Trump accepts NRA endorsement, urges gun owners to turn out to vote

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Trump led Biden by two percentage points in a head-to-head matchup, but when the field was extended to five, including Kennedy, Jill Stein and Cornel West, Biden took a two-percentage point lead, besting Trump 39%-37%.
61% : Trump used the event to try and boost enthusiasm among a largely friendly audience to turn out to vote for him.
58% : Trump has used weekends and Wednesdays, the trail's weekly off days, to hold rallies, campaign events and fundraisers.
56% : Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meeting & Exhibits at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas on Saturday.
56% : We will have ... death and destruction like we have never see before," Trump told a packed ballroom at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center of the possibility of a Biden re-election win.
55% : "We are leading in every swing state by massive numbers," Trump said of the New York Times poll, which he referenced by name.
50% : "Trump said he would use next week's invitation to headline the Libertarian Party's national convention to try and secure the voters that could be seen as leaning Kennedy's way.
41% : The endorsement of his presidential campaign came shortly before Trump took the stage to keynote the NRA's Annual Meeting, a speech he used to paint a picture of President Joe Biden as trying to erode gun rights without citing specifics.
41% : Everytown For Gun Safety, a prominent gun control advocacy group, took shots at Trump not only for his position on gun safety, but also for another characteristically rambling speech that did not have any real direct focus.
41% : "Largely they have so much of what we have," Trump said of libertarians holding policy positions similar to those of Republican base voters.
40% : Trump has largely been confined to a Manhattan courtroom over the past month because of a trial related to allegations he paid $130,000 in hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead during the 2016 election cycle.
36% : "Gun owners must vote," Trump said to the room filled with politically-active gun owners.
35% : "As his first term showed us, we must believe Trump when he says that he will do nothing to protect our communities from gun violence if re-elected.
25% : "Trump did blast the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent candidate who is seen as a potential spoiler for both major political parties in a race expected to be decided by razor thin margins.
25% : "For some reason, he ... is hurting Biden a little bit more," Trump said of Kennedy's independent presidential bid.
24% : Trump spent periods of his time talking about gun rights and the fact that if he were re-elected, he would roll back Biden administration executive orders designed to curtail gun violence, but he spent much of his roughly two-hour speech focused on immigration, crime rates, and baseless conspiracies about the 2020 election being stolen.
23% : "In between meandering rants about Al Capone, the President of France, and golf handicaps, Donald Trump once again made clear that he is all in on the NRA's politically toxic agenda of undoing the life saving progress we have made on gun safety under President Biden," said John Feinblatt, the group's president.
13% : An NBC News poll released last month found that Kennedy's candidacy hurt Trump more than Biden.
11% : Trump touched on the trial only briefly, acknowledging a gag order imposed by Judge Juan Merchan, something Trump has already violated 10 times costing him $10,000.

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