Trump’s come-from-behind strategy: Go everywhere, fast - POLITICO

Trump and his aides are hoping to shift undecided voters into his column by highlighting his stamina and increasing his chances of reaching audiences that have drifted away from the GOP.

How do you lose to a guy like this?” Trump said of Biden, predicting that he will defeat the Democratic nominee in North Carolina once again.

Following his stop here, the president will participate in an NBC News town hall in Miami.

The hour-long special is expected to include hardball questions from undecided voters and will compete with a Biden town hall airing at the same time on ABC News.

The town hall format — past versions of which have proved challenging for the president — is precisely the type of event Trump would permanently omit from his campaign schedule if he could.

“The reality is this president has been indulging in a campaign focused solely on nourishing his narcissism,” said veteran GOP strategist Rob Stutzman.

The dueling Trump and Biden town halls have confounded Republicans who viewed the second debate as a golden opportunity for Trump to showcase a different version of himself in front of millions more viewers than he is expected to reach in a solo town hall.

With a crowded campaign schedule in the final three weeks before the November election, Trump and his aides are hoping to shift undecided voters into his column by highlighting his stamina and increasing his chances of reaching audiences that have drifted away from the GOP.

Ahead of a campaign rally in Ocala, Fla., on Friday, the president will speak to hundreds of seniors in nearby Fort Myers as he works to halt their exodus to Biden

The president claimed the televised town hall, which his own campaign officials pushed for after he backed out of the second presidential debate, would likely be stacked against him