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Former President Donald Trump campaigns at Atlanta rally as election day nears

The former president made two campaign stops in metro Atlanta on Monday. He started with a National Faith Summit event and ended at a rally on Georgia Tech's campus.

ATLANTA — Former President Donald Trump campaigned in front of a full house at Georgia Tech’s basketball arena on Monday night -- as Georgia’s role in next week’s election remains a tossup.  

"We’ll have a golden age," Trump told a crowd of about eight thousand at McCamish Pavilion Monday evening.

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The Republican took aim at targets foreign and domestic in a 75-minute speech located across from CNN, where Trump's June debate with President Joe Biden later resulted in Biden's departure from the race.  

"We’re the party of common sense. We don’t want transgender operations all over the place. We don’t want open borders," he said to a roaring crowd.

Trump vowed to lead history’s largest program of deportations if he beats Democrat Kamala Harris in the election next week.  

Janet Pioleau supports the former president and said that change is needed for the nation. 

"I’m just excited because we need a change. And the change we need is to bring America back to her values, her core values; those American values of God, family, country," the Trump volunteer attending the event told 11Alive News.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene denounced the news media for reporting that some of Trump’s former top aides revealed he had fascist tendencies during his first term.

"They call President Trump Hitler. They called us Nazis," Greene said. 

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The Republican presidential nominee said he was not a Nazi. 

"I’m not a Nazi. I’m the opposite of a Nazi," Trump said to cheers from the crowd. 

Trump wrote it off as another round of insults, the likes of which he’s endured for nearly a decade.

"They call me everything from a mad genius looking to take over the world to a very, very stupid person," Trump said. "I’ve covered from stupid to mad genius."

Trump vowed to impose more tariffs on imported goods – a program Democrats denounce as a hidden sales tax on imports.

 "The word tariff to me is the most beautiful word in the entire dictionary," Trump told the crowd. 

Though next week’s election is expected to be close, Trump told this audience he expects to win the biggest victory in American history.  

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