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contested election
Jan. 6, 2021
Watch Giuliani Demand ‘Trial by Combat’ to Settle the Election The president’s attorney proposed the medieval legal practice during his remarks at the “Save America” rally to protest Biden’s certification.
By Charlotte Klein
georgia senate runoffs
Jan. 5, 2021
The Strangest Moments From the Last Meaningful Trump Rally In a speech to boost support for Republican candidates in Georgia, Trump frequently went after other GOP figures for not supporting his coup attempt.
By Matt Stieb
American Flag Collapses at Trump Rally in North Carolina It wasn’t the ideal symbol for a president who is 30 hours out from an election he is on track to lose.
By Olivia Nuzzi
coronavirus
Oct. 30, 2020
Trump Rallies Leave Trail of COVID Spikes in Their Wake Fourteen counties that hosted MAGA rallies had increased rates of COVID cases one month later, in some cases outpacing rates in the rest of the state.
By Charlotte Klein
coronavirus
Oct. 19, 2020
Trump’s Latest Biden Insult: ‘He’ll Listen to the Scientists’ Considering the majority of Americans who still fear COVID and consider Trump’s response inadequate, the barb isn’t as thorny as Trump thinks it is.
By Matt Stieb
Trump Is Still Targeting Governor Gretchen Whitmer After Foiled Kidnapping Plot One day after Trump prompted “lock her up!” chants at his Michigan rally, his campaign tried to suggest she was encouraging his assassination.
By Chas Danner
Trump Encourages Calls to ‘Lock Up’ Gretchen Whitmer The president’s campaign says he was simply “having fun.” Whitmer says he was “inciting domestic terrorism.”
By Claire Lampen
vision 2020
Oct. 14, 2020
Trump’s Comeback Strategy: Deliver Same Old Message, But Louder The president’s campaign is in trouble, but he can’t seem to think of anything other than yelling at swing voters and demonizing Democrats even more.
By Ed Kilgore
trump campaign
Oct. 1, 2020
By Matt Stieb
trump rally
Sept. 21, 2020
Ohio Lt. Governor Booed at Trump Rally for Promoting Trump 2020 Masks Rallygoers weren’t pleased with Jon Husted, a co-chair of the Ohio Trump campaign, when he suggested they wear masks supporting Trump’s reelection.
By Matt Stieb
trump rally
Sept. 10, 2020
Trump Takes His Pitch to Suburban Voters to Its Absurd Conclusion “Does anybody want to have somebody from antifa as a member, a resident of your suburb? I don’t think so.”
By Matt Stieb
vision 2020
Sept. 9, 2020
There’s Still a Reason for Trump Rallies, for Trump at Least The MAGA rallies — which aren’t technically MAGA rallies — are helping the president workshop his campaign message in real time.
By Olivia Nuzzi
Tulsa Health Official: Trump Rally ‘Likely Contributed’ to COVID-19 Uptick Prior to the event in June, Tulsa’s health director called Trump’s rally a “perfect storm” of coronavirus transmission. Now it appears he was right.
By Matt Stieb
vision 2020
June 25, 2020
Are Trump’s Rallies for an Audience of One? With no evidence that his rallies make any real difference, you have to wonder if they are held strictly for him to charge up on the crowd’s cheers.
By Ed Kilgore
coronavirus
June 23, 2020
Trump to Speak at Rally of Thousands in Arizona Despite Coronavirus Surge On Monday, the state set a record for COVID-19 hospitalizations. On Tuesday, Trump will attend a huge indoor rally.
By Adam K. Raymond
All the Reasons Trump’s Tulsa Rally Was a Complete Disaster The failure of the overhyped event has left the Trump campaign in disarray, and at least eight staff members have now tested positive for COVID-19.
By Chas Danner
campaign rallies
June 19, 2020
Trump Threatens Protesters Ahead of Tulsa Rally “You will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis. It will be a much different scene!”
By Adam K. Raymond
Trump Angrily Overrules Talk of Changing Confederate Names on Army Bases Is Trump returning to the sympathy for neo-Confederates he showed during the Charlottesville violence?
By Ed Kilgore
trump rally
Feb. 20, 2020
Trump Enters Full Conspiracist Mode at Colorado Springs Rally The president appeared to combine multiple conspiracy theories in one indiscernible claim.
By Matt Stieb
trump rally
Feb. 10, 2020
Trump Brings Up Debunked Claim of Democratic Voter Fraud at New Hampshire Rally Trump said he lost N.H. in 2016 due to “hundreds and hundreds” of “buses being shipped up from Massachusetts,” despite no evidence of such action.
By Matt Stieb
trump rally
Jan. 15, 2020
Trump’s Wisconsin Rally Was a Parade of Foreign-Policy Misinformation The president boasted inaccurately of his recent act of war, suggested Lyndon B. Johnson is in hell, and complained about dishwashers again.
By Matt Stieb
Trump Complains About Not Winning Nobel Peace Prize Days After War Crime Threat Other rally highlights included a claim that Dems would have “leaked” the Soleimani attack, and that M4A will cost “more money than we’ll ever make.”
By Matt Stieb
impeachment
Dec. 19, 2019
Trump’s Post-Impeachment Rally Was His Longest and Strangest Yet For 123 minutes, Trump mostly avoided impeachment, but suggested a late Michigan Democrat is in hell and compared the looks of Tom Cruise to an F-35.
By Matt Stieb
the national interest
Oct. 11, 2019
Trump Bored by His Own Speech, Just Wants to Talk About TV Shows A close read of a speech by a president almost clinically obsessed with television.
By Jonathan Chait
Populist President: I’d Rather Get Advice From Wall Street Than ‘a Poor Person’ At a rally in Iowa, Trump explains why his cabinet is filled with multimillionaires.
By Eric Levitz
Dow Hits New High, As Trump Eases Wall Street’s Economic Anxiety It’s starting to seem like what’s good for the stock market might not, necessarily, be good for humanity.
By Eric Levitz
