Donald Trump came to Atlanta again with a week and a day to go, looking for votes in a state that is quickly running out of voters to court.

“I heard that the votes were received very well,” said the former president. When he asked the crowd who voted, about half raised their hands and cheered. “We have to finish it.”

Shortly before Trump took the stage Monday afternoon across from the CNN debate stage that knocked Joe Biden out of the race, the number of early votes in Georgia surpassed 3 million. More than 40% of Georgia voters have already cast their ballots. Approximately 5 million people voted in Georgia's 2020 presidential election.

Trump refrained from his usual practice of denigrating Atlanta, but did denigrate Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the election interference allegations he is still facing, referring to “Fani and her boyfriend” who tried to ” to imprison political opponents.

He described Harris' campaign as one of “demonization and hate” and then referred to her “radical, crazy left-wing politics.”

“They say, 'He's Hitler.' They say, ‘He’s a Nazi.’ I’m the opposite of a Nazi,” he said. “How can Kamala Harris lead America if she hates Americans? … These are very bad people who are a threat to democracy.”

Trump disagreed with Michelle Obama's recent criticism. “She was evil,” Trump said.

But Trump generally stuck to familiar themes like the fact that illegal immigrants are “savages” and “monsters” who are “destroying this country,” the dangers of accepting transgender surgeries and the size of his rallies. He said he would support a tax credit for family caregivers, a new economic proposal due eight days before the election.

Racist comments from a conservative comedian at Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden in New York yesterday overshadowed any message the campaign was trying to convey. Critics on the left had largely compared the event to the Nazi Party rally held there in the run-up to World War II, relying on reports from his former officials that Trump admired Hitler's general officers and wished his own generals had been like them she .

In warm-up comments before Trump's appearance, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene complained about how Sunday night's rally was portrayed in the media.

“This exact rhetoric is why I get death threats,” Greene said. “We are tired of being called Nazis and fascists. These are absolute lies and we will no longer tolerate this,” and suggests that Conservatives should launch a class-action lawsuit to silence these criticisms.

The crowd at McCamish Pavilion on Georgia Tech's campus was much younger than at most rallies held near Atlanta last month. About a quarter of participants were Georgia Tech students or graduates.

Although Georgia Tech students have a long history of stealing the letter T from every possible sign on campus, Trump's signs apparently weren't as affected.

And yet Lt Gov Burt Jones had the audacity to joke that University of Georgia football coach Kirby Scott was a godsend while addressing an arena full of Georgia Tech students on their own campus.

Georgia Tech tends to be a much less politically active campus than the state's flagship University of Georgia or Georgia State University, a few miles east of campus, or Emory University, which saw violent protests against the war in Gaza earlier this year.

However, in advance of Trump's visit, a group of pro-Palestinian students erected a massive flag display in the center of the Georgia Tech campus commemorating the deaths of Gaza citizens. The demonstration had less to do with Trump's presence and more to do with a general call for the school to disclose and withdraw from investments in Israel, said Renee Alnoubani, a civil engineering student.

“We should talk about the war in Gaza every day,” she said. “Every leader, especially a presidential candidate, has a responsibility to use every ounce of power they have to make significant efforts to end genocide.”