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(CNN) — Republicans are increasingly poised to win big in Tuesday’s midterm elections as they lash out at Democrats over rampant inflation and crime, with President Joe Biden seeking a belated respite by warning that the party’s Republican voter-waivers are destroying democracy could.
In a sign of the high stakes and growing fear among Democrats, four presidents — Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton — entered the campaign trail over the weekend.
Former President Trump, who is nearing the announcement of his 2024 White House bid, will on Monday wrap up a campaign he has demonstrated his enduring appeal among ordinary Republicans in Ohio with a rally for Senate nominee JD Vance. In a speech that ended in a torrential rain before Florida Senator Marco Rubio on Sunday, Trump predicted voters will “elect an incredible roster of true MAGA warriors to Congress.”
Biden, who spent Saturday casting the vote in the crucial Pennsylvania Senate race with Obama, warned that the nation’s core values are under threat from Republicans who are telling the truth about the uprising in the US Capitol and after the brutal attack on denied President Nancy Pelosi’s husband. Paul.
“Democracy is literally at stake. This is a defining moment for the nation. And we must all speak with one voice, regardless of our party. There is no place for political violence in America,” Biden said.
The President will end his efforts to avoid voter rebuke at a Democrat rally in Maryland. The fact that he’s in a liberal stronghold and not trying to prod an endangered lawmaker into a key race last night reflects his compromised position in an election that’s turned into a referendum over his shattered credibility and low approval ratings is.
Playing defense in blue state strongholds like New York, Washington and Oregon, the Democrats are waging a long battle to hold the House of Representatives. Republicans only need a net gain of five seats to regain control. A handful of battles in swing states will decide the fate of the Senate, currently split 50/50 including Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
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Republicans are also showing renewed interest in the New Hampshire race between Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan and retired Army Brigadier General Don Bolduc, a pro-Trump candidate Democrats have denounced as a vote-denial extremist.
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel predicted on CNN’s State of the Union that her party would win both the House and Senate, blaming Biden for failing to address Americans’ economic fears with his repeated warnings about democracy to notice.
“Here are the Democrats: They’re inflation deniers, they’re crime deniers, they’re education deniers,” McDaniel said.
Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who chairs the Senate GOP campaign committee, predicted his party would win a majority on Tuesday.
“We’re going to get more than 52,” he said on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, referring to the number of seats he hoped to control.
But the president, in a speech in Pittsburgh Saturday night alongside Obama, warned that Republicans’ worries about the economy are a ruse and said the GOP would cut Social Security and Medicare if the majority wins.
“See, all they want is for the richest to get rich. And that the rich stay rich. The middle class is being hurt. The poor get poorer because of their policies,” Biden said.
The midterm elections are the first national election since the chaos and violence unleashed by Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of the last presidential election, and there are already fears that some Republican candidates will follow suit and try to side with the will Oppose voters, if they do this they don’t win. Some, like Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, have already raised concerns about the integrity of the vote.
In another incident this Sunday, a campaign headquarters worker for Kari Lake, the pro-Trump nominee for Arizona gubernatorial campaign, opened a letter that contained a suspicious white powder. Lake’s opponent, current Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, condemned the incident as “incredibly disturbing”.
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Closing speech before the midterms
On a hectic final campaign weekend, Biden and Obama attempted to push Democratic nominee John Fetterman over the line in a Pennsylvania Senate race that represents the party’s best chance of snagging a party-held Senate seat. However, Democrats are under heavy pressure in states like Arizona and Nevada, which could tip the chamber toward Republicans, who need a net win of just one seat to win a majority.
The first major clashes of the 2024 GOP nominating contest, meanwhile, erupted in Florida as Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held dueling rallies Sunday night. The former president, who is expected to present a third White House bid within days, coined a new nickname on Saturday for the man who could prove to be his toughest main adversary: ”Ron DeSanctimonious.”
But the Florida governor chose not to compromise, instead directing his anger at Biden and calling his Democratic opponent Charlie Crist an “ass” while earning the credit of challenging Washington officials and pundits during the pandemic.
“I was willing to go out there and take the arrows so you guys didn’t have to,” DeSantis said.
While rallying for Rubio, who is seeking re-election, Trump didn’t repeat his mockery of DeSantis on Sunday, but hinted at the possibility of running for president again. In another sign that the upcoming presidential race is moving, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, a longtime contender for high office, announced that he will not be running in the Republican primary.
Former President Bill Clinton was also called out on Saturday to campaign for Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul in Brooklyn. The State of the Empire should be safe territory for his party, but Hochul’s narrower-than-expected re-election race against Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin underscores the toughness of the national environment for Democrats.
“I know the average election rally is just ‘whoop dee doo vote for me,’ but your life is at stake. For the young people in the audience, their lives are at stake,” Clinton said.
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As Americans grapple with the high cost of living, Democrats have been unable to avoid a referendum on Biden’s economic leadership and presidency, as most polls predict a growing Republican push that could see the first-season president win a midterm election receives a classic reprimand.
There are growing questions about Democrats’ strategy and whether they are effectively addressing the issues that matter most to voters. Biden’s final message about saving democracy from pro-Trump candidates may accurately reflect the new threats facing the former president and his cronies. But it doesn’t do anything to allay fears about the cost of groceries or a gallon of gas.
However, Biden has failed to speak effectively and personally to Americans yearning to return to normalcy after the pandemic, or to convey that he fully understands the pain of rising prices in a 40-year-old inflationary explosion and that his White House repeatedly branded ‘temporary’
If Republicans win back the House of Representatives, they can put a vise on Biden’s legislative program and stage a series of dangerous political showdowns over spending and raising the debt ceiling. They promise a relentless round of investigations and hearings on everything from the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the flood of migrants across the southern border to Biden’s son Hunter.
A Republican majority would have dozens of candidates in Trump’s image and likeness, becoming a weapon to inflict as much damage as possible on the President in the face of a possible rematch with Trump in 2024. And a Republican Senate would thwart Biden’s hopes of balancing the judiciary after four years of Trump nominating conservative judges.