The story in brief
At a Daytona Beach rally, President Donald Trump urged Republicans to vote for U.S. Senate candidate Ashley Moody and gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds, despite saying he was confident about their prospects. He asked supporters to act as if the candidates were narrowly behind. Trump also attacked Democratic nominees Angie Nixon and David Jolly, making personal and policy claims about them. Those remarks are campaign rhetoric; the excerpt provides no independent evidence for the claims. The rally came during the campaign’s final stretch.