And I want to say a very special hello to Tennessee. A place, a place that we together won all three times in landslides, and I'm proud to have received more votes than any candidate in the history of Tennessee politics.
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Now with your vote just 24 days from now, Tennessee is going to defeat the radical left Democrats once again. They are Dumocrats. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. On November 3rd, we are going to reelect Bill Hagerty to the United States Senate. Thank you, Bill. Great guy. You're a great guy. We're going to send Marsha Blackburn to the governor's mansion. She's gonna do a great job. And just across the state line, we are going to elect a man named Andy Barr, my friend for a long time as the next senator
And in this election, I'm asking you to do me a favor: pretend. Just pretend that I'm running 'cause you know when I run we get 48% more votes. 48%. And in a way we are running. So pretend that I'm running and go out. You gotta get out and vote because the communists, socialists, Democrats, they will cheat, they will do whatever, and we have to get out.
You know the expression was copied last week. I couldn't believe it. She said, "We have to make this too big to rig." It was Kamala that said that. And she stole my line. And she got killed for it, by the way. She was killed. But she stole my line. She couldn't come up with her own line. We gotta make it too big to rig. Early voting in Tennessee begins on October 14th. So, uh, let's do it big. Let's do it big. Send these people back from where they came. And you vote earlier, you vote on
You know, they didn't know I was gonna do rallies. They were saying, "Oh --" And typically, I don't know why nobody's explained it, not even Bill Hagerty could explain it to me, and he knows a lot. But for some reason, when you have a president, Republican or Democrat, it's just brutal. They don't seem to win the midterms, but we're gonna turn that tradition around because we have done, we have done more than any president in two years.
So the last time the radical left Democrats had power, they gave us the worst inflation in American history, the highest energy prices in American history. [...] They gave us the worst trade deficit in American history. They allowed 25 million people to pour across our borders from all over the world. They came. It was an invasion. It was like a military invasion. And if they win the midterms, if they win anything, they'll do it again. That's what they wanna do. They wanna do it again. They
You know, I should just say those few stats and then just say, "Thank you, everybody. Please go out and vote for us in the midterms." Because when you say those stats, there's nothing else, right, Bill? There's nothing else you can say. Those stats are perfect.
I love Mississippi. We won that state by so much. We, we, we won, honestly, we won them all. I hate to tell you. We won Tennessee by la- -- but we won them all. You know, I have records in Texas, Florida, Alabama. I have re- -- 38 states, 38, I have the all-time, in history, record on. So, but I, today I'm saying you because I happen to be in Tennessee.
You know this guy Talafreako still wears the mask. And he had the longest flu ever recorded. He was away for like almost 14 days. He was missing in action. I don't think it was the flu. Either that or was a new strain of flu. It keeps you out of commission for weeks. But, uh, no, Talafreako, he was wearing a mask. Here's a guy running in Texas against a very good guy, the greatest attorney general that this country has seen in many, many years actually. Uh, and Talafreako, a couple of months
We were dead. If they got in, if Kamala or Joe Tipes got in, any of those, Obama, any of them, they're all the same. If any of them got in, this country was finished. You wouldn't have had a country.
I don't actually have to be in Tennessee, because Bill Hagerty's gonna win. Marsha's gonna win, you better win, Marsha. She took a little risk. She decided to leave the Senate, but she's great. She's gonna win. These guys are all gonna win, these congressmen are phenomenal. So I'm saying, "What the hell am I doing in Tennessee?" And in a way, I'm here, because you wanna reward the places that have automatically treated you well. Yeah, you do. You know, you're always going to a state where it's
What the hell am I doing in Tennessee? I'm here because and I feel this, I'm doing it with a few other states too. I don't have to campaign here, and I win. I've won your state by, you know, many, many, many points, some ridiculous number, all the time, three times. We won the primary and we won, so three times. I won the election, the big election three times. I got screwed the second time because they cheated. They cheated. And we can't let that happen again. But I said, "You know, sometimes
But he said to me, "How do you go in front of all these people, every day in, day out?" "I have to do it because we have to win the midterms." "But how do you do it?" Because he said he couldn't do that.
She said, "Do you have to do that with a this and this?" Sir, you know, look, it's -- she says it's not at all elegant. It's not, she said it's not presidential. I said, "It may not be presidential, but I won the election in a landslide, okay? That's all I know."
Now, but, and I don't like talking about it much. I don't li- -- I only talk about it right before election, so we're almost qualified 'cause I don't want the Democrats to change because they cheat, they lie, they steal, they're horrible people. And some of them are very smart, but their policy is so damn bad. I don't care how good they are. How the hell do you win with men in women's sports and transgender for everybody? How do you do -- so I don't talk about it much, Bill Hagerty. The reason I
Our country is doing so well under Republican leadership that only I can make this promise to you. I'm gonna make a promise to you today. [...] But I make this promise to you, if Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate, in other words, you gotta get out and vote, I am going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America $5,000 everywhere. And only Republicans can do it. The Democrats can't do it because we Republicans are taking in massive amounts of money through
But the Democrats can't do it, but we can because we're doing record-setting economic success and we're taking in trillions and trillions of dollars. And the Democrats' policies won't allow that to happen. So they can't make a promise like that because if the Democrats win, you will have a 1929-style economic depression. And I've been great. I, that's one I don't wanna be, uh, I hope I'm wrong on that, but I can be perfect on that. All you have to do is vote in the Republicans. If they get in,
And they've taken advantage of us for years. They didn't. I had it all done in the first, and then these lunatics came in for four years. What they did, they were destroying our country and we cannot let them get back in. Like Mohammed El-Sayed, I call him Mohammed. Somebody said, "His name isn't Mohammed. It's Abdul. I said, "To me, it's Mohammed. I'm the president. I can call him whatever the hell I want. To me, he's Mohammed." And he's a radical jihadist. The guy said jihadist, look at his
I won by lot. Then I had this dope on Fox saying today, they're talking about Michigan. "Well, Trump is very unpopular." I just won the state by a lot. "Trump is very unpopular in Michigan." Uh, I just won the state. And I think I'm more popular now, frankly, than I was a year and a half ago if you wanna know the truth, but who the hell knows? Who the hell cares, right? Right? Front row? Front row, am I more popular now or a year and a half ago?
But the choice on the election is very simple. [...] So it's pretty clear you can vote for the radical left Democrat communists to loot your wealth, raise your taxes by $5 trillion, which is what they wanna do, annihilate your borders, crush Tennessee farms and factories.
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This explorer presents a hand-compiled collection of Donald Trump's public statements about elections, made as president-elect and during his second term as president, from December 8, 2024, through October 10, 2026. It currently includes 425 statements. These statements come from three sources: posts on Truth Social and spoken remarks, such as speeches and interviews.
The collection includes any statement that focuses on elections, not just those about fraud. The collection includes candidate endorsements, comments on election results, and statements about election rules alongside fraud claims, so it reflects the full range of what Trump says about elections.
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Election referenced: the 2016, 2020, or 2024 presidential elections; the 2025 off-year elections; the 2026 midterms; 2028; other or future elections; or no specific election.
Topic: the subject of the statement, such as fraud allegations, election rules, election results, endorsements, legal cases, the media, or a third term.
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