WASHINGTON—With less than a week until the midterm elections, President Donald Trump is heading back on the road.
On Wednesday, Trump will hit his 28th rally of the midterm cycle, traveling to Ohio for Senator Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy. On Thursday, he’ll speak in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and Friday he heads to Daytona Beach. Salina, Kansas, is on Saturday, and Sunday he’ll end in Dubuque, Iowa.
“He’s one of the few people that actually seems like he’s a patriot. He’s for America,” Iowa voter Doug Smith told The Daily Wire last week in Sioux City. It was Smith’s first time at a Trump rally, but he figured he was getting older, and it was time to see the man he had spent the last decade voting for in the flesh. “He’s looking out for our best interests. Lotta politicians look out for their own interests.”
“Once you have his back, you’re always going to have his back,” Smith added when asked about legacy media suggestions that Trump voters would turn on him this election. “Especially in the Midwest, loyalty is an important thing for us … we just look for common sense ideas. I’ve always thought there was real life smart, and there’s book smart. And I always prefer real life.”
Trump’s campaign blitz has consisted largely of day trips that end with the president returning to the White House at one or two in the morning. He almost always takes questions from the press as he departs the White House or boards Air Force One.
The White House hasn’t yet revealed his travel plans for Monday, nor where he’ll be spending Election Day. But his message to voters is consistent: on Tuesday, Americans will choose between a return to radical Democrats or a continuation of his own policies. In the waning days of the cycle, the president has even urged voters to pretend he’s on the ballot.
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“President Trump will continue crisscrossing the country, working harder than anyone else, to deliver a simple message: with Republicans in control of Congress, Americans can expect safer streets, lower taxes, a secure border, and energy dominance,” White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told The Daily Wire.
“The President will continue to draw a sharp contrast with his winning agenda and the radical-left Democrats who embrace socialism and communism, voted against the largest middle-class tax cut in history, and remain extremely soft-on-crime.”
Trump has aggressively attacked Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed as a “jihadist” and a “clown.” He’s slammed Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton as a “radical Left lunatic” who poses as a moderate, reminding voters how she shut Ohio “down and just almost destroyed it” during COVID-19.
The president has been particularly vicious in his attacks on Texas Democrat candidate James Talarico — whom the president has dubbed “Talafreako” — ripping into the candidate for his obsession with “turning your young boys and girls transgender” and warning Texans that Talarico wants to “get rid of the guns,” “get rid of the oil,” and “get rid of the meat.”
“The only man standing between Texas and this raging lunatic is Donald J. Trump,” he warned the crowd in Corpus Christi this week, adding: “Talafreako will kill millions of Texas jobs.”
Vice President JD Vance is also out on the campaign trail, heading Wednesday to Kinston, North Carolina. The vice president was in Belgrade, Montana, on Monday and Topeka, Kansas, on Tuesday. Thursday, he’ll be in Weatherford, Texas, and he has an undisclosed campaign stop on Friday.
“We’re campaigning in red states; we’re campaigning in blue states, we’re also campaigning in purple states,” he explained during a gaggle with reporters in mid-October. “I mean, it’s the nature of a midterm election where you don’t really know how things are going to go, and so you try to pick your targets.”
“I feel good about where we are,” the vice president said at the time. “We know that we’re swimming upstream, and I try to remind Republican voters all the time, it is historically unusual for a president who controls — or his party controls the Senate and the House, usually that president, that party will lose the midterm elections. So, we know that we’re swimming against some serious historical trends here.”
“But I think that we have as good a chance as I’ve ever seen to really defy those historical trends,” Vance maintained. “So, we’re not giving up anywhere, we’re just trying to win the races that we can and focus where we can.”
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