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Trump’s closing argument frames midterms as a referendum on his White House | TheHill

posted onNovember 6, 2018
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Article snippet: CLEVELAND — MORE launched a final-day campaign blitz on Monday to save the GOP Congress, framing the midterm elections as a referendum on his presidency. Trump visited three states for three separate rallies on Monday, doing everything he could to motivate his core supporters to vote for GOP lawmakers on Tuesday. “In a sense, I am on the ticket,” Trump, who has tied the midterm election outcome to his presidency in a more pronounced way than most presidents, told attendees at a rally in Ohio. “You’ve got to go out and vote,” he said to a vocal crowd of supporters inside a cavernous building at the Cleveland airport. Trump painted the choice before voters in stark terms, saying “a vote for Republicans is a vote to continue our extraordinary prosperity” and that voting for Democrats would bring “a socialist nightmare for our country.”  He likened the “great electricity” surrounding the midterms to the 2016 election, when he shocked the political world by winning the presidency. “The midterm elections used to be like boring,” Trump said. “Now it's like the hottest thing.” In addition to Ohio, Trump visited Missouri and Indiana in his final campaign push, where Democratic Sens. MORE (Ind.) are trying to hang on in states easily won by Trump in the last presidential contest. At each of the stops, Trump invited the state's Republican Senate candidates on stage: MORE in Ohio, Mike Braun in Indiana and Josh Hawley in Missouri. He also brought out a cavalcade of other pro... Link to the full article to read more

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