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It's there that he floats, in Air Force One. The president's plane lands in Pensacola on the Gulf Coast of Florida Florida. The crowd is already waiting in a shed. From the speakers, Tina Turner roared: "Simply the best." The flag of America blows in the wind.
Donald Trump in the election campaign, it's the perfect show and a lot of presidential kitsch. The plane stops in front of the hangar, Trump goes down the bridge, beckoned. His fans call "USA, USA." At the front, a woman fainted. The parents brandish their children as if they were waiting for the blessing of the Lord. An old man shakes his crutch. Trump shouts: "I love Florida."
Pensacola is Trump's 54th gathering in this election campaign, the second of the day. It was right in Montana, three hours away. Before that in West Virginia. Later, we continue in Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee. Tuesday already, the United States choose a new congress and Trump always tries to mobilize all the forces in the last meters. His constituents, his fans should drive him back to victory. As in the 2016 election. He settles down. But can he still avoid a defeat of his Republicans?
"Democrats want to destroy our country"
Trump's blitz is almost like a desperate act. Now that the President and his party have been able to witness a resumption of the elections after the dispute over Judge Brett Kavanaugh, they are under new pressure. Many recent polls show that Democrats could reach Tuesday more than the 23 seats they would need to conquer the House of Representatives. Even if the Republicans can retain their majority in the Senate, it would definitely be a bitter defeat for Trump.
But it's not that far yet – and as long as nothing is decided, Trump will not let go. In the election campaign, he is completely himself: he likes the applause of the mbades, the jubilation. He obviously needs confirmation from his fans. And it's almost like he wanted to force the victory of his Republicans alone. Could you organize more gatherings for me, "he said shouting after his colleagues.
The man eats Coca-Cola, steaks and ice cream. He is 72 years old. He does not seem a little tired or sick. You must leave him that. He almost never sleeps in the plane, say his companions, according to a report from "Politico". Instead, he watches television and often changes channels. You will notice that all the TVs are on in the plane.
So, Trump is acting like a fighting machine these days. He also wants to show: I am fully there. He knows since the last election campaign that the polls are perhaps wrong, or at least a little off. It is worthwhile to be at the last minute, especially in states where voters change a lot, between Democrats and Republicans, where nothing is decided, as in Florida.
Trump wants to scare these voters: "If you vote for the Democrats, they will introduce socialism in Florida," he told Pensacola. They are a party of dangerous radicals. "They want to destroy our country – with the demolition ball."
For Trump, as is so often the case, it is relatively simple: if Republicans win the election, they will celebrate it as their personal success. If the elections turn out badly, he will accuse everyone, the media, his party friends, the Democrats, but only himself, he should, as usual, not be criticized. In this sense, his promotional tour is also a protection. Trump wants to be able to tell his party friends during an electoral defeat: Listen, my lack of commitment was not.
How is Trump facing a defeat?
Trump would not be Trump if he did not build in bankruptcy. With what flippancy does he begin to chew the consequences of a possible defeat. While most observers in Washington expect the president of a Democratic congress to barely be able to impose one of his plans, Trump is already doing it as if a victory of the opposition was half less fierce. "Do you know what I'm doing?", He shouted to his supporters in West Virginia last Friday. "I agree with that, do not worry."
Normally, it would be badumed that Trump would change his style in case of defeat, that he would be more willing to compromise, more conciliatory. But Trump does not work like this: more likely, a mid-term bankruptcy just makes him angry, even more aggressive. Instead of rhetorical disarmament, it could instead create a fad and even occur in a more strident or even more populist way.
Trumpism is a system that knows only climbing. It's not like Trump has not lost it. In recent months, Republicans have already suffered serious setbacks in a series of by-elections. In Virginia, in the Republican stronghold of Alabama, where Trump's candidate, right winger Roy Moore, failed. Many voters refused because they had rejected Trump's division policies. But even then, Trump has not changed course. Instead: more attacks, more half-truths, lies, more provocations against migrants from Latin America.
In any case, in Pensacola, you can feel that Trump and his strategists are already elsewhere with their thoughts. The mid-term exams are for them only an intermediate event on the way to the real goal, the presidential election in two years. Then the president himself is on the ballot. It is about him personally, and not about senators or congressmen of his party, whom he hardly knows anyway.
Several posters and T-shirts, worn in Pensacola by Trump fans, already carry the logo of the 2020 election campaign. Trump himself spoke several times during his appearance in the presidential election. He looks forward to televised duels in the elections against the Democratic candidate or candidate, he said. "It will certainly be radical, it will be fun."
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