“I know more about inflation, I know more about everything than … anybody anywhere in the world.” 

— Donald Trump at a midterm campaign rally in Ohio this weekend 

“Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”

“God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”

“Blessed are the meek.”

Every child in Sunday school learns those words.

But this weekend in Ohio, Donald Trump offered his own gospel:

“I know more about inflation, I know more about everything than … anybody anywhere in the world.”

Last month, Laura Ingraham asked the president whether he had any regrets about the Iran war. His answer: “I don’t believe in the word ‘regret.’”

No regrets. No humility. No self-awareness at all.

Instead, the president keeps talking about himself — his uncle who went to MIT, his “good genes.” 

Americans want to hear about gas prices, not Marie Antoinette ballrooms.

Diesel prices, not grand arches.

Inflation destroying their lives, not the Reflecting Pool and the Kennedy Center.

The same inflation Trump claims to know more about than anybody anywhere. 

He obviously doesn’t.

Meanwhile, the president’s hateful immigration policies have nothing to do with securing the border.

A 5-year-old in a bunny hat flown to a Texas detention camp. A mother of three and a VA nurse shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis. A delivery driver in Austin returned to detention with a bullet still in his back. 

For the past decade, evangelicals have embraced a man who rejects so much of what Jesus taught.

The meek. The merciful. The stranger. The least of these.

Trump’s gospel has no room for any of them.

CHARTS OF THE DAY

Source: New York Times/Siena polls of 504 voters in Alaska conducted Sept. 24 to Oct. 1, 606 voters in Iowa conducted Sept. 22 to Oct. 1, 605 voters in Kansas conducted Sept. 22 to 30, 616 voters in Ohio conducted Sept. 22 to Oct. 1 and 615 voters in Texas conducted Sept. 21 to 30. 

Trump’s midterms tour is raising eyebrows in GOP circles

By Mychael Schnell and Syedah Asghar

With less than one month to go until Election Day, President Donald Trump is embarking on a final campaign blitz to protect the GOP’s control of Congress.

He’s starting on defense.

Trump is kicking off his last weeks of campaigning with a string of rallies in deep red states, trying to boost struggling GOP candidates in unexpectedly competitive Senate races that could determine whether the party holds its majority.

Today, he heads to Grand Island, Nebraska, where a Democratic senator hasn’t been elected since 2006.

Here’s how Republicans are talking about the defensive swing.

WHAT THEY SAID

Jonathan Martin on the midterms for Republicans 

“It’s just that bad and ominous of a cycle. Republicans will save a few Senate races and a lot of governor races because of money, but they can’t save all of them. When the wind blows, it takes down places you wouldn’t have expected — and the wind’s blowing.”

Mara Gay on Democratic donors

“We don’t talk a lot about how Democratic donors are recruited and cultivated. Those conversations happen among just a handful of party officials, so donors never get a full sense of the talented candidates out there, like Roy Cooper and Jon Ossoff. Democrats need their donors to be more bullish on races outside the box.” 

Kevin Frey on the Michigan town hall

“Sen. Elissa Slotkin wants to be on Team Fight, and she pointed to Abdul El-Sayed as someone who could bring that to Washington. She argued the real divide among Democrats isn’t left versus moderate. It’s between those willing to try new tactics against this administration and those still relying on old ones.”

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