Trump's Campaign Goes Off The Rails With 3 Weeks Until The Election

With just three weeks to go until the presidential election, Donald Trump s campaign has taken a strange turn.

The GOP nominee for president has never been one to play by the political rulebook, but his recent appearances have been especially bizarre: Hes swayed onstage to music instead of taking questions, trashed people hes also trying to court as voters and spent precious time campaigning in solidly blue states, to name a few.

Here are some of the puzzling things hes been up to lately in his race against Vice President Kamala Harris .

His town hall became a 40-minute musical tribute

During a Pennsylvania town hall Monday night, Trump abruptly said he was done taking questions and wanted to just listen to music, directing his staff to play a couple of real beauties.

What followed was nearly 40 minutes of Trump singing along, swaying and lightly dancing on stage to a cover of Leonard Cohens Hallelujah and Franz Schuberts Ave Maria, along with various hits by Sinead OConnor, Elvis Presley, Guns N Roses and the Village People.

Even Trump appeared confused at times about what was unfolding, remarking after one of the first songs that theres nobody leaving and asked, Whats going on? The crowd seemed unsure whether the event was over.

Donald Trumps town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania took a very odd turn after two rallygoers had medical issues halting the program. Trump decided to stop the town hall questions and told his staff to just play music from his personal playlist. He proceeded to stay on stage listening pic.twitter.com/kkjixXNzsg

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Donald Trumps town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania took a very odd turn after two rallygoers had medical issues halting the program. Trump decided to stop the town hall questions and told his staff to just play music from his personal playlist. He proceeded to stay on stage listening pic.twitter.com/kkjixXNzsg
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He inexplicably disparaged auto workers

Trumps campaign has been aggressively pursuing support from auto workers in Michigan, the capital of American car manufacturing. But he threw all that out the window Tuesday when he diminished their jobs as simply taking parts out of a box and said the work was so easy a child could do it.

They build everything in Germany, and then they assemble it here. They get away with murder, Trump claimed during an appearance at the Economic Club of Chicago.

They take them out of a box, and they assemble them. We could have our child doing it, he continued .

He rattled off about Virginia when asked about Google

In another odd moment during his Chicago appearance on Tuesday, Trump responded to a question about whether Google should be broken up by saying he hasnt gotten over the Justice Department suing the state of Virginia for removing people from voter rolls.

Then, when the interviewer reminded Trump that the question was about Google, Trump said the tech company is very bad to me.

I called the head of Google the other day and said Im getting a lot of good stories lately, but you dont find them in Google, Trump said. I think its a whole rigged deal. I think Google is rigged just like our government is rigged all over the place.