Pretend He's on the Ballot: Trump's Final Four-Day Sprint Is the Smartest Play on the Board

From Rock Hill to Daytona Beach to a phone-line blitz in 19 states, the President is spending his last campaign days where they count — and asking his voters to show up as if his own name were on the line.

By Clara Hughes

Four days out from Election Day, most politicians start to coast. They lock in the TV buys, give the same speech one more time, and hope the polls hold. President Donald Trump is doing the opposite. He is running like a man who believes every single vote still matters — because it does. On Thursday he was in Rock Hill, South Carolina, at the Rock Hill Sports & Events Center, for a speech that ran about 90 minutes and wrapped up around 2:45 p.m., the Charlotte Observer reported. Tonight, Friday, he is scheduled at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida — doors at 3:30 p.m., remarks set for 7 p.m. Eastern, according to the Republican Party's event listing — to rally for Byron Donalds for governor, Sen. Ashley Moody, and Rep. Randy Fine, NBC News reported. It comes one week after his Fort Myers stop and on the eve of the end of Florida's early voting, which closes Saturday, Oct. 31, FOX 35 Orlando noted. And between the big rallies is the part of the closing push most people won't see on cable: the phone. A White House official told NBC News the President "will continue