(Trends Wide) — Republicans are increasingly poised to win big in Tuesday’s midterms as they lash out at Democrats over runaway inflation and crime, with President Joe Biden seeking a belated respite by warning that GOP election deniers They could destroy democracy.
In a sign of the high stakes and growing angst among Democrats, four presidents — Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton — hit the campaign trail over the weekend.
Former President Trump, inching closer to announcing his 2024 White House bid, will wrap up a campaign he used to show his enduring magnetism among rank-and-file Republicans in Ohio with a rally for Senate candidate JD Vance on Monday. . In a speech that concluded in pouring rain for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday, Trump predicted that voters “will elect an incredible slate of true MAGA warriors to Congress.”
Biden, who spent Saturday casting the vote in the critical Pennsylvania Senate race with Obama, warned that the nation’s core values ​​are in jeopardy from Republicans who denied the truth about the US Capitol insurrection and following the brutal attack on President Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul.
“Democracy is literally on the line. This is a defining moment for the nation. And we must all speak with one voice, regardless of our party. There is no place in America for political violence,” Biden said.
The president will end his effort to avoid voter rebuke at a Democratic rally in Maryland. The fact that he is in a liberal stronghold and does not attempt to propel an endangered lawmaker into a key race on the last night reflects his compromised position in an election that has become a referendum on his shattered credibility and low approval ratings. .
Democrats are playing defense in blue state strongholds like New York, Washington and Oregon and are waging a long fight to hold on to the House of Representatives. The Republicans only need a net gain of five seats to regain control. A handful of battles in swing states will decide the fate of the Senate, currently split 50/50, including Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
Republicans are also showing renewed interest in the New Hampshire race between Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan and retired Army Brigadier General Don Bolduc, a pro-Trump candidate Democrats denounce as an election-denying extremist.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel predicted on Trends Wide’s “State of the Union” that her party will win both the House and Senate and accused Biden of being oblivious to Americans’ economic anxiety with his repeated warnings about democracy.
“This is where the Democrats are: They’re inflation deniers, they’re crime deniers, they’re education deniers,” McDaniel said.
Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who heads the Senate GOP campaign committee, predicted his party would reach a majority on Tuesday.
“We’re going to get more than 52,” he said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” show, referring to the number of seats he hoped to control.
But the president warned in a speech in Pittsburgh on Saturday night alongside Obama that Republican concerns about the economy were a ploy and said the GOP would cut Social Security and Medicare if the majority won.
“Look, all they want is for the richest to get rich. And for the richest to stay rich. The middle class is hurt. The poor are getting poorer by their policy,” Biden said.
The midterm elections are the first national vote since the chaos and violence triggered by Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of the last presidential election, and there are already fears that some Republican candidates will follow suit and try to defy the will of voters if they don’t they win. Some, like Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, have already raised concerns about the integrity of the vote.
In another incident this Sunday, an employee at the campaign headquarters of Kari Lake, the pro-Trump candidate in the Arizona gubernatorial race, opened a letter containing a suspicious white powder. Lake’s opponent, current Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, condemned the incident as “incredibly troubling.”
Closing arguments before the midterms
In a frantic final weekend of campaigning, Biden and Obama tried to push Democratic candidate John Fetterman over the line in a Pennsylvania Senate race that represents the party’s best chance to pick up a Senate seat held by the Party. Republican. However, Democrats are under heavy pressure in states like Arizona and Nevada, which could tip the chamber toward Republicans, who need a net gain of just one seat to win a majority.
The first big clashes of the 2024 GOP nomination contest, meanwhile, erupted in Florida with Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holding dueling rallies Sunday night. The former president, who is expected to launch a third White House bid within days, coined a new nickname Saturday for the man who could prove to be his toughest primary opponent: “Ron DeSanctimonious.”
But the Florida governor chose not to compromise, directing his anger instead at Biden and calling his Democratic opponent, Charlie Crist, a “donkey” while taking credit for challenging Washington officials and experts during the pandemic.
