President Donald Trump and his political crew delivered a tired closing pitch to Republican voters ahead of tomorrow’s midterm elections. Their final appeals featured false claims, racist rhetoric, culture war fixations, and even a baffling suggestion that Democrats want to make Ohio a state.

At a rally in Ohio, Donald Trump Jr. appeared alongside Vice President JD Vance as the pair tried to energize the GOP base. Rather than offer a focused case for Republican candidates, they warned supporters about supposed Democratic plots to seize permanent political control.

Trump Jr., whose remarks leaned heavily into conspiratorial thinking, accused Democrats of seeking to pack the Supreme Court. His argument then took a strange turn when he claimed Democrats also wanted to grant statehood to a place that was already hosting the rally.

“They want to pack the Supreme Court. They want to make Ohio a state, make D.C. a state, have permanent one-party rule,” Trump Jr. said. “Apparently—I don’t know how it works, but, you know—they can do these things and get away with it. All in the name of somehow preserving democracy.”

The comment about making Ohio a state stood out even in a speech built around breathless warnings and vague accusations. Trump Jr. acknowledged that he did not know how the supposed plan worked, but that did not stop him from presenting it to the crowd as a threat.

Vance followed with his usual mix of anti immigrant rhetoric and minimal charisma. He cited a story that he said involved Somali immigrants coordinating to overwhelm polling places, then linked that claim to his appeal for voters to support Vivek Ramaswamy for governor.

“I saw a story just in the last couple of days that there are illegal communities of illegal immigrant Somalis who are coordinating to flood the polls and drown out your vote,” Vance said. “Send a message by voting for Vivek [Ramaswamy] for governor.”

The remarks offered another bleak snapshot of the Republican closing message. With Election Day approaching, Vance chose to portray Somali immigrants as a threat to voters while directing the audience toward the Republican candidate for governor.

Back in Washington, D.C., Trump headlined an event billed as a reopening ceremony for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The appearance quickly began resembling the low energy, muddled, and barely coherent rallies that have become familiar during this election cycle.

Trump used the ceremony to announce the official opening of the reflecting pool after its remodeling. He also floated the possibility of placing his own name on the landmark, presenting the idea as another round of trolling.

“I am thrilled to announce the official opening of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool,” he said. “We’re giving serious thought to changing the name to the ‘Trump Reflecting Pool.’”

Trump has already renamed a growing list of landmarks, including bodies of water, according to the source article. His latest suggestion therefore arrived alongside an established habit of attaching his name and preferences to prominent places.

The president then moved away from boasting about the expensive pool remodeling and returned to his fixation on children’s genders. The abrupt shift turned a ceremony centered on the reflecting pool into another venue for his familiar culture war grievances.

“And we’re going to protect our children from the transgender sexual violations—the horrible treatment that they’ve gotten,” he rambled.

The White House’s closing argument for the midterms consequently became a rambling collection of claims about Ohio statehood, Somali immigrants, and transgender children. It was a remarkably unfocused pitch at the moment Trump and his allies were supposed to be rallying Republican voters before the election.

Trump Jr. offered warnings about Democratic domination while openly conceding that he did not understand the process he was describing. Vance invoked an alleged immigrant effort to drown out votes, and Trump used a reflecting pool ceremony to muse about another monument bearing his name.

Taken together, the appearances showed a Republican team returning to the same worn material as voters prepared to cast their ballots. Instead of a disciplined final message, Trump and his allies served up conspiracies, racism, personal branding, and yet another attack on transgender people.

The spectacle was not merely chaotic. It was a closing plea from a White House and its political allies that sounded exhausted, distracted, and deeply unserious, even as the midterm deadline arrived and Republicans made their final attempt to energize their base.