Trump hit the road to promote candidates ahead of the midterm elections. It left him in a “bad mood”

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President Donald Trump was in a “bad mood” while on the road as he tried to shore up support for Republicans ahead of the midterm elections, according to an insider.

Some Trump advisers have said The Washington Post that campaign-style rallies are the most effective tool the president has, aside from lowering gas prices, in an effort to minimize the Republican Party’s losses in the Nov. 3 election.

But while one adviser said the president was sometimes in a “good mood,” another person with knowledge of his behavior told the newspaper of the president’s bad mood on the campaign trail.

The outlet noted that rallies “are now often held in smaller venues than in years past,” despite the president’s assertion that his events result in overflow crowds in every city he visits. There are also logistical factors, as the president would not like to spend the night anywhere except his own hotels or properties.

Yet the rallies serve as an “escape” for the president amid his deeply unpopular war in Iran and his low approval ratings, the outlet reports.

“This is the last time he will really be able to do this with full force,” Mark Mitchell, a former Trump supporter, told the investigative agency. Job. “A 30-day blitz across the country to hold these rallies again when he’s the most unpopular president — it just doesn’t really make sense.”

The president, who has visited 14 states since Labor Day, signs off on the list of places he visits each week, according to the outlet. He is expected to travel this week to Youngstown, Ohio, the Republican stronghold of Wasilla, Alaska, and Bullshead City, a strongly Republican town in Arizona.

Trump said he “loves” being on the campaign trail and dismissed reports of smaller crowds and empty seats.

“I love them, their music and their incredible enthusiasm, and I will always be in favor of what is good for America – and that means the Republican Party,” he said recently of his rallies. “There are no empty seats, there haven’t been in years and there never will be. The rallies are hotter than ever,” he said in another Truth Social article.

Gathering in places where Trump supporters voted for him three times gives Republicans the best chance to encourage them to vote in November, when the president is not on the ballot, Republican officials told the newspaper.

Trump appeared to recognize as much in Tennessee this weekend, where he told a crowd of his most loyal MAGA supporters that he could “say the stupidest things” and they would still applaud.

“What am I doing in Tennessee?” Trump asked the crowd. “I don’t need to campaign here. I won your state by a lot of points. A ridiculous number. All the time.”

“It’s like, I mean, it’s amazing. When you stand here, it’s like love,” Trump continued. “I could say the stupidest things and you would clap. ‘Oh, I love you so much, I do.’

But trying to determine where he can be most helpful has proven difficult in House races, where some are so close that Republicans fear the president could hurt their campaigns.

Two-thirds of Republican candidates for the House of Representatives and Senate have broken with Trump on key policy issues or sought to downplay their ties to him, according to Reuters analysis.