Republicans predict midterm victory; Biden warns of danger to democracy

More than 39 million people have already voted in an election that will decide control of Congress and the dominant regime. Biden campaigning in suburban New York on Sunday evening Presidents Barack Obama And Bill Clinton made cases for shutting down voters.

Patrick Maloney, the head of the Democrats’ House campaign arm, is in a tough fight for his seat north of New York City. But he insisted on Sunday that Democrats are “going to do better on Tuesday than people think,” adding that his party is “not perfect” but “we are responsible adults who believe in this democracy.”

“I think this race is razor-close and I think everyone who cares about extremism in this ‘MAGA’ movement – racism, anti-Semitism, violence – needs to get out and vote and it Not just Democrats, it’s independents and fair-minded Republicans,” Maloney told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” referring to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott, head of the Republican Senate campaign branch, retorted: “We have great candidates. People are coming out to vote.”

“There’s no energy on the Democrat side,” he said on NBC. “This election is about the Biden agenda.”

Former President Donald Trump, who planned a Miami rally on Sunday, expects a strong GOP 2024 run on Election Day to start in the days or weeks following the election.

Scott will be at that rally. Not invited, however, is Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who is running for re-election against Democrat Charlie Crist and is widely considered Trump’s most formidable challenger if he were to run for the White House. .

On Saturday night in Pennsylvania, Trump said he expected the GOP to have “a historic victory” in the midterm. But DeSantis was also on his mind – he called the governor “Ron DeSanctimonius.” It’s a rivalry that has been going on for more than a year as DeSantis takes increasingly bold steps to boost his national profile and build a deeper fundraising network.

DeSantis, who became a popular national figure among conservatives during the pandemic as he pushed back COVID-19 restrictions, shares Trump’s puzzling tendencies. By most measures, Trump easily remains the most popular figure in the Republican Party. But many Trump supporters are keen on the possibility that DeSantis could walk, seeing him as Trump’s natural successor, without much of Trump’s political downside.

Trump has privately complained about DeSantis for failing to say definitively that he would sit out the race.

When Joe O’Dea, GOP Candidates For the Senate in Colorado, he said he would prefer someone other than Trump as the 2024 candidate and, citing DeSantis and others, Trump slammed O’Dea on social media: “Maga big-mouthed Doesn’t vote for stupid people,” Trump said.

A few days later, DeSantis endorsed O’Dea, who had twice voted for Trump.

For the National Democrats, the focus is on the fate of their narrow control of the House and Senate.

Voters may rebuke the White House and the party that controls Congress amid rising inflation, concerns about crime and pessimism about the country’s direction. History shows that the party in power will suffer significant losses in the medium term.

First Lady Jill Biden attends church services while campaigning for Democrats in Houston.

“A lot is at stake in this election,” she said on Sunday. “We must speak on justice and democracy.”

Campaigning in Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris said, “These attacks on our democracy will have a direct impact not only on people across our country, but on people around the world.” He said that America’s democracy “will only be as strong as our willingness to fight. For this and therefore ‘we are all here today,” adding, “because we are prepared to fight for it.”

Trump has long falsely claimed that he lost the 2020 election simply because Democrats cheated and even began to increase the likelihood of electoral fraud this year. Federal intelligence agencies are warning of the potential for political violence from far-right extremists.

President Biden’s midterm pitch centers on his administration’s major legislative achievements, warning that abortion rights, voting rights, Social Security and Medicare are at risk if Republicans take control of Congress.

Obama, who joined Biden in Philadelphia on Saturday, said generations of Americans died for democracy and said, “You can’t take this lightly.” Biden himself said: “We have to reaffirm the values ​​that have long defined us.”

At a New York rally for Governor Kathy Hochul, seeking her first full term, Clinton said the loss of control of the House and Senate by Democrats would have “enormous consequences.”

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel said Democrats were “inflation denials” to reject the results of the 2020 free and fair presidential election, branding the other side of her party as anti-democratic. were trying to do, because Trump was defeated.

“If we win back the House and Senate, this is what the American people are saying to Joe Biden, we want you to work on our behalf and we want you to work to solve the problems we’re dealing with.” have been,” McDaniel told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, the nation’s largest public employees union with 1.4 million members, is touring the country rallying for Democrats. “It’s going to be tough, it’s going to be tough but we are not giving up hope,” he said.

“Obviously people are concerned about the economy,” Saunders said, “but voters are also concerned about freedoms being taken away from them, whether you’re talking about the right to vote or women’s right to choose.” are talking about.

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