Donald Trump ignored multiple polls showing him losing Pennsylvania to former Vice President Joe Biden as he said he cannot “imagine losing to a guy like this?”
“They say he was born in Scranton, but he abandoned you,” the president told a rally crowd in Johnstown even though Mr Biden’s parents moved the family when he was a child. “Give me a break.”
“I’m running against the single-worst candidate in the history of American politics,” he said as the large crowd chuckled in unison. “Can you imagine if you lose to a guy like this?”
And he tried to tie Biden to the most progressive wing of his party, saying the liberal bloc wants to “shame you” and “cancel you.”
“I got antibodies,” he said before saying the mix of drugs his medical team gave to him made him “feel like Superman – I was like, ‘Let me at ’em’.”
Rally participants seated behind him were mostly wearing “MAGA” masks handed out by his campaign. But photographers and C-SPAN cameras showed rally-goers not on camera mostly skipped wearing a face-covering even as the coronavirus is spreading again across the country.
“Suburban women, will you please like me?” he asked to cheers. “I saved your damn neighbourhood.”