Trump’s Campaign Goes Off The Rails With 3 Weeks Until The Election | EUROtoday

With simply three weeks to go till the presidential election, Donald Trump’s marketing campaign has taken an odd flip.

The GOP nominee for president has by no means been one to play by the political rulebook, however his latest appearances have been particularly weird: He’s swayed onstage to music as an alternative of taking questions, trashed individuals he’s additionally making an attempt to court docket as voters and spent valuable time campaigning in solidly blue states, to call just a few.

Here are a number of the puzzling issues he’s been as much as these days in his race in opposition to Vice President Kamala Harris.

During a Pennsylvania city corridor Monday evening, Trump abruptly stated he was executed taking questions and wished to “just listen to music,” directing his workers to play “a couple of real beauties.”

What adopted was almost 40 minutes of Trump singing alongside, swaying and calmly dancing on stage to a canopy of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and Franz Schubert’s “Ave Maria,” together with varied hits by Sinead O’Connor, Elvis Presley, Guns N’ Roses and the Village People.

Even Trump appeared confused at occasions about what was unfolding, remarking after one of many first songs that “there’s nobody leaving” and requested, “What’s going on?” The crowd appeared uncertain whether or not the occasion was over.

Trump’s marketing campaign has been aggressively pursuing assist from auto staff in Michigan, the capital of American automobile manufacturing. But he threw all that out the window Tuesday when he diminished their jobs as merely taking elements “out of a box” and stated the work was really easy a baby might do it.

“They build everything in Germany, and then they assemble it here. They get away with murder,” Trump claimed throughout an look on the Economic Club of Chicago.

“They take them out of a box, and they assemble them. We could have our child doing it,” he continued.

In one other odd second throughout his Chicago look on Tuesday, Trump responded to a query about whether or not Google must be damaged up by saying he hasn’t “gotten over” the Justice Department suing the state of Virginia for eradicating individuals from voter rolls.

Then, when the interviewer reminded Trump that the query was about Google, Trump stated the tech firm “is very bad to me.”

“I called the head of Google the other day and said I’m getting a lot of good stories lately, but you don’t find them in Google,” Trump stated. “I think it’s a whole rigged deal. I think Google is rigged just like our government is rigged all over the place.”

Joe Kernen, one of many hosts of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” revealed on air Tuesday that Trump pulled out of an upcoming interview on the present.

Sources acquainted with the unique plans instructed The Daily Beast that the interview was speculated to occur later this week, till Trump abruptly canceled. A Trump spokesperson instructed CNN he canceled resulting from a scheduling battle.

This marks the second time this month Trump has skipped out on a serious interview. After canceling his look on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” he posted a number of indignant rants on social media calling the century-old community “A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY” and demanding its broadcast license be revoked.

While presidential candidates usually maintain most of their rallies in swing states ― a political necessity of the electoral school ― Trump has been scheduling a few of his remaining occasions of the election in solidly blue states like California, Colorado, Illinois and New York.

His choice to spend any period of time and sources in states he has no probability of profitable has baffled pundits.

He’s even repeatedly insisted that he’s going to flip his house state of New York although no main polls point out that. A Republican hasn’t received the state in 40 years.

He’s additionally been exaggerating crowd sizes at his blue-state occasions. After holding a rally in California’s Coachella Valley on Saturday, Trump boasted about having 100,000 attendees. While the precise variety of attendees is unclear, a allow issued for the occasion reportedly capped attendance at 15,000.