Bolstered by the polls, the Republican opposition led by Donald Trump wants to send “a warning shot” to Joe Biden’s Democratic majority and usurp Congress in the US midterm elections, even if those in power have yet to say their final word.
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After 48 hours of “decisive” parliamentary and local elections for the future of “democracy” in the USA, according to Joe Biden and ex-President Barack Obama, the conservative Republican Party believes in its chances of a “giant wave”. November 8th. The prophesied ex-President Trump on Saturday evening at a meeting in the crucial state of Pennsylvania (Northeast), which lost in 2020 and dreams of a rematch for the 2024 presidential election.
Around 40 million voters have already pre-voted, according to the Election Project, and both sides are more or less showing their confidence in a politically and culturally ultra-polarized country. The Democrats, however, are far more feverish.
The Republicans’ “Big Night”?
A Republican Senate cacique, Rick Scott, predicted a “great night” Tuesday night, while Eastern Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin assured ABC that his Republican party “offers sensible solutions” to Americans’ concerns, inflation and… crime first.
“This will be a wake-up call for President Biden,” the official-elect said.
Confident in their victory thanks to polls and donors supporting them, Republicans will “accept” all poll results, win or lose, party President Ronna McDaniel promised on CNN.
While we fear a wave of protests from the most conservative and closest Donald Trump, she hailed Republican “good momentum” to tilt Congress to the right.
For the past two years, Democrats have had a narrow majority in the House of Representatives and a single majority, held by Vice President Kamala Harris, in the Senate.
The US polls, which are questionable and often wrong, are predicting a clear victory in the Republican House of Representatives, who could also win back the Senate.
Controversial results
By promising to “respect” the results, Republican leader McDaniel contradicted many statements by candidates close to their champion Donald Trump, who never conceded defeat in the November 2020 presidential election.
For example, Kari Lake, who is running for governor of Arizona, refused to say she would accept defeat by her Democratic opponent in the divided southern US state. On Sunday, local media reported that the far-right Republican received two envelopes containing a “suspicious” white powder that the FBI is investigating.
In Wisconsin (North), outgoing Republican Sen. Ron Johnson also did not say whether he would bow to Democrat Mandela Barnes.
According to the Democrat and analyst camp, about 300 Republicans would be ready to challenge the results of Tuesday night’s national and local elections.
“communists”
After a Saturday marathon of Democratic and Republican meetings in Pennsylvania, Joe Biden, a Catholic and who wants to be president of the middle class, was in his Delaware stronghold for Mass on Sunday before heading to the big northern suburbs of New York at the end of the day to meet the Democratic to support the state’s governor, Kathy Hochul, who is up against her Republican challenger, Lee Zeldin, in the polls.
This new meeting in their progressive New York stronghold “shows how desperate Democrats are to save their majority” and it “will add to Biden’s long list of failures,” pinged the Republican Party in a press release.
“We’re going to keep that majority,” Sean Maloney, an elected Democrat from New York, told NBC’s House of Representatives.
In the southeast of the country, in Miami, Florida, where Donald Trump resides, the businessman is meeting again Sunday night and has already greeted “the large crowd” that has gathered there on his Truth Social network.
He had accused the Democrats in power Saturday night of being “communists” and promised to put an end to the “destruction of the country”.
On Saturday, Joe Biden, turning 80 on November 20, and the always charismatic Barack Obama urged their constituents to defend “democracy.”
Donald Trump, 76, had called for “a huge wave” of Republicans to “save the American dream”.