Mike’s pillows
Later on Sunday at a rally in North Carolina, another swing state, Trump seemed confused. At one point he suggested to the crowd that he was still in Pennsylvania. He also told a fictional story about the Al Capone, the Chicago gangster who died in 1947, and “MyPillow” CEO Mike Lindell having dinner together, in which prominent Trump supporter Lindell offered 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.”
The crowd seemed confused and unsure how to react.
On Saturday, Trump suggested Hannibal Lecter, the villain in horror film “The Silence of the Lambs,” was a real-life undocumented migrant.
Harris for her part claimed at a rally in Michigan, a Rust Belt swing state in the Midwest, that her campaign was gathering “momentum.” Senior Harris officials argued over the weekend that internal campaign data showed the vice president winning over late-deciding voters by a double-digit margin. A New York Times/Siena College poll, released on Sunday, also found those voters who had settled on their decisions recently backed Harris by a double-digit advantage.
A separate and highly regarded poll in the Des Moines Register over the weekend found Harris narrowly leading Trump in Iowa, a state previously regarded as a safe bet for the Republican candidate.
Research combining a “mega poll” of 31,000 people with separate swing states surveys shared exclusively with POLITICO also indicated tentatively that Harris was best placed to win.
Lisa Kashinsky contributed reporting from Lititz, Pennsylvania. Andrew Howard contributed reporting from Washington, D.C. Elena Schneider contributed reporting from Michigan.
