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Trump’s Erratic Election-Eve Rally

The president went down to Georgia for a rally that was sometimes entertaining, often incoherent, and entirely terrifying.
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During an election-eve rally in Dalton, Georgia, tonight, President Donald Trump offered a wide range of lies, conspiracy theories, and hogwash, but he also said one thing that was unimpeachably true.

“I don’t do rallies for other people,” he said. “I do rallies for me.”

Ostensibly, Trump was in Georgia to campaign for Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, the two Republicans vying to keep their seats in runoffs tomorrow. He went through the motions, praising each of them and calling on Georgians to cast their votes in the races, both of which analysts have rated

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