It might seem curious that Trump spent a valuable Sunday of campaign time before the election at a rally the middle of a city and a state that he has no chance of winning. MAGA Republicanism has never been about building out a broad coalition so much solidifying a hard kernel of passionate anger and devotion. But in an election this close, which will likely be decided by hair-thin margins in a handful of states, a foray into New York City might seem like a waste of a precious time. The Trump campaign has in fact spent comparatively little time or money persuading undecided voters to support him or prevailing on hesitant Republicans to back the party’s candidate, let alone making sure that voters to get to the polls. Rather, they have invited the MAGA faithful into an alternate world where Trump has already won, and that it is only the deceitful machinations of the Democratic Party that stand between him and the Oval Office.
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