Reinvigorated by the polls, the Republican opposition led by Donald Trump wants to send “a warning shot” to Joe Biden’s Democratic majority and seize Congress in the US midterm elections, even if the ruling field has not said its last word.
With 48 hours to go before “decisive” legislative and local elections for the future of “democracy” in the United States, in the words of Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama, the conservative Republican party believes in its chances of a “giant wave” in 8 This is how former President Trump predicted it on Saturday night, at a meeting in the key state of Pennsylvania (northeast), defeated in 2020 and who dreams of revenge for the 2024 presidential elections.
Republicans will ‘accept’ all results
Some 40 million voters have already voted in advance, according to the Electoral Project, and both sides show more or less their confidence in a politically and culturally ultra-polarized country. The Democrats, however, are much more feverish.
A Republican chieftain of the Senate, Rick Scott, predicted a “great night” for Tuesday night while the governor of Virginia (east) Glenn Youngkin assured the ABC channel that his Republican party “offered common sense solutions” to American concerns. , inflation and crime. first.
“This is going to be a wake-up call for President Biden,” the elected official said.
Confident of victory thanks to the polls and the donors behind them, Republicans will “take” all poll results, win or lose, party chair Ronna McDaniel promised on CNN.
Republican-friendly polls
Although we fear a wave of protests from the most conservative and close to Donald Trump, he welcomed the Republican “good push” to tilt Congress to the right.
For two years, Democrats have had a narrow majority in the House of Representatives and a simple majority vote, that of Vice President Kamala Harris, in the Senate.
The polls, questionable in the United States and which have been wrong on many occasions, bet on a clear victory in the House of Representatives for the Republicans, who could also regain control of the Senate.
300 Republicans ready to dispute the results
By pledging to “respect” the results, Republican leader McDaniel contradicted many statements by candidates close to his champion Donald Trump, who never admitted defeat in the November 2020 presidential election.
Kari Lake, who wants to be governor of Arizona, for example, refused to say she would bow to a loss to her Democratic challenger in this divided southern US state. This Sunday, local media revealed that the Republican, classified on the extreme right, had received two envelopes containing a “suspicious” white powder on which the FBI is investigating.
In Wisconsin (north), outgoing Republican Senator Ron Johnson also did not say whether he would bow to Democrat Mandela Barnes.
According to the Democratic field and analysts, there would be about 300 Republicans set to contest the results of the national and local elections on Tuesday night.
“Saving the American Dream”
After a Saturday marathon of Democratic and Republican meetings in Pennsylvania, Joe Biden, a Catholic who wants to be the president of the middle classes, attended mass in his stronghold of Delaware on Sunday before leaving at the end of the day for the great suburbs of the north. New York to support the state’s Democratic Governor, Kathy Hochul, struggling in the polls against her Republican challenger Lee Zeldin.
This new meeting in their progressive bastion of New York “shows how desperate the Democrats are to save their majority” and that “it will add to Biden’s long list of failures,” the Republican party said in a press release.
“We are going to keep this majority,” Sean Maloney, an elected Democrat from New York to the House of Representatives, replied on NBC.
On Saturday, Joe Biden, 80 on November 20, and the always charismatic Barack Obama had urged their voters to defend “democracy.” Donald Trump, 76, had called for a Republican “giant wave” to “save the American dream.”
Source: BFM TV
