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“Vote and do not allow democratic jihadists and communists to win.” Donald Trump launches his last appeal before the midterms by choosing a stage for great occasions, the Lincoln Memorial. With the Reflecting Pool behind him that he repaired and has become one of his prides, the president addressed Americans directly: “These are the most important midterm elections in our history. We cannot allow those who hate this country to win.”
“We have the most dynamic country in the world, people have to go and vote. Pretend I’m on the ballot paper, do what you want, but we have to go and vote. If our people go to vote, we win by a landslide.” Donald Trump said this in a final appeal to voters launched on Fox News, a few hours before the midterm elections, responding to a question according to which the midterm elections are, by definition, a question of voter turnout. “When my name is on the ballot, as you know, I have always won, we get 50% more votes than when I’m not there.”
After dwelling at length on the infrastructural interventions carried out in Washington and at the White House, including the arch he wants to build and which “will be more beautiful than that of Triumph” in Paris, Trump listed his successes.
“I kept my promises and even more”, he assured, placing the emphasis on immigration and tax cuts.
“We stopped Iran from having a nuclear weapon. Our country is doing very well,” he added.
Once the press conference closed in front of 50 selected guests, the longest hours began for Trump, that of waiting for the outcome of the midterms which made it a referendum on himself. For the president it is the moment of truth: after 30 rallies in 32 days he can do nothing but wait for America’s choice which will decide whether his next two years in office will be a ‘lame duck’ or not. The president did everything he could to convince the Americans, even going so far as to guarantee a $5,000 check in the event of a Republican victory. “If the Democrats win instead you will have a Depression like in 1929,” he warned.
The boom in early voting – almost 56 million Americans who voted before the polls opened – however gives hope to the Democrats, who the latest polls give them a strong advantage. The conquest of the Chamber by the liberals is now almost taken for granted, and significant progress has also been made in the Senate. According to the final findings of the New York Times-Siena, the Democratic candidates are ahead in all the races that will decide the balance of the Senate, from Texas which they have not won since 1988 to Kansas which they last conquered in 1932. Polling guru Nate Silver estimates that they have an 80% chance of winning the upper chamber and the idea of a “blue tsunami” is floating around.
Despite the scandal in Alaska and the tensions in Michigan over the candidate Abdul El-Sayed, accused by Trump of being from the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’, the optimism among liberals is palpable, as is the hope of winning decisive votes in Republican stronghold states. Caution, however, is a must in the face of polls which in the latest electoral rounds have proven to be untruthful and unable to capture the true mood of Americans. What works in their favor, according to observers, is the fact that in the most important races the Republican candidates are very weak, as in the case of Ken Paxton in Texas and Darline Graham in South Carolina.
Among Republicans, however, tension is high. While they publicly display confidence, the behind-the-scenes showdown has already begun. And everyone places the responsibility for the expected defeat on the president who, with his war in Iran, has destroyed the Grand Old Party’s chances of holding on.
Historically, the party of the president in office is penalized in the midterms, but in this case the republicans fear is not only of losing, but of being overwhelmed by the opposition. Already an avid consumer of news, Trump will follow the count surrounded by loyalists ready to do battle.
US Supreme Court rejects Trump request to block 20,000 votes in California
The US Supreme Court, without recording any dissenting votes, this evening rejected the Trump administration’s request to force California to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots on the grounds that they may have been delivered to people who were not American citizens. The measure, without a signature or reasons, came the same day that the administration’s lawyers turned to the Court after a federal appeals court had rejected the administration’s argument that the Californian authorities should have seized the ballots for further verification.