Trump and Obama vie for opposing US visions as mid-term elections draw near

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Barack Obama clashed Sunday in a duel, offering very different views on the country's problems, but agreeing on the high stakes for voters over the past 48 hours. 39, a tight campaign.

While opinion polls revealed dozens of tight races in Congress and US governors in Tuesday's election, the current president and former presidents said the results would determine the type of Americans' over the next two years.

"This election will decide whether we rely on this extraordinary prosperity we have created," Trump told an enthusiastic crowd in Macon, Georgia, warning that Democrats "would attack our economy."

Trump campaigned with Georgian Secretary of State Brian Kemp in a close race with Democrat Stacey Abrams for the governor's office.

Obama has condemned Trump, without addressing him by name, and the Republicans for what he described as their politics of division and their repeated lies. He reprimanded Trump and the Republicans for repeatedly trying to overturn his health care law, while claiming to support law-enforcement measures for those with pre-existing medical conditions.

"The only control right now on the behavior of these Republicans is you and your vote," Obama told his supporters at Gary, in Indiana, at a rally for the Democratic senator in danger Joe Donnelly.

"The character of our country is on the ballot," he said.

Trump and Obama are the most popular personalities of their parties. Their appearances in the election campaigns are intended to elicit the enthusiasm of leading supporters of the final stages of a mid-term congressional election, widely regarded as a referendum on Trump's first two years at home. white. .

Opinion polls and election forecasters have made Democrats favorites on Tuesday that they would get the 23 seats needed to win a majority in the US House of Representatives, which would allow them to thwart Trump's legislative agenda and investigate his administration.

Republicans are in favor of keeping their slight majority in the US Senate, which currently holds two seats, which would allow them to retain the power to approve the US Supreme Court and other candidates for the judiciary following a vote to the right of the party.

Trump will appear Sunday in Tennessee, where a major race will take place in the US Senate.

RHETORIC HARD LINE

In the latter stages of the campaign, Trump intensified his radical rhetoric about immigration and cultural issues, including warning against a caravan of migrants heading for the Mexican border and liberal "crowds".

He repeated these themes in Georgia, urging voters to "watch what happens – it's an invasion". He said the Democrats were encouraging border chaos because it was a good policy.

Ronna McDaniel, head of the Republican National Committee, told ABC's "This Week" program that the media chose to focus on Trump's rhetoric about immigration, but the president also emphasized on economic gains and jobs created under his presidency.

The Ministry of Labor announced Friday a much better job creation than expected in October, with the unemployment rate setting at 3.7%, its lowest level in 49 years, and wages registering their best annual gain for almost ten years.

But in Indiana, Obama said Republicans were celebrating the economic revival begun under his presidency. "You hear those Republicans boasting about the quality of the economy, where did it start?", He asked.

Obama also appeared later Sunday in his former home state, Illinois, which hosts a competing governorship race and several tight races from the US House of Representatives. Obama's campaign appearance is his second in three days.

In the battle for the Senate, Democrats are defending seats in 10 states that Trump won in the 2016 presidential election, including a handful that he won in double digits.

US Senator Chris Van Hollen, who heads the Democratic Senate's campaign arm, said it's "remarkable" that Democrats are even about to seize the Senate, given the map. unfavorable to which they were confronted.

"The fact that we still have a narrow way to reach the majority is a radical change from what we were two years ago," he said on ABC. "These are very close races and they are in the states where Trump won big."

On Sunday morning, nearly 34.4 million people voted early, according to the University of Florida's Election Project, which tracks voter turnout. This represents an increase of 67.8% over the 20.5 million advance votes recorded in 2014, during the last federal election in which the White House was not involved.