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Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Monday, November 4th, and here's what's driving the day.

Most Republicans, at least smart Republicans, had hoped that Donald Trump might wrap up his campaign with a disciplined message, one focused on the economy and immigration, for example.

Well, yesterday's leading headlines, they told a very different story, unsurprisingly.

In a series of rallies this weekend, alternatively described in the press as both dark and rambling

and sluggish, Trump erred plenty of familiar grievances and some new ones.

Most notably, he said he, quote, shouldn't have left the White House in 2020, even though he lost the election. He joked that he

wouldn't mind if it would be assassin had to shoot through the fake news to reach him. Yes, you heard that

right. It was, of course, a further escalation of his violent rhetoric against journalists,

as our colleagues here at Politico reported. And of course, the campaign is trying to play cleanup.

Stephen Chung claimed that that is not what Trump meant. And then there was this. Notably, as

RFK grabs late-breaking headlines for fringe public health ideas, Trump isn't exactly backing away from them. In an interview

with NBC's, Dasha Burns, Trump didn't exactly rule out banning some vaccines, and he was open to

Kennedy's ideas of taking fluoride out of water. Sounds okay to me, he said. If Trump loses the

election, this is going to be why. He had such a clear message, tie Kamala Harris to Joe Biden, and ask voters under whose leadership were you better off.

And yet he cannot help himself.

This morning in Playbook, we look at the recriminations that we will likely be hearing on both sides should Harris or Trump lose.

There's plenty in there from both Biden's 11th hour

decision to drop out of the race and how that screwed over Harris to Trump's alienation of women

writ large and his selection of J.D. Vance as his running mate. Make sure you give that read. Meanwhile,

Harris's team is feeling bullish. After calling herself the underdog for weeks, her orbit is now

projecting confidence at winning the race.

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