President Donald Trump will hold a Monday evening rally in Lexington, Kentucky, a day before Republican Governor Matt Bevin seeks reelection against challenger Andy Beshear (D).
Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates.
All times eastern.
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8:39 PM: Trump says “America is thriving like never before” and says the “best is yet to come.” Rally ends the night before a very important election night.
8:25 PM: Trump says on no issue have Democrats betrayed the American people more than immigration. He says Republicans believe that “taking care of our own citizens first is paramount.” Trump says Democrats are leading an “unrelenting assault against people of faith.”
8:22 PM: Trump: “I defeated ISIS.”
8:15 PM: Trump rips “very slow” and “sleepy Joe” for not taking seriously China’s “piracy and plunder.” He mocks Biden for always saying “folks” and says he needs handlers like “horses” because he makes so many mistakes. Trump rips Obama/Biden for being soft on China and says he is here “because of them.”
“We can’t let our country go back to hell,” Trump says. “Because the Bidens got rich while Americans got robbed.”
Trump says “under this administration, the great betrayal is over. America is not for sale.”
Trump tells Pelosi to pass the USMNC or “go back to San Francisco and clean up your mess.”
8:05 PM: Trump, still obsessing over the New York Times and the Washington Post, says he built up both papers and they gave more credit to the dog than Trump for killing al-Baghdadi. Trump again says they’ll be endorsing him soon because Trump is good for business. Trump now partly taking credit for increase in cable news ratings.
7:53 PM: Trump says Rand Paul is a “little bit different” with his “libertarian touch” but he has always been there when Trump has need a vote. Paul says Trump has “great courage” for “facing down the fake news media every day.” He says Congress needs to step up and have “equal courage” to defend the president. Paul says Hunter Biden’s contract is the “definition of corruption” and says the whistleblower, who worked for Biden at the same time Hunter was getting contracts from oligarchs, needs to come forward as a material witness.
Paul to the media: “Do your job and print his name!”
"We know the name of the whistleblower," says @RandPaul.
"Do your job and print his name," he tells the media.— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) November 5, 2019
7:50 PM: Trump now brags about the judges he has confirmed and criticizes Obama for leaving so many vacancies.
7:45 PM: Trump introduces Bevin, who takes the stage to give some remarks. Bevin asks voters to “send a message” to Washington and other states that the people support Trump. Trump then praises McConnell and says nobody works “harder” or “smarter” than McConnell. He says McConnell didn’t blink when left-wing “arsonists” tried to smear Kavanaugh. He says McConnell’s opponent lost a House race and now wants to be a Senate and rips her for comparing Trump’s election to 9/11. McConnell says they are changing the federal courts forever and nobody has changed the courts more than Trump. He vows to leave “no vacancies behind.”
7:40 PM: Trump says Beshear is a “major lefty” and wonders how voters in Kentucky could vote for someone like him. Trump says “radical leftists” want Beshear to win because he stands against everything people in Kentucky stand for… he points out Beshear has vowed to oppose Trump’s agenda. Trump says companies are not leaving Kentucky after he became president. “They’re all coming back,” he says. Trump says Beshear wants to shut down coal and raise taxes while taking a “wrecking ball” to the greatest economy in the state’s history. Trump says Beshear “doesn’t represent you… He represent the radical swamp.” He says Beshear wants sanctuary cities and is “too dangerous” and “too liberal” for Kentucky.
7:39 PM: Trump says Bevin is a “pain in the ass” because he is always asking Trump to help Kentucky (aid, manufacturing plants, etc.) and says that’s what a governor should do.