“I was willing to go out there and take the arrows so you guys didn’t have to,” DeSantis said.
While rallying for Rubio, who is seeking re-election, Trump did not repeat his mockery of DeSantis on Sunday, but did hint at the possibility of a presidential run again. In another sign that the upcoming presidential race is stirring, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, a long-time campaigner for higher office, announced that he would not join the Republican primary.
Former President Bill Clinton was also called into action on Saturday, campaigning for Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul in Brooklyn. Empire status should be safe territory for her party, but Hochul’s tighter-than-expected re-election race against Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin underscores the harshness of the national environment for Democrats.
“I know the average election rally is just ‘whoop dee doo do vote for me,’ but your life is on the line. For the young people in the audience, their life is on the line,” Clinton said.
With Americans struggling with the high cost of living, Democrats have been unable to prevent a referendum on Biden’s economic management and presidency as most polls predict a growing Republican push that could lead to the president of the first mandate a classic rebuke in midterm elections.
There are growing questions about the Democrats’ strategy and whether they are effectively addressing the issues voters care about most. Biden’s final message about saving democracy from pro-Trump candidates could be an accurate reflection of the new threats posed by the former president and his acolytes. But it does nothing to ease fears about the cost of groceries or a gallon of gas.
Yet Biden has failed to speak effectively and personally to Americans yearning to get back to normal after the pandemic, or to convey that he fully understands the pain of rising prices in a 40-year-old explosion of inflation. and that his White House repeatedly branded as “transitory.”
If Republicans win back the House of Representatives, they can put a vise on Biden’s legislative program and set up a series of dangerous political showdowns over spending and raising the debt ceiling. They promise a relentless round of investigations and hearings on everything from the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the surge of migrants across the southern border to Biden’s son Hunter.
A Republican majority would have dozens of candidates in the image and likeness of Trump and would become a weapon to damage the president as much as possible in the face of a possible rematch with Trump in 2024. And a Republican Senate would frustrate Biden’s hopes of balancing the judiciary after four years in which Trump has nominated conservative judges.
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(Trends Wide) — Republicans are increasingly poised to win big in Tuesday’s midterms as they lash out at Democrats over runaway inflation and crime, with President Joe Biden seeking a belated respite by warning that GOP election deniers They could destroy democracy.
In a sign of the high stakes and growing angst among Democrats, four presidents — Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton — hit the campaign trail over the weekend.
Former President Trump, inching closer to announcing his 2024 White House bid, will wrap up a campaign he used to show his enduring magnetism among rank-and-file Republicans in Ohio with a rally for Senate candidate JD Vance on Monday. . In a speech that concluded in pouring rain for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday, Trump predicted that voters “will elect an incredible slate of true MAGA warriors to Congress.”
Biden, who spent Saturday casting the vote in the critical Pennsylvania Senate race with Obama, warned that the nation’s core values ​​are in jeopardy from Republicans who denied the truth about the US Capitol insurrection and following the brutal attack on President Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul.
“Democracy is literally on the line. This is a defining moment for the nation. And we must all speak with one voice, regardless of our party. There is no place in America for political violence,” Biden said.
The president will end his effort to avoid voter rebuke at a Democratic rally in Maryland. The fact that he is in a liberal stronghold and does not attempt to propel an endangered lawmaker into a key race on the last night reflects his compromised position in an election that has become a referendum on his shattered credibility and low approval ratings. .
Democrats are playing defense in blue state strongholds like New York, Washington and Oregon and are waging a long fight to hold on to the House of Representatives. The Republicans only need a net gain of five seats to regain control. A handful of battles in swing states will decide the fate of the Senate, currently split 50/50, including Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
Republicans are also showing renewed interest in the New Hampshire race between Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan and retired Army Brigadier General Don Bolduc, a pro-Trump candidate Democrats denounce as an election-denying extremist.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel predicted on Trends Wide’s “State of the Union” that her party will win both the House and Senate and accused Biden of being oblivious to Americans’ economic anxiety with his repeated warnings about democracy.
