Trump’s rant strays as Harris’ supporters dare to hope – POLITICO

Mike’s pillows

Later Sunday, at a rally in North Carolina, another swing state, Trump appeared distraught. At one point, he suggested to the crowd that he was still in Pennsylvania. He also told a fictional story about Al Capone, a Chicago gangster who died in 1947, and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell having lunch together, during which prominent Trump supporter Lindell offered Capone pillows.

“If he didn’t sleep well because he didn’t like Mike’s pillows, Mike had almost no chance of surviving,” Trump said. “He would have gotten rid of Mike somewhere in the foundation of a building or something like that. You’ll never see Mike again. Mike doesn’t want to have dinner with Scar.

The crowd seemed confused and unsure how to react.

On Saturday, Trump suggested that Hannibal Lecter, the villain from the horror film The Silence of the Lambs, was a real-life undocumented migrant.

Harris, for her part, said at a rally in Michigan, a Rust Belt swing state in the Midwest, that her campaign was gaining “momentum.” Senior Harris officials said over the weekend that internal campaign data showed the vice president winning late-deciding voters by double-digit margins. The New York Times/Siena College poll, released Sunday, also found that newly-decided voters backed Harris by double-digit margins.

A separate and highly regarded Des Moines Register poll over the weekend showed Harris with a narrow lead over Trump in Iowa, a state previously considered a safe bet for the Republican nominee.

The study, which combined a “mega-survey” of 31,000 people with polls of individual swing states provided exclusively to POLITICO, also tentatively showed Harris with the best chance of winning.

Lisa Kashinsky contributed reporting from Lititz, Pennsylvania. Andrew Howard contributed reporting from Washington, DC. Elena Schneider contributed reporting from Michigan.