https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/03/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis/trump-rally-kinston-nc-00187011Donald Trump’s speech in Kinston, North Carolina, this afternoon — which began two hours late — was toned down and seemingly less angry than his remarks earlier today in Pennsylvania.
But the speech was just as rambling, with Trump at one point seeming confused about which state he was in. Trump mistakenly suggested that Pennsylvania Senate candidate David McCormick was in the crowd.
“We have great Republicans running, and you have one of the best of all right here, David McCormick … David is here around some place, you know, we just left him. He’s a great guy.”
He also told a fictional story about the long-deceased Al Capone and “MyPillow” CEO Mike Lindell having dinner together, and Lindell offering Capone pillows.
“If he didn’t sleep well because he didn’t like Mike’s pillows, Mike had almost no chance of living,” Trump said. “He would dispose of Mike somewhere in a foundation of a building or something. You would never see Mike again. Mike does not want to have dinner with Scarface.” (Capone died in 1947. Lindell was born in 1961.)
The crowd in Kinston seemed confused and unsure how to react to a number of Trump’s remarks. He seemed to draw more applause when he returned to his scripted speech.
