Midterm election will render verdict on Trump
President Trump is facing a moment of truth.
Tuesday’s midterm elections will provide the first concrete evidence of whether the voters that propelled him to his shock election win in 2016 are standing by him or whether the electorate is beginning to weary of the Trump show after two controversy-filled years.
In the waning hours of the campaign, Trump has seemed to try to thread a needle, presenting the election as a referendum on him — unless he doesn’t like the outcome.
In a teleconference with supporters Monday, Trump said, “I’ve seen all of the newspapers, many of them saying it’s a referendum on what we’ve done. So, I don’t know about that. I can tell you, though, that’s the way they are going to play it.”
His comments, first reported by BuzzFeed News, also included the assertion that “even though I’m not on the ballot, in a certain way I am on the ballot.”
Trump loyalists have for months insisted that the greatest chance of Republican success lies in presenting the election as a judgment on him. His former chief strategist Stephen Bannon has referred to it numerous times as “Trump’s first reelect.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/the-memo/415081-the-memo-midterm-election-will-render-verdict-on-trump?userid=229233
Considering he never had a majority to begin with...
