The Final Stretch

We’re 15 days away from Election Day. The 2024 campaign is in its final stretch. The candidates are crisscrossing the country, barnstorming the swing states, allocating resources, and crafting closing messages to symbolize the choice before us.

Donald Trump spent the weekend in Pennsylvania. He was endorsed by a local steelworkers union, which presented him with a hard hat.

Most politicians know to never put a hat on in public because you can’t control the optics and it can look really goofy. Michael Dukakis put a military helmet on and never recovered. Trump proudly put that hard hat on and he looked like he had been wearing it all his life.

Some of the steelworkers were interviewed on Fox News this morning. These hardworking men with rugged voices are losing everything that made the country great. Their jobs are being sent overseas. Their communities are being left behind. Some are lifelong Democrats, but they are voting for Trump now.

What they didn’t say is that if the GOP nominated anyone other than Donald Trump, they’d likely still be Democrats. There is virtually no one, except for J.D. Vance and a few others, in the upper echelons of the Republican Party who understands the political transformation that has taken place because of Donald Trump.

When the Harris campaign was in “joy mode” instead of “Hitler mode,” she was telling audiences about her middle-class upbringing and her time working at McDonalds. But there’s no evidence she ever worked at McDonald’s. Her own family won’t confirm it.

Some might say, “Okay, she probably didn’t work there, so let’s move on.” Not Donald Trump.

He went to a Philadelphia area McDonald’s and turned it into just “Donald’s,” serving French fries to customers and manning the drive-thru window. Thousands of locals turned out to see him.

A young mother pulled up to the window and said, “Mr. President, please don’t let the United States become Brazil -- my native Brazil, please, please.” An immigrant from India pulled up and told Trump he was praying for him.

It was one of the most powerful moments I have ever seen at a McDonald’s drive-thru window!