Trump: ‘Dangerous Democratic candidates; the mid-term election is the most important in US history’
In the mid-term elections to renew the Congress, the latest polls suggest that Democratic candidates are ahead in five of the key states for the Senate
by Luca Veronese from New York
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‘These are the most important mid-term elections in our history; we must defeat the most extremist and dangerous Democratic candidates in American history. They are the most dangerous candidates ever fielded.’ Speaking from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Donald Trump brazenly attacked his opponents, but at times he seemed almost resigned to defeat. Meanwhile, even the latest polls, those carried out by the Siena Institute for the New York Times, point to a ‘blue wave’ sweeping across the United States: a landslide victory for the Democrats, who could secure a majority not only in the House of Representatives (a result now taken for granted by all analysts), but also in the Senate (where the race is still considered very close).
“The Democrats want to ruin everything, to destroy the America that we have made great again over the past two years, by electing communists and jihadists: I hope the American people do the right thing,” added the President, in his final campaign speech, delivered in front of the Reflecting Pool, which had been refurbished amid controversy.
Trump then called on his supporters to make one final effort to limit the losses: ‘We cannot allow people who hate this country to win,’ he reiterated, before admitting: ‘For some reason, presidents always lose the mid-term elections, but we gave it our all anyway.’
Today, Americans are voting to elect a new House of Representatives and a third of the Senate, as well as 36 governors and numerous state officials, but the mid-term election has long since become a referendum on the President’s actions: ‘Vote as if my name were on the ballot paper,’ Trump himself repeated again yesterday. ‘Only when I’m in the running,’ said the tycoon, ‘can we win anything.’
The war in Iran, the trade war over tariffs, violence against immigrants, and above all the steady rise in prices seem, however, to have eroded President Maga’s popularity. In many states – including those that are traditionally conservative and are now on the fence – a perhaps decisive proportion of those who voted for Trump in the 2024 presidential election appear to be disillusioned: they may not go so far as to support the Democrats, but they could decide not to vote at all.
