CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “No, I’m not running scared. I’m running angry because — I think I’m running angry, I’m running happy, and I’m running very content because I’ve done a great job. And I think that’s the reason you have such crowds like this.
You could go back into politics 200 years and there’s never been a politician that’s drawn crowds like this. I don’t care who it is, and I don’t care who you use and when you talk about it. And when — you know, we’re talking about two weeks before, but I would — I would have these crowds six months before, too. It’s the same thing.
And, you know, you may have a crowd like that for somebody one night before — the night before the election, as you know — where they’ll have one crowd like that. But we have them, you know, very early on. No, I think very content. Very content.
The reason those people are there is they love the job I’ve done. In the end, that’s what it’s got to be about. But there’s a certain anger because there’s a lot of very unfairness going on here.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump Before Air Force One Departure | Phoenix, AZ,” whitehouse.gov, Oct. 19, 2020