President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walk toward Air Force One at Eglin Air Force Base in Fla. Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, en route to Robbins Air Force Base, Ga. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)
With Paul Ryan and other House leaders seemingly hiding in a bunker somewhere awaiting the apocalypse, it has fallen to President Trump to lead the GOP to any possible victory in the 2018 election cycle.
With 2018 widely viewed as a potential “wave election,” for Democrats, where control of the House could easily go left, President Trump is the only one who seems to understand the need for serious campaigning.
Christian Whiton of Fox News reports on the President’s efforts to save the House of Representatives from another era of Nancy Pelosi’s leadership. He writes:
President Trump is making history with his energetic push to elect Republicans to the House and Senate in the Nov. 6 midterm elections.
The unprecedented intensity of the president’s campaigning across the country seems increasingly likely to enable the GOP to gain seats in the Senate and keep Republicans in the majority in the House of Representatives – despite the view of many experts that Democrats are almost certain to capture control of the House.
Keep in mind that if the predictions by these same experts had been correct in 2016, President Hillary Clinton would be in the Oval Office today.
Typically, the party that controls the White House loses seats in Congress in the midterms. But as President Trump proved with his upset victory over Clinton two years ago, he draws tremendous support from millions of voters – and he is calling on his supporters now to vote for Republican candidates for Congress and state offices.
The president is making it clear to voters that if they want him to succeed in doing what they elected him to accomplish he needs a Republican Congress to support him. If Democrats gain control of one or both houses of Congress they will devote all their energy to investigating and obstructing the Trump administration at every turn, and may seek to impeach the president.
Republicans are gaining the support of voters because of several factors.
First the strong economy, rising wages, low unemployment rate, and the Trump tax cut are fulfilling the president’s promise to Make America Great Again. Voters are benefitting directly with more money in their pockets – and they are giving Republicans the credit.
Second, many voters are concerned with the mob tactics, the disregard of the concept of innocent until proven guilty, and vicious character assassination that Democrats deployed against President Trump’s extraordinarily qualified Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Thankfully, Kavanaugh was confirmed by the Senate, but voters understand that if Democrats had controlled the Senate they would have rejected the Kavanaugh nomination for purely partisan reasons.
Third, many voters are disturbed by the would-be invasion of America by a caravan of illegal immigrants. They understand if we allowed everyone who wants to immigrate to America from around the world into our country, potentially hundreds of millions of people would take advantage of the opening. No nation can absorb that many immigrants all at once or can vet them all to ensure that dangerous criminals are not among the new arrivals.
Democrats have made clear that they are running against President Trump. But what do they stand for?
The Democrats have no realistic economic agenda, other than sky-high spending on socialized medicine and other Big Government programs that will guarantee crippling tax increases for all Americans.
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