Former President Donald Trump closed out his campaign rallying into the wee hours of the morning on Tuesday.
The Republican nominee rallied in Grand Rapids, Michigan, past 2:00 a.m. after a full day of rallies that began at 10:00 a.m. in Raleigh, North Carolina. Trump then held a 2:00 p.m. in Reading, Pennsylvania and another in Pittsburgh at 6:00 p.m., before concluding in Grand Rapids. Polls opened just hours after rally goers had gone to bed.
“We don’t have to settle for weakness, incompetence, decline, and decay,” Trump told the crowd in Michigan early Tuesday morning, as he promised to make America great again.
“Joe and Kamala broke it,” he said, “and I will fix it.”
Donald Trump’s closing message at 2 am on election day:
“For the past 9 years we have been fighting against the most sinister and corrupt forces on earth. With your vote…you can show them once and for all that this nation does not belong to them. This nation belongs to you.” pic.twitter.com/W55oK1ZNCl
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) November 5, 2024
This was Trump’s third time appearing in Grand Rapids on the eve of his election, as The Spectator’s Amber Athey reports. When Trump spoke in Michigan in 2020, he joked to the crowd, “We can be a little superstitious, right?” Athey also highlighted that this was “by far” the youngest Trump rally that she had attended, noting that there were “large groups of young men and women in their 20s” in attendance.
Trump and his surrogates repeatedly emphasized the importance of Americans doing their part by voting on Election Day — Trump pointed out early Tuesday morning that he had done his part by campaigning, and it is now up to Americans to do their part by voting.
“If that man at 78 can do 4 rallies & pull an all nighter for America we can all GET OUT & VOTE & STAY IN LINE TILL IT’S DONE,” said Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., in an “X” post with a video of his father dancing out of the rally at 2:15 a.m. “Now it’s on you America.”
The last dance of the Trump campaign at 2:15 am in Michigan. We landed in FL at 5:35 & @realDonaldTrump is still going strong. If that man at 78 can do 4 rallies & pull an all nighter for America we can all
GET OUT & VOTE & STAY IN LINE TILL IT’S DONE. Now it’s on you America🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/CETaR0s6uS— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 5, 2024
As he has typically done, Trump made the case that he is not only fighting the Democratic Party, but also the woke and ideological values that are hurting the United States of America.
“I’m not running against Kamala, I’m running against an evil, Democrat system,” Trump told the rally goers. “We have to defeat that system and America’s future will be an absolutely incredible one.”
He emphasized: “This isn’t my campaign, this is your campaign. There’s love in this room. I think there’s love in this whole country. It’s a much bigger movement than we realize.”
The rally came only hours after podcaster Joe Rogan endorsed Trump for president. And during the Pittsburgh rally, Megyn Kelly delivered a ringing endorsement for the president by sharing personal stories of women who have suffered under the Biden-Harris administration.
Kelly mentioned Laken Riley, a young girl brutally killed by an illegal immigrant, and Payton McNabb, a young woman injured by a trans-identifying male in her volleyball game. She tore into the media for hiding scandalous stories about Harris’s husband and his treatment of women And she slammed the Harris campaign for telling women to hide their votes from their husbands.
“I hope all of you do what I did last week — vote Trump, and get 10 friends to vote Trump too,” she told the crowd.
An incredible night in Pittsburgh with President Trump. God bless him. Go vote for him! LFG America! pic.twitter.com/CngF3fEWz4
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) November 5, 2024