“This is where the Democrats are: They’re inflation deniers, they’re crime deniers, they’re education deniers,” McDaniel said.
Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who heads the Senate GOP campaign committee, predicted his party would reach a majority on Tuesday.
“We’re going to get more than 52,” he said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” show, referring to the number of seats he hoped to control.
But the president warned in a speech in Pittsburgh on Saturday night alongside Obama that Republican concerns about the economy were a ploy and said the GOP would cut Social Security and Medicare if the majority won.
“Look, all they want is for the richest to get rich. And for the richest to stay rich. The middle class is hurt. The poor are getting poorer by their policy,” Biden said.
The midterm elections are the first national vote since the chaos and violence triggered by Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of the last presidential election, and there are already fears that some Republican candidates will follow suit and try to defy the will of voters if they don’t they win. Some, like Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, have already raised concerns about the integrity of the vote.
In another incident this Sunday, an employee at the campaign headquarters of Kari Lake, the pro-Trump candidate in the Arizona gubernatorial race, opened a letter containing a suspicious white powder. Lake’s opponent, current Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, condemned the incident as “incredibly troubling.”
Closing arguments before the midterms
In a frantic final weekend of campaigning, Biden and Obama tried to push Democratic candidate John Fetterman over the line in a Pennsylvania Senate race that represents the party’s best chance to pick up a Senate seat held by the Party. Republican. However, Democrats are under heavy pressure in states like Arizona and Nevada, which could tip the chamber toward Republicans, who need a net gain of just one seat to win a majority.
The first big clashes of the 2024 GOP nomination contest, meanwhile, erupted in Florida with Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holding dueling rallies Sunday night. The former president, who is expected to launch a third White House bid within days, coined a new nickname Saturday for the man who could prove to be his toughest primary opponent: “Ron DeSanctimonious.”
But the Florida governor chose not to compromise, directing his anger instead at Biden and calling his Democratic opponent, Charlie Crist, a “donkey” while taking credit for challenging Washington officials and experts during the pandemic.
“I was willing to go out there and take the arrows so you guys didn’t have to,” DeSantis said.
While rallying for Rubio, who is seeking re-election, Trump did not repeat his mockery of DeSantis on Sunday, but did hint at the possibility of a presidential run again. In another sign that the upcoming presidential race is stirring, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, a long-time campaigner for higher office, announced that he would not join the Republican primary.
Former President Bill Clinton was also called into action on Saturday, campaigning for Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul in Brooklyn. Empire status should be safe territory for her party, but Hochul’s tighter-than-expected re-election race against Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin underscores the harshness of the national environment for Democrats.
“I know the average election rally is just ‘whoop dee doo do vote for me,’ but your life is on the line. For the young people in the audience, their life is on the line,” Clinton said.
With Americans struggling with the high cost of living, Democrats have been unable to prevent a referendum on Biden’s economic management and presidency as most polls predict a growing Republican push that could lead to the president of the first mandate a classic rebuke in midterm elections.
There are growing questions about the Democrats’ strategy and whether they are effectively addressing the issues voters care about most. Biden’s final message about saving democracy from pro-Trump candidates could be an accurate reflection of the new threats posed by the former president and his acolytes. But it does nothing to ease fears about the cost of groceries or a gallon of gas.
Yet Biden has failed to speak effectively and personally to Americans yearning to get back to normal after the pandemic, or to convey that he fully understands the pain of rising prices in a 40-year-old explosion of inflation. and that his White House repeatedly branded as “transitory.”
If Republicans win back the House of Representatives, they can put a vise on Biden’s legislative program and set up a series of dangerous political showdowns over spending and raising the debt ceiling. They promise a relentless round of investigations and hearings on everything from the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the surge of migrants across the southern border to Biden’s son Hunter.
A Republican majority would have dozens of candidates in the image and likeness of Trump and would become a weapon to damage the president as much as possible in the face of a possible rematch with Trump in 2024. And a Republican Senate would frustrate Biden’s hopes of balancing the judiciary after four years in which Trump has nominated conservative judges.
