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Trump Wraps Up Campaign Rally in Daytona Beach
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In Short: President Donald Trump held his final in-person campaign rally in Daytona Beach, Florida, ahead of the midterm elections.
Thousands of supporters gathered at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach on Friday evening for President Donald Trump's rally.
Trump campaigned for several Florida Republican candidates, including gubernatorial hopeful Byron Donalds, U.S. Senator Ashley Moody, and U.S. Representative Randy Fine.
Daytona Beach police warned drivers to expect increased traffic and road closures around the event.
The rally comes as Republicans work to hold onto seats in traditionally Republican-leaning states.
Earlier in the day, Trump canceled and then rescheduled campaign stops in Iowa and Kansas, demonstrating the frenetic pace of his final days on the campaign trail.
The Daytona Beach rally marks the end of Trump's 32-day campaign push, which began in early October.
What this adds
This report adds details about the final in-person rally in Daytona Beach and the broader context of Trump's campaign efforts. It also includes new information about the federal judge's inquiry into the Trump administration's legal team.
Background
President Trump held a rally in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Friday, the last in a series of campaign events aimed at boosting Republican candidates for the upcoming midterm elections.
President Donald Trump held a rally in Daytona Beach, Florida, to boost Republican candidates ahead of the midterms.
What's confirmed
- Thousands of supporters are making their way into the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach ahead of President Donald Trump’s rally Friday evening.
- The change means Trump’s rally in Daytona Beach, Florida, scheduled for overnight into Saturday Danish time, will be his final in-person rally before the election.
What's still developing
- "He will take full advantage of the opportunity to talk about the moment we are living in: of democracies working together on behalf of their peoples — but also the importance of American leadership," John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, told reporters.
- "NATO is becoming politicized in a way it never was until this point," said Daalder.
- "We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with expansionist intent."
- AI companies should “self-regulate” and “self-police,” the speaker said last month shortly before sending House members home for a seven-week break to campaign for the midterm elections.
- However, earlier in the day and less than 24 hours after canceling planned weekend visits to Iowa and Kansas, he abruptly rescheduled back-to-back campaign rallies in those states on Sunday.
- Tens of thousands of supporters flooded the streets as the incumbent and his rival wrapped up a bitter campaign that has left Latin America's biggest nation more polarized than ever.
- Lula, who turns 81 next week, jumped up and down on the back of a campaign truck, waving a massive Brazilian flag as he made his way through throngs of supporters wearing the red of his Workers' Party (PT).
- The new campaign will feature several changes, including an additional team, new players and a different playoff format.
- Her win in the snap primary to replace her late brother Lindsey Graham comes after President Donald Trump significantly boosted her campaign.
- The president was previously supposed to hold tele-rallies for the two red states after initially canceling the in-person campaign rallies, but he changed his mind on Friday.
- "Principles that have served as the foundation of American security and American democracy for generations, including the generation that scaled those cliffs, including today's generation, including the next generation," Sullivan told reporters traveling with Biden on Air Force One.
- "We have understood for so long now since D-Day really, that our security, our prosperity and our freedom depends on the security, prosperity and freedom of our allies around the world," said Ivo Daalder, who heads the Chicago Council and was the U.S. ambassador to NATO during the Obama administration.
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- WarpBeat — background on Trump Rally in Daytona Beach Focuses on Midterm Elections link
- WarpBeat — background on Trump Holds Rally in Daytona Beach Ahead of Midterms link
- CBS 13 News — video link