Trump threatens to jail adversaries in escalating rhetoric ahead of pivotal debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : "Trump is a rockstar," Moon said.
56% : "Trump held his rally in the central Wisconsin city of Mosinee, with a population of about 4,500 people.
55% : "The Justice Department said Russia may be involved in our elections again," Trump told the crowd.
51% : "Many supporters embarked on hours-long drives from across Wisconsin to see Trump speak.
48% : Several polls of Wisconsin voters conducted after Biden withdrew showed Harris and Trump in a close race.
47% : Trump has eschewed traditional debate preparation, choosing to holding rallies and events while Harris has been cloistered in a historic hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, working with aides since Thursday.
47% : Trump must win the votes in places like Mosinee to have any chance of cutting into the Democrats' advantage in urban areas.
46% : Republicans held their national convention in Milwaukee in July and Trump has made four previous stops to the state, most recently just last week in the western Wisconsin city of La Crosse.
41% : After again maligning the Congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the nation's capitol by his supporters after his election loss in 2020, Trump told the crowd of thousands that he would "rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner unjustly victimized by the Harris regime" and sign their pardons on his first day back in office.
41% : Trump carried it by a slightly larger margin, nearly 23,000 votes, in 2016.
39% : Though Trump spent four years in the Oval Office, he vowed anew to "cast out the corrupt political class" if he wins again and to "cut the fat out of our government for the first time, meaningfully, in 60 years.
37% : Earlier Saturday, Trump had leaned into familiar grievances about everything from his indictments to Russia's meddling in the 2016 election as he campaigned in one of the most deeply Republican swaths of battleground Wisconsin.
34% : At the rally, Trump outlined his plans to "Drain the swamp" -- a throwback to his winning 2016 campaign message as he ran as an outsider challenging the status quo.
31% : "WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again," Trump wrote, again sowing doubt about the integrity of the election, even though cheating is incredibly rare.
29% : There is no evidence of the kind of fraud he continues to insist marred the 2020 election; in fact, dozens of courts, Republican state officials and his own administration have said he lost fairly.Just days ago, Trump himself acknowledged in a podcast interview that he had indeed "lost by a whisker.
28% : As Trump was campaigning, Harris took a short break from debate prep to visit Penzeys Spices in Pittsburgh's Strip District, where she bought several seasoning mixes.
24% : Trump has repeatedly defended those who have been jailed for crimes including violent attacks on law enforcement.
23% : "The Harris-Biden DOJ is trying to throw me in jail -- they want me in jail -- for the crime of exposing their corruption," Trump claimed at an outdoor rally at Central Wisconsin Airport, where he spoke behind a wall of bullet-proof glass due to new security protocols following his July assassination attempt.
21% : ""Instead of persecuting Republicans, they will focus on taking down bloodthirsty cartels, transnational gangs, and radical Islamic terrorists," he said.Harris campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika responded to his comments with a statement warning that, if Trump is reelected, he will "use his unchecked power to prosecute his enemies and pardon insurrectionists who violently attacked our Capitol on January 6."Both Harris and Trump have been frequent visitors to Wisconsin this year, a state where four of the past six presidential elections have been decided by less than a percentage point.
16% : "Trump also railed against the administration's border policies, calling the Democrats' approach "suicidal" and accusing them of having "imported murderers, child predators and serial rapists from all over the planet.
7% : "While Trump's campaign aides and allies have urged him to keep his focus on Harris and make the election a referendum on issues like inflation and border security, Trump in recent days has veered far off course.

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