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“Well, I won all of them by a lot,” he said. “I’m going there just to make sure.”

Later, he added that he was traveling to the red states because “you have to thank these states that are with you 1,000%.”

“We’ve done a great job, and the thing I haven’t done a good job with is explaining it to people,” he said.

Trump also told reporters that he has not spoken to Republican Texas Senate nominee Ken Paxton, who was recorded last week during a fundraiser in Washington, telling donors that the GOP midterm convention last month in Dallas did not help his campaign.

“I’ll tell you what, we have to win this election,” Trump said. “That convention was a tremendous success.”

The president is expected to appear alongside Paxton later Thursday at the Peterbilt Motors factory in Denton, Texas, north of Dallas.

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Trump told reporters, too, that he is likely to endorse in the 2028 Republican presidential primary, criticizing Democrats for not having a “bench” of candidates, and suggested he will likely pardon many of his aides before the end of his administration.

“Based on Biden, I can do whatever I want because he certainly pardoned a lot of people,” he said. “He pardoned everybody.”