CNN Plays Brutal Supercut of Trump’s Closing Day Rhetoric: Everyone Warned Him To ‘Stay On Message’

CNN Plays Brutal Supercut of Trump’s Closing Day Rhetoric: Everyone Warned Him To ‘Stay On Message’

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer spoke to national correspondent Kristen Holmes on Monday about Donald Trump’s closing message before Election Day on Tuesday – a segment that included a brutal supercut of Trump’s recent rhetoric.

“Kristen Holmes right now. She’s in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Trump is scheduled to deliver his last rally of the campaign tonight. Kristen, what is Trump’s strategy for this final day out there on the campaign trail?” Blitzer asked to kick off the segment.

“Well, Wolf, he’s been hitting all those battleground states and hitting them hard with on start off in North Carolina. Now, it’s notable. He spent a majority of the weekend in North Carolina, not a place his team originally thought that they would be,” Holmes began, adding:

It was the place that offered him the narrowest victory he had in 2020. But clearly, they saw something in the polls there that made them decide to go back all weekend long. Then two rallies in Pennsylvania today. As Jeff said, both sides believe Pennsylvania is the key to the White House this time around. Donald Trump’s team says they feel cautiously optimistic, but they, again aren’t leaving anything on the line. So two rallies there and then ending here in Grand Rapids, Michigan, notably both Pennsylvania and Michigan, states he won in 2016 and then ended up losing in 2020.

Now, one of the most interesting things about where he’s ending tonight, this is the exact same city and the exact same arena that he finished out his 2016 campaign in. Donald Trump is known for being superstition. And that is certainly part of the reason that they are trying to replicate the results of 2016. Part of the reason they are here tonight, Wolf.

“And I know, Kristen, you’re learning there are some concerns about Trump’s closing message. Tell our viewers what you’re learning,” Wolf followed up.

“Yeah, I spoke to a number of aides, allies, advisers, all of whom have either warned Donald Trump’s campaign or warned the former president himself to stay on message in these final days. And this particularly came after his rally yesterday morning in Pennsylvania when he seemed to essentially go off the rails on some of the messaging they were trying to have him focus on. Take a listen to just some of what he had to say,” said Holmes before playing the clips:

I saw that rocket came down and said, man, it’s going to crash. Those two big arms. You saw the arms. They grab that thing like you grab your beautiful baby. See, I’ve gotten much better. Years ago I would have said something else. But I’ve learned, you know, I would have been a little bit more risque.

The press would say, oh he rambled, No, that’s not really you know, that is that was genius. That’s the weave.

We can’t let these animals come in from other countries. It ain’t a slap in the wrist. When you kill somebody, you kill somebody. Now, if you fight for a fair and free election, then they throw the book at you.

“And Wolf, my apologies. That’s actually his sound from today. What he said over the weekend that set off alarm bells within Trump’s orbit was he talked incessantly about sowing doubt in the 2024 election. He said he should have stayed in the White House,” Holmes noted, adding:

And he also said that he wouldn’t mind if someone shot through reporters in order to get to him. Now, what we just heard is his messaging today. Well, it might sound out there for some that is actually Donald Trump sticking to his own messaging. His team says that they heard they that he heard from allies, that he understood that’s what was at stake.

And so they have he kept him focused for the last several rallies. Will see, of course, what happens when he gets on the ground here in Grand Rapids. They don’t want to lose any votes because of Donald Trump’s rhetoric. And they have told him that he needs to be on message and hopefully on time. We don’t think that’s going to happen tonight to keep the crowds energized and focused.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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