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'The midterm elections used to be, like, boring,' Donald Trump quips. 'Now it's like the hottest thing.'
MIDTERM ELECTIONS. President Donald Trump makes a final push across 3 states on Monday, November 5. File photo by Don Emmert / Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON DC, USA – Donald Trump embarks on a whirlwind final push across 3 states Monday, November 5, to stop Democrats from breaking his Republicans' stranglehold on the US Congress in midterm elections amounting to a battle for the soul of the turbulent country.
Cleveland, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Indiana; then Cape Girardeau, Missouri: It's going to be a nightmare before the real estate billionaire and populist showman gets back to the White House – and only a few hours ago before polls open Tuesday, November 6, across the world's largest economy.
With the help of the United States and the United States, Trump told a cheering crowd in Cleveland the media were "making a fortune" thanks to him and his supporters. "The midterm elections used to be, like, boring," he quipped. "Now it's like the hottest thing."
Trump is not on the ballot in the midterms, in which the whole House of Representatives and a third of the Senate are up for grabs.
But in a hard-driving series of rallies around the country, the most polarizing US president for the world.
With a characteristic mix of folksiness, bombast and sometimes cruel humor, he says that he should be one of those who believe in the growth of the economy and what he claims would be the Democrats' extreme-left policies.
He leaned in the theme of robust economic stewardship in a Fox News op-ed that said the US "has the best economy in the history of our country – and hope has finally returned to cities and towns across America."
Aimed to be touched down in Indiana for the second leg of his tour, Trump was sanguine about the possibility of a Democratic victory in the House.
"We'll just have to work a little bit differently," he told reporters when asked how he would affect his presidency.
The trump is a gamble, tout est une budget de touting economic successes à la bitter – critics say racist – claims that the country is under attack from illegal immigration.
In the run-up to Tuesday's vote, Trump has sent thousands of soldiers to the Mexican border, suggesting that illegal immigrants should be shot, and told Americans that the Democrats would turn the country into a crime-and-drugs black hole .
That worked for Trump in his own shock 2016 election victory.
But the angry tone has turned off swaths of Americans, giving them the confidence that they could capture at least the lower house of Congress, even if the Republicans are forecast to hold onto the Senate.
Fight for US soul
The Democrats rolled out their biggest gun in the final days of the campaign: President Barack Obama, who on Sunday, November 4, made a last-ditch appeal for an endangered Senate Democrat in Indiana.
Trump administration – especially the collusion between his presidential campaign and Russian operatives – Obama scoffed: "They've racked up enough indictments to fill a football team."
President Obama said more than politics is at stake.
"The character of our country's on the ballot," he said.
The party of a first-term president in the first half of the year A healthy economy favors the incumbent, so Trump may yet defy the historical pattern.
Although polls may be acceptable to the House of Commons and the Republic of the United States, the margins are fine and a few key races will be determined.
One of those is Beto O'Rourke's Democrat's challenge to Senator Ted Cruz in traditionally deep-Republican Texas.
On Monday, O'Rourke depicted the contest as an epic event, saying that Texans "will define the future, not just of Texas, but of this country, not just this generation but every generation that follows."
Republican Pete Stauber's bid to flip to Democratic House in Minnesota, while Democrats in Florida and Georgia are becoming African-American governors.
In the end, though, polls mean nothing if people do not actually vote, so even stormy weather forecast for Tuesday in much of the east of the country could end up having an impact.
Violence and rhetoric
Perhaps the biggest wild card is in the process of being elected to the extreme rhetoric and politically inspired violence in the last two weeks of the campaign.
In speeches, Trump has been transformed into a group of a few thousand impersonating Central Americans trying to walk to the United States.
This may work with Trump's ultra-loyal base. However, misunderstandings of the president's rhetoric after Florida and Trump's support have been high on the list of senior executives and other high profile opponents.
Just after, a gunman walked into a Pittsburgh synagogue and shot 11 dead worshippers.
He had allegedly lashed out against Jews in Central America "invaders" in the United States – in which echoed Trump's own attacks on the impoverished migrants as "an invasion." – Rappler.com
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