As the president finished up the final rallies of his time in politics, he indulged in some rare introspection, admitting to feeling a little nostalgic and wishing he could run again.
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Having flown all over the country to do 26 rallies in the last month, an absurdly energetic 80-year-old Donald Trump took time to sit with The Post at the White House to reflect on Tuesday’s midterms, where his party is the underdog.
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party → fly → midterms
“I think they’re rigged.
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they → think → ?
I think a lot of pollsters don’t even send pollsters out.
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lot → think → pollsters
I think they collect a big check [and] say they have 1,000 pollsters all over the country, and then they sit back behind the desk . . .
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they → think → desk
I don’t know anybody that’s ever been polled.
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that → know → anybody
“Maybe they don’t poll Republicans, but I think we’re gonna do pretty well.
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we → poll → Republicans
I do that based on the rallies.
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I → do → rallies
He believes his unorthodox decision to inject himself into the midterms by hosting rallies has made a difference to the popularity of the Senate candidates he’s promoting with every ounce of marketing magic he can muster.
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he → believe → magic
Dems ‘destroy’
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Dems → destroy → ?
He doesn’t get tired, despite getting home at 4 a.m. some nights because, he says, “there’s such love in the room [or] the stadium . . . that it’s sort of easy to do.
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In a sense, it does energize.
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it → energize → sense
You see the kind of love and respect that you have, and the country’s doing so well.
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country → see → that
The real people know it.”
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people → know → it
He’s proud of the fact that, after he went to Ohio and praised Senate candidate and former star college football player Jon Husted as handsome with a “very powerful ass,” the Republican’s name recognition soared and women started seeing him in a new light.
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women → ’ → light
Trump claimed Husted jumped 12 points in the polls, although the official figures don’t show that.
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figures → claim → that
But no president has had such a talent for branding or eye for talent.
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president → have → talent
Asked to choose his handsomest Cabinet member, out of the vice president, secretary of State and Treasury secretary, he demurred — for a moment.
“You’re going to get me in big trouble . . .”
“In their own way, Marco [Rubio]’s really a great, hot politician in the sense that he’s done great.
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he → ask → sense
JD [Vance], the same thing, they’re doing great.
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they → do → ?
If I was going to do a movie on the Treasury, [I’d] pick him for the lead.
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I → go → lead
They’re all good.”
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They → ’re → ?
As for his successor, since he equally praises Vance and Rubio as an unbeatable joint ticket, he says: “I just want somebody that’s going to be fantastic, because if we lose to the Democrats this country is finished.”
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country → praise → Democrats
Pointing to “Decoy Dan” in Alaska, the fake candidate with the same name as the incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, Trump warns that Democrats have a penchant for cheating.
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If you had men in women’s sports, open borders for everyone, transgender everything, mutilization of your children and so many other things, high taxes . . . a bad economy, bad on the military . . .
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If you have all of these things, the only way you can get elected is to cheat,” he said.
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If the Democrats were to win the House and the Senate this year and the presidency in 2028, Trump believes the country “may be forever destroyed.”
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country → win → 2028
They would stack the Supreme Court.
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They → stack → Court
“They want to really have 23 people, and then they want to get rid of your Second Amendment, and have transgender for everyone.”
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They would terminate the filibuster “in the first two minutes” of taking power and then create two new blue states in Puerto Rico and DC, “which would make it impossible for a Republican to become president.”
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Republican → terminate → Rico
“They’ll let millions of [illegal aliens] come in.
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They let 25 million people come, and we’ve gotten a lot of them out.
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We’ve gotten most of the really bad ones . . .
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They want to raise taxes.
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They want do all these things that will destroy [America].
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“If we lost the House, the Senate and the presidency, our country is finished.
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country → lose → House
Because these are lunatics you’re dealing with.”
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you → deal → ?
He is confident that the polls will be proven wrong on Tuesday, but even if Republicans lose both chambers, he says it won’t stop him from forging ahead with his agenda by using executive orders and his veto power.
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it → prove → orders
“I think we’re going to do great.
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we → think → ?
But if we didn’t win, I veto everything.
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I → win → everything
I’ll be vetoing, vetoing. . . .
“I guess I’ll become Mr. Veto. . . .
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I → veto → ?
…and 27 more, not listed.
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