On the eve of the election, scheduled for Tuesday 3 November, the Democrats are gaining ground on the Republicans. The president, after being in Kansas, returned to Washington for his last speech - a sort of open-air press conference - at the Lincoln Memorial. "This is the most important midterm election in our history. Democrats have nominated jihadists to advance their extremist agenda," he said. And he asked for Supreme Court intervention on the blocking of votes in California
The US Midterm vote scheduled for Tuesday 3 November is approaching. On the eve of the mid-term elections, the Democrats are extending their lead over the Republicans to win the House and the Senate. Meanwhile, the two sides compete in the latest rallies. President Donald Trump was in Salina, Kansas, and then returned to Washington for his last speech - a sort of open-air press conference, rather than a rally - at the Reflecting Pool of the Lincoln Memorial (POLLS AND CHALLENGES TO MONITORING). Meanwhile, as Bloomberg reports, the Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the legal action for the blocking of 20,000 votes in California. The appeal follows the decision of a federal appeals court which rejected the Trump administration's request to force California to set aside those 20,000 votes due to the suspicion that they were not from American citizens, but from people to whom the state had sent ballots illegitimately.
Trump: "These are the most important midterms in history"
President Trump, therefore, chose the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial to launch his last message before the mid-term elections. "Tomorrow is Election Day and we need to keep our Congress strong. We can't let people who hate this country win," Trump said, noting that incumbent presidents typically lose midterm elections. "These are the most important midterm elections in our history. Democrats have nominated jihadists to advance their extremist agenda," he added. “We have launched the golden age and we will not allow it to be taken away from us,” he said again. And claiming his successes on immigration and lowering taxes, Trump reiterated: "I kept all my promises, in fact I did more than I promised you." Then he thanked Denmark and Europe for Greenland: "We have Greenland. We have more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia."
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Trump in Kansas
"This is my 30th rally," Trump told a crowd of supporters in Kansas on Sunday. "I could have stayed at home and watched television or some nonsense. I'd rather be here with you. I had fun. You know, when God created the vocal chords, he didn't design them to hold 30 rallies in such a short period of time, because to give a rally you can't just talk: you have to shout." The president took to the field to support Republican Senator Roger Marshall, who was involved in an unexpectedly close electoral race to defend his seat. “I had to come here to make sure Roger got elected,” he said. "I didn't want to take any chances." Also on stage was US Secretary of State Marco Rubio who praised President Trump's leadership: "No president, since I was born, has been able to do better than what we have today."
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Democrats increase their lead
On the eve, however, the Dems seem to be increasing their lead over the Republicans, which has now risen to seven points: 52% of voters would like them to lead Congress, against 45% who would prefer the Republicans. “If they win, I will be Mr Veto,” Trump threatened, implying that he would not passively accept the lame duck hypothesis. The president was in Iowa and Kansas to make the final push for November 3rd and try to convince the Maga people at the last minute to go en masse to vote in the elections, which have been transformed into a referendum on their actions. "They are the most important in American history," he has been repeating for weeks. The fear of the Republicans is that at the polls the voters will express all their disappointment against the tycoon.
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Media: US allies fear Trump will target NATO if he loses
Meanwhile, according to Politico, NATO countries fear that Trump will strengthen attacks against the Alliance in the event of a defeat in the mid-term elections. The fear is that with a Congress against it, the president as commander-in-chief will focus on foreign policy, an area in which he has greater freedom of action. This could result in the withdrawal of thousands of soldiers from Europe or a cut in funding.
White House is working on a strategy to govern if the Dems win
The White House, however, is working on plans for how to advance Donald Trump's agenda if Democrats win Congress. The president's staff is preparing to push his priorities through the exercise of executive power, or through orders and decrees that allow him to bypass the green light of the House and Senate. But it is also preparing for possible investigations that could be launched against the administration, according to Reuters. White House lawyers are examining how far Trump could go with his initiatives and then defend them in court.
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Trump unknown
Among the president's closest advisors there are also concerns about how the tycoon might react in the event of a heavy defeat. The memory of January 6, 2021 is still alive and the fear is that the unpredictable president could respond violently. According to rumours, in the event of a heavy defeat he could decide to attack Iran the day after the midterms to divert attention. Another hypothesis is that it attempts to block the certification of the vote by the states, invoking electoral fraud and foreign interference and effectively opening a possible unprecedented constitutional crisis.
Cases that can put the Democrats at a disadvantage
However, the victory of the Democrats, especially in the Senate, is far from a given. The homonymy scandal in Alaska and the internal rift within the party in Michigan are shaking up the last remnants of the election campaign. Despite Trump's claims of voter fraud, a judge rejected the administration's preliminary lawsuit to block the certification of votes in Alaska if the Republican candidate loses. In Michigan the liberal crisis is much more dangerous, with implications for the entire progressive wing. Democratic congresswoman Haley Stevens distanced herself from Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed - who had beaten her in the primaries - and supported her Republican rival Mike Rogers. A move that could endanger El-Sayed's chances of victory, already in the sights of the Republicans and Trump for his Muslim faith, and therefore those of the Democrats of realizing their dream of conquering the Senate.
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