The former president has started airing more content before his rallies and using new music in recent months.

Tonight, for the first time, classical music began playing as Trump delivered the rehearsed closing of his speech. The move served as a dramatic effect, and it’s working.

The music is ramping up as he reads the final few lines, with strings being added to the mix just before his usual final song began playing: Hold On, I’m Coming by Sam & Dave.

“We’re just two months away from the most important midterm election in American history. I believe that we need a landslide so big that the radical left cannot steal it or rig it. That’s what you have to do,” Trump told the crowd, encouraging them to vote.

He then offered an optimistic prediction for Republicans ahead of the November midterms.

“This is the year we’re going to take back the House, we’re going to take back the Senate, and we are going to take back America,” he said. “And in 2024, most importantly, we are going to take back our magnificent White House, we’re gonna take it.”

Trump discussed his position on abortion access after slamming Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) and other swing-state Democrats for not supporting any restrictions to the pregnancy-ending procedure.

Discussing states that allow late-term abortions, which Trump called “radical rights,” he said: “It’s been turned back over to the states. The states are going to do the right thing.”

Trump then noted that even the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took issue with Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion ruling that was overturned this summer by the court.

The issue of abortion, Trump said, “should be in the state and the Republicans have to get smart with that issue. I’m a person like Ronald Reagan with three exceptions. You have a certain term, you have a lot of things, but the fact that it was turned over to the states is going to prove to be a very, very positive event.”

While he didn’t specify, the three exceptions in the abortion access debate are typically rape, incest, and the life of the mother.

Appearing to reference the recent red state abortion referendums where huge female turnout prevented restrictive bills from going through, Trump then said: “And they can’t let people vote the wrong way, it’s an issue that a lot of people don’t understand. It’s turned over to the states, and it’s working out.”

Trump has been vocally supportive of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe, though he has been reported to have privately expressed his concern that the move could backfire on Republicans in the November midterms.

Trump excoriated Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), who is running against JD Vance for an open Senate seat in the November midterms. The former president slammed Ryan for running as a moderate with some Trump-aligned policies.

“You have to defeat the far left Democrat phony running for the United States Senate. His name is Tim Ryan,” Trump said, prompting boos from the crowd. He added that Ryan is running “on an I love Donald Trump policy.”

“Didn’t he vote with Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer 100% of the time?” Trump asked. “And their policies have they’re the worst.”

He then said that he gets calls from people who innocently say they think Ryan may like him.

“He doesn’t like me, he doesn’t like me, and I don’t like him. He’s been terrible. Tim Ryan is a militant left winger who is lying to your faces acting as though he’s my friend on policy, pretending to be a moderate so he can get elected and betraying everything that you believe in,” he said. “He is not a moderate. He is radical left. One hundred percent [of the time] voted for these Biden disaster policies. Tim Ryan pretends to be for Trump. But when I was president, he only voted with me 16% of the time, and these are great policies for Ohio. And over the last two years, he has voted with Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest every single time. It doesn’t matter on what- it doesn’t matter how bad it is.”

Trump reiterated his position that the death penalty should be imposed on drug dealers. He also suggested: “Under a Republican Congress, we should also pass emergency funding to hire thousands and thousands more police officers. We want police officers nationwide to put violent criminals behind bars and keep them behind bars, not let them out the following morning or the following hour.”

“And we want the radical left Democrats to leave our police alone, let them do their job. Give them back their respect,” he continued. “They know what to do. We have to allow them to do their job. Nobody can do it like them.”

“Biden and the Democratic Congress created the worst inflation in 50 years and that’s gonna get a lot worse,” Trump said of the economy before commenting briefly on oil production. “Right after the election, when they stopped pumping the oil out of that beautiful strategic reserve that, we had millions and millions of barrels we pumped in. And now they’re pumping it out so that we can keep the prices down a little bit.”

“But you’re gonna see that 9.1% go way up,” he continued, referencing the rate of inflation. “And that’s a tremendous number, hadn’t been over 50 years since we’ve had a number like that. And their wild socialist spending spree has thrown America into a recession. We’re now in a recession. There’s no reason for us to be in a recession.”

The former president took aim at recently ousted Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who lost her primary to Trump-backed opponent Harriet Hageman last month.

Trump mentioned her after bemoaning previous investigations into himself and his administration, eventually “the sham” Jan. 6 House select committee, “which I thought ended a couple of weeks ago when Liz Cheney lost by a record number.”

“Nobody’s ever lost so big,” Trump added to cheers. He continued by mocking the media for questioning Cheney’s next career move and arguing that she “has such a wonderful future.”

“She lost by 40 points in a great state,” he told the crowd. “She doesn’t have a wonderful future.”

After decrying the current state of the U.S. economy, Trump decried that “Biden and the Democrat Congress keep spending us further and further into oblivion, pouring fuel on the inflation fire, incinerating trillions of dollars of middle class wealth, and doing it a level that nobody ever thought possible.”

“And Mitch McConnell ought to get on the ball and stop it in the Senate,” he said to cheers from the crowd before adding: “He’s like a Democrat.”

Trump and McConnell fell out after the 2020 election, when the latter refused to support efforts to overturn the results. Their relationship has continued to deteriorate in the years since.

The crowd has risen to its feet as the 45th president has taken the stage.

Trump is in somewhat of campaign-mode, stumping for his preferred candidates nationwide ahead of the November midterms.

Supporters of former President Donald Trump are hanging out inside the Covelli Centre after speakers including JD Vance and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) rallied the crowd with stump speeches.

The 45th president has not yet arrived to the arena, though he is scheduled to take the stage soon.

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