'Isolated' Donald Trump doesn't look 'remotely pre-presidential' ahead of election, says expert

looked "isolated" and his attitude didn't seem "remotely pre-presidential" in he held on the final day of election campaigning, a body language expert has said.

The former US president was greeted by several empty seats during his campaign event at Dorton Arena in Raleigh, , on Tuesday morning. And as he often does, he concluded the rally with his signature YMCA dance before heading to Reading, Pennsylvania, for his second stop of the day.

Despite appearing defiant while declaring the Southeast state "ours to lose" and encouraging people to go out and vote on Tuesday, the crowd at his rally didn't seem to be so engaged into Trump's dance which made him look "oddly isolated", Judi James said. Speaking exclusively to The , the body language expert said the former president's "war dance" appeared to be "his own thing, his own little joke to himself."

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She noted that his attitude during the NC rally "had no links" to Trump's "alpha status signals". She even added that Trump "seemed a little depleted" and appeared to be fighting an "exhausting battle for power" as the campaign draws to an end.

Giving her assessment of the former president's body language today, Judi said: "Trump's last exit during his last push for voters left his fans with the memorable vision of him turning his back and waggling his bum repeatedly to the song 'YMCA'. He also added that two-handed ritual that looks like he's miming drying the back of his neck with a long towel.

"This has been Trump's mating dance to voters at other rally's but despite the way the seats behind his stage had been stacked with young, keen-looking types, not one of them appeared to be willing to become Trump's flash-mop by mirroring his shimmying ritual. It made him look oddly isolated, as though this 'war dance' is purely his own thing, his own little joke to himself.

"It had no links to Trump's alpha status signals and even these seemed a little depleted here too, as though he felt he'd fought his exhausting battle for power and ended in a more brooding mood but with a playful twist." According to Judi, Trump's posture was "more slumped than usual" as she revealed: "His signature alpha pose entails splaying around the shoulders and the chest, all puffing and peacocking.

"But here he appeared to be in a slightly softer mode, as though addressing an audience of friends and family." The expert went on to say that Trump's body language "didn't seem to assume victory" as he wasn't showing "the traits" that someone who expects to be elected would be expected to show.

She concluded: "Does he expect to win? His body language didn't seem to assume victory. His dance didn't look remotely pre-presidential and he didn't seem to adopt the kind of traits that might assume high rank awaits. But he didn't looked bowed, either, more like a man who is used to being in total control now having to step back for a few hours or even days and allow his fate to be decided by people other than himself."

About 77 million Americans already have voted early. Either result on Election Day will yield a historic outcome. A Trump victory would make him the first incoming president to have been indicted and convicted of a felony, after his hush money trial in New York.

He will gain the power to end other federal investigations pending against him. Trump would also become only the second president in history to win non-consecutive White House terms, after Grover Cleveland in the late 19th century.

Harris is vying to become the first woman, first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to reach the Oval Office - four years after she broke the same barriers in national office by becoming President Joe Biden's second in command. The vice president ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket after Biden's disastrous performance in a June debate set into motion his withdrawal from the race - one of a series of convulsions that have hit this year's campaign.

Harris, 60, has played down the historic nature of her candidacy, which materialised only after the 81-year-old president ended his re-election bid following his June debate against the 78-year-old Trump accentuated questions about Biden's age. Instead, she has pitched herself as a generational change, emphasised her support for abortion rights after the Supreme Court's 2022 decision ending the constitutional right to abortion services, and regularly noted the former president's role in the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol.