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The President of the United States embarked on Monday in a marathon of rallies in three states a few hours before the opening of the poll for the mid-term elections of an election that are considered as a referendum on his mandate as president in a highly divided country
Predictions that the participation rate is high, the wait was maximum a few hours after the opening of polls Tuesday.
"Everything we built is up for grabs tomorrow" Donald Trump told a rally Monday before thousands of his supporters in Indiana, a key state if the Republicans want to retain control of the Senate.
In the midst of expectations, the intelligence and security services issued a warning against the threat of foreign interference stating that there was no reason to believe that the electoral infrastructure was compromised .
Trump's name does not appear on the ballots for these elections, but the White House tenant repeated for weeks that it was a referendum on his presidency.
In the elections are in play the 435 seats of the House of Representatives 35 seats in the Senate, 36 governorates, as well as several local offices as mayors, judges and sheriffs.
Two years after Trump's election, at a time when Republicans have an advance of 51 to 49 seats in the Senate, elections are also projected as a prelude to presidential elections from 2020 .
In this dynamic and fearful that the Democrats can not curb their policies, Trump has been launched in recent weeks to tour the country to encourage several meetings during which he was enthusiastically received by his supporters , including many with the red cap marked with the slogan "Make America Great Again" (let the US become big again).
On Monday only, he visited three American states to participate in campaign events in Cleveland, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Indiana; then to Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Americans witness the end of a campaign marked by two violent incidents: the shipment of explosive packages to prominent opposition leaders and the mbadacre perpetrated in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11 people. .
Both facts led to accusations that Trump was encouraging violence with his incendiary tweets and his speeches with harsh comments against his opponents.
Many anticipated votes
But the big question and the key results are the participation, which in the mid-term elections is generally low and in 2014 it was 41.9%.
An index of interest generated by these elections is that more than 30 million advance votes had already been issued in the states allowing this modality, compared with 22 million in the elections of four years ago.
"Tomorrow's elections may be the most important of our lives" said Monday former President Barack Obama, who fought over the weekend to elect a democrat whose seat is endangered in Indiana.
In the electrified atmosphere of his meetings, Trump exploited his television presenter experience.
The President places voters in the choice to manage them, in which the expansion of the economy resulted in unemployment of at least 3.7% and its vision of security; and the positions of Democrats, which he describes as leftist extremists.
His speech marks a turning point and pbades from praise to his government's achievements to a difficult narrative – called racist by some – in which denounced illegal immigration as an "invasion" .
A few days before the election, Trump sent over [4 800] soldiers to the Mexican border and suggested that if the Central American migrants who were traveling in thousands in caravans in the United States threw stones at the agents, these could respond with shots, although later retracted.
New Faces
These elections also mark the beginning of new faces that emerged as great promises in the political landscape .
One of them is New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who after having won the Democratic primary surprisingly in September in the Bronx and Queens, is about to become the woman Younger to be elected to the House of Representatives .
When she defeated veteran Joe Crowley, the young Puerto Rican woman left everyone speechless. This Latina, who defines herself as a socialist, has become the symbol of a wave of democratic women belonging to minorities. who revolutionize the party elite.
In these elections, the Latin American community, which is the largest minority in the country with 59 million inhabitants, could break record performance.
The question is how this electorate, made up of 29 million people, behaves in the face of Trump's rhetoric against immigration, which in the 2016 elections was supported by 30% of Latino voters .
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