'Lot more optimistic': Team Trump parties as election results roll in
Former President Donald Trump's team has become increasingly ecstatic as election results suggest his followers may need not to storm the U.S. Capitol as they did on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump's growing lead in swing states across the nation has perked up the vibe at Mar-a-Lago — the social club where the former president faced criminal charges linked to hoarding classified information in a bathroom, among other places, according to CNN's Kaitlan Collins.
"The audience here has gotten a lot livelier in just the last 45 minutes," Collins said from Trump's convention center headquarters.
"That matches the feeling back in Mar-a-Lago where we are hearing from Trump campaign sources that they are feeling a lot more optimistic by these numbers."
Feeding the joy was a call for Trump in Iowa — the red state that a reliable pollster over the weekend suggested could go to Harris as women voters raised concerns about his abortion policies and their bodily autonomy, Collins reported.
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Reporter Katie Holmes' sources were pleased that Latino voters had come out strongly for Trump after the Madison Square Garden rally where a "comedian" called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage," she said.
"That is something they really worked at," Holmes said. "They believe he could win the election this time around on the back of Latino voters, particularly Latino men."