WASHINGTON In the final sprint toward Election Day, Donald Trump has mused about former congresswoman Liz Cheney as well as journalists covering his rallies getting gunned down, confirmed that he will put an anti-vax conspiracy theorist in charge of the governments health care apparatus and explained that talking about a fictional serial killer proves his genius.

And that was all before he declared at a rally Sunday that he should have just stayed in office despite his 2020 election loss and failed coup attempt on Jan. 6, 2021.

The day that I left, I shouldnt have left, he said at a rally in Pennsylvania. I mean, honestly, because we did so well.

Trump did not elaborate on how, exactly, that might have worked. At noon on Jan. 20, 2021, Joe Biden became the new president and commander-in-chief. At that moment, Trump would have been a trespasser had he chosen to remain in the White House and subject to arrest.

Trumps critics cite Trumps advancing years he is now 78 and apparent mental decline as the cause for his inability to deliver a succinct closing message as to why voters should, despite everything, return him to office.

Age and cognitive decline? offered one veteran Republican consultant on condition of anonymity.

Psychological decompensation, said George Conway , whose former wife, Kellyanne Conway , ran Trumps 2016 campaign in its final months. George Conway supported Trump that election before quickly concluding he had made a terrible mistake.

Trumps campaign rejected the idea that Trump is losing focus.

President Trump is the greatest orator in political history and his patented weave is a brilliant method to convey important stories and explain policies, spokesman Steven Cheung said. The media is too stupid and ignorant to understand or comprehend what is happening in the country and, therefore, is unable to accurately report on President Trumps achievements while in office and the pro-America agenda he will implement in his second term.

Weave refers to Trumps claim that his rambling speaking style of jumping from topic to topic, eventually returning to his original thought, shows off his great intellect.

Vice President Kamala Harris had a much more typical day on the trail, campaigning in Michigan, where she attended a Black church service in Detroit in the morning, visited a local restaurant and barbershop, and held a rally at Michigan State University.

We have momentum, it is on our side, can you feel it? Harris said to the roar of the crowd at the rally. Our campaign is tapping into the ambitions, the aspirations and the dreams of the American people.

The Harris campaign, which has said its internal data indicates late-deciding voters are breaking their way, is projecting more and more confidence as the days go on. On a conference call with reporters on Sunday, campaign officials boasted they had launched 57,000 door-knocking and phone-banking shifts on Saturday.

It is bananas big, a campaign official said of Harris ground operation.

Polls in the race remain tight, with both candidates within striking distance in each of the seven swing states.

However, Trumps increasingly erratic campaign rhetoric in the finals of his 2024 campaign stands in stark contrast to his performance eight years ago, when he robotically stuck to reading poll-tested themes from his teleprompter multiple times a day.