DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Donald Trump hopped on a plane Wednesday to the Sunshine State, stumping in Daytona Beach in what was supposed to be an intimate town hall gathering, but turned into a rally, according to his campaign.
Trump took the stage at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach on Wednesday with his presidential bid apparently floundering, CNN reports. Republican leaders and even senior members of his own team expressed frustration with his political meltdown on Tuesday.
The GOP nominee tried to stem the growing panic -- addressing the state of his campaign right at the top of his speech.
"The campaign is doing really well. It's never been so well united. It's the best in terms of being united since we began. We are doing incredibly well," Trump said.
"I think we have never been this united," said Trump, who went on to attack the Obama administration over the nuclear deal with Iran and the state of the economy.
"We have a president who doesn't know what the hell is going on. And I don't think he likes me. I don't think he likes me," Trump said.
Trump also attacked Hillary Clinton, calling her "the founder of ISIS."
"We let ISIS take this position. It was Hillary Clinton that she should get an award as the founder of ISIS," Trump said. "That's what it was."
His rally comes the day after Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine rallied in Daytona Beach as well."
"I am so glad to be back in Florida for the second time in two days," Kaine said at Daytona State College.
Both parties are pushing hard to get votes in Volusia, and the county's supervisor of elections, Lisa Lewis, believes it's because Volusia County is a swing county in a swing state.
"Volusia used to be a heavily Democratic county," she said. "Now it's getting purple and the Republican numbers are coming up. The gap is closing."
How close? Lewis said of the registered voters in the county, about 134,000 are Democrat and 129,000 are Republican. That's only about a 5,000-voter margin between the two.
"The gap is closing in. Volusia is going to come down to play a big integral part of the presidential election," she said.
In 2012, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won Volusia County over Barack Obama by just over 1 percent. Lewis said in that election, Romney was the only presidential candidate to campaign in Volusia.
She believes that has weighed on why the candidates are now making stops in Volusia County.
"It's not one party or the other," Lewis said. "It can go either way and has in the past, so they are going to come here and try to pick up all the votes that they can."