Donald Trump tonight told voters there was "no way" he would have visited their town before the pandemic struck. The President visited Erie, Pennsylvania for a rally tonight, as he continues to trail frontrunner Joe Biden in national election polls.
But he let slip that traipsing to the town wasn't originally part of his plan for two weeks ahead of polling day. "Four or five months ago when we started this whole thing," he said, "before the plague came in I had it made." He said: "I wasn't coming to Erie.
I have to be honest. There was no way I was coming. I didn't have to. "I would have picked up the phone and said 'Hey Erie, if you have a chance, get out and vote.' "We had this thing won.