The arrival bore his signature, closer to a wrestler approaching a ring than a former president focused on the midterm elections, scheduled in three days. The Boeing 757 called “Trump Force One” slowed down the runway at Latrobe Airport (Pennsylvania), Saturday, October 5, to park in line with the cameras, just behind the stage and the desk. Thousands of people had been waiting for hours on the tarmac. They had politely applauded the Republican candidate for the post of senator – Doctor Mehmet Oz – and the one for the post of governor – Doug Mastriano, who always pushes long ” Oh yeah ! » when he greets the public. The latter was especially expecting Donald Trump. Night had fallen when he appeared. The soundtrack had just played real americanby Rick Derringer, and Pinball Wizard, Who. Mobile phones, at arm’s length, seized the entrance on stage of the “King MAGA” (Make America Great Again, his slogan), an expression he himself used.
For “stop the destruction of our country”Donald Trump called on voters to provoke “a giant red wave”, Tuesday, during midterms. It is not a surprise, the speaker remains locked in the past. He cannot digest his defeat against Joe Biden in 2020, which remains the matrix of his current commitment. “The election was rigged and stolen, and we can’t let that happen again”, he said, warning that any further underperformance could have no other explanation than manipulation. Donald Trump has also called for a change in the voting rules, even though more than 39 million ballots have already been cast, as part of the advance procedures, in person or by mail. He wishes him a reinforced identification of voters, a ballot in a single day and paper ballots, which is both a complete step back and a nightmare for the counting.
Donald Trump has painted his usual apocalyptic picture of the United States under Democratic administration. “The only thing they do well is disinformation and voter fraud,” he summarized. “Despite external dangers, he added, the greatest threat remains the sick, sinister and evil people in our country,” with reference to the left. Trump backtracked on inflation, “the border wide open” with Mexico which would have allowed the entry of “10 million illegal immigrants”not 2.5 million, according to official figures this year. “Our country is falling into hell in so many different ways”, estimates Donald Trump, whose long general diatribe lasted almost an hour, without almost ever mentioning Pennsylvania, where he was. Two sequences in this part of the speech hardly aroused the enthusiasm of the crowd and seemed completely out of step with the urgency of the moment, the mobilization of the Republican camp before the midterms.
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