nominee returning to his home in Florida for Election Day to cast his own vote, Monday marked the end of his political campaigning in the 2024 presidential election.
Newsweek contacted the Trump campaign for comment on the rally via email.
Donald Trump Feels a Little Bad for Joe Biden
Trump has already implied that he feels a little responsible for President Joe Biden's replacement as the Democratic nominee, with the TV debate between the two men in June being the tipping point in Biden's fortunes.
He repeated this sentiment during his final rally, expressing sympathy for Biden and describing the president's removal as the Democratic candidate as a coup.
Trump said: "And remember, they ripped that presidency away from Joe Biden. Say what you want. We're not fans of Joe Biden. You know, I spent $150 million on him. We went through the convention. We never mentioned Kamala, and nobody knew who the hell she was. And all of a sudden, they picked Kamala.
"Joe Biden, in one of his crazy moments, said that we were all garbage. But they've shut him down. They took the election away. They walked in, and they said, 'You're not running anymore. You're out.' Can you believe?
"They stole the election from a president. Can you imagine that? They use the word 'coup'. I think it's worse than a coup, in a sense. Because a coup is a little back and forth. They said 'Joe, you're out.'"
Trump: 'Pretend We're Losing'
Despite the high numbers of early voters, the election will still be decided on polling day, with turnout being a massively important factor for both campaigns.
Trump appeared to warn against complacency among his supporters, saying at the rally: "You know, the Republicans are never up like that, and I don't want to talk too much about it because I really want you to... I really want you to just assume that it's sort of even, and you're going to turn out tomorrow, and we're going to blow this thing away.
"Because, you know, we're leading, we're leading going in by hundreds of thousands of votes. But just pretend we're tied or losing by a little bit because we want to put on a display tomorrow of unity and everything."
Elon Musk Featured Heavily
Billionaire Elon Musk has thrown his full weight behind Trump, backing him with rhetoric and money, donating over $100 million to his campaign.
The SpaceX and Tesla CEO has been rewarded with a place in the former president's inner circle and a possible spot in a potential second Trump administration, which the Republican nominee doubled down on last night.
"He considers the election more important than rockets, more important than anything. He helped us out a lot in North Carolina and parts of Georgia where they needed—desperately needed the Starlink.
"I had no idea what's Starlink—they called me up. They called me up in Georgia, 'Elon's incredible. He has Starlink. He's got everything has to do with stars and stuff, very complex stuff.'
"He's amazing. And he's having a good time, you know. He usually is in a lab, and he's happy there. All of a sudden, he's escaped the lab, and now he's out, and the public adores him. He's a great guy. The public absolutely adores him."
Trump Wants His 2016 Coalition Back
Trump's win in 2016 was built on the support of the white working-class vote in the Midwest, which handed him Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan along with Pennsylvania from the Rust Belt.
This election, Trump is looking to rebuild that winning formula, and his final rally honed in on the manufacturing roots of those states and voters who originally backed him.
Trump said: "I saved Michigan, and I saved Detroit, and we're going to let them build that plant, but you know where we want them to build it? Right here. We want them to build it, and then they won't have any tariffs to pass.
"They won't have any tariffs, and they're going to use you to operate that big sucker, and it's... they can build as big as they want with no tariffs. I said, 'Let them know we'd love to have their investment. They're going to build it right here in Detroit or, at a minimum, they're going to build it someplace in the United States, and they won't have any problem.'
"So that's... so I saved Detroit and Michigan a lot. That alone. And I did that without even being president."
Trump: 'We Don't Have To Live This Way'
In his final message to voters before polls open, Trump adopted a change in rhetoric, and told voters that "we don't have to live this way," echoing Harris's rallying cry of "we are not going back."
Trump said: "My message to you and to all Americans tonight is very simple: we do not have to live this way. We don't have to live this way. We're not living good. Four years—what did they do that was good? Can you name one thing? I said to a group of people, 'What have they done? Everything's a disaster.'"
With hours left until voters decide the election, the message concluded Trump's campaign.
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