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“Suburban women: Will you please like me?” he asked. “Please. Please. I saved your damn neighborhood, OK?”

Even though he was on the other side of the state from Philadelphia, and speaking in a long-distressed former steel community, Mr. Trump boasted that he had “saved suburbia” in America.

And he predicted that his fortunes with female voters, who in the recent Times survey were supporting Mr. Biden by 15 points, would turn around.

“We’re going to see that the women really like Trump a lot,” Mr. Trump said, repeating the falsehood that he won women with 52 percent of the vote in 2016 (Hillary Clinton won 54 percent of women, according to exit polls).

The president has repeatedly suggested on Twitter in recent days that his party’s lawmakers should pass a large coronavirus relief package, but for the second consecutive night, he did not use his rally to pressure them to approve a bill. The only demand he made was directed at Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Tom Wolf, who Mr. Trump said should end social distancing restrictions and “open up” the state.

Perhaps the most striking language from Mr. Trump’s speech that was not included in his prepared text was an acknowledgment that he is practicing “risky” behavior by appearing in public so soon after falling ill with a highly contagious disease.

“I got to get out and I have to meet people and I have to see people, and I know it’s risky to do that,” he said. “But you have to do what you have to do. You know, I’m the president, I can’t sit in the basement and say, ‘Let’s wait this thing out.’”