After more than an hour and a half, former President Donald Trump left the stage in Dayton, Ohio to cheers from the large crowd.

He saved the unveiling of a “very big announcement” next week for the end of the lengthy rally for Ohio Republican candidates.

After stoking speculation Monday that he would use an Ohio campaign rally to launch his 2024 presidential bid, former President Donald Trump did not unveil his political plans – but he did set a date for a likely campaign launch next week.

“I’m going to be making a very big announcement on Tuesday, November 15th at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida,” Trump said an election-eve event in Dayton.

Trump said he did not want to take away from the midterm election on Tuesday by specifying what the announcement would entail. “We want nothing to detract from the importance of tomorrow,” he said.

Former President Donald Trump alluded to the prospect of Republicans reclaiming the White House in the next election cycle, dancing around the presidential campaign launch that he was widely expected to announce on Monday.

“And in 2024, most importantly, we are going to take back our magnificent White House,” Trump said.

He had also used the word “we” to describe efforts to retake the House and Senate this week.

JD Vance encouraged people to head to the polls Tuesday as he rallied alongside former President Donald Trump, who briefly invited him up to the stage.

“The stakes are simple. The president said it well. We’ve got to get out there and run up the score on these guys,” Vance said.

Vance has led in recent polls and is expected to win the Ohio Senate race on Tuesday

Ticking through poll numbers at an Ohio rally and reprising a segment of a previous campaign rally, former President Donald Trump skipped over a nickname he used the last time Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came up at a similar point in the last event: Ron DeSanctimonious.

Trump and DeSantis are expected to become rivals if Trump decides to seek the presidency again in 2024. The two men have so far refrained from taking many direct swipes at each other.

Riffing on the FBI raid of his Mar-a-Lago home earlier this year, Trump said at an election-eve rally in Ohio that the “country would be better off if I had the nuclear codes.”

He was referring to media reports that suggested the materials taken from his residence included documents that contained nuclear information, although the specific nature of the allegedly improperly-stored classified material was never specified.

Former President Donald Trump raised unfounded claims of election fraud from 2020 on Monday as he warned that the expected delay in tabulating Pennsylvania’s ballots could portend election misconduct.

“One way you can help is just swamp them with good votes,” Trump told the crowd in Ohio.

“The more you get, the harder it is” for Democrats to cheat, Trump claimed.

Former President Donald Trump joked at an election-eve rally that he would never speak to his son Donald Trump Jr. if he ever produced a laptop filled with compromising material like that of the current president’s son, Hunter Biden.

“That laptop is a disaster,” Trump quipped.

He accused the media of attempting to cover up the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop during the 2020 election.

Former President Donald Trump boasted at an election-eve rally in Dayton, Ohio that the two impeachments he endured from a Democratic Party-controlled House helped increase his popularity.

“I got impeached twice. My poll numbers went up,” Trump said at the event.

Trump spent much of the speech relitigating controversies from his presidency, including the fruitless FBI investigation of Russian collusion allegations and the 2020 election results.

Former President Donald Trump accused President Joe Biden of threatening freedom with his administration’s focus on cracking down on conservative ideas like anti-abortion protests.

“We’re turning into a police state,” Trump said at his election-eve rally in Dayton.

“The time to stand up to this growing left wing tyranny is now,” he said. “Tomorrow you have to crush the communists.”