Inside 'The Weave': How Donald Trump's Rhetoric Has Grown Darker and Windier

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : With the last notes of Greenwood's opening hymn, Trump immediately relaxed and praised his audience as "thousands of proud, hardworking Americans and patriots, which is what you are.
67% : Trump, they said, presided over a better situation for them than Biden and, by extension, Harris.
60% : Trump looked out over thousands of cellphones recording the spectacle.
54% : "You make a speech, and my speeches last a long time because of the weave, you know, I mean, I weave stories into it," Trump explained last week to popular podcaster Joe Rogan.
48% : But as soon as the crowd in Duluth yelled "no," Trump moved to sweeping promises, hyperbole and superlatives that doubled as indictments of Biden and Harris.
48% : "Amanda Browning laughed as she recalled leaning over to her husband to whisper that Trump "sure could use a speechwriter.
27% : "Therefore," Trump insisted, "she is a threat to democracy" -- a Trumpian staple projecting onto his opponents their most aggressive attacks against him.
22% : "Trump does not speak in a linear pattern as he builds to a crescendo.
22% : Browning said, though, that he does not consider himself, Trump or the former president's supporters angry.
9% : Trump mocked Harris for saying she will raise taxes, but misrepresented her proposals as applying universally.
4% : Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"It's the famous question Republican Ronald Reagan used to defeat Democratic incumbent Jimmy Carter in 1980, and Trump uses it as a way to tie Harris to President Joe Biden.

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