United States: Donald Trump's unpopularity weighs on the mid-term elections

Donald Trump is campaigning as if he were a candidate. On tour across the United States, he asks his voters to “close their eyes and pretend they are on the ballot” for the midterm elections, hoping to mobilize Republicans in a vote that promises to be difficult for their party. The Democrats would like nothing better than to make the election a referendum on his person. They are banking on his unpopularity to galvanize their electorate and discourage their adversaries. Republican elected officials are less enthusiastic about the idea of ​​seeing their president place himself at the center of the campaign. Several even refused to appear alongside him. Some have distanced themselves from him, or even openly criticized some of his policies.

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