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President Donald Trump has had some late nights in recent weeks as he zigzags across the country campaigning for Republicans in the midterms.
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And now he wants to replace himself with a Trump robot.
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The constant travel has tuckered out the typically energetic 80-year-old president.
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'So it's a lot,' the president, in a raspy voice, said of his campaign schedule during a Thursday afternoon lunch event at the White House.
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'I just hope my voice holds out.'
Given his recent embrace of artificial intelligence, or super intelligence depending on who you ask, Trump seemingly cooked up a plan on the fly to give him more rest.
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'I could maybe get one of those beautiful robots that they make nowadays and make them look just like me, and you wouldn't know the difference,' Trump said, floating a robotic replacement for himself so he could take time off from the campaign trail.
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They make them pretty good.
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I can sit home and watch them on television.'
Trump has kept up an aggressive schedule ahead of the final stretch before the November 3 midterms, logging numerous long-haul flights and back-to-back rallies as he seeks to boost enthusiasm ahead of Election Day.
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President Donald Trump joked that he is considering making a robot version of himself so that he does not have to travel the country and campaign for Republicans after multiple long days of cross-country travel
Supporters of President Trump in the front row of his recent October 7 rally in San Antonio
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I could maybe get one of those beautiful robots that they make nowadays and make them look just like me, and you wouldn't know the difference,' Trump said, floating a robotic replacement for himself so he could take time of from the campaign trail
In just over a week Trump has held events in Texas, New York, Tennessee, Ohio, Alaska, Arizona, Maryland and Montana – eight states and thousands of miles of travel.
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The 'midterm blitz' as the White House has labeled it, has predominantly seen the president travel to GOP strongholds across the nation and less so in typical battleground states like Michigan, North Carolina and Georgia.
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On Tuesday, the president flew over seven hours from Washington to Wasilla, Alaska, for an evening rally before heading to Las Vegas to crash at the Trump hotel there.
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The following day the president flew to Bullhead City, Arizona, and then Kalispell, Montana for two more rallies before returning to the capital early Thursday morning.
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The cumulative impacts of the late nights, early mornings and constant travel has taken a visible toll on the president, his raspy voice Thursday underscores the physical toll the campaign trail can have on even the most robust politicians.
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While Trump did note the grueling nature of the midterm blitz, he has also shifted focus on to the health and well-being of Democratic candidates.
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During the Thursday lunch event, Trump honed in on Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico for taking two weeks to recover from the flu in the midst of the campaign cycle.
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Massive signs calling on rally attendees to vote on November 3 have been spotted at many if not all of the president's recent campaign stops
Trump has upcoming trips scheduled to Kansas, North Carolina and South Carolina
'I never heard of a flu that lasted that long, but maybe he had a different kind of flu that we don't know about,' Trump said.
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As for Talarico's Republican opponent that was hand-picked by Trump, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, well he is 'controversial' too, the president said Thursday.
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'Look, Ken Paxton's a guy that, whether you like Ken or not, honestly, I mean, I understand some people are controversial, etc.
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I don't happen to be a controversial person, so but Ken is a little bit controversial.
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With just 19 days until Election Day, Trump has a schedule jam-packed with upcoming events.
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On Monday, October 19, Trump will visit Wichita, Kansas.
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On Tuesday, he is scheduled to campaign in Greenville, North Carolina, and on Wednesday he will make a stop in Greenville, South Carolina.
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