Inside Trump’s final two-week campaign sprint across deep-red America

Heading into the final stretch before the midterms, President Donald Trump has crisscrossed Republican strongholds for roughly twenty rallies this month, and the events have centered almost entirely on him rather than on voters' worries about prices or the country's direction. Trump has told people privately that these are probably his last rallies as the party's top figure, giving the run a farewell flavor. CNN reporters followed him through ten states, including Kansas, Florida and Georgia.

The crowds now consist overwhelmingly of committed Republicans, though a Kansas rally drew at least two doubters: a young mother weighing her Senate vote, and a small business owner who said the event pushed him toward Democrat Adam Hamilton. In Clemson, South Carolina, security removed hecklers at least a dozen times, and Trump joked that they always interrupted at his punchlines.

In Fort Myers, Florida, he spent long stretches urging supporters to back downbeat-ticket candidates, seemed surprised that Senator Ashley Moody faced a tight race against Angie Nixon, and asked the crowd to act as though he were on the ballot. In Perry, Georgia, he boasted about American oil wealth despite expensive gasoline, admitting his aides had told him to avoid the subject.

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