(NewsNation) — With election day less than 24 hours away, former Republican President Donald Trump is making one final push to win over voters in battleground states.
It’s been four years since the former president lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, and since, he’s been traveling the country and speaking to voters in hopes of returning to the Oval Office in January.
It could also be Trump’s last chance at becoming president a second time.
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Trump will watch the election results on Tuesday from his Mar-a-Largo Estate in Florida; but before then, he’s barnstorming battleground states in the election cycle’s final 24 hours.
Trump planned four rallies, beginning in Raleigh, North Carolina and stopping twice in Pennsylvania with events in Reading and Pittsburgh. The Republican nominee ends his campaign the way he ended the first two, with a late Monday night event in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Pennsylvania and Michigan are part of the “blue wall” states for Democrats, and Trump’s campaign hopes for a breakthrough.
North Carolina is also seen as a must-win state for the former president, but it’s one where the polling shows an opportunity for Democrats to flip the traditionally Republican-leaning state.
Trump holds two Pennsylvania rallies
Speaking in Reading, Pennsylvania Monday afternoon, Trump asked a crowd of supporters whether they are better off now than four years ago, to which they replied no. He encouraged people to “just show up and bring your vote” on Election Day, adding that what he’d really love to do is just “swamp them tomorrow.”
“I’ve been waiting four years for this,” Trump said. “… If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole ball of wax.”
At that same Reading rally, the GOP nominee was joined on stage by his children, Eric, Don Jr. and Tiffany, along with Eric’s spouse, Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, and Tiffany’s husband Michael Boulos.
“They’re kind people,” he said. “They have big hearts. They’re strong. They can be nasty. But they have big hearts, those great children of mine.”
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His second stop in the Keystone State, Pittsburgh, was his penultimate push the day before Election Day. He’s expected to give remarks about improving American’s lives directly.
“My message to Americans tonight is simple: we do not have to live this way. We do not have to settle for weakness, incompetence, decline, and decay,” the Trump team shared with NewsNation before his speech. “With your vote tomorrow, we can fix every single problem our country faces—and lead America, and indeed the world, to new heights of glory.”
In his speech, he bashed his opponent’s celebrity connections and rally turnout, before tackling familiar issues like immigration and the economy.
Trump says he wants to see the successful Penn State wrestling team compete against migrants, painting a picture of people crossing the border illegally as strong and nasty.
“I want the migrants to go against the champion, and I think the migrant might actually win,” Trump said, describing migrants — as he often does — as killers who’ve spent time in jail.
He said he met the wrestlers recently and told them “they might be the only guys in the country who can beat the hell out of the migrants.”
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Toward the end of his hourslong rally, Trump received the endorsement of Joe Rogan, the nation’s most-listened-to podcaster. Ex-Fox News star Megyn Kelly joined the endorsements in person, defending Trump against recent controversies.
“He got mocked by the left by saying he would be a protector of women,” Kelly said. “He will be a protector of women and it’s why I’m voting for him. He will close the border and he will keep the boys out of women’s sports where they don’t belong.”
Kelly was a Fox News star in 2016 when she infuriated Trump at a GOP debate with a question about his treatment of women. He bitterly attacked her after the debate, and his supporters joined in, leaving her worried about threats.
Trump later boycotted another debate telecast by Fox because Kelly was one of the moderators.
Historic voter turnout
Over the weekend, Trump’s campaign made its final stretch, saying it’s pleased with voter turnout already. The campaign told NewsNation their internal data shows the Trump campaign is turning out more mid and low-propensity voters, who are people who only vote in presidential elections or have never voted before.
Trump spent the night in Georgia on Sunday, looking to build on the enthusiasm in the Peach State.
“You know we’re on the five-yard line, maybe even the one-yard line. We’re right there. We had a tremendous amount of early votes, records like no one can believe,” Trump said at his rally in Macon, Georgia.
He continued, “But all I can say is on Tuesday, just go out and vote. We’re gonna close this thing out and it’s gonna be party time.”
Republicans are betting on voter turnout, arguing enthusiasm is on their side.
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About 77 million Americans already have voted early, but both candidates are pushing to turn out many millions more supporters on Tuesday. Either result on Election Day will yield a historic outcome.
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley said the Trump campaign was feeling “bullish.”
A Trump victory would make him the first incoming president to have been indicted and convicted of a felony, after his hush-money trial in New York. He will gain the power to end other federal investigations pending against him. Trump would also become the second president in history to win non-consecutive White House terms, after Grover Cleveland in the late 19th century.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.