"Vote for me, California. I'm going to give you safety, I'm going to give you a great border, and I'm going to give you more water than almost anybody has...You're going to have water in California at a level that you've never seen before, the farmers are going to do great...and maybe even more important you're not going to have illegal immigrants pouring into the country and killing your family."
-- Trump, speaking at his golf club near LA

"If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, than that's what I'm going to do."
-- J.D. Vance

"[Kamala Harris] never worked at McDonald's...They went in, they investigated it...The Fake News ought to report that she's a liar...It's a big thing, because it tells you that they lie -- they lie about everything...Total lie. That's the way they do it."
-- Trump, lying

"We admire Taylor Swift's music, but I don't think most Americans -- whether they like her music, are fans of hers or not -- are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans."
-- J.D. Vance, on Swift endorsing Harris

"There's no putting lipstick on this pig. Mr. Trump was crushed by a woman he previously dismissed as 'dumb as a rock.' Which raises the question: What does that make him?"
-- Karl Rove

"We're getting polls that show 88 to 11. We're having a lot of great polls. Lots of polls. You see the polls. The polls are indicating we got 90%, 60%, 72%, 71%, and 98%."
-- Trump, in the spin room

"When a Fighter gets beaten or knocked out, they get up and scream, 'I DEMAND A REMATCH!' Well, it's no different with a Debate. She was beaten badly last night. Every poll has us WINNING...so why would I do a Rematch?"
-- Trump

"I'm trying to decide if I want to go on record and the answer is yes. I think he loses because of this debate performance."
-- longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz

"That was the best debate, personally, that I've ever had...A very important debate. Now she wants to do another one because she got beaten tonight, but I don't know."
-- Trump

"They say, 'He rambled and started talking about Hannibal Lecter. What does that have to do?' That's a representative of people that are coming into our country."
-- Trump, who seems to think that asylum-seekers come from mental asylums

"Who cares what somebody's family thinks?"
-- J.D. Vance, on 1st Lt. Jimmy McCain, John McCain's son, criticizing the Arlington incident and endorsing Harris

"What are the chances of that happening? Frankly, I know you're going to say it's a terrible thing to say, but...she would not have been the Chosen One. She would not have been the Chosen One."
-- Trump, on why it's impossible he sexually assaulted accuser Jessica Leeds

"Kamala will make abortion up to the day of birth the law of the land as a major part of her presidency. Absolutely tragic."
-- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

"Can you imagine you're a parent and your son leaves the house and you say, 'Jimmy, I love you so much. Go have a good day at school.' And your son comes back with a brutal operation?"
-- Trump