Trump delivers spoken word performance at rally

US President Donald Trump reprised the same anti-immigrant 'snake poem' that he used during his 2016 during a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire on Monday.

In a nod to the longtime supporters who have returned to his rallies again, Trump returned to one of his greatest, if rarest hits, delivering a spoken-word performance of The Snake, a dark 1960s song he has used as an allegory to warn of what he sees as the dangers of illegal immigrants and refugees allowed into the United States.

Before leaving Washington, Trump said he had planned the rally to rattle Democrats and demonstrate his strength in the state before the primary vote.

New Hampshire has always loomed large in Trumps political lore as the first nominating contest he won during 2016's heated Republican primaries.

Though Trump narrowly lost New Hampshire in the general election four years ago, his team believes it is one of the few states, along with Minnesota and perhaps New Mexico, that could flip to red in November.

Although Trump isn't presenting the same show of force in the Granite State as he did last week, when dozens of Trump's surrogates flooded Iowa, the Trump campaign made its presence known in New Hampshire. In addition to Vice President Mike Pence and Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and senior adviser, Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and Rand Paul, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu were set to campaign on his behalf Tuesday.