Three Weeks To Go!

Trump is getting weird; good news from Michigan for the Harris campaign; why Dick Cheney's endorsement of Harris matters and an excellent musical interlude

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Short weeks always screw up my writing schedule, so I’m going to keep this one short and sweet.

Trump held a town hall last night, and if I may quote George W. Bush … that was some weird shit.

Here’s the Washington Post write-up.

The town hall, moderated by South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R), began with questions from preselected attendees for the former president. Donald Trump offered meandering answers on how he would address housing affordability and help small businesses. But it took a sudden turn after two attendees required medical attention.

And so Trump, after jokingly asking the crowd whether “anybody else would like to faint,” took a different approach.

“Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music. Let’s make it into a music. Who the hell wants to hear questions, right?” he said.

For 39 minutes, Trump swayed, bopped — sometimes stopping to speak — as he turned the event into almost a living-room listening session of his favorite songs from his self-curated rally playlist.

He played nine tracks. He danced. He shook hands with people onstage. He pointed to the crowd. Noem stood beside him, nodding with her hands clasped. Trump stayed in place onstage, slowly moving back and forth. He was done answering questions for the night.

Even weirder is that one of the songs in Trump’s playlist was the Guns N’ Roses song “November Rain.”

Seriously, though, it will never not be weird to me that this is how Trump dances.

Then, this morning, CNBC anchor Joe Kernan announced that the former president canceled a planned interview with the network on Friday. Kernan is a Trump shill, so it wasn’t like this would have been a difficult sit-down. I have no idea what’s going on with the former president, but this is not normal behavior from a presidential candidate in October.

Interesting Doings In Detroit

This is a fascinating piece of data from Michigan.