Trump’s ranting loses its way while Harris’s supporters dare to hope – POLITICO

Mike’s pillows

Later on Sunday at a rally in North Carolina, another swing state, Trump seemed confused. At one point he suggested to the crowd that he was still in Pennsylvania. He also told a fictional story about Al Capone, the Chicago gangster who died in 1947, and Mike Lindell, CEO of ‘MyPillow’, having dinner together, with prominent Trump supporter Lindell offering Capone pillows.

“If he didn’t sleep well because he didn’t like Mike’s pillows, Mike had almost no chance of living,” Trump said. “He dumped Mike somewhere in the foundation of a building or something. You would never see Mike again. Mike doesn’t want to go out to dinner with Scarface.”

The audience seemed confused and unsure how to respond.

Kamala Harris, who said her campaign was gaining momentum, speaks during a campaign rally at Jenison Field House on the campus of Michigan State University in Lansing. | Scott Olson/Getty Images

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

Harris, for her part, claimed at a rally in Michigan, a Rust Belt swing state in the Midwest, that her campaign was gaining “momentum.” Senior Harris officials demonstrated this past weekend internal campaign data showed the vice president winning over late-deciding voters by double-digit margins. A New York Times/Siena College Surveyreleased Sunday also found that voters who had recently come to terms with their decisions backed Harris by a double-digit lead.

A separate and highly regarded opinion poll in the Des Moines Register Over the weekend, it emerged that Harris narrowly led Trump in Iowa, a state previously considered a safe bet for the Republican candidate.

Investigate that a “mega poll” of 31,000 people with individual swing states polls shared exclusively with POLITICO also tentatively indicated Harris was best positioned to win.

Lisa Kashinsky contributed reporting from Lititz, Pennsylvania. Andrew Howard reported from Washington, D.C. Elena Schneider reported from Michigan.